<page_title> Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre freestyle </page_title> <section_title> Records </section_title> <table> <cell> Amaury Leveaux <col_header> Name </col_header> </cell> <cell> 21.46 <col_header> Time </col_header> </cell> <cell> Semifinal 2 <col_header> Event </col_header> </cell> <cell> César Cielo <col_header> Name </col_header> </cell> <cell> 21.34 <col_header> Time </col_header> </cell> <cell> OR <col_header> Record </col_header> </cell> </table>
In the semifinals, Cielo lowered an Olympic record to 21.34 that had been set by Leveaux under 0.12 seconds.