The Men's 50 metre butterfly competition of the 2026 European Aquatics Championships was held on 10 and 11 August 2026.
Records Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows: Name Nation Time Location Date World recordEuropean record Andriy Govorov 22.27 Rome 1 July 2018 Championship record 22.48 Glasgow 7 August 2018
Results Heats The heats were started on 10 August at 10:06.
Rank Heat Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 8 4 Maxime Grousset 22.49 Q 2 7 4 Noè Ponti 22.69 Q 3 6 4 Egor Kornev Neutral Athletes B 22.70 Q 4 8 2 Stergios Bilas 22.93 Q 5 6 3 Kristóf Milák 22.96 Q 6 7 7 Grigori Pekarski Neutral Athletes A 22.97 Q 7 6 5 Diogo Ribeiro 23.04 Q 8 7 5 Sean Niewold 23.09 Q 9 8 5 Thomas Ceccon 23.10 Q 10 7 3 Luca Nik Armbruster 23.12 Q 11 6 6 Egor Iurchenko Neutral Athletes B 23.16 Q 12 8 3 Oleg Kostin Neutral Athletes B 23.18 12 8 8 Lorenzo Gargani 23.18 Q 14 7 8 Vlad Mihalache 23.23 Q 15 6 7 Ralf Tribuntsov 23.24 Q 16 6 1 Daniel Zaitsev 23.29 Q 17 8 1 Nikita Baez 23.31 Q 18 8 6 Roman Shevliakov Neutral Athletes B 23.32 19 8 0 Jere Hribar 23.35 20 7 2 Joshua Gammon 23.37 21 6 2 Jacob Peters 23.39 21 7 1 Ole Mats Eidam 23.39 23 5 3 Ondřej Slavík 23.43 24 7 0 Denis Popescu 23.44 25 5 4 Michele Lamberti 23.50 26 8 7 Meiron Cheruti 23.51 27 5 9 Simen Schmitz-Lund 23.54 28 5 0 Lukas Edl 23.56 29 5 2 Casper Puggaard 23.61 30 6 0 Josha Salchow 23.62 31 5 7 Paweł Uryniuk 23.66 32 5 1 Elias Klev 23.68 33 5 5 Rasmus Skovgaard Nickelsen 23.69 34 7 6 Simon Bucher 23.72 35 6 8 Nikola Miljenić 23.75 36 3 4 Martin Kartavi 23.77 37 8 9 Mateusz Jan Chowaniec 23.80 38 4 4 Ihor Troianovskyi 23.81 39 4 2 Szymon Mróz 23.82 40 5 6 Artsiom Yarmak Neutral Athletes A 23.84 41 1 8 Nikita Sheremet 23.88 42 3 7 Nicholas Lia 23.97 43 6 9 Melker Rosengren 23.98 44 4 6 Miloš Milenković 23.99 45 5 8 Robin Yeboah 24.03 46 3 6 Alex Ahtiainen 24.06 47 4 5 Michele Busa 24.07 48 3 5 Elias Persson 24.09 48 4 0 Jakub Bartosz Majerski 24.09 50 3 1 Julian Koch 24.12 51 4 7 Maro Miknić 24.14 52 7 9 Oskar Hoff 24.16 53 3 2 Julien Henx 24.17 54 4 3 Nemanja Maksić 24.23 55 3 3 Tajus Juška 24.36 55 4 8 Dmitrijs Tolstihs 24.36 57 1 1 Arian Kadić 24.37 57 3 0 Jānis Deivs Dzirkalis 24.37 57 4 1 Rémi Fabiani 24.37 60 2 6 Nikodim Markovic 24.38 61 2 5 Tom Sela 24.42 62 4 9 Luka Kmetić 24.46 63 3 8 Michael Laitarovsky 24.47 64 3 9 Matthew Hamilton 24.50 65 2 3 Florian Frippiat 24.56 66 2 1 Roope Koskela 24.59 66 2 2 Ārons Roderts 24.59 68 2 4 Birnir Freyr Hálfdánarson 24.60 69 2 0 Símon Elías Statkevicius 24.70 70 2 8 Matej Duša 24.71 71 2 7 Viktor Kopf 24.83 72 1 6 Evghenii Poponin 25.25 73 1 4 Siim Kesküla 25.29 74 1 3 Christian Giefing 25.33 75 2 9 Lukas Peacock 25.34 76 1 5 Ronens Kermans 25.44 77 1 2 Arion Budima 26.04 78 1 7 Krasniqi Dior 27.76
Semifinals The semifinals were started on 10 August at 18:30.
Rank Heat Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 2 5 Egor Kornev Neutral Athletes B 22.36 Q, CR, NR 2 2 4 Maxime Grousset 22.49 Q 3 1 4 Noè Ponti 22.53 Q 4 2 6 Diogo Ribeiro 22.68 Q 5 1 2 Luca Nik Armbruster 22.71 Q, NR 5 2 2 Thomas Ceccon 22.71 Q 7 1 3 Grigori Pekarski Neutral Athletes A 22.75 Q 7 2 3 Kristóf Milák 22.75 Q 9 1 5 Stergios Bilas 22.79 10 1 1 Ralf Tribuntsov 22.92 11 1 6 Sean Niewold 22.95 12 2 7 Egor Iurchenko Neutral Athletes B 23.04 13 2 1 Vlad Mihalache 23.10 14 2 8 Daniel Zaitsev 23.26 15 1 7 Lorenzo Gargani 23.29 16 1 8 Nikita Baez 23.35
Final The final was held on 11 August at 18:37.
Rank Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 4 Egor Kornev Neutral Athletes B 22.52 5 Maxime Grousset 22.54 1 Grigori Pekarski Neutral Athletes A 22.68 4 7 Thomas Ceccon 22.72 5 6 Diogo Ribeiro 22.75 6 2 Luca Nik Armbruster 22.84 6 8 Kristóf Milák 22.84 8 3 Noè Ponti 22.91
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