2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 50 metre butterfly

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.^[1]

Men's 50 metre butterfly at the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue	Hangzhou Sports Park Stadium
Dates	14 December (heats and semifinals) 15 December (final)
Competitors	104
Winning time	21.81 CR
Medalists
Nicholas Santos    Brazil   Chad le Clos    South Africa   Dylan Carter    Trinidad and Tobago
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Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Nicholas Santos	Brazil	21.75	Budapest	6 October 2018
Championship record	Chad le Clos	South Africa	21.95	Doha	6 December 2014

The following new records were set during this competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nation	Time	Record
16 December	Final	Nicholas Santos	Brazil	21.81	CR

Results

Heats

The heats were started at 9:52.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	11	4	Nicholas Santos	Brazil	22.41	Q
2	9	3	Dylan Carter	Trinidad and Tobago	22.53	Q
3	11	6	Marius Kusch	Germany	22.59	Q
4	10	4	Chad le Clos	South Africa	22.67	Q
5	10	3	Takaya Yasue	Japan	22.78	Q
6	9	6	Mikhail Vekovishchev	Russia	22.79	Q
6	10	2	Ryan Coetzee	South Africa	22.79	Q
8	10	5	Yauhen Tsurkin	Belarus	22.80	Q
9	9	5	Takeshi Kawamoto	Japan	22.83	Q
10	9	1	Mehdy Metella	France	22.86	Q
11	11	5	Michael Andrew	United States	22.93	Q
12	11	3	Umitcan Gures	Turkey	22.96	Q
13	10	1	Matteo Rivolta	Italy	23.02	Q
13	10	9	Niksa Stojkovski	Norway	23.02	Q
15	10	7	Piero Codia	Italy	23.03	Q
16	9	7	Matheus Santana	Brazil	23.08	QSO
16	11	7	Riku Pöytäkivi	Finland	23.08	QSO
18	10	6	Deividas Margevičius	Lithuania	23.10
19	11	0	Roman Shevliakov	Russia	23.13
20	9	0	Hryhory Pekarski	Belarus	23.14
20	11	1	Daniel Zaitsev	Estonia	23.14
22	11	8	Konrad Czerniak	Poland	23.19
23	9	2	Li Zhuhao	China	23.21
24	8	4	Kristian Golomeev	Greece	23.24
25	11	9	Damian Wierling	Germany	23.26
26	7	7	Adilbek Mussin	Kazakhstan	23.35
26	11	2	Jesse Puts	Netherlands	23.35
28	8	2	Ben Hockin	Paraguay	23.37
29	8	3	Cameron Jones	Australia	23.40
30	7	2	Antani Ivanov	Bulgaria	23.42
31	9	8	Wang Peng	China	23.48
32	8	5	Catalin Ungur	Romania	23.59
33	8	6	Julien Henx	Luxembourg	23.63
34	9	9	Berk Ozkul	Turkey	23.74
35	8	0	Adam Halas	Slovakia	23.76
36	8	1	Heiko Gigler	Austria	23.77
37	7	0	Alexandre Perreault	Canada	23.80
38	7	4	Manuel Leuthard	Switzerland	23.89
39	6	3	Esnaider Reales	Colombia	23.96
40	7	5	Sajan Prakash	India	23.97
41	6	5	Chao Man Hou	Macau	24.04
42	6	7	Oliver Elliot	Chile	24.06
43	7	3	Adi Mešetović	Bosnia and Herzegovina	24.07
44	8	8	Christoffer Carlsen	Sweden	24.17
45	7	8	Ralph Goveia	Zambia	24.18
45	10	0	Andriy Khloptsov	Ukraine	24.18
47	6	4	Ali Khalafalla	Egypt	24.22
47	8	7	Cherantha de Silva	Sri Lanka	24.22
49	8	9	Andrew James Digby	Thailand	24.23
50	6	9	Abbas Qali	Kuwait	24.43
51	7	9	Anthony Barbar	Lebanon	24.48
52	2	4	Amini Fonua	Tonga	24.50	NR
53	6	6	Artur Barseghyan	Armenia	24.55	NR
54	2	1	Philip Adejumo	Nigeria	24.58	NR
54	6	8	N'Nhyn Fernander	Bahamas	24.58
56	5	4	Bryan Alvaréz	Costa Rica	24.73
57	6	0	Rafael Barreto	Philippines	24.74
57	6	1	Noah Al-Khulaifi	Qatar	24.74
59	6	2	Lin Chieh-liang	Chinese Taipei	24.77
60	2	0	Jose Quintanilla	Bolivia	24.86
61	5	5	Yousif Bu-Arish	Saudi Arabia	25.10
62	5	2	Bernat Lomero	Andorra	25.17	NR
63	5	3	Vladislav Shuliko	Kyrgyzstan	25.20	NR
64	2	5	Md Mahamudun Nobi Nahid	Bangladesh	25.25
65	5	7	Malcolm Richardson	Cook Islands	25.49
66	5	0	Jayhan Odlum-Smith	Saint Lucia	25.66
67	2	8	Mohammed Isam Sadeq Kazan	Iraq	25.95
68	4	3	Nabeel Hatoum	Palestine	26.10
68	4	6	R.A.B Mohamed	Kenya	26.10
70	1	6	Ali Alkaabi	United Arab Emirates	26.16
71	4	2	Collins Saliboko	Tanzania	26.19
72	5	8	Davidson Vincent	Haiti	26.38	NR
73	5	9	Tryfonas Hadjichristoforou	Cyprus	26.45
74	4	4	Isiaka Irankunda	Rwanda	26.46
75	4	5	Dajenel Williams	Grenada	26.52
76	4	7	Troy Pina	Cape Verde	26.73
77	2	3	A Ahmed Ali Yusuf	Brunei	26.85
78	2	9	Duran Alfonso	Honduras	27.02
79	1	2	Nabil Ahmed Saleh	Uganda	27.54
80	4	1	P.Y.D Poku-Dwumoh	Ghana	27.68
81	2	2	Carel Irakoze	Burundi	27.72
82	2	6	Fakhriddin Madkamov	Tajikistan	27.73
83	3	7	Abobakr Abass	Sudan	27.74
84	3	0	Anubhav Subba	Nepal	27.95
85	3	3	Antonio Andrew Rodrigues	Guyana	28.21
86	4	8	Simanga Dlamini	Eswatini	28.54
87	1	5	Ratha Phin	Cambodia	28.85
88	3	6	Achala Gekabel	Ethiopia	29.22
89	4	9	Nelson Batallones	Northern Mariana Islands	29.58
90	3	1	Albachir Mouctar	Niger	29.88
91	4	0	Slava Sihannouvong	Laos	29.99
92	3	8	Jack Parlee	Turks and Caicos Islands	30.21
93	3	5	Jefferson Kpanou	Benin	30.79
94	3	9	Joshua Wyse	Sierra Leone	31.59
95	3	4	Daniel Ranis	Marshall Islands	31.73
96	2	7	Ian Salaka	Malawi	32.62
97	1	4	Jessy Misak	Vanuatu	33.19
98	1	3	H.T.H. Baidar	Yemen	34.20
	5	6	Thibaut Danho	Ivory Coast	DNS
	7	1	Bradlee Ashby	New Zealand	DNS
	7	6	Shane Ryan	Ireland	DNS
	10	8	Caeleb Dressel	United States	DNS
	3	2	Houssein Ibrahim	Djibouti	DSQ
	5	1	Ljupcho Angelovski	Macedonia	DSQ

Swim-off

The swim-off was held on 14 December at 11:07.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Riku Pöytäkivi	Finland	22.71	Q
2	4	Matheus Santana	Brazil	23.18

Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 19:33.^[4]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Chad le Clos	South Africa	22.34	Q
2	3	Mikhail Vekovishchev	Russia	22.56	Q
3	4	Dylan Carter	Trinidad and Tobago	22.62	Q
4	7	Umitcan Gures	Turkey	22.82
5	2	Mehdy Metella	France	22.83
6	6	Yauhen Tsurkin	Belarus	22.84
7	8	Riku Pöytäkivi	Finland	22.94
8	1	Niksa Stojkovski	Norway	23.19

Semifinal 2

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

Final

The final was held at 19:41.^[5]

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

References

1. "Competition Schedule". Omega Timing. 14 December 2018. Retrieved 19 December 2018.
2. Heats results
3. Swim-off results
4. Semifinals results
5. Final results