2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 100 metre backstroke explained

Event:	Men's 100 metre backstroke
Competition:	2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue:	WFCU Centre
Dates:	6 December (heats and semifinals) 7 December (final)
Competitors:	73
Nations:	55
Win Value:	49.65
Gold:	Mitch Larkin
Goldnoc:	AUS
Silver:	Andrey Shabasov
Silvernoc:	RUS
Bronze:	Xu Jiayu
Bronzenoc:	CHN
Prev:	2014
Next:	2018

The Men's 100 metre backstroke competition of the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 6 and 7 December 2016.^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Matt Grevers		48.92	Indianapolis	12 December 2015
Championship record	Stanislav Donets		48.95	Dubai	19 December 2010

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 11:28.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	8	5			50.21	Q
2	8	3			50.22	Q
3	8	4			50.63	Q
4	6	7			50.64	Q
5	7	3			50.71	Q
	7	4				Q
7	8	9			50.93	Q
8	7	5			51.01	Q
9	8	6			51.03	Q
10	6	4			51.07	Q
11	6	3			51.11	Q
12	6	5			51.13	Q
13	7	7			51.32	Q
14	6	2			51.50	Q
15	6	6			51.61	Q
	7	6				Q
17	8	7			51.80
18	4	3			51.86
19	6	8			52.02
20	7	9			52.07	NR
21	8	0			52.21
22	8	8			52.24
23	6	1			52.36
24	5	1			52.57	NR
25	7	8			52.61
26	7	1			52.62
27	5	6			52.80	NR
28	5	3			53.15
29	7	2			53.19
30	6	9			53.34
31	5	2			53.37
	7	0
33	5	8			53.64
34	5	5			53.71
35	8	1			53.89
36	5	7			53.94	NR
37	5	0			54.12
38	5	4			54.43
39	5	9			54.52
40	4	5			54.89
41	1	1			54.90	NR
42	4	6			55.18
43	4	9			55.39	NR
44	4	7			55.68
45	3	7			55.83	NR
46	4	8			55.98	NR
47	3	0			56.79	NR
48	3	4			56.82
49	3	6			57.32
50	2	5			57.65	NR
51	3	8			57.68	NR
52	4	2			57.78
53	4	0			57.89	NR
54	1	8			58.03	NR
55	2	4			58.18
56	3	1			58.38
57	3	5	Abdullah Al-Doori		58.63	NR
58	2	3			58.77	NR
59	3	3			59.71
60	3	2				NR
61	1	7				NR
62	2	6
63	2	2
64	2	1				NR
65	2	8
66	2	0				NR
67	1	4				NR
68	3	9
69	2	9				NR
70	1	5
71	1	2
72	1	6
	6	0
	1	3
	2	7
	4	1
	4	4
	8	2

Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 18:46.^[3]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3			49.71	Q
2	4			50.10	Q
3	5			50.56	Q
4	6			50.65
5	2			50.83
6	7			50.87
7	1			51.43
8	8			51.76

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4			49.99	Q, AS
2	5			50.17	Q
3	2			50.37	Q, NR
4	6			50.54	Q
5	3			50.59	Q
6	8			51.10
7	1			51.16
8	7			51.37

Final

The final was held at 18:37.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3			49.65
	4			49.69
	5			50.02
4	8			50.21
5	6			50.22
6	1			50.24
7	2			50.52
8	7			50.95

Notes and References

1. Web site: Schedule . 2016-12-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161206122713/http://www.finawindsor2016.com/content/competition-schedule . 2016-12-06 . dead .
2. http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000110000D00010700FFFFFFFFFFFF02 Heats results
3. Web site: Semifinals results . 2017-06-15 . 2017-04-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170404203524/http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000110000D00010701FFFFFFFFFFFF02 . dead .
4. Web site: Final results . 2017-06-15 . 2017-03-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170329112925/http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000110000D00010702FFFFFFFFFFFF02 . dead .