The Men's 50 metre freestyle competition of the 2018 European Aquatics Championships was held on 8 and 9 August 2018.ScheduleStart list

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows. Name Nation Time Location DateWorld recordCésar Cielo20.91São Paulo18 December 2009European recordFrédérick Bousquet20.94Montpellier26 April 2009Championship recordFlorent Manaudou21.32Berlin24 August 2014

The following new records were set during this competition. Date Event Name Nationality Time Record 8 August Semifinal Ben Proud 21.11 CR

Results Heats The heats were held on 8 August at 09:12.Heats results

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 7 5 Kristian Golomeev21.68 Q 1 8 4 Ben Proud21.68 Q 3 6 5 Andrea Vergani21.72 Q 4 7 4 Paweł Juraszek21.81 Q 5 6 4 Vladimir Morozov21.85 Q 6 6 6 Andriy Govorov21.95 Q 7 8 3 Jesse Puts22.03 Q 8 8 6 Luca Dotto22.15 Q 9 8 5 Ari-Pekka Liukkonen22.19 Q 10 6 2 Thomas Fannon22.26 Q 11 8 7 Sergey Fesikov22.31 Q 12 5 5 Alessandro Miressi22.34 13 5 7 Andrej Barna22.36 Q 13 8 1 Yonel Govindin22.36 Q 15 6 0 Simonas Bilis22.42 Q 16 7 2 Lorenzo Zazzeri22.47 17 7 1 Maxime Grousset22.48 Q 18 8 2 David Cumberlidge22.49 19 5 9 Bruno Blašković22.50 Q 20 8 8 Meiron Cheruti22.51 21 7 9 Niksa Stojkovski22.52 22 7 7 Ivan Kuzmenko22.64 23 6 7 Sergii Shevtsov22.67 24 6 3 Paweł Sendyk22.68 25 6 8 Nyls Korstanje22.74 26 5 6 Nándor Németh22.77 27 3 4 Péter Holoda22.78 27 7 8 Björn Seeliger22.78 29 8 9 Odyssefs Meladinis22.81 30 5 0 Christoffer Carlsen22.82 31 5 2 Mislav Sever22.86 32 4 5 Isak Eliasson22.89 33 5 4 Anton Latkin22.95 34 4 4 Bernhard Reitshammer22.97 35 5 3 Anton Herrala 23.00 36 5 1 Nikola Aćin23.02 37 4 8 Tobias Bjerg23.06 38 4 2 Yalım Acımış23.08 39 6 9 Miguel Nascimento23.10 40 7 0 Calum Bain23.11 40 4 9 George-Adrian Raţiu23.11 42 4 0 Daniel Zaitsev23.12 43 4 6 Julien Henx23.17 44 8 0 Andrey Zhilkin23.18 45 4 7 Emir Muratović23.19 45 3 7 Alexander Trampitsch23.19 47 4 3 Nikola Miljenić23.21 47 3 6 Predrag Miloš23.21 49 2 2 Karl Luht23.22 50 4 1 Viktar Krasochka23.24 51 3 1 Robert Powell23.35 52 2 5 İskender Başlakov23.40 53 3 9 Nikita Tsernosev23.52 54 2 4 Artur Barseghyan23.57 55 2 7 Vahan Mkhitaryan23.59 56 3 3 Tomas Sungaila23.65 57 2 6 Georgia Biganishvili23.74 58 3 8 Kemal Arda Gürdal23.76 59 3 0 Matthew Zammit23.84 60 1 3 Vladimir Mamikonyan23.87 61 2 3 Marko-Matteus Langel24.10 62 2 1 Matthew Galea24.60 63 2 0 Cristian Santi25.64 64 2 8 Gianluca Pasolini25.69 65 1 5 Ruben Gharibyan26.07 66 1 4 Dren Ukimeraj26.14 3 2 Richárd Bohus 5 8 Ziv Kalontarov 6 1 Pieter Timmers 7 3 Konrad Czerniak 7 6 Damian Wierling

Semifinals The semifinals were held on 8 August at 17:04.Semifinals results

Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Ben Proud 21.11 Q, CR, NR 2 5 Paweł Juraszek 21.67 Q 3 1 Simonas Bilis 22.04 3 3 Andriy Govorov 22.04 5 8 Bruno Blašković 22.06 5 6 Luca Dotto 22.06 7 2 Thomas Fannon 22.14 8 7 Yonel Govindin 22.18

Semifinal 2 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 Andrea Vergani 21.37 Q, NR 2 3 Vladimir Morozov 21.44 Q, =NR 3 4 Kristian Golomeev 21.52 Q, NR 4 2 Ari-Pekka Liukkonen 21.96 Q 5 6 Jesse Puts 22.02 Q 6 7 Sergey Fesikov 22.15 7 1 Andrej Barna 22.27 8 8 Maxime Grousset 22.27

Swim-off The swim-off was held on 8 August at 18:40.Swim-off results

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Simonas Bilis 21.70 Q, NR 2 5 Andriy Govorov 21.74

Final The final was held on 9 August at 16:50.Final results

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Ben Proud 21.34 6 Kristian Golomeev 21.44 NR 5 Andrea Vergani 21.68 4 3 Vladimir Morozov 21.74 5 8 Simonas Bilis 21.97 6 1 Jesse Puts 22.08 7 7 Ari-Pekka Liukkonen 22.11 8 2 Paweł Juraszek 22.14

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