2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 100 metre backstroke explained

Event:	Men's 100 metre backstroke
Competition:	2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Dates:	3 December (heats and semifinals) 4 December (final)
Competitors:	89
Nations:	70
Win Value:	49.57
Gold:	Mitch Larkin
Goldnoc:	AUS
Silver:	Radosław Kawęcki
Silvernoc:	POL
Bronze:	Ryosuke Irie
Bronzenoc:	JPN
Bronze2:	Matt Grevers
Bronzenoc2:	USA
Prev:	2012
Next:	2016

The Men's 100 metre backstroke competition of the 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 3 December with the heats and the semifinals and 4 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	Nick Thoman		48.94	Manchester	18 December 2009
Championship record	Stanislav Donets		48.95	Dubai	19 December 2010

The heats were held at 10:20.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	7	1	50.19	Q
2	9	4	50.54	Q
3	8	6	50.64	Q
4	9	5	50.66	Q
5	8	3	50.72	Q
6	7	4	50.75	Q
7	8	4	50.79	Q
8	7	5	50.81	Q
9	7	6	50.99	Q
9	9	7	50.99	Q
11	9	3	51.05	Q
12	8	5	51.06	Q
13	8	8	51.33	Q
14	7	2	51.35	Q
14	9	6	51.35	Q
16	8	2	51.36	Q
17	8	9	51.45	NR
18	7	7	51.56
19	9	2	51.65
20	7	3	51.92
21	7	8	51.93
22	5	9	51.99
23	9	8	52.08
24	8	0	52.17
25	8	1	52.30
26	4	2	52.33
27	9	1	52.82
28	9	9	52.90
29	6	5	52.97
30	6	6	53.03
31	7	0	53.08
32	8	7	53.17
33	6	1	53.29
34	6	4	53.41
35	9	0	53.43
36	6	2	53.73
37	6	8	53.79
38	7	9	53.88
39	5	4	54.04
40	6	9	54.09
41	6	7	54.14
42	6	3	54.25
43	5	2	54.33
44	5	0	54.41
45	6	0	54.68
46	5	5	54.86
47	4	1	54.92
48	4	5	55.03
49	5	1	55.23
50	4	6	55.37
51	5	7	55.46
52	5	6	55.50
53	5	8	55.56
54	3	3	56.05
55	4	4	56.28
56	3	1	56.36
57	5	3	56.41
58	4	8	56.70
59	4	3	56.82
60	4	0	57.31
61	3	2	57.33
62	3	4	57.34
63	4	7	57.46
64	3	5	57.55
65	4	9	58.01
66	3	8	58.23
67	3	6	58.65
68	3	9	58.69
69	3	0	58.78
70	3	7	59.17
71	2	4	59.81
72	2	6	59.93
73	2	5	1:00.10
74	2	2	1:00.60
75	2	3	1:01.34
76	2	7	1:02.64
77	2	1	1:02.94
78	1	3	1:04.78
79	2	0	1:05.22
80	2	8	1:05.70
81	1	5	1:05.74
82	1	4	1:06.51
83	2	9	1:08.85
84	1	2	1:09.07
85	1	7	1:10.02
86	1	8	1:10.52
87	1	1	1:12.30
88	1	6	1:12.93
89	1	0	1:15.96

The semifinals were held at 18:14.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	49.62	Q
2	3	50.32	Q
3	2	50.54	Q
4	5	50.68	Q
5	6	50.76
6	7	50.85
7	1	50.95
8	8	51.59

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	7	50.12	Q
2	3	50.16	Q
3	4	50.26	Q
4	6	50.42	Q
5	2	50.69
6	5	50.78
7	1	51.33
8	8	51.64

The final was held at 18:34.^[4]

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