# 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 50 metre butterfly

The Men's 50 metre butterfly competition of the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 9 and 10 December 2016.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
| | Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date |
| World record | Steffen Deibler | Germany | 21.80 | Berlin | 14 November 2009 |
| Championship record | Chad le Clos | South Africa | 21.95 | Doha | 6 December 2014 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held at 10:01.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 12 | 5 | Nicholas Santos | Brazil | 22.53 | Q |
| 2 | 11 | 3 | Takeshi Kawamoto | Japan | 22.62 | Q |
| 3 | 11 | 4 | Aleksandr Popkov | Russia | 22.68 | Q |
| 4 | 12 | 3 | David Morgan | Australia | 22.69 | Q |
| 5 | 9 | 5 | Albert Subirats | Venezuela | 22.75 | Q |
| 6 | 13 | 5 | Adam Barrett | Great Britain | 22.76 | Q |
| 7 | 11 | 5 | Tom Shields | United States | 22.79 | Q |
| 8 | 13 | 4 | Chad Le Clos | South Africa | 22.84 | Q |
| 9 | 11 | 0 | Dylan Carter | Trinidad and Tobago | 22.85 | Q |
| 9 | 13 | 3 | Yauhen Tsurkin | Belarus | 22.85 | Q |
| 11 | 8 | 3 | Daniel Carranza | Mexico | 22.89 | Q |
| 12 | 13 | 7 | Andriy Khloptsov | Ukraine | 23.01 | Q |
| 13 | 12 | 4 | Andriy Hovorov | Ukraine | 23.07 | Q |
| 14 | 13 | 6 | Pavel Sankovich | Belarus | 23.09 | WD |
| 15 | 13 | 2 | Daniil Pakhomov | Russia | 23.11 | Q |
| 16 | 13 | 8 | Mindaugas Sadauskas | Lithuania | 23.22 | Q |
| 17 | 12 | 1 | Miguel Ortiz-Cañavate | Spain | 23.27 | WD |
| 18 | 12 | 2 | Li Zhuhao | China | 23.29 | Q |
| 19 | 11 | 2 | Riku Poytakivi | Finland | 23.30 | |
| 20 | 10 | 7 | Marius Kusch | Germany | 23.39 | |
| 21 | 12 | 7 | Brad Tandy | South Africa | 23.40 | |
| 22 | 11 | 7 | Deividas Margevicius | Lithuania | 23.42 | |
| 23 | 13 | 0 | Ryan Pini | Papua New Guinea | 23.46 | |
| 24 | 12 | 9 | Benjamin Hockin | Paraguay | 23.48 | |
| 25 | 11 | 1 | Matthew Josa | United States | 23.49 | |
| 26 | 12 | 8 | Jesper Björk | Sweden | 23.62 | |
| 27 | 8 | 5 | Nao Horomura | Japan | 23.69 | |
| 28 | 13 | 9 | Mislav Sever | Croatia | 23.74 | |
| 29 | 10 | 5 | Magnus Jakupsson | Denmark | 23.77 | |
| 30 | 10 | 1 | Iskender Baskalov | Turkey | 23.81 | |
| 31 | 10 | 0 | Justin Plaschka | Jamaica | 23.92 | |
| 32 | 10 | 2 | Kristian Golomeev | Greece | 23.93 | |
| 33 | 10 | 9 | Adam Halas | Slovakia | 23.98 | |
| 34 | 9 | 8 | Ralph Goveia | Zambia | 24.00 | |
| 35 | 10 | 4 | Marcos Barale | Argentina | 24.12 | |
| 36 | 9 | 3 | Oliver Elliot | Chile | 24.17 | |
| 36 | 10 | 3 | Antani Ivanov | Bulgaria | 24.17 | |
| 38 | 8 | 4 | Bryan Alvarez | Costa Rica | 24.20 | |
| 39 | 10 | 8 | Chun Nam Derick Ng | Hong Kong | 24.21 | |
| 40 | 9 | 1 | Pavel Izbisciuc | Moldova | 24.23 | |
| 41 | 1 | 3 | Yonel Govindin | France | 24.25 | |
| 42 | 10 | 6 | Anthony Barbar | Lebanon | 24.33 | |
| 43 | 1 | 1 | Norbert Trandafir | Romania | 24.37 | |
| 44 | 11 | 9 | Adi Mesetovic | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 24.39 | |
| 45 | 7 | 5 | Ho Lun Raymond Mak | Hong Kong | 24.49 | |
| 46 | 5 | 0 | Mackenzie Darragh | Canada | 24.54 | |
| 47 | 7 | 2 | Gabriel Lopes | Portugal | 24.58 | |
| 48 | 9 | 7 | Ljupcho Angelovski | Macedonia | 24.69 | |
| 49 | 9 | 4 | Dylan Koo | Singapore | 24.73 | |
| 50 | 1 | 2 | Igor Mogne | Mozambique | 24.81 | |
| 51 | 9 | 2 | Ivan Cocunubo | Canada | 24.83 | |
| 52 | 8 | 0 | Navaphat Wongcharoen | Thailand | 24.92 | |
| 53 | 8 | 1 | Jhonny Pérez | Dominican Republic | 24.97 | |
| 54 | 7 | 1 | Jordy Groters | Aruba | 24.99 | |
| 55 | 8 | 6 | Ivo Kunzle Savastano | Paraguay | 25.05 | |
| 56 | 7 | 3 | Ivan Soruco | Bolivia | 25.06 | |
| 56 | 7 | 8 | João Matias | Angola | 25.06 | |
| 58 | 8 | 2 | Sam Seghers | Papua New Guinea | 25.19 | |
| 59 | 9 | 9 | Adam Ismail Allouche | Algeria | 25.21 | |
| 60 | 7 | 7 | Issa Abdulla Hemed Mohamed | Kenya | 25.26 | |
| 61 | 7 | 9 | Adrian Hoek | Curaçao | 25.28 | |
| 62 | 6 | 1 | Noah Abdulaziz Al-Khulaifi | Qatar | 25.39 | |
| 63 | 5 | 8 | Akaki Vashakidze | Georgia | 25.51 | |
| 64 | 7 | 6 | Jean Pierre Monteagudo | Peru | 25.56 | |
| 65 | 6 | 5 | Keanan Michael Dols | Jamaica | 25.58 | |
| 66 | 6 | 3 | Abdoul Niane | Senegal | 25.67 | |
| 67 | 5 | 3 | Hannibal David Gaskin | Guyana | 25.71 | |
| 68 | 8 | 9 | Ka Kun Sio | Macau | 25.84 | |
| 69 | 6 | 2 | James Sanderson | Gibraltar | 25.88 | |
| 69 | 6 | 6 | Christian Nikles | Brunei | 25.88 | |
| 71 | 6 | 4 | Delgerkhuu Myagmar | Mongolia | 25.91 | |
| 71 | 6 | 7 | Yeziel Morales Miranda | Puerto Rico | 25.91 | |
| 73 | 6 | 0 | Hilal Hemed Hilal | Tanzania | 25.96 | |
| 73 | 7 | 0 | Stefano Mitchell | Antigua and Barbuda | 25.96 | |
| 75 | 5 | 2 | Xander Skinner | Namibia | 25.97 | |
| 76 | 6 | 8 | Abdullah Al-Doori | Iraq | 26.00 | |
| 77 | 5 | 1 | Mathieu Marquet | Mauritius | 26.05 | |
| 78 | 1 | 6 | Sébastien Kouma | Mali | 26.08 | |
| 78 | 1 | 7 | Michael Stafrace | Malta | 26.08 | |
| 80 | 5 | 7 | George Jabbour | Honduras | 26.19 | |
| 81 | 4 | 2 | Matthew Ives | Botswana | 26.36 | |
| 82 | 4 | 4 | Matt Dylan Savitz | Gibraltar | 26.47 | |
| 83 | 5 | 5 | Vahan Mkhitaryan | Armenia | 26.61 | |
| 84 | 5 | 4 | Nuno Miguel Rola | Angola | 26.64 | |
| 85 | 5 | 6 | Jeremy Bryan Lim | Philippines | 26.74 | |
| 86 | 4 | 7 | Rainier Rafaela | Curaçao | 26.76 | |
| 87 | 9 | 0 | Teimuraz Kobakhidze | Georgia | 26.87 | |
| 88 | 5 | 9 | Arnold Kisulo | Uganda | 27.35 | |
| 89 | 4 | 3 | Andrew Fowler | Guyana | 27.40 | |
| 89 | 4 | 5 | Issa Abdullah Hemed Mohamed | Kenya | 27.40 | |
| 91 | 2 | 5 | Temaruata Strickland | Cook Islands | 27.58 | |
| 91 | 4 | 6 | Meriton Veliu | Kosovo | 27.58 | |
| 93 | 3 | 3 | Nabeel Hatoum | Palestine | 27.63 | |
| 94 | 4 | 1 | Mark Hoare | Eswatini | 28.12 | |
| 95 | 4 | 0 | Cruz Halbich | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 28.49 | |
| 96 | 2 | 9 | Salofi Charles Welch | Northern Mariana Islands | 28.67 | |
| 97 | 3 | 7 | Sergey Sihanouvong | Laos | 28.84 | |
| 98 | 2 | 3 | Michael Swift | Malawi | 29.02 | |
| 99 | 4 | 9 | Tommy Imazu | Guam | 29.18 | |
| 100 | 3 | 2 | Christian Villacrusis | Northern Mariana Islands | 29.33 | |
| 101 | 1 | 4 | Alassane Seydou | Niger | 29.38 | |
| 101 | 3 | 1 | Albarchir Mouctar | Niger | 29.38 | |
| 103 | 3 | 6 | Fakhriddin Madkamov | Tajikistan | 29.62 | |
| 104 | 1 | 5 | Ismail Muthasim Adnan | Maldives | 29.79 | |
| 105 | 3 | 4 | Slava Sihanouvong | Laos | 29.81 | |
| 106 | 2 | 4 | Dennis Hamis Mhini | Tanzania | 30.45 | |
| 107 | 2 | 6 | Pap Jonga | Gambia | 30.58 | |
| 108 | 3 | 8 | Aaron de Freitas | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 31.17 | |
| 109 | 2 | 1 | Simphiwe Dlamini | Eswatini | 32.39 | |
| 110 | 2 | 0 | Christian Nassif | Central African Republic | 35.88 | |
| | 2 | 2 | Athoumane Athoumane | Comoros | | DNS |
| | 2 | 7 | Saidu Kamara | Sierra Leone | | DNS |
| | 2 | 8 | Komora Ishmael | Sierra Leone | | DNS |
| | 3 | 0 | Chaoili Aonzoudine | Comoros | | DNS |
| | 3 | 5 | Djalonka Koulibaly | Guinea | | DNS |
| | 3 | 9 | Mamadou Diallo | Guinea | | DNS |
| | 4 | 8 | Belly-Cresus Ganira | Burundi | | DNS |
| | 6 | 9 | Paul Elaisa | Fiji | | DNS |
| | 7 | 4 | Thibaut Danho | Ivory Coast | | DNS |
| | 8 | 7 | Meli Malani | Fiji | | DNS |
| | 8 | 8 | Abeiku Jackson | Ghana | | DNS |
| | 9 | 6 | Viktor Bromer | Denmark | | DNS |
| | 11 | 6 | Mehdy Metella | France | | DNS |
| | 11 | 8 | Artyom Kozlyuk | Uzbekistan | | DNS |
| | 12 | 0 | Jonathan Gómez | Colombia | | DNS |
| | 12 | 6 | Jesse Puts | Netherlands | | DNS |
| | 13 | 1 | Tommaso D'Orsogna | Australia | | DNS |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 19:02.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 6 | Chad Le Clos | South Africa | 22.41 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | David Morgan | Australia | 22.62 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | Takeshi Kawamoto | Japan | 22.74 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | Yauhen Tsurkin | Belarus | 22.82 | |
| 5 | 7 | Andriy Khloptsov | Ukraine | 22.88 | |
| 6 | 3 | Adam Barrett | Great Britain | 22.92 | |
| 7 | 1 | Daniil Pakhomov | Russia | 23.00 | |
| 8 | 8 | Li Zhuhao | China | 23.52 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 6 | Tom Shields | United States | 22.38 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | Dylan Carter | Trinidad and Tobago | 22.53 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | Aleksandr Popkov | Russia | 22.69 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | Andriy Hovorov | Ukraine | 22.70 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | Albert Subirats | Venezuela | 22.76 | Q |
| 6 | 4 | Nicholas Santos | Brazil | 22.82 | |
| 7 | 8 | Mindaugas Sadauskas | Lithuania | 22.87 | |
| 8 | 7 | Daniel Carranza | Mexico | 22.96 | |

### Final

The final was held at 19:10
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 5 | Chad Le Clos | South Africa | 21.98 |
| | 4 | Tom Shields | United States | 22.40 |
| | 6 | David Morgan | Australia | 22.47 |
| 4 | 7 | Andriy Hovorov | Ukraine | 22.55 |
| 5 | 2 | Aleksandr Popkov | Russia | 22.56 |
| 6 | 8 | Albert Subirats | Venezuela | 22.62 |
| 7 | 3 | Dylan Carter | Trinidad and Tobago | 22.68 |
| 8 | 1 | Takeshi Kawamoto | Japan | 22.84 |