The Men's 50 metre breaststroke competition of the 2024 World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 14 and 15 December 2024.
Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows:
Background World record holder Emre Sakçı was entered in the event, but China's Qin Haiyang had won the event at all three stops of the 2024 World Cup. Qin’s fastest swim came in Shanghai, where he set a new Asian record of 25.38. He followed with a 25.76 in Incheon and a 25.47 in Singapore. Ilya Shymanovich, competing as a Neutral Athlete, recorded his season best of 25.51 at the Shanghai World Cup stop, which was his fastest swim in the event since 2021. Simone Cerasuolo of Italy, the 2022 bronze medalist, had also been under 26 seconds, having swum 25.79 earlier in the season. Kirill Prigoda, competing as a neutral athlete, entered with a 25.65 season best and a lifetime best of 25.49. Ludovico Viberti of Italy had also swam under 26 seconds with a 25.88 in October. Other swimmers included Japan's Taku Taniguchi (26.02), the Netherlands' Caspar Corbeau (26.15), Australia's Joshua Yong (26.34), Germany's Lucas Matzerath and Melvin Imoudu (both 26.50), and Michael Andrew of the USA, who entered with a season best of 26.22 and a lifetime best of 25.81.
SwimSwam predicted Haiyang would win, Cerasuolo would come second, and Shymanovich would come third.
Results Heats The heats were started on 14 December at 10:56. Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 8 4 Qin Haiyang 25.51 Q 2 8 5 Simone Cerasuolo 25.67 Q 3 6 4 Kirill Prigoda Neutral Athletes B 25.76 Q 4 5 6 Michael Houlie 25.77 Q 5 7 5 Emre Sakçı 25.82 Q 6 7 4 Ilya Shymanovich Neutral Athletes A 25.87 Q 7 6 5 Ludovico Viberti 25.97 Q 7 6 6 Koen de Groot 25.97 Q 9 7 0 Melvin Imoudu 25.98 Q 10 7 2 Chris Smith 26.02 Q 10 8 3 Taku Taniguchi 26.02 Q 12 8 6 Caspar Corbeau 26.07 Q 13 4 6 Ronan Wantenaar 26.15 Q, NR 14 6 8 Daniel Kertes 26.20 Q 15 7 6 Michael Andrew 26.23 Q 16 6 7 Caio Pumputis 26.25 Q 17 6 3 Oleg Kostin Neutral Athletes B 26.28 R 18 5 5 Denis Petrashov 26.29 R 19 3 7 Finlay Knox 26.30 NR 20 6 2 Bernhard Reitshammer 26.34 20 7 8 Heiko Gigler 26.34 22 6 9 Mikel Schreuders 26.36 NR 23 7 3 Choi Dong-yeol 26.38 23 8 8 Carles Coll 26.38 25 8 0 Volodymyr Lisovets 26.39 26 5 0 Jørgen Scheie Bråthen 26.45 27 8 1 Andrius Sidlauskas 26.50 28 8 2 Archie Goodburn 26.51 29 5 3 Jan Kałusowski 26.65 30 7 7 Nicholas Lia 26.67 31 6 1 Berkay Ömer Öğretir 26.72 32 5 4 Kristian Pitshugin 26.73 33 8 9 Lucas Matzerath 26.78 34 3 2 Samy Boutouil 26.81 NR 35 4 2 Arsen Kozhakhmetov 26.90 36 4 7 Juan García 26.91 36 6 0 Peter Stevens 26.91 38 7 1 Davin Elias Lindholm 26.98 39 7 9 Snorri Dagur Einarsson 27.07 40 5 7 Chao Man Hou 27.18 41 5 1 Arkadios Aspougalis 27.21 42 4 3 Panayiotis Panaretos 27.27 NR 43 4 4 Ralf Roose 27.29 44 3 3 Josué Domínguez 27.39 45 3 5 Wu Chun-feng 27.44 45 5 9 Eoin Corby 27.44 47 4 1 Maksim Manolov 27.46 48 4 0 Louis Droupy 27.52 48 4 9 Adrian Robinson 27.52 NR 50 3 6 Patrick Pelegrina 27.56 51 4 5 Adam Mak 27.63 52 5 8 Olivér Gál 27.71 53 3 0 Joao Carneiro 27.77 53 5 2 Constantin Malachi 27.77 55 3 4 Ádám Halás 27.81 56 3 9 Zach Moyo 28.02 NR 57 2 6 Haniel Kudwoli 28.27 58 1 1 Orhan Dine Moreira 28.56 NR 59 2 5 Luis Sebastian Weekes 28.57 60 1 2 Mohamed Abujiba 28.76 NR 61 2 7 Raúl Antadillas 28.80 62 3 8 Abobakr Abass 29.06 63 2 2 Thomas Chen 29.14 NR 64 2 4 Ganzorigtyn Sugar 29.58 65 1 6 Kim Won-ju 29.98 66 1 3 Anas Ganedi 30.09 NR 67 2 1 Nathan Fletcher 30.65 68 2 0 Isihaka Isihaka 31.38 69 2 8 Fode Amara Camara 31.42 70 1 5 Ailton Lima 33.36 70 2 9 Yves Munyu Kupiata 33.36 72 1 4 Alemekezeke Chinyamu 34.46 2 3 Selim Nazarov 3 1 Ashot Chakhoyan 1 7 Danilson Ie 4 8 Jaouad Syoud 8 7 Joshua Yong
Semifinals The semifinals were started on 14 December at 17:57. Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 2 5 Kirill Prigoda Neutral Athletes B 25.48 Q, NR 2 2 4 Qin Haiyang 25.60 Q 3 1 2 Chris Smith 25.66 Q, WJ 4 1 3 Ilya Shymanovich Neutral Athletes A 25.67 Q 4 2 3 Emre Sakçı 25.67 Q 6 1 5 Michael Houlie 25.69 Q 7 2 6 Ludovico Viberti 25.80 Q 8 1 4 Simone Cerasuolo 25.81 Q 9 1 6 Koen de Groot 25.86 R 10 2 2 Melvin Imoudu 25.96 R 10 2 7 Taku Taniguchi 25.96 R 12 1 1 Daniel Kertes 26.17 =NR 13 2 8 Michael Andrew 26.24 14 1 7 Caspar Corbeau 26.31 15 1 8 Caio Pumputis 26.37 2 1 Ronan Wantenaar
Final The final was held on 15 December at 17:55. Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 5 Qin Haiyang 25.42 2 Emre Sakçı 25.56 4 Kirill Prigoda Neutral Athletes B 25.56 4 8 Simone Cerasuolo 25.62 5 6 Ilya Shymanovich Neutral Athletes A 25.64 6 1 Ludovico Viberti 25.71 7 7 Michael Houlie 25.73 8 3 Chris Smith 25.77
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