Men's 50 metre backstroke at the 2013 Mediterranean Games | ||||||||||
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Venue | Mersin Olympic Swimming Pool | |||||||||
Dates | June 21, 2013 | |||||||||
Competitors | 11 from 8 nations | |||||||||
Winning time | 25:35 | |||||||||
Medalists | ||||||||||
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Swimming at the 2013 Mediterranean Games | ||
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Freestyle | ||
50 m | men | women |
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
400 m | men | women |
800 m | women | |
1500 m | men | |
Backstroke | ||
50 m | men | women |
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
Breaststroke | ||
50 m | men | women |
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
Butterfly | ||
50 m | men | women |
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
Individual medley | ||
200 m | men | women |
400 m | men | women |
Freestyle relay | ||
4×100 m | men | women |
4×200 m | men | women |
Medley relay | ||
4×100 m | men | women |
Paralympic events | ||
100 m free S10 | men | women |
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]
The race consisted of one length of the pool in backstroke.
All times are Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+03:00)
Date | Time | Event |
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Friday, 21 June 2013 | 09:35 | Heats |
18:05 | Final |
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Mediterranean Games records were as follows:
World record | 24.04 | Rome, Italy | August 2, 2009 | |
Mediterranean Games record | 24.73 | Pescara, Italy | June 27, 2009 |
All times are in minutes and seconds.
KEY: | q | Fastest non-qualifiers | Q | Qualified | GR | Games record | NR | National record | PB | Personal best | SB | Seasonal best |
Rank | Heat | Lane | Athlete | Time | Notes |
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1 | 2 | 5 | 25.51 | Q | |
2 | 1 | 3 | 25.86 | Q | |
3 | 1 | 4 | 25.87 | Q | |
4 | 2 | 4 | 26.06 | Q | |
5 | 1 | 5 | 26.07 | Q | |
6 | 1 | 6 | 26.24 | Q | |
7 | 2 | 3 | 26.40 | Q | |
8 | 2 | 6 | 26.94 | Q | |
9 | 1 | 2 | 27.12 | ||
10 | 2 | 7 | 28.19 | ||
11 | 2 | 2 | 28.61 |
Rank | Lane | Athlete | Time | Notes |
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4 | 25:35 | |||
3 | 25.42 | |||
5 | 25.66 | |||
4 | 6 | 25.76 | ||
5 | 2 | 25:89 | ||
6 | 1 | 26.12 | ||
7 | 7 | 26.38 | ||
8 | 8 | 26.99 |
Ahmed Moustafa Hussein is an Egyptian former swimmer who specialized in backstroke events. He is a two-time Olympian, and a three-time All-American swimmer for the Arizona State Sun Devils at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, where he majored in and graduated with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering.
George Gleason is a former swimmer from the U.S. Virgin Islands, who specialized in freestyle and backstroke events. He is a two-time Olympian, a swimming captain for the Yale Bulldogs, and a graduate of sociology (2001) at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Gleason also capped his swimming career by an eleventh-place finish in the 200 m backstroke at the NCAA Swimming Championships in College Station, Texas, earning him All-American honors.
Simon Thirsk is a retired South African swimmer, who specialised in backstroke events.
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Aleksandr Shilin is a Kyrgyz former swimmer of Russian heritage, who specialized in middle-distance freestyle and sprint backstroke events. He represented his adopted nation Kyrgyzstan at the 2000 Summer Olympics, and posted top-ten times in 50 m backstroke from the European and Russian Swimming Masters.
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