Swimming at the 2025 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre freestyle

Men's 50 metre freestyle at the 2025 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	World Aquatics Championships Arena
Location	Singapore Sports Hub, Kallang
Dates	1 August (heats and semifinals) 2 August (final)
Competitors	116 from 108 nations
Winning time	21.14
Medalists
Cameron McEvoy    Australia   Ben Proud    Great Britain   Jack Alexy    United States
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The men's 50 metre freestyle event at the 2025 World Aquatics Championships was held from 1 to 2 August 2025 at the World Aquatics Championships Arena at the Singapore Sports Hub in Kallang, Singapore. ^{[1] [2]}

Background

Cam McEvoy of Australia, the reigning Olympic champion and world leader with a 21.30 in 2025, was widely regarded as the favourite to win the event, while Great Britain's Ben Proud, a consistent podium finisher since 2022, was anticipated to contend for gold. The United States' Jack Alexy, second in world rankings with 21.36, was aiming to return to form after missing the U.S. Olympic team in 2024. Brazil's Gui Caribé and Russia's Egor Kornev, who was competing for the Neutral Athletes B team, were also chasing podium finishes. The defending world champion was Vladislav Bukhov of Ukraine, though his recent results had been inconsistent. ^[3]

Qualification

Further information: Swimming at the 2025 World Aquatics Championships § Qualification

Each National Federation was permitted to enter a maximum of two qualified athletes in each individual event, but they could do so only if both of them had attained the "A" standard qualification time at approved qualifying events. For this event, the "A" standard qualification time was 22.05 seconds. Federations could enter one athlete into the event if they met the "B" standard qualification time. For this event, the "B" standard qualification time was 22.82. Athletes could also enter the event if they had met an "A" or "B" standard in a different event and their Federation had not entered anyone else. Additional considerations applied to Federations who had few swimmers enter through the standard qualification times. Federations in this category could at least enter two men and two women to the competition, all of whom could enter into up to two events. ^{[4] [5]}

Top 10 fastest qualification times ^{[note 1] [6] [2]}

Swimmer	Country	Time	Competition
Cameron McEvoy	Australia	21.25	2024 Summer Olympics
Benjamin Proud	Great Britain	21.25	2024 British Championships
Jack Alexy	United States	21.36	2025 United States Championships
Egor Kornev	Neutral Athletes B	21.43	2025 Russian Championships
Guilherme Caribé	Brazil	21.46	2025 Brazilian Championships
Josh Liendo	Canada	21.48	2024 Canadian Trials
Leonardo Deplano	Italy	21.50	2024 Summer Olympics
Meiron Cheruti	Israel	21.60	2025 Israeli Trials
Maxime Grousset	France	21.60	2024 Summer Olympics
Lorenzo Zazzeri	Italy	21.64	2024 Summer Olympics

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows. ^[7]

World record	César Cielo  (BRA)	20.91	São Paulo, Brazil	18 December 2009
Competition record	Caeleb Dressel  (USA)	21.04	Gwangju, South Korea	27 July 2019

Heats

The heats took place on 1 August 2025 at 10:51. ^{[8] [9]}

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	12	7	Andrej Barna	Serbia	21.44	Q, NR
2	11	4	Jack Alexy	United States	21.52	Q
2	13	5	Egor Kornev	Neutral Athletes B	21.52	Q
4	12	4	Cameron McEvoy	Australia	21.53	Q
5	13	3	Leonardo Deplano	Italy	21.62	Q
6	12	3	Meiron Cheruti	Israel	21.64	Q
7	12	5	Guilherme Caribé	Brazil	21.67	Q
8	13	4	Ben Proud	Great Britain	21.71	Q
9	10	1	Ji Yu-chan	South Korea	21.80	Q
10	12	1	Ian Ho	Hong Kong	21.82	Q, NR [10]
11	11	0	Szebasztián Szabó	Hungary	21.83	Q
11	12	6	Vladyslav Bukhov	Ukraine	21.83	Q
13	13	0	Jere Hribar	Croatia	21.86	Q
14	13	6	Lorenzo Zazzeri	Italy	21.87	Q
14	13	7	Thomas Fannon	Ireland	21.87	Q
16	10	5	Martin Kartavi	Israel	21.91	S/off
16	13	2	Santo Condorelli	United States	21.91	S/off
18	11	1	Kliment Kolesnikov	Neutral Athletes B	21.95
19	10	9	Mikel Schreuders	Aruba	22.02
20	10	7	Lamar Taylor	Bahamas	22.05	NR
20	11	6	Kyle Chalmers	Australia	22.05
22	10	8	Sergio de Celis	Spain	22.06
22	11	2	Stergios Bilas	Greece	22.06
22	12	0	Renzo Tjon-A-Joe	Netherlands	22.06
22	12	2	Nikita Baez	France	22.06
26	12	8	Diogo Ribeiro	Portugal	22.08
27	10	0	Heiko Gigler	Austria	22.12
28	13	9	Jacob Mills	Great Britain	22.15
29	10	4	Mikkel Lee	Singapore	22.18
30	9	6	Matej Duša	Slovakia	22.22
30	11	5	Josh Liendo	Canada	22.22
32	9	0	Jānis Dzirkalis	Latvia	22.27	NR [11]
32	9	5	Elias Persson	Sweden	22.27
34	10	3	Božo Puhalović	Croatia	22.28
35	9	2	David Young	Fiji	22.32
36	11	8	Abdelrahman Sameh	Egypt	22.35
37	11	7	Victor Alcará	Brazil	22.37
38	8	4	Samyar Abdoli	Iran	22.41	NR
38	10	6	Akira Namba	Japan	22.41
40	9	4	Remi Fabiani	Luxembourg	22.42
41	9	3	Bjørnar Laskerud	Norway	22.48
41	10	2	Kaloyan Bratanov	Bulgaria	22.48
43	12	9	Dylan Carter	Trinidad and Tobago	22.51
44	13	8	Piotr Ludwiczak	Poland	22.52
45	8	7	Leo Nolles	Uruguay	22.60
46	9	1	Daniel Zaitsev	Estonia	22.64
47	9	8	Ali Sayed	Qatar	22.72
48	8	6	Marwane Sebbata	Morocco	22.73	NR [12]
49	8	5	Frederik Lentz	Denmark	22.76
50	8	3	Jakub Krischke	Czech Republic	22.79
51	8	2	Javier Núñez	Dominican Republic	22.82
52	9	9	Adilbek Mussin	Kazakhstan	22.84
53	9	7	Tajus Juška	Lithuania	22.88
54	8	8	Gabriel Martinez	Honduras	23.02
55	8	0	Harry Stacey	Ghana	23.05
56	2	8	William Birkett	Ecuador	23.17
57	8	9	Stefano Mitchell	Antigua and Barbuda	23.18
58	6	4	Damien Shamambo	Zambia	23.42	NR [12]
59	7	6	Constantin Malachi	Moldova	23.44
60	7	4	Grisi Koxhaku	Albania	23.47
61	7	2	Julio Rodríguez	Panama	23.48
62	2	6	Erick Blandón	Nicaragua	23.57	NR
63	6	5	Musa Zhalayev	Turkmenistan	23.71
64	7	5	Yousuf Al-Matrooshi	United Arab Emirates	23.77
65	1	7	Clinton Opute	Nigeria	23.79
65	7	7	Johann Stickland	Samoa	23.79
67	6	7	Mohamed Aan Hussain	Maldives	23.81	NR [12]
68	6	6	Aryaan Din	Pakistan	23.87
69	7	8	Adam Moncherry	Seychelles	23.88	NR [12]
70	7	0	Tendo Mukalazi	Uganda	23.92
71	1	2	Alexandre Grand'Pierre	Haiti	23.97
72	7	9	Belly-Cresus Ganira	Burundi	23.99
73	6	1	Aaron Ghebre Owusu	Eritrea	24.17
74	6	3	Joash McKonie	Zimbabwe	24.21
75	6	2	Christien Kelly	Barbados	24.27
76	5	5	Levon Kocharyan	Armenia	24.42
77	3	7	Jeno Heyns	Suriname	24.44
77	4	3	Joel Ling	Brunei	24.44
79	5	4	Janel Yondu Tati	Angola	24.52
80	3	0	Mahmoud Abu Gharbieh	Palestine	24.55
81	5	3	Ardasher Gadoev	Tajikistan	24.63
82	6	8	Josh Tarere	Papua New Guinea	24.73
83	6	0	Ando Francky Ramiakatrarivo	Madagascar	24.80
84	5	6	Kazuumi Nestor	Palau	24.88	NR [13]
85	5	2	Nigel Fontenelle	Sint Maarten	25.00
86	4	2	Jose Tati	Cape Verde	25.09
87	2	5	Ajal Kaji Tamrakar	Nepal	25.16
88	3	8	Michael Miller	Northern Mariana Islands	25.28
89	1	3	Pieter Sok Kha Vanoosten	Cambodia	25.52
90	2	7	Ahmed Al-Mutairy	Iraq	25.56
90	5	7	Ethan Gardiner	Turks and Caicos Islands	25.56
92	5	1	Camil Doua	Mauritania	25.76	NR [12]
93	5	0	Yousif Ibrahim	Sudan	25.87
94	5	8	Asher Banda	Malawi	25.92
95	5	9	Sangay Tenzin	Bhutan	26.11
96	4	5	Elhadj N'Gnane Diallo	Guinea	26.13	NR [12]
97	4	4	Leo Nzimbi	Central African Republic	26.23	NR [12]
98	4	7	Ousman Jobe	The Gambia	26.72	NR [12]
99	2	9	Lassina Bel Traore	Ivory Coast	26.84
100	3	9	Ryuto Saysanavongphet	Laos	26.99
101	2	3	Michael Mponezya Joseph	Tanzania	27.06
102	2	0	Yann Emmanuel Douma	Republic of the Congo	27.49
103	4	8	Charly Ndjoume	Cameroon	27.80
104	4	6	Magnim Jordano Daou	Togo	27.88
105	4	1	Phillip Kinono	Marshall Islands	27.90
106	3	1	Kevin Kaiga	Rwanda	27.92
107	2	2	Yusuf Marwan Abdullah Nasser	Yemen	28.00
108	2	1	Temkin Getachew	Ethiopia	28.14
108	4	9	Pedro Rogery	Guinea-Bissau	28.14	NR [12]
110	1	6	Jehu Matondo Bosange Zozo	Democratic Republic of the Congo	28.15	NR [12]
111	1	4	Brenton Naka	Solomon Islands	28.35
112	3	5	Sekou Alioune Badara Traore	Mali	28.57
113	3	6	Marouane Mamane Hamissou Abba	Niger	29.40
114	3	3	Jolanio Guterres	Timor-Leste	30.01
115	3	2	Thabo Motsopa	Lesotho	31.98
116	2	4	Jonathan Irizarry	Anguilla	37.68
	1	5	Fabio Barros dos Santos	São Tomé and Príncipe	Did not start
	3	4	Higinio Ndong Obama	Equatorial Guinea
	4	0	Moses Yongai	Sierra Leone
	6	9	Kyle Abeysinghe	Sri Lanka
	7	1	Alaa Maso	Athlete Refugee Team
	7	3	Oussama Sahnoune	Algeria
	8	1	Alexander Santiago	Puerto Rico
	11	3	Maxime Grousset	France
	11	9	Sean Niewold	Netherlands
	13	1	David Popovici	Romania

Swim-off

The swim-off was started on 1 August at 12:44. ^[14]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Santo Condorelli	United States	21.83	Q
2	4	Martin Kartavi	Israel	21.94

Semifinals

The semifinals took place on 1 August at 19:34. ^{[8] [15]}

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	1	5	Cameron McEvoy	Australia	21.30	Q
2	1	4	Jack Alexy	United States	21.32	Q
3	2	4	Andrej Barna	Serbia	21.45	Q
4	2	5	Egor Kornev	Neutral Athletes B	21.51	Q
5	2	3	Leonardo Deplano	Italy	21.59	Q
6	1	6	Ben Proud	Great Britain	21.61	Q
7	1	8	Santo Condorelli	United States	21.68	Q
8	1	3	Meiron Cheruti	Israel	21.77	S/off
8	2	2	Ji Yu-chan	South Korea	21.77	S/off
10	2	6	Guilherme Caribé	Brazil	21.78
11	2	1	Jere Hribar	Croatia	21.79
12	2	8	Thomas Fannon	Ireland	21.81
13	1	7	Vladyslav Bukhov	Ukraine	21.82
14	2	7	Szebasztián Szabó	Hungary	21.84
15	1	1	Lorenzo Zazzeri	Italy	21.87
16	1	2	Ian Ho	Hong Kong	22.15

Swim-off

The swim-off was started on 1 August at 20:58. ^[16]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Ji Yu-chan	South Korea	21.66	Q, AS
2	4	Meiron Cheruti	Israel	21.74

Final

The final took place on 2 August at 19:09. ^{[8] [17]}

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Cameron McEvoy	Australia	21.14
	7	Ben Proud	Great Britain	21.26
	5	Jack Alexy	United States	21.46
4	2	Leonardo Deplano	Italy	21.52
5	6	Egor Kornev	Neutral Athletes B	21.53
6	3	Andrej Barna	Serbia	21.60
7	8	Ji Yu-chan	South Korea	21.71
8	1	Santo Condorelli	United States	21.73

Notes

1. Only including swimmers who were on the start list for this event

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