2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 50 metre backstroke explained

Event:	Men's 50 metre backstroke
Competition:	2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue:	WFCU Centre
Dates:	8 December (heats and semifinals) 9 December (final)
Competitors:	60
Nations:	46
Win Value:	22.85
Gold:	Junya Koga
Goldnoc:	JPN
Silver:	Jérémy Stravius
Silvernoc:	FRA
Bronze:	Pavel Sankovich
Bronzenoc:	BLR
Prev:	2014
Next:	2018

The Men's 50 metre backstroke competition of the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 8 and 9 December 2016.^[1]

Records

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

The heats were held at 10:06.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	8	5	22.93	Q
2	9	4	23.09	Q
3	9	3	23.42	Q
4	7	5	23.47	Q
4	9	5	23.47	Q
6	7	4	23.50	Q
7	8	4	23.57	Q
8	5	4	23.59	Q
9	8	0	23.70	Q
9	8	6	23.70	Q
11	8	3	23.71	Q
12	9	6	23.83	Q
13	6	2	23.87	Q
14	6	3	23.88	Q
15	7	6	23.89	Q
16	8	2	23.98	Q
17	9	0	24.06
18	7	2	24.11
19	5	7	24.27
19	7	7	24.27
21	9	2	24.31
22	8	7	24.32
23	6	4	24.35
24	9	1	24.37
25	8	1	24.39
26	7	2	24.41
27	9	8	24.45
28	7	1	24.52
29	8	9	24.53
30	2	9	24.74
31	2	8	24.75
32	7	9	24.85
33	1	3	24.90
34	7	0	24.94
34	8	8	24.94
36	5	6	24.97
37	1	5	25.01
38	6	7	25.06
39	6	5	25.10
40	5	5	25.24
41	7	8	25.27
42	6	6	25.49
43	5	2	25.61
44	5	3	25.75
45	5	8	25.93
46	6	9	25.97
47	6	1	26.08
48	5	1	26.17
49	4	7	26.33
50	4	8	26.39
51	6	0	26.47
52	4	4	26.69
53	4	3	26.85	NR
54	4	0	26.92
55	2	0	26.99
55	4	6	26.99
57	1	6	27.21
58	2	7	27.25
58	5	0	27.25
60	4	1	27.48

The semifinals were held at 19:51.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	23.16	Q
2	5	23.33	Q
3	6	23.37	Q
4	3	23.47	Q
5	1	23.63
6	2	23.64
7	7	23.85
8	8	24.08

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	22.81	Q
2	3	23.07	Q
3	7	23.20	Q
4	5	23.39	Q
5	6	23.57
6	2	23.64
7	8	23.65
8	1	23.84

The final was held at 19:32^[4]

Web site: Schedule . 2016-12-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161206122713/http://www.finawindsor2016.com/content/competition-schedule . 2016-12-06 . dead .
http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000110000D00010600FFFFFFFFFFFF02 Heats results
Web site: Semifinals results . 2016-12-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170406045543/http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000110000D00010601FFFFFFFFFFFF02 . 2017-04-06 . dead .
Web site: Final results . 2016-12-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170329113048/http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000110000D00010602FFFFFFFFFFFF02 . 2017-03-29 . dead .