With Olympic Debut on the Horizon, Males’s 50 Butterfly Heating Up
The final time there was motion on the high of the 50-meter butterfly historic rankings was 2019. That yr, the US’ Caeleb Dressel registered the No. 2 efficiency in historical past with a 22.35 clocking on the World Championships. The trouble established an American file and was simply .08 shy of the world file, set by Ukrainian Andrii Govorov in 2018.
In the meantime, Spain’s Rafael Munoz stays entrenched within the No. 3 place all-time within the 50 fly, because of the 22.43 mark he delivered on the 2009 Spanish Championships. After all, it’s value noting that Munoz’s greatest time was boosted by expertise, because it arrived throughout the peak of the super-suit period.
Nonetheless, the 2025 marketing campaign was a banner yr for the 50 butterfly, which – together with the 50 backstroke and 50 breaststroke – will likely be contested as an Olympic occasion for the primary time on the 2028 Video games in Los Angeles. Through the 2025 season, 4 athletes joined the all-time top-10 within the occasion.
Behind respective instances of twenty-two.48 and 22.51, France’s Maxime Grousset and Switzerland’s Noe Ponti earned gold and silver medals on the World Championships in Singapore. The bronze medalist on the World Champs was Italian Thomas Ceccon, who touched the wall in 22.67 and surged right into a tie for eighth within the all-time rankings. Additionally bumping into the historic top-10 was Ilya Kharun. On the Canadian Trials for the World Championships, Kharun popped a swim of twenty-two.68, which sits tenth on the all-time listing.
The ultimate of the 50 butterfly at Worlds produced 5 nationwide information, and positively enhanced curiosity within the occasion on the street to LA28. Moreover, the 2025 season noticed 15 people break the 23-second barrier, which broke the file of 13 sub-23 performances from 2023.
The All-Time High-10 Performers
Andrii Govorov, Ukraine (2018) – 22.27
Caeleb Dressel, United States (2019) – 22.35
Rafael Munoz, Spain (2009) – 22.43
Maxime Grousset, France (2025) – 22.48
Noe Ponti, Switzerland (2025) – 22.51
Nicholas Santos, Brazil (2019) – 22.60
Oleg Kostin, Russia (2023) – 22.62
Thomas Ceccon, Italy (2025) – 22.67
Milorad Cavic, Serbia (2009) – 22.67
Ilya Kharun, Canada (2025) – 22.68
