The Men's 50 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held with the heats and the semifinals on 4 August 2015 and the final on 5 August 2015.

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

The following new records were set during this competition. Date Event Name Nationality Time Record 4 August Heat 7 Cameron van der Burgh 26.62 4 August Semifinal 1 Adam Peaty 26.42

Results Heats The heats were held at 09:30.

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 7 4 Cameron van der Burgh 26.62 Q, 2 9 4 Adam Peaty 26.68 Q 3 8 3 Damir Dugonjič 26.70 Q, NR 4 9 6 Kevin Cordes 26.93 Q 5 8 5 Felipe França Silva 27.10 Q 6 7 5 Čaba Silađi 27.19 Q 7 7 7 Glenn Snyders 27.23 Q 8 7 3 Felipe Lima 27.37 Q 9 8 6 Hendrik Feldwehr 27.41 Q 10 8 2 Giacomo Perez-Dortona 27.42 Q 11 8 1 Kirill Prigoda 27.43 Q 12 9 7 Peter Stevens 27.46 Q 13 8 0 Dmitriy Balandin 27.47 Q 13 9 5 Andrea Toniato 27.47 Q 15 6 3 Vladislav Mustafin 27.51 Q 15 7 6 Giedrius Titenis 27.51 Q 17 8 4 Christian Sprenger 27.54 18 9 3 Brendan McHugh 27.62 19 7 1 Shi Weijia 27.65 20 8 8 Richard Funk 27.71 21 9 2 Ioannis Karpouzlis 27.85 22 5 2 Laurent Carnol 27.94 NR 23 6 7 Jorge Murillo 27.99 23 7 8 Sami Aaltomaa 27.99 25 8 7 Alex Murphy 28.00 26 9 0 Martin Schweizer 28.02 27 6 9 Youssef El-Kamash 28.05 NR 28 7 2 Renato Prono 28.06 29 6 4 Carlos Claverie 28.12 30 9 1 Yasuhiro Koseki 28.13 31 8 9 Nikolajs Maskaļenko 28.15 32 6 1 Marcin Stolarski 28.22 33 9 9 Marek Botík 28.26 34 6 2 Édgar Crespo 28.29 35 6 0 Lachezar Shumkov 28.36 36 6 6 Demir Atasoy 28.38 37 5 5 Dávid Horváth 28.40 38 9 8 Petr Bartůněk 28.47 39 7 9 Martin Melconian 28.53 40 6 5 Sandeep Sejwal 28.57 41 5 9 Jordy Groters 28.64 42 5 8 Malick Fall 28.71 43 5 1 Dustin Tynes 28.74 43 7 0 Martti Aljand 28.74 45 4 3 James Lawson 28.85 NR 46 5 7 Khoo Chien Yin Lionel 28.87 47 4 4 Chao Man Hou 28.99 48 5 0 Markos Kalopsidiotis 29.08 49 5 6 Mauro Castillo 29.15 50 5 3 Abdelkader Afane 29.17 51 4 6 Adam Allouche 29.45 52 3 4 João Aguiar 29.92 53 4 5 Julian Harding 29.93 54 4 1 Nazih Mezayek 29.96 55 4 9 Alex Axiotis 30.24 56 4 2 Jesús Flores 30.33 57 4 7 Ramazan Taimatov 30.40 58 3 3 Corey Ollivierre 30.61 59 3 6 Lum Zhaveli 30.95 60 4 0 Serginni Marten 30.97 61 3 5 Yun Chung-il 31.00 62 3 1 Kaito Yanai 31.46 63 3 2 Delgerkhuu Myagmar 32.07 64 3 9 Joshua Tibatemwa 33.00 NR 65 3 7 Hemthon Ponloeu 33.09 66 3 8 Shane Cadogan 33.14 67 4 8 Dionisio Augustine 33.91 68 2 3 Moris Beale 34.87 69 2 6 Kiran Karki 34.94 70 2 4 Abdelmalik Muktar 35.89 71 2 1 Alassane Seydou 36.63 72 2 7 Ramziyor Khorkashov 37.20 73 2 2 Tano Atta 38.65 74 1 5 Omar Barry 41.33 75 1 4 Momodou Saine 41.49 76 2 5 Ahmed Bourhan 42.88 3 0 Christian Nassif DSQ 6 8 Joshua Hall DSQ 1 3 Alhassane Fofana DNS 2 8 Stephane Fokam DNS 5 4 Mubarak Al-Beshr DNS

Semifinals The semifinals were held on 4 August at 17:48.

Semifinal 1

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Adam Peaty 26.42 Q, 2 5 Kevin Cordes 26.76 Q, =AM 3 3 Čaba Silađi 27.19 Q4 8 Giedrius Titenis 27.20 Q, NR 5 6 Felipe Lima 27.50 5 7 Peter Stevens 27.50 7 2 Giacomo Perez-Dortona 27.51 8 1 Andrea Toniato 27.61

Semifinal 2

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Cameron van der Burgh 26.74 Q 2 3 Felipe França Silva 26.87 Q 3 5 Damir Dugonjič 26.92 Q 4 6 Glenn Snyders 27.17 Q 5 1 Dmitriy Balandin 27.24 AS 6 2 Hendrik Feldwehr 27.31 7 7 Kirill Prigoda 27.47 8 8 Vladislav Mustafin 27.79

Final The final was held at 18:10.

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Adam Peaty 26.51 5 Cameron van der Burgh 26.66 3 Kevin Cordes 26.86 4 6 Felipe França Silva 26.87 5 2 Damir Dugonjič 27.23 5 8 Giedrius Titenis 27.23 7 7 Glenn Snyders 27.36 8 1 Čaba Silađi 27.45

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