The men's 100 metre butterfly event at the 2024 World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25 m) was held from 13 to 14 December 2024 at the Duna Arena in Budapest, Hungary.
Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows:
The following record was established during the competition: Date Round Name Nationality Time Record 14 December Final Noè Ponti 47.71
Background Switzerland’s Noè Ponti entered the event as the top seed and third-fastest performer in history, having set a personal best of 48.40 during the World Cup. The Netherlands’ Nyls Korstanje followed, having won silver behind Ponti at each of the World Cup stops and set a personal best of 48.99. South Africa’s Chad le Clos, the 2022 world champion and former world record holder, posted 49.50 in Singapore but placed fifth behind Singapore’s Teong Tzen Wei (49.37) and Australia’s Matthew Temple (49.49). France’s Maxime Grousset, the 2023 world long-course champion, entered with a 48.94 from the European Championships and was seeded third. Russian athletes Andrei Minakov (49.71) and Roman Shevliakov (49.81) were also in the top eight, competing as neutral athletes. Canada’s Ilya Kharun, the 2022 runner-up and Olympic bronze medallist, was seeded 16th with a long-course time of 50.45 but was expected to improve significantly. The USA’s Dare Rose, also entered with an LCM time, was another potential threat despite recent inconsistency.
SwimSwam predicted Ponti would win, Kharun would take second, and Korstanje would take third.
Results Heats The heats were started on 13 December at 10:26. Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 8 7 Ilya Kharun 49.17 Q 2 7 4 Maxime Grousset 49.22 Q 3 8 4 Noè Ponti 49.35 Q 4 8 8 Hubert Kós 49.36 Q 5 5 1 Youssef Ramadan 49.37 Q, NR 6 7 5 Matthew Temple 49.45 Q 7 7 7 Dare Rose 49.55 Q 8 8 3 Andrey Minakov Neutral Athletes B 49.58 Q 9 7 6 Simone Stefanì 49.81 Q 10 7 3 Roman Shevliakov Neutral Athletes B 49.97 Q 11 7 1 Simon Bucher 49.98 Q 12 6 5 Chad le Clos 50.04 Q 13 6 6 Clément Secchi 50.12 Q 13 8 2 Takaya Yasue 50.12 Q 15 6 2 Michele Busa 50.15 Q 15 8 5 Teong Tzen Wei 50.15 Q 17 6 4 Nyls Korstanje 50.23 R 18 6 3 Jacob Peters 50.30 R 19 6 1 Đurđe Matić 50.34 20 8 0 Zach Harting 50.36 21 6 7 Jakub Majerski 50.42 22 5 4 Adilbek Mussin 50.55 NR 22 7 0 Finlay Knox 50.55 24 6 8 Nicolas Albiero 50.63 25 4 3 Jorge Otaiza 50.67 26 6 9 Joshua Gammon 50.68 27 5 3 Adrian Jaśkiewicz 50.69 28 8 1 Grigori Pekarski Neutral Athletes A 50.74 29 7 2 Ruard van Renen 50.91 30 7 8 Maro Miknić 51.02 31 7 9 Kaii Winkler 51.32 32 5 6 Denis Popescu 51.44 33 8 6 Daniel Gracík 51.45 34 5 5 Maxim Skazobtsov 51.50 34 8 9 Mario Mollá 51.50 36 5 7 Alex Ahtiainen 51.60 37 5 8 Li Taiyu 51.61 38 5 9 Arsenii Kovalov 51.64 39 6 0 Emre Gürdenli 52.21 40 4 5 Bryan Leong Xin Ren 52.42 41 5 0 Ralph Koo 52.53 42 4 7 Diego Balbi 52.80 43 4 2 Kenan Dračić 52.83 NR 44 3 5 Steven Aimable 52.91 NR 45 3 3 Samuel Košťál 53.06 46 3 0 Colins Obi Ebingha 53.14 47 4 8 Christopher Elson 53.16 48 3 4 Benjamín Schnapp 53.31 NR 49 4 6 Miloš Milenković 53.36 50 4 9 Abeku Jackson 53.38 51 4 4 Birnir Freyr Hálfdánarson 53.41 52 4 1 Elijah Daley 53.52 NR 53 3 6 Christian Jerome 54.24 54 3 7 Ethan Stubbs-Green 54.84 55 3 9 Nathaniel Thomas 54.93 56 3 8 Jovan Jankovski 55.08 57 3 2 Tameea El-Hamayda 55.18 58 2 4 Collins Saliboko 55.45 59 2 9 Hashim Haba 55.49 60 3 1 Mohamad Eyad Masoud 55.89 61 2 5 Jefferson Kpanou 56.33 62 1 3 Daniyal Hatim 56.69 NR 63 1 5 Salem Sabt 56.78 64 2 0 Jayden Loran 57.09 65 2 1 Mskm Al-Kulaibi 58.43 NR 66 2 7 Soud Alenezi 58.49 67 2 3 Jaden Francis 59.47 68 2 6 Kinley Lhendup 59.79 69 2 2 Mohamed Rihan Shiham 59.94 70 1 4 Jonathan Bardales Essien 71 2 8 Charlie Gibbons 4 0 Isak Brisenfeldt 5 2 Max McCusker
Semifinals The semifinals were started on 13 December at 18:35. Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 2 5 Noè Ponti 48.89 Q 2 1 4 Maxime Grousset 48.99 Q 3 1 3 Matthew Temple 49.01 Q 4 2 8 Michele Busa 49.11 Q 5 2 6 Dare Rose 49.14 Q 6 1 6 Andrey Minakov Neutral Athletes B 49.19 Q 7 2 2 Simone Stefanì 49.28 Q 8 2 7 Simon Bucher 49.29 Q 9 2 3 Youssef Ramadan 49.31 R, NR 10 2 4 Ilya Kharun 49.39 R 11 1 7 Chad le Clos 49.41 12 1 5 Hubert Kós 49.47 13 1 8 Teong Tzen Wei 49.57 14 1 1 Takaya Yasue 50.01 15 1 2 Roman Shevliakov Neutral Athletes B 50.12 16 2 1 Clément Secchi 50.13
Final The final was held on 14 December at 17:40.
Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Noè Ponti 47.71 5 Maxime Grousset 48.57 NR 3 Matthew Temple 48.71 4 6 Michele Busa 49.08 5 8 Simon Bucher 49.19 6 7 Andrey Minakov Neutral Athletes B 49.21 7 1 Simone Stefanì 49.29 8 2 Dare Rose 49.37
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