# Swimming at the 2020 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre butterfly

The Men's 50 metre butterfly competition of the 2020 European Aquatics Championships was held on 20 and 21 May 2021.

## Records

Before the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows.
| | Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date |
| World record European record | Andriy Govorov | Ukraine | 22.27 | Rome | 1 July 2018 |
| Championship record | Andriy Govorov | Ukraine | 22.48 | Glasgow | 7 August 2018 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were started on 20 May at 10:44.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 6 | 4 | Szebasztián Szabó | Hungary | 23.03 | Q |
| 2 | 6 | 5 | Andrey Zhilkin | Russia | 23.32 | Q |
| 3 | 7 | 3 | Thomas Ceccon | Italy | 23.39 | Q |
| 3 | 7 | 5 | Nyls Korstanje | Netherlands | 23.39 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | 4 | Andrey Minakov | Russia | 23.39 | Q |
| 6 | 7 | 4 | Andriy Govorov | Ukraine | 23.41 | Q |
| 6 | 5 | 6 | Maxime Grousset | France | 23.41 | Q |
| 8 | 6 | 6 | Konrad Czerniak | Poland | 23.44 | Q |
| 9 | 5 | 1 | Thom de Boer | Netherlands | 23.45 | Q |
| 10 | 5 | 5 | Vladyslav Bukhov | Ukraine | 23.47 | Q |
| 11 | 7 | 2 | Yauhen Tsurkin | Belarus | 23.52 | Q |
| 12 | 6 | 7 | Grigori Pekarski | Belarus | 23.53 | Q |
| 12 | 5 | 2 | Thomas Verhoeven | Netherlands | 23.53 | |
| 14 | 7 | 1 | Florent Manaudou | France | 23.54 | Q |
| 15 | 5 | 7 | Meiron Cheruti | Israel | 23.55 | Q |
| 15 | 6 | 3 | Daniel Zaitsev | Estonia | 23.55 | Q |
| 17 | 5 | 3 | Piero Codia | Italy | 23.57 | Q |
| 18 | 7 | 6 | Kristian Golomeev | Greece | 23.61 | |
| 18 | 6 | 2 | Mikhail Vekovishchev | Russia | 23.61 | |
| 20 | 5 | 9 | Alberto Lozano | Spain | 23.65 | |
| 21 | 4 | 7 | Ümitcan Güreş | Turkey | 23.67 | |
| 21 | 4 | 4 | Jacob Peters | Great Britain | 23.67 | |
| 21 | 6 | 1 | Kristóf Milák | Hungary | 23.67 | |
| 24 | 4 | 9 | Paweł Korzeniowski | Poland | 23.70 | |
| 25 | 4 | 2 | Jan Šefl | Czech Republic | 23.78 | |
| 26 | 6 | 9 | Marcin Cieślak | Poland | 23.81 | |
| 27 | 5 | 8 | Niksa Stojkovski | Norway | 23.86 | |
| 28 | 7 | 8 | Rasmus Nickelsen | Denmark | 23.87 | |
| 28 | 5 | 0 | Deividas Margevičius | Lithuania | 23.87 | |
| 30 | 3 | 4 | Simon Bucher | Austria | 23.93 | |
| 31 | 7 | 9 | Matteo Rivolta | Italy | 23.96 | |
| 31 | 3 | 1 | Heiko Gigler | Austria | 23.96 | |
| 33 | 4 | 5 | Niko Mäkelä | Finland | 24.02 | |
| 34 | 3 | 6 | Nikola Miljenić | Croatia | 24.09 | |
| 34 | 4 | 6 | Péter Holoda | Hungary | 24.09 | |
| 36 | 1 | 7 | Robert Glință | Romania | 24.13 | |
| 37 | 4 | 8 | Sergii Shevtsov | Ukraine | 24.17 | |
| 37 | 6 | 8 | Joeri Verlinden | Netherlands | 24.17 | |
| 39 | 4 | 0 | Ivan Lenđer | Serbia | 24.18 | |
| 40 | 3 | 5 | Nicholas Lia | Norway | 24.20 | |
| 41 | 3 | 9 | Michał Poprawa | Poland | 24.21 | |
| 42 | 3 | 7 | Anton Herrala | Finland | 24.23 | |
| 42 | 4 | 3 | Liubomyr Lemeshko | Ukraine | 24.23 | |
| 44 | 3 | 8 | Ramon Klenz | Germany | 24.30 | |
| 45 | 7 | 0 | Julien Henx | Luxembourg | 24.35 | |
| 46 | 3 | 2 | Ari-Pekka Liukkonen | Finland | 24.39 | |
| 47 | 1 | 6 | Edward Mildred | Great Britain | 24.41 | |
| 48 | 2 | 6 | Alex Ahtiainen | Estonia | 24.42 | |
| 48 | 3 | 3 | Tomer Frankel | Israel | 24.42 | |
| 50 | 4 | 1 | Oskar Hoff | Sweden | 24.43 | |
| 51 | 2 | 4 | Ádám Halás | Slovakia | 24.45 | |
| 52 | 2 | 7 | Alexander Kudashev | Russia | 24.56 | |
| 53 | 3 | 0 | Richárd Márton | Hungary | 24.57 | |
| 54 | 2 | 9 | Patrick Johnston | Ireland | 24.62 | |
| 55 | 2 | 3 | Martin Espernberger | Austria | 24.63 | |
| 56 | 2 | 2 | Bernat Lomero | Andorra | 24.82 | NR |
| 57 | 1 | 4 | Stefanos Dimitriadis | Greece | 24.83 | |
| 58 | 2 | 1 | Tomàs Lomero | Andorra | 24.86 | |
| 59 | 2 | 5 | Sebastian Luňák | Czech Republic | 24.89 | |
| 60 | 2 | 0 | Elias Persson | Sweden | 25.01 | |
| 61 | 2 | 8 | Xaver Gschwentner | Austria | 25.19 | |
| 62 | 1 | 3 | Dado Fenrir Jasminuson | Israel | 25.34 | |
| 63 | 1 | 5 | Boško Radulović | Montenegro | 25.49 | |
| 64 | 1 | 2 | Ivan Simonovski | North Macedonia | 26.17 | |
| 65 | 1 | 1 | Even Qarri | Albania | 27.92 | |
| | 6 | 0 | Tomoe Zenimoto Hvas | Norway | Did not start | Did not start |
| | 7 | 7 | Noè Ponti | Switzerland | Did not start | Did not start |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were started on 20 May at 18:41.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Andrey Zhilkin | Russia | 23.02 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Nyls Korstanje | Netherlands | 23.34 | Q |
| 3 | 8 | Piero Codia | Italy | 23.35 | q |
| 4 | 6 | Konrad Czerniak | Poland | 23.36 | q |
| 5 | 3 | Maxime Grousset | France | 23.39 | |
| 5 | 1 | Daniel Zaitsev | Estonia | 23.39 | |
| 7 | 7 | Grigori Pekarski | Belarus | 23.43 | |
| 8 | 2 | Vladyslav Bukhov | Ukraine | 23.57 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 6 | Andriy Govorov | Ukraine | 22.97 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Andrey Minakov | Russia | 23.10 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Szebasztián Szabó | Hungary | 23.10 | Q |
| 4 | 5 | Thomas Ceccon | Italy | 23.31 | q |
| 5 | 1 | Florent Manaudou | France | 23.41 | |
| 6 | 7 | Yauhen Tsurkin | Belarus | 23.47 | |
| 7 | 2 | Thom de Boer | Netherlands | 23.51 | |
| 8 | 8 | Meiron Cheruti | Israel | 23.59 | |

### Final

The final was held on 21 May at 18:20.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 6 | Szebasztián Szabó | Hungary | 23.00 |
| | 4 | Andriy Govorov | Ukraine | 23.01 |
| | 5 | Andrey Zhilkin | Russia | 23.08 |
| 4 | 8 | Konrad Czerniak | Poland | 23.09 |
| 5 | 7 | Nyls Korstanje | Netherlands | 23.14 |
| 6 | 3 | Andrey Minakov | Russia | 23.18 |
| 7 | 1 | Piero Codia | Italy | 23.54 |
| 8 | 2 | Thomas Ceccon | Italy | 23.56 |