# Swimming at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre freestyle

The Men's 50 metre freestyle competition at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships was held on 16 and 17 February 2024.

## 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 16 February at 10:08.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 12 | 4 | Cameron McEvoy | Australia | 21.13 | Q |
| 2 | 10 | 5 | Vladyslav Bukhov | Ukraine | 21.56 | Q |
| 3 | 11 | 6 | Kristian Gkolomeev | Greece | 21.70 | Q |
| 4 | 10 | 4 | Michael Andrew | United States | 21.78 | Q |
| 5 | 12 | 2 | Ian Yentou Ho | Hong Kong | 21.83 | Q |
| 6 | 11 | 1 | Lorenzo Zazzeri | Italy | 21.85 | Q |
| 7 | 12 | 5 | Isaac Cooper | Australia | 21.86 | Q |
| 8 | 11 | 4 | Benjamin Proud | Great Britain | 21.88 | Q |
| 9 | 12 | 6 | Kenzo Simons | Netherlands | 21.89 | Q |
| 10 | 12 | 3 | Ji Yu-chan | South Korea | 21.93 | Q |
| 11 | 10 | 2 | Dylan Carter | Trinidad and Tobago | 21.95 | Q |
| 12 | 11 | 3 | Leonardo Deplano | Italy | 21.98 | Q |
| 13 | 11 | 9 | Bjoern Seeliger | Sweden | 21.99 | Q |
| 14 | 10 | 3 | Matt King | United States | 22.03 | Q |
| 15 | 9 | 1 | Andrej Barna | Serbia | 22.05 | Q |
| 16 | 9 | 6 | Matej Duša | Slovakia | 22.12 | Q, NR |
| 17 | 12 | 0 | Thom de Boer | Netherlands | 22.13 | |
| 18 | 11 | 2 | Diogo Ribeiro | Portugal | 22.14 | |
| 19 | 12 | 1 | Nicholas Lia | Norway | 22.19 | |
| 20 | 9 | 4 | Pawel Juraszek | Poland | 22.20 | |
| 20 | 10 | 8 | Nikola Miljenic | Croatia | 22.20 | |
| 22 | 10 | 7 | Mikel Schreuders | Aruba | 22.22 | |
| 22 | 11 | 8 | Shinri Shioura | Japan | 22.22 | |
| 24 | 10 | 1 | Thomas Fannon | Ireland | 22.23 | |
| 24 | 10 | 6 | Stergios Marios Bilas | Greece | 22.23 | |
| 26 | 11 | 7 | Miguel Nascimento | Portugal | 22.25 | |
| 27 | 11 | 0 | Alberto Mestre | Venezuela | 22.26 | |
| 28 | 12 | 7 | Jonathan Tan | Singapore | 22.27 | |
| 29 | 9 | 7 | Heiko Gigler | Austria | 22.28 | |
| 30 | 11 | 5 | Szebasztian Szabo | Hungary | 22.32 | |
| 31 | 8 | 6 | Clayton Jimmie | South Africa | 22.33 | |
| 32 | 9 | 5 | Lamar Taylor | Bahamas | 22.41 | |
| 33 | 9 | 2 | Kaloyan Bratanov | Bulgaria | 22.48 | |
| 33 | 12 | 8 | Andrii Govorov | Ukraine | 22.48 | |
| 35 | 10 | 9 | Remi Fabiani | Luxembourg | 22.55 | |
| 36 | 9 | 9 | Oussama Sahnoune | Algeria | 22.76 | |
| 37 | 9 | 8 | Kalle Aleksanteri Makinen | Finland | 22.81 | |
| 38 | 9 | 3 | Cameron Gray | New Zealand | 22.84 | |
| 39 | 9 | 0 | Javier Núñez | Dominican Republic | 22.95 | |
| 40 | 8 | 3 | Samyar Abdoli | Iran | 22.98 | |
| 41 | 8 | 0 | Diego Aranda | Uruguay | 23.06 | |
| 42 | 10 | 0 | Emre Sakci | Turkey | 23.11 | |
| 43 | 8 | 4 | Adi Mesetovic | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 23.12 | |
| 44 | 8 | 5 | Stephen Calkins | Canada | 23.15 | |
| 45 | 8 | 8 | Hansel Mccaig | Fiji | 23.30 | |
| 46 | 7 | 0 | Grisi Koxhaku | Albania | 23.41 | |
| 47 | 5 | 4 | Yousuf Almatrooshi | United Arab Emirates | 23.44 | |
| 48 | 1 | 3 | Kyle Abeysinghe | Sri Lanka | 23.45 | |
| 48 | 7 | 5 | Emad Addin Zapen | Jordan | 23.45 | |
| 50 | 7 | 6 | Bernat Lomero | Andorra | 23.47 | |
| 51 | 8 | 7 | Stefano Mitchell | Antigua and Barbuda | 23.48 | |
| 52 | 8 | 1 | Jeancarlo Calderon | Panama | 23.52 | |
| 53 | 7 | 3 | Tendo Mukalazi | Uganda | 23.63 | |
| 54 | 7 | 7 | Tristan Dorville | Saint Lucia | 23.70 | |
| 55 | 8 | 2 | Alaa Maso | Athlete Refugee Team | 23.73 | |
| 56 | 8 | 9 | Johann Stickland | Samoa | 23.75 | |
| 57 | 5 | 3 | Steven Aimable | Senegal | 23.77 | |
| 58 | 6 | 4 | Alexander Shah | Nepal | 23.79 | |
| 59 | 7 | 4 | Colins Obi Ebingha | Nigeria | 23.80 | |
| 60 | 6 | 3 | Jose Quintanilla | Bolivia | 23.87 | |
| 61 | 7 | 2 | Micah Masei | American Samoa | 24.00 | |
| 62 | 6 | 5 | Nixon Hernandez | El Salvador | 24.01 | |
| 63 | 7 | 1 | Musa Zhalayev | Turkmenistan | 24.10 | |
| 64 | 6 | 6 | Antoine De Lapparent | Cambodia | 24.14 | |
| 65 | 7 | 8 | Irvin Hoost | Suriname | 24.23 | |
| 66 | 6 | 9 | Mohamad Zubaid | Kuwait | 24.25 | |
| 67 | 5 | 5 | Adam Moncherry | Seychelles | 24.27 | |
| 67 | 7 | 9 | Sidrell Williams | Jamaica | 24.27 | |
| 69 | 6 | 10 | Belly-Cresus Ganira | Burundi | 24.32 | |
| 70 | 6 | 2 | Filipe Gomes | Malawi | 24.34 | |
| 71 | 6 | 1 | Ovesh Purahoo | Mauritius | 24.35 | |
| 72 | 6 | 7 | Damien Shamambo | Zambia | 24.50 | |
| 73 | 6 | 8 | Issa Samir Hamed Al | Oman | 24.60 | |
| 74 | 5 | 6 | SMH Tariq | Pakistan | 24.62 | |
| 75 | 5 | 2 | Josh Tarere | Papua New Guinea | 24.64 | |
| 76 | 2 | 9 | Alexien Kouma | Mali | 24.77 | |
| 77 | 1 | 0 | Jefferson Kpanou | Benin | 24.83 | |
| 78 | 5 | 1 | Alan Koti Lopeti Uhi | Tonga | 24.85 | |
| 79 | 5 | 7 | Yousef Al-khulaifi | Qatar | 25.04 | |
| 80 | 5 | 8 | Cedrick Niyibizi | Rwanda | 25.12 | |
| 81 | 2 | 8 | Brandon George | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 25.31 | |
| 82 | 5 | 0 | Tajhari Williams | Turks and Caicos Islands | 25.35 | |
| 83 | 1 | 4 | Samiul Islam Rafi | Bangladesh | 25.47 | |
| 84 | 1 | 5 | Aaron Ghebre Owusu | Eritrea | 25.66 | |
| 85 | 5 | 9 | Haziq Samil | Brunei | 25.72 | |
| 86 | 4 | 4 | Katerson Moya | Micronesia | 25.80 | |
| 86 | 4 | 7 | Houmed Houssein Barkat | Djibouti | 25.80 | NR |
| 88 | 4 | 5 | Travis Dui Sakurai | Palau | 25.83 | |
| 89 | 2 | 5 | Camil Doua | Mauritania | 25.93 | |
| 90 | 4 | 2 | Michael Mponezya Joseph | Tanzania | 25.94 | |
| 91 | 4 | 3 | Fakhriddin Madkamov | Tajikistan | 26.38 | |
| 92 | 4 | 6 | Slava Sihanouvong | Laos | 26.48 | |
| 93 | 4 | 8 | Souleymane Napare | Burkina Faso | 26.51 | |
| 94 | 4 | 1 | Kinley Lhendup | Bhutan | 26.62 | |
| 95 | 2 | 6 | Troy Nestor Pina | Cape Verde | 26.88 | |
| 96 | 3 | 1 | Christian Nii Nortey | Ghana | 27.16 | |
| 97 | 1 | 8 | Charles Levi Avi | Ivory Coast | 27.21 | |
| 98 | 3 | 2 | AAA Khousrof | Yemen | 27.32 | |
| 99 | 3 | 7 | Ousman Jobe | Gambia | 27.34 | |
| 100 | 4 | 0 | Edgar Richardson Iro | Solomon Islands | 27.35 | |
| 101 | 3 | 5 | Joshua Wyse | Sierra Leone | 27.37 | |
| 102 | 2 | 2 | Fode Amara Camara | Guinea | 27.44 | |
| 103 | 3 | 6 | Magnim Jordano Daou | Togo | 27.49 | |
| 104 | 4 | 9 | Phillip Kinono | Marshall Islands | 27.62 | |
| 105 | 2 | 0 | Charly Ndjoume | Cameroon | 27.69 | |
| 106 | 3 | 4 | Johnathan Silas | Vanuatu | 27.74 | |
| 107 | 2 | 3 | Yann Emmanuel Douma | Congo | 27.87 | |
| 108 | 1 | 6 | Aristote Ndombe | DR Congo | 27.88 | |
| 109 | 1 | 2 | Bereket Demissie Girkebo | Ethiopia | 28.17 | |
| 110 | 3 | 3 | Adam Mpali | Gabon | 28.61 | |
| 111 | 2 | 1 | Troy Nisbett | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 29.23 | |
| 112 | 3 | 9 | Refiloe Chopho | Lesotho | 29.56 | |
| 113 | 3 | 8 | Jolanio Guterres | Timor-Leste | 30.06 | |
| 114 | 1 | 1 | Ibrahim Mohamed | Comoros | 30.43 | |
| 115 | 3 | 0 | Pedro Rogery | Guinea-Bissau | 30.63 | |
| 116 | 2 | 4 | Terence Tengue | Central African Republic | 31.69 | |
| | 1 | 7 | Higinio Ndong | Equatorial Guinea | Did not start | Did not start |
| | 12 | 9 | Pan Zhanle | China | Did not start | Did not start |
| | 2 | 7 | AB Mamane | Niger | Disqualified | Disqualified |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 16 February at 19:40.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 2 | 4 | Cameron McEvoy | Australia | 21.23 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | 4 | Vladyslav Bukhov | Ukraine | 21.38 | Q, NR |
| 3 | 1 | 6 | Ben Proud | Great Britain | 21.54 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | Björn Seeliger | Sweden | 21.67 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | 5 | Kristian Gkolomeev | Greece | 21.72 | Q |
| 6 | 2 | 2 | Kenzo Simons | Netherlands | 21.73 | Q |
| 7 | 2 | 6 | Isaac Cooper | Australia | 21.74 | Q |
| 8 | 1 | 5 | Michael Andrew | United States | 21.77 | Q |
| 9 | 1 | 3 | Lorenzo Zazzeri | Italy | 21.80 | |
| 10 | 1 | 7 | Leonardo Deplano | Italy | 21.81 | |
| 11 | 2 | 3 | Ian Ho | Hong Kong | 21.84 | |
| 12 | 1 | 2 | Ji Yu-chan | South Korea | 21.87 | |
| 13 | 2 | 8 | Andrej Barna | Serbia | 21.89 | NR |
| 14 | 1 | 1 | Matt King | United States | 21.99 | |
| 15 | 2 | 7 | Dylan Carter | Trinidad and Tobago | 22.01 | |
| 16 | 1 | 8 | Matej Duša | Slovakia | 22.11 | NR |

### Final

The final was held on 17 February at 19:09.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 5 | Vladyslav Bukhov | Ukraine | 21.44 |
| | 4 | Cameron McEvoy | Australia | 21.45 |
| | 3 | Ben Proud | Great Britain | 21.53 |
| 4 | 8 | Michael Andrew | United States | 21.71 |
| 5 | 1 | Isaac Cooper | Australia | 21.77 |
| 6 | 7 | Kenzo Simons | Netherlands | 21.81 |
| 7 | 6 | Björn Seeliger | Sweden | 21.83 |
| 8 | 2 | Kristian Gkolomeev | Greece | 21.84 |