Swimming at the 2018 Mediterranean Games – Men's 50 metre butterfly explained

The men's 50 metre butterfly competition at the 2018 Mediterranean Games was held on 24 June 2018 at the Campclar Aquatic Center.^[1]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Mediterranean Games records were as follows:

World record		22.43	Málaga, Spain	5 April 2009
Mediterranean Games record		23.50	Mersin, Turkey	24 June 2013

The heats were held at 10:12.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	2	3	Ümit Can Güreş	23.70	Q, NR
2	2	5	Kristian Golomeev	24.00	Q
3	3	4	Piero Codia	24.01	Q
4	3	5	Abdelrahman Elaraby	24.04	Q, NR
5	1	4	Andrea Vergani	24.27	Q
6	2	4	Ivan Lenđer	24.32	Q
7	1	5	Alberto Lozano	24.53	Q
8	3	2	Adi Mešetović	24.59	Q
9	1	3	Marcos García	24.71
10	2	6	Andreas Vazaios	24.76
11	3	3	Berk Özkul	24.79
12	1	6	Gal Kordež	25.11
13	1	2	Ahmed Hussein	25.13
14	2	2	Bernat Lomero	25.21
15	3	6	Anthony Barbar	25.68
16	3	7	Thomas Tsiopanis	26.03
	2	7	Audai Hassouna

The final was held at 18:16.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
	5	Kristian Golomeev	23.53	NR
	6	Abdelrahman Elaraby	23.69	NR
	3	Piero Codia	23.74
4	4	Ümit Can Güreş	23.75
5	2	Andrea Vergani	23.87
6	7	Ivan Lenđer	24.12
7	1	Alberto Lozano	24.14
8	8	Adi Mešetović	24.39	NR