# 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 50 metre freestyle

The Men's 50 metre freestyle competition of the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 8 and 9 December 2016.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
| | Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date |
| World record Championship record | Florent Manaudou | France | 20.26 | Doha | 5 December 2014 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held at 10:40.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 16 | 4 | Vladimir Morozov | Russia | 21.27 | Q |
| 2 | 14 | 1 | Douglas Erasmus | South Africa | 21.31 | Q |
| 3 | 14 | 4 | Jesse Puts | Netherlands | 21.42 | Q |
| 4 | 15 | 0 | Simonas Bilis | Lithuania | 21.43 | Q |
| 5 | 16 | 2 | Kenta Ito | Japan | 21.45 | Q |
| 6 | 13 | 4 | Kristian Golomeev | Greece | 21.47 | Q |
| 7 | 14 | 7 | Luca Dotto | Italy | 21.50 | Q |
| 8 | 16 | 5 | Michael Chadwick | United States | 21.56 | Q |
| 9 | 14 | 2 | Daniel Hunter | New Zealand | 21.59 | Q |
| 9 | 16 | 7 | Maksim Lobanovskii | Hungary | 21.59 | Q |
| 11 | 14 | 3 | Paul Powers | United States | 21.60 | Q |
| 12 | 16 | 0 | Mislav Sever | Croatia | 21.63 | Q |
| 13 | 14 | 6 | Aleksei Brianskiy | Russia | 21.67 | Q |
| 13 | 16 | 9 | Andrii Khloptsov | Ukraine | 21.67 | Q |
| 15 | 15 | 5 | Clément Mignon | France | 21.69 | Q |
| 16 | 14 | 5 | Ari-Pekka Liukkonen | Finland | 21.71 | Q |
| 17 | 13 | 0 | Yuri Kisil | Canada | 21.72 | |
| 18 | 15 | 6 | Shinri Shioura | Japan | 21.74 | |
| 19 | 15 | 8 | Miguel Ortiz-Cañavate | Spain | 21.77 | |
| 20 | 13 | 8 | Brayden McCarthy | Australia | 21.78 | |
| 21 | 15 | 3 | Brad Tandy | South Africa | 21.79 | |
| 22 | 15 | 4 | Andrii Govorov | Ukraine | 21.81 | |
| 23 | 16 | 1 | Yonel Govindin | France | 21.83 | |
| 23 | 16 | 3 | Pieter Timmers | Belgium | 21.83 | |
| 25 | 10 | 0 | Anders Lie Nielsen | Denmark | 21.86 | |
| 26 | 11 | 6 | Daniel Carranza | Mexico | 21.88 | |
| 26 | 15 | 1 | Mindaugas Sadauskas | Lithuania | 21.88 | |
| 28 | 14 | 8 | Oussama Sahnoune | Algeria | 21.89 | |
| 28 | 15 | 7 | Anton Latkin | Belarus | 21.89 | |
| 30 | 12 | 6 | Miguel Nascimento | Portugal | 21.92 | |
| 31 | 16 | 8 | Artsiom Machekim | Belarus | 21.94 | |
| 32 | 14 | 0 | Nyls Korstanje | Netherlands | 21.95 | |
| 32 | 16 | 6 | Nicholas Santos | Brazil | 21.95 | |
| 34 | 12 | 8 | Yu Hexin | China | 21.99 | |
| 35 | 15 | 2 | Jasper Aerents | Belgium | 22.07 | |
| 36 | 14 | 9 | Andrei Tuomola | Finland | 22.11 | |
| 37 | 12 | 7 | Alexander Graham | Australia | 22.14 | |
| 38 | 12 | 3 | Luis Armando Flores Bellina | Puerto Rico | 22.22 | |
| 39 | 13 | 2 | Yongqing Lin | China | 22.24 | |
| 39 | 15 | 9 | Cristoffer Carlsen | Sweden | 22.24 | |
| 41 | 13 | 5 | Norbert Trandafir | Romania | 22.32 | |
| 42 | 13 | 6 | Adi Mesetovic | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 22.34 | |
| 43 | 13 | 7 | Robin Andreasson | Sweden | 22.41 | |
| 44 | 12 | 4 | Mazen Elkamash | Egypt | 22.42 | |
| 44 | 13 | 1 | Matthew Zammit | Malta | 22.42 | |
| 46 | 12 | 1 | Khader Baqlah | Jordan | 22.45 | |
| 47 | 12 | 0 | Oliver Elliot | Chile | 22.46 | |
| 48 | 12 | 2 | Baslakov Iskender | Turkey | 22.47 | |
| 49 | 12 | 9 | Justin Plaschka | Jamaica | 22.51 | |
| 49 | 13 | 9 | Mirando Richard-Jarry | Canada | 22.51 | |
| 51 | 1 | 7 | Kai Quan Yeo | Singapore | 22.68 | |
| 52 | 13 | 3 | Vladimir Stefanik | Slovakia | 22.72 | |
| 53 | 10 | 3 | Pavel Izbiscuic | Moldova | 22.78 | |
| 53 | 10 | 5 | Juan Dobles | Costa Rica | 22.78 | |
| 55 | 10 | 4 | Aron Orn Stefansson | Iceland | 22.87 | |
| 56 | 10 | 9 | Kevin Avila | Guatemala | 22.94 | |
| 57 | 11 | 0 | Xander Skinner | Namibia | 23.05 | |
| 58 | 9 | 6 | Marko Blazhevski | Macedonia | 23.07 | |
| 59 | 8 | 5 | Moktar Al-Yamani | Yemen | 23.10 | |
| 60 | 9 | 3 | Sam Seghers | Papua New Guinea | 23.19 | |
| 60 | 11 | 2 | Anthony Barbar | Lebanon | 23.19 | |
| 62 | 6 | 9 | Kyle Abeysinghe | Sri Lanka | 23.23 | |
| 63 | 9 | 4 | Ralph Goveia | Zambia | 23.27 | |
| 63 | 9 | 7 | Abdoul Niane | Senegal | 23.27 | |
| 65 | 10 | 7 | Matt Galea | Malta | 23.31 | |
| 66 | 11 | 1 | Vahan Mkhitaryan | Armenia | 23.32 | |
| 67 | 11 | 9 | Jean-Luc Joel Zephir | Saint Lucia | 23.34 | |
| 68 | 11 | 7 | Arsham Mirzaei | Iran | 23.41 | |
| 69 | 6 | 1 | Ljupcho Angelovski | Macedonia | 23.43 | |
| 70 | 9 | 2 | Jhonny Perez | Dominican Republic | 23.44 | |
| 71 | 11 | 8 | Dylan Koo | Singapore | 23.47 | |
| 72 | 9 | 0 | Adrian Hoek | Curaçao | 23.50 | |
| 72 | 9 | 1 | Alex Sobers | Barbados | 23.50 | |
| 74 | 7 | 5 | Axel Toni Steven Ngui | Philippines | 23.52 | |
| 75 | 10 | 8 | Vladimir Mamikonyan | Armenia | 23.61 | |
| 76 | 10 | 2 | Hilal Hemed Hilal | Tanzania | 23.63 | |
| 77 | 11 | 3 | Stanislav Karnaukhov | Kyrgyzstan | 23.64 | |
| 78 | 9 | 9 | Ivo Kunzle Savastano | Paraguay | 23.69 | |
| 78 | 10 | 6 | Mathieu Marquet | Mauritius | 23.69 | |
| 80 | 7 | 8 | Stanford Kawale | Papua New Guinea | 23.70 | |
| 81 | 8 | 1 | Jeancarlo Calderon Harper | Panama | 23.74 | |
| 81 | 8 | 6 | Issa Abdulla Hemed Mohamed | Kenya | 23.74 | |
| 81 | 8 | 9 | Eric Fernandez Malvar | Andorra | 23.74 | |
| 84 | 7 | 7 | Joao Matias | Angola | 23.84 | |
| 85 | 7 | 3 | Markos Kalopsidiotis | Cyprus | 23.85 | |
| 86 | 9 | 8 | Mathias Zacarias | Paraguay | 23.88 | |
| 87 | 6 | 3 | Alfonso Jose Leso Bautista | Philippines | 23.92 | |
| 87 | 8 | 2 | Ivan Soruco | Bolivia | 23.92 | |
| 89 | 11 | 4 | Pok Man Ngou | Macau | 23.94 | |
| 90 | 10 | 1 | Adam Ismail Allouche | Lebanon | 23.97 | |
| 91 | 8 | 3 | Christian Nikles | Brunei | 23.98 | |
| 92 | 1 | 6 | Mohammad Mahfizur Rahman | Bangladesh | 24.05 | |
| 93 | 1 | 5 | Sébastien Kouma | Mali | 24.08 | |
| 94 | 6 | 6 | Dean Hoffmann | Seychelles | 24.13 | |
| 95 | 6 | 8 | Alex Mccallum | Cayman Islands | 24.14 | |
| 95 | 8 | 0 | Delgerkhuu Myagmar | Mongolia | 24.14 | |
| 95 | 8 | 4 | Stefano Mitchell | Antigua and Barbuda | 24.14 | |
| 98 | 8 | 7 | Jim Sanderson | Gibraltar | 24.15 | |
| 99 | 7 | 6 | Steven Kimani Maina | Kenya | 24.24 | |
| 100 | 6 | 5 | George Jabbour | Honduras | 24.29 | |
| 101 | 1 | 3 | Yeziel Morales Miranda | Puerto Rico | 24.30 | |
| 102 | 5 | 8 | Samuele Rossi | Seychelles | 24.37 | |
| 103 | 1 | 2 | Irakli Revishvili | Georgia | 24.39 | |
| 104 | 8 | 8 | Marco Flores | Honduras | 24.42 | |
| 105 | 7 | 9 | Abdullah Nahmad Naji Al-Doori | Iraq | 24.51 | |
| 106 | 5 | 0 | Matthew Ives | Botswana | 24.52 | |
| 107 | 7 | 0 | Syed Muhammad Haseeb Tariq | Pakistan | 24.69 | |
| 108 | 6 | 4 | Andrew Fowler | Guyana | 24.72 | |
| 109 | 7 | 1 | Nuno Miguel Rola | Angola | 24.90 | |
| 110 | 5 | 1 | Temaruata Strickland | Cook Islands | 24.93 | |
| 111 | 4 | 5 | Adil Bharmal | Tanzania | 25.36 | |
| 111 | 6 | 9 | David Hitchcock | Gibraltar | 25.36 | |
| 113 | 4 | 8 | Tanner Poppe | Guam | 25.40 | |
| 114 | 6 | 2 | Nabeel Hatoum | Palestine | 25.49 | |
| 115 | 3 | 1 | Olim Kurbanov | Tajikistan | 25.51 | |
| 116 | 5 | 6 | Daryl Appleton | Antigua and Barbuda | 25.52 | |
| 117 | 5 | 2 | Ibrahim Nishwan | Maldives | 25.73 | |
| 118 | 5 | 3 | Mark Hoare | Eswatini | 25.85 | |
| 119 | 4 | 6 | Cruz Halbich | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 26.04 | |
| 120 | 4 | 1 | Thol Thoeun | Cambodia | 26.13 | |
| 121 | 5 | 4 | Arnold Kisulo | Uganda | 26.15 | |
| 122 | 3 | 2 | Salofi Charles Welch | Northern Mariana Islands | 26.17 | |
| 123 | 4 | 9 | Christian Villacrusis | Northern Mariana Islands | 26.18 | |
| 124 | 3 | 0 | Michael Swift | Malawi | 26.22 | |
| 125 | 3 | 5 | Pirort Cheng | Cambodia | 26.24 | |
| 126 | 5 | 7 | Devin Tyrek Boodha | Saint Lucia | 26.29 | |
| 127 | 3 | 6 | Meritum Veliu | Kosovo | 26.33 | |
| 127 | 5 | 9 | Aaron De Freitas | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 26.33 | |
| 129 | 4 | 0 | Albarchir Mouctar | Niger | 26.34 | |
| 130 | 3 | 3 | Tongli Panuve | Tonga | 26.40 | |
| 131 | 3 | 4 | Slava Sihanouvong | Laos | 26.72 | |
| 132 | 2 | 5 | Sergey Sihanouvong | Laos | 27.04 | |
| 133 | 2 | 9 | Ismail Muthasim Adnan | Maldives | 27.15 | |
| 134 | 2 | 4 | Alijon Khairulloev | Tajikistan | 27.62 | |
| 135 | 3 | 7 | Pap Jonga | Gambia | 28.46 | |
| 136 | 2 | 3 | Simphiwe Dlamini | Eswatini | 28.92 | |
| 137 | 2 | 7 | Christian Djidagul Nassif | Central African Republic | 29.60 | |
| 138 | 2 | 1 | Frantz Dorsainvil | Haiti | 30.22 | |
| | 1 | 1 | Roland Zouetaba | Burkina Faso | | DNS |
| | 1 | 4 | Loly Juwaihan | Palestine | | DNS |
| | 2 | 0 | Mawouna Bidah | Togo | | DNS |
| | 2 | 2 | Koroma Ishmael | Sierra Leone | | DNS |
| | 2 | 6 | Mamadou Tahirou Bah | Guinea | | DNS |
| | 2 | 8 | Mamadou Alpha Diallo | Guinea | | DNS |
| | 3 | 8 | Emeric Kpegba | Togo | | DNS |
| | 3 | 9 | Jefferson Kpanou | Benin | | DNS |
| | 4 | 2 | Tindwende Sawadogo | Burkina Faso | | DNS |
| | 4 | 3 | Athoumane Athoumane | Comoros | | DNS |
| | 4 | 4 | Chaolli Aonzoudine | Comoros | | DNS |
| | 4 | 7 | Sirish Gurung | Nepal | | DNS |
| | 5 | 5 | Belly-Cresus Ganira | Burundi | | DNS |
| | 6 | 0 | Ekirilkubinza Joshua Tibatenwa | Uganda | | DNS |
| | 7 | 2 | Abeiku Jackson | Ghana | | DNS |
| | 7 | 4 | Darren Chan Chin Wah | Mauritius | | DNS |
| | 11 | 5 | Aleksey Tarasenko | Uzbekistan | | DNS |
| | 12 | 5 | Meli Malani | Fiji | | DNS |
| | 9 | 5 | Angelo Simic | Bosnia and Herzegovina | | DSQ |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 19:07.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | Simonas Bilis | Lithuania | 21.15 | Q |
| 2 | 8 | Ari-Pekka Liukkonen | Finland | 21.36 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Kristian Golomeev | Greece | 21.50 | |
| 3 | 6 | Michael Chadwick | United States | 21.50 | |
| 5 | 2 | Maksim Lobanovskii | Hungary | 21.52 | |
| 6 | 7 | Mislav Sever | Croatia | 21.62 | |
| 7 | 1 | Andrii Khloptsov | Ukraine | 21.68 | |
| 8 | 4 | Douglas Erasmus | South Africa | 21.71 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Vladimir Morozov | Russia | 21.05 | Q |
| 2 | 6 | Luca Dotto | Italy | 21.29 | Q |
| 3 | 8 | Clément Mignon | France | 21.30 | Q |
| 4 | 7 | Paul Powers | United States | 21.31 | Q |
| 5 | 5 | Jesse Puts | Netherlands | 21.33 | Q |
| 6 | 1 | Aleksei Brianskiy | Russia | 21.44 | Q |
| 7 | 3 | Kenta Ito | Japan | 21.65 | |
| 8 | 2 | Daniel Hunter | New Zealand | 21.70 | |

### Final

The final was held at 19:32.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 7 | Jesse Puts | Netherlands | 21.10 |
| | 4 | Vladimir Morozov | Russia | 21.14 |
| | 5 | Simonas Bilis | Lithuania | 21.23 |
| 4 | 6 | Clément Mignon | France | 21.28 |
| 5 | 1 | Ari-Pekka Liukkonen | Finland | 21.29 |
| 6 | 3 | Luca Dotto | Italy | 21.39 |
| 7 | 2 | Paul Powers | United States | 21.43 |
| 8 | 8 | Aleksei Brianskiy | Russia | 21.46 |