Swimming at the 2013 Mediterranean Games – Men's 50 metre backstroke

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Men's 50 metre backstroke
at the 2013 Mediterranean Games
Venue Mersin Olympic Swimming Pool
DatesJune 21, 2013
Competitors11 from 8 nations
Winning time25:35
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg   Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
Silver medal icon.svg   Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
Bronze medal icon.svg   Flag of Spain.svg  Spain

The men's 50 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 2013 Mediterranean Games took place on June 21 at the Mersin Olympic Swimming Pool in Mersin, Turkey. [1]

Contents

The race consisted of one length of the pool in backstroke.

Schedule

All times are Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+03:00)

DateTimeEvent
Friday, 21 June 201309:35Heats
18:05Final

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Mediterranean Games records were as follows:

World record Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Liam Tancock  (GBR)24.04 Rome, Italy August 2, 2009
Mediterranean Games record Flag of Spain.svg  Aschwin Wildeboer  (ESP)24.73 Pescara, Italy June 27, 2009

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedGRGames recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best

Heats

[2] [3]

RankHeatLaneAthleteTimeNotes
125Flag of Spain.svg  Oscar Pereiro  (ESP)25.51Q
213Flag of Spain.svg  Juan Francisco Segura  (ESP)25.86Q
314Flag of Italy.svg  Niccolò Bonacchi  (ITA)25.87Q
424Flag of Italy.svg  Mauro Pizzamiglio  (ITA)26.06Q
515Flag of Turkey.svg  Güven Duvan  (TUR)26.07Q
616Flag of Morocco.svg  Bilal Achelhi  (MAR)26.24Q
723Flag of France.svg  Eric Ress  (FRA)26.40Q
826Flag of Turkey.svg  Burak Kartal  (TUR)26.94Q
912Flag of Slovenia.svg  Robert Žbogar  (SLO)27.12
1027Flag of Macedonia.svg  Gorazd Chepishevski  (MKD)28.19
1122Flag of Libya.svg  Sofyan El Gadi  (LBA)28.61

Final

[4]

RankLaneAthleteTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg4Flag of Italy.svg  Mauro Pizzamiglio  (ITA)25:35
Silver medal icon.svg3Flag of Italy.svg  Niccolò Bonacchi  (ITA)25.42
Bronze medal icon.svg5Flag of Spain.svg  Juan Francisco Segura  (ESP)25.66
46Flag of Spain.svg  Oscar Pereiro  (ESP)25.76
52Flag of Turkey.svg  Güven Duvan  (TUR)25:89
61Flag of France.svg  Eric Ress  (FRA)26.12
77Flag of Morocco.svg  Bilal Achelhi  (MAR)26.38
88Flag of Turkey.svg  Burak Kartal  (TUR)26.99

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References

  1. "Sessions". Mersin 2013. Archived from the original on 22 June 2013. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
  2. Swimming - Men's 50m Backstroke Heat 1 (Startlist)
  3. Swimming - Men's 50m Backstroke Heat 2 (Startlist)
  4. Swimming - Men's 50m Backstroke Final (Official) Archived 2014-08-11 at the Wayback Machine