Swimming at the 2022 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre freestyle
| Men's 50 metre freestyle at the 2022 European Aquatics Championships | ||||||||||
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| Venue | Foro Italico | |||||||||
| Dates | 16 August (heats and semifinals) 17 August (final) | |||||||||
| Competitors | 74 from 35 nations | |||||||||
| Winning time | 21.58 | |||||||||
| Medalists | ||||||||||
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| 2022 European Aquatics Championships | ||
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| Artistic swimming | ||
| Solo | ||
| Technical | men | women |
| Free | men | women |
| Duet | ||
| Technical | women | |
| Technical | mixed | |
| Free | women | |
| Free | mixed | |
| Team | ||
| Technical | women | |
| Free | women | |
| Combination | women | |
| Highlights | women | |
| Diving | ||
| Individual | ||
| 1 m | men | women |
| 3 m | men | women |
| 10 m | men | women |
| 3 m & 10 m | mixed team | |
| Synchronised | ||
| 3 m | men | women |
| mixed | ||
| 10 m | men | women |
| mixed | ||
| High diving | ||
| 20 m | women | |
| 27 m | men | |
| Open water swimming | ||
| 5 km | men | women |
| 10 km | men | women |
| 25 km | men | women |
| Team | team | |
| Swimming | ||
| Freestyle | ||
| 50 m | women | |
| 100 m | men | women |
| 200 m | men | women |
| 400 m | men | women |
| 800 m | men | women |
| 1500 m | men | women |
| Backstroke | ||
| 50 m | men | women |
| 100 m | men | women |
| 200 m | men | women |
| Breaststroke | ||
| 50 m | men | women |
| 100 m | men | women |
| 200 m | men | women |
| Butterfly | ||
| 50 m | men | women |
| 100 m | men | women |
| 200 m | men | women |
| Individual medley | ||
| 200 m | men | women |
| 400 m | men | women |
| Freestyle relay | ||
| 4 × 100 m | men | women |
| mixed | ||
| 4 × 200 m | men | women |
| mixed | ||
| Medley relay | ||
| 4 × 100 m | men | women |
| mixed | ||
The Men's 50 metre freestyle competition of the 2022 European Aquatics Championships was held on 16 and 17 August 2022.[1][2]
Records
Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows.
| Name | Nationality | Time | Location | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| World record | César Cielo |  Brazil |
20.91 | São Paulo | 18 December 2009 |
| European record | Frédérick Bousquet |  France |
20.94 | Montpellier | 26 April 2009 |
| Championship record | Ben Proud |  Great Britain |
21.11 | Glasgow | 8 August 2018 |
Results
Heats
The heats were started on 16 August at 09:00.[3]
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 4 | Thom de Boer |  Netherlands |
21.59 | Q |
| 2 | 8 | 4 | Ben Proud | Great Britain |
21.78 | Q |
| 3 | 8 | 6 | Leonardo Deplano |  Italy |
21.89 | Q |
| 3 | 8 | 3 | Lorenzo Zazzeri | Italy |
21.89 | Q |
| 5 | 6 | 3 | Vladyslav Bukhov |  Ukraine |
22.02 | Q |
| 6 | 7 | 5 | Kristian Gkolomeev |  Greece |
22.06 | Q |
| 7 | 7 | 2 | Björn Seeliger |  Sweden |
22.13 | Q |
| 8 | 7 | 6 | Jesse Puts | Netherlands |
22.15 | Q |
| 9 | 6 | 7 | Heiko Gigler |  Austria |
22.17 | Q |
| 10 | 5 | 5 | Illya Linnyk | Ukraine |
22.18 | Q |
| 11 | 8 | 9 | Diogo Ribeiro | .svg.png){kind=small} Portugal |
22.20 | Q |
| 12 | 8 | 7 | Meiron Cheruti |  Israel |
22.21 | Q |
| 13 | 8 | 5 | Szebasztián Szabó |  Hungary |
22.22 | Q |
| 14 | 9 | 8 | Andrej Barna |  Serbia |
22.23 | Q |
| 14 | 7 | 4 | Maxime Grousset | France |
22.23 | Q |
| 16 | 7 | 3 | Paweł Juraszek |  Poland |
22.24 | Q |
| 17 | 7 | 0 | Matej Duša |  Slovakia |
22.25 | NR |
| 18 | 6 | 6 | Alessandro Miressi | Italy |
22.26 | |
| 19 | 7 | 8 | Andriy Govorov | Ukraine |
22.38 | |
| 19 | 4 | 4 | Matthew Richards | Great Britain |
22.38 | |
| 21 | 7 | 1 | Nicholas Lia |  Norway |
22.39 | |
| 22 | 8 | 2 | Luca Dotto | Italy |
22.41 | |
| 23 | 6 | 2 | Nikola Miljenić |  Croatia |
22.45 | |
| 24 | 6 | 1 | Kenzo Simons | Netherlands |
22.46 | |
| 25 | 4 | 6 | Sergio de Celis |  Spain |
22.55 | |
| 26 | 4 | 1 | Deniel Nankov |  Bulgaria |
22.58 | |
| 27 | 3 | 6 | Alex Ahtiainen |  Estonia |
22.61 | |
| 28 | 7 | 7 | Konrad Czerniak | Poland |
22.63 | |
| 28 | 5 | 7 | Rémi Fabiani |  Luxembourg |
22.63 | |
| 28 | 7 | 9 | Charles Rihoux | France |
22.63 | |
| 31 | 5 | 3 | Carles Coll | Spain |
22.67 | |
| 32 | 5 | 4 | Thomas Piron | France |
22.68 | |
| 33 | 6 | 9 | Odysseus Meladinis | Greece |
22.70 | |
| 34 | 6 | 5 | Ari-Pekka Liukkonen |  Finland |
22.71 | |
| 35 | 4 | 3 | Stergios Bilas | Greece |
22.73 | |
| 36 | 6 | 0 | Daniel Zaitsev | Estonia |
22.74 | |
| 37 | 5 | 2 | Malthe Lindeblad |  Denmark |
22.77 | |
| 38 | 3 | 7 | Adi Mešetović |  Bosnia and Herzegovina |
22.78 | |
| 39 | 8 | 1 | Karol Ostrowski | Poland |
22.79 | |
| 40 | 6 | 8 | Frederik Lentz | Denmark |
22.83 | |
| 41 | 5 | 8 | Simon Bucher | Austria |
22.85 | |
| 42 | 5 | 6 | Nikola Aćin | Serbia |
22.86 | |
| 43 | 5 | 1 | Martin Kartavi | Israel |
22.87 | |
| 44 | 3 | 5 | Elias Meeus | .svg.png){kind=small} Belgium |
22.88 | |
| 45 | 3 | 4 | Julien Henx | Luxembourg |
22.95 | |
| 46 | 5 | 0 | Julien Berol | France |
23.00 | |
| 47 | 8 | 0 | Jasper Aerents | Belgium |
23.02 | |
| 48 | 4 | 7 | Christos Papadopoulos | Greece |
23.05 | |
| 49 | 2 | 5 | Josif Miladinov | Bulgaria |
23.07 | |
| 50 | 1 | 1 | Shane Ryan |  Ireland |
23.08 | |
| 51 | 3 | 2 | Oleksii Khnykin | Ukraine |
23.17 | |
| 52 | 4 | 8 | Nikola Bjelajac | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
23.20 | |
| 53 | 4 | 5 | Robin Hanson | Sweden |
23.24 | |
| 54 | 3 | 8 | Jan Šefl |  Czech Republic |
23.26 | |
| 55 | 4 | 2 | Juan Segura | Spain |
23.27 | |
| 55 | 2 | 6 | Símon Elías Statkevicius |  Iceland |
23.27 | |
| 57 | 3 | 1 | Artur Barseghyan |  Armenia |
23.34 | |
| 58 | 3 | 9 | Marcus Holmquist | Sweden |
23.37 | |
| 59 | 3 | 3 | Tomas Navikonis |  Lithuania |
23.38 | |
| 60 | 4 | 9 | Tomas Sungaila | Lithuania |
23.45 | |
| 61 | 2 | 4 | Bernat Lomero |  Andorra |
23.56 | |
| 62 | 5 | 9 | Max McCusker | Ireland |
23.58 | |
| 63 | 3 | 0 | Erik Falk | Sweden |
23.74 | |
| 64 | 2 | 3 | Markos Iakovidis |  Cyprus |
23.77 | |
| 65 | 2 | 7 | Raoul Stafrace |  Malta |
23.81 | |
| 66 | 1 | 4 | Uroš Živanović | Serbia |
23.98 | |
| 67 | 2 | 8 | Luka Kukhalashvili |  Georgia |
24.05 | |
| 68 | 2 | 0 | Rudi Spiteri | Malta |
24.11 | |
| 69 | 2 | 9 | Vladimir Mamikonyan | Armenia |
24.16 | |
| 70 | 1 | 5 | Matthew Galea | Malta |
24.22 | |
| 71 | 1 | 3 | Luka Eradze | Georgia |
24.49 | |
| 72 | 1 | 7 | Martin Muja |  Kosovo |
25.14 | |
| 73 | 1 | 6 | Drini Ujkashej |  Albania |
26.64 | |
| 74 | 1 | 2 | Ared Ruci | Albania |
26.94 | |
| 2 | 1 | Filippos Iakovidis | Cyprus |
Did not start | ||
| 2 | 2 | Olli Kokko | Finland
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| 4 | 0 | Mateusz Chowaniec | Poland
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Semifinals
The semifinals were started on 16 August at 18:24.[4]
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 4 | Ben Proud | Great Britain |
21.40 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | 4 | Thom de Boer | Netherlands |
21.72 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | 5 | Lorenzo Zazzeri | Italy |
21.72 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | 5 | Leonardo Deplano | Italy |
21.73 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | 8 | Maxime Grousset | France |
21.75 | q |
| 6 | 1 | 3 | Kristian Gkolomeev | Greece |
21.76 | q |
| 7 | 2 | 3 | Vladyslav Bukhov | Ukraine |
21.91 | q |
| 8 | 1 | 8 | Paweł Juraszek | Poland |
21.92 | q |
| 9 | 1 | 6 | Jesse Puts | Netherlands |
22.02 | |
| 10 | 2 | 6 | Björn Seeliger | Sweden |
22.04 | |
| 11 | 1 | 7 | Meiron Cheruti | Israel |
22.07 | |
| 11 | 2 | 7 | Diogo Ribeiro | Portugal |
22.07 | NR |
| 13 | 1 | 1 | Andrej Barna | Serbia |
22.09 | NR |
| 14 | 2 | 1 | Szebasztián Szabó | Hungary |
22.13 | |
| 15 | 2 | 2 | Heiko Gigler | Austria |
22.14 | |
| 16 | 1 | 2 | Illya Linnyk | Ukraine |
22.33 |
Final
The final was started on 17 August at 18:00.[5]
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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4 | Ben Proud | Great Britain |
21.58 | |
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6 | Leonardo Deplano | Italy |
21.60 | |
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7 | Kristian Gkolomeev | Greece |
21.75 | |
| 4 | 8 | Paweł Juraszek | Poland |
21.78 | |
| 5 | 2 | Maxime Grousset | France |
21.87 | |
| 6 | 5 | Thom de Boer | Netherlands |
21.90 | |
| 6 | 3 | Lorenzo Zazzeri | Italy |
21.90 | |
| 8 | 1 | Vladyslav Bukhov | Ukraine |
22.19 |