2021 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 50 metre breaststroke

Men's 50 metre breaststroke at the 2021 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue	Etihad Arena
Location	Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Dates	20 December (heats and semifinals) 21 December (final)
Competitors	55 from 52 nations
Winning time	25.53
Medalists
Nic Fink    United States   Nicolò Martinenghi    Italy   João Gomes Júnior    Brazil

The Men's 50 metre breaststroke competition of the 2021 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 20 and 21 December 2021.^[1]

Records

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

World record	Cameron van der Burgh (RSA)  Ilya Shymanovich (BLR)	25.25	Berlin, Germany Kazan, Russia	14 November 2009 7 November 2021
Competition record	Cameron van der Burgh (RSA)	25.41	Hangzhou, China	16 December 2018

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 20 December at 11:22.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	7	4	Ilya Shymanovich	Belarus	25.77	Q
2	6	4	Emre Sakçı	Turkey	25.87	Q
3	5	3	João Gomes Júnior	Brazil	26.01	Q
4	5	4	Nicolò Martinenghi	Italy	26.02	Q
5	6	5	Nic Fink	United States	26.09	Q
6	7	5	Arno Kamminga	Netherlands	26.20	Q
7	7	6	Andrei Nikolaev	Russian Swimming Federation	26.24	Q
8	6	3	Kirill Strelnikov	Russian Swimming Federation	26.25	Q
9	5	5	Fabian Schwingenschlögl	Germany	26.34	Q
10	6	7	Moon Jae-kwon	South Korea	26.46	Q
11	5	2	Olli Kokko	Finland	26.54	Q
11	6	6	Bernhard Reitshammer	Austria	26.54	Q
13	5	6	Tobias Bjerg	Denmark	26.71	Q
13	6	1	Yan Zibei	China	26.71	Q
15	7	2	Kristian Pitshugin	Israel	26.74	Q
16	5	8	Lucas Matzerath	Germany	26.81	Q
17	7	1	Bradley Tandy	South Africa	26.85
18	6	9	Rostyslav Kryzhanivskyi	Ukraine	26.89
19	6	0	Youssef El-Kamash	Egypt	26.90	NR
20	4	2	Josué Domínguez	Dominican Republic	26.91	NR
21	3	4	Jadon Wuilliez	Netherlands Antilles	26.98	NR
22	6	2	Andrius Šidlauskas	Lithuania	27.06
23	5	1	Denis Petrashov	Kyrgyzstan	27.14
24	5	9	Izaak Bastian	Bahamas	27.24	NR
25	4	1	Mariano Lazzerini	Chile	27.35	NR
26	4	3	Julio Horrego	Honduras	27.38	NR
27	7	0	André Grindheim	Norway	27.39
28	7	8	Matěj Zábojník	Czech Republic	27.41
29	5	0	Ng Yan Kin	Hong Kong	27.73
30	4	7	Miguel de Lara	Mexico	28.22
31	4	6	Patrick Pelegrina	Andorra	28.29
32	4	8	Abobakr Abass	Sudan	28.51	NR
33	4	9	Ziyad Al-Salous	Jordan	28.77	NR
34	7	9	Sébastien Kouma	Mali	28.81
35	3	5	Muhammad Isa Ahmad	Brunei	29.32
36	3	6	Kerry Ollivierre	Grenada	29.53
37	3	8	Terrel Monplaisir	Saint Lucia	29.84
38	3	3	Bransly Dirksz	Aruba	29.94
39	2	2	Hilal Hemed Hilal	Tanzania	29.97
40	3	1	Bryson George	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	29.99
41	3	2	Omar Al-Hatem	Kuwait	31.16
42	2	8	Muhammad Mustafa	Pakistan	32.39
43	2	7	Abdulmalek Ashur	Libya	33.24
44	2	0	Antonio Habis	Palestine	33.44
45	2	1	Omar Darboe	Gambia	35.42
46	3	0	Mohamed Kamara	Sierra Leone	35.47
47	2	9	Cedrick Niyibizi	Rwanda	35.90
48	1	6	Yacouba Mouctar	Niger	36.17
49	2	5	Houmed Houssein Barkat	Djibouti	37.02
50	1	4	Barkwende Yougbare	Burkina Faso	38.17
51	2	3	Teddy Regoballes	Central African Republic	53.22
	1	3	Georgios Spanoudakis	Greece	DSQ
	4	0	Filipe Gomes	Malawi
	1	3	Renato Prono	Paraguay
	4	0	Christopher Rothbauer	Austria
	1	5	Fabrice Mopama Sukasuka	Democratic Republic of the Congo	DNS
	2	4	Diosdado Miko Eyanga	Equatorial Guinea
	2	6	Yousef Al-Washali	Yemen
	3	7	Fahim Anwari	Afghanistan
	3	9	Sean Walters	Turks and Caicos Islands
	4	4	Jorge Murillo	Colombia
	4	5	Martin Melconian	Uruguay
	6	8	Tomáš Klobučník	Slovakia
	7	3	Michael Andrew	United States

Semifinals

The semifinals were started on 20 December at 19:03.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Ilya Shymanovich	Belarus	25.55	Q
2	2	3	Nic Fink	United States	25.68	Q, NR
3	1	5	Nicolò Martinenghi	Italy	25.87	Q
4	2	2	Fabian Schwingenschlögl	Germany	25.94	Q
5	2	5	João Gomes Júnior	Brazil	25.96	Q
6	1	1	Yan Zibei	China	26.18	Q, NR
7	1	3	Arno Kamminga	Netherlands	26.21	Q
7	1	7	Bernhard Reitshammer	Austria	26.21	Q
9	2	6	Andrei Nikolaev	Russian Swimming Federation	26.25
10	1	6	Kirill Strelnikov	Russian Swimming Federation	26.33
11	1	2	Moon Jae-kwon	South Korea	26.37	NR
12	2	1	Tobias Bjerg	Denmark	26.45
13	2	8	Kristian Pitshugin	Israel	26.46
14	1	8	Lucas Matzerath	Germany	26.50
15	2	7	Olli Kokko	Finland	26.62
	1	4	Emre Sakçı	Turkey	DSQ

Final

The final was held on 21 December at 19:24.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Nic Fink	United States	25.53	AM
	3	Nicolò Martinenghi	Italy	25.55
	2	João Gomes Júnior	Brazil	25.80
4	4	Ilya Shymanovich	Belarus	25.84
5	6	Fabian Schwingenschlögl	Germany	26.16
6	1	Arno Kamminga	Netherlands	26.32
7	8	Bernhard Reitshammer	Austria	26.39
8	7	Yan Zibei	China	26.49

References

1. "Competition Schedule" (PDF). Omega Timing. 17 December 2021. Retrieved 20 December 2021.
2. Heats results
3. Semifinals results
4. Final results