2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 50 metre butterfly

Men's 50 metre butterfly at the 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Dates	5 December (heats and semifinals) 6 December (final)
Competitors	145 from 107 nations
Winning time	21.95
Medalists
Chad le Clos    South Africa   Nicholas Santos    Brazil   Andriy Hovorov    Ukraine

The Men's 50 metre butterfly competition of the 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 5 December with the heats and the semifinals and 6 December with the final.^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Steffen Deibler	Germany	21.80	Berlin	14 November 2009
Championship record	Nicholas Santos	Brazil	22.22	Istanbul	15 December 2012

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nation	Time	Record
6 December	Final	Chad le Clos	South Africa	21.95	CR

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 10:25.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	15	4	Chad le Clos	South Africa	22.47	Q
2	11	4	Albert Subirats	Venezuela	22.60	Q
3	15	5	Nicholas Santos	Brazil	22.68	Q
4	13	5	Tom Shields	United States	22.80	Q
4	13	3	Aleksandr Popkov	Russia	22.80	Q
6	13	4	Andriy Hovorov	Ukraine	22.81	Q
7	14	5	Yauhen Tsurkin	Belarus	22.85	Q
7	14	2	Mehdy Metella	France	22.85	Q
9	15	6	Adam Barrett	Great Britain	22.87	Q
10	14	3	Matt Grevers	United States	22.94	Q
11	14	1	Brett Fraser	Cayman Islands	22.95	Q
12	12	0	Shinri Shioura	Japan	22.97	Q
13	13	7	David Morgan	Australia	23.03	Q
14	14	6	Henrique Martins	Brazil	23.07	Q
15	14	7	François Heersbrandt	Belgium	23.17	Q
15	15	3	Nikita Konovalov	Russia	23.17	Q
17	12	6	Paweł Korzeniowski	Poland	23.18
18	14	8	Ben Proud	Great Britain	23.21
19	12	5	Jan Šefl	Czech Republic	23.23
19	12	3	Mario Todorović	Croatia	23.23
21	15	2	Tommaso D'Orsogna	Australia	23.24
22	13	1	Alexandre Haldemann	Switzerland	23.26
22	13	0	Marco Belotti	Italy	23.26
22	15	7	Zhang Qibin	China	23.26
25	14	0	Tadas Duškinas	Lithuania	23.28
26	12	1	Ryan Pini	Papua New Guinea	23.31
26	13	6	Joshua McLeod	Trinidad and Tobago	23.31
28	14	9	Radovan Siljevski	Serbia	23.38
29	12	2	Ivan Lenđer	Serbia	23.45
30	13	2	Riku Poytakivi	Finland	23.46
31	15	1	Matteo Rivolta	Italy	23.50
32	13	8	Shi Yang	China	23.51
33	11	6	Takuro Fujii	Japan	23.53
34	13	9	Michał Poprawa	Poland	23.64
35	15	0	Mindaugas Sadauskas	Lithuania	23.68
36	12	8	Alexandru Coci	Romania	23.69
37	12	4	Sindri Jakobsson	Norway	23.73
38	15	8	Ben Hockin	Paraguay	23.74
39	12	9	Alexander Kunert	Germany	23.76
40	11	0	Martti Aljand	Estonia	23.83
41	11	3	Clayton Jimmie	South Africa	23.91
42	10	7	Ralefy Anthonny	Madagascar	23.93
43	11	7	Péter Holoda	Hungary	23.95
44	15	9	Elvis Burrows	Bahamas	23.96
45	10	9	Oliver Elliot	Chile	24.07
46	10	6	Marius Radu	Romania	24.13
47	9	6	Jugurtha Boumali	Algeria	24.21
48	9	0	Roy-Allan Burch	Bermuda	24.26
48	11	5	Max Abreu	Paraguay	24.26
50	10	8	Teimuraz Kobakhidze	Georgia	24.27
51	10	3	Dhill Lee	Philippines	24.28
52	12	7	Gabriel Melconian	Uruguay	24.31
53	11	2	Andrés Montoya	Colombia	24.34
54	11	8	Janis Saltans	Latvia	24.45
55	8	7	Renzo Tjon-A-Joe	Suriname	24.48
55	11	9	Zuhayr Pigot	Suriname	24.48
57	9	2	Tamás Kenderesi	Hungary	24.54
58	11	1	Julien Heny	Luxembourg	24.55
59	10	1	Chang Kuo-chi	Chinese Taipei	24.58
60	5	4	Amini Fonua	Tonga	24.67
61	10	4	Chad Idensohn	Zimbabwe	24.73
62	10	0	Chun Nam Derick Ng	Hong Kong	24.75
63	9	4	Alexandre Bakhtiarov	Cyprus	24.77
63	9	1	Islam Aslanov	Uzbekistan	24.77
65	9	5	Mak Ho Lun Raymond	Hong Kong	24.81
66	8	4	Kitiphat Pipimnan	Thailand	25.05
67	7	7	Peter Wetzlar	Zimbabwe	25.12
68	9	7	Mark Hsu	Chinese Taipei	25.16
69	6	0	Nico Campbell	Jamaica	25.28
70	8	6	Dulguun Batsaikhan	Mongolia	25.34
71	7	4	Meli Malani	Fiji	25.35
71	7	5	Oumar Touré	Mali	25.35
71	8	3	Davletbaev Damir	Kyrgyzstan	25.35
74	7	6	Adam Allouche	Lebanon	25.40
74	8	9	Cherantha de Silva	Sri Lanka	25.40
76	7	3	David van der Colff	Botswana	25.50
77	8	8	Joaquin Sepulveda	Chile	25.51
78	6	8	Aldo Castillo	Bolivia	25.56
79	9	9	Soroush Ghandchi	Iran	25.60
80	7	9	Winter Heaven	Samoa	25.65
81	6	4	Mohammad Islam	Bangladesh	25.66
82	9	8	Waleed Abdulrazzaq	Kuwait	25.69
83	10	2	Hanser García	Cuba	25.70
84	8	2	Gavin Lewis	Thailand	25.88
85	8	1	Jevon Atkinson	Jamaica	25.89
86	5	5	Jeremy Lim	Philippines	25.99
86	8	0	Vahan Mkhitaryan	Armenia	25.99
88	4	4	Valentin Gorshkov	Turkmenistan	26.02
89	6	9	Stanford Kawale	Papua New Guinea	26.06
90	6	5	Omar Hesham	Qatar	26.11
90	7	8	Miguel Mena	Nicaragua	26.11
92	7	2	Jim Sanderson	Gibraltar	26.17
93	6	2	Ifeakachuku Nmor	Nigeria	26.20
94	5	1	Matthew Courtis	Barbados	26.26
95	7	0	Hamdan Bayusuf	Kenya	26.28
96	9	3	Sio Ka Kun	Macau	26.35
97	8	5	Wong Pok Iao	Macau	26.38
98	6	3	Christian Nikles	Brunei	26.40
99	6	7	Valdo Valdo	Mozambique	26.55
100	5	2	Abeku Jackson	Ghana	26.78
101	5	0	Mahmoud Daaboul	Lebanon	26.82
102	3	5	Sylla Alassane	Ivory Coast	26.84
103	4	2	Gianluca Pasolini	San Marino	26.92
103	6	1	Christopher Duenas	Guam	26.92
105	4	9	Matar Samb	Senegal	27.03
106	6	6	Ahmed Al-Hosani	United Arab Emirates	27.05
107	5	3	Syed Javaid	Pakistan	27.17
108	3	6	Corey Ollivierre	Grenada	27.18
109	4	5	Kamran Jafarov	Azerbaijan	27.19
110	5	6	Franci Aleksi	Albania	27.43
111	5	9	González Leonardo	Honduras	27.46
112	3	2	Giordan Harris	Marshall Islands	27.54
113	5	7	Kgosietsile Molefinyane	Botswana	27.57
114	3	3	Nikolas Sylvester	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	27.66
115	3	1	Justine Rodriguez	Federated States of Micronesia	27.67
116	4	6	Ibrahim Nishwan	Maldives	27.68
117	4	3	Noah Mascoll-Gomes	Antigua and Barbuda	27.85
118	4	0	Adam Moncherry	Seychelles	27.88
119	5	8	Ahmed Al-Mutairy	Iraq	28.09
120	4	8	Binald Mahmuti	Albania	28.15
121	3	7	Emil Rahmatulin	Turkmenistan	28.60
122	3	0	Mamadou Soumaré	Mali	28.73
123	4	1	Arnold Kisulo	Uganda	28.82
124	3	9	Aliasger Karimjee	Tanzania	29.00
125	4	7	Abdulrahman Al-Kawari	Qatar	29.11
126	3	8	Omar Adams	Guyana	29.20
127	1	4	Rami Abunahla	Palestine	29.52
128	2	7	Shawn Dingilius	Palau	29.93
129	2	6	Idriss Mutankabandi	Burundi	29.94
130	2	5	Akhmadzhanovich Umarov	Tajikistan	30.09
131	1	5	Chaoili Chaoili	Comoros	31.08
132	2	2	Yousef Al-Nehmi	Yemen	31.21
133	2	0	Justin Payet	Seychelles	31.31
134	2	1	Tanner Poppe	Guam	31.34
135	1	3	Slava Sihanouvong	Laos	31.50
136	2	3	Billy-Scott Irakoze	Burundi	31.75
137	2	4	Petero Okotai	Cook Islands	31.82
138	3	4	Albarchir Moctar	Niger	33.51
139	2	9	Awoussou Ablam	Benin	34.38
140	1	2	Eric Niyonsaba	Rwanda	34.90
—	1	6	Jynior Ndinga	Republic of the Congo		DNS
—	7	1	Ali Al-Kaabi	United Arab Emirates		DNS
—	10	5	Ari-Pekka Liukkonen	Finland		DNS
—	14	4	Florent Manaudou	France		DNS
—	2	8	Andrew Fowler	Guyana		DSQ

Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 18:17.^[3]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Andriy Hovorov	Ukraine	22.61	Q
2	5	Tom Shields	United States	22.70	Q
3	6	Mehdy Metella	France	22.71	Q
4	8	Nikita Konovalov	Russia	22.91
5	4	Albert Subirats	Venezuela	22.93
6	7	Shinri Shioura	Japan	22.94
7	1	Henrique Martins	Brazil	23.42
8	2	Matt Grevers	United States	23.50

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Chad le Clos	South Africa	22.20	Q
2	5	Nicholas Santos	Brazil	22.48	Q
3	6	Yauhen Tsurkin	Belarus	22.54	Q
4	3	Aleksandr Popkov	Russia	22.59	Q
4	8	François Heersbrandt	Belgium	22.59	Q
6	2	Adam Barrett	Great Britain	22.90
7	1	David Morgan	Australia	22.98
8	7	Brett Fraser	Cayman Islands	23.35

Final

The final were held at 18:52.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	4	Chad le Clos	South Africa	21.95	CR
02 !	5	Nicholas Santos	Brazil	22.08	AM
03 !	7	Andriy Hovorov	Ukraine	22.49
4	6	Aleksandr Popkov	Russia	22.53
5	1	Tom Shields	United States	22.57
6	3	Yauhen Tsurkin	Belarus	22.63
7	8	Mehdy Metella	France	22.68
8	2	François Heersbrandt	Belgium	22.69

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