Swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre backstroke

The men's 100 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships was held on July 25 with the preliminary round and the semifinals and July 26 with the final.

Men's 100 metre backstroke
at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships
DatesJuly 25, 2011 (heats and semifinals)
July 26, 2011 (final)
Competitors50 from 36 nations
Winning time52.76
Medalists
    France
    Japan

Records

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

NameNationTimeLocationDate
World recordAaron Peirsol United States51.94IndianapolisJuly 8, 2009
Championship recordAaron Peirsol United States52.19RomeAugust 2, 2009

Results

Heats

50 swimmer participated in 7 heats.[1]

RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
174Camille Lacourt France53.30Q
265Jérémy Stravius France53.34Q
375David Plummer United States53.68Q
464Liam Tancock Great Britain53.84Q
566Stanislav Donets Russia53.85Q
656Ben Treffers Australia53.89Q
778Gareth Kean New Zealand53.89Q
854Ryosuke Irie Japan53.99Q
973Hayden Stoeckel Australia54.05Q
1053Nick Thoman United States54.13Q
1176Aschwin Wildeboer Spain54.14Q
1255Helge Meeuw Germany54.15Q
1377Aristeidis Grigoriadis Greece54.26Q
1452Nick Driebergen Netherlands54.30Q
1563Junya Koga Japan54.32Q
1641Guy Barnea Israel54.43swimoff
1661Sun Xiaolei China54.43swimoff
1845Thiago Pereira Brazil54.47
1967Mirco di Tora Italy54.47
2062Cheng Feiyi China54.60
2172Vitaly Borisov Russia54.66
2247Charles Francis Canada54.68
2371Daniel Bell New Zealand54.75
2424Omar Pinzón Colombia54.88NR
2558Jonatan Kopelev Israel54.90
2651Chris Walker-Hebborn Great Britain54.91
2744Guilherme Guido Brazil54.93
2846Radoslaw Kawecki Poland55.01
2957Bastiaan Lijesen Netherlands55.09
3042Charl Crous South Africa55.14
3135Gerhard Zandberg South Africa55.21
3248Tobias Oriwol Canada55.27
3343Marcin Tarczynski Poland55.28
3433Péter Bernek Hungary55.32
3568Park Seon-Kwan South Korea55.39
3631Bradley Ally Barbados55.88NR
3736Federico Grabich Argentina55.93
3834Simon Sjödin Sweden56.06
3938Matas Andriekus Lithuania56.10
4037Flori Lang  Switzerland56.40
4132Abdullah Al-Tuwaini Kuwait56.94
4223Jean-François Schneiders Luxembourg57.03NR
4327Heshan Unamboowe Sri Lanka57.95
4425Alex Hernandez Medina Cuba58.15
4526Charles William Walker Philippines58.82
4614Zane Jordan Zambia59.33
4715Antonio Tong Macau1:00.34
4821Awse Ma'aya Jordan1:00.64
4922Boris Kirillov Azerbaijan1:01.03
5013Andrey Molchanov Turkmenistan1:05.39

Swimoff

As two swimmers had the same time in the heats at place 16 they had to participate in a swimoff to determine the last semifinal swimmer, it was held at 11:36.[2]

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
15Sun Xiaolei China54.20Q
24Guy Barnea Israel55.12

Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 18:10.[3]

Semifinal 1

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
14Jérémy Stravius France52.76Q
26Ryosuke Irie Japan53.05Q
37Helge Meeuw Germany53.34Q
42Nick Thoman United States53.49Q
55Liam Tancock Great Britain53.60Q
63Ben Treffers Australia53.87
71Nick Driebergen Netherlands53.98
88Sun Xiaolei China54.21

Semifinal 2

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
14Camille Lacourt France53.09Q
25David Plummer United States53.30Q
36Gareth Kean New Zealand53.69Q
42Hayden Stoeckel Australia53.70
57Aschwin Wildeboer Spain54.03
63Stanislav Donets Russia54.10
78Junya Koga Japan54.16
81Aristeidis Grigoriadis Greece54.22

Final

The final was held at 19:06.[4]

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
3Camille Lacourt France52.76
4Jérémy Stravius France52.76
5Ryosuke Irie Japan52.98
47Nick Thoman United States53.01
56David Plummer United States53.04
61Liam Tancock Great Britain53.25
72Helge Meeuw Germany53.28
88Gareth Kean New Zealand53.50NR

References

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