The Men's 50 metre butterfly competition at the 2017 World Championships was held on 23 and 24 July 2017.Schedule Start list

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

Results Heats The heats were held on 23 July at 10:33.Heats results Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 8 4 Andriy Govorov 22.92 Q 2 8 5 Caeleb Dressel 22.97 Q 3 8 7 Joseph Schooling 23.05 Q, AS 4 7 4 Ben Proud 23.11 Q 5 9 4 Nicholas Santos 23.24 Q 6 9 5 Henrique Martins 23.34 Q 7 7 3 Tim Phillips 23.38 Q 8 9 3 László Cseh 23.41 Q 9 9 6 Konrad Czerniak 23.42 Q 10 7 2 Evgeny Sedov 23.49 Q 11 7 6 Piero Codia 23.50 Q 12 8 8 Sebastian Sabo 23.51 Q 13 9 1 Mathys Goosen 23.52 Q, NR 14 9 2 Andriy Khloptsov 23.54 Q 15 8 6 Yauhen Tsurkin 23.55 Q 16 8 2 Yahor Dodaleu 23.66 Q 17 7 5 Oleg Kostin 23.68 18 5 4 Luis Martínez 23.71 19 6 6 Dylan Carter 23.73 20 7 1 Kristian Golomeev 23.85 21 8 3 Li Zhuhao 23.86 22 7 7 Shi Yang 23.91 22 9 7 Riku Poytäkivi 23.91 24 6 5 Benjamin Hockin 23.93 25 9 0 Daniel Zaitsev 23.94 26 7 0 Santiago Grassi 23.99 27 7 9 Marcus Schlesinger 24.00 28 7 8 Damian Wierling 24.09 28 9 9 Jan Šefl 24.09 30 8 1 Tadas Duškinas 24.10 31 8 0 Adilbek Mussin 24.13 32 8 9 Douglas Erasmus 24.17 33 9 8 David Morgan 24.19 34 6 3 Artyom Kozlyuk 24.20 35 6 1 Omar Eissa 24.43 36 6 4 Yang Jung-doo 24.45 37 5 5 Josiah Binnema 24.50 38 6 9 Antani Ivanov 24.54 39 6 8 Ralph Goveia 24.56 40 5 2 Adi Mešetović 24.58 41 6 7 Justin Plaschka 24.63 41 6 0 Nikolajs Maskaļenko 24.63 43 6 2 Glenn Victor Sutanto 24.65 44 5 8 Kaan Ayar 24.73 45 5 3 Pavel Izbisciuc 24.80 46 4 4 Mehdi Ansari 25.02 47 5 1 Bryan Alvaréz 25.06 48 2 6 Issa Mohamed 25.12 49 5 9 Cherantha de Silva 25.15 50 5 6 Anthony Barbar 25.17 51 4 5 N'Nhyn Fernander 25.20 52 5 7 Oliver Elliot 25.23 53 4 3 Boško Radulović 25.24 54 4 6 José Alberto Quintanilla 25.35 55 5 0 Nazim Belkhodja 25.43 56 1 7 Thibaut Danho 25.74 57 4 1 Stefano Mitchell 25.98 58 4 7 Narang Pornsiriporn 25.99 59 2 4 Yellow Yeiyah 26.11 60 3 7 Abdullah Al-Doori 26.28 61 2 2 Daniel Francisco 26.33 62 2 8 Denilson da Costa 26.35 63 4 8 Hilal Hemed Hilal 26.40 64 4 0 Vahan Mkhitaryan 26.44 65 4 9 George Jabbour 26.69 66 3 8 Myagmaryn Delgerkhüü 26.95 67 3 4 Jayhan Odlum-Smith 26.99 68 3 0 Adam Moncherry 27.23 69 3 9 Thol Thoeun 27.45 70 3 5 Lum Zhaveli 27.47 71 1 4 Joseph Denobrega 27.50 72 1 3 Belly-Cresus Ganira 27.52 73 3 6 Kaleo Kihleng 27.98 74 1 0 Anubhav Subba 28.26 75 3 1 Ismah Serunjoji 28.57 76 1 5 Albachir Mouctar 29.63 77 2 5 Slava Sihanouvong 29.81 78 1 6 Papy Dossous 30.08 79 2 1 Athoumane Solihi 30.53 80 2 7 Andrew Lapuka 30.59 81 1 2 Osman Kamara 33.70 1 1 Momodou Saine 1 8 Abeiku Jackson 2 3 Ruslan Nazarov 2 0 Mohammad Rajabi 2 9 Alpha Diallo 3 3 Yaaqoub Al-Saadi 3 2 Dillon Gooding 4 2 Oumar Toure

Semifinals The semifinals were held on 23 July at 17:53.Semifinals results

Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Caeleb Dressel 22.76 Q, NR 2 5 Ben Proud 22.92 Q 3 3 Henrique Martins 23.13 Q 4 1 Andriy Khloptsov 23.31 Q, WJ 5 6 László Cseh 23.51 6 7 Sebastian Sabo 23.54 7 8 Yahor Dodaleu 23.71 8 2 Evgeny Sedov 23.72

Semifinal 2 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Andriy Govorov 22.77 Q 2 3 Nicholas Santos 22.84 Q 3 5 Joseph Schooling 22.93 Q, AS 4 6 Tim Phillips 23.25 Q 5 2 Konrad Czerniak 23.37 6 7 Piero Codia 23.41 7 1 Mathys Goosen 23.52 =NR 8 8 Yauhen Tsurkin 23.62

Final The final was held on 24 July at 18:17.Final results

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 6 Ben Proud 22.75 NR 3 Nicholas Santos 22.79 5 Andriy Govorov 22.84 4 4 Caeleb Dressel 22.89 5 2 Joseph Schooling 22.95 6 7 Henrique Martins 23.14 7 8 Andriy Khloptsov 23.31 8 1 Tim Phillips 23.38

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