Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre backstroke

Men's 100 metre backstroke at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Aquatics Centre, Paris La Défense Arena
Dates	28 July 2024 (Heats and Semis) 29 July 2004 (Final)
Competitors	46
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The men's 100 metre backstroke event at the 2024 Summer Olympics will be held from July 28 to July 29, 2024 at the Paris Aquatics Centre. ^[1]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing records were as follows.

Record	Time	Name	Nation	Event	Date	Notes
World
Olympic

Qualification

Main article: Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification

A National Olympic Committee (NOC) may enter a maximum of two qualified athletes in each individual event, but only if both of them have attained the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT). One athlete per event can potentially enter if they meet the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT), or if the total quota of 852 athletes has not been targeted. NOCs may also permit swimmers regardless of time (one per gender) under a Universality place since they have no swimmers attaining either of the standard entry times (OQT/OCT). ^{[2] [3]}

Following the end of the qualification window, World Aquatics will assess the number of swimmers who have achieved the OQT, the number of relay-only swimmers, and the number of Universality places, before inviting those with OCT to fulfill the total quota of 852. Additionally, OCT places will be distributed by event according to the position of the World Aquatics Rankings during the qualifying deadline. ^[2]

Time standards

The qualifying time standards must be obtained at the 2023 and 2024 World Championships, continental championships, continental swimming meets, national championships and selection trials, and various international meets approved by World Aquatics in the period between 1 March 2023 and 23 June 2024. ^[4]

The following table outlines the qualifying time standards for Paris 2024 for this event:

Men's events
Event	OQT*	OCT^
100 m backstroke	53.74	54.01

* OQTs correspond to the time achieved by a fourteenth-place swimmer in his or her respective preliminary heat of each event at the previous Games.

ª Because the fourteenth-place swimmer achieved a standard slower than the OQT in Tokyo 2020, the OQT used at the previous Games will remain constant.

^ OCTs are derived by adding 0.5% of the OQT standard.

Competition format

The competition consists of three rounds: heats, semifinals, and a final. The swimmers with the best 16 times in the heats advance to the semifinals. The swimmers with the best 8 times in the semifinals advance to the final. Swim-offs are used as necessary to break ties for advancement to the next round.

Schedule

All times are Central European time (UTC+1)

Date	Time	Round
July 28, 2024	10:00	Heats
	19:37	Semifinals
July 29, 2024	17:30	Final

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
			Ulises Saravia	Argentina
			Isaac Cooper	Australia
			Bradley Woodward	Australia
			Bernhard Reitshammer	Austria
			Alexis Kpadi	Benin
			Jack Harvey	Bermuda
			Zeke Chan	Brunei
			Javier Acevedo	Canada
			Blake Tierney	Canada
			Xu Jiayu	China
			Anthony Rincón	Colombia
			Miroslav Knedla	Czech Republic
			Hugo González	Spain
			Yohann Ndoye-Brouard	France
			Mewen Tomac	France
			Jonathon Marshall	Great Britain
			Oliver Morgan	Great Britain
			Noe Pantskhava	Georgia
			Ole Braunschweig	Germany
			Marek Ulrich	Germany
			Apostolos Christou	Greece
			Evangelos Makrygiannis	Greece
			Zackary Gresham	Grenada
			Ádám Jászó	Hungary
			Hubert Kós	Hungary
			Srihari Nataraj	India
			Adam Maraana	Israel
			Maximillian Wilson	Virgin Islands
			Thomas Ceccon	Italy
			Michele Lamberti	Italy
			Riku Matsuyama	Japan
			Lee Ju-ho	South Korea
			Kai van Westering	Netherlands
			Kane Follows	New Zealand
			Yazan Al-Bawwab	Palestine
			Ksawery Masiuk	Poland
			João Costa	Portugal
			Yeziel Morales	Puerto Rico
			Pieter Coetze	South Africa
			Thierry Bollin	Switzerland
			Roman Mityukov	Switzerland
			Alan Uhi	Tonga
			Berke Saka	Turkey
			Oleksandr Zheltyakov	Ukraine
			Hunter Armstrong	United States
			Ryan Murphy	United States

Semifinals

The swimmers with the best 8 times, regardless of heat, advanced to the final.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes

Final

Rank	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes

References

1. "Competition Schedule | World Aquatics Official". World Aquatics. Retrieved 2024-07-16.
2. "Paris 2024 – Swimming Info". World Aquatics. 5 April 2022. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
3. Rieder, David (3 April 2022). "Event Changes Likely as Paris 2024 Moves to Nine-Day Schedule of Finals". Swimming World Magazine . Retrieved 12 November 2022.
4. "Paris 2024 - Swimming Info". World Aquatics. 3 October 2022.