Swimming at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics – Boys' 50 metre backstroke explained

Event:	Boys' 50 metre backstroke
Competition:	2014 Summer Youth Olympics
Venue:	Nanjing Olympic Sports Centre
Dates:	19 August (heats, semifinals) 20 August (final)
Competitors:	27
Nations:	26
Win Value:	25.09
Gold:	Evgeny Rylov
Goldnoc:	RUS
Silver:	Apostolos Christou
Silvernoc:	GRE
Bronze:	Simone Sabbioni
Bronzenoc:	ITA
Prev:	2010
Next:	2018

The boys' 50 metre backstroke event in swimming at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics took place on 19 and 20 August at the Nanjing Olympic Sports Centre in Nanjing, China.^[1] ^[2] ^[3]

Results

The heats were held at 10:07.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	2	6	25.63	Q
2	2	3	25.66	Q
3	4	4	25.90	Q
4	3	4	25.96	Q
5	2	4	26.03	Q
6	4	2	26.13	Q
7	2	5	26.20	Q
8	3	5	26.21	Q
9	3	6	26.22	Q
10	4	5	26.28	Q
11	4	8	26.46	Q
12	4	3	26.53	Q
13	3	3	26.60	Q
14	2	2	26.71	Q
15	3	2	26.72	Q
16	4	1	26.73	Q
17	4	6	26.78
18	4	7	26.79
19	1	4	26.85
20	1	3	26.86
21	3	8	26.87
22	3	1	27.05
23	2	1	27.07
24	2	7	27.29
25	1	5	27.59
26	3	7	27.61
27	1	6	28.19
	2	8	DNS

The semifinals were held at 19:00.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	2	5	25.40	Q
2	1	4	25.42	Q
3	1	5	25.63	Q
4	1	3	25.79	Q
4	2	6	25.79	Q
6	1	6	25.84	Q
7	1	7	25.95	Q
8	2	4	25.98	Q
9	2	3	26.06
10	1	2	26.13
11	2	1	26.26
12	2	2	26.35
13	2	8	26.36
14	2	7	26.49
15	1	8	26.71
16	1	1	26.75

The final was held at 18:00.