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

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 Semis) 2 August 2004 (Final)
Competitors	75 from 65 nations
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The men's 50 metre freestyle event at the 2024 Summer Olympics will be held from August 1 to August 2 2024 at the Paris Aquatics Centre. ^[1]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing records were as follows.

Record	Time	Name	Nation	Event	Date	Notes
World	21.07	Caeleb Dressel	United States	2020 Tokyo	1 August 2021
Olympic

Qualification

Main article: Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification

A National Olympic Committee (NOC) may enter a maximum of two qualified athletes in each individual event, but only if both of them have attained the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT). One athlete per event can potentially enter if they meet the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT), or if the total quota of 852 athletes has not been targeted. NOCs may also permit swimmers regardless of time (one per gender) under a Universality place since they have no swimmers attaining either of the standard entry times (OQT/OCT). ^{[2] [3]}

Following the end of the qualification window, World Aquatics will assess the number of swimmers who have achieved the OQT, the number of relay-only swimmers, and the number of Universality places, before inviting those with OCT to fulfill the total quota of 852. Additionally, OCT places will be distributed by event according to the position of the World Aquatics Rankings during the qualifying deadline. ^[2]

Time standards

The qualifying time standards must be obtained at the 2023 and 2024 World Championships, continental championships, continental swimming meets, national championships and selection trials, and various international meets approved by World Aquatics in the period between 1 March 2023 and 23 June 2024. ^[4]

The following table outlines the qualifying time standards for Paris 2024 for this event:

Men's events
Event	OQT*	OCT^
50 m freestyle	21.96	22.07

* OQTs correspond to the time achieved by a fourteenth-place swimmer in his or her respective preliminary heat of each event at the previous Games.

ª Because the fourteenth-place swimmer achieved a standard slower than the OQT in Tokyo 2020, the OQT used at the previous Games will remain constant.

^ OCTs are derived by adding 0.5% of the OQT standard.

Competition format

The competition consists of three rounds: heats, semifinals, and a final. The swimmers with the best 16 times in the heats advance to the semifinals. The swimmers with the best 8 times in the semifinals advance to the final. Swim-offs are used as necessary to break ties for advancement to the next round.

Schedule

All times are Central European time (UTC+1)

Date	Time	Round
August 1 2024	10:00	Heats
	19:37	Semifinals
August 2 2024	17:30	Final

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
			Fahim Anwari	Afghanistan
			Alaa Masoo	Refugee Olympic Team
			Mikel Schreuders	Aruba
			Ben Armbruster	Australia
			Cam McEvoy	Australia
			Belly-Cresus Ganira	Burundi
			Guilherme Caribé	Brazil
			Souleymane Napare	Burkina Faso
			Terence Tengue	Central African Republic
			Joshua Liendo	Canada
			Jordan Crooks	Cayman Islands
			Freddy Mayala	Republic of the Congo
			Pan Zhanle	China
			Aristote Ndombe Impelenga	Democratic Republic of the Congo
			Jose Tati	Cape Verde
			Jere Hribar	Croatia
			Houmed Houssein Barkat	Djibouti
			Warren Adam Lawrence	Dominica
			Aaron Ghebre Owusu	Eritrea
			David Young	Fiji
			Maxime Grousset	France
			Florent Manaudou	France
			Adam Mpali	Gabon
			Ousman Jobe	The Gambia
			Alexander Cohoon	Great Britain
			Benjamin Proud	Great Britain
			Pedro Rogery	Guinea-Bissau
			Higinio Ndong Obama	Equatorial Guinea
			Artem Selin	Germany
			Stergios Marios Bilas	Greece
			Kristian Gkolomeev	Greece
			Elhadj N'Gnane Diallo	Guinea
			Ian Yentou Ho	Hong Kong
			Szebasztian Szabo	Hungary
			Thomas Fannon	Ireland
			Shane Ryan	Ireland
			Meiron Amir Cheruti	Israel
			Martin Kartavi	Israel
			Leonardo Deplano	Italy
			Lorenzo Zazzeri	Italy
			Yuchan Ji	South Korea
			Filipe Gomes	Malawi
			Mohamed Aan Hussain	Maldives
			Gabriel Castaño	Mexico
			Phillip Kinono	Marshall Islands
			Kyle Micallef	Malta
			Camil Doua	Mauritania
			Kenzo Simons	Netherlands
			Renzo Tjon-A-Joe	Netherlands
			Oluwatobiloba Adeope Sijuade	Nigeria
			Evgenii Somov	Individual Neutral Athletes
			Marouane Mamane Hamissou Abba	Niger
			Nicholas Lia	Norway
			Taiko Torepe-Ormsby	New Zealand
			Jion Hosei	Palau
			Piotr Ludwiczak	Poland
			Diogo Matos Ribeiro	Portugal
			Miguel Nascimento	Portugal
			Jonathan Eu Jin Tan	Singapore
			Troy Nisbett	Saint Kitts and Nevis
			Joshua Wyse	Sierra Leone
			Andrej Barna	Serbia
			Thierry Bollin	Switzerland
			Matej Dusa	Slovakia
			Bjoern Seeliger	Sweden
			Fakhriddin Madkamov	Tajikistan
			Jolanio Guterres	East Timor
			Magnim Jordano Daou	Togo
			Dylan Carter	Trinidad and Tobago
			Vladyslav Bukhov	Ukraine
			Caeleb Dressel	United States
			Chris Guiliano	United States
			Alberto Mestre	Venezuela
			Alex Joachim	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
			Damien Shamambo	Zambia

Semifinals

The swimmers with the best 8 times, regardless of heat, advanced to the final.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes

Final

Rank	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes

References

1. "Competition Schedule | World Aquatics Official". World Aquatics. Retrieved 2024-07-16.
2. "Paris 2024 – Swimming Info". World Aquatics. 5 April 2022. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
3. Rieder, David (3 April 2022). "Event Changes Likely as Paris 2024 Moves to Nine-Day Schedule of Finals". Swimming World Magazine . Retrieved 12 November 2022.
4. "Paris 2024 - Swimming Info". World Aquatics. 3 October 2022.