# Swimming at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre butterfly

The Men's 50 metre butterfly competition of the 2016 European Aquatics Championships was held on 16 and 17 May 2016.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows.
| | Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date |
| World record | Rafael Muñoz | Spain | 22.43 | Málaga | 5 April 2009 |
| European record | Rafael Muñoz | Spain | 22.43 | Málaga | 5 April 2009 |
| Championship record | Andriy Hovorov | Ukraine | 22.87 | Berlin | 18 August 2014 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held on 16 May at 11:44.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 6 | 4 | Andriy Hovorov | Ukraine | 23.00 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | 4 | Benjamin Proud | Great Britain | 23.54 | Q |
| 3 | 6 | 5 | Piero Codia | Italy | 23.67 | Q |
| 4 | 5 | 2 | Mario Todorović | Croatia | 23.86 | Q |
| 5 | 7 | 4 | László Cseh | Hungary | 23.89 | Q |
| 6 | 6 | 3 | Ivan Lenđer | Serbia | 23.93 | Q |
| 7 | 7 | 3 | Andriy Khloptsov | Ukraine | 23.95 | Q |
| 8 | 7 | 5 | Yauhen Tsurkin | Belarus | 23.97 | Q |
| 9 | 7 | 6 | Joeri Verlinden | Netherlands | 24.03 | Q |
| 10 | 6 | 6 | Matteo Rivolta | Italy | 24.06 | Q |
| 11 | 4 | 0 | Lyubomyr Lemeshko | Ukraine | 24.07 | |
| 12 | 6 | 7 | Kristian Golomeev | Greece | 24.09 | Q |
| 13 | 7 | 0 | Jan Šefl | Czech Republic | 24.16 | Q |
| 14 | 7 | 7 | Søren Dahl | Denmark | 24.17 | Q |
| 14 | 5 | 5 | Frédérick Bousquet | France | 24.17 | Q |
| 16 | 5 | 7 | Oskar Krupecki | Poland | 24.19 | Q |
| 17 | 7 | 1 | Oleksiy Ivanov | Ukraine | 24.21 | |
| 18 | 5 | 6 | Meiron Cheruti | Israel | 24.29 | Q |
| 19 | 5 | 9 | Daniel Zaitsev | Estonia | 24.32 | |
| 19 | 6 | 2 | Deividas Margevičius | Lithuania | 24.32 | |
| 21 | 4 | 3 | Andreas Vazaios | Greece | 24.39 | |
| 22 | 5 | 0 | Bence Pulai | Hungary | 24.43 | |
| 23 | 3 | 8 | Robert Žbogar | Slovenia | 24.49 | |
| 24 | 6 | 1 | Marcus Schlesinger | Israel | 24.52 | |
| 25 | 7 | 9 | Christos Katrantzis | Greece | 24.54 | |
| 26 | 3 | 1 | Julien Henx | Luxembourg | 24.55 | |
| 27 | 4 | 9 | Filip Milcevic | Austria | 24.56 | |
| 28 | 7 | 8 | Kregor Zirk | Estonia | 24.61 | |
| 29 | 5 | 3 | Tomer Zamir | Israel | 24.63 | |
| 30 | 4 | 4 | Alexandru Coci | Romania | 24.67 | |
| 30 | 4 | 2 | Nico van Duijn | Switzerland | 24.67 | |
| 32 | 3 | 0 | Brendan Hyland | Ireland | 24.68 | |
| 33 | 5 | 1 | Paul Lemaire | France | 24.69 | |
| 34 | 3 | 4 | Mislav Sever | Croatia | 24.71 | |
| 34 | 4 | 6 | Petr Novák | Czech Republic | 24.71 | |
| 36 | 4 | 7 | Sascha Subarsky | Austria | 24.73 | |
| 37 | 4 | 1 | Jesper Björk | Sweden | 24.74 | |
| 38 | 6 | 8 | Thomas Maurer | Switzerland | 24.78 | |
| 38 | 6 | 0 | Berk Özkul | Turkey | 24.78 | |
| 40 | 3 | 7 | Antani Ivanov | Bulgaria | 24.80 | |
| 41 | 6 | 9 | Alexandre Haldemann | Switzerland | 24.81 | |
| 42 | 3 | 5 | Tamás Kenderesi | Hungary | 24.82 | |
| 43 | 2 | 7 | Giacomo Carini | Italy | 24.88 | |
| 44 | 3 | 6 | Stefanos Dimitriadis | Greece | 24.95 | |
| 45 | 2 | 8 | Kaan Ayar | Turkey | 24.98 | |
| 46 | 1 | 3 | Markus Lie | Norway | 25.01 | |
| 47 | 4 | 5 | Tomáš Púchly | Slovakia | 25.04 | |
| 48 | 2 | 6 | Alin Coste | Romania | 25.06 | |
| 49 | 2 | 3 | Nuno Quintanilha | Portugal | 25.07 | |
| 50 | 3 | 9 | Alexander Linge | Sweden | 25.16 | |
| 51 | 4 | 8 | Aleksi Schmid | Switzerland | 25.27 | |
| 52 | 3 | 2 | Arkadi Kalinovski | Estonia | 25.34 | |
| 53 | 2 | 4 | Adi Mešetović | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 25.43 | |
| 54 | 2 | 1 | Tomáš Havránek | Czech Republic | 25.45 | |
| 55 | 2 | 0 | Pāvels Vilcāns | Latvia | 25.52 | |
| 56 | 3 | 3 | Pavel Izbisciuc | Moldova | 25.54 | |
| 57 | 2 | 5 | Thomas Fannon | Great Britain | 25.55 | |
| 58 | 2 | 9 | Ljupcho Angelovski | Macedonia | 25.64 | |
| 59 | 2 | 2 | Ergecan Gezmiş | Turkey | 25.77 | |
| 60 | 1 | 4 | Vahan Mkhitaryan | Armenia | 26.51 | |
| 61 | 1 | 5 | Lum Zhaveli | Kosovo | 27.00 | |
| 62 | 5 | 8 | Ádám Telegdy | Hungary | 27.71 | |
| | 7 | 2 | Tadas Duškinas | Lithuania | DNS | DNS |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 16 May at 19:03.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Benjamin Proud | Great Britain | 23.42 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Frédérick Bousquet | France | 23.69 | Q |
| 3 | 8 | Meiron Cheruti | Israel | 23.70 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Yauhen Tsurkin | Belarus | 23.72 | Q |
| 5 | 5 | Mario Todorović | Croatia | 23.73 | |
| 6 | 3 | Ivan Lenđer | Serbia | 23.91 | |
| 7 | 2 | Matteo Rivolta | Italy | 24.00 | |
| 8 | 7 | Jan Šefl | Czech Republic | 24.04 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Andriy Hovorov | Ukraine | 22.73 | Q, CR |
| 2 | 5 | Piero Codia | Italy | 23.55 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | László Cseh | Hungary | 23.57 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | Joeri Verlinden | Netherlands | 23.67 | Q |
| 5 | 6 | Andriy Khloptsov | Ukraine | 23.92 | |
| 6 | 1 | Søren Dahl | Denmark | 24.01 | |
| 7 | 7 | Kristian Golomeev | Greece | 24.02 | |
| 8 | 8 | Oskar Krupecki | Poland | 24.13 | |

### Final

The final was held on 17 May at 18:02.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 4 | Andriy Hovorov | Ukraine | 22.92 |
| | 6 | László Cseh | Hungary | 23.31 |
| | 5 | Benjamin Proud | Great Britain | 23.34 |
| 4 | 3 | Piero Codia | Italy | 23.46 |
| 5 | 8 | Yauhen Tsurkin | Belarus | 23.67 |
| 6 | 7 | Frédérick Bousquet | France | 23.71 |
| 7 | 2 | Joeri Verlinden | Netherlands | 23.82 |
| 8 | 1 | Meiron Cheruti | Israel | 23.93 |