Swimming at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics – Boys' 100 metre backstroke explained

Event:	Boys' 100 metre backstroke
Competition:	2014 Summer Youth Olympics
Venue:	Nanjing Olympic Sports Centre
Dates:	17 August (heats, semifinals) 18 August (final)
Competitors:	34
Nations:	32
Win Value:	54.24
Gold:	Evgeny Rylov
Goldnoc:	RUS
Gold2:	Simone Sabbioni
Goldnoc2:	ITA
Bronze:	Li Guangyuan
Bronzenoc:	CHN
Prev:	2010
Next:	2018

The boys' 100 metre backstroke event in swimming at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics took place on 17 and 18 August at the Nanjing Olympic Sports Centre in Nanjing, China.^[1] ^[2] ^[3]

Results

The heats were held at 10:31.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	5	5	55.33	Q
2	5	7	55.46	Q
3	5	4	55.47	Q
4	3	4	55.78	Q
5	4	3	55.94	Q
6	4	4	55.99	Q
7	5	6	56.25	Q
8	5	8	56.28	Q
9	3	3	56.30	Q
10	3	6	56.35	Q
11	5	3	56.47	Q
12	4	7	56.59	Q
13	4	5	56.73	Q
14	2	4	56.77	Q
15	5	2	56.94	Q
16	4	2	56.96	Q
17	3	5	57.00
18	3	2	57.06
19	4	6	57.14
20	4	8	57.46
21	5	1	57.50
22	3	8	57.74
23	4	1	57.79
24	3	7	57.80
25	1	5	57.87
26	3	1	57.98
27	2	2	58.18
28	2	5	58.40
29	2	6	58.62
30	2	7	58.91
31	1	4	58.94
32	1	3	58.96
33	2	1	59.21
34	2	3	59.55

The semifinals were held at 18:15.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	2	5	54.48	Q
2	2	4	54.52	Q
3	1	5	54.86	Q
4	1	3	55.09	Q
5	1	4	55.10	Q
6	2	2	55.55	Q
7	2	3	55.70	Q
8	1	6	55.86	Q
9	1	2	55.99
9	2	6	55.99
11	2	7	56.03
12	2	1	56.27
13	2	8	56.38
14	1	7	56.95
15	1	8	57.11
16	1	1	57.34

The final was held at 18:00.