The men's 50 metre butterfly event at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships took place 28 July. The heats and semifinals took place 27 July, with the final being held on 28 July.

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows: World record 23.60 Sydney, Australia 14 May 2000Championship recordNew event The following record was established during the competition: DateRoundNameNationTimeRecord 27 July Heat 10 Geoff Huegill 23.71 CR 27 July Semifinal 2 Geoff Huegill 23.44 WR

Results

Heats

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Geoff Huegill 23.71 Q, CR 2 Jere Hård 23.91 Q 3 Roland Schoeman 23.96 Q 4 Mark Foster 24.02 Q 5 Lars Frölander 24.03 Q 6 Ewout Holst 24.08 Q 7 Vladislav Kulikov 24.14 Q 8 Ian Crocker 24.27 Q 9 Joris Keizer   24.28 Q 10 Thomas Rupprath 24.31 Q 11 Zsolt Gáspár   24.36 Q 12 Ravil Nachaev   24.38 Q 13 Michael Klim   24.39 Q 14 Pablo Martín Abal   24.40 Q 15 Tero Välimaa 24.42 Q 16 Andriy Serdinov   24.45 QSO 16 Oswaldo Quevedo   24.45 QSO 18 Duje Draganja   24.47 19 Igor Marchenko   24.50 20 Javier Noriega   24.53 21 Daniel Jones   24.55 22 Mike Mintenko   24.57 22 Miloš Milošević   24.57 24 Camilo Becerra   24.58 25 Fabian Friedrich   24.59 26 Ryo Takayasu   24.64 27 Milorad Čavić   24.79 28 Takashi Yamamoto   24.83 28 Dzmitri Koshel   24.83 28 Nicholas Santos   24.83 31 Jorge Luis Ulibarri   24.93 32 Petter Sjodal 24.95 33 Jesús González   24.96 34 Fernando Alves   25.05 35 Kim Min-Suk   25.09 36 Simão Morgado   25.18 37 Lorenz Liechti   25.19 38 Luc Decker   25.21 39 Rolandas Gimbutis   25.27 40 Danil Haustov   25.34 41 Georgi Palazov   25.58 42 Aleksandar Miladinovski   25.77 43 Cesar Uribe   25.84 44 Ismael Ortiz   26.02 45 Zoran Lazarevski   26.08 46 Carl Probert   26.09 47 Ying Wah Leslie Kwok   26.13 48 Wu Nien-Pin   26.15 49 Dean Kent   26.17 50 Gustavo Barrios   26.20 50 Musa Bakare   26.20 52 Wing Cheung Victor Wong   26.58 53 Christophe Lim Wen Ying   26.60 54 Gregory Arkhurst   26.62 55 Yu Lung Lubrey Lim   26.70 56 Kenny Roberts   26.78 57 Nicholas Diaper   26.83 58 Saad Khalloqi   26.85 59 Cliff Gittens   26.86 60 Benjamin Gan   26.88 61 Keng Ip Lou   27.12 62 Davy Bisslik   27.17 63 Ahmed Ouattara Zie   27.19 64 Hamid Nassir   27.41 65 Chen Jui-Chen   27.47 66 Naji Ferguson   27.49 67 Gael Souci   27.55 68 Sergio Rafael De Leon Alfaro 27.76 69 Zaid Saeed   27.78 70 João Aguiar 27.90 71 Bertrand Bristol   27.97 72 Daniel Kang   28.00 73 Mohammad Nazeri   28.19 74 Dean Palacios 28.61 75 Kenneth Maronie   28.69 76 Rainui Teriipaia 28.90 77 Seung Gin Lee 28.99 78 Nuno Miguel Rola   29.44 79 Kin-Vincent Duenas   29.74 80 Rony Bakale   31.46 – Derya Buyukuncu   DNS – Eithan Urbach   DNS – Mehdi Addadi   DNS – Mamoon Ahmad   DNS – Peter Mankoc   DNS – Khuwiater Saeed Had Al Dhaheri   DNS

Swim-off

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Andriy Serdinov   24.47 Q 2 Oswaldo Quevedo   24.54

Semifinals

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Geoff Huegill 23.44 Q, WR 2 Mark Foster 23.66 Q 3 Roland Schoeman 23.68 Q 4 Lars Frölander 23.73 Q 5 Ewout Holst 23.91 Q 6 Tero Välimaa 23.93 Q 7 Ian Crocker 23.97 Q 8 Thomas Rupprath 24.01 Q 9 Jere Hård 24.04 10 Vladislav Kulikov 24.18 11 Michael Klim   24.23 12 Pablo Martín Abal   24.26 13 Andriy Serdinov   24.31 14 Ravil Nachaev   24.40 14 Joris Keizer   24.40 16 Zsolt Gáspár   24.45

Final

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Geoff Huegill 23.50 Lars Frölander 23.57 Mark Foster 23.62 4 Roland Schoeman 23.76 5 Ian Crocker 23.85 6 Ewout Holst 23.99 7 Tero Välimaa 24.10 8 Thomas Rupprath 24.16

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