Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre freestyle

Men's 50 metre freestyle
at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Men's 50 metre freestyle; at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Aquatics Centre,; Paris La Défense Arena
Dates	1 August 2024 (heats and semifinals); 2 August 2024 (final)
Competitors	73 from 64 nations
Winning time	21.25
Medalists
	← 2020 2028 →

The men's 50 metre freestyle event at the 2024 Summer Olympics will be held from 1 to 2 August 2024 at the Paris Aquatics Centre.^[1]

Records

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

World record	César Cielo (BRA)	20.91	São Paulo, Brazil	18 December 2009	^[2]^[3]
Olympic record	Caeleb Dressel (USA)	21.07	Tokyo, Japan	1 August 2021

Qualification

A National Olympic Committee (NOC) may enter a maximum of two qualified athletes in each individual event, but only if both of them have attained the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT). One athlete per event can potentially enter if they meet the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT), or if the total quota of 852 athletes has not been targeted. NOCs may also permit swimmers regardless of time (one per gender) under a Universality place since they have no swimmers attaining either of the standard entry times (OQT/OCT).^[4]^[5]

Following the end of the qualification window, World Aquatics will assess the number of swimmers who have achieved the OQT, the number of relay-only swimmers, and the number of Universality places, before inviting those with OCT to fulfill the total quota of 852. Additionally, OCT places will be distributed by event according to the position of the World Aquatics Rankings during the qualifying deadline.^[4]

Time standards

The qualifying time standards must be obtained at the 2023 and 2024 World Championships, continental championships, continental swimming meets, national championships and selection trials, and various international meets approved by World Aquatics in the period between 1 March 2023 and 23 June 2024.^[6]

The following table outlines the qualifying time standards for Paris 2024 for this event:

Men's events
Event	OQT*	OCT^
50 m freestyle	21.96	22.07

* OQTs correspond to the time achieved by a fourteenth-place swimmer in his or her respective preliminary heat of each event at the previous Games.

ª Because the fourteenth-place swimmer achieved a standard slower than the OQT in Tokyo 2020, the OQT used at the previous Games will remain constant.

^ OCTs are derived by adding 0.5% of the OQT standard.

Competition format

The competition consists of three rounds: heats, semifinals, and a final. The swimmers with the best 16 times in the heats advance to the semifinals. The swimmers with the best 8 times in the semifinals advance to the final. Swim-offs are used as necessary to break ties for advancement to the next round.

Schedule

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

Date	Time	Round
1 August 2024	11:18	Heats
1 August 2024	20:46	Semifinals
2 August 2024	20:30	Final

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	10	4	Cameron McEvoy	Australia	21.32	Q
2	10	7	Jordan Crooks	Cayman Islands	21.51	Q, NR
3	8	5	Florent Manaudou	France	21.54	Q
4	10	1	Lorenzo Zazzeri	Italy	21.64	Q
5	9	4	Ben Proud	Great Britain	21.70	Q
6	6	7	Tom Fannon	Ireland	21.79	Q, NR
6	8	7	Leonardo Deplano	Italy	21.79	Q
8	9	8	Ben Armbruster	Australia	21.86	Q
8	10	2	Kristian Gkolomeev	Greece	21.86	Q
10	8	8	Meiron Cheruti	Israel	21.88	Q
11	8	4	Vladyslav Bukhov	Ukraine	21.89	Q
11	10	6	Gabriel Castaño	Mexico	21.89	Q
13	7	5	Diogo Ribeiro	Portugal	21.91	Q
13	10	5	Caeleb Dressel	United States	21.91	Q
15	9	5	Joshua Liendo	Canada	21.92	Q
16	9	3	Maxime Grousset	France	21.94	Q
17	10	3	Chris Guiliano	United States	21.97
18	9	7	Stergios Bilas	Greece	22.00
19	7	1	Martin Kartavi	Israel	22.01
19	7	4	Taiko Torepe-Ormsby	New Zealand	22.01
21	9	1	Alberto Mestre	Venezuela	22.02
22	6	2	Jere Hribar	Croatia	22.08
23	7	3	Renzo Tjon-A-Joe	Netherlands	22.10
24	9	6	Szebasztián Szabó	Hungary	22.12
24	10	8	Ian Ho	Hong Kong	22.12
26	6	6	Mikel Schreuders	Aruba	22.14
27	8	2	Kenzo Simons	Netherlands	22.15
28	9	2	Ji Yu-chan	South Korea	22.16
29	8	6	Dylan Carter	Trinidad and Tobago	22.18
30	7	2	Andrej Barna	Serbia	22.19
31	8	3	Björn Seeliger	Sweden	22.21
32	6	5	Jonathan Tan	Singapore	22.26
33	6	4	Alexander Cohoon	Great Britain	22.31
33	7	6	Guilherme Caribé	Brazil	22.31
35	7	7	Piotr Ludwiczak	Poland	22.34
36	6	3	Miguel Nascimento	Portugal	22.49
37	6	1	Nicholas Lia	Norway	22.51
38	7	8	Artem Selin	Germany	22.54
39	6	8	Matej Duša	Slovakia	22.64
40	5	6	David Young	Fiji	22.71	NR
41	5	5	Kyle Micallef	Malta	22.89
42	4	2	Thierry Bollin	Switzerland	22.95
43	5	3	Tobi Sijuade	Nigeria	23.34
44	5	4	Evgenii Somov	Individual Neutral Athletes	23.43
45	5	1	Alex Joachim	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	23.59
46	4	5	Belly-Cresus Ganira	Burundi	23.80
47	5	2	Alaa Maso	Refugee Olympic Team	23.90
48	5	7	Damien Shamambo	Zambia	24.09
49	5	8	Filipe Gomes	Malawi	24.11
50	4	4	Mohamed Aan Hussain	Maldives	24.22
51	4	6	Aaron Ghebre Owusu	Eritrea	24.25
52	4	3	Warren Lawrence	Dominica	24.67
53	4	7	Jion Hosei	Palau	25.67
54	4	1	Houmed Houssein Barkat	Djibouti	26.00
55	4	8	Camil Doua	Mauritania	26.02
56	3	4	Fakhriddin Madkamov	Tajikistan	26.23
57	3	3	Elhadj N'Gnane Diallo	Guinea	26.45
58	3	8	Magnim Jordano Daou	Togo	26.56
59	3	5	Souleymane Napare	Burkina Faso	26.66
59	3	6	Jose Tati	Cape Verde	26.66
61	3	2	Ousman Jobe	The Gambia	26.97
62	3	7	Joshua Wyse	Sierra Leone	27.11
63	3	1	Fahim Anwari	Afghanistan	27.14
64	2	5	Phillip Kinono	Marshall Islands	27.43
65	2	6	Freddy Mayala	Republic of the Congo	27.52
66	1	4	Pedro Rogery	Guinea-Bissau	28.34
67	2	7	Higinio Ndong Obama	Equatorial Guinea	28.42
68	2	3	Adam Mpali	Gabon	28.47
69	2	2	Troy Nisbett	Saint Kitts and Nevis	28.71
70	2	4	Aristote Ndombe Impelenga	Democratic Republic of the Congo	29.04
71	2	1	Jolanio Guterres	East Timor	30.04
72	1	3	Marouane Mamane Hamissou Abba	Niger	30.66
73	1	5	Terence Tengue	Central African Republic	30.96
	8	1	Shane Ryan	Ireland	Did not start

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Semifinals

The swimmers with the best 8 times, regardless of heat, advanced to the final.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	2	3	Ben Proud	Great Britain	21.38	Q
1	2	4	Cameron McEvoy	Australia	21.38	Q
3	2	6	Leonardo Deplano	Italy	21.50	Q
4	1	4	Jordan Crooks	Cayman Islands	21.54	Q
5	1	1	Caeleb Dressel	United States	21.58	Q
6	1	8	Maxime Grousset	France	21.60	^[8]
7	2	2	Kristian Gkolomeev	Greece	21.62	Q
8	2	5	Florent Manaudou	France	21.64	Q
9	2	8	Josh Liendo	Canada	21.69	Q
10	1	3	Thomas Fannon	Ireland	21.74
11	2	7	Vladyslav Bukhov	Ukraine	21.76
12	1	5	Lorenzo Zazzeri	Italy	21.83
13	1	2	Meiron Cheruti	Israel	21.91
14	1	6	Ben Armbruster	Australia	21.94
15	1	7	Gabriel Castaño	Mexico	21.99
16	2	1	Diogo Ribeiro	Portugal	22.01

Final

Rank	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time
	5	Cameron McEvoy	Australia	21.25
	4	Ben Proud	Great Britain	21.30
	1	Florent Manaudou	France	21.56
4	8	Josh Liendo	Canada	21.58
5	7	Kristian Gkolomeev	Greece	21.59
6	2	Caeleb Dressel	United States	21.61
7	3	Leonardo Deplano	Italy	21.62
8	6	Jordan Crooks	Cayman Islands	21.64

References

^ "Competition Schedule | World Aquatics Official". World Aquatics. Retrieved 2024-07-16.
^ "Brazil's Cesar Cielo breaks 50m freestyle world record". France24. 18 December 2009. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
^ "Brazil Long Course Championships: Cesar Cielo Sets World Record". Swimming World Magazine. 18 December 2009. Archived from the original on 23 February 2013. Retrieved 16 November 2011.
^ ^a ^b "Paris 2024 – Swimming Info". World Aquatics. 5 April 2022. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
^ Rieder, David (3 April 2022). "Event Changes Likely as Paris 2024 Moves to Nine-Day Schedule of Finals". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
^ "Paris 2024 - Swimming Info". World Aquatics. 3 October 2022.
^ "Men's 50m Freestyle – Heats – Results Summary" (PDF). olympics.com. 1 August 2024. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
^ Rosado, Laura (2024-08-01). "2024 Paris Olympic: Maxime Grousset Out, Josh Liendo In For Men's 50 Free Final". SwimSwam. Retrieved 2024-08-02.

[1] "Competition Schedule | World Aquatics Official". World Aquatics. Retrieved 2024-07-16.

[2] "Brazil's Cesar Cielo breaks 50m freestyle world record". France24. 18 December 2009. Retrieved 10 July 2013.

[3] "Brazil Long Course Championships: Cesar Cielo Sets World Record". Swimming World Magazine. 18 December 2009. Archived from the original on 23 February 2013. Retrieved 16 November 2011.

[swimming_qual_standards-4] "Paris 2024 – Swimming Info". World Aquatics. 5 April 2022. Retrieved 12 November 2022.

[swimming_qual_standards_1-5] Rieder, David (3 April 2022). "Event Changes Likely as Paris 2024 Moves to Nine-Day Schedule of Finals". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 12 November 2022.

[6] "Paris 2024 - Swimming Info". World Aquatics. 3 October 2022.

[7] "Men's 50m Freestyle – Heats – Results Summary" (PDF). olympics.com. 1 August 2024. Retrieved 1 August 2024.

[8] Rosado, Laura (2024-08-01). "2024 Paris Olympic: Maxime Grousset Out, Josh Liendo In For Men's 50 Free Final". SwimSwam. Retrieved 2024-08-02.

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Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics

Qualification
Freestyle
50 m	men		women
100 m	men		women
200 m	men		women
400 m	men		women
800 m	men		women
1500 m	men		women
Backstroke
100 m	men		women
200 m	men		women
Breaststroke
100 m	men		women
200 m	men		women
Butterfly
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
4 × 200 m	men		women
Medley relay
4 × 100 m	men	mixed	women
Marathon
10 km	men		women
v t e

v t e Olympic champions in men's 50 m freestyle
50 yards	1904: Zoltán Halmay (HUN)
50 metres	1988: Matt Biondi (USA) 1992: Alexander Popov (EUN) 1996: Alexander Popov (RUS) 2000: Anthony Ervin / Gary Hall Jr. (USA) 2004: Gary Hall Jr. (USA) 2008: César Cielo (BRA) 2012: Florent Manaudou (FRA) 2016: Anthony Ervin (USA) 2020: Caeleb Dressel (USA) 2024: Cameron McEvoy (AUS)