# Swimming at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics – Boys' 50 metre freestyle

The boys' 50 metre freestyle event in swimming at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics took place on 19 and 20 August at the Nanjing Olympic Sports Centre in Nanjing, China.

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held at 10:25.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 7 | 4 | Matheus Santana | Brazil | 22.55 | Q |
| 2 | 6 | 3 | Dylan Carter | Trinidad and Tobago | 22.65 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | 4 | Yu Hexin | China | 22.79 | Q |
| 4 | 7 | 6 | Alessandro Bori | Italy | 22.93 | Q |
| 5 | 5 | 4 | Jan Hołub | Poland | 22.98 | Q |
| 6 | 7 | 3 | Miles Munro | Great Britain | 22.99 | Q |
| 7 | 5 | 7 | Duncan Scott | Great Britain | 23.08 | Q |
| 8 | 6 | 8 | Chad Idensohn | Zimbabwe | 23.12 | Q |
| 9 | 7 | 5 | Fotios Mylonas | Greece | 23.14 | Q |
| 10 | 6 | 4 | Damian Wierling | Germany | 23.19 | Q |
| 11 | 6 | 6 | Jānis Šaltāns | Latvia | 23.22 | Q |
| 12 | 6 | 2 | Isak Eliasson | Sweden | 23.37 | Q |
| 13 | 6 | 5 | Kyle Chalmers | Australia | 23.38 | Q |
| 14 | 6 | 7 | Tomáš Púchly | Slovakia | 23.42 | Q |
| 15 | 4 | 4 | Javier Acevedo | Canada | 23.49 | Q |
| 16 | 5 | 6 | Robert Glință | Romania | 23.56 | Q |
| 17 | 7 | 8 | Calum Bain | Ireland | 23.57 | |
| 18 | 7 | 1 | Vahan Mkhitaryan | Armenia | 23.62 | |
| 19 | 5 | 1 | Guido Buscaglia | Argentina | 23.69 | |
| 20 | 5 | 5 | Darren Lim | Singapore | 23.71 | |
| 21 | 4 | 6 | Meli Malani | Fiji | 23.76 | |
| 22 | 4 | 2 | Alexis Borisavljevic | Belgium | 23.81 | |
| 23 | 5 | 2 | Manuel González | Panama | 23.86 | |
| 24 | 6 | 1 | Zuhayr Pigot | Suriname | 23.99 | |
| 25 | 4 | 3 | Raoul Stafrace | Malta | 24.02 | |
| 26 | 4 | 7 | Vedad Ramic | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 24.06 | |
| 27 | 7 | 2 | Juan Marín | Spain | 24.12 | |
| 28 | 7 | 7 | Lim Ching Hwang | Malaysia | 24.26 | |
| 29 | 4 | 1 | Sidrell Williams | Jamaica | 24.40 | |
| 30 | 4 | 5 | Oumar Toure | Mali | 24.61 | |
| 30 | 4 | 8 | José Alberto Quintanilla | Bolivia | 24.61 | |
| 32 | 3 | 6 | Adam Viktora | Seychelles | 24.82 | |
| 33 | 3 | 8 | Shakil Fakir | Mozambique | 24.85 | |
| 34 | 3 | 5 | Md Asif Reza | Bangladesh | 24.98 | |
| 35 | 3 | 3 | Kerry Ollivierre | Grenada | 25.40 | |
| 36 | 3 | 1 | Davide Bernardi | San Marino | 25.53 | |
| 37 | 3 | 7 | Collin Akara | Papua New Guinea | 25.61 | |
| 38 | 3 | 2 | Kwaku Addo | Ghana | 25.66 | |
| 39 | 2 | 5 | Gabriel Richter | Swaziland | 26.15 | |
| 40 | 1 | 3 | Ammaar Ghadiyali | Tanzania | 26.16 | |
| 41 | 2 | 4 | Anas Altamari | Palestine | 26.36 | |
| 42 | 1 | 6 | Troy Kojenlang | Marshall Islands | 26.39 | |
| 43 | 2 | 3 | Mohamed Adnan | Maldives | 27.03 | |
| 44 | 5 | 3 | Temaruata Strickland | Cook Islands | 27.54 | |
| 45 | 2 | 6 | Sopha Cheng | Cambodia | 27.58 | |
| 46 | 2 | 2 | Derek Dainard | Federated States of Micronesia | 29.55 | |
| 47 | 1 | 2 | Ibroihim Djoumoi | Comoros | 29.57 | |
| 48 | 2 | 1 | Rayane Alognisso | Benin | 31.31 | |
| 49 | 1 | 5 | Jonathan Mubikayi | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 31.69 | |
| 50 | 1 | 4 | Fabrice Guedia Zeutsop | Cameroon | 32.17 | |
| 51 | 2 | 8 | Ahmed Alwan | Djibouti | 32.65 | |
| | 2 | 7 | Abdoul Babu | Rwanda | DSQ | |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 18:20.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 2 | 5 | Yu Hexin | China | 22.01 | Q, WJR |
| 2 | 2 | 4 | Matheus Santana | Brazil | 22.48 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | 4 | Dylan Carter | Trinidad and Tobago | 22.49 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | 3 | Jan Hołub | Poland | 22.74 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | 6 | Duncan Scott | Great Britain | 22.78 | Q |
| 6 | 1 | 2 | Damian Wierling | Germany | 22.80 | Q |
| 6 | 1 | 3 | Miles Munro | Great Britain | 22.80 | Q |
| 8 | 1 | 5 | Alessandro Bori | Italy | 22.87 | Q |
| 9 | 2 | 2 | Fotios Mylonas | Greece | 23.07 | |
| 10 | 2 | 7 | Jānis Šaltāns | Latvia | 23.14 | |
| 11 | 2 | 1 | Kyle Chalmers | Australia | 23.16 | |
| 12 | 2 | 8 | Javier Acevedo | Canada | 23.19 | |
| 13 | 1 | 8 | Robert Glință | Romania | 23.26 | |
| 14 | 1 | 6 | Chad Idensohn | Zimbabwe | 23.37 | |
| 15 | 1 | 7 | Isak Eliasson | Sweden | 23.40 | |
| 16 | 1 | 1 | Tomáš Púchly | Slovakia | 23.43 | |

### Final

The final was held at 18:00.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 4 | Yu Hexin | China | 22.00 | WJR |
| | 5 | Matheus Santana | Brazil | 22.43 | |
| | 3 | Dylan Carter | Trinidad and Tobago | 22.53 | |
| 4 | 8 | Alessandro Bori | Italy | 22.66 | |
| 5 | 6 | Jan Hołub | Poland | 22.70 | |
| 6 | 1 | Miles Munro | Great Britain | 22.82 | |
| 6 | 7 | Damian Wierling | Germany | 22.82 | |
| 8 | 2 | Duncan Scott | Great Britain | 22.84 | |