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

Men's 100 metre backstroke at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships
Dates	July 25, 2011 (heats and semifinals) July 26, 2011 (final)
Competitors	50 from 36 nations
Winning time	52.76
Medalists
Jérémy Stravius & Camille Lacourt    France   Ryosuke Irie    Japan

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.

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Aaron Peirsol	United States	51.94	Indianapolis	July 8, 2009
Championship record	Aaron Peirsol	United States	52.19	Rome	August 2, 2009

Results

Heats

50 swimmer participated in 7 heats.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	7	4	Camille Lacourt	France	!!!!!!!53.30 53.30	Q
2	6	5	Jérémy Stravius	France	!!!!!!!53.34 53.34	Q
3	7	5	David Plummer	United States	!!!!!!!53.68 53.68	Q
4	6	4	Liam Tancock	Great Britain	!!!!!!!53.84 53.84	Q
5	6	6	Stanislav Donets	Russia	!!!!!!!53.85 53.85	Q
6	5	6	Ben Treffers	Australia	!!!!!!!53.89 53.89	Q
7	7	8	Gareth Kean	New Zealand	!!!!!!!53.89 53.89	Q
8	5	4	Ryosuke Irie	Japan	!!!!!!!53.99 53.99	Q
9	7	3	Hayden Stoeckel	Australia	!!!!!!!54.05 54.05	Q
10	5	3	Nick Thoman	United States	!!!!!!!54.13 54.13	Q
11	7	6	Aschwin Wildeboer Faber	Spain	!!!!!!!54.14 54.14	Q
12	5	5	Helge Meeuw	Germany	!!!!!!!54.15 54.15	Q
13	7	7	Aristeidis Grigoriadis	Greece	!!!!!!!54.26 54.26	Q
14	5	2	Nick Driebergen	Netherlands	!!!!!!!54.30 54.30	Q
15	6	3	Junya Koga	Japan	!!!!!!!54.32 54.32	Q
16	4	1	Guy Barnea	Israel	!!!!!!!54.43 54.43	swimoff
16	6	1	Sun Xiaolei	China	!!!!!!!54.43 54.43	swimoff
18	4	5	Thiago Pereira	Brazil	!!!!!!!54.47 54.47
19	6	7	Mirco di Tora	Italy	!!!!!!!54.47 54.47
20	6	2	Cheng Feiyi	China	!!!!!!!54.60 54.60
21	7	2	Vitaly Borisov	Russia	!!!!!!!54.66 54.66
22	4	7	Charles Francis	Canada	!!!!!!!54.68 54.68
23	7	1	Daniel Bell	New Zealand	!!!!!!!54.75 54.75
24	2	4	Omar Pinzón	Colombia	!!!!!!!54.88 54.88	NR
25	5	8	Jonatan Kopelev	Israel	!!!!!!!54.90 54.90
26	5	1	Chris Walker-Hebborn	Great Britain	!!!!!!!54.91 54.91
27	4	4	Guilherme Guido	Brazil	!!!!!!!54.93 54.93
28	4	6	Radoslaw Kawecki	Poland	!!!!!!!55.01 55.01
29	5	7	Bastiaan Lijesen	Netherlands	!!!!!!!55.09 55.09
30	4	2	Charl Crous	South Africa	!!!!!!!55.14 55.14
31	3	5	Gerhard Zandberg	South Africa	!!!!!!!55.21 55.21
32	4	8	Tobias Oriwol	Canada	!!!!!!!55.27 55.27
33	4	3	Marcin Tarczynski	Poland	!!!!!!!55.28 55.28
34	3	3	Péter Bernek	Hungary	!!!!!!!55.32 55.32
35	6	8	Park Seon-Kwan	South Korea	!!!!!!!55.39 55.39
36	3	1	Bradley Ally	Barbados	!!!!!!!55.88 55.88	NR
37	3	6	Federico Grabich	Argentina	!!!!!!!55.93 55.93
38	3	4	Simon Sjödin	Sweden	!!!!!!!56.06 56.06
39	3	8	Matas Andriekus	Lithuania	!!!!!!!56.10 56.10
40	3	7	Flori Lang	Switzerland	!!!!!!!56.40 56.40
41	3	2	Abdullah Al-Tuwaini	Kuwait	!!!!!!!56.94 56.94
42	2	3	Jean-François Schneiders	Luxembourg	!!!!!!!57.03 57.03	NR
43	2	7	Heshan Unamboowe	Sri Lanka	!!!!!!!57.95 57.95
44	2	5	Alex Hernandez Medina	Cuba	!!!!!!!58.15 58.15
45	2	6	Charles William Walker	Philippines	!!!!!!!58.82 58.82
46	1	4	Zane Jordan	Zambia	!!!!!!!59.33 59.33
47	1	5	Antonio Tong	Macau	!!!!!1:00.34 1:00.34
48	2	1	Awse Ma'aya	Jordan	!!!!!1:00.64 1:00.64
49	2	2	Boris Kirillov	Azerbaijan	!!!!!1:01.03 1:01.03
50	1	3	Andrey Molchanov	Turkmenistan	!!!!!1:05.39 1:05.39

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]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Sun Xiaolei	China	54.20	Q
2	4	Guy Barnea	Israel	55.12

Semifinals

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

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Jérémy Stravius	France	52.76	Q
2	6	Ryosuke Irie	Japan	53.05	Q
3	7	Helge Meeuw	Germany	53.34	Q
4	2	Nick Thoman	United States	53.49	Q
5	5	Liam Tancock	Great Britain	53.60	Q
6	3	Ben Treffers	Australia	53.87
7	1	Nick Driebergen	Netherlands	53.98
8	8	Sun Xiaolei	China	54.21

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Camille Lacourt	France	53.09	Q
2	5	David Plummer	United States	53.30	Q
3	6	Gareth Kean	New Zealand	53.69	Q
4	2	Hayden Stoeckel	Australia	53.70
5	7	Aschwin Wildeboer Faber	Spain	54.03
6	3	Stanislav Donets	Russia	54.10
7	8	Junya Koga	Japan	54.16
8	1	Aristeidis Grigoriadis	Greece	54.22

Final

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

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	3	Camille Lacourt	France	52.76
01 !	4	Jérémy Stravius	France	52.76
03 !	5	Ryosuke Irie	Japan	52.98
4	7	Nick Thoman	United States	53.01
5	6	David Plummer	United States	53.04
6	1	Liam Tancock	Great Britain	53.25
7	2	Helge Meeuw	Germany	53.28
8	8	Gareth Kean	New Zealand	53.50	NR

References

External links

• 2011 World Aquatics Championships: Men's 100 metre backstroke start list, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2011-07-23.