The Men's 50 metre butterfly competition of the swimming events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held on 2 August with the heats and the semifinals and 3 August with the final.Start list

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

Results Heats The heats were held at 10:44.Heats results

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 9 5 Florent Manaudou 23.15 Q 2 8 2 László Cseh 23.32 Q, NR 3 9 3 Rafael Muñoz 23.36 Q 4 8 6 Konrad Czerniak 23.38 Q, NR 5 7 6 Joseph Schooling 23.40 Q, NR 6 8 4 Nicholas Santos 23.41 Q 7 9 2 Shi Yang 23.43 Q 8 8 3 Chad le Clos 23.45 Q 9 8 5 Yauhen Tsurkin 23.49 Q 9 9 4 Andriy Hovorov 23.49 Q 11 7 4 Ben Proud 23.58 Q 12 7 2 François Heersbrandt 23.59 Q 13 7 7 Takeshi Kawamoto 23.61 Q 14 7 5 César Cielo 23.66 Q 15 7 8 Santo Condorelli 23.67 Q 15 9 0 Dylan Carter 23.67 Q, NR 17 7 1 Aleksandr Popkov 23.75 18 7 3 Piero Codia 23.81 19 8 1 Jayden Hadler 23.83 20 6 9 Tadas Duškinas 23.85 21 9 6 Yu Hexin 23.87 21 9 8 Ivan Lenđer 23.87 23 9 1 Tim Phillips 23.91 24 8 9 Kristian Golomeev 23.96 25 8 0 Mario Todorović 24.00 26 6 5 Santiago Grassi 24.03 27 7 9 Geoffrey Cheah 24.12 28 6 8 Søren Dahl 24.13 28 7 0 Albert Subirats 24.13 30 6 4 Christoffer Carlsen 24.18 30 8 8 Ryan Pini 24.18 32 5 4 Elvis Burrows 24.19 33 6 1 Luis Martínez 24.20 34 6 2 Ben Hockin 24.24 35 6 7 Ralf Tribuntsov 24.28 36 6 6 Jan Šefl 24.34 37 9 9 Tomer Zamir 24.49 38 6 3 Glenn Sutanto 24.51 39 5 5 Franco Reyes 24.60 40 6 0 Omar Eissa 24.63 41 4 5 Anthonny Ralefy 24.69 42 8 7 Alejandro Escudero 24.73 43 5 1 Zuhayr Pigot 24.76 44 9 7 Daniel Ramírez 24.83 45 5 3 Anthony John Barbar 24.88 NR 46 5 2 Ralph Goveia 25.16 47 5 6 Thibaut Danho 25.33 48 5 9 Bradley Vincent 25.42 49 5 7 Maksim Inić 25.52 50 4 3 Joshua Daniel 25.61 51 4 6 Ifeakachuku Nmor 25.91 52 5 8 Ahmad Attellesey 25.94 53 3 5 Oumar Touré 26.13 54 5 0 Vahan Mkhitaryan 26.19 55 4 4 Abeiku Jackson 26.41 56 4 1 Hasan Sadeq 26.93 57 4 2 Adam Viktora 27.08 58 4 0 Ibrahim Nishwan 27.42 59 3 4 Muhammad Saad 27.66 60 4 8 Stefano Mitchell 27.72 61 3 6 Myat Thint 27.77 62 3 2 Borhane Abro 27.99 63 4 7 Yacop Al-Khulaifi 28.31 64 4 9 Nikolas Sylvester 28.39 65 3 0 Meriton Veliu 28.67 66 3 3 Ammaar Ghadiyali 28.81 67 2 2 Abdelaziz Ahmed 29.66 68 3 1 Olim Kurbanov 29.82 69 2 5 Kaleo Kihleng 30.15 70 1 6 Dienov Koka 30.20 71 3 8 Billy-Scott Irakoze 30.44 72 2 6 Yousef Al-Nehmi 30.53 73 2 3 Brave Lifa 30.92 74 3 7 Robel Habte 30.95 75 2 8 Chaoili Aonzoudine 31.09 76 3 9 Andrew Fowler 31.14 77 2 4 Jules Bessan 31.53 78 1 3 Pap Jonga 32.36 79 1 5 Osman Kamara 35.21 80 2 1 Mael Ambonguilat 35.30 1 4 Charly Ndjoume 2 7 Albarchir Mouctar

Semifinals The semifinals were held on 2 August at 18:07.Semifinals results

Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 3 Nicholas Santos 23.05 Q 2 4 László Cseh 23.06 Q, NR 3 5 Konrad Czerniak 23.07 Q, NR 4 2 Andriy Hovorov 23.15 Q 5 1 César Cielo 23.29 Q 6 7 François Heersbrandt 23.34 NR 7 6 Chad le Clos 23.49 8 8 Dylan Carter 23.60 NR

Semifinal 2 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Florent Manaudou 22.84 Q, =NR 2 7 Ben Proud 23.24 Q 3 3 Joseph Schooling 23.27 Q, AS 4 8 Santo Condorelli 23.30 NR 5 2 Yauhen Tsurkin 23.41 6 5 Rafael Muñoz 23.44 6 6 Shi Yang 23.44 8 1 Takeshi Kawamoto 23.74

Final

The final was held on 3 August at 18:17.Final results

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Florent Manaudou 22.97 5 Nicholas Santos 23.09 3 László Cseh 23.15 6 Konrad Czerniak 23.15 5 2 Andriy Hovorov 23.18 6 8 César Cielo 23.21 7 1 Joseph Schooling 23.25 AS 8 7 Ben Proud 23.39

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