# Swimming at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre freestyle

The men's 50 metre freestyle competition at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships was held on 28 and 29 July 2023.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
| World record | César Cielo (BRA) | 20.91 | São Paulo, Brazil | 18 December 2009 |
| Competition record | Caeleb Dressel (USA) | 21.04 | Gwangju, South Korea | 27 July 2019 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were started on 28 July at 11:12.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 13 | 4 | Cameron McEvoy | Australia | 21.35 | Q |
| 2 | 13 | 3 | Szebasztián Szabó | Hungary | 21.67 | Q |
| 3 | 13 | 5 | Florent Manaudou | France | 21.72 | Q |
| 4 | 13 | 6 | Jack Alexy | United States | 21.73 | Q |
| 5 | 11 | 0 | Isaac Cooper | Australia | 21.82 | Q |
| 6 | 11 | 2 | Meiron Cheruti | Israel | 21.85 | Q |
| 7 | 10 | 9 | Jordan Crooks | Cayman Islands | 21.90 | Q, NR |
| 7 | 12 | 4 | Benjamin Proud | Great Britain | 21.90 | Q |
| 9 | 11 | 4 | Ryan Held | United States | 21.91 | Q |
| 9 | 13 | 2 | Kristian Gkolomeev | Greece | 21.91 | Q |
| 11 | 11 | 7 | Vladyslav Bukhov | Ukraine | 21.92 | Q |
| 12 | 12 | 0 | Nicholas Lia | Norway | 21.94 | Q, NR |
| 13 | 11 | 3 | Joshua Liendo | Canada | 21.97 | Q |
| 14 | 12 | 3 | Leonardo Deplano | Italy | 21.99 | Q |
| 15 | 12 | 2 | Kenzo Simons | Netherlands | 22.04 | Q |
| 16 | 12 | 7 | Diogo Ribeiro | Portugal | 22.05 | Q |
| 17 | 9 | 3 | Mikel Schreuders | Aruba | 22.10 | S/off |
| 17 | 13 | 8 | Dylan Carter | Trinidad and Tobago | 22.10 | S/off |
| 19 | 13 | 7 | Ian Ho | Hong Kong | 22.12 | |
| 20 | 11 | 5 | Thom de Boer | Netherlands | 22.13 | |
| 20 | 11 | 8 | Tom Fannon | Ireland | 22.13 | |
| 22 | 12 | 6 | Lewis Burras | Great Britain | 22.14 | |
| 23 | 11 | 1 | Shinri Shioura | Japan | 22.15 | |
| 24 | 10 | 5 | Ji Yu-chan | South Korea | 22.17 | |
| 25 | 13 | 0 | Andrii Govorov | Ukraine | 22.18 | |
| 26 | 13 | 1 | Jonathan Tan | Singapore | 22.20 | |
| 27 | 10 | 4 | Katsumi Nakamura | Japan | 22.21 | |
| 28 | 9 | 1 | Lamar Taylor | Bahamas | 22.26 | NR |
| 28 | 13 | 9 | Marcelo Chierighini | Brazil | 22.26 | |
| 30 | 11 | 6 | Lorenzo Zazzeri | Italy | 22.28 | |
| 31 | 10 | 1 | Ali Khalafalla | Egypt | 22.30 | |
| 31 | 10 | 6 | Björn Seeliger | Sweden | 22.30 | |
| 33 | 10 | 3 | Alberto Mestre | Venezuela | 22.32 | |
| 34 | 12 | 1 | Miguel Nascimento | Portugal | 22.38 | |
| 35 | 10 | 7 | Michael Pickett | New Zealand | 22.41 | |
| 36 | 10 | 8 | Heiko Gigler | Austria | 22.46 | |
| 37 | 8 | 5 | Remi Fabiani | Luxembourg | 22.47 | NR |
| 38 | 12 | 9 | Wang Changhao | China | 22.50 | |
| 39 | 9 | 7 | Sergio de Celis | Spain | 22.51 | |
| 40 | 10 | 2 | Andrej Barna | Serbia | 22.52 | |
| 41 | 9 | 4 | Matej Dusa | Slovakia | 22.53 | |
| 42 | 8 | 4 | Peter Varjasi | Germany | 22.54 | |
| 43 | 10 | 0 | Guido Buscaglia | Argentina | 22.56 | |
| 44 | 9 | 0 | Kamil Sieradzki | Poland | 22.59 | |
| 45 | 9 | 5 | Nikola Miljenić | Croatia | 22.61 | |
| 46 | 8 | 2 | Jorge Iga | Mexico | 22.64 | |
| 47 | 9 | 2 | Daniel Zaitsev | Estonia | 22.68 | |
| 48 | 12 | 8 | Teong Tzen Wei | Singapore | 22.76 | |
| 49 | 8 | 6 | Xander Skinner | Namibia | 22.78 | |
| 50 | 7 | 7 | David Young | Fiji | 22.87 | NR |
| 50 | 8 | 0 | Roland Schoeman | South Africa | 22.87 | |
| 52 | 8 | 7 | Adi Mešetović | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 22.92 | |
| 53 | 9 | 6 | Emre Sakçı | Turkey | 22.94 | |
| 54 | 8 | 1 | Samyar Abdoli | Iran | 23.00 | |
| 55 | 7 | 6 | Leo Nolles | Uruguay | 23.10 | |
| 56 | 7 | 5 | Stefano Mitchell | Antigua and Barbuda | 23.21 | |
| 57 | 1 | 4 | Matthew Abeysinghe | Sri Lanka | 23.23 | |
| 58 | 9 | 9 | Oussama Sahnoune | Algeria | 23.26 | |
| 59 | 9 | 8 | Nikolas Antoniou | Cyprus | 23.27 | |
| 60 | 8 | 9 | Daniil Pancerevas | Lithuania | 23.30 | |
| 61 | 8 | 3 | Luong Jérémie Loïc Nino | Vietnam | 23.39 | |
| 62 | 7 | 1 | Benedict Parfit | Bermuda | 23.47 | |
| 63 | 7 | 3 | Gabriel Martinez | Honduras | 23.52 | |
| 63 | 8 | 8 | Wu Chun-feng | Chinese Taipei | 23.52 | |
| 65 | 6 | 7 | Colins Obi Ebingha | Nigeria | 23.54 | NR |
| 66 | 7 | 2 | Mohammed Bedour | Jordan | 23.59 | |
| 67 | 7 | 4 | Alaa Maso | Athlete Refugee Team | 23.74 | |
| 68 | 2 | 4 | Alexander Shah | Nepal | 23.89 | |
| 69 | 7 | 0 | Tendo Mukalazi | Uganda | 23.94 | |
| 70 | 6 | 1 | José Alberto Quintanilla | Bolivia | 24.06 | |
| 71 | 3 | 0 | Micah Masei | American Samoa | 24.16 | |
| 72 | 5 | 6 | Brandon Schuster | Samoa | 24.19 | |
| 73 | 3 | 8 | Damien Shamambo | Zambia | 24.22 | |
| 74 | 6 | 4 | Swaleh Abubakar Talib | Suspended Member Federation | 24.23 | |
| 75 | 7 | 9 | Musa Zhalayev | Turkmenistan | 24.29 | |
| 76 | 6 | 6 | Batbayar Enkhtamir | Mongolia | 24.37 | |
| 77 | 7 | 8 | Belly-Cresus Ganira | Burundi | 24.39 | |
| 78 | 6 | 2 | Collins Saliboko | Tanzania | 24.43 | |
| 79 | 6 | 9 | Warren Lawrence | Dominica | 24.51 | |
| 80 | 6 | 5 | Shane Cadogan | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 24.59 | |
| 81 | 5 | 4 | Syed Tariq | Pakistan | 24.76 | |
| 82 | 5 | 3 | Josh Tarere | Papua New Guinea | 24.77 | |
| 83 | 6 | 8 | Leon Seaton | Guyana | 24.82 | |
| 84 | 5 | 7 | Mahmoud Abu Gharbieh | Palestine | 24.88 | NR |
| 85 | 5 | 5 | Yousef Al-Khulaifi | Qatar | 24.92 | |
| 86 | 6 | 0 | Asif Reza | Bangladesh | 24.94 | |
| 87 | 2 | 1 | Joel Ling Thai Yu | Brunei | 24.96 | |
| 88 | 3 | 7 | Mohammed Qatat | Libya | 25.15 | |
| 89 | 5 | 2 | Marc Dansou | Benin | 25.16 | |
| 90 | 5 | 8 | Cedrick Niyibizi | Rwanda | 25.28 | NR |
| 91 | 5 | 1 | Phansovannarun Montross | Cambodia | 25.36 | |
| 92 | 2 | 5 | Santisouk Inthavong | Laos | 25.56 | |
| 92 | 5 | 9 | Tajhari Williams | Turks and Caicos Islands | 25.56 | |
| 94 | 2 | 2 | Kapeli Siua | Tonga | 25.83 | |
| 95 | 2 | 0 | Ailton Veira | Cape Verde | 26.16 | |
| 96 | 4 | 4 | Travis Dui Sakurai | Palau | 26.22 | |
| 97 | 4 | 2 | Alexander Fleming Lake | Anguilla | 26.23 | |
| 98 | 5 | 0 | Fakhriddin Madkamov | Tajikistan | 26.40 | |
| 99 | 4 | 6 | Houmed Houssein | Djibouti | 26.76 | NR |
| 100 | 4 | 7 | Souleymane Napare | Burkina Faso | 26.85 | |
| 101 | 4 | 5 | Ekow Gwira | Ghana | 27.22 | |
| 102 | 4 | 1 | Edgar Iro | Solomon Islands | 27.28 | |
| 103 | 4 | 3 | Elhadj Diallo | Guinea | 27.69 | |
| 104 | 3 | 4 | Phillip Kinono | Marshall Islands | 27.72 | |
| 105 | 2 | 6 | Johnathan Silas | Vanuatu | 27.78 | |
| 106 | 4 | 0 | Simanga Dlamini | Eswatini | 27.84 | |
| 107 | 4 | 8 | Joshua Wyse | Sierra Leone | 27.89 | |
| 108 | 3 | 3 | Adam Girard | Gabon | 28.15 | |
| 109 | 3 | 5 | Muhammad Ali Moosa | Malawi | 28.20 | |
| 110 | 3 | 2 | Magnim Jordano Daou | Togo | 28.26 | |
| 111 | 4 | 9 | Aseel Khousrof | Yemen | 28.39 | |
| 112 | 1 | 5 | Ousman Jobe | Gambia | 28.47 | |
| 113 | 2 | 8 | Freddy Mayala | Congo | 28.61 | |
| 114 | 2 | 9 | Tilahun Ayal Malede | Ethiopia | 28.77 | |
| 115 | 3 | 6 | Jolanio Guterres | Timor-Leste | 30.36 | |
| 116 | 2 | 7 | Pedro Rogery | Guinea-Bissau | 30.66 | |
| 117 | 3 | 9 | Omar McHangama | Comoros | 31.50 | |
| 118 | 1 | 3 | Refiloe Chopho | Lesotho | 31.68 | NR |
| 119 | 3 | 1 | Terence Tengue | Central African Republic | 32.18 | |
| | 2 | 3 | Hugo Nguichie | Cameroon | DSQ | DSQ |
| | 11 | 9 | Guilherme Caribé | Brazil | DSQ | DSQ |
| | 6 | 3 | Alassane Seydou | Niger | DNS | DNS |
| | 12 | 5 | Maxime Grousset | France | DNS | DNS |

#### Swim-off

The swim-off to decide the first replacement was started on 28 July at 12:57.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Mikel Schreuders | Aruba | 22.10 | R1 |
| 2 | 5 | Dylan Carter | Trinidad and Tobago | 22.14 | R2 |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 28 July at 20:40.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 2 | 4 | Cameron McEvoy | Australia | 21.25 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | 5 | Jack Alexy | United States | 21.60 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | 6 | Benjamin Proud | Great Britain | 21.61 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | 3 | Isaac Cooper | Australia | 21.65 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | 6 | Jordan Crooks | Cayman Islands | 21.73 | Q, NR |
| 6 | 1 | 1 | Leonardo Deplano | Italy | 21.74 | Q |
| 7 | 1 | 2 | Kristian Gkolomeev | Greece | 21.85 | Q |
| 8 | 2 | 1 | Joshua Liendo | Canada | 21.88 | WD |
| 9 | 2 | 2 | Ryan Held | United States | 21.91 | S/off |
| 9 | 2 | 7 | Vladyslav Bukhov | Ukraine | 21.91 | S/off |
| 11 | 2 | 8 | Kenzo Simons | Netherlands | 21.92 | |
| 12 | 2 | 5 | Florent Manaudou | France | 21.96 | |
| 13 | 1 | 8 | Diogo Ribeiro | Portugal | 22.03 | |
| 14 | 1 | 3 | Meiron Cheruti | Israel | 22.04 | |
| 15 | 1 | 7 | Nicholas Lia | Norway | 22.12 | |
| 16 | 1 | 4 | Szebasztián Szabó | Hungary | 22.16 | |

#### Swim-off

The swim-off to decide the first replacement was started on 28 July at 22:09.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Ryan Held | United States | 21.68 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Vladyslav Bukhov | Ukraine | 21.70 | R1 |

### Final

The final was started on 29 July at 20:09.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 4 | Cameron McEvoy | Australia | 21.06 | OC |
| | 5 | Jack Alexy | United States | 21.57 | |
| | 3 | Benjamin Proud | Great Britain | 21.58 | |
| 4 | 6 | Isaac Cooper | Australia | 21.70 | |
| 5 | 8 | Ryan Held | United States | 21.72 | |
| 6 | 2 | Jordan Crooks | Cayman Islands | 21.73 | =NR |
| 7 | 1 | Kristian Gkolomeev | Greece | 21.82 | |
| 8 | 7 | Leonardo Deplano | Italy | 21.92 | |