# Swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre freestyle

The men's 50 metre freestyle event in swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships took place on 2–3 August at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, Spain.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and championship records were:
| World record | César Cielo (BRA) | 20.91 | São Paulo, Brazil | 18 December 2009 |
| Competition record | César Cielo (BRA) | 21.08 | Rome, Italy | 1 August 2009 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held at 10:00.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 11 | 4 | Florent Manaudou | France | 21.72 | Q |
| 2 | 11 | 5 | César Cielo | Brazil | 21.76 | Q |
| 3 | 9 | 7 | Andriy Govorov | Ukraine | 21.80 | Q, NR |
| 4 | 9 | 6 | Matthew Abood | Australia | 21.84 | Q |
| 5 | 10 | 5 | Anthony Ervin | United States | 21.87 | Q |
| 6 | 10 | 4 | Nathan Adrian | United States | 21.88 | Q |
| 7 | 9 | 5 | Vladimir Morozov | Russia | 21.95 | Q |
| 8 | 11 | 6 | Marcelo Chierighini | Brazil | 22.01 | Q |
| 8 | 11 | 7 | Krisztián Takács | Hungary | 22.01 | Q |
| 10 | 10 | 7 | Shinri Shioura | Japan | 22.02 | Q, NR |
| 11 | 9 | 4 | James Magnussen | Australia | 22.04 | Q |
| 11 | 9 | 3 | Roland Schoeman | South Africa | 22.04 | Q |
| 13 | 1 | 1 | Andrey Grechin | Russia | 22.08 | Q |
| 14 | 10 | 3 | George Bovell | Trinidad and Tobago | 22.09 | Q |
| 15 | 11 | 3 | Frédérick Bousquet | France | 22.11 | Q |
| 16 | 10 | 8 | Norbert Trandafir | Romania | 22.25 | Q |
| 17 | 10 | 6 | Adam Brown | Great Britain | 22.30 | |
| 18 | 9 | 2 | Benjamin Proud | Great Britain | 22.31 | |
| 19 | 9 | 8 | Ari-Pekka Liukkonen | Finland | 22.38 | |
| 20 | 10 | 9 | Oussama Sahnoune | Algeria | 22.41 | |
| 21 | 11 | 2 | Luca Dotto | Italy | 22.45 | |
| 22 | 8 | 7 | Yang Jung-Doo | South Korea | 22.48 | NR |
| 23 | 10 | 2 | Marco Orsi | Italy | 22.61 | |
| 24 | 11 | 1 | Kristian Golomeev | Greece | 22.62 | |
| 25 | 9 | 9 | Christoph Fildebrandt | Germany | 22.64 | |
| 26 | 7 | 5 | Mindaugas Sadauskas | Lithuania | 22.69 | |
| 27 | 7 | 6 | Tomáš Plevko | Czech Republic | 22.71 | NR |
| 28 | 10 | 1 | Kenta Ito | Japan | 22.77 | |
| 29 | 11 | 0 | Hanser García | Cuba | 22.78 | |
| 29 | 8 | 4 | Sebastiaan Verschuren | Netherlands | 22.78 | |
| 31 | 8 | 9 | Boris Stojanović | Serbia | 22.81 | |
| 32 | 7 | 3 | Pjotr Degtjarjov | Estonia | 22.84 | |
| 33 | 10 | 0 | Yoris Grandjean | Belgium | 22.85 | |
| 34 | 8 | 5 | Doğa Çelik | Turkey | 22.89 | |
| 35 | 7 | 7 | Oliver Elliot | Chile | 22.90 | |
| 35 | 7 | 0 | Geoffrey Cheah | Hong Kong | 22.90 | |
| 37 | 9 | 0 | Roy-Allan Burch | Bermuda | 22.93 | |
| 38 | 7 | 2 | Elvis Burrows | Bahamas | 22.98 | |
| 39 | 8 | 3 | Christopher Manning | Canada | 22.99 | |
| 40 | 8 | 1 | Federico Grabich | Argentina | 23.00 | |
| 41 | 7 | 4 | Alejandro Escudero | Mexico | 23.07 | |
| 42 | 8 | 6 | Gabriel Melconian Alvez | Uruguay | 23.11 | |
| 43 | 8 | 2 | Barry Murphy | Ireland | 23.13 | |
| 44 | 7 | 8 | Triady Fauzi Sidiq | Indonesia | 23.14 | |
| 45 | 6 | 6 | Sean Gunn | Zimbabwe | 23.25 | NR |
| 46 | 8 | 8 | Mohammad Madwa | Kuwait | 23.34 | NR |
| 47 | 6 | 7 | Anthony Clark | French Polynesia | 23.47 | NR |
| 47 | 6 | 8 | Allan Gutiérrez Castro | Honduras | 23.47 | |
| 49 | 7 | 1 | Shehab Younis | Egypt | 23.49 | |
| 50 | 6 | 9 | Vahan Mkhitaryan | Armenia | 23.58 | |
| 51 | 11 | 9 | Lü Zhiwu | China | 23.64 | |
| 52 | 1 | 4 | Bradley Vincent | Mauritius | 23.82 | |
| 53 | 6 | 5 | Arsham Mirzaei | Iran | 24.00 | |
| 54 | 8 | 0 | Virdhawal Khade | India | 24.07 | |
| 55 | 5 | 5 | Mehdi El Hazzaz | Morocco | 24.10 | |
| 56 | 6 | 2 | Matthew Zammit | Malta | 24.11 | |
| 57 | 5 | 3 | Joshua Daniel | Saint Lucia | 24.16 | |
| 58 | 5 | 6 | Rodrigo Suriano | El Salvador | 24.32 | |
| 59 | 2 | 1 | Mahfizur Rahman Sagor | Bangladesh | 24.39 | |
| 60 | 5 | 8 | Ahmad Attellesey | Libya | 24.45 | |
| 61 | 6 | 1 | Davit Sikharulidze | Georgia | 24.49 | |
| 62 | 6 | 0 | Sebastián Jahnsen Madico | Peru | 24.54 | |
| 63 | 6 | 4 | Lei Cheok Fong | Macau | 24.55 | |
| 64 | 5 | 2 | Adrian Todd | Botswana | 24.65 | |
| 65 | 7 | 9 | Kirill Vais | Kyrgyzstan | 24.69 | |
| 66 | 4 | 4 | Christopher Duenas | Guam | 25.00 | |
| 67 | 5 | 7 | Ahmed Al-Dulaimi | Iraq | 25.32 | |
| 68 | 5 | 0 | Niall Roberts | Guyana | 25.33 | |
| 69 | 4 | 3 | Farhan Sultan | Bahrain | 25.39 | |
| 70 | 4 | 9 | Kwaku Addo | Ghana | 25.47 | |
| 71 | 4 | 5 | Christian Nikles | Brunei | 25.52 | |
| 72 | 5 | 9 | Valdo Lourenco | Mozambique | 25.58 | |
| 73 | 4 | 1 | Chris Regis | Grenada | 25.61 | |
| 74 | 4 | 2 | Hilal Hemed Hilal | Tanzania | 25.64 | |
| 75 | 4 | 6 | Suleyman Atayev | Turkmenistan | 25.81 | |
| 76 | 5 | 4 | Mohammad Abdo | Palestine | 25.85 | |
| 77 | 1 | 7 | Derek Dainard | Micronesia | 25.99 | |
| 78 | 3 | 5 | J'Air Smith | Antigua and Barbuda | 26.04 | |
| 79 | 3 | 5 | Giordan Harris | Marshall Islands | 26.41 | |
| 79 | 4 | 8 | Pierre Tano | Ivory Coast | 26.41 | |
| 81 | 2 | 0 | Ahmed Borhane | Djibouti | 26.92 | |
| 82 | 3 | 4 | Folarin Ogunsola | Gambia | 26.93 | |
| 83 | 3 | 3 | Umarkhon Alizoda | Tajikistan | 27.14 | |
| 84 | 3 | 1 | Patrick Rukundo | Rwanda | 27.27 | |
| 85 | 9 | 1 | Hem Thon Ponleu | Cambodia | 27.34 | |
| 86 | 2 | 3 | Ibrahima Ela Camara | Guinea | 27.46 | |
| 86 | 3 | 7 | Soulasen Phommasen | Laos | 27.46 | |
| 88 | 3 | 8 | Robel Kiros Habte | Ethiopia | 27.48 | |
| 89 | 2 | 9 | Adnan Mohamed Muthasim | Maldives | 27.53 | |
| 90 | 2 | 5 | Nikolas Sylvester | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 28.25 | |
| 91 | 4 | 7 | Osman Kamara | Sierra Leone | 28.30 | |
| 92 | 3 | 0 | Shawn Dingilius | Palau | 28.38 | |
| 93 | 4 | 0 | Arnold Kisulo | Uganda | 28.41 | |
| 94 | 2 | 2 | Carmel Bavuna | Burundi | 28.42 | |
| 95 | 3 | 2 | Miraj Prajapati | Nepal | 28.74 | |
| 96 | 3 | 9 | Yousef Al-Nehmi | Yemen | 28.75 | |
| 97 | 2 | 4 | Abdelrahim Mohamed Abdelrahim | Sudan | 28.78 | |
| 98 | 2 | 6 | Wilfried Tevoedjre | Benin | 29.00 | |
| 99 | 2 | 7 | Moctar Albachir | Niger | 29.05 | |
| 100 | 11 | 8 | Moise Ngondo | DR Congo | 29.08 | |
| 101 | 1 | 2 | Christian Nassif | Central African Republic | 29.79 | |
| 102 | 1 | 6 | Emeric Kpegba | Togo | 30.54 | |
| 103 | 1 | 5 | Tarnagda Hamadou | Burkina Faso | 31.10 | |
| 104 | 1 | 3 | Boubou Togo | Mali | 31.78 | |
| 105 | 2 | 8 | Kurt Oniange | Congo | 33.15 | |
| | 5 | 1 | Yellow Yeiyah | Nigeria | | DSQ |
| | 6 | 3 | Omiros Zagkas | Cyprus | | DNS |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 18:38.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | Nathan Adrian | United States | 21.60 | Q |
| 1 | 4 | César Cielo | Brazil | 21.60 | Q |
| 3 | 7 | Roland Schoeman | South Africa | 21.67 | Q, =AF |
| 4 | 1 | George Bovell | Trinidad and Tobago | 21.74 | Q |
| 5 | 6 | Marcelo Chierighini | Brazil | 21.84 | |
| 6 | 5 | Matthew Abood | Australia | 21.91 | |
| 7 | 8 | Norbert Trandafir | Romania | 21.98 | NR |
| 8 | 2 | Shinri Shioura | Japan | 22.04 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Florent Manaudou | France | 21.37 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Anthony Ervin | United States | 21.42 | Q |
| 3 | 8 | Frédérick Bousquet | France | 21.62 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Vladimir Morozov | Russia | 21.63 | Q, NR |
| 5 | 7 | James Magnussen | Australia | 21.79 | |
| 6 | 5 | Andriy Govorov | Ukraine | 21.96 | |
| 7 | 1 | Andrey Grechin | Russia | 22.00 | |
| 8 | 2 | Krisztián Takács | Hungary | 22.28 | |

### Final

The final was held at 18:09.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 6 | César Cielo | Brazil | 21.32 | |
| | 7 | Vladimir Morozov | Russia | 21.47 | NR |
| | 8 | George Bovell | Trinidad and Tobago | 21.51 | |
| 4 | 3 | Nathan Adrian | United States | 21.60 | |
| 5 | 4 | Florent Manaudou | France | 21.64 | |
| 6 | 5 | Anthony Ervin | United States | 21.65 | |
| 7 | 1 | Roland Schoeman | South Africa | 21.85 | |
| 8 | 2 | Frédérick Bousquet | France | 21.93 | |