Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre freestyle

Men's 50 metre freestyle
at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Men's 50 metre freestyle; at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Aquatics Centre,; Paris La Défense Arena
Dates	1 August 2024 (heats and semifinals); 2 August 2024 (final)
Competitors	73 from 64 nations
Winning time	21.25
Medalists
	← 2020 2028 →

Last updated December 31, 2024

Going into the competition, Australia's Cameron McEvoy was the favourite, while defending Olympic champion Caeleb Dressel and Ben Proud of Great Britain were also among the top contenders. In the final, Cameron McEvoy won gold, followed by Ben Proud with silver and Florent Manaudou of France winning bronze. National records for Ireland, Fiji and the Cayman Islands were set during the event, and Manaudou's podium finish made him the first swimmer ever to win four consecutive Olympic medals in the event.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:

World record	César Cielo (BRA)	20.91	São Paulo, Brazil	18 December 2009	^[2]^[3]
Olympic record	Caeleb Dressel (USA)	21.07	Tokyo, Japan	1 August 2021

Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was permitted to enter a maximum of two qualified athletes in each individual event, but only if both of them had attained the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT).^[4] For this event, the OQT was 21.96 seconds. World Aquatics then filled the rest of the event places with athletes qualifying through universality; NOCs were given one event entry for each gender, which could be used by any athlete regardless of qualification time, providing the spaces had not already been taken by athletes from that nation who had achieved the OQT.^[4]^[5] In total, 40 athletes qualified through achieving the OQT, while 35 athletes qualified through universality places.^[5]

Heats

10 heats took place on 1 August 2024, starting at 11:18.^[a] The swimmers with the best 16 times in the heats advanced to the semifinals.^[6] McEvoy swam 21.32 seconds to claim the fastest swim of the heats.^[7] The Caymanian Jordan Crooks finished in 21.51 seconds to claim second, and Florent Manaudou swam the third fastest time of 21.54 seconds.^[8] Thomas Fannon of Ireland claimed a new national record of 21.79 seconds, which bettered Shane Ryan's mark set a month earlier at the European Championships by 0.03 seconds.^[9] Crooks also set a national record, beating his own time by 0.22 seconds.^[10] The final national record of the heats came from David Young, who set Fiji's national record at 22.71, beating his previous national record of 22.87.^[11]^[12]

Results^[1]
Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	10	4	Cameron McEvoy	Australia	21.32	Q
2	10	7	Jordan Crooks	Cayman Islands	21.51	Q, NR
3	8	5	Florent Manaudou	France	21.54	Q
4	10	1	Lorenzo Zazzeri	Italy	21.64	Q
5	9	4	Ben Proud	Great Britain	21.70	Q
6	6	7	Tom Fannon	Ireland	21.79	Q, NR
6	8	7	Leonardo Deplano	Italy	21.79	Q
8	9	8	Ben Armbruster	Australia	21.86	Q
8	10	2	Kristian Gkolomeev	Greece	21.86	Q
10	8	8	Meiron Cheruti	Israel	21.88	Q
11	8	4	Vladyslav Bukhov	Ukraine	21.89	Q
11	10	6	Gabriel Castaño	Mexico	21.89	Q
13	7	5	Diogo Ribeiro	Portugal	21.91	Q
13	10	5	Caeleb Dressel	United States	21.91	Q
15	9	5	Joshua Liendo	Canada	21.92	Q
16	9	3	Maxime Grousset	France	21.94	Q
17	10	3	Chris Guiliano	United States	21.97
18	9	7	Stergios Bilas	Greece	22.00
19	7	1	Martin Kartavi	Israel	22.01
19	7	4	Taiko Torepe-Ormsby	New Zealand	22.01
21	9	1	Alberto Mestre	Venezuela	22.02
22	6	2	Jere Hribar	Croatia	22.08
23	7	3	Renzo Tjon-A-Joe	Netherlands	22.10
24	9	6	Szebasztián Szabó	Hungary	22.12
24	10	8	Ian Ho	Hong Kong	22.12
26	6	6	Mikel Schreuders	Aruba	22.14
27	8	2	Kenzo Simons	Netherlands	22.15
28	9	2	Ji Yu-chan	South Korea	22.16
29	8	6	Dylan Carter	Trinidad and Tobago	22.18
30	7	2	Andrej Barna	Serbia	22.19
31	8	3	Björn Seeliger	Sweden	22.21
32	6	5	Jonathan Tan	Singapore	22.26
33	6	4	Alexander Cohoon	Great Britain	22.31
33	7	6	Guilherme Caribé	Brazil	22.31
35	7	7	Piotr Ludwiczak	Poland	22.34
36	6	3	Miguel Nascimento	Portugal	22.49
37	6	1	Nicholas Lia	Norway	22.51
38	7	8	Artem Selin	Germany	22.54
39	6	8	Matej Duša	Slovakia	22.64
40	5	6	David Young	Fiji	22.71	NR
41	5	5	Kyle Micallef	Malta	22.89
42	4	2	Thierry Bollin	Switzerland	22.95
43	5	3	Tobi Sijuade	Nigeria	23.34
44	5	4	Evgenii Somov	Individual Neutral Athletes	23.43
45	5	1	Alex Joachim	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	23.59
46	4	5	Belly-Cresus Ganira	Burundi	23.80
47	5	2	Alaa Maso	Refugee Olympic Team	23.90
48	5	7	Damien Shamambo	Zambia	24.09
49	5	8	Filipe Gomes	Malawi	24.11
50	4	4	Mohamed Aan Hussain	Maldives	24.22
51	4	6	Aaron Ghebre Owusu	Eritrea	24.25
52	4	3	Warren Lawrence	Dominica	24.67
53	4	7	Jion Hosei	Palau	25.67
54	4	1	Houmed Houssein Barkat	Djibouti	26.00
55	4	8	Camil Doua	Mauritania	26.02
56	3	4	Fakhriddin Madkamov	Tajikistan	26.23
57	3	3	Elhadj N'Gnane Diallo	Guinea	26.45
58	3	8	Magnim Jordano Daou	Togo	26.56
59	3	5	Souleymane Napare	Burkina Faso	26.66
59	3	6	Jose Tati	Cape Verde	26.66
61	3	2	Ousman Jobe	The Gambia	26.97
62	3	7	Joshua Wyse	Sierra Leone	27.11
63	3	1	Fahim Anwari	Afghanistan	27.14
64	2	5	Phillip Kinono	Marshall Islands	27.43
65	2	6	Freddy Mayala	Republic of the Congo	27.52
66	1	4	Pedro Rogery	Guinea-Bissau	28.34
67	2	7	Higinio Ndong Obama	Equatorial Guinea	28.42
68	2	3	Adam Mpali	Gabon	28.47
69	2	2	Troy Nisbett	Saint Kitts and Nevis	28.71
70	2	4	Aristote Ndombe Impelenga	Democratic Republic of the Congo	29.04
71	2	1	Jolanio Guterres	Timor-Leste	30.04
72	1	3	Marouane Mamane Hamissou Abba	Niger	30.66
73	1	5	Terence Tengue	Central African Republic	30.96
	8	1	Shane Ryan	Ireland	Did not start

Semifinals

Two semifinals took place on 1 August, starting at 20:46. The swimmers with the best 8 times in the semifinals advanced to the final.^[13] Proud and McEvoy both finished in 21.38 seconds to take the joint fastest seed, while Leonardo Deplano of Italy clocked 21.50 seconds for the third fastest time. Also among the qualifiers were Crooks, Dressel, Kristian Gkolomeev and Florent Manaudou of France.^[14] France's Maxime Grousset also originally qualified with the sixth fastest time, but he withdrew which allowed Josh Liendo of Canada to qualify.^[15] Thomas Fannon of Ireland set another national record of 21.74 seconds, beating his national record set in the heats by 0.05 seconds to finish tenth.^[16]

Results^[17]
Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	2	3	Ben Proud	Great Britain	21.38	Q
1	2	4	Cameron McEvoy	Australia	21.38	Q
3	2	6	Leonardo Deplano	Italy	21.50	Q
4	1	4	Jordan Crooks	Cayman Islands	21.54	Q
5	1	1	Caeleb Dressel	United States	21.58	Q
6	1	8	Maxime Grousset	France	21.60	WD^[15]
7	2	2	Kristian Gkolomeev	Greece	21.62	Q
8	2	5	Florent Manaudou	France	21.64	Q
9	2	8	Josh Liendo	Canada	21.69	q
10	1	3	Thomas Fannon	Ireland	21.74	NR
11	2	7	Vladyslav Bukhov	Ukraine	21.76
12	1	5	Lorenzo Zazzeri	Italy	21.83
13	1	2	Meiron Cheruti	Israel	21.91
14	1	6	Ben Armbruster	Australia	21.94
15	1	7	Gabriel Castaño	Mexico	21.99
16	2	1	Diogo Ribeiro	Portugal	22.01

Final

Race

The final took place at 20:30 on 2 August.^[18] Australia's Cameron McEvoy had the fastest reaction time of 0.56 seconds, however by 15 metres Caeleb Dressel of the USA had taken first place with a stronger dive and underwater; McEvoy had dropped to fifth. Great Britain's Ben Proud and Jordan Crooks of the Cayman Islands were second and third respectively.^[19]

At 25 metres, the order of the top three was the same, but by 45 metres McEvoy had elevated himself from fourth to first. Proud retained his second place position, and was 0.26 seconds ahead of Crooks in third. Over the last five metres, McEvoy and Proud retained their positions to win gold and silver, while France's Florent Manaudou overtook Crooks to claim the bronze.^[19]^[20] Canada's Josh Liendo finished fourth, missing out on a medal by 0.02 seconds.^[21]

The gold was McEvoy's first Olympic medal in an individual event, and it was Proud's first Olympic medal in any event.^[20] Manaudou's podium finish made him the first swimmer ever to win four consecutive Olympic medals in the event, which he achieved in front of his home crowd.^[22] The average age of the medalists was 30 years old.^[23]

Results^[24]
Rank	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time
	5	Cameron McEvoy	Australia	21.25
	4	Ben Proud	Great Britain	21.30
	1	Florent Manaudou	France	21.56
4	8	Josh Liendo	Canada	21.58
5	7	Kristian Gkolomeev	Greece	21.59
6	2	Caeleb Dressel	United States	21.61
7	3	Leonardo Deplano	Italy	21.62
8	6	Jordan Crooks	Cayman Islands	21.64

Metrics^[25]
Name	Underwater distance (m)	Underwater speed (m/s)	15 metre split (s)	25 metre split (s)	Time (s)	Stroke rate (strokes/min)
Cameron McEvoy	12.04	3.70	5.11	9.59	21.25	63.1
Ben Proud	13.15	3.86	5.02	9.54	21.30	62.1
Florent Manaudou	13.24	3.75	5.10	9.62	21.56	60.4
Josh Liendo	14.34	3.57	5.21	9.83	21.58	60.9
Kristian Gkolomeev	10.19	3.85	5.27	9.82	21.59	59.5
Caeleb Dressel	14.06	3.84	4.97	9.50	21.61	64.0
Leonardo Deplano	11.65	3.81	5.28	9.79	21.62	66.5
Jordan Crooks	14.67	3.79	5.02	9.60	21.64	61.2

Notes

↑ All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

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v t e Olympic champions in men's 50 m freestyle
50 yards	1904: Zoltán Halmay (HUN)
50 metres	1988: Matt Biondi (USA) 1992: Alexander Popov (EUN) 1996: Alexander Popov (RUS) 2000: Anthony Ervin / Gary Hall Jr. (USA) 2004: Gary Hall Jr. (USA) 2008: César Cielo (BRA) 2012: Florent Manaudou (FRA) 2016: Anthony Ervin (USA) 2020: Caeleb Dressel (USA) 2024: Cameron McEvoy (AUS)

Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics

Qualification
Freestyle
50 m	men		women
100 m	men		women
200 m	men		women
400 m	men		women
800 m	men		women
1500 m	men		women
Backstroke
100 m	men		women
200 m	men		women
Breaststroke
100 m	men		women
200 m	men		women
Butterfly
100 m	men		women
200 m	men		women
Individual medley
200 m	men		women
400 m	men		women
Freestyle relay
4 × 100 m	men		women
4 × 200 m	men		women
Medley relay
4 × 100 m	men	mixed	women
Marathon
10 km	men		women
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