James Magnussen stormed through to the final of the men's 100m freestyle at London 2012 this evening.
The speedy Australian was explosive in his heat, finishing in 47.63s, almost a clear second ahead of world record holder Cesar Cielo.
Nathan Adrian of the US was the second-swiftest qualifier behind Magnussen, finishing in 47.97s to push Cuba's Hanser Garcia into third overall.
Yannick Agnel, another pre-race favourite, narrowly made the last eight with a time of 48.23s, ranking him one place above the slowest qualifier Nikita Lobintsev of Russia.
