# 2021 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 50 metre freestyle

The Men's 50 metre freestyle competition of the 2021 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 18 and 19 December 2021.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
| World record | Caeleb Dressel (USA) | 20.16 | Budapest, Hungary | 21 November 2020 |
| Competition record | Florent Manaudou (FRA) | 20.26 | Doha, Qatar | 5 December 2014 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were started on 18 December at 10:26.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 10 | 4 | Ben Proud | Great Britain | 20.91 | Q |
| 2 | 11 | 5 | Thom de Boer | Netherlands | 20.94 | Q |
| 3 | 10 | 8 | Ryan Held | United States | 21.01 | Q |
| 3 | 11 | 0 | Joshua Liendo | Canada | 21.01 | Q, NR |
| 5 | 10 | 5 | Lorenzo Zazzeri | Italy | 21.08 | Q |
| 6 | 11 | 8 | Leonardo Deplano | Italy | 21.33 | Q |
| 7 | 9 | 9 | Ian Ho | Hong Kong | 21.36 | Q, NR |
| 8 | 10 | 3 | Jesse Puts | Netherlands | 21.39 | Q |
| 9 | 7 | 4 | Matej Duša | Slovakia | 21.44 | Q |
| 9 | 8 | 3 | Nicholas Lia | Norway | 21.44 | Q, NR |
| 9 | 9 | 2 | Daniel Zaitsev | Estonia | 21.44 | Q |
| 9 | 10 | 6 | Maxime Grousset | France | 21.44 | Q |
| 13 | 9 | 4 | Szebasztián Szabó | Hungary | 21.46 | Q |
| 14 | 11 | 7 | Daniil Markov | Russian Swimming Federation | 21.50 | Q |
| 15 | 11 | 6 | Michael Andrew | United States | 21.52 | Q |
| 16 | 8 | 9 | Abdelrahman Sameh | Egypt | 21.53 | Q |
| 17 | 11 | 4 | Vladimir Morozov | Russian Swimming Federation | 21.54 | |
| 18 | 9 | 6 | Emre Sakçı | Turkey | 21.55 | |
| 19 | 9 | 3 | Vladyslav Bukhov | Ukraine | 21.59 | |
| 20 | 10 | 7 | Calum Bain | Ireland | 21.61 | |
| 21 | 9 | 5 | Paweł Juraszek | Poland | 21.68 | |
| 22 | 10 | 2 | Jasper Aerents | Belgium | 21.70 | |
| 23 | 8 | 2 | Miguel Nascimento | Portugal | 21.72 | |
| 24 | 11 | 3 | Simonas Bilis | Lithuania | 21.74 | |
| 25 | 8 | 4 | Wang Changhao | China | 21.78 | |
| 25 | 8 | 7 | Zhang Zhoujian | China | 21.78 | |
| 27 | 10 | 9 | Nikola Miljenić | Croatia | 21.79 | |
| 28 | 7 | 2 | Mikel Schreuders | Aruba | 21.80 | NR |
| 29 | 10 | 0 | Bradley Tandy | South Africa | 21.87 | |
| 30 | 7 | 8 | Aleksey Tarasenko | Uzbekistan | 21.91 | NR |
| 31 | 11 | 2 | Yuri Kisil | Canada | 21.93 | |
| 32 | 9 | 7 | Oussama Sahnoune | Algeria | 21.96 | |
| 33 | 9 | 8 | Gabriel Santos | Brazil | 21.98 | |
| 34 | 9 | 1 | Emir Muratović | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 22.00 | |
| 35 | 8 | 1 | Kaloyan Bratanov | Bulgaria | 22.05 | |
| 35 | 10 | 1 | Guido Buscaglia | Argentina | 22.05 | |
| 37 | 11 | 1 | Julien Henx | Luxembourg | 22.08 | |
| 38 | 9 | 0 | Alberto Mestre | Venezuela | 22.16 | |
| 39 | 8 | 5 | Thomas Hallock | Switzerland | 22.23 | |
| 40 | 7 | 0 | Nikolas Antoniou | Cyprus | 22.33 | NR |
| 41 | 7 | 1 | Lamar Taylor | Bahamas | 22.38 | |
| 42 | 8 | 6 | Alexandr Varakin | Kazakhstan | 22.40 | |
| 43 | 7 | 6 | Louis Ortiz | Puerto Rico | 22.41 | |
| 44 | 7 | 9 | George Stoica-Constantin | Romania | 22.43 | |
| 45 | 8 | 8 | Sina Gholampour | Iran | 22.61 | |
| 46 | 8 | 0 | Mohammed Bedour | Jordan | 22.72 | |
| 47 | 7 | 5 | Souhail Hamouchane | Morocco | 22.81 | |
| 48 | 7 | 3 | Alaa Masoo | FINA Refugee Team | 22.87 | |
| 49 | 6 | 5 | Adama Niane | Senegal | 22.90 | |
| 50 | 6 | 8 | Nixon Hernández | El Salvador | 23.22 | |
| 51 | 6 | 6 | Sidrell Williams | Jamaica | 23.23 | |
| 52 | 6 | 7 | José Quintanilla | Bolivia | 23.42 | |
| 53 | 6 | 1 | Gregory Anodin | Mauritius | 23.46 | |
| 54 | 6 | 3 | Vladimir Mamikonyan | Armenia | 23.54 | |
| 55 | 6 | 4 | Tendo Mukalazi | Uganda | 23.56 | |
| 56 | 6 | 0 | Kerry Ollivierre | Grenada | 23.58 | |
| 57 | 5 | 5 | Alassane Seydou | Niger | 23.61 | |
| 58 | 6 | 9 | Miguel Mena | Nicaragua | 23.79 | |
| 59 | 1 | 3 | Julio Rodríguez | Panama | 23.85 | |
| 60 | 1 | 5 | Juhn Tenorio | Northern Mariana Islands | 23.97 | |
| 61 | 4 | 4 | Alexander Shah | Nepal | 24.07 | |
| 62 | 5 | 6 | Christian Nikles | Brunei | 24.11 | |
| 63 | 5 | 2 | Belly-Cresus Ganira | Burundi | 24.22 | |
| 64 | 4 | 2 | Yousef Al-Khulaifi | Qatar | 24.23 | |
| 65 | 5 | 3 | Dalvi Elezi | Albania | 24.24 | |
| 65 | 5 | 4 | Raphael Grand'Pierre | Haiti | 24.24 | |
| 67 | 2 | 0 | Md Asif Reza | Bangladesh | 24.28 | |
| 68 | 5 | 1 | Hilal Hemed Hilal | Tanzania | 24.38 | |
| 69 | 1 | 6 | Eltonte Leonard | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 24.52 | |
| 70 | 5 | 8 | Andrew Fowler | Guyana | 24.58 | |
| 71 | 5 | 0 | Eloi Maniraguha | Rwanda | 24.60 | |
| 72 | 4 | 6 | Martin Muja | Kosovo | 24.61 | |
| 73 | 5 | 7 | Jefferson Kpanou | Benin | 24.65 | |
| 74 | 2 | 5 | Ahmed Al-Hasani | Iraq | 24.74 | |
| 75 | 5 | 9 | Vasilije Andrić | Montenegro | 24.90 | |
| 76 | 2 | 3 | Mahmoud Abu Gharbieh | Palestine | 24.95 | |
| 77 | 1 | 4 | Mohamed Aan Hussain | Maldives | 25.00 | |
| 77 | 2 | 2 | Terrel Monplaisir | Saint Lucia | 25.00 | |
| 79 | 4 | 3 | Phansovannarun Montross | Cambodia | 25.28 | NR |
| 80 | 2 | 9 | Matt Savitz | Gibraltar | 25.38 | |
| 81 | 2 | 8 | Rohan Shearer | Turks and Caicos Islands | 25.47 | |
| 82 | 4 | 5 | Troy Pina | Cape Verde | 25.61 | |
| 83 | 3 | 4 | Sangay Tenzin | Bhutan | 26.29 | |
| 84 | 3 | 3 | Mamadou Bah | Guinea | 26.48 | |
| 85 | 4 | 8 | Edgar Iro | Solomon Islands | 26.52 | |
| 86 | 2 | 7 | Yann Douma | Republic of the Congo | 26.73 | |
| 87 | 4 | 7 | Saddam Ramziyorzoda | Tajikistan | 26.81 | |
| 88 | 3 | 5 | Shawn Dingilius-Wallace | Palau | 27.10 | |
| 88 | 4 | 0 | Houssein Gaber Ibrahim | Djibouti | 27.10 | |
| 90 | 4 | 1 | Joshua Wyse | Sierra Leone | 27.12 | |
| 91 | 3 | 7 | Phillip Kinono | Marshall Islands | 27.78 | |
| 92 | 3 | 2 | Achala Gekabel | Ethiopia | 27.98 | |
| 93 | 3 | 8 | Hakim Youssouf | Comoros | 28.05 | |
| 94 | 3 | 1 | Muhammad Moosa | Malawi | 28.16 | |
| 95 | 2 | 1 | Ebrahim Al-Maleki | Yemen | 28.32 | |
| 96 | 3 | 0 | Omar Darboe | Gambia | 28.59 | |
| 97 | 3 | 6 | Adam Mpali | Gabon | 28.71 | |
| 98 | 1 | 7 | Jolanio Guterres | Timor-Leste | 32.33 | |
| 99 | 2 | 4 | Terence Tengue | Central African Republic | 34.27 | |
| | 1 | 2 | Higinio Ndong Obama | Equatorial Guinea | DNS | |
| | 2 | 6 | Loic Leenaerts | Togo | DNS | |
| | 3 | 9 | Yves Munyu Kupiata | Democratic Republic of the Congo | DNS | |
| | 4 | 9 | Souleymane Napare | Burkina Faso | DNS | |
| | 6 | 2 | Danilo Rosafio | Kenya | DNS | |
| | 7 | 7 | Colins Ebingha | Nigeria | DNS | |
| | 11 | 9 | Mikkel Lee | Singapore | DNS | |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were started on 18 December at 18:38.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 2 | 5 | Ryan Held | United States | 20.81 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | 5 | Joshua Liendo | Canada | 20.88 | Q, NR |
| 3 | 2 | 4 | Ben Proud | Great Britain | 20.95 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | 4 | Thom de Boer | Netherlands | 20.98 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | 3 | Lorenzo Zazzeri | Italy | 21.02 | Q |
| 6 | 2 | 1 | Szebasztián Szabó | Hungary | 21.06 | Q |
| 7 | 1 | 7 | Maxime Grousset | France | 21.16 | Q |
| 8 | 2 | 6 | Ian Ho | Hong Kong | 21.22 | Q, NR |
| 9 | 1 | 3 | Leonardo Deplano | Italy | 21.27 | |
| 10 | 1 | 1 | Daniil Markov | Russian Swimming Federation | 21.33 | |
| 11 | 2 | 2 | Matej Duša | Slovakia | 21.38 | NR |
| 11 | 2 | 7 | Daniel Zaitsev | Estonia | 21.38 | NR |
| 13 | 1 | 6 | Jesse Puts | Netherlands | 21.41 | |
| 14 | 1 | 8 | Abdelrahman Sameh | Egypt | 21.43 | |
| 15 | 1 | 2 | Nicholas Lia | Norway | 21.44 | =NR |
| 16 | 2 | 8 | Michael Andrew | United States | 21.63 | |

### Final

The final was held on 19 December at 19:06.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 3 | Ben Proud | Great Britain | 20.45 | |
| | 4 | Ryan Held | United States | 20.70 | |
| | 5 | Joshua Liendo | Canada | 20.76 | NR |
| 4 | 2 | Lorenzo Zazzeri | Italy | 20.94 | |
| 5 | 6 | Thom de Boer | Netherlands | 21.07 | |
| 6 | 1 | Maxime Grousset | France | 21.08 | |
| 7 | 7 | Szebasztián Szabó | Hungary | 21.26 | |
| 8 | 8 | Ian Ho | Hong Kong | 21.27 | |