The men's 50 metre butterfly at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships took place on 25 March (heats, a swim-off, and semifinals) and on the evening of 26 March (final) at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia. 160 swimmers were entered in the event, of which 152 swam.

Existing records at the start of the event were: World record (WR): 22.96, Roland Schoeman (South Africa), 25 July 2005 in Montreal, Canada. Championship record (CR): 22.96, Roland Schoeman (South Africa), Montreal 2005 (25 July 2005)

Results

Final Place Lane Swimmer Country Time Notes 1 4 Roland Schoeman 23.18 2 5 Ian Crocker 23.47 3 8 Jakob Andkjær 23.56 4 6 Albert Subirats Altes 23.57 5 3 Sergiy Breus 23.61 6 1 Milorad Čavić 23.70 7 2 Lars Frölander 23.86 8 7 Peter Mankoč 24.14

Semifinals Rank Heat/Lane Swimmer Country Time Note 1 S1-L4 Roland Schoeman 23.18 Q 2 H2-L4 Ian Crocker 23.42 Q 3 H2-L5 Sergiy Breus 23.53 Q 4 S1-L3 Albert Subirats Altes 23.59 Q 5 S1-L5 Lars Frölander 23.82 Q 6 H2-L8 Peter Mankoč 23.91 Q 7 H2-L3 Milorad Čavić 23.94 Q 8 S1-L6 Jakob Andkjær 23.99 Q (swim-off) 8 S1-L1 Lyndon Ferns 23.99 (swim-off) 10 H2-L1 Ryo Takayasu 24.03 11 S1-L2 Matti Rajakylä 24.10 11 S1-L7 Ryan Pini 24.10 13 H2-L6 Andriy Serdinov 24.12 14 S1-L8 Jernej Godec 24.26 15 H2-L7 Örn Arnarson 24.34 16 H2-L2 Matt Welsh 24.41 A swim-off for 8th place should have occurred between Jakob Andkjær and Lyndon Ferns who tied for 8th at 23.99; however, results from a semifinal swim-off in the event are not on the OmegaTiming site, nor in the "complete" result page. Andkjær did advance to the finals, as he swam there, and Ferns did not.

Heats Heat 1 Heat Rank Lane Swimmer Country Time OverallRank Note 1 3 Milorad Čavić 23.71 5 Q 2 8 Alois Patrice Kouadjo Dansou 27.79 112 3 4 Eric Chang 27.90 114 4 1 Raukura Waiti 28.81 129 5 7 Jamaal Sobers 28.99 133 6 6 Muwanguzi Myzafuru 31.44 138 7 5 Aimable Habimana 37.82 149 -- 2 Abdul-Fatawu Moro DNS --

Heat 2 Heat Rank Lane Swimmer Country Time OverallRank Note 1 8 Itai Chammah 26.07 78 2 6 Rahim Karmali 32.09 140 3 3 Ibrahim Areesh 33.52 143 4 5 Mohammed Al Qerbi 33.97 144 5 2 Mohamed Karsani 34.14 145 6 4 Aymard Lumuamu-Dimbu 34.32 147 7 7 Giordan Harris 35.63 148

Heat 3 Heat Rank Lane Swimmer Country Time OverallRank Note 1 4 Hazem Tashkandi 28.58 127 2 3 Madudzi Fanuwakme Xaba 28.93 T131 2 Nareth Sovan 4 5 Chakyl Camal 29.51 137 5 6 Mohamed Sharif 32.48 141 6 1 Ashraf Ahmed 34.30 146 -- 7 Stephenson Wallace DNS -- -- 8 Aiglay Dangassat-Sissoulou DNS --

Heat 4 Heat Rank Lane Swimmer Country Time OverallRank Note 1 3 Hisham Fadhul 27.94 115 2 6 Fadi Awesat Palestine 28.16 120 3 4 Hernan Bonsembiante 28.27 122 4 5 Walid Nasib Hilal Alkaabi 28.83 130 5 7 Kerson Hadley 29.03 134 6 1 Carlos Shimizu 29.32 135 7 2 Tony Augustine 29.45 136 8 8 Jamal Talib 32.87 142

Heat 5 Heat Rank Lane Swimmer Country Time OverallRank Note 1 2 Morgan Locke Virgin Islands 26.59 91 2 3 Hamza Abdo Palestine 27.77 111 3 6 Heimanu Sichan 28.15 119 4 1 Jean-Luc Augier 28.36 124 5 8 Zane Jordan 28.54 126 6 7 Daryl Harford 28.70 128 7 4 Samson Makere 31.94 139 -- 5 Ibrahim Maliki Amadou DNS --

Heat 6 Heat Rank Lane Swimmer Country Time OverallRank Note 1 6 Khaly Ciss 27.06 97 2 5 Niall Roberts 27.70 T109 3 7 Battushig Enkhtaivan 27.89 113 4 8 Bertrand Bristol 28.08 116 5 1 Monder Al-Jabali 28.10 117 6 4 Aleksey Klimenko 28.14 118 7 3 Tural Abbasov 28.32 123 8 2 Nasir Ali 28.39 125

Heat 7 Heat Rank Lane Swimmer Country Time OverallRank Note 1 8 Erik Rajohnson 26.68 92 2 4 Yassir Abalalla 27.09 98 3 3 Jonathan Calderon 27.16 101 4 7 Leonel dos Santos Matonse 27.41 104 5 5 Luke Hall 27.47 105 6 6 Naji Askia Ferguson 27.55 107 7 2 Marco Camargo Gonzalez 27.66 108 8 1 Jamie Zammitt 28.17 121

Heat 8 Heat Rank Lane Swimmer Country Time OverallRank Note 1 5 Xue-Wei Nicholas Tan 26.39 89 2 4 Javier Hernandez Maradiaga 26.75 93 3 2 Jared Heine 27.02 96 4 6 Manuel Alonso Yabar-Davila 27.12 99 5 3 Fernando Medrano Medina 27.34 102 6 7 Hong Nam Lei 27.39 103 7 1 Richard Randrianandraina 27.70 T109 -- 8 Essossimana Awizoba DNS --

Heat 9 Heat Rank Lane Swimmer Country Time OverallRank Note 1 8 Jose Emmanuel Crescimbeni 25.99 74 2 7 Zhirong Bryan Tay 26.00 75 3 4 Jose Enmanual Lobo Martinez 26.19 T81 4 6 Taki Mrabet 26.34 86 5 2 Roy Felipe Barahona Fuente 26.36 T87 6 5 Ahmed Salamoun 27.50 106 -- 1 Jules Yao Bessan DNS -- -- 3 João Aguiar DNS --

Heat 10 Heat Rank Lane Swimmer Country Time OverallRank Note 1 3 Dinko Jukić 25.11 54 2 4 Ankur Poseria 25.13 56 3 8 Basil Kaaki 25.62 66 4 6 Miguel Navarro 26.10 79 5 5 Evgenii Petrashov 26.19 T81 6 7 Rama Vyombo 26.32 85 7 2 João Matias 26.86 94 8 1 Anas Hamadeh 27.14 100

Heat 11 Heat Rank Lane Swimmer Country Time OverallRank Note 1 4 Virdhawal Khade 25.28 59 2 6 Romāns Miloslavskis 25.47 T63 3 3 Norbert Trandafir 25.66 68 4 8 Bader Almuhana 26.04 76 5 5 Donny Budiarto Utomo 26.30 84 6 1 Nisic Nedim 26.36 T87 7 7 Marc Pascal Pierre Dansou 26.89 95 -- 2 Sunday Ayejo DNS --

Heat 12 Heat Rank Lane Swimmer Country Time OverallRank Note 1 2 Gordon Touw Ngie Tjouw 24.90 49 NR 2 6 Wing Cheung Victor Wong 25.22 58 3 3 Alexandre Bakhtiarov 25.47 T63 4 4 Hamidreza Mobarrez 25.71 69 5 5 Yellow Yeiyah 26.05 77 6 8 Julio Galofre 26.16 80 7 7 Maximiliano Schnettler 26.24 83 8 1 Wei Wen Wang 26.51 90

Heat 13 Heat Rank Lane Swimmer Country Time OverallRank Note 1 1 Jacinto Ayala 24.81 45 2 7 Gabriel Melconian 25.43 61 3 5 Georgi Palazov 25.44 62 4 2 Martin Liivamägi 25.47 63 5 3 Daniel Bego 25.82 70 6 6 Martin Kutscher Belgeri 25.83 71 7 4 Jorge Arturo Arce Aita 25.98 72 8 Goksu Bicer

Heat 14 Heat Rank Lane Swimmer Country Time OverallRank Note 1 4 Jason Dunford 24.41 T26 2 5 Mathias Stenderup Gydesen 24.72 38 3 3 Emilis Vaitkaitis 24.74 T39 4 6 Guy Marcus Barnea 24.77 41 5 7 Davis Tarwater 24.83 48 6 2 Adrien Perez 25.20 57 7 8 Oleg Lyashko 25.31 60 -- 1 Stanislav Kuzmin DNS --

Heat 15 Heat Rank Lane Swimmer Country Time OverallRank Note 1 4 Damien Courtois 24.39 25 2 6 Apostolos Tsagkarakis 24.58 T34 3 1 Camilo Becerra 24.74 T39 4 5 Martin Verner 24.78 42 5 8 Jeremy Knowles 24.98 51 6 7 Andy Wibowo 25.00 52 7 3 Pavels Kondrahins 25.12 55 8 2 Ravil Nachaev 25.65 67

Heat 16 Heat Rank Lane Swimmer Country Time OverallRank Note 1 4 Peter Mankoč 24.06 T16 swim-off 2 1 Moss Burmester 24.55 33 3 3 Adam Pine 24.60 36 4 6 Dominik Straga 24.80 43 7 Paweł Korzeniowski 6 2 Yauheni Lazuka 24.82 T46 7 8 Rustam Khudiyev 24.92 50 8 5 Fernando Silva 25.01 53

Heat 17 Heat Rank Lane Swimmer Country Time OverallRank Note 1 3 Örn Arnarson 24.02 T12 Q NR 2 6 Jere Hård 24.18 19 3 2 Mario Todorović 24.41 T26 4 8 Octavio Alesi 24.48 30 5 4 WANG Dong 24.50 31 6 1 Rudy Goldin 24.50 32 7 5 Takashi Yamamoto 24.58 T34 8 7 Sotirios Pastras 24.82 T46

Heat 18 Heat Rank Lane Swimmer Country Time OverallRank Note 1 6 Ian Crocker 23.30 1 Q 2 5 Andriy Serdinov 23.92 7 Q 3 4 Matt Welsh 23.95 9 Q 4 1 Thomas Rupprath 24.06 T16 swim-off 5 8 Nikolay Skvortsov 24.23 22 6 7 Simão Morgado 24.44 29 7 2 Todd Cooper Great Britain 24.61 37 -- 3 César Cielo DNS --

Heat 19 Heat Rank Lane Swimmer Country Time OverallRank Note 1 4 Sergiy Breus 23.61 3 Q 2 1 Albert Subirats Altes 23.73 6 Q 3 5 Matti Rajakylä 23.98 10 Q 4 2 Ryan Pini 24.02 T12 Q 6 Ryo Takayasu Q 6 8 Rafael Muñoz Pérez 24.21 21 7 7 Evgeny Korotyshkin 24.36 24 8 3 ZHOU Jiawei 24.41 T26

Heat 20 Heat Rank Lane Swimmer Country Time OverallRank Note 1 4 Roland Schoeman 23.49 2 Q 2 1 Lars Frölander 23.66 4 Q 3 7 Jakob Andkjær 23.92 7 Q 4 3 Frédérick Bousquet 24.00 11 Q (scratched semis) 5 6 Lyndon Ferns 24.05 15 Q 6 7 Jernej Godec 24.06 T16 swim-off 7 2 Corney Swanepoel 24.20 20 8 8 Benjamin Starke 24.25 23

Swim-off for 16th place Following the conclusion of the preliminary heats there was a three-way tie in for 16th at 24.06 between Germany's Thomas Rupprath, and Slovenia's two entries in the event: Peter Mankoč and Jernej Godec. 1 Jernej Godec, Slovenia – 23.74 (Q) 1 Peter Mankoč, Slovenia – 23.74 (Q) 3 Thomas Rupprath, Germany – 23.90

As France's Frédérick Bousquet scratched the final, a swim-off to the swim-off tie was not need, and both Godec and Mankoč advanced to the semifinals.

See also Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre butterfly Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre butterfly

References

Men's 50m Fly Heats results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-11. Men's 50m Fly Heats swim-off results (for 16th place in semis) from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-11. Men's 50m Fly Semifinals results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-11. Men's 50m Fly Final results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-11.