Swimming at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre backstroke
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| Men's 50 metre backstroke at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships |
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Victory Ceremony
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| Dates | 8 August (heats and semifinals) 9 August (final) |
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| Competitors | 68 from 61 nations | |||||||||
| Winning time | 24.23 | |||||||||
| Medalists | ||||||||||
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| 2015 FINA World Championships Kazan, Russia |
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| Diving | |||||
| Individual | |||||
| 1 m | men | women | |||
| 3 m | men | women | |||
| 10 m | men | women | |||
| Synchronised | |||||
| 3 m | men | women | |||
| 10 m | men | women | |||
| Mixed | 3 m | 10 m | |||
| Team | |||||
| High diving | |||||
| Open water swimming | |||||
| 5 km | men | women | |||
| 10 km | men | women | |||
| 25 km | men | women | |||
| Team | team | ||||
| Swimming | |||||
| Freestyle | |||||
| 50 m | men | women | |||
| 100 m | men | women | |||
| 200 m | men | women | |||
| 400 m | men | women | |||
| 800 m | men | women | |||
| 1500 m | men | women | |||
| Backstroke | |||||
| 50 m | men | women | |||
| 100 m | men | women | |||
| 200 m | men | women | |||
| Breaststroke | |||||
| 50 m | men | women | |||
| 100 m | men | women | |||
| 200 m | men | women | |||
| Butterfly | |||||
| 50 m | men | women | |||
| 100 m | men | women | |||
| 200 m | men | women | |||
| Individual medley | |||||
| 200 m | men | women | |||
| 400 m | men | women | |||
| Freestyle relay | |||||
| 4×100 m | men | women | |||
| 4×200 m | men | women | |||
| Medley relay | |||||
| 4×100 m | men | women | |||
| Mixed relay | |||||
| 4×100 m | freestyle | medley | |||
| Synchronised swimming | |||||
| Solo | technical | free | |||
| Duet | technical | free | |||
| Team | technical | free | |||
| combination | |||||
| Mixed duet | technical | free | |||
| Water polo | |||||
The Men's 50 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held on 8 August with the heats and the semifinals and 9 August with the final.[1]
Contents
Records
Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
| World record |  Liam Tancock (GBR) |
24.04 | Rome, Italy | 2 August 2009 |
| Championship record | Liam Tancock (GBR) |
24.04 | Rome, Italy | 2 August 2009 |
Results
Heats
The heats were held at 09:54.[2]
Swim-off
It was established that there would be a swim-off between the Brazilian Guilherme Guido and the Spanish Miguel Ortiz. However Guido chose not to swim the race, preferring to rest and focus on the 4 × 100 medley relay.[3]
Semifinals
The semifinals were held on 8 August at 18.45.[4]
Semifinal 1
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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| 1 | 4 | Matt Grevers |  United States |
24.59 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Mitch Larkin |  Australia |
24.65 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Liam Tancock | Great Britain |
24.75 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | Vladimir Morozov |  Russia |
24.77 | Q |
| 5 | 6 | Pavel Sankovich |  Belarus |
25.02 | |
| 6 | 2 | Jonatan Kopelev |  Israel |
25.04 | |
| 7 | 7 | Tomasz Polewka |  Poland |
25.11 | NR |
| 8 | 8 | Miguel Ortiz-Cañavate |  Spain |
25.19 |
Semifinal 2
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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| 1 | 4 | Camille Lacourt |  France |
24.27 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Ben Treffers | Australia |
24.64 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | David Plummer | United States |
24.82 | Q |
| 4 | 8 | Lavrans Solli |  Norway |
24.93 | Q, NR |
| 5 | 6 | Jérémy Stravius | France |
24.94 | |
| 6 | 7 | Simone Sabbioni |  Italy |
25.05 | |
| 7 | 2 | Carl Schwarz |  Germany |
25.20 | |
| 8 | 1 | Grigory Tarasevich | Russia |
25.42 |
Final
The final was held on 9 August at 16:32.[5]
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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4 | Camille Lacourt | France |
24.23 | |
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5 | Matt Grevers | United States |
24.61 | |
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3 | Ben Treffers | Australia |
24.69 | |
| 4 | 6 | Mitch Larkin | Australia |
24.70 | |
| 5 | 7 | Vladimir Morozov | Russia |
24.73 | |
| 6 | 8 | Lavrans Solli | Norway |
24.84 | NR |
| 7 | 2 | Liam Tancock | Great Britain |
24.88 | |
| 8 | 1 | David Plummer | United States |
24.95 |
References
- ↑ Start list
- ↑ Heats results
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Semifinal results
- ↑ Final results
