2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 50 metre butterfly explained

Event:	Men's 50 metre butterfly
Competition:	2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue:	WFCU Centre
Dates:	9 December (heats and semifinals) 10 December (final)
Competitors:	110
Nations:	86
Win Value:	21.98
Gold:	Chad Le Clos
Goldnoc:	RSA
Silver:	Tom Shields
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	David Morgan
Bronzenoc:	AUS
Prev:	2014
Next:	2018

The Men's 50 metre butterfly competition of the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 9 and 10 December 2016.^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Steffen Deibler		21.80	Berlin	14 November 2009
Championship record	Chad le Clos		21.95	Doha	6 December 2014

The heats were held at 10:01.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	12	5		22.53	Q
2	11	3		22.62	Q
3	11	4		22.68	Q
4	12	3		22.69	Q
5	9	5		22.75	Q
6	13	5		22.76	Q
7	11	5		22.79	Q
8	13	4		22.84	Q
9	11	0		22.85	Q
9	13	3		22.85	Q
11	8	3		22.89	Q
12	13	7		23.01	Q
13	12	4		23.07	Q
14	13	6		23.09
15	13	2		23.11	Q
16	13	8		23.22	Q
17	12	1		23.27
18	12	2		23.29	Q
19	11	2		23.30
20	10	7		23.39
21	12	7		23.40
22	11	7		23.42
23	13	0		23.46
24	12	9		23.48
25	11	1		23.49
26	12	8		23.62
27	8	5		23.69
28	13	9		23.74
29	10	5		23.77
30	10	1		23.81
31	10	0		23.92
32	10	2		23.93
33	10	9		23.98
34	9	8		24.00
35	10	4		24.12
36	9	3		24.17
36	10	3		24.17
38	8	4		24.20
39	10	8		24.21
40	9	1		24.23
41	1	3		24.25
42	10	6		24.33
43	1	1		24.37
44	11	9		24.39
45	7	5		24.49
46	5	0		24.54
47	7	2		24.58
48	9	7		24.69
49	9	4		24.73
50	1	2		24.81
51	9	2		24.83
52	8	0		24.92
53	8	1		24.97
54	7	1		24.99
55	8	6		25.05
56	7	3		25.06
56	7	8		25.06
58	8	2		25.19
59	9	9		25.21
60	7	7		25.26
61	7	9		25.28
62	6	1		25.39
63	5	8		25.51
64	7	6		25.56
65	6	5		25.58
66	6	3		25.67
67	5	3		25.71
68	8	9		25.84
69	6	2		25.88
69	6	6		25.88
71	6	4		25.91
71	6	7		25.91
73	6	0		25.96
73	7	0		25.96
75	5	2		25.97
76	6	8	Abdullah Al-Doori	26.00
77	5	1		26.05
78	1	6		26.08
78	1	7		26.08
80	5	7	George Jabbour	26.19
81	4	2		26.36
82	4	4		26.47
83	5	5		26.61
84	5	4		26.64
85	5	6		26.74
86	4	7		26.76
87	9	0		26.87
88	5	9		27.35
89	4	3		27.40
89	4	5		27.40
91	2	5		27.58
91	4	6		27.58
93	3	3		27.63
94	4	1		28.12
95	4	0		28.49
96	2	9		28.67
97	3	7		28.84
98	2	3		29.02
99	4	9		29.18
100	3	2		29.33
101	1	4		29.38
101	3	1		29.38
103	3	6		29.62
104	1	5		29.79
105	3	4		29.81
106	2	4		30.45
107	2	6		30.58
108	3	8		31.17
109	2	1		32.39
110	2	0		35.88
	2	2			DNS
	2	7			DNS
	2	8			DNS
	3	0			DNS
	3	5			DNS
	3	9			DNS
	4	8			DNS
	6	9			DNS
	7	4			DNS
	8	7			DNS
	8	8			DNS
	9	6			DNS
	11	6			DNS
	11	8			DNS
	12	0			DNS
	12	6			DNS
	13	1			DNS

The semifinals were held at 19:02.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	6	22.38	Q
2	2	22.53	Q
3	5	22.69	Q
4	1	22.70	Q
5	2	22.76	Q
6	4	22.82
7	8	22.87
8	7	22.96

The final was held at 19:10^[4]

Web site: Schedule . 2016-12-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161206122713/http://www.finawindsor2016.com/content/competition-schedule . 2016-12-06 . dead .
http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000110000D00030C00FFFFFFFFFFFF02 Heats results
Web site: Semifinals results . 2017-06-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170703202342/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000110000D00030C01FFFFFFFFFFFF02 . 2017-07-03 . dead .
Web site: Final results . 2017-06-14 . 2017-03-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170329113130/http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000110000D00030C02FFFFFFFFFFFF02 . dead .