# Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre freestyle

The Men's 50 metre freestyle competition of the 2014 European Aquatics Championships was held on 23–24 August.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows.
| | Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date |
| World record | César Cielo | Brazil | 20.91 | São Paulo | 18 December 2009 |
| European record | Frédérick Bousquet | France | 20.94 | Montpellier | 26 April 2009 |
| Championship record | Frédérick Bousquet | France | 21.36 | Budapest | 14 August 2010 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held at 09:40.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 6 | 5 | Marco Orsi | Italy | 22.18 | Q |
| 1 | 5 | 6 | Oleg Tikhobaev | Russia | 22.18 | Q |
| 3 | 7 | 2 | Kristian Golomeev | Greece | 22.19 | Q |
| 4 | 7 | 4 | Florent Manaudou | France | 22.20 | Q |
| 5 | 6 | 6 | Luca Dotto | Italy | 22.21 | Q |
| 6 | 5 | 4 | Ben Proud | Great Britain | 22.26 | Q |
| 6 | 7 | 3 | Konrad Czerniak | Poland | 22.26 | Q |
| 8 | 5 | 5 | Andrey Grechin | Russia | 22.29 | Q |
| 9 | 6 | 2 | Ari-Pekka Liukkonen | Finland | 22.33 | Q |
| 9 | 7 | 8 | Dominik Kozma | Hungary | 22.33 | Q |
| 9 | 7 | 6 | Sergey Fesikov | Russia | 22.33 | |
| 12 | 6 | 4 | Vladimir Morozov | Russia | 22.35 | |
| 13 | 5 | 3 | Krisztián Takács | Hungary | 22.41 | Q |
| 14 | 7 | 5 | Andriy Hovorov | Ukraine | 22.44 | Q |
| 15 | 5 | 1 | Fabien Gilot | France | 22.47 | Q |
| 16 | 7 | 7 | François Heersbrandt | Belgium | 22.51 | Q |
| 17 | 7 | 1 | Jasper Aerents | Belgium | 22.60 | Q |
| 18 | 5 | 7 | Nosy Pelagie | France | 22.66 | |
| 19 | 3 | 8 | Marius Radu | Romania | 22.68 | Q |
| 20 | 6 | 0 | Mindaugas Sadauskas | Lithuania | 22.69 | |
| 21 | 6 | 3 | Norbert Trandafir | Romania | 22.75 | |
| 22 | 6 | 7 | Miguel Ortiz-Cañavate Ozeki | Spain | 22.83 | |
| 23 | 3 | 3 | Sidni Hoxha | Albania | 22.89 | |
| 24 | 5 | 8 | Yahav Shahaff | Israel | 22.97 | |
| 24 | 5 | 9 | Baslakov İskender | Turkey | 22.97 | |
| 26 | 7 | 9 | Ivan Levaj | Croatia | 22.98 | |
| 26 | 2 | 7 | Tadas Duškinas | Lithuania | 22.98 | |
| 28 | 6 | 8 | Almog Olshtein | Israel | 22.99 | |
| 29 | 4 | 7 | Christoffer Carlsen | Sweden | 23.03 | |
| 30 | 3 | 2 | Mario Todorović | Croatia | 23.07 | |
| 31 | 4 | 9 | Mislav Sever | Croatia | 23.08 | |
| 32 | 4 | 2 | Simonas Bilis | Lithuania | 23.09 | |
| 33 | 4 | 4 | Kacper Majchrzak | Poland | 23.11 | |
| 34 | 4 | 5 | Boris Stojanović | Serbia | 23.12 | |
| 35 | 7 | 0 | Sebastian Szczepański | Poland | 23.13 | |
| 36 | 4 | 3 | Pjotr Degtjarov | Estonia | 23.15 | |
| 36 | 1 | 3 | Daniel Macovei | Romania | 23.15 | |
| 36 | 4 | 8 | Alexander Nyström | Sweden | 23.15 | |
| 39 | 6 | 9 | Nikša Stojkovski | Croatia | 23.19 | |
| 40 | 3 | 7 | Radovan Siljevski | Serbia | 23.20 | |
| 41 | 2 | 1 | Martin Verner | Czech Republic | 23.24 | |
| 42 | 3 | 1 | Martin Spitzer | Austria | 23.30 | |
| 43 | 4 | 6 | Jesse Puts | Netherlands | 23.31 | |
| 44 | 3 | 0 | Gustav Aberg | Sweden | 23.36 | |
| 45 | 3 | 5 | Arseni Kukharau | Belarus | 23.44 | |
| 46 | 3 | 9 | Viktar Staselovich | Belarus | 23.50 | |
| 47 | 3 | 4 | Julien Henx | Luxembourg | 23.51 | |
| 47 | 5 | 2 | Doğa Çelik | Turkey | 23.51 | |
| 49 | 4 | 1 | Oscar Ekström | Sweden | 23.53 | |
| 50 | 4 | 0 | Péter Holoda | Hungary | 23.58 | |
| 51 | 2 | 3 | Alin Coste | Romania | 23.59 | |
| 52 | 2 | 5 | Ensar Hajder | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 23.72 | |
| 53 | 2 | 2 | Arnel Dudić | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 23.74 | |
| 54 | 2 | 6 | Michal Navara | Slovakia | 23.76 | |
| 55 | 1 | 5 | Dan Sweeney | Ireland | 24.07 | |
| 56 | 2 | 4 | Jonatan Kopelev | Israel | 24.12 | |
| 57 | 2 | 8 | Davit Sikharulidze | Georgia | 24.27 | |
| 58 | 1 | 4 | Fred Karu | Estonia | 24.42 | |
| — | 3 | 6 | Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or | Israel | | DNS |
| — | 5 | 0 | Kemal Arda Gürdal | Turkey | | DNS |
| — | 6 | 1 | Clement Mignon | France | | DNS |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 16:43.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | Florent Manaudou | France | 21.57 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Ben Proud | Great Britain | 21.94 | Q |
| 3 | 7 | Andriy Hovorov | Ukraine | 22.02 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Andrey Grechin | Russia | 22.06 | Q |
| 5 | 4 | Oleg Tikhobaev | Russia | 22.17 | |
| 6 | 1 | François Heersbrandt | Belgium | 22.18 | |
| 7 | 2 | Dominik Kozma | Hungary | 22.35 | |
| 8 | 8 | Marius Radu | Romania | 22.44 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | Kristian Golomeev | Greece | 21.96 | Q |
| 2 | 6 | Konrad Czerniak | Poland | 22.06 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Ari-Pekka Liukkonen | Finland | 22.10 | Q |
| 4 | 4 | Marco Orsi | Italy | 22.15 | Q |
| 5 | 7 | Krisztián Takács | Hungary | 22.25 | |
| 6 | 3 | Luca Dotto | Italy | 22.27 | |
| 7 | 1 | Fabien Gilot | France | 22.38 | |
| 8 | 8 | Jasper Aerents | Belgium | 22.46 | |

### Final

The final was held at 16:05.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 4 | Florent Manaudou | France | 21.32 | CR |
| | 7 | Konrad Czerniak | Poland | 21.88 | |
| | 1 | Ari-Pekka Liukkonen | Finland | 21.93 | |
| 4 | 5 | Ben Proud | Great Britain | 21.94 | |
| 5 | 8 | Marco Orsi | Italy | 22.09 | |
| 6 | 2 | Andrey Grechin | Russia | 22.10 | |
| 7 | 3 | Kristian Golomeev | Greece | 22.13 | |
| 8 | 6 | Andriy Hovorov | Ukraine | 22.14 | |