2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 100 metre backstroke
The Men's 100 metre backstroke competition of the 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships was held on 3 December with the heats and the semifinals and 4 December with the final.Records
Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
Results
Heats
The heats were held at 10:20.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 7 | 1 | Matt Grevers | | 50.19 | Q |
| 2 | 9 | 4 | Mitch Larkin | | 50.54 | Q |
| 3 | 8 | 6 | David Gamburg | | 50.64 | Q |
| 4 | 9 | 5 | Benjamin Stasiulis | | 50.66 | Q |
| 5 | 8 | 3 | Ryosuke Irie | | 50.72 | Q |
| 6 | 7 | 4 | Christian Diener | | 50.75 | Q |
| 7 | 8 | 4 | Eugene Godsoe | | 50.79 | Q |
| 8 | 7 | 5 | Chris Walker-Hebborn | | 50.81 | Q |
| 9 | 7 | 6 | Stanislav Donets | | 50.99 | Q |
| 9 | 9 | 7 | Radosław Kawęcki | | 50.99 | Q |
| 11 | 9 | 3 | Guilherme Guido | | 51.05 | Q |
| 12 | 8 | 5 | Yuki Shirai | | 51.06 | Q |
| 13 | 8 | 8 | Lavrans Solli | | 51.33 | Q |
| 14 | 7 | 2 | Danas Rapšys | | 51.35 | Q |
| 14 | 9 | 6 | Guy Barnea | | 51.35 | Q |
| 16 | 8 | 2 | Russell Wood | | 51.36 | Q |
| 17 | 8 | 9 | Omar Pinzón | | 51.45 | |
| 18 | 7 | 7 | Simone Sabbioni | | 51.56 | |
| 19 | 9 | 2 | Niccolo Bonacchi | | 51.65 | |
| 20 | 7 | 3 | Alexandr Tarabrin | | 51.92 | |
| 21 | 7 | 8 | Ryan Pini | | 51.93 | |
| 22 | 5 | 9 | Robert Glinta | | 51.99 | |
| 23 | 9 | 8 | Lucas Salatta | | 52.08 | |
| 24 | 8 | 0 | Apostolos Christou | | 52.17 | |
| 25 | 8 | 1 | Gábor Balog | | 52.30 | |
| 26 | 4 | 2 | Rexford Tullius | | 52.33 | |
| 27 | 9 | 1 | Péter Bernek | | 52.82 | |
| 28 | 9 | 9 | Martin Baďura | | 52.90 | |
| 29 | 6 | 5 | Viktar Staselovich | | 52.97 | |
| 30 | 6 | 6 | Charl Crous | | 53.03 | |
| 31 | 7 | 0 | Lukas Rauftlin | | 53.08 | |
| 32 | 8 | 7 | Alexis Santos | | 53.17 | |
| 33 | 6 | 1 | Antons Voitovs | | 53.29 | |
| 34 | 6 | 4 | Sun Xiaolei | | 53.41 | |
| 35 | 9 | 0 | Janis Šaltāns | | 53.43 | |
| 36 | 6 | 2 | Martin Zhelev | | 53.73 | |
| 37 | 6 | 8 | Raphaël Stacchiotti | | 53.79 | |
| 38 | 7 | 9 | Stephanus Coetzer | | 53.88 | |
| 39 | 5 | 4 | Davíð Aðalsteinsson | | 54.04 | |
| 40 | 6 | 9 | Semen Makovich | | 54.09 | |
| 41 | 6 | 7 | Charles Hockin | | 54.14 | |
| 42 | 6 | 3 | Marko Krce-Rabar | | 54.25 | |
| 43 | 5 | 2 | Andrés Montoya | | 54.33 | |
| 44 | 5 | 0 | Armando Barrera | | 54.41 | |
| 45 | 6 | 0 | Kristinn Þórarinsson | | 54.68 | |
| 46 | 5 | 5 | Lau Shiu Yue | | 54.86 | |
| 47 | 4 | 1 | Boris Kirillov | | 54.92 | |
| 48 | 4 | 5 | Jamal Chavoshifar | | 55.03 | |
| 49 | 5 | 1 | Roman Dmytrijev | | 55.23 | |
| 50 | 4 | 6 | David van der Cloff | | 55.37 | |
| 51 | 5 | 7 | Daniil Bukin | | 55.46 | |
| 52 | 5 | 6 | Ryad Djendouci | | 55.50 | |
| 53 | 5 | 8 | Matías López | | 55.56 | |
| 54 | 3 | 3 | Matthew Abeysinghe | | 56.05 | |
| 55 | 4 | 4 | Lin Shih-chieh | | 56.28 | |
| 56 | 3 | 1 | Grigorii Kalminskiy | | 56.36 | |
| 57 | 5 | 3 | Ng Kai Hong Henry | | 56.41 | |
| 58 | 4 | 8 | Gorazd Chepishevski | | 56.70 | |
| 59 | 4 | 3 | Merdan Ataýew | | 56.82 | |
| 60 | 4 | 0 | Driss Lahrichi | | 57.31 | |
| 61 | 3 | 2 | Peter Wetzlar | | 57.33 | |
| 62 | 3 | 4 | Rodrigo Suriano | | 57.34 | |
| 63 | 4 | 7 | Soroush Ghandchi | | 57.46 | |
| 64 | 3 | 5 | Neil Muscat | | 57.55 | |
| 65 | 4 | 9 | Hamdan Bayusuf | | 58.01 | |
| 66 | 3 | 8 | Yaaqoub Al-Saadi | | 58.23 | |
| 67 | 3 | 6 | Aram Kostanyan | | 58.65 | |
| 68 | 3 | 9 | Igor Mogne | | 58.69 | |
| 69 | 3 | 0 | Patrick Groters | | 58.78 | |
| 70 | 3 | 7 | Maroun Waked | | 59.17 | |
| 71 | 2 | 4 | Yum Cheng Man | | 59.81 | |
| 72 | 2 | 6 | Andrea Barberini | | 59.93 | |
| 73 | 2 | 5 | Jeremy Kostons | | 1:00.10 | |
| 74 | 2 | 2 | Jordan Gonzalez | | 1:00.60 | |
| 75 | 2 | 3 | Noah Al-Khulaifi | | 1:01.34 | |
| 76 | 2 | 7 | Rony Bakale | | 1:02.64 | |
| 77 | 2 | 1 | Nathan Nades | | 1:02.94 | |
| 78 | 1 | 3 | Aliasger Karimjee | | 1:04.78 | |
| 79 | 2 | 0 | J'Air Smith | | 1:05.22 | |
| 80 | 2 | 8 | Arnold Kisulo | | 1:05.70 | |
| 81 | 1 | 5 | Temaruata Strickland | | 1:05.74 | |
| 82 | 1 | 4 | Dean Hoffman | | 1:06.51 | |
| 83 | 2 | 9 | Aleksander Ngresi | | 1:08.85 | |
| 84 | 1 | 2 | Ahnt Khaung Htut | | 1:09.07 | |
| 85 | 1 | 7 | Storm Hablich | | 1:10.02 | |
| 86 | 1 | 8 | Phathana Inthavong | | 1:10.52 | |
| 87 | 1 | 1 | Tommy Imazu | | 1:12.30 | |
| 88 | 1 | 6 | Dionisio Augustine | | 1:12.93 | |
| 89 | 1 | 0 | Tanner Poppe | | 1:15.96 | |
Semifinals
The semifinals were held at 18:14.Semifinal 1
Semifinal 2
Final
The final was held at 18:34.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 4 | Mitch Larkin | | 49.57 | |
| 1 | Radosław Kawęcki | | 50.11 | |
| 3 | Ryosuke Irie | | 50.12 | |
| 6 | Matt Grevers | | 50.12 | |
| 5 | 2 | Christian Diener | | 50.21 | |
| 5 | 5 | Guilherme Guido | | 50.21 | |
| 7 | 7 | Eugene Godsoe | | 50.40 | |
| 8 | 8 | Benjamin Stasiulis | | 50.86 | |
