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.
Results Heats The heats were started on 18 December at 10:26.Heats results
Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 10 4 Ben Proud 20.91 Q 2 11 5 Thom de Boer 20.94 Q 3 10 8 Ryan Held 21.01 Q 3 11 0 Joshua Liendo 21.01 Q, NR 5 10 5 Lorenzo Zazzeri 21.08 Q 6 11 8 Leonardo Deplano 21.33 Q 7 9 9 Ian Ho 21.36 Q, NR 8 10 3 Jesse Puts 21.39 Q 9 7 4 Matej Duša 21.44 Q 9 8 3 Nicholas Lia 21.44 Q, NR 9 9 2 Daniel Zaitsev 21.44 Q 9 10 6 Maxime Grousset 21.44 Q 13 9 4 Szebasztián Szabó 21.46 Q 14 11 7 Daniil Markov Russian Swimming Federation 21.50 Q 15 11 6 Michael Andrew 21.52 Q 16 8 9 Abdelrahman Sameh 21.53 Q 17 11 4 Vladimir Morozov Russian Swimming Federation 21.54 18 9 6 Emre Sakçı 21.55 19 9 3 Vladyslav Bukhov 21.59 20 10 7 Calum Bain 21.61 21 9 5 Paweł Juraszek 21.68 22 10 2 Jasper Aerents 21.70 23 8 2 Miguel Nascimento 21.72 24 11 3 Simonas Bilis 21.74 25 8 4 Wang Changhao 21.78 25 8 7 Zhang Zhoujian 21.78 27 10 9 Nikola Miljenić 21.79 28 7 2 Mikel Schreuders 21.80 NR 29 10 0 Bradley Tandy 21.87 30 7 8 Aleksey Tarasenko 21.91 NR 31 11 2 Yuri Kisil 21.93 32 9 7 Oussama Sahnoune 21.96 33 9 8 Gabriel Santos 21.98 34 9 1 Emir Muratović 22.00 35 8 1 Kaloyan Bratanov 22.05 35 10 1 Guido Buscaglia 22.05 37 11 1 Julien Henx 22.08 38 9 0 Alberto Mestre 22.16 39 8 5 Thomas Hallock 22.23 40 7 0 Nikolas Antoniou 22.33 NR 41 7 1 Lamar Taylor 22.38 42 8 6 Alexandr Varakin 22.40 43 7 6 Louis Ortiz 22.41 44 7 9 George Stoica-Constantin 22.43 45 8 8 Sina Gholampour 22.61 46 8 0 Mohammed Bedour 22.72 47 7 5 Souhail Hamouchane 22.81 48 7 3 Alaa Masoo FINA Refugee Team 22.87 49 6 5 Adama Niane 22.90 50 6 8 Nixon Hernández 23.22 51 6 6 Sidrell Williams 23.23 52 6 7 José Quintanilla 23.42 53 6 1 Gregory Anodin 23.46 54 6 3 Vladimir Mamikonyan 23.54 55 6 4 Tendo Mukalazi 23.56 56 6 0 Kerry Ollivierre 23.58 57 5 5 Alassane Seydou 23.61 58 6 9 Miguel Mena 23.79 59 1 3 Julio Rodríguez 23.85 60 1 5 Juhn Tenorio 23.97 61 4 4 Alexander Shah 24.07 62 5 6 Christian Nikles 24.11 63 5 2 Belly-Cresus Ganira 24.22 64 4 2 Yousef Al-Khulaifi 24.23 65 5 3 Dalvi Elezi 24.24 65 5 4 Raphael Grand'Pierre 24.24 67 2 0 Md Asif Reza 24.28 68 5 1 Hilal Hemed Hilal 24.38 69 1 6 Eltonte Leonard 24.52 70 5 8 Andrew Fowler 24.58 71 5 0 Eloi Maniraguha 24.60 72 4 6 Martin Muja 24.61 73 5 7 Jefferson Kpanou 24.65 74 2 5 Ahmed Al-Hasani 24.74 75 5 9 Vasilije Andrić 24.90 76 2 3 Mahmoud Abu Gharbieh 24.95 77 1 4 Mohamed Aan Hussain 25.00 77 2 2 Terrel Monplaisir 25.00 79 4 3 Phansovannarun Montross 25.28 NR 80 2 9 Matt Savitz 25.38 81 2 8 Rohan Shearer 25.47 82 4 5 Troy Pina 25.61 83 3 4 Sangay Tenzin 26.29 84 3 3 Mamadou Bah 26.48 85 4 8 Edgar Iro 26.52 86 2 7 Yann Douma 26.73 87 4 7 Saddam Ramziyorzoda 26.81 88 3 5 Shawn Dingilius-Wallace 27.10 88 4 0 Houssein Gaber Ibrahim 27.10 90 4 1 Joshua Wyse 27.12 91 3 7 Phillip Kinono 27.78 92 3 2 Achala Gekabel 27.98 93 3 8 Hakim Youssouf 28.05 94 3 1 Muhammad Moosa 28.16 95 2 1 Ebrahim Al-Maleki 28.32 96 3 0 Omar Darboe 28.59 97 3 6 Adam Mpali 28.71 98 1 7 Jolanio Guterres 32.33 99 2 4 Terence Tengue 34.27 1 2 Higinio Ndong Obama 2 6 Loic Leenaerts 3 9 Yves Munyu Kupiata 4 9 Souleymane Napare 6 2 Danilo Rosafio 7 7 Colins Ebingha 11 9 Mikkel Lee
Semifinals The semifinals were started on 18 December at 18:38.Semifinals results Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 2 5 Ryan Held 20.81 Q 2 1 5 Joshua Liendo 20.88 Q, NR 3 2 4 Ben Proud 20.95 Q 4 1 4 Thom de Boer 20.98 Q 5 2 3 Lorenzo Zazzeri 21.02 Q 6 2 1 Szebasztián Szabó 21.06 Q 7 1 7 Maxime Grousset 21.16 Q 8 2 6 Ian Ho 21.22 Q, NR 9 1 3 Leonardo Deplano 21.27 10 1 1 Daniil Markov Russian Swimming Federation 21.33 11 2 2 Matej Duša 21.38 NR 11 2 7 Daniel Zaitsev 21.38 NR 13 1 6 Jesse Puts 21.41 14 1 8 Abdelrahman Sameh 21.43 15 1 2 Nicholas Lia 21.44 =NR 16 2 8 Michael Andrew 21.63
Final The final was held on 19 December at 19:06.Final results
Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 3 Ben Proud 20.45 4 Ryan Held 20.70 5 Joshua Liendo 20.76 NR 4 2 Lorenzo Zazzeri 20.94 5 6 Thom de Boer 21.07 6 1 Maxime Grousset 21.08 7 7 Szebasztián Szabó 21.26 8 8 Ian Ho 21.27
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