2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 50 metre freestyle
The Men's 50 metre freestyle competition of the 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships was held on 4 December with the heats and the semifinals and 5 December with the final.Records
Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
| Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date |
| World record | Roland Schoeman | | 20.30 | Pietermaritzburg | 8 August 2009 |
| Championship record | César Cielo | | 20.51 | Dubai | 17 December 2010 |
The following records were established during the competition:
| Date | Event | Name | Nation | Time | Record |
| 5 December | Final | Florent Manaudou | | 20.26 | WR |
Results
Heats
The heats were held at 10:59.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 17 | 4 | César Cielo | | 21.00 | Q |
| 2 | 17 | 5 | Marco Orsi | | 21.02 | Q |
| 3 | 16 | 4 | Vladimir Morozov | | 21.08 | Q |
| 4 | 16 | 5 | Josh Schneider | | 21.11 | Q |
| 4 | 18 | 4 | Florent Manaudou | | 21.11 | Q |
| 6 | 18 | 5 | Oleg Tikhobaev | | 21.20 | Q |
| 7 | 18 | 3 | Andriy Hovorov | | 21.24 | Q |
| 8 | 16 | 3 | Shinri Shioura | | 21.25 | Q |
| 9 | 16 | 6 | Ning Zetao | | 21.26 | Q |
| 10 | 15 | 6 | Clément Mignon | | 21.37 | Q |
| 11 | 17 | 2 | François Heersbrandt | | 21.45 | Q |
| 12 | 18 | 6 | Matthew Abood | | 21.46 | Q |
| 13 | 17 | 3 | Jimmy Feigen | | 21.48 | Q |
| 14 | 17 | 6 | Cameron McEvoy | | 21.50 | Q |
| 15 | 16 | 0 | Ben Proud | | 21.52 | Q |
| 16 | 17 | 7 | Alan Vitória | | 21.62 | Q |
| 17 | 16 | 2 | Jasper Aerents | | 21.63 | |
| 18 | 12 | 1 | Cristian Quintero | | 21.65 | |
| 19 | 16 | 7 | Luca Dotto | | 21.69 | |
| 19 | 18 | 2 | Ari-Pekka Liukkonen | | 21.69 | |
| 21 | 16 | 1 | Brett Fraser | | 21.78 | |
| 22 | 15 | 2 | Pjotr Degtjarjov | | 21.79 | |
| 23 | 14 | 4 | Roy-Allan Burch | | 21.81 | |
| 24 | 18 | 1 | Sahnoune Oussama | | 21.83 | |
| 25 | 16 | 9 | Boris Stojanović | | 21.86 | |
| 25 | 17 | 9 | Luke Pendock | | 21.86 | |
| 27 | 17 | 0 | Yauhen Tsurkin | | 21.89 | |
| 28 | 15 | 5 | Yuki Kawachi | | 21.91 | |
| 29 | 14 | 7 | Alexandre Haldemann | | 21.93 | |
| 30 | 13 | 5 | Daniel Carranza | | 21.94 | |
| 31 | 15 | 4 | Mario Todorović | | 21.97 | |
| 32 | 16 | 8 | Renzo Tjon-A-Joe | | 21.98 | |
| 33 | 12 | 8 | David Gamburg | | 22.03 | |
| 34 | 18 | 8 | Mindaugas Sadauskas | | 22.06 | |
| 35 | 15 | 8 | Hanser García | | 22.07 | |
| 36 | 17 | 1 | Yu Hexin | | 22.08 | |
| 37 | 14 | 0 | Clayton Jimmie | | 22.10 | |
| 37 | 15 | 3 | Federico Grabich | | 22.10 | |
| 39 | 17 | 8 | Bogdan Plavin | | 22.13 | |
| 40 | 15 | 7 | Joshua McLeod | | 22.14 | |
| 41 | 13 | 6 | Péter Holoda | | 22.15 | |
| 42 | 13 | 3 | Ryan Pini | | 22.16 | |
| 42 | 15 | 0 | Julien Henx | | 22.16 | |
| 44 | 13 | 4 | Elvis Burrows | | 22.18 | |
| 45 | 15 | 1 | Ivan Levaj | | 22.22 | |
| 46 | 18 | 9 | Marius Radu | | 22.24 | |
| 47 | 14 | 5 | Oliver Elliot | | 22.35 | |
| 48 | 12 | 3 | Apostolos Christou | | 22.43 | |
| 49 | 12 | 4 | Hüseyin Sakçı | | 22.45 | |
| 49 | 14 | 2 | Chang Kuo-chi | | 22.45 | |
| 51 | 18 | 0 | Nazim Belkhodja | | 22.47 | |
| 52 | 14 | 1 | Tadas Duškinas | | 22.49 | |
| 53 | 14 | 6 | Gabriel Melconian Alvez | | 22.72 | |
| 54 | 13 | 2 | Jevon Atkinson | | 22.75 | |
| 55 | 11 | 6 | Matthew Zammit | | 22.77 | |
| 56 | 13 | 0 | Zuhayr Pigot | | 22.79 | |
| 57 | 15 | 9 | Abraham McLeod | | 22.83 | |
| 58 | 10 | 3 | Meli Malani | | 22.89 | |
| 59 | 14 | 9 | Chad Idensohn | | 22.91 | |
| 60 | 11 | 2 | Peter Wetzlar | | 22.96 | |
| 61 | 12 | 6 | Vahan Mkhitaryan | | 23.00 | |
| 62 | 13 | 9 | Stanislav Karnaukhov | | 23.01 | |
| 63 | 12 | 0 | Daniil Tulupov | | 23.02 | |
| 64 | 14 | 8 | Janis Saltans | | 23.04 | |
| 65 | 13 | 1 | Mohammad Madwa | | 23.05 | |
| 66 | 11 | 8 | Raoul Stafrace | | 23.06 | |
| 67 | 11 | 1 | Arnel Dudić | | 23.10 | |
| 68 | 13 | 7 | Ng Chun Nam Derick | | 23.11 | |
| 69 | 12 | 7 | Mikel Schreuders | | 23.12 | |
| 70 | 13 | 8 | Mak Ho Lun Raymond | | 23.16 | |
| 71 | 12 | 9 | Jeremy Kostons | | 23.20 | |
| 72 | 11 | 4 | Alexandre Bakhtiarov | | 23.21 | |
| 73 | 11 | 9 | Gavin Lewis | | 23.22 | |
| 74 | 10 | 7 | Kitiphat Pipimnan | | 23.24 | |
| 75 | 11 | 5 | Abdoul Niane | | 23.24 | |
| 76 | 9 | 2 | Nico Campbell | | 23.29 | |
| 77 | 14 | 3 | Bradley Vincent | | 23.31 | |
| 78 | 10 | 4 | Gálvez Capriles | | 23.32 | |
| 79 | 9 | 6 | Winter Heaven | | 23.38 | |
| 80 | 9 | 5 | Isaac Beitia | | 23.47 | |
| 81 | 10 | 9 | Oumar Touré | | 23.49 | |
| 82 | 11 | 3 | Rodrigo Suriano | | 23.53 | |
| 83 | 8 | 4 | Farhan Saleh | | 23.64 | |
| 84 | 10 | 5 | Kevin Avila Soto | | 23.67 | |
| 85 | 9 | 3 | Mathieu Marquet | | 23.73 | |
| 86 | 9 | 0 | Axel Ngui | | 23.75 | |
| 87 | 9 | 8 | Cherantha de Silva | | 23.90 | |
| 88 | 11 | 0 | Ahmed Al-Hosani | | 24.03 | |
| 89 | 7 | 5 | Aldo Castillo | | 24.08 | |
| 90 | 6 | 6 | Valentin Gorshkov | | 24.10 | |
| 90 | 8 | 9 | Abel Fazekas | | 24.10 | |
| 92 | 7 | 3 | Patrick Groters | | 24.12 | |
| 93 | 9 | 7 | Jim Sanderson | | 24.14 | |
| 94 | 6 | 1 | Rafael Sta | | 24.15 | |
| 95 | 9 | 9 | Dulguun Batsaikhan | | 24.21 | |
| 95 | 8 | 8 | Stanford Kawale | | 24.21 | |
| 97 | 8 | 2 | Mahmoud Daaboul | | 24.38 | |
| 97 | 10 | 1 | Omar Al-Malki | | 24.38 | |
| 99 | 10 | 8 | Adama Ndir | | 24.42 | |
| 100 | 8 | 6 | Omar Hesham | | 24.43 | |
| 101 | 6 | 3 | Dean Hoffman | | 24.49 | |
| 102 | 9 | 1 | Miguel Mena | | 24.51 | |
| 103 | 6 | 2 | Cristian Santi | | 24.52 | |
| 104 | 6 | 4 | Noah Mascoll-Gomes | | 24.60 | |
| 104 | 8 | 0 | Charlie Salame | | 24.60 | |
| 104 | 10 | 6 | Waleed Abdulrazzaq | | 24.60 | |
| 107 | 6 | 0 | Jesús Flores | | 24.63 | |
| 108 | 8 | 5 | Sio Ka Kun | | 24.66 | |
| 109 | 10 | 0 | Christopher Duenas | | 24.71 | |
| 110 | 5 | 7 | Andrew Hopkin | | 24.72 | |
| 111 | 9 | 4 | Maksim Bakharev | | 24.75 | |
| 112 | 8 | 3 | Christian Nikles | | 24.76 | |
| 113 | 5 | 3 | Mohammad Abdo | | 24.80 | |
| 114 | 7 | 6 | Arnoldo Herrera | | 24.81 | |
| 115 | 11 | 7 | Wong Pok Iao | | 24.85 | |
| 116 | 7 | 0 | Pierre-Andre Adam | | 24.90 | |
| 117 | 5 | 6 | Giordan Harris | | 24.92 | |
| 118 | 8 | 1 | Alex Sobers | | 24.98 | |
| 119 | 8 | 7 | Kgosietsile Molefinyane | | 25.03 | |
| 120 | 4 | 2 | Matthew Shone | | 25.07 | |
| 120 | 6 | 7 | Nikolas Sylvester | | 25.07 | |
| 122 | 7 | 7 | J'Air Smith | | 25.16 | |
| 123 | 6 | 5 | Gianluca Pasolini | | 25.19 | |
| 123 | 7 | 9 | González Leonardo | | 25.19 | |
| 125 | 7 | 8 | Syed Javaid | | 25.21 | |
| 126 | 5 | 4 | Kamran Jafarov | | 25.26 | |
| 127 | 7 | 2 | Brandon Schuster | | 25.28 | |
| 128 | 5 | 1 | Corey Ollivierre | | 25.60 | |
| 129 | 5 | 0 | Kwesi Jackson | | 25.70 | |
| 130 | 3 | 1 | Rami Abunahla | | 25.74 | |
| 131 | 4 | 3 | Ibrahim Nishwan | | 25.85 | |
| 132 | 7 | 1 | Mamadou Soumaré | | 25.90 | |
| 133 | 4 | 0 | Rony Bakale | | 25.91 | |
| 134 | 4 | 6 | Justine Rodriguez | | 25.95 | |
| 135 | 5 | 5 | Deni Baholli | | 26.01 | |
| 136 | 4 | 5 | Tanner Poppe | | 26.05 | |
| 137 | 6 | 9 | Abdulrahman Al-Kawari | | 26.07 | |
| 138 | 3 | 3 | Thol Thoeun | | 26.09 | |
| 139 | 4 | 7 | Temaruata Strickland | | 26.21 | |
| 140 | 6 | 8 | Umarkhon Alizoda | | 26.23 | |
| 141 | 3 | 4 | Elisha Tibatemwa | | 26.41 | |
| 142 | 7 | 4 | Chaoili Chaoili | | 26.47 | |
| 143 | 2 | 2 | Tongli Panuve | | 26.52 | |
| 144 | 5 | 9 | Sylla Alassane | | 26.57 | |
| 145 | 3 | 6 | Sirish Gurung | | 26.67 | |
| 146 | 3 | 5 | Dionisio Augustine | | 26.68 | |
| 147 | 3 | 2 | Mohamed Adnan | | 26.70 | |
| 148 | 1 | 8 | Sawadogo Tindwende | | 26.76 | |
| 149 | 4 | 8 | Aleksander Ngresi | | 26.81 | |
| 150 | 2 | 6 | Miraj Prajapati | | 26.86 | |
| 151 | 3 | 7 | Andrew Fowler | | 26.90 | |
| 152 | 2 | 5 | Takumi Sugie | | 26.94 | |
| 153 | 3 | 9 | Aliasger Karimjee | | 26.96 | |
| 154 | 4 | 1 | Omar Adams | | 26.97 | |
| 155 | 4 | 4 | Billy-Scott Irakoze | | 27.02 | |
| 156 | 2 | 4 | Shawn Dingilius | | 27.07 | |
| 157 | 3 | 8 | Thonponloeu Hem | | 27.09 | |
| 158 | 4 | 9 | Storm Hablich | | 27.39 | |
| 159 | 5 | 8 | Atta Atta | | 27.78 | |
| 160 | 5 | 2 | Albarchir Moctar | | 27.83 | |
| 161 | 2 | 1 | Robel Kiros Habte | | 27.99 | |
| 162 | 2 | 3 | Idriss Mutankabandi | | 28.60 | |
| 163 | 2 | 9 | Yousef Al-Nehmi | | 28.93 | |
| 164 | 2 | 8 | Sami Al-Sayaghi | | 29.00 | |
| 165 | 1 | 4 | Awoussou Ablam | | 29.73 | |
| 166 | 1 | 5 | Abdoul Nignan | | 29.84 | |
| 167 | 1 | 7 | Pap Jonga | | 30.37 | |
| 168 | 1 | 3 | Rayane Alognisso | | 30.49 | |
| 169 | 3 | 0 | Christian Nassi | | 30.77 | |
| 170 | 1 | 2 | Eric Niyonsaba | | 31.05 | |
| 171 | 1 | 6 | Ahmed Bourhan | | 32.66 | |
| 172 | 1 | 1 | Omar Darboe | | 32.73 | |
| 173 | 2 | 7 | Shad Perriere | | 36.82 | |
| — | 2 | 0 | Jynior Ndinga | | | DNS |
| — | 12 | 2 | Jamal Chavoshifar | | | DNS |
| — | 12 | 5 | Riku Poytakivi | | | DNS |
| — | 18 | 7 | Dominik Kozma | | | DNS |
| — | 10 | 2 | David van der Colff | | | DSQ |
Semifinals
The semifinals were held at 18:46.Semifinal 1
Semifinal 2
Final
The final were held at 19:35.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 3 | Florent Manaudou | | 20.26 | |
| 6 | Marco Orsi | | 20.69 | |
| 4 | César Cielo | | 20.88 | |
| 4 | 5 | Vladimir Morozov | | 20.89 | |
| 5 | 8 | Josh Schneider | | 20.97 | |
| 6 | 2 | Cameron McEvoy | | 21.15 | |
| 7 | 7 | Andriy Hovorov | | 21.21 | |
| 8 | 1 | Clément Mignon | | 21.35 | |
