Swimming at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre backstroke


The Men's 50 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held on 8 August with the heats and the semifinals and 9 August with the final.

Records

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

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 09:54.
RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
154Camille Lacourt24.56Q
253Matt Grevers24.68Q
364Ben Treffers24.74Q
455Mitch Larkin24.77Q
565David Plummer24.79Q
666Liam Tancock24.91Q
775Jérémy Stravius24.95Q
877Pavel Sankovich24.97Q, NR
976Carl Schwarz25.12Q
1062Jonatan Kopelev25.14Q
1172Simone Sabbioni25.21Q
1273Tomasz Polewka25.25Q
1351Grigory Tarasevich25.27Q
1374Vladimir Morozov25.27Q
1557Lavrans Solli25.28Q
1663Miguel Ortiz-Cañavate25.29
1661Guilherme Guido25.29
1856Guy Barnea25.31
1950Park Seon-kwan25.33
2078Quah Zheng Wen25.44
2146Ralf Tribuntsov25.45
2244Robert Glință25.48
2345Masaki Kaneko25.49
2468Apostolos Christou25.50
2552Juan Miguel Rando25.54
2660François Heersbrandt25.55
2741Federico Grabich25.60
2831Alexis Santos25.70
2971Xu Jiayu25.71
3058I Gede Siman Sudartawa25.77
3167Russell Wood25.79
3270Viktar Staselovich25.85
3347Iskender Baskalov25.94
3443Albert Subirats26.07
3548Ryan Pini26.11
3679Lê Nguyễn Paul26.14
3759Janis Šaltans26.19
3842Kasipat Chograthin26.20
3949Omar Pinzón26.27
4035Mohamed Hussein26.42
4033Daniil Bukin26.42
4238Jamal Chavoshifar26.53
4337David McLeod26.54
4440Charles Hockin26.57
4525Merdan Atayev26.64
4636Martin Zhelev26.66
4730Tern Tern26.73
4834Daniel Ramírez26.84
4926David van der Colff26.88
5032Riyad Djendouci27.20
5139Ngou Pok Man27.20
5223Timothy Wynter27.21
5327Eisner Barbarena27.35
5422Hamdan Bayusuf27.74
5524Yaaqoub Al-Saadi28.04
5628Noah Mascoll-Gomes28.69
5721Samson Opuakpo28.70
5829Mohammad Ahmed29.10
5920Faraj Saleh29.66
6013Adam Allouche29.91
6114Arnold Kisulo29.98
6215Kerry Ollivierre30.42
6316Kwesi Jackson31.08
6417Ramziyor Khorkashov33.15
6518Santisouk Inthavong33.24
6612Tano Atta33.92
6710Ebrahim Al-Maleki34.19
6811Moris Beale35.85
69Gábor BalogDNS

Swim-off

It was established that there would be a swim-off between the Brazilian Guilherme Guido and the Spanish Miguel Ortiz. However Guido chose not to swim the race, preferring to rest and focus on the 4 × 100 medley relay.

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 8 August at 18.45.

Semifinal 1

Semifinal 2

Final

The final was held on 9 August at 16:32.
RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
4Camille Lacourt24.23
5Matt Grevers24.61
3Ben Treffers24.69
46Mitch Larkin24.70
57Vladimir Morozov24.73
68Lavrans Solli24.84NR
72Liam Tancock24.88
81David Plummer24.95