# Swimming at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre butterfly

The Men's 50 metre butterfly competition of the 2018 European Aquatics Championships was held on 6 and 7 August 2018.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world 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 | 22.73 | London | 16 May 2016 |
The following new records were set during this competition.
| Date | Event | Name | Nationality | Time | Record |
| 7 August | Final | Andriy Govorov | Ukraine | 22.48 | CR |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were started on 6 August at 10:09.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 7 | 4 | Andriy Govorov | Ukraine | 22.90 | Q |
| 2 | 6 | 4 | Ben Proud | Great Britain | 23.29 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | 6 | Nyls Korstanje | Netherlands | 23.40 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | 6 | Kristian Golomeev | Greece | 23.42 | Q |
| 5 | 5 | 5 | Konrad Czerniak | Poland | 23.45 | Q |
| 5 | 5 | 4 | Oleg Kostin | Russia | 23.45 | Q |
| 7 | 7 | 3 | László Cseh | Hungary | 23.53 | Q |
| 8 | 7 | 5 | Damian Wierling | Germany | 23.56 | Q |
| 9 | 4 | 4 | Daniel Zaitsev | Estonia | 23.58 | Q |
| 10 | 7 | 6 | Mathys Goosen | Netherlands | 23.60 | Q |
| 10 | 6 | 5 | Yauhen Tsurkin | Belarus | 23.60 | Q |
| 12 | 6 | 7 | Andrea Vergani | Italy | 23.61 | Q |
| 13 | 3 | 7 | Bruno Blašković | Croatia | 23.68 | Q |
| 14 | 6 | 3 | Piero Codia | Italy | 23.71 | Q |
| 15 | 6 | 2 | Mehdy Metella | France | 23.72 | Q, WD |
| 16 | 5 | 8 | Meiron Cheruti | Israel | 23.75 | Q |
| 17 | 5 | 3 | Nikita Korolev | Russia | 23.81 | QSO |
| 17 | 6 | 1 | Jesse Puts | Netherlands | 23.81 | |
| 17 | 4 | 5 | Sergii Shevtsov | Ukraine | 23.81 | QSO |
| 20 | 2 | 3 | Liubomyr Lemeshko | Ukraine | 23.82 | |
| 21 | 6 | 8 | Marcus Schlesinger | Israel | 23.89 | |
| 22 | 4 | 7 | Jacob Peters | Great Britain | 23.95 | |
| 22 | 7 | 2 | Aleksandr Sadovnikov | Russia | 23.95 | |
| 24 | 5 | 1 | Ümitcan Güreş | Turkey | 23.98 | |
| 25 | 4 | 6 | Julien Henx | Luxembourg | 23.99 | |
| 26 | 5 | 9 | Niko Mäkelä | Finland | 24.02 | |
| 26 | 7 | 9 | Deividas Margevičius | Lithuania | 24.02 | |
| 28 | 5 | 2 | Riku Poeytaekivi | Finland | 24.03 | |
| 29 | 4 | 2 | Paweł Sendyk | Poland | 24.07 | |
| 30 | 3 | 8 | Nikola Miljenić | Croatia | 24.13 | |
| 31 | 4 | 1 | Noè Ponti | Switzerland | 24.22 | |
| 31 | 3 | 1 | Niksa Stojkovski | Norway | 24.22 | |
| 33 | 5 | 7 | Yahor Dodaleu | Belarus | 24.23 | |
| 33 | 4 | 3 | Anton Herrala | Finland | 24.23 | |
| 35 | 5 | 0 | Hryhory Pekarski | Belarus | 24.24 | |
| 36 | 3 | 6 | Viktar Staselovich | Belarus | 24.28 | |
| 37 | 7 | 8 | Kristóf Milák | Hungary | 24.29 | |
| 38 | 3 | 5 | Pierre Henry | France | 24.33 | |
| 39 | 4 | 9 | Matteo Rivolta | Italy | 24.34 | |
| 39 | 7 | 0 | Jan Šefl | Czech Republic | 24.34 | |
| 41 | 7 | 1 | Michał Chudy | Poland | 24.36 | |
| 41 | 3 | 3 | Yonel Govindin | France | 24.36 | |
| 43 | 2 | 5 | Kaan Ayar | Turkey | 24.37 | |
| 44 | 2 | 0 | Ralf Tribuntsov | Estonia | 24.39 | |
| 45 | 4 | 8 | Ari-Pekka Liukkonen | Finland | 24.42 | |
| 46 | 3 | 4 | Berk Özkul | Turkey | 24.43 | |
| 47 | 2 | 7 | Ádám Halaš | Slovakia | 24.52 | |
| 48 | 3 | 2 | Petr Novák | Czech Republic | 24.54 | |
| 49 | 6 | 0 | Simon Bucher | Austria | 24.59 | |
| 50 | 2 | 6 | İlker Altınbilek | Turkey | 24.69 | |
| 51 | 3 | 9 | George-Adrian Raţiu | Romania | 24.72 | |
| 52 | 4 | 0 | Egor Kuimov | Russia | 24.77 | |
| 53 | 2 | 8 | Cevin Siim | Estonia | 24.82 | |
| 54 | 1 | 6 | Artur Barseghyan | Armenia | 24.86 | |
| 55 | 2 | 1 | Mislav Sever | Croatia | 24.88 | |
| 56 | 2 | 9 | Teimuraz Kobakhidze | Georgia | 24.89 | |
| 57 | 1 | 4 | Armin Lelle | Estonia | 24.92 | |
| 58 | 3 | 0 | Calum Bain | Ireland | 24.93 | |
| 59 | 6 | 9 | Antani Ivanov | Bulgaria | 24.99 | |
| 60 | 1 | 5 | Paul Espernberger | Austria | 25.26 | |
| 61 | 1 | 7 | Georgia Biganishvili | Georgia | 25.28 | |
| 62 | 1 | 3 | Xaver Gschwentner | Austria | 25.42 | |
| 63 | 1 | 2 | Michael Stafrace | Malta | 26.29 | |
| 64 | 1 | 1 | Ruben Gharibyan | Armenia | 27.63 | |
| | 2 | 2 | Viktor Bromer | Denmark | Did not start | Did not start |
| | 7 | 7 | Joeri Verlinden | Netherlands | Did not start | Did not start |

#### Swim-off

The swim-off was held on 6 August at 11:34.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | Sergii Shevtsov | Ukraine | 23.45 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Nikita Korolev | Russia | 23.60 | |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were started on 6 August at 17:41.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Ben Proud | Great Britain | 23.01 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Kristian Golomeev | Greece | 23.22 | Q |
| 3 | 6 | Damian Wierling | Germany | 23.34 | Q |
| 4 | 3 | Konrad Czerniak | Poland | 23.37 | Q |
| 4 | 7 | Andrea Vergani | Italy | 23.37 | Q |
| 6 | 8 | Sergii Shevtsov | Ukraine | 23.58 | |
| 7 | 2 | Yauhen Tsurkin | Belarus | 23.61 | |
| 8 | 1 | Piero Codia | Italy | 23.63 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Andriy Govorov | Ukraine | 22.85 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Nyls Korstanje | Netherlands | 23.38 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Oleg Kostin | Russia | 23.41 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | László Cseh | Hungary | 23.48 | |
| 5 | 7 | Mathys Goosen | Netherlands | 23.54 | |
| 6 | 1 | Bruno Blašković | Croatia | 23.73 | |
| 7 | 8 | Meiron Cheruti | Israel | 23.77 | |
| 8 | 2 | Daniel Zaitsev | Estonia | 23.82 | |

### Final

The final was started on 7 August at 16:50.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 4 | Andriy Govorov | Ukraine | 22.48 | CR |
| | 5 | Ben Proud | Great Britain | 22.78 | |
| | 8 | Oleg Kostin | Russia | 22.97 | NR |
| 4 | 3 | Kristian Golomeev | Greece | 23.19 | |
| 5 | 7 | Andrea Vergani | Italy | 23.34 | |
| 6 | 1 | Nyls Korstanje | Netherlands | 23.38 | |
| 7 | 6 | Damian Wierling | Germany | 23.46 | |
| 8 | 2 | Konrad Czerniak | Poland | 23.49 | |