# Swimming at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre freestyle

The Men's 50 metre freestyle competition at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships was held on 23 and 24 June 2022.

## 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 held on 23 June at 09:30.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 10 | 5 | Bruno Fratus | Brazil | 21.71 | Q |
| 2 | 9 | 3 | Joshua Liendo | Canada | 21.72 | Q |
| 3 | 8 | 4 | Michael Andrew | United States | 21.74 | Q |
| 4 | 9 | 4 | Ben Proud | Great Britain | 21.76 | Q |
| 5 | 10 | 6 | Vladyslav Bukhov | Ukraine | 21.87 | Q |
| 6 | 10 | 2 | Lewis Burras | Great Britain | 21.89 | Q |
| 7 | 10 | 3 | Kristian Gkolomeev | Greece | 21.90 | Q |
| 8 | 8 | 5 | Thom de Boer | Netherlands | 21.91 | Q |
| 9 | 8 | 6 | Lorenzo Zazzeri | Italy | 21.95 | Q |
| 10 | 8 | 3 | Paweł Juraszek | Poland | 21.97 | Q |
| 10 | 9 | 6 | Maxime Grousset | France | 21.97 | Q |
| 12 | 9 | 1 | Szebasztián Szabó | Hungary | 21.99 | Q |
| 13 | 9 | 5 | Florent Manaudou | France | 22.04 | Q |
| 14 | 8 | 7 | Meiron Cheruti | Israel | 22.07 | Q |
| 15 | 9 | 2 | Jesse Puts | Netherlands | 22.09 | Q |
| 16 | 9 | 7 | Alberto Mestre | Venezuela | 22.12 | Q |
| 17 | 6 | 2 | Dylan Carter | Trinidad and Tobago | 22.19 | |
| 17 | 6 | 6 | Ji Yu-chan | South Korea | 22.19 | |
| 19 | 5 | 5 | Jordan Crooks | Cayman Islands | 22.20 | NR |
| 20 | 8 | 0 | Nicholas Lia | Norway | 22.26 | |
| 20 | 10 | 8 | Luiz Gustavo Borges | Brazil | 22.26 | |
| 22 | 7 | 4 | Andrej Barna | Serbia | 22.30 | |
| 23 | 10 | 1 | Ian Ho | Hong Kong | 22.32 | |
| 24 | 6 | 3 | Mikel Schreuders | Aruba | 22.44 | |
| 25 | 6 | 4 | Daniel Zaitsev | Estonia | 22.45 | |
| 25 | 8 | 2 | Thomas Nowakowski | Australia | 22.45 | |
| 27 | 7 | 1 | Isak Eliasson | Sweden | 22.47 | |
| 28 | 8 | 1 | Konrad Czerniak | Poland | 22.48 | |
| 28 | 8 | 8 | Heiko Gigler | Austria | 22.48 | |
| 30 | 9 | 9 | Jonathan Tan | Singapore | 22.51 | |
| 31 | 7 | 3 | Calum Bain | Ireland | 22.53 | |
| 32 | 6 | 5 | Guido Buscaglia | Argentina | 22.55 | |
| 33 | 6 | 1 | Oussama Sahnoune | Algeria | 22.56 | |
| 34 | 7 | 8 | Michael Pickett | New Zealand | 22.59 | |
| 34 | 7 | 9 | Matej Duša | Slovakia | 22.59 | |
| 36 | 10 | 7 | Luca Dotto | Italy | 22.60 | |
| 37 | 9 | 8 | Gabriel Castaño | Mexico | 22.64 | |
| 38 | 7 | 7 | Kaloyan Bratanov | Bulgaria | 22.68 | |
| 38 | 10 | 0 | Wang Changhao | China | 22.68 | |
| 40 | 9 | 0 | Grayson Bell | Australia | 22.69 | |
| 41 | 7 | 5 | Yuri Kisil | Canada | 22.71 | |
| 41 | 7 | 6 | Andriy Govorov | Ukraine | 22.71 | |
| 43 | 6 | 8 | Clayton Jimmie | South Africa | 22.74 | |
| 44 | 7 | 2 | Zhang Zhoujian | China | 22.75 | |
| 45 | 5 | 4 | Nikolas Antoniou | Cyprus | 22.77 | |
| 46 | 10 | 9 | Alexander Varakin | Kazakhstan | 22.79 | |
| 47 | 6 | 7 | Rémi Fabiani | Luxembourg | 22.80 | |
| 48 | 6 | 0 | Lamar Taylor | Bahamas | 22.86 | |
| 49 | 5 | 2 | Tomas Navikonis | Lithuania | 22.92 | |
| 50 | 8 | 9 | Abdelrahman Sameh | Egypt | 22.95 | |
| 51 | 7 | 0 | Wu Chun-feng | Chinese Taipei | 23.17 | |
| 52 | 5 | 9 | Khurshidjon Tursunov | Uzbekistan | 23.20 | |
| 53 | 5 | 8 | Bernat Lomero | Andorra | 23.29 | |
| 54 | 5 | 0 | Nikola Bjelajac | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 23.42 | |
| 55 | 5 | 3 | Artur Barseghyan | Armenia | 23.46 | |
| 55 | 6 | 9 | Souhail Hamouchane | Morocco | 23.46 | |
| 57 | 5 | 7 | Stefano Mitchell | Antigua and Barbuda | 23.52 | |
| 58 | 5 | 6 | Matin Sohran | Iran | 23.74 | |
| 59 | 1 | 2 | Irvin Hoost | Suriname | 23.96 | |
| 60 | 4 | 1 | Belly-Cresus Ganira | Burundi | 24.03 | |
| 61 | 4 | 2 | Musa Zhalayev | Turkmenistan | 24.15 | |
| 62 | 4 | 7 | Swaleh Talib | Suspended Member Federation | 24.23 | |
| 63 | 4 | 4 | Gregory Anodin | Mauritius | 24.38 | |
| 64 | 2 | 2 | Batbayaryn Enkhtamir | Mongolia | 24.42 | |
| 65 | 1 | 6 | Christian Nikles | Brunei | 24.44 | |
| 66 | 4 | 8 | Shane Cadogan | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 24.57 | |
| 67 | 4 | 5 | Tendo Mukalazi | Uganda | 24.58 | |
| 68 | 4 | 6 | Alassane Seydou | Niger | 24.63 | |
| 69 | 4 | 3 | Raphael Grand'Pierre | Haiti | 24.94 | |
| 70 | 4 | 0 | Leon Seaton | Guyana | 25.07 | |
| 71 | 4 | 9 | Marc Dansou | Benin | 25.13 | |
| 72 | 3 | 4 | Eloi Maniraguha | Rwanda | 25.26 | |
| 73 | 2 | 7 | Dennis Mhini | Tanzania | 25.44 | |
| 74 | 3 | 5 | Martin Muja | Kosovo | 25.45 | |
| 75 | 3 | 6 | Rohan Shearer | Turks and Caicos Islands | 25.50 | |
| 76 | 1 | 8 | Taiyo Akimaru | Northern Mariana Islands | 26.02 | |
| 77 | 1 | 3 | Fakhriddin Madkamov | Tajikistan | 26.11 | |
| 78 | 2 | 6 | Slava Sihanouvong | Laos | 26.25 | |
| 79 | 3 | 3 | Troy Pina | Cape Verde | 26.45 | |
| 80 | 1 | 5 | Travis Sakurai | Palau | 26.57 | |
| 81 | 2 | 4 | Houmed Houssein Barkat | Djibouti | 27.05 | |
| 82 | 3 | 2 | Edgar Iro | Solomon Islands | 27.39 | |
| 83 | 1 | 1 | Aseel Khousrof | Yemen | 27.51 | |
| 84 | 3 | 0 | Phillip Kinono | Marshall Islands | 27.54 | |
| 85 | 2 | 0 | Kyler Kihleng | Micronesia | 27.56 | |
| 86 | 3 | 1 | Elhadj Diallo | Guinea | 27.72 | |
| 87 | 3 | 8 | Adam Mpali | Gabon | 27.93 | |
| 88 | 3 | 9 | Asher Banda | Malawi | 28.30 | |
| 89 | 1 | 4 | Higinio Ndong Obama | Equatorial Guinea | 29.48 | |
| 90 | 2 | 9 | Ali Barouf | Comoros | 32.52 | |
| | 2 | 8 | Tilahun Mayede | Ethiopia | Disqualified | Disqualified |
| | 1 | 7 | Loic Leenaerts | Togo | Did not start | Did not start |
| | 2 | 1 | Freddy Mayala | Republic of the Congo | Did not start | Did not start |
| | 2 | 3 | Terence Tengue | Central African Republic | Did not start | Did not start |
| | 2 | 5 | Yves Munyu | DR Congo | Did not start | Did not start |
| | 3 | 7 | Souleymane Napare | Burkina Faso | Did not start | Did not start |
| | 5 | 1 | Alaa Maso | FINA Refugee Team | Did not start | Did not start |
| | 10 | 4 | Caeleb Dressel | United States | Did not start | Did not start |

### Semifinals

The semifinals started on 23 June at 18:42.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | 5 | Ben Proud | Great Britain | 21.42 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | Lorenzo Zazzeri | Italy | 21.70 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | 4 | Joshua Liendo | Canada | 21.73 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | 3 | Lewis Burras | Great Britain | 21.78 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | 5 | Michael Andrew | United States | 21.80 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | 6 | Kristian Gkolomeev | Greece | 21.80 | Q |
| 7 | 1 | 7 | Szebasztián Szabó | Hungary | 21.81 | Q |
| 8 | 2 | 4 | Bruno Fratus | Brazil | 21.83 | QSO |
| 8 | 2 | 7 | Maxime Grousset | France | 21.83 | QSO |
| 10 | 2 | 3 | Vladyslav Bukhov | Ukraine | 21.87 | |
| 11 | 2 | 1 | Florent Manaudou | France | 21.95 | |
| 12 | 1 | 6 | Thom de Boer | Netherlands | 21.99 | |
| 13 | 1 | 1 | Meiron Cheruti | Israel | 22.00 | |
| 14 | 1 | 2 | Paweł Juraszek | Poland | 22.01 | |
| 15 | 2 | 8 | Jesse Puts | Netherlands | 22.02 | |
| 16 | 1 | 8 | Alberto Mestre | Venezuela | 22.13 | |

#### Swim-off

The swim-off started on 23 June at 20:13.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | Maxime Grousset | France | 21.59 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Bruno Fratus | Brazil | 21.62 | |

### Final

The final was held on 24 June at 18:09.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 4 | Ben Proud | Great Britain | 21.32 | |
| | 2 | Michael Andrew | United States | 21.41 | |
| | 8 | Maxime Grousset | France | 21.57 | |
| 4 | 1 | Szebasztián Szabó | Hungary | 21.60 | |
| 5 | 3 | Joshua Liendo | Canada | 21.61 | NR |
| 6 | 5 | Lorenzo Zazzeri | Italy | 21.81 | |
| 7 | 6 | Lewis Burras | Great Britain | 21.83 | |
| 8 | 7 | Kristian Gkolomeev | Greece | 21.89 | |