# 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 50 metre freestyle

The men's 50 metre freestyle competition of the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 13 and 14 December 2018.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
| | Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date |
| World record Championship record | Florent Manaudou | France | 20.26 | Doha | 5 December 2014 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were started on 13 December at 10:17.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 13 | 9 | Caeleb Dressel | United States | 20.62 | Q, NR |
| 2 | 13 | 4 | Vladimir Morozov | Russia | 20.89 | Q |
| 3 | 13 | 3 | Cameron McEvoy | Australia | 20.97 | Q |
| 4 | 12 | 4 | Ben Proud | United Kingdom | 20.98 | Q |
| 5 | 12 | 7 | Simonas Bilis | Lithuania | 21.10 | Q, NR |
| 6 | 12 | 6 | Jesse Puts | Netherlands | 21.19 | Q |
| 7 | 13 | 5 | Michael Andrew | United States | 21.25 | Q |
| 8 | 11 | 4 | Paweł Juraszek | Poland | 21.30 | Q |
| 9 | 13 | 0 | Sergii Shevtsov | Ukraine | 21.31 | Q |
| 10 | 12 | 2 | Katsumi Nakamura | Japan | 21.33 | Q |
| 11 | 13 | 8 | Kosuke Matsui | Japan | 21.34 | Q |
| 12 | 11 | 7 | Lorenzo Zazzeri | Italy | 21.35 | Q |
| 13 | 9 | 6 | Ali Khalafalla | Egypt | 21.38 | Q, NR |
| 13 | 13 | 6 | Brad Tandy | South Africa | 21.38 | Q |
| 15 | 11 | 5 | César Cielo | Brazil | 21.39 | Q |
| 16 | 11 | 3 | Kristian Golomeev | Greece | 21.40 | QSO |
| 16 | 11 | 6 | Maksim Lobanovskij | Hungary | 21.40 | QSO |
| 18 | 12 | 3 | Evgeny Sedov | Russia | 21.48 | |
| 19 | 13 | 1 | Cameron Jones | Australia | 21.51 | |
| 20 | 11 | 2 | Oussama Sahnoune | Algeria | 21.53 | |
| 21 | 13 | 2 | Ari-Pekka Liukkonen | Finland | 21.57 | |
| 22 | 12 | 1 | Andrea Vergani | Italy | 21.61 | |
| 22 | 12 | 5 | Konrad Czerniak | Poland | 21.61 | |
| 24 | 11 | 1 | Huseyin Sakci | Turkey | 21.66 | |
| 25 | 10 | 0 | Christoffer Carlsen | Sweden | 21.67 | |
| 26 | 13 | 7 | Matheus Santana | Brazil | 21.71 | |
| 27 | 9 | 3 | Daniel Hunter | New Zealand | 21.73 | |
| 28 | 12 | 8 | Damian Wierling | Germany | 21.77 | |
| 29 | 10 | 6 | Niksa Stojkovski | Norway | 21.78 | NR |
| 29 | 12 | 0 | Stan Pijnenburg | Netherlands | 21.78 | |
| 31 | 9 | 9 | Miguel Nascimento | Portugal | 21.81 | |
| 32 | 9 | 4 | Mislav Sever | Croatia | 21.82 | |
| 33 | 11 | 8 | Douglas Erasmus | South Africa | 21.85 | |
| 34 | 12 | 9 | Dylan Carter | Trinidad and Tobago | 21.98 | |
| 35 | 10 | 3 | Daniel Zaitsev | Estonia | 22.01 | |
| 35 | 10 | 8 | Bradley Vincent | Mauritius | 22.01 | |
| 37 | 10 | 5 | Tadas Duškinas | Lithuania | 22.02 | |
| 38 | 10 | 2 | Hou Yuije | China | 22.07 | |
| 38 | 11 | 0 | Artsiom Machekin | Belarus | 22.07 | |
| 40 | 8 | 2 | Cristian Quintero | Venezuela | 22.09 | |
| 41 | 9 | 1 | Wu Chun-feng | Chinese Taipei | 22.10 | |
| 41 | 10 | 9 | Ben Hockin | Paraguay | 22.10 | |
| 43 | 2 | 6 | Alexandr Varakin | Kazakhstan | 22.11 | |
| 44 | 10 | 1 | Guido Buscaglia | Argentina | 22.19 | |
| 45 | 11 | 9 | Kemal Arda Gürdal | Turkey | 22.25 | |
| 46 | 9 | 2 | Adi Mešetović | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 22.28 | |
| 46 | 9 | 5 | Ivo Staub | Switzerland | 22.28 | |
| 48 | 10 | 7 | Julien Henx | Luxembourg | 22.29 | |
| 49 | 2 | 7 | Oliver Elliot | Chile | 22.41 | |
| 50 | 8 | 4 | Oleksandr Loginov | Canada | 22.43 | |
| 51 | 8 | 6 | Artur Barseghyan | Armenia | 22.44 | NR |
| 52 | 8 | 3 | Virdhawal Khade | India | 22.49 | |
| 53 | 9 | 0 | Andrew James Digby | Thailand | 22.50 | |
| 54 | 9 | 8 | Dado Fenrir Jasminuson | Iceland | 22.51 | |
| 55 | 9 | 7 | Renzo Tjon-A-Joe | Suriname | 22.52 | |
| 56 | 8 | 7 | George-Adrian Ratiu | Romania | 22.65 | |
| 57 | 7 | 8 | Sina Gholampour | Iran | 22.75 | |
| 58 | 8 | 0 | Giorgi Biganishvili | Georgia | 22.86 | NR |
| 59 | 7 | 5 | Sebastian Arispe | Peru | 22.98 | |
| 60 | 8 | 5 | Abdoul Niane | Senegal | 22.99 | NR |
| 61 | 7 | 1 | Jhonny Pérez | Dominican Republic | 23.00 | |
| 62 | 7 | 4 | Jean-Luc Zephir | Saint Lucia | 23.10 | |
| 63 | 8 | 1 | Souhail Hamouchane | Morocco | 23.15 | |
| 64 | 8 | 9 | Isaac Beitia Lasso | Panama | 23.21 | |
| 65 | 8 | 8 | Anthony Barbar | Lebanon | 23.30 | |
| 66 | 7 | 3 | Noah Al-Khulaifi | Qatar | 23.32 | |
| 67 | 7 | 2 | Rafael Barreto | Philippines | 23.42 | |
| 68 | 6 | 6 | Danilo Rosafio | Kenya | 23.51 | |
| 69 | 7 | 6 | Ljupcho Angelovski | Macedonia | 23.56 | |
| 70 | 3 | 7 | Bakr Al-Dulaimi | Iraq | 23.59 | |
| 71 | 6 | 3 | Dan Siminel | Moldova | 23.60 | |
| 72 | 6 | 4 | Nixon Hernández | El Salvador | 23.61 | |
| 73 | 5 | 5 | Issa Al Adawi | Oman | 23.62 | |
| 74 | 6 | 7 | Delron Felix | Grenada | 23.65 | |
| 75 | 6 | 8 | Mohammad Rahman | Bangladesh | 23.66 | NR |
| 76 | 6 | 2 | Hilal Hemed Hilal | Tanzania | 23.75 | |
| 77 | 6 | 9 | Noah Mascoll-Gomes | Antigua and Barbuda | 23.77 | |
| 78 | 7 | 7 | Sidrell Williams | Jamaica | 23.81 | |
| 79 | 1 | 5 | Kirill Vais | Kyrgyzstan | 23.83 | |
| 80 | 6 | 1 | Epeli Rabua | Fiji | 23.84 | |
| 81 | 6 | 5 | Christian Nikles | Brunei | 23.86 | |
| 82 | 2 | 0 | Delgerkhuu Myagmar | Mongolia | 24.02 | |
| 83 | 3 | 2 | Musa Zhalayev | Turkmenistan | 24.09 | |
| 84 | 7 | 9 | Mohammad Madwa | Kuwait | 24.24 | |
| 85 | 4 | 0 | Kitso Matija | Botswana | 24.27 | |
| 86 | 3 | 6 | Kener Torrez | Nicaragua | 24.35 | |
| 87 | 5 | 2 | Gianluca Pasolini | San Marino | 24.42 | |
| 88 | 6 | 0 | Thomas Morriss | Samoa | 24.46 | |
| 89 | 1 | 4 | Belly-Cresus Ganira | Burundi | 24.77 | |
| 90 | 5 | 6 | Finau Ohuafi | Tonga | 24.88 | NR |
| 91 | 2 | 3 | Colins Ebingha | Nigeria | 24.92 | |
| 92 | 1 | 2 | Nabil Ahmed Saleh | Uganda | 25.00 | |
| 92 | 5 | 4 | Cruz Halbich | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 25.00 | |
| 94 | 3 | 0 | Mohammed Jibali | Libya | 25.12 | |
| 94 | 5 | 7 | Anas Altamari | Palestine | 25.12 | |
| 96 | 2 | 1 | James Hendrix | Guam | 25.33 | |
| 97 | 1 | 3 | Abobakr Abass | Sudan | 25.40 | |
| 98 | 3 | 1 | Antonio Andrew Rodrigues | Guyana | 25.43 | |
| 98 | 3 | 8 | Dren Ukimeraj | Kosovo | 25.43 | |
| 100 | 1 | 1 | Olimjon Ishanov | Tajikistan | 25.47 | |
| 100 | 5 | 1 | Kaleo Kihleng | Federated States of Micronesia | 25.47 | |
| 102 | 5 | 8 | Santisouk Inthavong | Laos | 25.48 | |
| 103 | 4 | 9 | Alassane Lancina | Niger | 25.95 | |
| 104 | 4 | 1 | Chanthol Thoeun | Cambodia | 26.03 | |
| 105 | 2 | 9 | Aamir Motiwala | Pakistan | 26.09 | |
| 106 | 5 | 9 | Jefferson Kpanou | Benin | 26.70 | |
| 107 | 2 | 5 | P.Y.D Poku-Dwumoh | Ghana | 26.71 | |
| 108 | 5 | 0 | Clayment Bill Lafiara | Solomon Islands | 26.75 | |
| 109 | 2 | 8 | Ian Salaka | Malawi | 27.66 | |
| 110 | 2 | 2 | Abdelmalik Muktar | Ethiopia | 28.06 | |
| 111 | 4 | 2 | Jack Parlee | Turks and Caicos Islands | 28.17 | |
| 112 | 3 | 4 | Amini Harindimana | Rwanda | 28.25 | |
| 113 | 4 | 5 | Mamadou Tahirou Bah | Guinea | 28.55 | |
| 114 | 1 | 6 | Joshua Wyse | Sierra Leone | 28.86 | |
| 115 | 3 | 5 | Ebrima Buaro | Gambia | 29.54 | |
| 116 | 4 | 4 | Daniel Ranis | Marshall Islands | 29.63 | |
| 117 | 1 | 8 | H.T.H. Baidar | Yemen | 29.70 | |
| 118 | 4 | 7 | Jessy Misak | Vanuatu | 29.76 | |
| 119 | 3 | 9 | Hamid Rahimi | Afghanistan | 30.06 | |
| 120 | 4 | 6 | David Hillah-Ayite | Togo | 30.54 | NR |
| 121 | 4 | 3 | Daoud Ali Haroun | Djibouti | 30.89 | |
| 122 | 2 | 4 | Omar Barry | Burkina Faso | 31.21 | |
| 123 | 3 | 3 | José da Silva Viegas | Timor-Leste | 31.72 | |
| 124 | 4 | 8 | Fenel Lamour | Haiti | 32.42 | |
| | 7 | 0 | Thibaut Danho | Ivory Coast | DNS | |
| | 1 | 7 | Hakim Youssouf | Comoros | DSQ | |
| | 5 | 3 | Josh Tarere | Papua New Guinea | DSQ | |
| | 10 | 4 | Heiko Gigler | Austria | DSQ | |

#### Swim-off

The swim-off was held on 13 December at 11:45.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | Maksim Lobanovskij | Hungary | 21.25 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Kristian Golomeev | Greece | 21.28 | |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were started on 13 December at 19:37.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | Ben Proud | United Kingdom | 20.71 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Vladimir Morozov | Russia | 20.83 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Brad Tandy | South Africa | 21.07 | Q |
| 4 | 3 | Jesse Puts | Netherlands | 21.12 | QSO |
| 4 | 6 | Paweł Juraszek | Poland | 21.12 | QSO |
| 6 | 8 | Maxim Lobanovskij | Hungary | 21.20 | |
| 7 | 2 | Katsumi Nakamura | Japan | 21.26 | |
| 8 | 7 | Lorenzo Zazzeri | Italy | 21.32 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Caeleb Dressel | United States | 20.51 | Q, =AM |
| 2 | 5 | Cameron McEvoy | Australia | 20.97 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Simonas Bilis | Lithuania | 21.03 | Q, NR |
| 4 | 8 | César Cielo | Brazil | 21.06 | Q |
| 5 | 6 | Michael Andrew | United States | 21.18 | |
| 6 | 7 | Kosuke Matsui | Japan | 21.30 | |
| 7 | 1 | Ali Khalafalla | Egypt | 21.39 | |
| 8 | 2 | Sergii Shevtsov | Ukraine | 21.43 | |

#### Swim-off

The swim-off was held on 14 December at 09:30.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | Paweł Juraszek | Poland | 20.98 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Jesse Puts | Netherlands | 21.08 | |

### Final

The final was held on 14 December at 20:03.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 3 | Vladimir Morozov | Russia | 20.33 | |
| | 4 | Caeleb Dressel | United States | 20.54 | |
| | 1 | Brad Tandy | South Africa | 20.94 | |
| 4 | 2 | Simonas Bilis | Lithuania | 20.99 | NR |
| 5 | 8 | Paweł Juraszek | Poland | 21.00 | |
| 6 | 6 | Cameron McEvoy | Australia | 21.02 | |
| 7 | 7 | César Cielo | Brazil | 21.20 | |
| | 5 | Ben Proud | United Kingdom | DSQ | |