2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 50 metre backstroke explained

Event:	Men's 50m Backstroke
Competition:	2010 Short Course Worlds
Dates:	17 December 2010 (heats and semifinals) 18 December 2010 (final)
Competitors:	76
Win Value:	22.93
Gold:	Stanislav Donets
Goldnoc:	RUS
Silver:	Sun Xiaolei
Silvernoc:	CHN
Silver2:	Aschwin Wildeboer
Silvernoc2:	ESP
Prev:	2008
Next:	2012

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

The Men's 50 Backstroke at the 10th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) was swum 17–18 December 2010 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. In the morning session of 17 December, 76 individuals swam in the Preliminary heats,^[1] with the top-16 swimmers advancing to swim again in the Semifinals that evening.^[2] The top-8 finishers in the Semifinals then advanced to the Final the next evening.^[3]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
WR	Peter Marshall		align=left	22.61	Singapore	12 November 2009
CR			align=left	23.41		11 April 2008

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Time	CR
17 December 2010	Heats		23.24	CR
17 December 2010	Semifinals	Stanislav Donets	23.02	CR
18 December 2010	Final	Stanislav Donets	22.93	CR

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	10	4	23.24	Q, CR
2	1	3	23.41	Q
3	10	2	23.49	Q
4	10	3	23.66	Q
5	8	3	23.73	Q
6	9	4	23.75	Q
7	9	3	23.78	Q
8	8	2	23.88	Q
8	10	5	23.88	Q
10	8	6	23.98	Q
11	8	4	24.01	Q
12	9	5	24.07	Q
13	2	7	24.09	Q
14	10	1	24.16	Q
15	6	3	24.20	Q
15	9	6	24.20	Q
17	9	2	24.22
18	6	6	24.23
19	9	1	24.28
20	7	3	24.32
21	10	8	24.33
22	8	5	24.36
23	10	6	24.61
24	10	7	24.67
25	7	1	24.76
26	8	7	24.79
27	9	7	24.88
28	8	1	24.92
29	7	4	24.97
30	7	6	25.16
31	6	7	25.23
31	7	2	25.23
33	1	6	25.38
33	9	8	25.38
35	7	5	25.50
36	6	5	25.53
37	7	7	25.55
38	4	6	25.61
39	6	1	25.69
40	4	5	25.72
41	5	4	25.76
41	6	2	25.76
43	6	4	25.82
44	5	2	25.85
45	8	8	25.87
46	7	8	25.88
47	5	3	26.20
48	5	1	26.33
49	6	8	26.35
50	4	4	26.52
51	5	6	26.55
52	5	7	26.81
53	5	8	26.86
54	4	3	27.11
55	4	2	27.17
56	4	1	27.48
57	4	7	28.01
58	2	6	28.03
59	3	4	29.09
60	3	5	29.16
61	3	7	29.31
62	4	8	29.47
63	3	3	29.60
64	3	1	30.10
65	3	6	30.81
66	1	5	31.76
67	2	3	31.93
68	3	8	31.99
69	3	2	32.68
70	2	8	34.04
71	2	4	35.02
72	2	5	38.18
-	1	4	DNS
-	2	1	DNS
-	2	2	DNS
-	5	5	DNS

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	23.23	Q
2	5	23.44	Q
3	3	23.74	Q
4	6	23.86
5	7	23.96
6	2	24.01
7	1	24.10
8	8	24.23

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	23.02	Q, CR
2	6	23.37	Q
3	2	23.53	Q
3	5	23.53	Q
5	3	23.63	Q
6	7	23.93
6	1	23.93
8	8	23.96

Final

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
	4	22.93	CR
	5	23.13
	6	23.13
4	3	23.16
5	7	23.28
6	2	23.39
7	8	23.53
8	1	23.68

Notes and References

Web site: 2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 50 metre backstroke (heats). Omega Timing. 2010-12-17.
Web site: 2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 50 metre backstroke (semifinals) . https://web.archive.org/web/20120316143751/http://omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2010/WSC_DUBAI/C74A_ResSummary_218_Semifinals_Men_50_Back.pdf . dead . 2012-03-16 . Omega Timing . 2010-12-17 .
Web site: 2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 50 metre backstroke (final). Omega Timing. 2010-12-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20110124192423/http://www.omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2010/WSC_DUBAI/C73A1_Res1Heat_118_Finals_1_Men_50_Back.pdf. 24 January 2011. dead.