# Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre freestyle

The men's 50 metre freestyle event at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships was held on 29 (heats and semifinals) and 30 July 2005 at the Parc Jean-Drapeau in Montreal, Canada.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and competition records were as follows:
| World record | Alexander Popov (RUS) | 21.64 | Moscow, Russia | 16 June 2000 |
| Championship record | Alexander Popov (USA) | 21.92 | Barcelona, Spain | 26 July 2003 |
The following records were established during the competition:
| Date | Round | Name | Nationality | Time | Record |
| 31 July | Final | Roland Schoeman | South Africa | 21.69 | CR |

## Results
### Heats

| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| 1 | 16 | 2 | Bartosz Kizierowski | Poland | 22.08 |
| 2 | 16 | 3 | Frédérick Bousquet | France | 22.21 |
| 3 | 15 | 2 | Salim Iles | Algeria | 22.24 |
| 4 | 16 | 6 | Julien Sicot | France | 22.31 |
| 5 | 17 | 3 | Oleksandr Volynets | Ukraine | 22.38 |
| 6 | 17 | 4 | Duje Draganja | Croatia | 22.41 |
| 7 | 16 | 4 | Roland Schoeman | South Africa | 22.42 |
| 8 | 17 | 6 | Javier Noriega | Spain | 22.47 |
| 8 | 17 | 2 | Nick Brunelli | United States | 22.47 |
| 10 | 13 | 4 | Peter Mankoč | Slovenia | 22.51 |
| 11 | 15 | 5 | Lukasz Gasior | Poland | 22.53 |
| 12 | 17 | 8 | Yevgeny Lagunov | Russia | 22.56 |
| 13 | 15 | 4 | Brett Hawke | Australia | 22.57 |
| 13 | 15 | 7 | Eduard Lorente | Spain | 22.57 |
| 15 | 17 | 5 | Stefan Nystrand | Sweden | 22.64 |
| 16 | 14 | 4 | Mark Veens | Netherlands | 22.65 |
| 16 | 15 | 3 | Andrey Kapralov | Russia | 22.65 |
| 18 | 14 | 6 | Ryk Neethling | South Africa | 22.68 |
| 18 | 16 | 7 | Lorenzo Vismara | Italy | 22.68 |
| 20 | 12 | 6 | Matti Rajakylä | Finland | 22.71 |
| 21 | 16 | 5 | Jason Lezak | United States | 22.72 |
| 22 | 15 | 1 | Michele Scarica | Italy | 22.74 |
| 23 | 16 | 1 | Rolandas Gimbutis | Lithuania | 22.79 |
| 24 | 15 | 6 | Fernando Scherer | Brazil | 22.81 |
| 25 | 15 | 8 | Jernej Godec | Slovenia | 22.82 |
| 26 | 14 | 5 | Michael Klim | Australia | 22.90 |
| 27 | 17 | 1 | Ricardo Busquets | Puerto Rico | 22.96 |
| 28 | 13 | 2 | Marcus Piehl | Sweden | 22.97 |
| 28 | 14 | 2 | Yannick Lupien | Canada | 22.97 |
| 30 | 13 | 5 | Stanislav Neviarovski | Belarus | 22.99 |
| 31 | 17 | 7 | Rafed El-Masri | Syria | 23.07 |
| 32 | 14 | 8 | Daisuke Hosokawa | Japan | 23.13 |
| 33 | 14 | 7 | Makoto Ito | Japan | 23.24 |
| 34 | 12 | 7 | Arwut Chinnapasaen | Thailand | 23.30 |
| 35 | 13 | 3 | Chen Zuo | China | 23.36 |
| 36 | 13 | 6 | Ravil Nachaev | Uzbekistan | 23.38 |
| 36 | 13 | 7 | Matias Aguilera | Argentina | 23.38 |
| 38 | 10 | 5 | Paulius Viktoravicius | Lithuania | 23.43 |
| 39 | 12 | 4 | Vitaliy Khan | Kazakhstan | 23.44 |
| 40 | 14 | 1 | Han Tianji | China | 23.47 |
| 41 | 2 | 8 | Cameron Gibson | New Zealand | 23.58 |
| 41 | 11 | 3 | Jose Mafio | Uruguay | 23.58 |
| 41 | 12 | 5 | Jason Dunford | Kenya | 23.58 |
| 44 | 12 | 8 | Jacinto Ayala | Dominican Republic | 23.59 |
| 45 | 13 | 8 | Carl Probert | Fiji | 23.60 |
| 46 | 12 | 3 | Antonio Hernández | Cuba | 23.62 |
| 47 | 11 | 4 | Andrei Radzionov | Belarus | 23.66 |
| 48 | 11 | 5 | Terrence Haynes | Barbados | 23.84 |
| 49 | 11 | 7 | Stavros Michailidis | Cyprus | 23.94 |
| 50 | 2 | 1 | Martyn Forde | Barbados | 23.98 |
| 51 | 10 | 6 | Alexandr Sklyar | Kazakhstan | 24.05 |
| 52 | 12 | 2 | Joshua Laban | United States Virgin Islands | 24.08 |
| 53 | 9 | 4 | Lao Kuan Fong | Macau | 24.17 |
| 54 | 11 | 2 | Leslie Kwok | Singapore | 24.19 |
| 55 | 11 | 6 | Mohamed Madwa | Kuwait | 24.22 |
| 56 | 11 | 1 | Rodrigo Díaz | Guatemala | 24.25 |
| 57 | 7 | 3 | Onan Orlando Thom | Guyana | 24.33 |
| 57 | 9 | 8 | Sim Ki Hyuk | South Korea | 24.33 |
| 59 | 9 | 5 | Andy Wibowo | Indonesia | 24.45 |
| 59 | 9 | 2 | Basil Kaaki | Lebanon | 24.45 |
| 61 | 8 | 4 | Gregory Arkhurst | Ivory Coast | 24.49 |
| 62 | 9 | 7 | David Dunford | Kenya | 24.51 |
| 62 | 10 | 8 | Sergey Tsoy | Uzbekistan | 24.51 |
| 64 | 1 | 5 | Matias Rementeria Perez | Uruguay | 24.55 |
| 65 | 10 | 7 | Teo Ernest Quee Lim | Singapore | 24.56 |
| 66 | 10 | 1 | Ronald Cowen | Bermuda | 24.57 |
| 67 | 10 | 3 | Mohamad Al-Naser | Kuwait | 24.64 |
| 68 | 7 | 8 | Kieran Locke | United States Virgin Islands | 24.67 |
| 68 | 9 | 3 | Brad Hamilton | Jamaica | 24.67 |
| 70 | 8 | 5 | Alessio Domenack | Peru | 24.68 |
| 71 | 11 | 8 | Ryan Pini | Papua New Guinea | 24.76 |
| 72 | 1 | 3 | Graham Smith | Bermuda | 24.87 |
| 73 | 9 | 6 | Youssef Hafdi | Morocco | 24.92 |
| 74 | 10 | 2 | Mikayel Koloyan | Armenia | 24.94 |
| 75 | 8 | 8 | Jose Lobo | Paraguay | 24.97 |
| 76 | 7 | 6 | Aleksandr Moseshvili | Georgia | 25.01 |
| 77 | 6 | 3 | Bradford Worrell | Saint Lucia | 25.03 |
| 78 | 2 | 2 | Aung Yan Lin | Myanmar | 25.07 |
| 79 | 8 | 6 | Connor H Keith | Guam | 25.08 |
| 80 | 7 | 1 | Tunui Cowan | Tahiti | 25.14 |
| 81 | 5 | 3 | Alexander Ray | Namibia | 25.17 |
| 82 | 6 | 4 | Yassir Abdalla | Bolivia | 25.22 |
| 82 | 10 | 4 | Vasilii Danilov | Kyrgyzstan | 25.22 |
| 84 | 9 | 1 | Madicke Mbengue | Senegal | 25.23 |
| 85 | 7 | 7 | Horacio Carcamo | Honduras | 25.24 |
| 86 | 8 | 2 | Joao Matias | Angola | 25.30 |
| 87 | 6 | 7 | Alain Brigion-Tobe | Cameroon | 25.36 |
| 88 | 6 | 5 | Julio Rivera | Honduras | 25.51 |
| 88 | 6 | 8 | Anas Hamadeh | Jordan | 25.51 |
| 88 | 8 | 1 | Soheil Ashtiani | Iran | 25.51 |
| 91 | 8 | 7 | Marcelo Alba | Bolivia | 25.56 |
| 92 | 7 | 4 | Romulo Pereira | Angola | 25.57 |
| 93 | 6 | 2 | Milinda Wickramasinghe | Sri Lanka | 25.66 |
| 94 | 7 | 2 | Pape Madiop Ndong | Senegal | 25.72 |
| 95 | 5 | 5 | Andrei Tamir | Mongolia | 25.80 |
| 96 | 6 | 6 | Tamatoa Ellacott | Tahiti | 25.99 |
| 97 | 4 | 2 | Andrey Molchanov | Turkmenistan | 26.05 |
| 97 | 5 | 2 | Earlando Mcrae | Guyana | 26.05 |
| 99 | 1 | 2 | Ganbold Urnultsaikhan | Mongolia | 26.09 |
| 100 | 5 | 6 | Chisela Kanchela | Zambia | 26.10 |
| 101 | 5 | 4 | Cole Shade | Cameroon | 26.22 |
| 102 | 7 | 5 | Remigio Chilanle | Mozambique | 26.31 |
| 103 | 5 | 7 | Steven Mangroo | Seychelles | 26.37 |
| 104 | 5 | 8 | Orkhan Samadov | Azerbaijan | 26.69 |
| 105 | 4 | 1 | Ian Taylor | Marshall Islands | 27.00 |
| 106 | 3 | 1 | Joshua Marfleet | Samoa | 27.30 |
| 107 | 3 | 4 | Kerson Hadley | Federated States of Micronesia | 27.34 |
| 108 | 4 | 4 | Issam Halawani | Palestine | 27.48 |
| 109 | 2 | 6 | Tony D Augustine | Federated States of Micronesia | 28.14 |
| 110 | 4 | 6 | Gilbert Kaburu | Uganda | 28.16 |
| 111 | 4 | 7 | Bounthanom Vongphachanh | Laos | 28.28 |
| 112 | 2 | 4 | Michael Taylor | Marshall Islands | 28.45 |
| 113 | 3 | 5 | Khaykeo Viengmany | Laos | 28.48 |
| 114 | 3 | 6 | Leonce Sekamana | Rwanda | 29.20 |
| 115 | 2 | 3 | Malique Williams | Netherlands Antilles | 30.73 |
| 116 | 3 | 3 | Modou Gaye | Mauritania | 30.97 |
| 117 | 3 | 7 | Hassan Shah | Maldives | 31.44 |
| – | 1 | 4 | Kyaw Moe Aung | Myanmar | DNS |
| – | 1 | 6 | Christian W Tamini | Burkina Faso | DNS |
| – | 2 | 5 | A Lamine Alhousseini | Niger | DNS |
| – | 2 | 7 | Romain A Aziz Belemtougri | Burkina Faso | DNS |
| – | 3 | 2 | Patrick Chea | Liberia | DNS |
| – | 3 | 8 | Kodjovi Mawuena Kowouvi | Togo | DNS |
| – | 4 | 3 | Gibrilla Bamba | Sierra Leone | DNS |
| – | 4 | 5 | Donnie Defreitas | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | DNS |
| – | 4 | 8 | Richilieu Jackson | Liberia | DNS |
| – | 5 | 1 | Ibrahim Maliki Amadou | Niger | DNS |
| – | 6 | 1 | Leonel Matonse | Mozambique | DNS |
| – | 8 | 3 | Islam Kazi Monirul | Bangladesh | DNS |
| – | 12 | 1 | Jakob Andkjær | Denmark | DNS |
| – | 13 | 1 | Tiago Venâncio | Portugal | DNS |
| – | 14 | 3 | Maran Cruz | Puerto Rico | DNS |
| – | 16 | 8 | Vyacheslav Shyrshov | Ukraine | DNS |

#### Swim-off

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | Andrey Kapralov | Russia | 22.29 | |
| 2 | 4 | Mark Veens | Netherlands | 22.51 | |

### Semifinals

| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| 1 | 2 | 6 | Roland Schoeman | South Africa | 22.09 |
| 2 | 2 | 4 | Bartosz Kizierowski | Poland | 22.14 |
| 2 | 2 | 5 | Salim Iles | Algeria | 22.14 |
| 4 | 1 | 1 | Eduard Lorente | Spain | 22.19 |
| 4 | 2 | 2 | Nick Brunelli | United States | 22.19 |
| 6 | 1 | 3 | Duje Draganja | Croatia | 22.20 |
| 6 | 1 | 8 | Andrey Kapralov | Russia | 22.20 |
| 8 | 1 | 4 | Frédérick Bousquet | France | 22.26 |
| 9 | 1 | 5 | Julien Sicot | France | 22.31 |
| 10 | 1 | 6 | Javier Noriega | Spain | 22.35 |
| 10 | 2 | 3 | Oleksandr Volynets | Ukraine | 22.35 |
| 12 | 2 | 8 | Stefan Nystrand | Sweden | 22.44 |
| 13 | 2 | 1 | Brett Hawke | Australia | 22.47 |
| 14 | 2 | 7 | Lukasz Gasior | Poland | 22.54 |
| 15 | 1 | 2 | Peter Mankoč | Slovenia | 22.61 |
| 16 | 1 | 7 | Yevgeny Lagunov | Russia | 22.72 |

### Final

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 4 | Roland Schoeman | South Africa | 21.69 | CR, AF |
| | 7 | Duje Draganja | Croatia | 21.89 | |
| | 5 | Bartosz Kizierowski | Poland | 21.94 | |
| 4 | 3 | Salim Iles | Algeria | 22.15 | |
| 5 | 1 | Andrey Kapralov | Russia | 22.16 | |
| 6 | 2 | Nick Brunelli | United States | 22.25 | |
| 7 | 8 | Frédérick Bousquet | France | 22.44 | |
| 8 | 6 | Eduard Lorente | Spain | 22.46 | |