Swimming at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre butterfly

The Men's 50 metre butterfly competition of the swimming events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held on 2 August with the heats and the semifinals and 3 August with the final.^[1]

Men's 50 metre butterfly at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships
Victory Ceremony
Dates	2 August (heats and semifinals) 3 August (final)
Competitors	80 from 77 nations
Winning time	22.97
Medalists
Florent Manaudou    France   Nicholas Santos    Brazil   László Cseh    Hungary   Konrad Czerniak    Poland
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Records

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

World record	Rafael Muñoz (ESP)	22.43	Málaga, Spain	5 April 2009
Competition record	Milorad Čavić (SRB)	22.67	Rome, Italy	27 July 2009

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 10:44.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	9	5	Florent Manaudou	France	23.15	Q
2	8	2	László Cseh	Hungary	23.32	Q, NR
3	9	3	Rafael Muñoz	Spain	23.36	Q
4	8	6	Konrad Czerniak	Poland	23.38	Q, NR
5	7	6	Joseph Schooling	Singapore	23.40	Q, NR
6	8	4	Nicholas Santos	Brazil	23.41	Q
7	9	2	Shi Yang	China	23.43	Q
8	8	3	Chad le Clos	South Africa	23.45	Q
9	8	5	Yauhen Tsurkin	Belarus	23.49	Q
9	9	4	Andriy Hovorov	Ukraine	23.49	Q
11	7	4	Ben Proud	Great Britain	23.58	Q
12	7	2	François Heersbrandt	Belgium	23.59	Q
13	7	7	Takeshi Kawamoto	Japan	23.61	Q
14	7	5	César Cielo	Brazil	23.66	Q
15	7	8	Santo Condorelli	Canada	23.67	Q
15	9	0	Dylan Carter	Trinidad and Tobago	23.67	Q, NR
17	7	1	Aleksandr Popkov	Russia	23.75
18	7	3	Piero Codia	Italy	23.81
19	8	1	Jayden Hadler	Australia	23.83
20	6	9	Tadas Duškinas	Lithuania	23.85
21	9	6	Yu Hexin	China	23.87
21	9	8	Ivan Lenđer	Serbia	23.87
23	9	1	Tim Phillips	United States	23.91
24	8	9	Kristian Golomeev	Greece	23.96
25	8	0	Mario Todorović	Croatia	24.00
26	6	5	Santiago Grassi	Argentina	24.03
27	7	9	Geoffrey Cheah	Hong Kong	24.12
28	6	8	Soren Dahl	Denmark	24.13
28	7	0	Albert Subirats	Venezuela	24.13
30	6	4	Christoffer Carlsen	Sweden	24.18
30	8	8	Ryan Pini	Papua New Guinea	24.18
32	5	4	Elvis Burrows	Bahamas	24.19
33	6	1	Luis Martínez	Guatemala	24.20
34	6	2	Ben Hockin	Paraguay	24.24
35	6	7	Ralf Tribuntsov	Estonia	24.28
36	6	6	Jan Šefl	Czech Republic	24.34
37	9	9	Tomer Zamir	Israel	24.49
38	6	3	Glenn Sutanto	Indonesia	24.51
39	5	5	Franco Reyes	Panama	24.60
40	6	0	Omar Eissa	Egypt	24.63
41	4	5	Ralefy Anthonny	Madagascar	24.69
42	8	7	Alejandro Escudero	Mexico	24.73
43	5	1	Zuhayr Pigot	Suriname	24.76
44	9	7	Daniel Ramírez	Mexico	24.83
45	5	3	Anthony John Barbar	Lebanon	24.88	NR
46	5	2	Ralph Goveia	Zambia	25.16
47	5	6	Thibaut Danho	Ivory Coast	25.33
48	5	9	Bradley Vincent	Mauritius	25.42
49	5	7	Maksim Inić	Montenegro	25.52
50	4	3	Joshua Daniel	Saint Lucia	25.61
51	4	6	Ifeakachuku Nmor	Nigeria	25.91
52	5	8	Ahmad Attellesey	Libya	25.94
53	3	5	Oumar Touré	Mali	26.13
54	5	0	Vahan Mkhitaryan	Armenia	26.19
55	4	4	Abeiku Jackson	Ghana	26.41
56	4	1	Hasan Sadeq	Iraq	26.93
57	4	2	Adam Viktora	Seychelles	27.08
58	4	0	Ibrahim Nishwan	Maldives	27.42
59	3	4	Muhammad Saad	Pakistan	27.66
60	4	8	Stefano Mitchell	Antigua and Barbuda	27.72
61	3	6	Myat Thint	Myanmar	27.77
62	3	2	Borhane Abro	Djibouti	27.99
63	4	7	Yacop Al-Khulaifi	Qatar	28.31
64	4	9	Nikolas Sylvester	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	28.39
65	3	0	Meriton Veliu	Kosovo^[a]	28.67
66	3	3	Ammaar Ghadiyali	Tanzania	28.81
67	2	2	Abdelaziz Ahmed	Sudan	29.66
68	3	1	Olim Kurbanov	Tajikistan	29.82
69	2	5	Kaleo Kihleng	Federated States of Micronesia	30.15
70	1	6	Dienov Koka	Congo	30.20
71	3	8	Billy-Scott Irakoze	Burundi	30.44
72	2	6	Yousef Al-Nehmi	Yemen	30.53
73	2	3	Brave Lifa	Malawi	30.92
74	3	7	Robel Habte	Ethiopia	30.95
75	2	8	Chaoili Aonzoudine	Comoros	31.09
76	3	9	Andrew Fowler	Guyana	31.14
77	2	4	Jules Bessan	Benin	31.53
78	1	3	Pap Jonga	The Gambia	32.36
79	1	5	Osman Kamara	Sierra Leone	35.21
80	2	1	Mael Ambonguilat	Gabon	35.30
	1	4	Charly Ndjoume	Cameroon	DNS
	2	7	Albarchir Mouctar	Niger	DNS

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 2 August at 18:07.^[3]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Nicholas Santos	Brazil	23.05	Q
2	4	László Cseh	Hungary	23.06	Q, NR
3	5	Konrad Czerniak	Poland	23.07	Q, NR
4	2	Andriy Hovorov	Ukraine	23.15	Q
5	1	César Cielo	Brazil	23.29	Q
6	7	François Heersbrandt	Belgium	23.34	NR
7	6	Chad le Clos	South Africa	23.49
8	8	Dylan Carter	Trinidad and Tobago	23.60	NR

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Florent Manaudou	France	22.84	Q, =NR
2	7	Ben Proud	Great Britain	23.24	Q
3	3	Joseph Schooling	Singapore	23.27	Q, AS
4	8	Santo Condorelli	Canada	23.30	NR
5	2	Yauhen Tsurkin	Belarus	23.41
6	5	Rafael Muñoz	Spain	23.44
6	6	Shi Yang	China	23.44
8	1	Takeshi Kawamoto	Japan	23.74

Final

 

Medallists of 50m butterfly final: László Cseh, Nicholas Santos and Florent Manaudou

The final was held on 3 August at 18:17.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Florent Manaudou	France	22.97
	5	Nicholas Santos	Brazil	23.09
	3	László Cseh	Hungary	23.15
	6	Konrad Czerniak	Poland	23.15
5	2	Andriy Hovorov	Ukraine	23.18
6	8	César Cielo	Brazil	23.21
7	1	Joseph Schooling	Singapore	23.25	AS
8	7	Ben Proud	Great Britain	23.39

References

1. This designation is without prejudice to position on status, and is in line with UNSC 1244 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence

1. Start list
2. Heats results
3. Semifinals results
4. Final results