2025 World Para Swimming Championships – Men's 50 metre butterfly

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The men's 50 metre butterfly events at the 2025 World Para Swimming Championships were held at the Singapore Aquatic Centre between 21 and 27 September 2025. Three events will be held over this distance. ^[1]

Schedule

The 50 metre butterfly events for men will be held across the following schedule:

men's 50 metre butterfly

Day	Date	Classifications
Day 1	21 Sept
Day 2	22 Sept
Day 3	23 Sept [2] [3]	S5
Day 4	24 Sept
Day 5	25 Sept	S7
Day 6	26 Sept
Day 7	27 Sept	S6

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
S5	Guo Jincheng   China	Samuel de Oliveira   Brazil	Yuan Weiyi   China
S6	Nelson Crispín   Colombia	Laurent Chardard   France	Vladyslav Koshman   Ukraine
S7	Andrii Trusov   Ukraine	Carlos Serrano Zárate   Colombia	Christian Sadie   South Africa

Race summaries

S5

The men's 50 metre butterfly S5 event will be held on 23 September. Twelve swimmers will take part, with the top eight progressing to the final. ^[1]

The relevant records at the beginning of the event were as follows: ^[4]

Record	Athlete	Time	Date	City	Country
World	Guo Jincheng  (CHN)	0:30.28	2024-09-06	Paris	France
Championship	Samuel de Oliveira  (BRA)	0:31.21	2023-08-02	Manchester	United Kingdom
African	Hani Abdelsalam  (EGY)	0:42.59	2017-12-03	Mexico City	Mexico
Americas	Samuel de Oliveira  (BRA)	0:31.21	2023-08-02	Manchester	United Kingdom
Asian	Guo Jincheng  (CHN)	0:30.28	2024-09-06	Paris	France
European	Yaroslav Semenenko  (UKR)	0:33.22	2019-09-12	London	United Kingdom
Oceania	Cameron Leslie  (NZL)	0:43.11	2010-08-16	Eindhoven	Netherlands

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Athlete	Time	Note
1	2	4	Guo Jincheng  (CHN)	32.08	Q
2	2	5	Samuel de Oliveira  (BRA)	32.43	Q
3	1	6	Artem Oliinyk  (UKR)	34.36	Q
4	2	3	Tiago de Oliveria Rerreira  (BRA)	34.50	Q
5	1	5	Eigo Tanaka  (JPN)	34.61	Q
6	1	4	Yuan Weiyi  (CHN)	34.99	Q
7	1	3	Kaede Hinata  (JPN)	35.75	Q
8	2	2	Oleksandr Komarov  (UKR)	36.14	Q
9	1	7	Kirill Pulver  (AIN)	36.24	R
10	2	6	Sebastian Massabie  (CAN)	36.27	R
11	1	2	Koral Berkin Kutlu  (TUR)	36.45
12	2	7	Ismail Zulfic  (BIH)	37.14

Final

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Time	Note
	4	Guo Jincheng  (CHN)	31.28
	5	Samuel de Oliveira  (BRA)	31.98
	7	Yuan Weiyi  (CHN)	32.12
4	2	Eigo Tanaka  (JPN)	33.38
5	6	Tiago de Oliveria Rerreira  (BRA)	33.88
6	3	Artem Oliinyk  (UKR)	34.16
7	1	Kaede Hinata  (JPN)	35.78
8	8	Oleksandr Komarov  (UKR)	36.83

S6

The men's 50 metre butterfly S6 event was held on 27 September. Fifteen swimmers took part, with the top eight progressing to the final. ^[1] The relevant records at the beginning of the event were as follows: ^[4]

Record	Athlete	Time	Date	City	Country
World	Xu Qing  (CHN)	0:29.89	2016-09-09	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil
Championship	Zheng Tao  (CHN)	0:29.95	2013-08-17	Montreal	Canada
African	Kabelo Zwane  (RSA)	0:35.37	2019-04-26	Glasgow	United Kingdom
Americas	Nelson Crispín  (COL)	0:30.82	2017-12-06	Mexico City	Mexico
Asian	Xu Qing  (CHN)	0:29.89	2016-09-09	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil
European	Laurent Chardard  (FRA)	0:31.03	2023-08-06	Manchester	United Kingdom
Oceania	Matthew Haanappel  (AUS)	0:33.81	2014-08-06	Pasadena	United States

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Athlete	Class	Result	Notes
1	2	4	Nelson Crispín  (COL)	S6	31.89	Q
2	1	5	Vladyslav Koshman  (UKR)	S6	32.48	Q
3	1	4	Laurent Chardard  (FRA)	S6	32.56	Q
4	1	6	Santiago León  (COL)	S6	32.81	Q
5	2	3	Yang Hong  (CHN)	S6	33.01	Q
6	2	2	Luo Yanbo  (CHN)	S6	33.12	Q
7	2	5	Gabriel Meloni  (BRA)	S6	33.29	Q
8	1	2	Bruce Dee  (GBR)	S6	33.45	Q
9	2	7	Aekkarin Noithat  (THA)	S6	33.48
10	1	3	David Sanchez Sierra  (ESP)	S6	34.02
11	1	1	Gary Bejino  (PHI)	S6	34.21
12	2	1	Jesus Alberto Gutierrez  (MEX)	S6	34.67
13	1	7	Zach Shattuck  (USA)	S6	36.06
14	2	8	Josué Rodrigo  (ESA)	S6	36.38
	2	6	Yerzhan Salimgereyev  (KAZ)	S6		DNS

Final

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Class	Result	Notes
	4	Nelson Crispín  (COL)	S6	31.39
	3	Laurent Chardard  (FRA)	S6	31.95
	5	Vladyslav Koshman  (UKR)	S6	31.96
4	7	Luo Yanbo  (CHN)	S6	32.68
5	6	Santiago León  (COL)	S6	32.71
6	2	Yang Hong  (CHN)	S6	32.84
7	1	Gabriel Meloni  (BRA)	S6	33.26
8	8	Bruce Dee  (GBR)	S6	33.74

S7

The men's 50 metre butterfly S7 event will be held on 25 September. Eleven swimmers will take part, with the top eight progressing to the final. ^[1] The relevant records at the beginning of the event were as follows: ^[4]

Record	Athlete	Time	Date	City	Country
World	Pan Shiyun  (CHN)	0:28.41	2016-09-12	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil
Championship	Andrii Trusov  (UKR)	0:28.92	2023-08-04	Manchester	United Kingdom
African	Christian Sadie  (RSA)	0:29.94	2024-04-25	Funchal	Portugal
Americas	Evan Austin  (USA)	0:28.98	2021-09-03	Tokyo	Japan
Asian	Pan Shiyun  (CHN)	0:28.41	2016-09-12	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil
European	Andrii Trusov  (UKR)	0:28.75	2024-09-07	Paris	France
Oceania	Matthew Levy  (AUS)	0:31.32	2016-09-12	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Athlete	Class	Result	Notes
1	1	4	Carlos Serrano Zárate  (COL)	S7	30.01	Q
2	2	4	Andrii Trusov  (UKR)	S7	30.03	Q
3	1	5	Christian Sadie  (RSA)	S7	30.32	Q
4	1	3	Sardor Bakhtiyorov  (UZB)	S7	31.84	Q
5	2	3	Wei Soong Toh  (SGP)	S7	32.46	Q
6	2	6	Huang Xianquan  (CHN)	S7	32.91	Q
7	1	2	Federico Bicelli  (ITA)	S7	34.31	Q
8	1	6	Jurijs Semjonovs  (LAT)	S7	34.65	Q
9	2	2	Adin Williams  (USA)	S7	34.71
10	2	7	Zaur Mushkudiani  (GEO)	S7	41.80
	2	5	Egor Efrosinin  (AIN)	S7		DSQ

Final

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Class	Result	Notes
	5	Andrii Trusov  (UKR)	S7	28.95
	4	Carlos Serrano Zárate  (COL)	S7	29.36
	3	Christian Sadie  (RSA)	S7	30.11
4	6	Sardor Bakhtiyorov  (UZB)	S7	31.46
5	2	Wei Soong Toh  (SGP)	S7	31.60
6	7	Huang Xianquan  (CHN)	S7	31.89
7	1	Federico Bicelli  (ITA)	S7	34.42
	8	Jurijs Semjonovs  (LAT)	S7		DSQ

References

1. Singapore 2025 Event guide
2. Frodyma, Terin (2025-09-23). "Four More WR Fall as Pavlova, Zhdanov, Kubiak & Yang Shine on Day Three of Para Worlds". SwimSwam. Retrieved 2025-09-24.
3. "Faye Rogers and Alice Tai win gold for GB at World Para Swimming Championships". BBC Sport. 2025-09-23. Retrieved 2025-09-24.
4. "Para Swimming Records". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2025-09-12.