Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre freestyle explained

Event:	Men's 50 metre freestyle
Competition:	Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships
Dates:	23–24 August
Competitors:	58
Nations:	29
Win Value:	21.32
Gold:	Florent Manaudou
Goldnoc:	FRA
Silver:	Konrad Czerniak
Silvernoc:	POL
Bronze:	Ari-Pekka Liukkonen
Bronzenoc:	FIN
Prev:	2012
Next:	2016

The Men's 50 metre freestyle competition of the 2014 European Aquatics Championships was held on 23–24 August.^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Time	Location	Date
World record	César Cielo	20.91	São Paulo	18 December 2009
European record	Frédérick Bousquet	20.94	Montpellier	26 April 2009
Championship record	Frédérick Bousquet	21.36	Budapest	14 August 2010

The heats were held at 09:40.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	6	5	22.18	Q
1	5	6	22.18	Q
3	7	2	22.19	Q
4	7	4	22.20	Q
5	6	6	22.21	Q
6	5	4	22.26	Q
6	7	3	22.26	Q
8	5	5	22.29	Q
9	6	2	22.33	Q
9	7	8	22.33	Q
9	7	6	22.33
12	6	4	22.35
13	5	3	22.41	Q
14	7	5	22.44	Q
15	5	1	22.47	Q
16	7	7	22.51	Q
17	7	1	22.60	Q
18	5	7	22.66
19	3	8	22.68	Q
20	6	0	22.69
21	6	3	22.75
22	6	7	22.83
23	3	3	22.89
24	5	8	22.97
24	5	9	22.97
26	7	9	22.98
26	2	7	22.98
28	6	8	22.99
29	4	7	23.03
30	3	2	23.07
31	4	9	23.08
32	4	2	23.09
33	4	4	23.11
34	4	5	23.12
35	7	0	23.13
36	4	3	23.15
36	1	3	23.15
36	4	8	23.15
39	6	9	23.19
40	3	7	23.20
41	2	1	23.24
42	3	1	23.30
43	4	6	23.31
44	3	0	23.36
45	3	5	23.44
46	3	9	23.50
47	3	4	23.51
47	5	2	23.51
49	4	1	23.53
50	4	0	23.58
51	2	3	23.59
52	2	5	23.72
53	2	2	23.74
54	2	6	23.76
55	1	5	24.07
56	2	4	24.12
57	2	8	24.27
58	1	4	24.42
—	3	6		DNS
—	5	0		DNS
—	6	1		DNS

The semifinals were held at 16:43.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	5	21.57	Q
2	3	21.94	Q
3	7	22.02	Q
4	6	22.06	Q
5	4	22.17
6	1	22.18
7	2	22.35
8	8	22.44

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	5	21.96	Q
2	6	22.06	Q
3	2	22.10	Q
4	4	22.15	Q
5	7	22.25
6	3	22.27
7	1	22.38
8	8	22.46

The final was held at 16:05.^[4]