2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 50 metre backstroke explained

Event:	Men's 50 metre backstroke
Competition:	2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Dates:	5 December (heats and semifinals) 6 December (final)
Competitors:	107
Nations:	81
Win Value:	22.22
Gold:	Florent Manaudou
Goldnoc:	FRA
Silver:	Eugene Godsoe
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Stanislav Donets
Bronzenoc:	RUS
Prev:	2012
Next:	2016

The Men's 50 metre backstroke competition of the 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 5 December with the heats and the semifinals and 6 December with the final.^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Peter Marshall		22.61	Singapore	22 November 2009
Championship record	Stanislav Donets		22.93	Dubai	18 December 2010

The following records were established during the competition:

The heats were held 09:38.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	10	4		23.24	Q
2	11	6		23.29	Q
3	8	4		23.32	Q
4	11	4		23.37	Q
5	10	3		23.44	Q
6	11	5		23.48	Q
7	11	2		23.50	Q
8	10	5		23.55	Q
9	11	3		23.60	Q
10	9	4		23.69	Q
11	9	3		23.70	Q
12	7	2		23.71	Q
13	10	9		23.75	Q
14	10	6		23.77	Q
15	9	5		23.87	Q
16	9	7		23.90	Q
17	9	2		23.93
18	11	0		23.97
19	6	4		23.98	NR
20	9	1		23.99
20	11	1		23.99
22	9	0		24.06
23	11	7		24.11
24	10	7		24.15
25	7	9		24.23
26	11	9		24.25
27	10	2		24.26
28	6	2		24.27
29	9	6		24.29
29	10	1		24.29
31	9	8		24.34
32	11	8		24.45
33	10	0		24.49
34	8	6		24.61
35	7	3		24.63
36	10	8		24.75
37	8	8		24.82
38	8	1		24.84
39	8	3		24.86
40	7	5		24.91
41	8	0		25.02
42	6	3		25.04
43	8	7		25.08
44	8	5		25.28
45	6	8		25.36
36	8	2		25.39
47	7	7		25.40
48	8	9		25.41
49	9	9		25.46
50	5	4		25.57
51	7	6		25.73
52	6	5		25.80
53	6	1		25.99
54	7	8		26.05
55	7	4		26.10
56	7	1		26.39
57	5	1		26.47
58	6	6		26.52
59	5	5		26.53
60	6	9		26.56
61	6	0		26.57
62	5	3		26.60
63	5	8		26.70
64	4	2		26.77
65	3	4		26.95
66	6	7		27.00
67	4	5		27.08
68	5	2		27.23
69	5	6		27.30
70	4	3		27.40
71	5	7		27.51
72	5	9		27.65
73	4	9		27.87
74	4	6		27.89
75	3	3		28.06
76	5	0		28.15
77	7	0		28.23
78	4	4		28.31
79	4	1		28.36
80	4	0		28.46
81	4	7		28.73
82	4	8		29.29
83	3	2		29.33
84	3	7		29.56
85	3	8		29.67
86	3	1		29.93
87	3	6		29.97
88	3	0		30.09
89	2	5		30.25
90	2	6		30.27
91	2	2		30.49
92	1	4		30.57
93	3	5		30.67
94	2	1	Adam Moncherry	30.83
95	2	4		31.05
96	2	3		31.22
97	3	9		31.59
98	2	9		31.97
99	1	7		32.00
100	1	8		32.59
101	1	1		33.47
102	1	5		33.57
103	1	6		33.61
104	1	2		36.07
105	1	3		37.38
105	2	0		37.38
107	2	8		37.91
—	1	0			DNS
—	2	7			DNS

The semifinals were held 18:05.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	7	23.17	Q, SA
2	5	23.19	Q
3	2	23.33	Q
4	4	23.41	Q
5	6	23.42
6	3	23.47
7	1	23.62
8	8	23.93

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	22.97	Q
2	5	23.27	Q
3	6	23.33	Q
4	3	23.34	Q
5	2	23.48
6	8	23.49
7	7	23.51
8	1	23.63

The final were held 18:11.^[4]

http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010E010D00010600FFFFFFFFFFFF01 Start list
Web site: Heats Results . 2014-12-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924140511/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010E010D00010600FFFFFFFFFFFF02 . 2015-09-24 . dead .
Web site: Semifinals Results . 2014-12-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924140515/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010E010D00010601FFFFFFFFFFFF02 . 2015-09-24 . dead .
http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010E010D00010602FFFFFFFFFFFF02 Final Results