Swimming at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre backstroke

Men's 100 metre backstroke at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships
Victory Ceremony
Dates	3 August (heats and semifinals) 4 August (final)
Competitors	68 from 58 nations
Winning time	52.40
Medalists
Mitch Larkin    Australia   Camille Lacourt    France   Matt Grevers    United States
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The Men's 100 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held on 3 August with the heats and the semifinals and 4 August with the final. ^[1]

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

World record	Aaron Peirsol  (USA)	51.94	Indianapolis, United States	8 July 2009
Competition record	Aaron Peirsol  (USA)	52.19	Rome, Italy	2 August 2009

Results

Heats

The heats were held on 3 August at 09:49. ^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	5	Mitch Larkin	Australia	52.50	Q, OC
2	7	4	Matt Grevers	United States	53.21	Q
3	6	4	Xu Jiayu	China	53.29	Q
4	6	6	Liam Tancock	Great Britain	53.35	Q
5	7	5	Ryosuke Irie	Japan	53.37	Q
6	6	3	Guilherme Guido	Brazil	53.57	Q
7	5	4	Chris Walker-Hebborn	Great Britain	53.64	Q
8	5	2	Grigory Tarasevich	Russia	53.69	Q
9	7	3	Evgeny Rylov	Russia	53.74	Q
10	6	1	Jan-Philip Glania	Germany	53.78	Q
11	7	6	Simone Sabbioni	Italy	53.83	Q
12	5	3	Jérémy Stravius	France	53.92	Q
	6	2	Camille Lacourt	France		Q
	7	7	Yakov Toumarkin	Israel		Q
15	5	6	Ben Treffers	Australia	54.00	Q
16	5	5	David Plummer	United States	54.06	Q
17	7	2	Masaki Kaneko	Japan	54.19
18	5	1	Radosław Kawęcki	Poland	54.20
19	6	8	Tomasz Polewka	Poland	54.26
20	5	9	Li Guangyuan	China	54.34
21	7	9	Quah Zheng Wen	Singapore	54.40	NR
22	7	0	Corey Main	New Zealand	54.51
23	4	4	Gábor Balog	Hungary	54.65
24	7	8	Christian Diener	Germany	54.75
25	6	0	Park Seon-kwan	South Korea	54.80
26	6	7	Christopher Ciccarese	Italy	54.81
	6	9	Juan Miguel Rando	Spain
28	5	0	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	54.86
29	5	7	Russell Wood	Canada	54.90
30	4	3	Robert Glință	Romania	55.07
31	7	1	Apostolos Christou	Greece	55.10
32	4	1	Ralf Tribuntsov	Estonia	55.13	NR
33	4	0	Dylan Carter	Trinidad and Tobago	55.24
34	4	5	Lavrans Solli	Norway	55.28
35	5	8	Pavel Sankovich	Belarus	55.79
36	3	3	Mohamed Hussein	Egypt	55.85
37	3	8	Rexford Tullius	Virgin Islands	55.88
38	4	7	Omar Pinzón	Colombia	55.90
39	3	4	Lukas Rauftlin	Switzerland	56.11
40	4	6	Janis Šaltans	Latvia	56.15
41	3	6	Ryan Pini	Papua New Guinea	56.39
	4	9	I Gede Siman Sudartawa	Indonesia
43	3	5	Doruk Tekin	Turkey	56.57
44	4	8	Lê Nguyễn Paul	Vietnam	56.95
45	3	7	Petar Petrović	Serbia	57.44
46	2	6	Timothy Wynter	Jamaica	57.47
47	2	2	Boris Kirillov	Azerbaijan	57.50
48	3	9	Martin Zhelev	Bulgaria	57.55
49	2	3	Merdan Ataýew	Turkmenistan	57.57
50	3	0	Charles Hockin	Paraguay	57.84
51	2	1	David van der Colff	Botswana	57.95
52	3	1	Jamal Chavoshifar	Iran	58.75
53	1	5	Eisner Barbarena	Nicaragua	58.95
54	2	5	Ngou Pok Man	Macau	59.12
55	2	0	Jean Gómez	Dominican Republic	59.69
56	2	9	Lushano Lamprecht	Namibia	59.77
57	1	4	Hamdan Bayusuf	Kenya	1:00.07
58	2	8	Driss Lahrichi	Morocco	1:00.42
59	1	3	Adel Elfakir	Libya	1:00.84
60	2	7	Yaaqoub Al-Saadi	United Arab Emirates	1:01.04
61	1	2	Mohammed Bedour	Jordan	1:02.33
62	1	7	Mohammad Ahmed	Bangladesh	1:04.28
63	1	1	Farhan Saleh	Bahrain	1:04.94
64	1	8	Noah Al-Khulaifi	Qatar	1:05.36
65	1	6	Arnold Kisulo	Uganda	1:06.14
66	1	0	Temaruata Strickland	Cook Islands	1:10.89
67	1	9	Htut Ahnt Khaung	Myanmar	1:12.90
	2	4	Daniel Ramírez	Mexico	DNS
	4	2	Albert Subirats	Venezuela	DNS
	3	2	Armando Barrera	Cuba	DSQ

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 3 August at 17:48. ^[3]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Matt Grevers	United States	52.73	Q
2	5	Liam Tancock	Great Britain	53.19	Q
3	8	David Plummer	United States	53.54
4	6	Grigory Tarasevich	Russia	53.64
5	1	Yakov Toumarkin	Israel	53.77
6	2	Jan-Philip Glania	Germany	53.78
7	3	Guilherme Guido	Brazil	53.88
8	7	Jérémy Stravius	France	54.54

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Mitch Larkin	Australia	52.38	Q, OC
2	1	Camille Lacourt	France	52.70	Q
3	3	Ryosuke Irie	Japan	53.13	Q
4	2	Evgeny Rylov	Russia	53.14	Q
5	5	Xu Jiayu	China	53.15	Q
6	6	Chris Walker-Hebborn	Great Britain	53.39	Q
7	7	Simone Sabbioni	Italy	53.60
	8	Ben Treffers	Australia	DSQ

Final

Larkin and Grevers after finishing the final heat

The final was held on 4 August at 18:36. ^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Mitch Larkin	Australia	52.40
	5	Camille Lacourt	France	52.48
	3	Matt Grevers	United States	52.66
4	7	Xu Jiayu	China	52.89
5	8	Chris Walker-Hebborn	Great Britain	53.02
6	6	Ryosuke Irie	Japan	53.10
7	2	Evgeny Rylov	Russia	53.23
8	1	Liam Tancock	Great Britain	53.37

References

1. Start list
2. Heats results
3. Semifinal results
4. Final results