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

The Men's 50 metre butterfly competition at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships was held on 18 and 19 June 2022.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
| World record | Andriy Govorov (UKR) | 22.27 | Rome, Italy | 1 July 2018 |
| Competition record | Caeleb Dressel (USA) | 22.35 | Gwangju, South Korea | 22 July 2019 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were started on 18 June at 09:55.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | 8 | Dylan Carter | Trinidad and Tobago | 22.87 | Q, NR |
| 2 | 7 | 4 | Caeleb Dressel | United States | 22.88 | Q |
| 2 | 8 | 6 | Thomas Ceccon | Italy | 22.88 | Q, NR |
| 4 | 6 | 4 | Michael Andrew | United States | 22.89 | Q |
| 5 | 7 | 1 | Noè Ponti | Switzerland | 23.04 | Q, NR |
| 6 | 6 | 6 | Maxime Grousset | France | 23.07 | Q |
| 7 | 7 | 3 | Ben Proud | Great Britain | 23.08 | Q |
| 8 | 8 | 5 | Szebasztián Szabó | Hungary | 23.11 | Q |
| 9 | 6 | 5 | Nyls Korstanje | Netherlands | 23.27 | Q |
| 10 | 8 | 2 | Florent Manaudou | France | 23.31 | Q |
| 11 | 7 | 5 | Andriy Govorov | Ukraine | 23.34 | Q |
| 12 | 8 | 1 | Daniel Zaitsev | Estonia | 23.38 | Q |
| 13 | 8 | 4 | Nicholas Santos | Brazil | 23.46 | Q |
| 14 | 6 | 0 | Simon Bucher | Austria | 23.51 | Q, NR |
| 14 | 8 | 3 | Teong Tzen Wei | Singapore | 23.51 | Q |
| 16 | 6 | 3 | Konrad Czerniak | Poland | 23.53 | QSO |
| 16 | 6 | 7 | Piero Codia | Italy | 23.53 | QSO |
| 18 | 6 | 1 | Rasmus Nickelsen | Denmark | 23.54 | |
| 19 | 8 | 8 | Meiron Cheruti | Israel | 23.58 | |
| 20 | 6 | 2 | Naoki Mizunuma | Japan | 23.60 | |
| 21 | 7 | 8 | Jacob Peters | Great Britain | 23.62 | |
| 21 | 8 | 7 | Nicholas Lia | Norway | 23.62 | |
| 23 | 7 | 6 | Abdelrahman Sameh | Egypt | 23.64 | |
| 23 | 7 | 7 | Thomas Verhoeven | Netherlands | 23.64 | |
| 25 | 6 | 8 | Vladyslav Bukhov | Ukraine | 23.66 | |
| 26 | 5 | 6 | Julien Henx | Luxembourg | 23.69 | |
| 26 | 7 | 9 | Adilbek Mussin | Kazakhstan | 23.69 | |
| 28 | 5 | 5 | Stergios Bilas | Greece | 23.72 | |
| 28 | 8 | 9 | Alberto Lozano | Spain | 23.72 | |
| 30 | 7 | 0 | Oskar Hoff | Sweden | 23.73 | |
| 31 | 7 | 2 | Paweł Smoliński | Poland | 23.78 | |
| 32 | 5 | 3 | Sun Jiajun | China | 23.83 | |
| 33 | 6 | 9 | Chad le Clos | South Africa | 23.86 | |
| 34 | 4 | 6 | Ádám Halás | Slovakia | 23.94 | NR |
| 35 | 5 | 4 | Cameron Gray | New Zealand | 24.01 | |
| 36 | 5 | 1 | Kim Ji-hun | South Korea | 24.02 | |
| 37 | 5 | 7 | Abeiku Jackson | Ghana | 24.11 | |
| 38 | 5 | 2 | Jorge Iga | Mexico | 24.13 | |
| 38 | 4 | 5 | Ian Ho | Hong Kong | 24.13 | |
| 40 | 4 | 8 | Emre Sakçı | Turkey | 24.16 | |
| 41 | 8 | 0 | Vinicius Lanza | Brazil | 24.26 | |
| 42 | 4 | 4 | Waleed Abdulrazzaq | Kuwait | 24.32 | |
| 43 | 4 | 7 | Bernat Lomero | Andorra | 24.34 | |
| 44 | 5 | 0 | Ben Hockin | Paraguay | 24.38 | |
| 45 | 4 | 3 | Guido Buscaglia | Argentina | 24.39 | |
| 46 | 5 | 9 | Glenn Victor Sutanto | Indonesia | 24.60 | |
| 47 | 3 | 3 | Colins Ebingha | Nigeria | 24.61 | |
| 48 | 4 | 2 | Mehrshad Afghari | Iran | 24.77 | |
| 49 | 4 | 1 | Jayhan Odlum-Smith | Saint Lucia | 24.81 | |
| 50 | 4 | 0 | Matthew Lawrence | Mozambique | 24.97 | |
| 51 | 3 | 4 | Ayman Klzie | Syria | 25.04 | |
| 51 | 3 | 5 | Salvador Gordo | Angola | 25.04 | NR |
| 53 | 3 | 2 | Mohamad Masoud | FINA Refugee Team | 25.27 | |
| 54 | 1 | 3 | Khurshidjon Tursunov | Uzbekistan | 25.44 | |
| 55 | 3 | 6 | Jesse Washington | Bermuda | 25.59 | |
| 56 | 1 | 7 | Jeno Heyns | Suriname | 25.63 | |
| 57 | 4 | 9 | Souhail Hamouchane | Morocco | 26.11 | |
| 58 | 1 | 6 | Musa Zhalayev | Turkmenistan | 26.21 | |
| 59 | 2 | 7 | Mahmoud Abu Gharbieh | Palestine | 26.89 | |
| 60 | 3 | 7 | Isihaka Irankunda | Rwanda | 27.07 | |
| 61 | 2 | 8 | Fakhriddin Madkamov | Tajikistan | 27.24 | |
| 62 | 3 | 1 | Troy Pina | Cape Verde | 27.33 | |
| 63 | 2 | 6 | Abdulhai Ashour | Libya | 27.50 | |
| 64 | 2 | 0 | Taiyo Akimaru | Northern Mariana Islands | 27.85 | |
| 65 | 2 | 4 | Elhadj Diallo | Guinea | 29.06 | |
| 66 | 3 | 9 | Fahim Anwari | Afghanistan | 29.24 | |
| 67 | 3 | 0 | Simanga Dlamini | Eswatini | 29.25 | |
| 68 | 2 | 5 | Houmed Houssein | Djibouti | 29.57 | |
| 69 | 1 | 5 | Tilahun Malede | Ethiopia | 30.50 | |
| 70 | 1 | 4 | Basem Rashed | Yemen | 33.76 | |
| – | 1 | 2 | Charly Ndjoume | Cameroon | Did not start | Did not start |
| – | 2 | 1 | Diosdado Miko Eyanga | Equatorial Guinea | Did not start | Did not start |
| – | 2 | 2 | Hasan Al-Zinkee | Iraq | Did not start | Did not start |
| – | 2 | 9 | Pap Jonga | Gambia | Did not start | Did not start |
| – | 3 | 8 | Souleymane Napare | Burkina Faso | Did not start | Did not start |
| – | 2 | 3 | Refiloe Chopho | Lesotho | Disqualified | Disqualified |

### Swim-off

The swim-off was held on 18 June at 11:39.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Konrad Czerniak | Poland | 23.38 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Piero Codia | Italy | 23.40 | |

### Semifinals

The heats were started on 18 June at 18:24.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 2 | 6 | Ben Proud | Great Britain | 22.76 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | 4 | Caeleb Dressel | United States | 22.79 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | 5 | Thomas Ceccon | Italy | 22.79 | Q, NR |
| 4 | 1 | 5 | Michael Andrew | United States | 22.87 | Q |
| 5 | 1 | 6 | Szebasztián Szabó | Hungary | 22.91 | Q |
| 6 | 2 | 4 | Dylan Carter | Trinidad and Tobago | 22.98 | Q |
| 7 | 2 | 8 | Teong Tzen Wei | Singapore | 23.03 | Q |
| 8 | 2 | 1 | Nicholas Santos | Brazil | 23.04 | Q |
| 9 | 1 | 3 | Maxime Grousset | France | 23.10 | |
| 10 | 2 | 2 | Nyls Korstanje | Netherlands | 23.14 | |
| 11 | 1 | 1 | Simon Bucher | Austria | 23.18 | NR |
| 12 | 1 | 2 | Florent Manaudou | France | 23.23 | |
| 13 | 2 | 3 | Noè Ponti | Switzerland | 23.29 | |
| 14 | 2 | 7 | Andriy Govorov | Ukraine | 23.31 | |
| 15 | 1 | 7 | Daniel Zaitsev | Estonia | 23.38 | |
| 16 | 1 | 8 | Konrad Czerniak | Poland | 23.50 | |

### Final

The final was held on 19 June at 18:48.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 5 | Caeleb Dressel | United States | 22.57 | |
| | 8 | Nicholas Santos | Brazil | 22.78 | |
| | 6 | Michael Andrew | United States | 22.79 | |
| 4 | 7 | Dylan Carter | Trinidad and Tobago | 22.85 | NR |
| 5 | 3 | Thomas Ceccon | Italy | 22.86 | |
| 6 | 2 | Szebasztián Szabó | Hungary | 23.01 | |
| 7 | 4 | Ben Proud | Great Britain | 23.08 | |
| 8 | 1 | Teong Tzen Wei | Singapore | 23.29 | |