2024 World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 50 metre breaststroke

Men's 50 metre breaststroke at the 2024 World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue	Duna Arena
Location	Budapest, Hungary
Dates	14 December (heats and semifinals) 15 December (final)
Competitors	77
Winning time	25.42
Medalists
Qin Haiyang   China   Emre Sakçı   Turkey   Kirill Prigoda

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.

World record	Emre Sakçı (TUR)	24.95	Gaziantep, Turkiye	27 December 2021
Competition record	Nic Fink (USA)	25.38	Melbourne, Australia	18 December 2022

The following record was established during the competition:

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 14 December at 10:56.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	8	4	Qin Haiyang	China	25.51	Q
2	8	5	Simone Cerasuolo	Italy	25.67	Q
3	6	4	Kirill Prigoda	Neutral Athletes B	25.76	Q
4	5	6	Michael Houlie	South Africa	25.77	Q
5	7	5	Emre Sakçı	Turkey	25.82	Q
6	7	4	Ilya Shymanovich	Neutral Athletes A	25.87	Q
=7	6	5	Ludovico Viberti	Italy	25.97	Q
=7	6	6	Koen De Groot	Netherlands	25.97	Q
9	7	0	Melvin Imoudu	Germany	25.98	Q
=10	7	2	Chris Smith	South Africa	26.02	Q
=10	8	3	Taku Taniguchi	Japan	26.02	Q
12	8	6	Caspar Corbeau	Netherlands	26.07	Q
13	4	6	Ronan Wantenaar	Namibia	26.15	Q
14	6	8	Daniel Kertes	Sweden	26.20	Q
15	7	6	Michael Andrew	United States	26.23	Q
16	6	7	Caio Pumputis	Brazil	26.25	Q
17	6	3	Oleg Kostin	Neutral Athletes B	26.28	R
18	5	5	Denis Petrashov	Kyrgyzstan	26.29	R
19	3	7	Finlay Knox	Canada	26.30
=20	6	2	Bernhard Reitshammer	Austria	26.34
=20	7	8	Heiko Gigler	Austria	26.34
22	6	9	Mikel Schreuders	Aruba	26.36
=23	7	3	Dongyeol Choi	South Korea	26.38
=23	8	8	Carles Coll Marti	Spain	26.38
25	8	0	Volodymyr Lisovets	Ukraine	26.39
26	5	0	Joergen Scheie Braathen	Norway	26.45
27	8	1	Andrius Sidlauskas	Lithuania	26.50
28	8	2	Archie Goodburn	United Kingdom	26.51
29	5	3	Jan Kalusowski	Poland	26.65
30	7	7	Nicholas Lia	Norway	26.67
31	6	1	Berkay Ogretir	Turkey	26.72
32	5	4	Kristian Pitshugin	Israel	26.73
33	8	9	Lucas Matzerath	Germany	26.78
34	3	2	Samy Boutouil	Morocco	26.81
35	4	2	Arsen Kozhakhmetov	Kazakhstan	26.90
=36	4	7	Juan García	Colombia	26.91
=36	6	0	Peter Stevens	Slovenia	26.91
38	7	1	Davin Elias Lindholm	Finland	26.98
39	7	9	Snorri Einarsson	Iceland	27.07
40	5	7	Man Hou Chao	Macau	27.18
41	5	1	A.G. Aspougalis	Greece	27.21
42	4	3	Panayiotis Panaretos	Cyprus	27.27
43	4	4	Ralf Roose	Estonia	27.29
44	3	3	Josue Dominguez	Dominican Republic	27.39
=45	3	5	Chun-Feng Wu	Chinese Taipei	27.44
=45	5	9	Eoin Corby	Ireland	27.44
47	4	1	Maksim Manolov	Bulgaria	27.46
=48	4	0	Louis Droupy	Switzerland	27.52
=48	4	9	Adrian Robinson	Botswana	27.52
50	3	6	Patrick Pelegrina Cuen	Andorra	27.56
51	4	5	Sai Ting Adam Mak	Hong Kong	27.63
52	5	8	Oliver Gal	Hungary	27.71
=53	3	0	Joao Carneiro	Luxembourg	27.77
=53	5	2	Constantin Malachi	Moldova	27.77
55	3	4	Adam Halas	Slovakia	27.81
56	3	9	Zach Moyo	Zambia	28.02
57	2	6	Haniel Kudwoli	Kenya	28.27
58	1	1	Orhan Dine Moreira	Benin	28.56
59	2	5	Luis Sebastian Weekes	Barbados	28.57
60	1	2	Mohamed Abujiba	Palestine	28.76
61	2	7	R.A. Antadillas Ramirez	Panama	28.80
62	3	8	Abobakr Abass	Sudan	29.06
63	2	2	Thomas Chen	Papua New Guinea	29.14
64	2	4	Sugar Ganzorigt	Mongolia	29.58
65	1	6	Won Ju Kim	North Korea	29.98
66	1	3	Anas Ganedi	Libya	30.09
67	2	1	Nathan Fletcher	Grenada	30.65
68	2	0	Isihaka Isihaka	Rwanda	31.38
69	2	8	Fode Amara Camara	Guinea	31.42
=70	1	5	Ailton Lima	Cape Verde	33.36
=70	2	9	Yves Munyu Kupiata	Democratic Republic of the Congo	33.36
72	1	4	Alemekezeke Chinyamu	Malawi	34.46
	1	7	Danilson Ie	Guinea-Bissau	Did not start
	4	8	Jaouad Syoud	Algeria
	8	7	Joshua Yong	Australia
	2	3	Selim Nazarov	Turkmenistan	Disqualified
	3	1	Ashot Chakhoyan	Armenia

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
2	2	4	Qin Haiyang	China	25.60	Q
3	1	2	Chris Smith	South Africa	25.66	Q, WJ
=4	1	3	Ilya Shymanovich	Neutral Athletes A	25.67	Q
=4	2	3	Emre Sakçı	Turkey	25.67	Q
6	1	5	Michael Houlie	South Africa	25.69	Q
7	2	6	Ludovico Viberti	Italy	25.80	Q
8	1	4	Simone Cerasuolo	Italy	25.81	Q
9	1	6	Koen De Groot	Netherlands	25.86	R
=10	2	2	Melvin Imoudu	Germany	25.96	R
=10	2	7	Taku Taniguchi	Japan	25.96	R
12	1	1	Daniel Kertes	Sweden	26.17
13	2	8	Michael Andrew	United States	26.24
14	1	7	Caspar Corbeau	Netherlands	26.31
15	1	8	Caio Pumputis	Brazil	26.37
	2	1	Ronan Wantenaar	Namibia	Disqualified

Final

The final was held on 15 December at 17:55.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Qin Haiyang	China	25.42
=	2	Emre Sakçı	Turkey	25.56
=	4	Kirill Prigoda	Neutral Athletes B	25.56
4	8	Simone Cerasuolo	Italy	25.62
5	6	Ilya Shymanovich	Neutral Athletes A	25.64
6	1	Ludovico Viberti	Italy	25.71
7	7	Michael Houlie	South Africa	25.73
8	3	Chris Smith	South Africa	25.77