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

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record Championship record	Florent Manaudou	France	20.26	Doha	5 December 2014

Heats

The heats were started on 13 December at 10:17.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	13	9	Caeleb Dressel	United States	20.62	Q, NR
2	13	4	Vladimir Morozov	Russia	20.89	Q
3	13	3	Cameron McEvoy	Australia	20.97	Q
4	12	4	Ben Proud	United Kingdom	20.98	Q
5	12	7	Simonas Bilis	Lithuania	21.10	Q, NR
6	12	6	Jesse Puts	Netherlands	21.19	Q
7	13	5	Michael Andrew	United States	21.25	Q
8	11	4	Paweł Juraszek	Poland	21.30	Q
9	13	0	Sergii Shevtsov	Ukraine	21.31	Q
10	12	2	Katsumi Nakamura	Japan	21.33	Q
11	13	8	Kosuke Matsui	Japan	21.34	Q
12	11	7	Lorenzo Zazzeri	Italy	21.35	Q
13	9	6	Ali Khalafalla	Egypt	21.38	Q, NR
13	13	6	Brad Tandy	South Africa	21.38	Q
15	11	5	César Cielo	Brazil	21.39	Q
16	11	3	Kristian Golomeev	Greece	21.40	QSO
16	11	6	Maksim Lobanovskij	Hungary	21.40	QSO
18	12	3	Evgeny Sedov	Russia	21.48
19	13	1	Cameron Jones	Australia	21.51
20	11	2	Oussama Sahnoune	Algeria	21.53
21	13	2	Ari-Pekka Liukkonen	Finland	21.57
22	12	1	Andrea Vergani	Italy	21.61
22	12	5	Konrad Czerniak	Poland	21.61
24	11	1	Huseyin Sakci	Turkey	21.66
25	10	0	Christoffer Carlsen	Sweden	21.67
26	13	7	Matheus Santana	Brazil	21.71
27	9	3	Daniel Hunter	New Zealand	21.73
28	12	8	Damian Wierling	Germany	21.77
29	10	6	Niksa Stojkovski	Norway	21.78	NR
29	12	0	Stan Pijnenburg	Netherlands	21.78
31	9	9	Miguel Nascimento	Portugal	21.81
32	9	4	Mislav Sever	Croatia	21.82
33	11	8	Douglas Erasmus	South Africa	21.85
34	12	9	Dylan Carter	Trinidad and Tobago	21.98
35	10	3	Daniel Zaitsev	Estonia	22.01
35	10	8	Bradley Vincent	Mauritius	22.01
37	10	5	Tadas Duškinas	Lithuania	22.02
38	10	2	Hou Yuije	China	22.07
38	11	0	Artsiom Machekin	Belarus	22.07
40	8	2	Cristian Quintero	Venezuela	22.09
41	9	1	Wu Chun-feng	Chinese Taipei	22.10
41	10	9	Ben Hockin	Paraguay	22.10
43	2	6	Alexandr Varakin	Kazakhstan	22.11
44	10	1	Guido Buscaglia	Argentina	22.19
45	11	9	Kemal Arda Gürdal	Turkey	22.25
46	9	2	Adi Mešetović	Bosnia and Herzegovina	22.28
46	9	5	Ivo Staub	Switzerland	22.28
48	10	7	Julien Henx	Luxembourg	22.29
49	2	7	Oliver Elliot	Chile	22.41
50	8	4	Oleksandr Loginov	Canada	22.43
51	8	6	Artur Barseghyan	Armenia	22.44	NR
52	8	3	Virdhawal Khade	India	22.49
53	9	0	Andrew James Digby	Thailand	22.50
54	9	8	Dado Fenrir Jasminuson	Iceland	22.51
55	9	7	Renzo Tjon-A-Joe	Suriname	22.52
56	8	7	George-Adrian Ratiu	Romania	22.65
57	7	8	Sina Gholampour	Iran	22.75
58	8	0	Giorgi Biganishvili	Georgia	22.86	NR
59	7	5	Sebastian Arispe	Peru	22.98
60	8	5	Abdoul Niane	Senegal	22.99	NR
61	7	1	Jhonny Pérez	Dominican Republic	23.00
62	7	4	Jean-Luc Zephir	Saint Lucia	23.10
63	8	1	Souhail Hamouchane	Morocco	23.15
64	8	9	Isaac Beitia Lasso	Panama	23.21
65	8	8	Anthony Barbar	Lebanon	23.30
66	7	3	Noah Al-Khulaifi	Qatar	23.32
67	7	2	Rafael Barreto	Philippines	23.42
68	6	6	Danilo Rosafio	Kenya	23.51
69	7	6	Ljupcho Angelovski	Macedonia	23.56
70	3	7	Bakr Al-Dulaimi	Iraq	23.59
71	6	3	Dan Siminel	Moldova	23.60
72	6	4	Nixon Hernández	El Salvador	23.61
73	5	5	Issa Al Adawi	Oman	23.62
74	6	7	Delron Felix	Grenada	23.65
75	6	8	Mohammad Rahman	Bangladesh	23.66	NR
76	6	2	Hilal Hemed Hilal	Tanzania	23.75
77	6	9	Noah Mascoll-Gomes	Antigua and Barbuda	23.77
78	7	7	Sidrell Williams	Jamaica	23.81
79	1	5	Kirill Vais	Kyrgyzstan	23.83
80	6	1	Epeli Rabua	Fiji	23.84
81	6	5	Christian Nikles	Brunei	23.86
82	2	0	Delgerkhuu Myagmar	Mongolia	24.02
83	3	2	Musa Zhalayev	Turkmenistan	24.09
84	7	9	Mohammad Madwa	Kuwait	24.24
85	4	0	Kitso Matija	Botswana	24.27
86	3	6	Kener Torrez	Nicaragua	24.35
87	5	2	Gianluca Pasolini	San Marino	24.42
88	6	0	Thomas Morriss	Samoa	24.46
89	1	4	Belly-Cresus Ganira	Burundi	24.77
90	5	6	Finau Ohuafi	Tonga	24.88	NR
91	2	3	Colins Ebingha	Nigeria	24.92
92	1	2	Nabil Ahmed Saleh	Uganda	25.00
92	5	4	Cruz Halbich	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	25.00
94	3	0	Mohammed Jibali	Libya	25.12
94	5	7	Anas Altamari	Palestine	25.12
96	2	1	James Hendrix	Guam	25.33
97	1	3	Abobakr Abass	Sudan	25.40
98	3	1	Antonio Andrew Rodrigues	Guyana	25.43
98	3	8	Dren Ukimeraj	Kosovo	25.43
100	1	1	Olimjon Ishanov	Tajikistan	25.47
100	5	1	Kaleo Kihleng	Federated States of Micronesia	25.47
102	5	8	Santisouk Inthavong	Laos	25.48
103	4	9	Alassane Lancina	Niger	25.95
104	4	1	Chanthol Thoeun	Cambodia	26.03
105	2	9	Aamir Motiwala	Pakistan	26.09
106	5	9	Jefferson Kpanou	Benin	26.70
107	2	5	P.Y.D Poku-Dwumoh	Ghana	26.71
108	5	0	Clayment Bill Lafiara	Solomon Islands	26.75
109	2	8	Ian Salaka	Malawi	27.66
110	2	2	Abdelmalik Muktar	Ethiopia	28.06
111	4	2	Jack Parlee	Turks and Caicos Islands	28.17
112	3	4	Amini Harindimana	Rwanda	28.25
113	4	5	Mamadou Tahirou Bah	Guinea	28.55
114	1	6	Joshua Wyse	Sierra Leone	28.86
115	3	5	Ebrima Buaro	Gambia	29.54
116	4	4	Daniel Ranis	Marshall Islands	29.63
117	1	8	H.T.H. Baidar	Yemen	29.70
118	4	7	Jessy Misak	Vanuatu	29.76
119	3	9	Hamid Rahimi	Afghanistan	30.06
120	4	6	David Hillah-Ayite	Togo	30.54	NR
121	4	3	Daoud Ali Haroun	Djibouti	30.89
122	2	4	Omar Barry	Burkina Faso	31.21
123	3	3	José da Silva Viegas	Timor-Leste	31.72
124	4	8	Fenel Lamour	Haiti	32.42
	7	0	Thibaut Danho	Ivory Coast	DNS
	1	7	Hakim Youssouf	Comoros	DSQ
	5	3	Josh Tarere	Papua New Guinea	DSQ
	10	4	Heiko Gigler	Austria	DSQ

Swim-off

The swim-off was held on 13 December at 11:45.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Maksim Lobanovskij	Hungary	21.25	Q
2	4	Kristian Golomeev	Greece	21.28

Semifinals

The semifinals were started on 13 December at 19:37.^[4]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Ben Proud	United Kingdom	20.71	Q
2	4	Vladimir Morozov	Russia	20.83	Q
3	1	Brad Tandy	South Africa	21.07	Q
4	3	Jesse Puts	Netherlands	21.12	QSO
4	6	Paweł Juraszek	Poland	21.12	QSO
6	8	Maxim Lobanovskij	Hungary	21.20
7	2	Katsumi Nakamura	Japan	21.26
8	7	Lorenzo Zazzeri	Italy	21.32

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Caeleb Dressel	United States	20.51	Q, =AM
2	5	Cameron McEvoy	Australia	20.97	Q
3	3	Simonas Bilis	Lithuania	21.03	Q, NR
4	8	César Cielo	Brazil	21.06	Q
5	6	Michael Andrew	United States	21.18
6	7	Kosuke Matsui	Japan	21.30
7	1	Ali Khalafalla	Egypt	21.39
8	2	Sergii Shevtsov	Ukraine	21.43

Swim-off

The swim-off was held on 14 December at 09:30.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Paweł Juraszek	Poland	20.98	Q
2	4	Jesse Puts	Netherlands	21.08

Final

The final was held on 14 December at 20:03.^[6]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3	Vladimir Morozov	Russia	20.33
	4	Caeleb Dressel	United States	20.54
	1	Brad Tandy	South Africa	20.94
4	2	Simonas Bilis	Lithuania	20.99	NR
5	8	Paweł Juraszek	Poland	21.00
6	6	Cameron McEvoy	Australia	21.02
7	7	César Cielo	Brazil	21.20
	5	Ben Proud	United Kingdom	DSQ