The Men's 50 metre butterfly competition of the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 14 and 15 December 2018 at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center.

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows. Name Nation Time Location DateWorld recordNicholas Santos21.75Budapest6 October 2018Championship recordChad le Clos21.95Doha6 December 2014

The following new records were set during this competition: Date Event Name Nation Time Record 16 December Final Nicholas Santos 21.81 CR

Results Heats The heats were started at 9:52.Heats results Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 11 4 Nicholas Santos 22.41 Q 2 9 3 Dylan Carter 22.53 Q 3 11 6 Marius Kusch 22.59 Q 4 10 4 Chad le Clos 22.67 Q 5 10 3 Takaya Yasue 22.78 Q 6 9 6 Mikhail Vekovishchev 22.79 Q 6 10 2 Ryan Coetzee 22.79 Q 8 10 5 Yauhen Tsurkin 22.80 Q 9 9 5 Takeshi Kawamoto 22.83 Q 10 9 1 Mehdy Metella 22.86 Q 11 11 5 Michael Andrew 22.93 Q 12 11 3 Umitcan Gures 22.96 Q 13 10 1 Matteo Rivolta 23.02 Q 13 10 9 Niksa Stojkovski 23.02 Q 15 10 7 Piero Codia 23.03 Q 16 9 7 Matheus Santana 23.08 16 11 7 Riku Pöytäkivi 23.08 18 10 6 Deividas Margevičius 23.10 19 11 0 Roman Shevliakov 23.13 20 9 0 Hryhory Pekarski 23.14 20 11 1 Daniel Zaitsev 23.14 22 11 8 Konrad Czerniak 23.19 23 9 2 Li Zhuhao 23.21 24 8 4 Kristian Golomeev 23.24 25 11 9 Damian Wierling 23.26 26 7 7 Adilbek Mussin 23.35 26 11 2 Jesse Puts 23.35 28 8 2 Ben Hockin 23.37 29 8 3 Cameron Jones 23.40 30 7 2 Antani Ivanov 23.42 31 9 8 Wang Peng 23.48 32 8 5 Catalin Ungur 23.59 33 8 6 Julien Henx 23.63 34 9 9 Berk Ozkul 23.74 35 8 0 Adam Halas 23.76 36 8 1 Heiko Gigler 23.77 37 7 0 Alexandre Perreault 23.80 38 7 4 Manuel Leuthard 23.89 39 6 3 Esnaider Reales 23.96 40 7 5 Sajan Prakash 23.97 41 6 5 Chao Man Hou 24.04 42 6 7 Oliver Elliot 24.06 43 7 3 Adi Mešetović 24.07 44 8 8 Christoffer Carlsen 24.17 45 7 8 Ralph Goveia 24.18 45 10 0 Andriy Khloptsov 24.18 47 6 4 Ali Khalafalla 24.22 47 8 7 Cherantha de Silva 24.22 49 8 9 Andrew James Digby 24.23 50 6 9 Abbas Qali 24.43 51 7 9 Anthony Barbar 24.48 52 2 4 Amini Fonua 24.50 NR 53 6 6 Artur Barseghyan 24.55 NR 54 2 1 Philip Adejumo 24.58 NR 54 6 8 N'Nhyn Fernander 24.58 56 5 4 Bryan Alvaréz 24.73 57 6 0 Rafael Barreto 24.74 57 6 1 Noah Al-Khulaifi 24.74 59 6 2 Lin Chieh-liang 24.77 60 2 0 Jose Quintanilla 24.86 61 5 5 Yousif Bu-Arish 25.10 62 5 2 Bernat Lomero 25.17 NR 63 5 3 Vladislav Shuliko 25.20 NR 64 2 5 Md Mahamudun Nobi Nahid 25.25 65 5 7 Malcolm Richardson 25.49 66 5 0 Jayhan Odlum-Smith 25.66 67 2 8 Mohammed Isam Sadeq Kazan 25.95 68 4 3 Nabeel Hatoum 26.10 68 4 6 R.A.B Mohamed 26.10 70 1 6 Ali Alkaabi 26.16 71 4 2 Collins Saliboko 26.19 72 5 8 Davidson Vincent 26.38 NR 73 5 9 Tryfonas Hadjichristoforou 26.45 74 4 4 Isiaka Irankunda 26.46 75 4 5 Dajenel Williams 26.52 76 4 7 Troy Pina 26.73 77 2 3 A Ahmed Ali Yusuf 26.85 78 2 9 Duran Alfonso 27.02 79 1 2 Nabil Ahmed Saleh 27.54 80 4 1 P.Y.D Poku-Dwumoh 27.68 81 2 2 Carel Irakoze 27.72 82 2 6 Fakhriddin Madkamov 27.73 83 3 7 Abobakr Abass 27.74 84 3 0 Anubhav Subba 27.95 85 3 3 Antonio Andrew Rodrigues 28.21 86 4 8 Simanga Dlamini 28.54 87 1 5 Ratha Phin 28.85 88 3 6 Achala Gekabel 29.22 89 4 9 Nelson Batallones 29.58 90 3 1 Albachir Mouctar 29.88 91 4 0 Slava Sihannouvong 29.99 92 3 8 Jack Parlee 30.21 93 3 5 Jefferson Kpanou 30.79 94 3 9 Joshua Wyse 31.59 95 3 4 Daniel Ranis 31.73 96 2 7 Ian Salaka 32.62 97 1 4 Jessy Misak 33.19 98 1 3 H.T.H. Baidar 34.20 5 6 Thibaut Danho DNS 7 1 Bradlee Ashby DNS 7 6 Shane Ryan DNS 10 8 Caeleb Dressel DNS 3 2 Houssein Ibrahim DSQ 5 1 Ljupcho Angelovski DSQ

Swim-off The swim-off was held on 14 December at 11:07.Swim-off results Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 Riku Pöytäkivi 22.71 Q 2 4 Matheus Santana 23.18

Semifinals The semifinals were held at 19:33.Semifinals results

Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 Chad le Clos 22.34 Q 2 3 Mikhail Vekovishchev 22.56 Q 3 4 Dylan Carter 22.62 Q 4 7 Umitcan Gures 22.82 5 2 Mehdy Metella 22.83 6 6 Yauhen Tsurkin 22.84 7 8 Riku Pöytäkivi 22.94 8 1 Niksa Stojkovski 23.19

Semifinal 2 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Nicholas Santos 21.96 Q 2 5 Marius Kusch 22.44 Q 3 3 Takaya Yasue 22.52 Q 4 2 Takeshi Kawamoto 22.74 Q 5 6 Ryan Coetzee 22.75 Q 6 8 Piero Codia 22.76 NR 7 1 Matteo Rivolta 22.79 8 7 Michael Andrew 22.81

Final The final was held at 19:41.Final results

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Nicholas Santos 21.81 CR 5 Chad le Clos 21.97 7 Dylan Carter 22.38 NR 4 3 Marius Kusch 22.40 5 1 Takeshi Kawamoto 22.50 6 2 Mikhail Vekovishchev 22.60 6 6 Takaya Yasue 22.60 8 8 Ryan Coetzee 22.88

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