# 2024 World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 50 metre freestyle

The Men's 50 metre freestyle competition of the 2024 World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 14 and 15 December 2024.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows:
| World record | Caeleb Dressel (USA) | 20.16 | Budapest, Hungary | 21 November 2020 |
| Competition record | Florent Manaudou (FRA) | 20.26 | Doha, Qatar | 5 December 2014 |
The following records were established during the competition:
| Date | Event | Name | Nationality | Time | Record |
| 14 December | Heat 10 | Jordan Crooks | Cayman Islands | 20.08 | WR |
| 14 December | Semifinal 2 | Jordan Crooks | Cayman Islands | 19.90 | WR |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were started on 14 December at 10:14.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 10 | 1 | Jordan Crooks | Cayman Islands | 20.08 | Q, WR |
| 2 | 11 | 8 | Jack Alexy | United States | 20.69 | Q |
| 3 | 10 | 5 | Nyls Korstanje | Netherlands | 20.72 | Q, NR |
| 3 | 10 | 8 | Chris Guiliano | United States | 20.72 | Q |
| 5 | 12 | 5 | Dylan Carter | Trinidad and Tobago | 20.75 | Q |
| 6 | 10 | 7 | Guilherme Caribé | Brazil | 20.81 | Q |
| 7 | 10 | 4 | Isaac Cooper | Australia | 20.89 | Q |
| 8 | 11 | 6 | Egor Kornev | Neutral Athletes B | 20.92 | Q |
| 8 | 12 | 3 | Maxime Grousset | France | 20.92 | Q |
| 10 | 9 | 7 | Jere Hribar | Croatia | 20.94 | Q |
| 11 | 12 | 6 | Leonardo Deplano | Italy | 20.98 | Q |
| 12 | 11 | 3 | Ian Ho | Hong Kong | 21.01 | Q |
| 12 | 11 | 4 | Ji Yu-chan | South Korea | 21.01 | Q |
| 14 | 10 | 0 | Shane Ryan | Ireland | 21.07 | Q, NR |
| 15 | 12 | 4 | Szebasztián Szabó | Hungary | 21.14 | Q |
| 16 | 12 | 8 | Heiko Gigler | Austria | 21.19 | Q, NR |
| 17 | 12 | 2 | Thomas Fannon | Ireland | 21.25 | R |
| 18 | 9 | 1 | Nikola Miljenic | Croatia | 21.26 | R |
| 19 | 12 | 1 | Daniel Zaitsev | Estonia | 21.27 | |
| 20 | 10 | 3 | Marius Kusch | Germany | 21.35 | |
| 21 | 11 | 5 | Lorenzo Zazzeri | Italy | 21.37 | |
| 22 | 11 | 2 | Matej Duša | Slovakia | 21.38 | |
| 23 | 9 | 5 | Martin Kartavi | Israel | 21.41 | |
| 23 | 12 | 9 | Meiron Amir Cheruti | Israel | 21.41 | |
| 25 | 8 | 2 | Bjørnar Laskerud | Norway | 21.44 | |
| 26 | 12 | 0 | Elias Persson | Sweden | 21.45 | |
| 27 | 11 | 1 | Piotr Ludwiczak | Poland | 21.46 | |
| 28 | 7 | 8 | Deniel Nankov | Bulgaria | 21.50 | NR |
| 29 | 8 | 3 | Lamar Taylor | Bahamas | 21.57 | |
| 30 | 9 | 2 | Mikel Schreuders | Aruba | 21.60 | NR |
| 30 | 10 | 2 | Ralf Tribuntsov | Estonia | 21.60 | |
| 32 | 12 | 7 | Masahiro Kawane | Japan | 21.62 | |
| 33 | 7 | 3 | David Young | Fiji | 21.70 | NR |
| 34 | 8 | 0 | Diego Aranda | Uruguay | 21.72 | NR |
| 35 | 9 | 3 | Artem Selin | Germany | 21.77 | |
| 36 | 11 | 9 | Miguel Pérez-Godoy | Spain | 21.79 | |
| 37 | 9 | 8 | Patrick Dinu | Romania | 21.97 | |
| 38 | 8 | 9 | Samyar Abdoli | Iran | 21.98 | NR |
| 38 | 9 | 6 | Simon Elias Statkevičius | Iceland | 21.98 | |
| 40 | 7 | 9 | Abdul Jabar Adama | Nigeria | 22.03 | NR |
| 41 | 6 | 5 | Nathaniel Thomas | Jamaica | 22.06 | NR |
| 41 | 8 | 4 | Julien Henx | Luxembourg | 22.06 | |
| 41 | 8 | 6 | Adi Mešetović | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 22.06 | |
| 44 | 7 | 7 | Chuang Mu-lun | Chinese Taipei | 22.07 | |
| 45 | 7 | 4 | Javier Núñez | Dominican Republic | 22.08 | |
| 46 | 7 | 6 | Gleb Kovalenya | Kazakhstan | 22.09 | |
| 47 | 11 | 0 | Orhan Dine Moreira | Benin | 22.13 | NR |
| 48 | 9 | 4 | Jack Hendy | New Zealand | 22.18 | |
| 49 | 7 | 2 | Marwane Sebbata | Morocco | 22.20 | |
| 50 | 10 | 9 | Zhao Jiayue | China | 22.28 | |
| 51 | 7 | 1 | Gabriel Martínez | Honduras | 22.35 | NR |
| 52 | 8 | 8 | Luong Jérémie Loïc Nino | Vietnam | 22.36 | |
| 53 | 1 | 5 | William Birkett | Ecuador | 22.38 | |
| 54 | 8 | 7 | Lim Yin Chuen | Malaysia | 22.44 | |
| 55 | 8 | 1 | Adrián Vargas | Costa Rica | 22.52 | |
| 56 | 7 | 5 | Pongpanod Trithan | Thailand | 22.68 | |
| 57 | 6 | 3 | Hector Langkilde | Samoa | 22.71 | NR |
| 58 | 6 | 8 | Musa Zhalayev | Turkmenistan | 22.77 | NR |
| 59 | 7 | 0 | Tendo Mukalazi | Uganda | 22.93 | NR |
| 60 | 5 | 5 | Miguel Vásquez | Guatemala | 22.94 | =NR |
| 61 | 6 | 4 | Adam Moncherry | Seychelles | 22.96 | NR |
| 62 | 5 | 2 | Reidi Resuli | Albania | 22.99 | |
| 63 | 6 | 6 | Nixon Hernández | El Salvador | 23.05 | NR |
| 64 | 6 | 9 | Ismael Jair Holtuin | Suriname | 23.17 | |
| 65 | 5 | 7 | Nikolass Deičmans | Latvia | 23.19 | |
| 66 | 6 | 7 | Tameea El-Hamayda | Qatar | 23.22 | |
| 67 | 5 | 1 | Finau Ohuafi | Tonga | 23.26 | |
| 68 | 6 | 1 | Antoine De Lapparent | Cambodia | 23.27 | |
| 69 | 5 | 4 | Mohamad Zubaid | Kuwait | 23.30 | |
| 70 | 5 | 6 | Stephen Nyoike | Kenya | 23.31 | |
| 71 | 5 | 3 | Mohamed Aan Hussain | Maldives | 23.35 | |
| 72 | 2 | 2 | Christien Kelly | Barbados | 23.56 | |
| 73 | 6 | 0 | Belly-Cresus Ganira | Burundi | 23.57 | |
| 74 | 4 | 5 | Meshal Al-Kulaibi | Oman | 23.96 | |
| 75 | 6 | 2 | Alaa Maso | ART | 23.98 | |
| 76 | 2 | 0 | Daniil Mistriukov | Kyrgyzstan | 24.05 | |
| 77 | 1 | 4 | Kenale Alleyne | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 24.10 | |
| 78 | 4 | 4 | Kazuumi Nestor | Palau | 24.20 | NR |
| 79 | 4 | 6 | Taiyo Akimaru | Northern Mariana Islands | 24.40 | |
| 80 | 2 | 9 | Kim Ryong-hyon | North Korea | 24.42 | |
| 81 | 5 | 0 | Ardasher Gadoev | Tajikistan | 24.58 | |
| 82 | 4 | 7 | Ethan Hazell | Saint Lucia | 24.76 | |
| 83 | 5 | 9 | Ajal Kaji Tamrakar | Nepal | 24.90 | |
| 84 | 5 | 8 | Cedrick Niyibizi | Rwanda | 24.94 | |
| 85 | 4 | 0 | Houmed Houssein Barkat | Djibouti | 25.09 | NR |
| 86 | 4 | 3 | Yousif Ibrahim | Sudan | 25.17 | NR |
| 87 | 4 | 8 | Michael Mponezya Joseph | Tanzania | 25.18 | |
| 88 | 4 | 1 | Haziq Samil | Brunei | 25.31 | |
| 89 | 3 | 2 | Nigel Fontenelle | Sint Maarten | 25.43 | |
| 90 | 4 | 9 | Camil Doua | Mauritania | 25.54 | |
| 91 | 3 | 5 | Ailton Lima | Cape Verde | 25.67 | |
| 92 | 3 | 4 | Asher Banda | Malawi | 25.75 | |
| 93 | 2 | 6 | Claudio Yelegou | Cameroon | 26.09 | |
| 94 | 4 | 2 | Sangay Tenzin | Bhutan | 26.55 | |
| 95 | 3 | 3 | Elhadj N'Gnane Diallo | Guinea | 26.79 | |
| 96 | 3 | 6 | Ousman Jobe | Gambia | 26.82 | |
| 97 | 1 | 3 | Phixaiyadeth Thirakul | Laos | 27.08 | |
| 98 | 3 | 9 | Leo Lebot | Vanuatu | 27.38 | |
| 99 | 2 | 7 | Jaya Corder | Marshall Islands | 27.64 | |
| 100 | 2 | 4 | Jolanio Guterres | Timor-Leste | 28.27 | |
| | 9 | 0 | Yuri Kisil | Canada | Disqualified | Disqualified |
| | 2 | 1 | Yusuf Nasser | Yemen | Did not start | Did not start |
| | 2 | 3 | Thabo Motsopa | Lesotho | Did not start | Did not start |
| | 2 | 5 | Marouane Mamane Hamissou Abba | Niger | Did not start | Did not start |
| | 2 | 8 | Jacques Ngoie Kazadi | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Did not start | Did not start |
| | 3 | 0 | Pedro Rogery | Guinea-Bissau | Did not start | Did not start |
| | 3 | 1 | Magnim Jordano Daou | Togo | Did not start | Did not start |
| | 3 | 7 | Fahim Anwari | Afghanistan | Did not start | Did not start |
| | 3 | 8 | Surafel Geremew Asfaw | Ethiopia | Did not start | Did not start |
| | 8 | 5 | Nándor Németh | Hungary | Did not start | Did not start |
| | 10 | 6 | Noè Ponti | Switzerland | Did not start | Did not start |
| | 11 | 7 | Emre Sakçı | Turkey | Did not start | Did not start |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were started on 14 December at 18:21.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 2 | 4 | Jordan Crooks | Cayman Islands | 19.90 | Q, WR |
| 2 | 1 | 4 | Jack Alexy | United States | 20.51 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | 2 | Guilherme Caribé | Brazil | 20.59 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | 5 | Nyls Korstanje | Netherlands | 20.63 | Q, NR |
| 5 | 2 | 6 | Egor Kornev | Neutral Athletes B | 20.75 | Q |
| 6 | 1 | 3 | Maxime Grousset | France | 20.78 | Q |
| 7 | 2 | 3 | Chris Guiliano | United States | 20.79 | Q |
| 8 | 1 | 8 | Ji Yu-chan | South Korea | 20.80 | Q, =AS |
| 9 | 1 | 5 | Dylan Carter | Trinidad and Tobago | 20.82 | R |
| 10 | 2 | 7 | Leonardo Deplano | Italy | 20.83 | R |
| 11 | 2 | 2 | Ian Ho | Hong Kong | 20.85 | NR |
| 12 | 1 | 1 | Jere Hribar | Croatia | 20.88 | |
| 12 | 1 | 6 | Isaac Cooper | Australia | 20.88 | |
| 14 | 2 | 1 | Heiko Gigler | Austria | 21.06 | NR |
| 15 | 1 | 7 | Szebasztián Szabó | Hungary | 21.07 | |
| 16 | 2 | 8 | Shane Ryan | Ireland | 21.28 | |

### Final

The final was held on 15 December at 17:39.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 4 | Jordan Crooks | Cayman Islands | 20.19 |
| | 3 | Guilherme Caribé | Brazil | 20.57 |
| | 5 | Jack Alexy | United States | 20.61 |
| 4 | 1 | Chris Guiliano | United States | 20.78 |
| 5 | 6 | Nyls Korstanje | Netherlands | 20.79 |
| 6 | 2 | Egor Kornev | Neutral Athletes B | 20.81 |
| 7 | 7 | Maxime Grousset | France | 20.90 |
| 8 | 8 | Ji Yu-chan | South Korea | 20.91 |