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

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Men's 100 metre backstroke
at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships
Kazan 2015 - Victory Ceremony 100m backstroke M.JPG
Victory Ceremony
Dates3 August (heats and semifinals)
4 August (final)
Competitors68 from 58 nations
Winning time52.40
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg   Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Silver medal icon.svg   Flag of France.svg  France
Bronze medal icon.svg   Flag of the United States.svg  United States
  2013
2017  

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]

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Records

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

World record Flag of the United States.svg  Aaron Peirsol  (USA)51.94 Indianapolis, United States 8 July 2009
Competition recordFlag of the United States.svg  Aaron Peirsol  (USA)52.19 Rome, Italy 2 August 2009

Results

Heats

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

RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
165 Mitch Larkin Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 52.50Q, OC
274 Matt Grevers Flag of the United States.svg  United States 53.21Q
364 Xu Jiayu Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 53.29Q
466 Liam Tancock Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 53.35Q
575 Ryosuke Irie Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 53.37Q
663 Guilherme Guido Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 53.57Q
754 Chris Walker-Hebborn Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 53.64Q
852 Grigory Tarasevich Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 53.69Q
973 Evgeny Rylov Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 53.74Q
1061 Jan-Philip Glania Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 53.78Q
1176 Simone Sabbioni Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 53.83Q
1253 Jérémy Stravius Flag of France.svg  France 53.92Q
62 Camille Lacourt Flag of France.svg  France Q
77 Yakov Toumarkin Flag of Israel.svg  Israel Q
1556 Ben Treffers Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 54.00Q
1655 David Plummer Flag of the United States.svg  United States 54.06Q
1772 Masaki Kaneko Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 54.19
1851 Radosław Kawęcki Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 54.20
1968 Tomasz Polewka Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 54.26
2059 Li Guangyuan Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 54.34
2179 Quah Zheng Wen Flag of Singapore.svg  Singapore 54.40 NR
2270 Corey Main Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 54.51
2344 Gábor Balog Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 54.65
2478 Christian Diener Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 54.75
2560 Park Seon-kwan Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea 54.80
2667 Christopher Ciccarese Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 54.81
69 Juan Miguel Rando Flag of Spain.svg  Spain
2850 Danas Rapšys Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 54.86
2957 Russell Wood Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 54.90
3043 Robert Glință Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 55.07
3171 Apostolos Christou Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 55.10
3241 Ralf Tribuntsov Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia 55.13 NR
3340 Dylan Carter Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg  Trinidad and Tobago 55.24
3445 Lavrans Solli Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 55.28
3558 Pavel Sankovich Flag of Belarus.svg  Belarus 55.79
3633 Mohamed Hussein Flag of Egypt.svg  Egypt 55.85
3738 Rexford Tullius Flag of the United States Virgin Islands.svg  Virgin Islands 55.88
3847 Omar Pinzón Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia 55.90
3934 Lukas Rauftlin Flag of Switzerland.svg   Switzerland 56.11
4046 Janis Šaltans Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 56.15
4136 Ryan Pini Flag of Papua New Guinea.svg  Papua New Guinea 56.39
49 I Gede Siman Sudartawa Flag of Indonesia.svg  Indonesia
4335 Doruk Tekin Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey 56.57
4448 Lê Nguyễn Paul Flag of Vietnam.svg  Vietnam 56.95
4537 Petar Petrović Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia 57.44
4626 Timothy Wynter Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica 57.47
4722 Boris Kirillov Flag of Azerbaijan.svg  Azerbaijan 57.50
4839 Martin Zhelev Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria 57.55
4923 Merdan Ataýew Flag of Turkmenistan.svg  Turkmenistan 57.57
5030 Charles Hockin Flag of Paraguay.svg  Paraguay 57.84
5121 David van der Colff Flag of Botswana.svg  Botswana 57.95
5231 Jamal Chavoshifar Flag of Iran.svg  Iran 58.75
5315 Eisner Barbarena Flag of Nicaragua.svg  Nicaragua 58.95
5425 Ngou Pok Man Flag of Macau.svg  Macau 59.12
5520 Jean Gómez Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg  Dominican Republic 59.69
5629 Lushano Lamprecht Flag of Namibia.svg  Namibia 59.77
5714 Hamdan Bayusuf Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 1:00.07
5828 Driss Lahrichi Flag of Morocco.svg  Morocco 1:00.42
5913 Adel Elfakir Flag of Libya.svg  Libya 1:00.84
6027 Yaaqoub Al-Saadi Flag of the United Arab Emirates.svg  United Arab Emirates 1:01.04
6112 Mohammed Bedour Flag of Jordan.svg  Jordan 1:02.33
6217 Mohammad Ahmed Flag of Bangladesh.svg  Bangladesh 1:04.28
6311 Farhan Saleh Flag of Bahrain.svg  Bahrain 1:04.94
6418 Noah Al-Khulaifi Flag of Qatar.svg  Qatar 1:05.36
6516 Arnold Kisulo Flag of Uganda.svg  Uganda 1:06.14
6610 Temaruata Strickland Flag of the Cook Islands.svg  Cook Islands 1:10.89
6719 Htut Ahnt Khaung Flag of Myanmar.svg  Myanmar 1:12.90
24 Daniel Ramírez Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico DNS
42 Albert Subirats Flag of Venezuela.svg  Venezuela DNS
32 Armando Barrera Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba DSQ

Semifinals

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

Semifinal 1

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
14 Matt Grevers Flag of the United States.svg  United States 52.73Q
25 Liam Tancock Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 53.19Q
38 David Plummer Flag of the United States.svg  United States 53.54
46 Grigory Tarasevich Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 53.64
51 Yakov Toumarkin Flag of Israel.svg  Israel 53.77
62 Jan-Philip Glania Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 53.78
73 Guilherme Guido Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 53.88
87 Jérémy Stravius Flag of France.svg  France 54.54

Semifinal 2

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
14 Mitch Larkin Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 52.38Q, OC
21 Camille Lacourt Flag of France.svg  France 52.70Q
33 Ryosuke Irie Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 53.13Q
42 Evgeny Rylov Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 53.14Q
55 Xu Jiayu Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 53.15Q
66 Chris Walker-Hebborn Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 53.39Q
77 Simone Sabbioni Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 53.60
8 Ben Treffers Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia DSQ

Final

Larkin and Grevers after finishing the final heat Kazan 2015 - Larkin and Grevers.JPG
Larkin and Grevers after finishing the final heat

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

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg4 Mitch Larkin Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 52.40
Silver medal icon.svg5 Camille Lacourt Flag of France.svg  France 52.48
Bronze medal icon.svg3 Matt Grevers Flag of the United States.svg  United States 52.66
47 Xu Jiayu Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 52.89
58 Chris Walker-Hebborn Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 53.02
66 Ryosuke Irie Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 53.10
72 Evgeny Rylov Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 53.23
81 Liam Tancock Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 53.37

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