Swimming at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre butterfly

Men's 50 metre butterfly
at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships
Men's 50 metre butterfly ; at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships
Dates	16–17 May
Competitors	62 from 34 nations
Medalists
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The Men's 50 metre butterfly competition of the 2016 European Aquatics Championships was held on 16 and 17 May 2016.^[1]^[2]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Rafael Muñoz	Spain	22.43	Málaga	5 April 2009
European record	Rafael Muñoz	Spain	22.43	Málaga	5 April 2009
Championship record	Andriy Hovorov	Ukraine	22.87	Berlin	18 August 2014

Results

Heats

The heats were held on 16 May at 11:44.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	4	Andriy Hovorov	Ukraine	23.00	Q
2	5	4	Benjamin Proud	Great Britain	23.54	Q
3	6	5	Piero Codia	Italy	23.67	Q
4	5	2	Mario Todorović	Croatia	23.86	Q
5	7	4	László Cseh	Hungary	23.89	Q
6	6	3	Ivan Lenđer	Serbia	23.93	Q
7	7	3	Andriy Khloptsov	Ukraine	23.95	Q
8	7	5	Yauhen Tsurkin	Belarus	23.97	Q
9	7	6	Joeri Verlinden	Netherlands	24.03	Q
10	6	6	Matteo Rivolta	Italy	24.06	Q
11	4	0	Lyubomyr Lemeshko	Ukraine	24.07
12	6	7	Kristian Golomeev	Greece	24.09	Q
13	7	0	Jan Šefl	Czech Republic	24.16	Q
14	7	7	Søren Dahl	Denmark	24.17	Q
14	5	5	Frédérick Bousquet	France	24.17	Q
16	5	7	Oskar Krupecki	Poland	24.19	Q
17	7	1	Oleksiy Ivanov	Ukraine	24.21
18	5	6	Meiron Cheruti	Israel	24.29	Q
19	5	9	Daniel Zaitsev	Estonia	24.32
19	6	2	Deividas Margevičius	Lithuania	24.32
21	4	3	Andreas Vazaios	Greece	24.39
22	5	0	Bence Pulai	Hungary	24.43
23	3	8	Robert Žbogar	Slovenia	24.49
24	6	1	Marcus Schlesinger	Israel	24.52
25	7	9	Christos Katrantzis	Greece	24.54
26	3	1	Julien Henx	Luxembourg	24.55
27	4	9	Filip Milcevic	Austria	24.56
28	7	8	Kregor Zirk	Estonia	24.61
29	5	3	Tomer Zamir	Israel	24.63
30	4	4	Alexandru Coci	Romania	24.67
30	4	2	Nico van Duijn	Switzerland	24.67
32	3	0	Brendan Hyland	Ireland	24.68
33	5	1	Paul Lemaire	France	24.69
34	3	4	Mislav Sever	Croatia	24.71
34	4	6	Petr Novák	Czech Republic	24.71
36	4	7	Sascha Subarsky	Austria	24.73
37	4	1	Jesper Björk	Sweden	24.74
38	6	8	Thomas Maurer	Switzerland	24.78
38	6	0	Berk Özkul	Turkey	24.78
40	3	7	Antani Ivanov	Bulgaria	24.80
41	6	9	Alexandre Haldemann	Switzerland	24.81
42	3	5	Tamás Kenderesi	Hungary	24.82
43	2	7	Giacomo Carini	Italy	24.88
44	3	6	Stefanos Dimitriadis	Greece	24.95
45	2	8	Kaan Ayar	Turkey	24.98
46	1	3	Markus Lie	Norway	25.01
47	4	5	Tomáš Púchly	Slovakia	25.04
48	2	6	Alin Coste	Romania	25.06
49	2	3	Nuno Quintanilha	Portugal	25.07
50	3	9	Alexander Linge	Sweden	25.16
51	4	8	Aleksi Schmid	Switzerland	25.27
52	3	2	Arkadi Kalinovski	Estonia	25.34
53	2	4	Adi Mešetović	Bosnia and Herzegovina	25.43
54	2	1	Tomáš Havránek	Czech Republic	25.45
55	2	0	Pāvels Vilcāns	Latvia	25.52
56	3	3	Pavel Izbisciuc	Moldova	25.54
57	2	5	Thomas Fannon	Great Britain	25.55
58	2	9	Ljupcho Angelovski	Macedonia	25.64
59	2	2	Ergecan Gezmiş	Turkey	25.77
60	1	4	Vahan Mkhitaryan	Armenia	26.51
61	1	5	Lum Zhaveli	Kosovo	27.00
62	5	8	Ádám Telegdy	Hungary	27.71
	7	2	Tadas Duškinas	Lithuania	DNS

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 16 May at 19:03.^[4]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Benjamin Proud	Great Britain	23.42	Q
2	1	Frédérick Bousquet	France	23.69	Q
3	8	Meiron Cheruti	Israel	23.70	Q
4	6	Yauhen Tsurkin	Belarus	23.72	Q
5	5	Mario Todorović	Croatia	23.73
6	3	Ivan Lenđer	Serbia	23.91
7	2	Matteo Rivolta	Italy	24.00
8	7	Jan Šefl	Czech Republic	24.04

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Andriy Hovorov	Ukraine	22.73	Q, CR
2	5	Piero Codia	Italy	23.55	Q
3	3	László Cseh	Hungary	23.57	Q
4	2	Joeri Verlinden	Netherlands	23.67	Q
5	6	Andriy Khloptsov	Ukraine	23.92
6	1	Søren Dahl	Denmark	24.01
7	7	Kristian Golomeev	Greece	24.02
8	8	Oskar Krupecki	Poland	24.13

Final

The final was held on 17 May at 18:02.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	4	Andriy Hovorov	Ukraine	22.92
	6	László Cseh	Hungary	23.31
	5	Benjamin Proud	Great Britain	23.34
4	3	Piero Codia	Italy	23.46
5	8	Yauhen Tsurkin	Belarus	23.67
6	7	Frédérick Bousquet	France	23.71
7	2	Joeri Verlinden	Netherlands	23.82
8	1	Meiron Cheruti	Israel	23.93

References

[1] Entry list

[2] Start list

[3] Heats results

[4] Semifinals results

[5] Final results

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