Swimming at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre freestyle

Men's 50 metre freestyle at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Nambu University Municipal Aquatics Center
Location	Gwangju, South Korea
Dates	26 July (heats and semifinals) 27 July (final)
Competitors	131 from 125 nations
Winning time	21.04
Medalists
Caeleb Dressel   United States   Bruno Fratus   Brazil   Kristian Golomeev   Greece

The Men's 50 metre freestyle competition at the 2019 World Championships was held on 26 and 27 July 2019. Caeleb Dressel finished first in the final, retaining the title he won in the previous Championships.

Records

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

World record	César Cielo (BRA)	20.91	São Paulo, Brazil	18 December 2009
Competition record	César Cielo (BRA)	21.08	Rome, Italy	1 August 2009

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
27 July	Final	Caeleb Dressel	United States	21.04	CR

Results

Heats

The heats were held on 26 July at 10:43.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	13	3	Caeleb Dressel	United States	21.49	Q
2	14	4	Benjamin Proud	Great Britain	21.69	Q
3	13	5	Vladimir Morozov	Russia	21.70	Q
4	13	4	Bruno Fratus	Brazil	21.71	Q
5	12	3	Shinri Shioura	Japan	21.78	Q
6	14	5	Kristian Golomeev	Greece	21.80	Q
7	14	3	Michael Andrew	United States	21.82	Q
8	13	7	Cameron McEvoy	Australia	21.93	Q
9	12	5	Paweł Juraszek	Poland	21.97	Q
10	12	1	Marcelo Chierighini	Brazil	22.03	Q
11	14	8	Ali Khalafalla	Egypt	22.04	Q
12	11	3	Meiron Cheruti	Israel	22.06	Q, NR
13	14	2	Maxim Lobanovskij	Hungary	22.11	Q
14	13	0	Maxime Grousset	France	22.12	Q
15	12	2	Jesse Puts	Netherlands	22.16	Q
16	11	5	Wu Chun-feng	Chinese Taipei	22.21	QSO, =NR
16	14	9	Yu Hexin	China	22.21	QSO
18	12	6	Brad Tandy	South Africa	22.24
19	10	3	Yang Jae-hoon	South Korea	22.26	NR
20	11	4	Pieter Timmers	Belgium	22.32
21	13	9	Renzo Tjon A Joe	Suriname	22.33
21	14	6	Simonas Bilis	Lithuania	22.33
21	14	7	Ari-Pekka Liukkonen	Finland	22.33
24	13	2	Oussama Sahnoune	Algeria	22.37
25	13	1	Yuri Kisil	Canada	22.38
26	10	4	Artsiom Machekin	Belarus	22.41
26	12	8	Katsumi Nakamura	Japan	22.41
28	10	9	Daniel Zaitsev	Estonia	22.46
29	14	1	Luca Dotto	Italy	22.48
30	12	9	Nándor Németh	Hungary	22.51
31	14	0	Vladislav Grinev	Russia	22.52
32	10	7	Hüseyin Emre Sakçı	Turkey	22.54
33	13	8	Bruno Blašković	Croatia	22.55
34	10	2	Jonathan Tan	Singapore	22.56
34	10	8	Emir Muratović	Bosnia and Herzegovina	22.56	NR
34	12	4	Andrea Vergani	Italy	22.56
37	13	6	Andriy Hovorov	Ukraine	22.57
38	11	6	Ian Ho Yentou	Hong Kong	22.59
38	11	8	Michael Pickett	New Zealand	22.59
40	10	5	Juan Francisco Segura	Spain	22.64
41	11	0	Dylan Carter	Trinidad and Tobago	22.65
42	9	6	Julien Henx	Luxembourg	22.71	NR
43	11	1	Alexandr Varakin	Kazakhstan	22.72
44	9	5	Peter Wetzlar	Zimbabwe	22.77	NR
44	11	2	Andrej Barna	Serbia	22.77
46	11	7	Niksa Stojkovski	Norway	22.79
47	10	1	Enzo Martínez	Uruguay	22.87
48	10	0	George-Adrian Ratiu	Romania	22.88
49	9	4	Bernhard Reitshammer	Austria	22.91
50	11	9	Virdhawal Khade	India	22.95
51	8	3	Xander Skinner	Namibia	23.04	NR
52	9	2	Vladimír Štefánik	Slovakia	23.06
52	9	3	Tobias Bjerg	Denmark	23.06
54	3	9	Constantin Malachi	Moldova	23.11
55	9	9	Brett Fraser	Cayman Islands	23.12
56	8	5	Andrew Chetcuti	Malta	23.17
57	10	6	Bradley Vincent	Mauritius	23.23
58	9	1	Luke Gebbie	Philippines	23.26
59	9	7	Triady Fauzi Sidiq	Indonesia	23.36
60	8	4	Omiros Zagkas	Cyprus	23.37
61	9	0	Benyamin Gharehassanloo	Iran	23.39
62	7	5	Stefano Mitchell	Antigua and Barbuda	23.44	NR
63	8	7	Isaac Beitia	Panama	23.45
64	8	2	Jean-Luc Zephir	Saint Lucia	23.51
65	8	1	Vahan Mkhitaryan	Armenia	23.62
66	7	3	Waleed Abdulrazzak	Kuwait	23.64
67	8	8	Horus Briseño	Mexico	23.65
68	8	6	Marco Flores	Honduras	23.71
69	7	6	Danilo Rosafio	Kenya	23.86
70	7	4	Abdoul Niane	Senegal	23.88
71	3	2	Ghirmai Efrem	Eritrea	23.92
72	3	5	Myagmaryn Delgerkhüü	Mongolia	23.93	NR
73	7	0	Micah Masei	American Samoa	24.05
74	3	1	Nixon Hernández	El Salvador	24.12
75	7	8	Jared Fitzgerald	Bahamas	24.15
76	7	2	Sam Seghers	Papua New Guinea	24.16
76	7	9	Filipe Gomes	Malawi	24.16
78	8	0	Miguel Mena	Nicaragua	24.19
79	6	3	Daniel Francisco	Angola	24.21
79	6	5	Boško Radulović	Montenegro	24.21
81	6	4	Kerry Ollivierre	Grenada	24.23
82	8	9	Jorge Depassier	Chile	24.29
83	7	1	Jagger Stephens	Guam	24.45
84	5	9	Erico Cuna	Mozambique	24.60
85	6	2	Issa Al-Adawi	Oman	24.65
86	6	8	Christian Nikles	Brunei	24.69
86	6	9	Atuhaire Ambala	Uganda	24.69	NR
88	3	8	Musa Zhalayev	Turkmenistan	24.71
89	6	1	Shane Cadogan	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	24.80
90	1	6	Yellow Yeiyah	Nigeria	24.81
91	1	2	Samuele Rossi	Seychelles	24.90
92	2	3	Mohd Ariful Islam	Bangladesh	24.92
93	6	0	Theo Chiabaut	Monaco	24.96
94	7	7	Hilal Hemed Hilal	Tanzania	25.01
95	2	8	Hem Puch	Cambodia	25.13
96	6	6	Firass Saidi	Qatar	25.20
97	6	7	Andrew Fowler	Guyana	25.26
98	5	3	Finau Ohuafi	Tonga	25.32
99	1	5	Alassane Lancina	Niger	25.33
99	5	7	Belly-Cresus Ganira	Burundi	25.33
101	2	1	Adama Ouedraogo	Burkina Faso	25.38	NR
101	2	5	Alexander Shah	Nepal	25.38
103	1	3	Nabeel Hatoum	Palestine	25.42	NR
104	5	4	Mohammed Jibali	Libya	25.44
105	3	3	Troy Pina	Cape Verde	25.64
106	5	6	Kaleo Kihleng	Federated States of Micronesia	25.71
107	5	5	Olimjon Ishanov	Tajikistan	25.73
108	3	6	Mark Hoare	Eswatini	25.76
109	5	1	Santisouk Inthavong	Laos	25.79
110	1	4	Mawupemon Otogbe	Togo	25.84
111	5	0	Jefferson Kpanou	Benin	26.18
112	5	2	Abobakr Abass	Sudan	26.21	NR
113	2	4	Guerby Ruuska	Haiti	27.11
114	2	7	Joshua Wyse	Sierra Leone	27.17
115	4	4	Ali Imaan	Maldives	27.21
116	4	8	Abdelmalik Muktar	Ethiopia	27.39
116	5	8	Clayment Lafiara	Solomon Islands	27.39
118	2	6	Shawn Dingilius-Wallace	Palau	27.45
119	4	9	Ebrima Buaro	Gambia	27.83
120	4	1	Mamadou Bah	Guinea	27.91
121	4	0	Cedrick Niyibizi	Rwanda	28.27
122	3	0	Charly Ndjoume	Cameroon	28.45
123	4	3	Mohamed Ibrahim	Comoros	29.17
124	4	6	Phillip Kinono	Marshall Islands	29.25
125	4	5	Tenzin Sangay	Bhutan	29.49
126	4	2	José da Silva Viegas	East Timor	29.51
127	4	7	Hassan Baidar	Yemen	29.98
128	3	7	Adam Mpali	Gabon	30.26
129	2	9	Hamid Rahimi	Afghanistan	30.79
130	2	0	Diosdado Miko	Equatorial Guinea	31.78
	2	2	Houmed Hussein	Djibouti	DSQ
	3	4	Thibaut Danho	Ivory Coast	DNS
	9	8	Khurshidjon Tursunov	Uzbekistan
	12	0	Miguel Nascimento	Portugal
	12	7	Clément Mignon	France

Swim-off

The swim-off was held on 26 July at 12:00.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Yu Hexin	China	22.08	Q
2	4	Wu Chun-feng	Chinese Taipei	22.24

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 26 July at 20:41.

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Bruno Fratus	Brazil	21.53	Q
2	4	Benjamin Proud	Great Britain	21.56	Q
3	3	Kristian Golomeev	Greece	21.60	Q
4	1	Maxime Grousset	France	21.86
5	6	Cameron McEvoy	Australia	21.88
6	7	Meiron Cheruti	Israel	22.01	NR
7	8	Yu Hexin	China	22.11
8	2	Marcelo Chierighini	Brazil	22.19

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Caeleb Dressel	United States	21.18	Q
2	5	Vladimir Morozov	Russia	21.65	Q
3	2	Paweł Juraszek	Poland	21.69	Q
4	3	Shinri Shioura	Japan	21.74	Q
5	6	Michael Andrew	United States	21.77	Q
6	1	Maxim Lobanovskij	Hungary	21.89
7	8	Jesse Puts	Netherlands	21.91
8	7	Ali Khalafalla	Egypt	21.98

Final

The final was started on 27 July at 20:09.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Caeleb Dressel	United States	21.04	CR, NR
	5	Bruno Fratus	Brazil	21.45
	6	Kristian Golomeev	Greece	21.45
4	2	Vladimir Morozov	Russia	21.53
5	3	Benjamin Proud	Great Britain	21.55
6	8	Michael Andrew	United States	21.62
7	7	Paweł Juraszek	Poland	21.67
8	1	Shinri Shioura	Japan	21.81