Swimming at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre backstroke explained

Event:	Men's 100 metre backstroke
Championship:	2015 World Aquatics Championships
Dates:	3 August (heats and semifinals) 4 August (final)
Competitors:	68
Nations:	58
Win Value:	52.40
Gold:	Mitch Larkin
Goldnoc:	AUS
Silver:	Camille Lacourt
Silvernoc:	FRA
Bronze:	Matt Grevers
Bronzenoc:	USA
Prev:	2013
Next:	2017

The Men's 100 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held on 3 August with the heats and the semifinals and 4 August with the final.^[1]

Records

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

Results

Heats

The heats were held on 3 August at 09:49.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	5			52.50	Q, OC
2	7	4			53.21	Q
3	6	4			53.29	Q
4	6	6			53.35	Q
5	7	5			53.37	Q
6	6	3			53.57	Q
7	5	4			53.64	Q
8	5	2			53.69	Q
9	7	3			53.74	Q
10	6	1			53.78	Q
11	7	6			53.83	Q
12	5	3			53.92	Q
	6	2				Q
	7	7				Q
15	5	6			54.00	Q
16	5	5			54.06	Q
17	7	2			54.19
18	5	1			54.20
19	6	8			54.26
20	5	9			54.34
21	7	9			54.40	NR
22	7	0			54.51
23	4	4			54.65
24	7	8			54.75
25	6	0			54.80
26	6	7			54.81
	6	9
28	5	0			54.86
29	5	7			54.90
30	4	3			55.07
31	7	1			55.10
32	4	1			55.13	NR
33	4	0			55.24
34	4	5			55.28
35	5	8			55.79
36	3	3			55.85
37	3	8			55.88
38	4	7			55.90
39	3	4			56.11
40	4	6			56.15
41	3	6			56.39
	4	9
43	3	5			56.57
44	4	8			56.95
45	3	7			57.44
46	2	6			57.47
47	2	2			57.50
48	3	9			57.55
49	2	3			57.57
50	3	0			57.84
51	2	1			57.95
52	3	1			58.75
53	1	5			58.95
54	2	5			59.12
55	2	0			59.69
56	2	9			59.77
57	1	4
58	2	8
59	1	3
60	2	7
61	1	2
62	1	7
63	1	1
64	1	8
65	1	6
66	1	0
67	1	9
	2	4
		4	2
		3	2

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 3 August at 17:48.^[3]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4			52.73	Q
2	5			53.19	Q
3	8			53.54
4	6			53.64
5	1			53.77
6	2			53.78
7	3			53.88
8	7			54.54

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4			52.38	Q, OC
2	1			52.70	Q
3	3			53.13	Q
4	2			53.14	Q
5	5			53.15	Q
6	6			53.39	Q
7	7			53.60
	8

Final

The final was held on 4 August at 18:36.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4			52.40
	5			52.48
	3			52.66
4	7			52.89
5	8			53.02
6	6			53.10
7	2			53.23
8	1			53.37

Notes and References

1. http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010F020000010700FFFFFFFFFFFF01 Start list
2. http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010F020000010700FFFFFFFFFFFF02 Heats results
3. http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010F020000010701FFFFFFFFFFFF02 Semifinal results
4. http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010F020000010702FFFFFFFFFFFF02 Final results