The men's 50 metre freestyle event at the 2024 World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25 m) was held from 14 to 15 December 2024 at the Duna Arena in Budapest, Hungary.
Background Several of the world leading swimmers in this event chose not to attend, possibly due to the 2024 World Championships and 2024 Olympics already having taken place that year. Jordan Crooks of the Cayman Islands won the event at the previous edition of these championships, and had the fastest personal best of the field. The second fastest personal best belonged to Dylan Carter of Trinidad and Tobago, who had also won the first stage of the 2024 World Cup. South Korea's Ji Yu-chan won the event at the second and latest stage (at the time) of the World Cup. Other contenders were the Netherlands' Nyls Korstanje, Australia's Isaac Cooper and France's Maxime Grousset. Jack Alexy and Chris Guiliano of the USA were top sprinters, but lacked experience in a 25 m (short course) pool.
SwimSwam predicted Crooks would win, Ji would come second and Korstanje would come third.
Heats Twelve heats took place on 14 December, starting at 10:14. +Results Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 10 1 Jordan Crooks 20.08 Q, 2 11 8 Jack Alexy 20.69 Q 3 10 5 Nyls Korstanje 20.72 Q, NR 3 10 8 Chris Guiliano 20.72 Q 5 12 5 Dylan Carter 20.75 Q 6 10 7 Guilherme Caribé 20.81 Q 7 10 4 Isaac Cooper 20.89 Q 8 11 6 Egor Kornev Neutral Athletes B 20.92 Q 8 12 3 Maxime Grousset 20.92 Q 10 9 7 Jere Hribar 20.94 Q 11 12 6 Leonardo Deplano 20.98 Q 12 11 3 Ian Ho 21.01 Q 12 11 4 Ji Yu-chan 21.01 Q 14 10 0 Shane Ryan 21.07 Q, NR 15 12 4 Szebasztián Szabó 21.14 Q 16 12 8 Heiko Gigler 21.19 Q, NR 17 12 2 Thomas Fannon 21.25 R 18 9 1 Nikola Miljenic 21.26 R 19 12 1 Daniel Zaitsev 21.27 20 10 3 Marius Kusch 21.35 21 11 5 Lorenzo Zazzeri 21.37 22 11 2 Matej Duša 21.38 23 9 5 Martin Kartavi 21.41 23 12 9 Meiron Amir Cheruti 21.41 25 8 2 Bjørnar Laskerud 21.44 26 12 0 Elias Persson 21.45 27 11 1 Piotr Ludwiczak 21.46 28 7 8 Deniel Nankov 21.50 NR 29 8 3 Lamar Taylor 21.57 30 9 2 Mikel Schreuders 21.60 NR 30 10 2 Ralf Tribuntsov 21.60 32 12 7 Masahiro Kawane 21.62 33 7 3 David Young 21.70 NR 34 8 0 Diego Aranda 21.72 NR 35 9 3 Artem Selin 21.77 36 11 9 Miguel Pérez-Godoy 21.79 37 9 8 Patrick Dinu 21.97 38 8 9 Samyar Abdoli 21.98 NR 38 9 6 Simon Elias Statkevičius 21.98 40 7 9 Abdul Jabar Adama 22.03 41 6 5 Nathaniel Thomas 22.06 NR 41 8 4 Julien Henx 22.06 41 8 6 Adi Mešetović 22.06 44 7 7 Chuang Mu-lun 22.07 45 7 4 Javier Núñez 22.08 46 7 6 Gleb Kovalenya 22.09 47 11 0 Orhan Dine Moreira 22.13 NR 48 9 4 Jack Hendy 22.18 49 7 2 Marwane Sebbata 22.20 50 10 9 Zhao Jiayue 22.28 51 7 1 Gabriel Martínez 22.35 NR 52 8 8 Luong Jérémie Loïc Nino 22.36 53 1 5 William Birkett 22.38 54 8 7 Lim Yin Chuen 22.44 55 8 1 Adrián Vargas 22.52 NR 56 7 5 Pongpanod Trithan 22.68 57 6 3 Hector Langkilde 22.71 NR 58 6 8 Musa Zhalayev 22.77 NR 59 7 0 Tendo Mukalazi 22.93 NR 60 5 5 Miguel Vásquez 22.94 =NR 61 6 4 Adam Moncherry 22.96 NR 62 5 2 Reidi Resuli 22.99 63 6 6 Nixon Hernández 23.05 NR 64 6 9 Ismael Jair Holtuin 23.17 65 5 7 Nikolass Deičmans 23.19 66 6 7 Tameea El-Hamayda 23.22 67 5 1 Finau Ohuafi 23.26 68 6 1 Antoine De Lapparent 23.27 NR 69 5 4 Mohamad Zubaid 23.30 70 5 6 Stephen Nyoike 23.31 71 5 3 Mohamed Aan Hussain 23.35 NR 72 2 2 Christien Kelly 23.56 73 6 0 Belly-Cresus Ganira 23.57 74 4 5 Meshal Al-Kulaibi 23.96 75 6 2 Alaa Maso 23.98 76 2 0 Daniil Mistriukov 24.05 77 1 4 Kenale Alleyne 24.10 78 4 4 Kazuumi Nestor 24.20 NR 79 4 6 Taiyo Akimaru 24.40 80 2 9 Kim Ryong-hyon 24.42 81 5 0 Ardasher Gadoev 24.58 82 4 7 Ethan Hazell 24.76 83 5 9 Ajal Kaji Tamrakar 24.90 84 5 8 Cedrick Niyibizi 24.94 85 4 0 Houmed Houssein Barkat 25.09 NR 86 4 3 Yousif Ibrahim 25.17 NR 87 4 8 Michael Mponezya Joseph 25.18 88 4 1 Haziq Samil 25.31 89 3 2 Nigel Fontenelle 25.43 90 4 9 Camil Doua 25.54 91 3 5 Ailton Lima 25.67 92 3 4 Asher Banda 25.75 93 2 6 Claudio Yelegou 26.09 94 4 2 Sangay Tenzin 26.55 95 3 3 Elhadj N'Gnane Diallo 26.79 96 3 6 Ousman Jobe 26.82 97 1 3 Phixaiyadeth Thirakul 27.08 98 3 9 Leo Lebot 27.38 99 2 7 Jaya Corder 27.64 100 2 4 Jolanio Guterres 28.27 NR 9 0 Yuri Kisil 2 1 Yusuf Nasser 2 3 Thabo Motsopa 2 5 Marouane Mamane Hamissou Abba 2 8 Jacques Ngoie Kazadi 3 0 Pedro Rogery 3 1 Magnim Jordano Daou 3 7 Fahim Anwari 3 8 Surafel Geremew Asfaw 8 5 Nándor Németh 10 6 Noè Ponti 11 7 Emre Sakçı
Semifinals Two semifinals took place on 14 December, starting at 18:21. +Results Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 2 4 Jordan Crooks 19.90 Q, 2 1 4 Jack Alexy 20.51 Q 3 1 2 Guilherme Caribé 20.59 Q 4 2 5 Nyls Korstanje 20.63 Q, NR 5 2 6 Egor Kornev Neutral Athletes B 20.75 Q 6 1 3 Maxime Grousset 20.78 Q 7 2 3 Chris Guiliano 20.79 Q 8 1 8 Ji Yu-chan 20.80 Q, =AS 9 1 5 Dylan Carter 20.82 R 10 2 7 Leonardo Deplano 20.83 R 11 2 2 Ian Ho 20.85 NR 12 1 1 Jere Hribar 20.88 12 1 6 Isaac Cooper 20.88 14 2 1 Heiko Gigler 21.06 NR 15 1 7 Szebasztián Szabó 21.07 16 2 8 Shane Ryan 21.28
Final The final was held on 15 December at 17:39. +Results Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Jordan Crooks 20.19 3 Guilherme Caribé 20.57 5 Jack Alexy 20.61 4 1 Chris Guiliano 20.78 5 6 Nyls Korstanje 20.79 6 2 Egor Kornev Neutral Athletes B 20.81 7 7 Maxime Grousset 20.90 8 8 Ji Yu-chan 20.91
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