Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre butterfly

Men's 50m Butterfly at the 2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates	20 July (prelims & semifinals) 21 July (final)
Winning time	23.43 seconds
Medalists
Matt Welsh    Australia   Ian Crocker    United States   Evgueni Korotychkine    Russia
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The Men's 50 Butterfly event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam July 20–21, 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary^[1] and Semifinal^[2] heats swam on 20 July, with the Final^[3] swum on 21 July.

At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were both:

• WR & CR: 23.44 swum by Geoff Huegill (Australia) on July 27, 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan

Results[]

Final[]

Place	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Matt Welsh	Australia	23.43	WR
2	Ian Crocker	USA	23.62
3	Evgueni Korotychkine	Russia	23.73
4	Geoff Huegill	Australia	23.76
5	Roland Schoeman	South Africa	23.79
6	Thomas Rupprath	Germany	23.83
7	Mark Foster	Great Britain	23.86
8	Fernando Scherer	Brazil	23.96

Semifinals[]

Rank	Heat + Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	S2 L4	Ian Crocker	USA	23.47	q
2	S1 L4	Geoff Huegill	Australia	23.61	q
3	S1 L5	Thomas Rupprath	Germany	23.75	q
4	S1 L1	Mark Foster	Great Britain	23.76	q
5	S1 L3	Fernando Scherer	Brazil	23.86	q
5	S2 L5	Evgueni Korotychkine	Russia	23.86	q
7	S2 L7	Roland Schoeman	South Africa	23.88	q
8	S1 L7	Matt Welsh	Australia	23.91	q
9	S1 L6	Mike Mintenko	Canada	23.97	q
10	S1 L2	Lars Frölander	Sweden	23.98	q
11	S2 L1	Sergiy Breus	Ukraine	24.03	q
12	S2 L6	Jere Hård	Finland	24.09	q
12	S2 L3	Andrii Serdinov	Ukraine	24.09	q
14	S2 L2	Joris Keizer	Netherlands	24.16	q
15	S2 L8	Ryo Takayasu	Japan	24.41	q
16	S1 L8	Zsolt Gáspár	Hungary	24.43	q

Preliminaries[]

Rank	Heat+Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	H14 L6	Ian Crocker		23.73	q
2	H15 L4	Geoff Huegill		23.75	q
2	H16 L3	Evgueni Korotychkine		23.75	q
4	H15 L5	Thomas Rupprath		23.76	q
5	H16 L6	Andrii Serdinov		23.90	q
6	H15 L6	Fernando Scherer		24.04	q
7	H16 L4	Jere Hård		24.12	q
8	H15 L2	Mike Mintenko		24.14	q
9	H16 L5	Joris Keizer		24.16	q
10	H14 L5	Lars Frölander		24.17	q
11	H14 L4	Roland Schoeman		24.21	q
12	H15 L3	Matt Welsh		24.23	q
13	H14 L2	Sergiy Breus		24.28	q
14	H14 L3	Mark Foster		24.34	q
15	H16 L8	Ryo Takayasu		24.43	q
16	H16 L2	Zsolt Gáspár		24.44	q
17	H12 L4	Tero Välimaa		24.45
18	H16 L7	Igor Marchenko		24.47
19	H12 L1	Neil Walker		24.51
20	H05 L3	Ricardo Busquets		24.52
21	H15 L8	Josh Ilika		24.53
22	H13 L4			24.59
23	H13 L7	Ryan Pini		24.61
24	H12 L6			24.66
25	H13 L5	Takashi Yamamoto		24.67
26	H13 L3	Eugene Botes		24.70
27	H13 L6	Mattia Nalesso		24.72
28	H11 L5	Octavio Alesi		24.75
29	H14 L7	Apostolos Tsagkarakis		24.76
30	H13 L8	Danil Haustov		24.77
31	H15 L7	Corney Swanepoel		24.80
32	H15 L1	Simão Morgado		24.82
33	H14 L1	Ravil Nachaev		24.83
34	H12 L5	Camilo Becerra		24.86
35	H13 L2	Pavel Lagoun		24.89
36	H13 L1	Erik Andersson		24.94
37	H12 L7	Luc Decker		25.05
37	H16 L1	Pablo Martín Abal		25.05
39	H12 L2	Julio Santos		25.12
40	H14 L8	Nicholas Santos		25.15
41	H12 L3	Ioan Gherghel		25.16
42	H12 L8	Georgi Palazov		25.17
43	H07 L7	Mihály Flaskay		25.23
44	H10 L2	Zoran Lazarovski		25.26
45	H10 L8	Guntars Deicmans		25.34
46	H11 L6	Rimvydas Šalčius		25.37
47	H11 L2	Aleksandar Miladinovski		25.43
48	H10 L6	Jeong Doo-Hee		25.44
49	H11 L4	Nicholas Rees		25.45
50	H10 L4	Pedro Silva		25.53
51	H11 L7	Oleg Lyashko		25.55
52	H01 L2			25.63
53	H11 L3	Stavros Michaelides		25.64
54	H09 L3			25.66
55	H11 L8	Orel Oral		25.71
56	H11 L1	Rustam Khudiyev		25.75
57	H10 L3			25.84
58	H10 L5	Conrad Francis		25.92
59	H07 L1	Ismael Ortiz		26.09
60	H08 L5			26.13
61	H10 L1			26.20
62	H08 L4	Nicholas Bovell		26.21
63	H08 L3	Musa Bakare		26.25
64	H09 L4			26.27
65	H09 L6			26.34
66	H07 L8	Miguel Navarro		26.42
67	H09 L1			26.48
68	H06 L2	Abed Rahman Kaaki		26.53
69	H07 L2			26.58
70	H07 L6	Gregory Arkhurst		26.61
71	H06 L3			26.63
72	H08 L6	Ayoub Al-Mas		26.70
72	H09 L8	Gordon Touw Ngie Tjouw		26.70
74	H08 L8	James Walsh		26.71
75	H06 L5			26.73
76	H06 L4			26.77
77	H09 L2			26.78
78	H06 L1	Davy Bisslik		26.79
78	H08 L2	Zurab Khomasuridze		26.79
80	H10 L7	Aloïs Dansou		26.83
81	H06 L8	Kenny Roberts		26.88
82	H07 L3			26.91
83	H09 L7			26.96
84	H07 L5			27.00
85	H08 L1	Nedim Nišić		27.01
86	H05 L5			27.08
87	H09 L5	Jewel Ahmed		27.21
88	H06 L6			27.24
89	H05 L4			27.31
90	H05 L1			27.33
91	H05 L7	João Aguiar		27.51
92	H04 L7			27.68
93	H04 L4			27.73
94	H04 L3			27.91
95	H03 L6	Ilidio Matusse		27.93
96	H05 L2			27.98
97	H02 L5	Anderson Bonabart		28.07
98	H04 L8			28.19
99	H03 L8	Ibrahim Maliki		28.30
99	H04 L5			28.30
99	H05 L6			28.30
102	H04 L1	Yan Lin Aung		28.41
103	H06 L7	Rad Aweisat		28.43
104	H03 L2			28.58
105	H03 L4	Fernando Medrano		28.67
106	H04 L6	Omar Núñez		28.78
107	H05 L8			28.82
108	H03 L3	Rony Bakale		28.90
109	H03 L7			29.13
110	H01 L3	Hassan Mubah		29.77
111	H03 L5			29.98
112	H02 L6	Sikhounxay Ounkhamphanyavong		30.06
113	H03 L1			30.33
114	H02 L3	Edgar Luberenga		30.60
115	H02 L4	Gilbert Kaburu		31.47
116	H02 L7	Chisela Kanchela		31.81
117	H02 L1			31.83
118	H02 L2			32.03
-	H02 L8			DQ
-	-			DNS
-	-			DNS
-	-			DNS
-	-			DNS
-	-			DNS
-	-	Emery Nziyunvira		DNS

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