2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 50 metre backstroke explained

Event:	Men's 50m Backstroke
Competition:	2012 Short Course Worlds
Dates:	14 December (heats and semifinals) 15 December (final)
Win Value:	23.04
Gold:	Robert Hurley
Goldnoc:	AUS
Silver:	Matt Grevers
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Stanislav Donets
Bronzenoc:	RUS
Prev:	2010
Next:	2014

The men's 50 metre backstroke event at the 11th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) took place 14 - 15 December 2012 at the Sinan Erdem Dome.

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Peter Marshall		align=left	22.61		22 November 2009
Championship record			align=left	22.93		18 December 2010

No new records were set during this competition.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	7	9	23.28	Q
2	7	4	23.48	Q
3	8	4	23.49	Q
4	8	5	23.54	Q
5	6	5	23.57	Q
6	6	3	23.60	Q
7	6	4	23.64	Q
8	8	6	23.74	Q
9	7	5	23.77	Q
10	5	6	23.79	Q
11	6	6	23.81	Q
12	7	3	23.86	Q
13	8	3	23.87	Q
14	7	6	23.88	Q
15	5	1	24.02	Q
16	6	1	24.06	Q
17	7	7	24.17
18	6	2	24.20
19	8	7	24.22
20	7	2	24.25
21	1	8	24.36
22	8	2	24.42
23	7	8	24.43
24	8	1	24.50
25	6	8	24.52
26	5	7	24.59
27	7	1	24.62
28	1	1	24.70
29	7	0	24.76
30	6	0	24.91
31	4	3	25.11
32	8	8	25.15
33	6	7	25.17
34	5	4	25.18	NR
35	8	9	25.26
36	5	2	25.32
37	5	8	25.34
38	8	0	25.36
39	5	5	25.41
40	5	3	25.56
41	6	9	25.67
42	5	9	25.98
43	4	4	26.04	NR
43	4	7	26.04
45	3	3	26.17
46	4	5	26.23
47	4	0	26.72
48	4	6	26.98
48	4	1	26.98	NR
50	5	0	27.12
51	4	8	27.48
52	4	2	27.57
53	3	5	27.91
54	3	4	28.04
55	1	0	28.11
56	3	2	28.15
57	3	0	28.22
58	3	9	28.79
59	3	6	28.93
60	2	5	29.12
61	3	1	29.40
62	2	4	29.47
63	2	3	29.53
64	3	8	29.55
65	4	9	29.60
66	2	6	31.28
67	1	2	31.42
68	2	7	32.04
69	2	1	32.34
70	2	8	32.39
71	1	5	35.02
72	1	3	35.30
73	1	4	36.76
	1	6
	1	9
	2	0
	1	7
	2	2
	2	9
	3	7

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	2	5	Stanislav Donets	23.14	Q
1	2	3	Robert Hurley	23.14	Q
3	1	4	Guilherme Guido	23.27	Q
4	1	3	Sun Xiaolei	23.36	Q
5	2	6	Daniel Orzechowski	23.37	Q
6	2	4	Matt Grevers	23.43	Q
7	1	1	Iskender Baslakov	23.50	Q, NR
8	2	2	Ashley Delaney	23.60	Q
9	1	5	Aschwin Wildeboer	23.61
10	1	2	Ben Hesen	23.65
11	1	6	Pavel Sankovich	23.67
11	2	8	Guy Barnea	23.67
13	2	1	Lavrans Solli	23.68
14	2	7	Mirco Di Tora	23.82
15	1	7	Christian Diener	23.86
16	1	8	Cheng Feiyi	23.99

The final was held at 19:07.^[3]

Web site: 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 50 metre backstroke (heats). Omega Timing. 2012-12-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20121218110143/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010C010D00010600FFFFFFFFFFFF02. 2012-12-18. dead.
Web site: 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 50 metre backstroke (semifinals). Omega Timing. 2012-12-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20121218135444/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010C010D00010601FFFFFFFFFFFF02. 2012-12-18. dead.
Web site: 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 50 metre backstroke (final). Omega Timing. 2012-12-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20121218100725/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010C010D00010602FFFFFFFFFFFF02. 2012-12-18. dead.