2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 100 metre backstroke explained

Event:	Men's 100m Backstroke
Competition:	2010 Short Course Worlds
Dates:	15 December 2010 (heats and semifinals) 16 December 2010 (final)
Competitors:	73
Win Value:	49.07
Gold:	Stanislav Donets
Goldnoc:	RUS
Silver:	Camille Lacourt
Silvernoc:	FRA
Bronze:	Aschwin Wildeboer
Bronzenoc:	ESP
Prev:	2008
Next:	2012

See main article: 2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25m).

The Men's 100 Backstroke at the 10th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) was swum 15–16 December 2010 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. On 15 December, 73 individuals swam in the Preliminary heats in the morning,^[1] with the top-16 finishers advancing on to the Semifinals that evening.^[2] The top-8 finishers in the Semifinals then advanced on to the Final the next evening.^[3]

Records

A the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championship records (CR) were:

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
WR	Nick Thoman		align=left	48.94	Manchester	18 December 2009
CR			align=left	49.99		9 April 2006

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nation	Time	WR	CR
15 December 2010	Semifinals			49.62		CR
16 December 2010	Final			49.07		CR

Results

Prelims

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	10	4		50.18	Q
2	9	5		50.63	Q
3	8	6		50.74	Q
4	8	2		50.93	Q
5	8	4		51.03	Q
6	9	6		51.32	Q
7	9	3		51.34	Q
8	10	3		51.41	Q
9	6	6		51.42	Q
10	9	4		51.67	Q
11	1	4		51.70	Q
12	8	5		51.74	Q
13	9	2		51.84	Q
14	10	1		52.00	Q
15	8	3		52.03	Q
16	9	8		52.20	Q
17	10	6		52.37
18	7	6		52.43
19	10	5		52.48
20	8	7		52.50
21	9	7		52.53
22	7	3		52.62
23	10	7		52.62
24	10	8		52.65
25	10	2		52.93
26	9	1		52.98
27	7	5		53.20
28	8	1		53.37
29	7	4		53.68
30	6	4		53.74
31	7	2		53.83
32	8	8		53.98
33	7	7		54.16
34	6	5		54.50
35	7	1		54.67
36	6	7		54.75
37	7	8		54.85
38	5	5		54.92
39	5	2		55.00
40	5	8		55.18
41	6	8		55.29
42	5	6		55.38
43	6	3		55.43
44	6	2		55.71
45	4	4		55.73
46	5	7		55.77
47	6	1		56.14
48	4	3		56.43
49	3	3		56.55
50	4	8		56.95
51	4	5		57.49
52	5	4		57.55
53	4	6		57.97
54	5	1		58.15
55	3	2		58.58
56	4	2		58.63
57	3	4		58.77
58	3	6		58.86
59	4	7		59.28
60	2	7		59.39
61	3	5		59.71
62	4	1		1:00.37
63	2	4		1:03.61
64	3	1		1:03.78
65	3	8		1:04.12
66	2	5		1:04.25
67	3	7		1:04.32
68	2	2		1:06.39
69	2	3		1:08.44
70	1	3		1:11.23
71	2	6		1:13.43
-	1	5		DNS
-	5	3		DNS

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	5		50.69	Q
2	4		50.75	Q
3	7		50.83	Q
4	3		50.98	Q
5	6		50.99
6	2		51.11
7	1		51.81
-	8			DNS

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	4		49.62	Q, CR
2	6		50.53	Q
3	3		50.90	Q
4	5		50.94	Q
5	2		51.48
6	8		51.86
7	7		51.92
8	1		52.13

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
	4		49.07	CR
	5		49.80
	7		50.04
4	3		50.38
5	8		50.55
6	1		50.59
7	6		50.79
8	2		50.91

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 100 metre backstroke (heats). Omega Timing. 2010-12-15.
2. Web site: 2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 100 metre backstroke (semifinals). Omega Timing. 2010-12-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20110124172820/http://www.omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2010/WSC_DUBAI/C74A_ResSummary_203_Semifinals_Men_100_Back.pdf. 24 January 2011. dead.
3. Web site: 2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 100 metre backstroke (final) . https://web.archive.org/web/20110124172406/http://www.omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2010/WSC_DUBAI/C73A1_Res1Heat_103_Finals_1_Men_100_Back.pdf . dead . 2011-01-24 . Omega Timing . 2010-12-16 .