The Men's 50 metre backstroke competition at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships was held on 24 and 25 June 2022.

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

Results Heats The heats were started on 24 June at 09:23.

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 4 Justin Ress 24.24 Q 2 6 3 Ole Braunschweig 24.58 Q, NR 3 6 1 Thomas Ceccon 24.62 Q, NR 4 6 4 Hunter Armstrong 24.63 Q 5 4 3 Ksawery Masiuk 24.64 Q, NR 6 6 5 Isaac Cooper 24.67 Q 7 4 4 Robert Glință 24.79 Q 8 5 6 Ryosuke Irie 24.85 Q, 9 4 5 Apostolos Christou 24.88 Q 10 6 6 Mewen Tomac 25.01 Q 11 4 6 Andrew Jeffcoat 25.06 Q 12 5 7 Michael Laitarovsky 25.08 Q 13 4 7 Tomasz Polewka 25.10 Q 14 5 8 Xu Jiayu 25.12 Q 15 6 2 Guilherme Basseto 25.15 Q 16 5 2 Michele Lamberti 25.16 Q 16 6 7 Yohann Ndoye Brouard 25.16 Q 18 3 3 Javier Acevedo 25.18 19 5 5 Hugo González 25.26 20 4 8 Lee Ju-ho 25.31 21 5 1 Richárd Bohus 25.47 21 5 3 Mitch Larkin 25.47 23 5 9 Chuang Mu-lun 25.55 24 3 2 Ģirts Feldbergs 25.62 24 4 1 Bence Szentes 25.62 26 6 9 Quah Zheng Wen 25.79 27 6 8 Jan Čejka 25.89 28 4 0 Daniel Zaitsev 26.01 29 4 9 I Gede Siman Sudartawa 26.09 30 3 1 Jack Kirby 26.11 31 6 0 Charles Hockin 26.17 32 3 4 Max Mannes 26.19 33 5 0 Yeziel Morales 26.23 34 3 5 Lau Shiu Yue 26.41 35 3 7 Elías Ardiles 26.71 36 3 6 Filippos Iakovidis 26.91 37 2 0 Ali Al-Essa 27.26 38 1 4 Omar Al-Rowaila 27.28 NR 39 3 0 Bede Aitu 28.03 40 1 3 Mekhayl Engel 28.10 41 2 1 Juhn Tenorio 28.18 42 2 3 Samiul Islam Rafi 28.22 43 1 5 Jeno Heyns 28.41 44 3 8 Andrej Stojanovski 28.43 45 2 2 José Manuel Campo 28.45 46 3 9 Rohan Shearer 28.89 47 2 5 Mohamed Aan Hussain 29.57 48 2 4 Adnan Kabuye 29.65 49 2 7 Aseel Khousrof 35.39 2 6 Faizan Akbar 2 8 Hasan Al-Zinkee 4 2 Mohamed Samy

Semifinals The semifinals were started on 24 June at 19:09.

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 2 4 Justin Ress 24.14 Q 2 1 5 Hunter Armstrong 24.16 Q 3 1 6 Apostolos Christou 24.39 Q, NR 4 2 5 Thomas Ceccon 24.46 Q, NR 5 2 3 Ksawery Masiuk 24.48 Q, NR 6 2 6 Robert Glință 24.54 Q 7 1 3 Isaac Cooper 24.60 Q 8 1 4 Ole Braunschweig 24.61 Q 9 1 8 Yohann Ndoye Brouard 24.79 10 1 1 Guilherme Basseto 24.85 11 2 8 Michele Lamberti 24.86 12 2 1 Xu Jiayu 24.90 13 1 2 Andrew Jeffcoat 24.91 13 2 2 Mewen Tomac 24.91 15 2 7 Michael Laitarovsky 25.11 16 1 7 Tomasz Polewka 25.28

Final The final was held on 25 June at 18:02.

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Justin Ress 24.12 5 Hunter Armstrong 24.14 2 Ksawery Masiuk 24.49 4 6 Thomas Ceccon 24.51 5 3 Apostolos Christou 24.57 5 7 Robert Glință 24.57 7 8 Ole Braunschweig 24.66 8 1 Isaac Cooper 24.76

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