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

Men's 50 metre backstroke at the 2013 Mediterranean Games
Venue	Mersin Olympic Swimming Pool
Dates	June 21, 2013
Competitors	11 from 8 nations
Winning time	25:35
Medalists
Mauro Pizzamiglio    Italy   Niccolò Bonacchi    Italy   Juan Francisco Segura    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]

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

Schedule

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

Date	Time	Event
Friday, 21 June 2013	09:35	Heats
	18:05	Final

Records

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

World record	Liam Tancock  (GBR)	24.04	Rome, Italy	August 2, 2009
Mediterranean Games record	Aschwin Wildeboer  (ESP)	24.73	Pescara, Italy	June 27, 2009

Results

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

Heats

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Rank	Heat	Lane	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	2	5	Oscar Pereiro  (ESP)	25.51	Q
2	1	3	Juan Francisco Segura  (ESP)	25.86	Q
3	1	4	Niccolò Bonacchi  (ITA)	25.87	Q
4	2	4	Mauro Pizzamiglio  (ITA)	26.06	Q
5	1	5	Güven Duvan  (TUR)	26.07	Q
6	1	6	Bilal Achelhi  (MAR)	26.24	Q
7	2	3	Eric Ress  (FRA)	26.40	Q
8	2	6	Burak Kartal  (TUR)	26.94	Q
9	1	2	Robert Žbogar  (SLO)	27.12
10	2	7	Gorazd Chepishevski  (MKD)	28.19
11	2	2	Sofyan El Gadi  (LBA)	28.61

Final

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Rank	Lane	Athlete	Time	Notes
	4	Mauro Pizzamiglio  (ITA)	25:35
	3	Niccolò Bonacchi  (ITA)	25.42
	5	Juan Francisco Segura  (ESP)	25.66
4	6	Oscar Pereiro  (ESP)	25.76
5	2	Güven Duvan  (TUR)	25:89
6	1	Eric Ress  (FRA)	26.12
7	7	Bilal Achelhi  (MAR)	26.38
8	8	Burak Kartal  (TUR)	26.99

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