Swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre backstroke

The men's 50 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships was held on July 30 with the heats and the semifinals and July 31 with the final.

Men's 50 metre backstroke
at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships
DatesJuly 30, 2011 (heats and semifinals)
July 31, 2011 (final)
Competitors43 from 38 nations
Winning time24.50
Medalists
 Liam Tancock   Great Britain
 Camille Lacourt   France
 Gerhard Zandberg   South Africa
2011 FINA
World Championships
Diving
Individual
1 mmenwomen
3 mmenwomen
10 mmenwomen
Synchronised
3 mmenwomen
10 mmenwomen
Open water swimming
Single
5 kmmenwomen
10 kmmenwomen
25 kmmenwomen
Team
5 km mixed
Swimming
Freestyle
50 mmenwomen
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
800 mmenwomen
1500 mmenwomen
Backstroke
50 mmenwomen
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Breaststroke
50 mmenwomen
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Butterfly
50 mmenwomen
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Individual medley
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
Freestyle relay
4×100 mmenwomen
4×200 mmenwomen
Medley relay
4×100 mmenwomen
Synchronised swimming
Solo
Technicalwomen
Freewomen
Duet
Technicalwomen
Freewomen
Team
Technicalwomen
Freewomen
Combinationwomen
Water polo
Tournamentmenwomen

Records

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

NameNationTimeLocationDate
World record
Championship record		Liam Tancock United Kingdom24.04RomeAugust 2, 2009

Results

Heats

39 swimmers participated in 6 heats.[1]

RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
145Gerhard Zandberg South Africa24.72Q
264Camille Lacourt France25.03Q
362Helge Meeuw Germany25.04Q
447Flori Lang  Switzerland25.12Q
542Aschwin Wildeboer Faber Spain25.14Q
665Junya Koga Japan25.17Q
743Guy Barnea Israel25.18Q
844Nick Thoman United States25.22Q
855David Plummer United States25.22Q
1054Liam Tancock Great Britain25.26Q
1051Aristeidis Grigoriadis Greece25.26Q
1261Mirco di Tora Italy25.28Q
1356Hayden Stoeckel Australia25.29Q
1463Ashley Delaney Australia25.33Q
1466Bastiaan Lijesen Netherlands25.33Q
1658Charles Francis Canada25.43Q
1753Sun Xiaolei China25.44
1857Cheng Feiyi China25.52
1941Guilherme Guido Brazil25.58
2052Vitaly Borisov Russia25.60
2148Pavel Sankovich Belarus25.80
2267Daniel Bell New Zealand25.91
2333Roko Šimunić Croatia26.07
2434Pedro Medel Cuba26.08
2568Federico Grabich Argentina26.13
2636Jean-François Schneiders Luxembourg26.70
2737Oliver Elliot Banados Chile26.72NR
2831Zane Jordan Zambia27.12
2932Boris Kirillov Azerbaijan27.25
3024Emile Bakale Congo28.34
3138Antonio Tong Macau28.46
3225Alban Laye-Joseph Diop Senegal29.02
3313Kerson Hadley F.S. Micronesia30.46
3422Ahmed Atari Qatar32.37
3527Husam Ahmed Maldives33.44
3621Mulualem Girma Ethiopia33.85
3714Phathana Inthavong Laos35.30
3828Mohamed Eltayeb Sudan35.98
3915Thierry Videgni Benin42.95
–23Adbulrahman Alishaq QatarDNS
–26Folarin Ogunsola GambiaDNS
–35Omar Pinzón ColombiaDNS
–46Ryosuke Irie JapanDNS

Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 19:14.[2]

Semifinal 1
RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
12Liam Tancock Great Britain24.62Q
24Camille Lacourt France24.85Q
36Nick Thoman United States25.03Q
45Flori Lang  Switzerland25.07Q
53Junya Koga Japan25.14
67Mirco di Tora Italy25.40
71Ashley Delaney Australia25.43
88Charles Francis Canada25.56

Semifinal 2
RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
14Gerhard Zandberg South Africa24.91Q
23Aschwin Wildeboer Faber Spain24.99Q
32David Plummer United States25.03Q
46Guy Barnea Israel25.09Q
51Hayden Stoeckel Australia25.20
65Helge Meeuw Germany25.20
77Aristeidis Grigoriadis Greece25.46
88Bastiaan Lijesen Netherlands25.51

Final

The final was held at 18:35.[3]

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
4Liam Tancock Great Britain24.50
5Camille Lacourt France24.57
3Gerhard Zandberg South Africa24.66
46Aschwin Wildeboer Faber Spain24.82
57David Plummer United States24.92
62Nick Thoman United States25.01
68Guy Barnea Israel25.01
81Flori Lang  Switzerland25.15

References
  1. "2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre backstroke (heats)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 2011-07-29.
  2. "2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre backstroke (semifinals)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 2011-07-29.
  3. "2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre backstroke (final)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 2011-07-31.
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