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
2015 FINA
World Championships
Kazan, Russia
Diving
Individual
1 m men women
3 m men women
10 m men women
Synchronised
3 m men women
10 m men women
Mixed 3 m 10 m
Team
High diving
Open water swimming
5 km men women
10 km men women
25 km men women
Team team
Swimming
Freestyle
50 m men women
100 m men women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m men women
1500 m men women
Backstroke
50 m men women
100 m men women
200 m men women
Breaststroke
50 m men women
100 m men women
200 m men women
Butterfly
50 m men women
100 m men women
200 m men women
Individual medley
200 m men women
400 m men women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m men women
4×200 m men women
Medley relay
4×100 m men women
Mixed relay
4×100 m freestyle medley
Synchronised swimming
Solo technical free
Duet technical free
Team technical free
combination
Mixed duet technical free
Water polo

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
Championship 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
12 6 2 Camille Lacourt  France 53.92 Q
12 7 7 Yakov Toumarkin  Israel 53.92 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
26 6 9 Juan Miguel Rando  Spain 54.81
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
41 4 9 I Gede Siman Sudartawa  Indonesia 56.39
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
68 2 4 Daniel Ramírez  Mexico DNS
68 4 2 Albert Subirats  Venezuela DNS
68 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 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
1st, gold medalist(s) 4 Mitch Larkin  Australia 52.40
2nd, silver medalist(s) 5 Camille Lacourt  France 52.48
3rd, bronze medalist(s) 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
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