# Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre butterfly

The heats for the men's 50 metre butterfly race at the 2009 World Championships occurred on Sunday, 26 July at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and competition records were as follows:
| World record | Rafael Muñoz (ESP) | 22.43 | Málaga, Spain | 5 April 2009 |
| Championship record | Roland Schoeman (RSA) | 22.96 | Montreal, Canada | 25 July 2005 |
The following records were established during the competition:
| Date | Round | Name | Nationality | Time | Record |
| 26 July | Heat 20 | Roland Schoeman | South Africa | 22.90 | CR |
| 26 July | Heat 21 | Rafael Muñoz | Spain | 22.90 | =CR |
| 26 July | Semifinal 1 | Rafael Muñoz | Spain | 22.68 | CR |
| 27 July | Final | Milorad Čavić | Serbia | 22.67 | CR |

## Results
### Heats

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Heat | Lane | Notes |
| 1 | Roland Schoeman | South Africa | 22.90 | 20 | 5 | CR, AF |
| 2 | Rafael Muñoz | Spain | 22.90 | 21 | 4 | =CR |
| 3 | Milorad Čavić | Serbia | 22.93 | 21 | 5 | |
| 4 | Jakob Andkjær | Denmark | 23.04 | 21 | 3 | NR |
| 5 | Andrew Lauterstein | Australia | 23.10 | 19 | 5 | |
| 6 | Duje Draganja | Croatia | 23.14 | 18 | 2 | |
| 7 | Jernej Godec | Slovenia | 23.20 | 20 | 3 | |
| 8 | Albert Subirats | Venezuela | 23.23 | 18 | 4 | SA |
| 8 | Nicholas Santos | Brazil | 23.23 | 20 | 6 | =SA |
| 8 | Matt Targett | Australia | 23.23 | 20 | 4 | |
| 11 | Yevgeny Korotyshkin | Russia | 23.24 | 21 | 6 | NR |
| 12 | Sergiy Breus | Ukraine | 23.35 | 20 | 7 | NR |
| 13 | Jason Dunford | Kenya | 23.40 | 19 | 4 | |
| 13 | Corney Swanepoel | New Zealand | 23.40 | 21 | 0 | NR |
| 15 | Mario Todorović | Croatia | 23.45 | 20 | 1 | |
| 16 | Graeme Moore | South Africa | 23.48 | 20 | 8 | |
| 17 | Thomas Rupprath | Germany | 23.49 | 21 | 7 | |
| 18 | Ivan Lenđer | Serbia | 23.51 | 21 | 8 | |
| 19 | Johannes Dietrich | Germany | 23.55 | 19 | 3 | |
| 20 | Kaio de Almeida | Brazil | 23.60 | 21 | 2 | |
| 21 | Mattia Nalesso | Italy | 23.65 | 19 | 8 | |
| 21 | Paolo Facchinelli | Italy | 23.65 | 21 | 1 | |
| 23 | Octavio Alesi | Venezuela | 23.67 | 18 | 6 | |
| 24 | Martin Spitzer | Austria | 23.69 | 17 | 5 | NR |
| 25 | Ryo Takayasu | Japan | 23.73 | 19 | 2 | |
| 26 | Elvis Burrows | Bahamas | 23.74 | 16 | 7 | NR |
| 27 | Stefanos Dimitriadis | Greece | 23.75 | 18 | 3 | |
| 27 | Romain Sassot | France | 23.75 | 20 | 2 | |
| 29 | Daniel Bell | New Zealand | 23.76 | 21 | 9 | |
| 30 | Douglas Clark Lennox II | Puerto Rico | 23.88 | 8 | 4 | NR |
| 31 | Alon Mandel | Israel | 23.90 | 16 | 8 | NR |
| 31 | Masayuki Kishida | Japan | 23.90 | 20 | 0 | |
| 33 | Zhou Jiawei | China | 23.91 | 19 | 6 | |
| 34 | François Heersbrandt | Belgium | 23.92 | 18 | 5 | NR |
| 35 | Tyler McGill | United States | 23.93 | 17 | 7 | |
| 36 | Michal Rubáček | Czech Republic | 23.94 | 18 | 9 | |
| 37 | Ryan Pini | Papua New Guinea | 23.95 | 16 | 9 | |
| 38 | Krisztián Takács | Hungary | 23.97 | 18 | 1 | |
| 39 | Matt Grevers | United States | 23.98 | 18 | 0 | |
| 40 | Andrejs Dūda | Latvia | 24.03 | 12 | 4 | |
| 41 | Joe Bartoch | Canada | 24.04 | 18 | 7 | |
| 42 | Romāns Miloslavskis | Latvia | 24.05 | 11 | 5 | |
| 42 | Shi Feng | China | 24.05 | 19 | 9 | |
| 42 | Emil Dall-Nielsen | Denmark | 24.05 | 20 | 9 | |
| 45 | Ian Hulme | Great Britain | 24.08 | 16 | 0 | |
| 46 | Dinko Jukić | Austria | 24.13 | 17 | 3 | |
| 46 | Diogo Carvalho | Portugal | 24.13 | 17 | 6 | |
| 48 | Paweł Korzeniowski | Poland | 24.14 | 18 | 8 | |
| 49 | Simão Morgado | Portugal | 24.15 | 19 | 0 | |
| 50 | Jeong Doo-Hee | South Korea | 24.16 | 16 | 1 | |
| 50 | Andrii Govorov | Ukraine | 24.16 | 19 | 1 | |
| 52 | Evgeny Lazuka | Belarus | 24.18 | 16 | 4 | |
| 53 | Pavel Sankovich | Belarus | 24.22 | 17 | 0 | |
| 54 | Michal Navara | Slovakia | 24.26 | 14 | 4 | |
| 54 | Norbert Trandafir | Romania | 24.26 | 15 | 4 | NR |
| 56 | Martin Verner | Czech Republic | 24.28 | 17 | 9 | |
| 57 | Virdhawal Khade | India | 24.32 | 17 | 8 | |
| 58 | Damien Courtois | Switzerland | 24.33 | 17 | 2 | |
| 59 | Shaune Fraser | Cayman Islands | 24.35 | 14 | 9 | |
| 60 | Daniel Bego | Malaysia | 24.38 | 13 | 2 | |
| 60 | Jacinto de Jesus Ayala | Dominican Republic | 24.38 | 16 | 3 | NR |
| 62 | Gustavo Daniel Paschetta | Argentina | 24.39 | 17 | 1 | |
| 63 | Marcin Babuchowski | Poland | 24.40 | 16 | 6 | |
| 64 | Apostolos Tsagkarakis | Greece | 24.41 | 15 | 8 | |
| 65 | David Dunford | Kenya | 24.48 | 12 | 5 | |
| 66 | Alexandru Felix Maestru | Romania | 24.53 | 15 | 5 | |
| 67 | Goksu Bicer | Turkey | 24.57 | 15 | 3 | |
| 68 | Glenn Victor Sutanto | Indonesia | 24.58 | 14 | 8 | |
| 69 | Paulius Viktoravicius | Lithuania | 24.62 | 15 | 6 | |
| 70 | Robi Zbogar | Slovenia | 24.67 | 15 | 7 | |
| 71 | Daniel Coakley | Philippines | 24.71 | 6 | 3 | NR |
| 72 | Pablo Marmolejo | Mexico | 24.73 | 13 | 1 | |
| 73 | Nadav Kochavi | Israel | 24.74 | 14 | 0 | |
| 74 | Alexandre Bakhtiarov | Cyprus | 24.77 | 16 | 2 | |
| 75 | Grant Beahan | Zimbabwe | 24.89 | 12 | 9 | NR |
| 75 | Daniel Rast | Switzerland | 24.89 | 16 | 5 | |
| 77 | Martin Liivamägi | Estonia | 24.90 | 15 | 9 | |
| 78 | Stanislav Kuzmin | Kazakhstan | 24.91 | 14 | 5 | |
| 79 | Rimvydas Salcius | Lithuania | 24.92 | 12 | 6 | |
| 80 | Norbert Trudman | Slovakia | 24.96 | 17 | 4 | |
| 81 | Yellow Yeiyah | Nigeria | 25.06 | 8 | 6 | |
| 81 | Joshua Mc Leod | Trinidad and Tobago | 25.06 | 14 | 7 | |
| 83 | Fernando Castellanos | Guatemala | 25.13 | 9 | 3 | |
| 84 | Tan Xue Wei Nicholas | Singapore | 25.15 | 14 | 3 | |
| 85 | Rustam Khudiyev | Kazakhstan | 25.19 | 15 | 2 | |
| 86 | Danil Bugakov | Uzbekistan | 25.24 | 15 | 1 | |
| 87 | Hsu Chi-Chieh | Chinese Taipei | 25.25 | 14 | 2 | |
| 88 | Wong Wing Cheung Victor | Macau | 25.26 | 13 | 5 | |
| 89 | Conor Leaney | Ireland | 25.27 | 13 | 3 | |
| 90 | João Matias | Angola | 25.28 | 12 | 8 | NR |
| 91 | Juan Cambindo Romanos | Colombia | 25.30 | 13 | 9 | |
| 92 | Bader Almuhana | Saudi Arabia | 25.31 | 13 | 8 | |
| 93 | Carlos Viveros Madariaga | Colombia | 25.33 | 15 | 0 | |
| 94 | Serghei Falcas | Moldova | 25.40 | 12 | 2 | |
| 95 | Kaspar Raigla | Estonia | 25.53 | 13 | 7 | |
| 96 | Branden Whitehurst | Virgin Islands | 25.58 | 6 | 7 | NR |
| 96 | Kareem Ennab | Jordan | 25.58 | 12 | 7 | |
| 98 | Fabio Persano | Paraguay | 25.59 | 13 | 4 | |
| 98 | Yury Zaharov | Kyrgyzstan | 25.59 | 13 | 6 | |
| 100 | Anders McIntyre | Canada | 25.62 | 9 | 5 | |
| 101 | James Walsh | Philippines | 25.63 | 7 | 6 | |
| 102 | Marcelino Richaards | Suriname | 25.68 | 11 | 3 | |
| 102 | Brad Hamilton | Jamaica | 25.68 | 11 | 0 | NR |
| 102 | Bruno Miguel Esquen Blas | Peru | 25.68 | 12 | 3 | |
| 105 | Roy-Allan Burch | Bermuda | 25.74 | 5 | 6 | NR |
| 105 | Roy Barahona Fuentes | Honduras | 25.74 | 9 | 6 | |
| 107 | Sim Ri Jin Nicholas | Singapore | 25.81 | 11 | 8 | |
| 108 | Mikayel Koloyan | Armenia | 25.83 | 8 | 3 | |
| 109 | Achelhi Bilal | Morocco | 25.84 | 9 | 4 | |
| 110 | Raphaël Stacchiotti | Luxembourg | 25.87 | 14 | 1 | |
| 111 | Emin Noshadi | Iran | 25.88 | 8 | 2 | |
| 111 | Phillipe Mailliard Rodríguez | Chile | 25.88 | 11 | 2 | |
| 113 | Foo Jian Beng | Malaysia | 25.92 | 11 | 6 | |
| 114 | Yan Ho Chun | Hong Kong | 25.94 | 12 | 0 | |
| 115 | Pietro Camilloni | San Marino | 25.97 | 10 | 4 | |
| 116 | Obaid Al-Jasmi | United Arab Emirates | 25.99 | 11 | 7 | |
| 117 | Miguel Navarro | Bolivia | 26.00 | 7 | 2 | |
| 117 | Timothy Ferris | Zimbabwe | 26.00 | 11 | 4 | |
| 119 | Teymur Guliyev | Azerbaijan | 26.02 | 14 | 6 | |
| 120 | Kari Joannesarson Hoevdanum | Faroe Islands | 26.03 | 2 | 0 | |
| 121 | Alexander Ray | Namibia | 26.16 | 7 | 9 | |
| 122 | Nather Ahmed Al-Hamoud | Saudi Arabia | 26.17 | 10 | 3 | |
| 123 | Niall Christopher Roberts | Guyana | 26.20 | 10 | 5 | |
| 124 | Hycinth Cijntje | Netherlands Antilles | 26.21 | 8 | 5 | |
| 125 | Sergey Pankov | Uzbekistan | 26.23 | 11 | 9 | |
| 126 | Nguyen Vo Thai | Vietnam | 26.26 | 11 | 1 | |
| 127 | Erik Rajohnson | Madagascar | 26.35 | 8 | 7 | |
| 127 | Radhames Kalaf | Dominican Republic | 26.35 | 10 | 7 | |
| 129 | Rami Anis | Syria | 26.42 | 9 | 8 | |
| 130 | Byron Briedenhann | Namibia | 26.44 | 7 | 4 | |
| 131 | Oriol Cunat | Andorra | 26.52 | 7 | 7 | |
| 131 | Shawn Clarke | Barbados | 26.52 | 9 | 1 | |
| 133 | Arjun Jayaprakash | India | 26.61 | 10 | 0 | |
| 134 | Leonel Matonse | Mozambique | 26.66 | 9 | 7 | |
| 135 | Papa Madiop Ndong | Senegal | 26.72 | 9 | 9 | |
| 135 | Joel Romeu Lemarchand | Uruguay | 26.72 | 10 | 1 | |
| 137 | Fernando Medrano | Nicaragua | 26.76 | 8 | 9 | |
| 138 | Luke Hall | Eswatini | 26.80 | 9 | 2 | |
| 139 | Chong Cheok Kuan | Macau | 26.82 | 10 | 8 | |
| 140 | Rony Bakale | Republic of the Congo | 26.98 | 7 | 0 | |
| 141 | Aleksei Klimenko | Kyrgyzstan | 27.02 | 10 | 9 | |
| 142 | Alejandro Madde Madde | Bolivia | 27.07 | 6 | 8 | |
| 142 | Heimanu Sichan | Tahiti | 27.07 | 8 | 0 | |
| 144 | Moh'D Aqelah | Jordan | 27.10 | 9 | 0 | |
| 145 | Abbas Raad | Lebanon | 27.14 | 10 | 6 | |
| 146 | Gerusio Matonse | Mozambique | 27.16 | 8 | 8 | |
| 147 | Eric Arturo Medina | Panama | 27.21 | 6 | 2 | |
| 147 | Tural Abbasov | Azerbaijan | 27.21 | 7 | 5 | |
| 149 | Peter Popahun Pokawin | Papua New Guinea | 27.28 | 5 | 5 | |
| 149 | Jean-Luc Augier | Saint Lucia | 27.28 | 6 | 5 | |
| 151 | Jon Pepaj | Albania | 27.30 | 10 | 2 | |
| 152 | Julien Brice | Saint Lucia | 27.34 | 7 | 1 | |
| 153 | Adama Ouedraogo | Burkina Faso | 27.47 | 1 | 5 | |
| 154 | Nasir Ali | Pakistan | 27.49 | 7 | 3 | |
| 155 | Kerson Hadley | Federated States of Micronesia | 27.50 | 3 | 5 | |
| 156 | Gezim Hyka | Albania | 27.52 | 8 | 1 | |
| 157 | Andrey Molchanov | Turkmenistan | 27.53 | 5 | 2 | |
| 158 | Juan Carlos Sikaffy Diaz | Honduras | 27.65 | 5 | 4 | |
| 159 | Nicholas Thomson | Bermuda | 27.71 | 7 | 8 | |
| 160 | Fabian Gregory Binns | Guyana | 27.77 | 2 | 1 | |
| 161 | Sergey Pevnev | Armenia | 27.78 | 5 | 1 | |
| 162 | Jean Marie Froget | Mauritius | 27.83 | 5 | 9 | |
| 163 | Vaughn Forsythe | Barbados | 27.84 | 6 | 6 | |
| 164 | Anthony Clark | Tahiti | 27.91 | 6 | 1 | |
| 165 | Nicholas Coard | Grenada | 27.98 | 5 | 8 | |
| 166 | Edward Poppe | Guam | 28.03 | 6 | 4 | |
| 167 | Kailan Staal | Northern Mariana Islands | 28.04 | 4 | 6 | |
| 168 | Benjamin Gabbard | American Samoa | 28.07 | 5 | 3 | |
| 169 | Esau Simpsons | Grenada | 28.10 | 4 | 7 | |
| 170 | Peter James Lynch | Zambia | 28.21 | 6 | 9 | |
| 171 | Sergey Krovyakov | Turkmenistan | 28.25 | 4 | 3 | |
| 171 | Mark Sammut | Malta | 28.25 | 5 | 7 | |
| 173 | Shane Mangroo | Seychelles | 28.38 | 4 | 1 | |
| 174 | Gary Pineda | Guatemala | 28.45 | 4 | 0 | |
| 175 | Milimo Mweetwa | Zambia | 28.46 | 5 | 0 | |
| 176 | Jean Hugues Gregoire | Mauritius | 28.53 | 4 | 4 | |
| 177 | Aung Zaw Phyo | Myanmar | 28.61 | 4 | 2 | |
| 178 | Paul Elisa | Fiji | 28.62 | 4 | 9 | |
| 179 | Quenton Dupont | Grenada | 28.88 | 3 | 3 | |
| 180 | Siu Kent Chung | Brunei | 28.92 | 4 | 8 | |
| 181 | Narantsog Tsogjargal | Mongolia | 29.13 | 6 | 0 | |
| 182 | Michael Taylor | Marshall Islands | 29.16 | 1 | 6 | |
| 183 | Elaijie Erasito | Fiji | 29.53 | 3 | 4 | |
| 184 | Mohamed Mujahid | Maldives | 29.56 | 3 | 1 | |
| 185 | Petero Okotai | Cook Islands | 29.72 | 1 | 4 | |
| 186 | Ali Mohamed Raaidh | Maldives | 29.86 | 3 | 8 | |
| 187 | Wei Ching Maou | American Samoa | 30.06 | 3 | 9 | |
| 188 | Cooper Graf | Northern Mariana Islands | 30.11 | 3 | 6 | |
| 189 | Esebei Doran | Palau | 31.26 | 2 | 3 | |
| 189 | Alisher Chingizov | Tajikistan | 31.26 | 4 | 5 | |
| 191 | Samson Makere | Tanzania | 31.58 | 2 | 9 | |
| 192 | Jonathan Bishop | Marshall Islands | 32.26 | 2 | 4 | |
| 193 | Mohamed Coulibaly | Mali | 32.81 | 2 | 8 | |
| 194 | Said Seba | Tanzania | 33.18 | 2 | 5 | |
| 195 | Soulasan Soulasen | Laos | 34.06 | 1 | 3 | |
| 196 | Boubacar Haïdara | Guinea | 37.06 | 3 | 0 | |
| 197 | Abdoulkader Houssein | Djibouti | 37.47 | 2 | 3 | |
| 198 | Kokou Messan Amegashie | Togo | 40.57 | 2 | 7 | |
| – | Houmed Hassan Ali | Djibouti | DSQ | 2 | 2 | |
| – | Ingabire-Ahishakiye Gael | Burundi | DSQ | 3 | 2 | |
| – | Rama Leray Christ-Alex | Burundi | DSQ | 3 | 7 | |
| – | Hajder Ensar | Bosnia and Herzegovina | DSQ | 12 | 1 | |
| – | Pavels Kondrahins | Latvia | DSQ | 13 | 0 | |
| – | Nikita Konovalov | Russia | DSQ | 19 | 7 | |

### Semifinals

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Heat | Lane | Notes |
| 1 | Rafael Muñoz | Spain | 22.68 | 1 | 4 | CR |
| 2 | Milorad Čavić | Serbia | 22.75 | 2 | 5 | |
| 3 | Nicholas Santos | Brazil | 23.00 | 2 | 2 | AM |
| 4 | Duje Draganja | Croatia | 23.03 | 1 | 3 | |
| 5 | Matt Targett | Australia | 23.04 | 1 | 2 | |
| 6 | Albert Subirats | Venezuela | 23.05 | 1 | 6 | NR |
| 7 | Jason Dunford | Kenya | 23.10 | 2 | 1 | |
| 8 | Jakob Andkjær | Denmark | 23.14 | 1 | 5 | |
| 9 | Roland Schoeman | South Africa | 23.18 | 2 | 4 | |
| 10 | Andrew Lauterstein | Australia | 23.19 | 2 | 3 | |
| 11 | Graeme Moore | South Africa | 23.25 | 1 | 8 | |
| 12 | Jernej Godec | Slovenia | 23.26 | 2 | 6 | |
| 13 | Sergiy Breus | Ukraine | 23.37 | 1 | 7 | |
| 13 | Yevgeny Korotyshkin | Russia | 23.37 | 2 | 7 | |
| 15 | Corney Swanepoel | New Zealand | 23.50 | 1 | 1 | |
| 16 | Mario Todorović | Croatia | 23.51 | 2 | 8 | |

### Final

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Lane | Notes |
| | Milorad Čavić | Serbia | 22.67 | 5 | CR, NR |
| | Matt Targett | Australia | 22.73 | 2 | OC |
| | Rafael Muñoz | Spain | 22.88 | 4 | |
| 4 | Jakob Andkjær | Denmark | 22.93 | 8 | NR |
| 5 | Nicholas Santos | Brazil | 23.00 | 3 | =AM |
| 6 | Jason Dunford | Kenya | 23.04 | 1 | NR |
| 7 | Albert Subirats | Venezuela | 23.07 | 7 | |
| 8 | Duje Draganja | Croatia | 23.10 | 6 | |