The Men's 50 metre butterfly competition of the 2022 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 13 and 14 December 2022.

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

The following new records were set during this competition: Date Event Name Nationality Time Record 14 December Final Nicholas Santos 21.78 CR

Results Heats The heats were started on 13 December at 12:12.

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 9 2 Noè Ponti 22.01 Q, NR 1 10 3 Teong Tzen Wei 22.01 Q, AS 3 10 4 Szebasztián Szabó 22.07 Q 4 8 4 Dylan Carter 22.11 Q 5 10 6 Marius Kusch 22.19 Q 6 10 1 Matthew Temple 22.30 Q 7 8 5 Chad le Clos 22.31 Q 8 8 6 Ilya Kharun 22.32 Q, WJ, NR 8 10 5 Matteo Rivolta 22.32 Q 10 7 4 Michael Andrew 22.34 Q 11 8 3 Takeshi Kawamoto 22.38 Q 12 10 2 Daniel Zaitsev 22.41 Q 13 9 1 Simon Bucher 22.44 Q, NR 14 9 4 Nicholas Santos 22.46 Q 15 9 7 Youssef Ramadan 22.50 Q, NR 16 8 7 Florent Manaudou 22.53 16 9 3 Nyls Korstanje 22.53 18 8 2 Yuya Tanaka 22.54 19 9 5 Thomas Ceccon 22.57 20 5 6 Karol Ostrowski 22.71 21 9 6 Ümitcan Güreş 22.75 22 9 8 Jakub Majerski 22.80 23 5 4 Mario Mollà 22.83 24 6 8 Jan Šefl 22.84 25 6 3 Gabriel Santos 22.89 26 5 7 Meiron Cheruti 22.90 26 6 5 Nikola Miljenić 22.90 26 7 6 Cameron Gray 22.90 29 7 8 Andrii Govorov 22.92 30 10 7 Nicholas Lia 23.00 31 7 3 Oskar Hoff 23.01 32 6 7 Adilbek Mussin 23.09 NR 33 8 8 Abdelrahman Sameh 23.11 34 6 4 Josif Miladinov 23.17 35 5 3 Lewis Burras 23.18 36 7 1 Ng Cheuk Yin 23.19 37 7 2 Ádám Halás 23.29 38 5 1 Julien Henx 23.30 38 7 7 Kristian Gkolomeev 23.30 40 6 1 Ben Hockin 23.32 40 10 8 José Martínez 23.32 42 6 6 Daniel Gracík 23.36 43 5 5 Clayton Jimmie 23.41 44 7 5 Alberto Lozano 23.43 45 5 8 Eldor Usmonov 23.50 46 6 2 Artur Barseghyan 23.65 47 5 2 Wang Kuan-hung 23.68 48 4 5 Jesse Ssengonzi 23.79 NR 49 2 6 Andrei Anghel 23.85 50 4 4 Abeku Jackson 23.87 51 4 6 Bernat Lomero 24.29 52 4 2 Ayman Kelzi 24.34 NR 53 4 8 Kokoro Frost 25.03 54 3 3 Epeli Herbert Jordan Rabua 25.60 55 3 5 Filipe Gomes 25.90 56 1 4 Aryen Muravvej Suspended Member Federation 26.59 57 3 6 Alassane Seydou Lancina 26.63 58 3 2 Nathaniel Noka 26.85 59 3 7 Troy Pina 26.90 60 1 5 Shahbaz Khan 27.41 61 2 2 Travis Dui Sakurai 28.20 62 3 1 Fahim Anwari 28.48 63 3 8 Simanga Dlamini 28.70 64 1 3 Pap Jonga 29.20 65 2 3 Ezuldeen Qatat 29.48 66 2 5 Magnim Jordano Daou 34.76 3 4 Aidan Carroll 2 4 Ibrahim Mohamed 2 7 Sheku Bangura 4 1 Matthew Lawrence 4 3 Lamar Taylor 4 7 Akalanka Peiris 8 1 Chen Juner

Swim-off The swim-off was held on 13 December at 13:33. Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Florent Manaudou 22.31 Q 2 5 Nyls Korstanje 22.35

Semifinals The semifinals were started on 13 December at 19:55.

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 2 5 Szebasztián Szabó 21.90 Q 2 1 5 Dylan Carter 22.02 Q 3 2 4 Noè Ponti 22.04 Q 4 1 1 Nicholas Santos 22.08 Q 5 2 6 Chad le Clos 22.09 Q 6 2 3 Marius Kusch 22.14 Q 7 1 4 Teong Tzen Wei 22.18 Q 8 1 6 Ilya Kharun 22.28 , WJ, NR 8 1 7 Daniel Zaitsev 22.28 , NR 10 2 8 Youssef Ramadan 22.32 NR 11 2 1 Simon Bucher 22.35 NR 12 1 3 Matthew Temple 22.37 12 1 8 Florent Manaudou 22.37 14 1 2 Michael Andrew 22.47 15 2 7 Takeshi Kawamoto 22.50 2 2 Matteo Rivolta

Swim-off The swim-off was held on 14 December at 10:55.

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 Daniel Zaitsev 22.15 Q, NR 2 4 Ilya Kharun 22.28 =WJ, =NR

Final The final was held on 14 December at 21:20.Final results

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 6 Nicholas Santos 21.78 CR 3 Noè Ponti 21.96 NR 4 Szebasztián Szabó 21.98 4 1 Teong Tzen Wei 22.01 =AS 5 2 Chad le Clos 22.11 6 5 Dylan Carter 22.14 7 7 Marius Kusch 22.17 8 8 Daniel Zaitsev 22.38

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