Swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre backstroke explained

Event:	Men's 100 metre backstroke
Competition:	2011 World Aquatics Championships
Dates:	July 25, 2011 (heats and semifinals) July 26, 2011 (final)
Competitors:	50
Nations:	36
Win Value:	52.76
Gold:	Jérémy Stravius & Camille Lacourt
Goldnoc:	FRA
Bronze:	Ryosuke Irie
Bronzenoc:	JPN
Prev:	2009
Next:	2013

The men's 100 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships was held on July 25 with the preliminary round and the semifinals and July 26 with the final.

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Aaron Peirsol		align=left	51.94	Indianapolis	July 8, 2009
Championship record	Aaron Peirsol		align=left	52.19	Rome	August 2, 2009

Results

Heats

50 swimmer participated in 7 heats.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	7	4				Q
2	6	5				Q
3	7	5				Q
4	6	4				Q
5	6	6				Q
6	5	6				Q
7	7	8				Q
8	5	4				Q
9	7	3				Q
10	5	3				Q
11	7	6				Q
12	5	5				Q
13	7	7				Q
14	5	2				Q
15	6	3				Q
16	4	1				swimoff
16	6	1				swimoff
18	4	5
19	6	7
20	6	2
21	7	2
22	4	7
23	7	1
24	2	4				NR
25	5	8
26	5	1
27	4	4
28	4	6
29	5	7
30	4	2
31	3	5
32	4	8
33	4	3
34	3	3
35	6	8
36	3	1				NR
37	3	6
38	3	4
39	3	8
40	3	7
41	3	2
42	2	3				NR
43	2	7
44	2	5
45	2	6
46	1	4
47	1	5
48	2	1
49	2	2
50	1	3

Swimoff

As two swimmers had the same time in the heats at place 16 they had to participate in a swimoff to determine the last semifinal swimmer, it was held at 11:36.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5			54.20	Q
2	4			55.12

Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 18:10.^[3]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4			52.76	Q
2	6			53.05	Q
3	7			53.34	Q
4	2			53.49	Q
5	5			53.60	Q
6	3			53.87
7	1			53.98
8	8			54.21

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4			53.09	Q
2	5			53.30	Q
3	6			53.69	Q
4	2			53.70
5	7			54.03
6	3			54.10
7	8			54.16
8	1			54.22

Final

The final was held at 19:06.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3			52.76
	4			52.76
	5			52.98
4	7			53.01
5	6			53.04
6	1			53.25
7	2			53.28
8	8			53.50	NR

External links

• 2011 World Aquatics Championships: Men's 100 metre backstroke start list, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2011-07-23.

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre backstroke (heats). Omega Timing. 2011-07-25.
2. Web site: 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre backstroke (swimoff). Omega Timing. 2011-07-25.
3. Web site: 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre backstroke (semifinals). Omega Timing. 2011-07-25.
4. Web site: 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre backstroke (final). Omega Timing. 2011-07-26.