Swimming at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre backstroke

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Men's 100 metre backstroke
at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships
VenueNambu University Municipal Aquatics Center
Location Gwangju, South Korea
Dates22 July (heats and semifinals)
23 July (final)
Competitors63 from 57 nations
Winning time52.43
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg   Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China
Silver medal icon.svg   Flag of Russia.svg  Russia
Bronze medal icon.svg   Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
  2017
2022  

The Men's 100 metre backstroke competition at the 2019 World Championships was held on 22 and 23 July 2019. [1] [2] The defending champion was Xu Jiayu, and he successfully defended his title. [3] Jiayu set a competition record in the semifinals by winning his semifinal in 52.17 seconds.

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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  Ryan Murphy  (USA)51.85 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 13 August 2016
Competition recordFlag of the United States.svg  Aaron Peirsol  (USA)52.19 Rome, Italy 2 August 2009

The following new records were set during this competition.

DateEventNameNationalityTimeRecord
22 July Semifinal Xu Jiayu Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 52.17 CR

Results

Heats

The heats were held on 22 July at 10:20. [4]

Due to backstroke wedge malfunctions, Simone Sabbioni and Dylan Carter swam alone in new series, after the end of the normal series, and both achieved classification. The swimmers who had obtained the vacancy, and would be disqualified after these 2 series (Thomas Ceccon and Richárd Bohus), received extra vacancies for the semifinal, that ended up being with 18 swimmers. [5]

RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
164 Xu Jiayu Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 52.85Q
252 Guilherme Guido Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 52.95Q, SA
354 Mitch Larkin Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 53.12Q
455 Matt Grevers Flag of the United States.svg  United States 53.22Q
565 Ryosuke Irie Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 53.38Q
673 Evgeny Rylov Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 53.45Q
763 Robert Glință Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 53.64Q
866 Daniel Martin Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 53.65Q
974 Ryan Murphy Flag of the United States.svg  United States 53.69Q
1053 Markus Thormeyer Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 53.77Q
1160 Mikita Tsmyh Flag of Belarus.svg  Belarus 53.81Q, NR
1272 Apostolos Christou Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 53.82Q
1385 Simone Sabbioni Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 53.85Q
1475 Kliment Kolesnikov Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 53.89Q
1557 Luke Greenbank Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 53.95Q
1698 Dylan Carter Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg  Trinidad and Tobago 54.03Q, NR
1756 Thomas Ceccon Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 54.04Q
1868 Richárd Bohus Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 54.07Q
1971 Christopher Reid Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 54.12
2070 Tomáš Franta Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 54.16 NR
2162 Shane Ryan Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland 54.24
2251 Li Guangyuan Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 54.29
2278 Yakov Toumarkin Flag of Israel.svg  Israel 54.29
2477 Bradley Woodward Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 54.41
2550 Lee Ju-ho Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea 54.56
2661 Christian Diener Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 54.68
2779 Radosław Kawęcki Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 54.76
2844 Roman Mityukov Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg   Switzerland 54.87
2967 Bernhard Reitshammer Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 54.94
3069 Bradlee Ashby Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 55.02
3142 Gabriel Lópes Flag of Portugal (official).svg  Portugal 55.33
3237 Merdan Ataýew Flag of Turkmenistan.svg  Turkmenistan 55.34
3341 Metin Aydin Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey 55.40
3443 Tomoe Zenimoto Hvas Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 55.42
3546 Anton Loncar Flag of Croatia.svg  Croatia 55.44
3640 Srihari Nataraj Flag of India.svg  India 55.55
3759 Hugo González Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 55.67
3835 Karl Johann Luht Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia 55.75
3949 Mohamed Samy Flag of Egypt.svg  Egypt 55.87
4034 Adil Kaskabay Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan 55.89
4147 Chuang Mu-lun Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg  Chinese Taipei 56.01
4236 Jack Kirby Flag of Barbados.svg  Barbados 56.25
4333 Ģirts Feldbergs Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 56.34
4445 Omar Pinzón Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia 56.37
4531 Jason Arthur Flag of Ghana.svg  Ghana 56.86
4638 Kristinn Þórarinsson Flag of Iceland.svg  Iceland 56.99
4748 Armando Barrera Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba 57.00
4830 Tern Tern Jian Han Flag of Malaysia.svg  Malaysia 57.34
4924 Filippos Iakovidis Flag of Cyprus.svg  Cyprus 58.26
5026 Gabriel Castillo Flag of Bolivia.svg  Bolivia 58.47
5129 Ali Al-Zamil Flag of Kuwait.svg  Kuwait 58.63
5232 Robinson Molina Flag of Venezuela.svg  Venezuela 59.08
5323 Kasipat Chograthin Flag of Thailand.svg  Thailand 59.10
5425 Dimuth Peiris Flag of Sri Lanka.svg  Sri Lanka 59.62
5522 Syed Tariq Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan 59.71
5628 Netani Ross Flag of Fiji.svg  Fiji 1:00.30
5727 Eisner Barberena Flag of Nicaragua.svg  Nicaragua 1:00.56
5813 Heriniavo Rasolonjatovo Flag of Madagascar.svg  Madagascar 1:00.87
5921 Ado Gargović Flag of Montenegro.svg  Montenegro 1:01.37
6015 Omar Al-Rowaila Flag of Bahrain.svg  Bahrain 1:02.96
6120 Juhn Tenorio Flag of the Northern Mariana Islands.svg  Northern Mariana Islands 1:04.91
6214 Juwel Ahmmed Flag of Bangladesh.svg  Bangladesh 1:05.00
6316 Hedayatullah Noorzad Flag of Afghanistan (2013-2021).svg  Afghanistan 1:31.35
39 Driss Lahrichi Flag of Morocco.svg  Morocco DNS

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 22 July at 20:18. [6]

Semifinal 1

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
13 Evgeny Rylov Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 52.44Q, NR
25 Matt Grevers Flag of the United States.svg  United States 52.82Q
34 Guilherme Guido Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 53.23Q
41 Kliment Kolesnikov Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 53.44
57 Apostolos Christou Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 53.56
62 Markus Thormeyer Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 53.59
76 Daniel Martin Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 53.71
80 Richárd Bohus Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 53.94
98 Dylan Carter Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg  Trinidad and Tobago 54.08

Semifinal 2

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
14 Xu Jiayu Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 52.17Q, CR
22 Ryan Murphy Flag of the United States.svg  United States 52.44Q
35 Mitch Larkin Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 52.91Q
43 Ryosuke Irie Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 53.13Q
56 Robert Glință Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 53.40Q
61 Simone Sabbioni Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 53.71
78 Luke Greenbank Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 53.75
80 Thomas Ceccon Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 54.20
97 Mikita Tsmyh Flag of Belarus.svg  Belarus 54.24

Final

The final was held on 23 July at 21:06. [7]

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg4 Xu Jiayu Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 52.43
Silver medal icon.svg5 Evgeny Rylov Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 52.67
Bronze medal icon.svg2 Mitch Larkin Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 52.77
43 Ryan Murphy Flag of the United States.svg  United States 52.78
56 Matt Grevers Flag of the United States.svg  United States 52.82
67 Ryosuke Irie Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 53.22
71 Guilherme Guido Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 53.26
88 Robert Glință Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 54.22

References

  1. Schedule
  2. Start list
  3. "Xu Jiayu wins gold in men's 100m backstroke at FINA Worlds - Xinhua | English.news.cn". Archived from the original on July 24, 2019.
  4. Heats results
  5. "Dylan Carter Re-Swims 100 Back for 16th Place by .01, Trinidad & Tobago Record". SwimSwam. 22 July 2019. Retrieved 22 July 2019.
  6. Semifinals results
  7. Final results