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Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre backstroke

The men's 50 metre backstroke at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships took place on 31 March (prelims[1] and semifinals[2] ) and on the evening of 1 April (final)[3] at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia. 107 swimmers were entered in the event, of which 98 swam.

Men's 50 metre backstroke
at the 2007 FINA World Championships
VenueRod Laver Arena
Dates31 March 2007 (heats, semifinals)
1 April 2007 (final)
Competitors107
Winning time24.98 seconds
Medalists
gold medal Gerhard Zandberg   South Africa
silver medal Thomas Rupprath   Germany
bronze medal Liam Tancock   Great Britain
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Existing records at the start of the event were:

Results edit

Final edit

Place Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
  3 Gerhard Zandberg   South Africa 24.98
  6 Thomas Rupprath   Germany 25.20
  4 Liam Tancock   Great Britain 25.23
4 5 Steffen Driesen   Germany 25.29
5 2 Matthew Clay   Great Britain 25.32
6 1 Aristeidis Grigoriadis   Greece 25.52
7 7 Junya Koga   Japan 25.56
8 8 Matt Welsh   Australia 25.61

Semifinals edit

Rank
 Heat &
Lane		 Name Nationality Time Notes
1 H2-L3 Liam Tancock   Great Britain 25.08 Q
2 H2-L5 Steffen Driesen   Germany 25.21 Q
3 H1-L4 Gerhard Zandberg   South Africa 25.26 Q
4 H2-L4 Thomas Rupprath   Germany 25.29 Q
5 H1-L5 Matthew Clay   Great Britain 25.48 Q
6 H2-L6 Junya Koga   Japan 25.55 Q
7 H1-L3 Aristeidis Grigoriadis   Greece 25.66 Q
8 H1-L6 Matt Welsh   Australia 25.76 Q
8.5 H1.5 25.79 O
9 H2-L1 Flori Lang    Switzerland 25.81
10 H2-L2 Tomomi Morita   Japan 25.93
11 H1-L2 Ľuboš Križko   Slovakia 25.96
12 H2-L7 Arkady Vyatchanin   Russia 26.03
13 H2-L8 David Ortega Pitarch   Spain 26.26
14 H1-L8 ZHANG Chang   China 26.33
15 H1-L1 Guy Barnea   Israel 26.45
999 H1-L7 Ouyang Kunpeng   China DQ

Heats edit

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 12 3 Thomas Rupprath   Germany 25.25 Q
2 13 6 Gerhard Zandberg   South Africa 25.47 Q
3 13 5 Steffen Driesen   Germany 25.52 Q
4 13 4 Matthew Clay   Great Britain 25.66 Q
5 12 7 Ryan Lochte   USA 25.68 Q
(scratched semis)
5 14 4 Liam Tancock   Great Britain 25.68 Q
7 12 4 Aristeidis Grigoriadis   Greece 25.74 Q
8 14 3 Junya Koga   Japan 25.88 Q
9 14 5 Matt Welsh   Australia 25.93 Q
10 14 8 Aaron Peirsol   USA 25.96 Q
(scratched semis)
11 13 3 Tomomi Morita   Japan 25.98 Q
12 13 2 Ľuboš Križko   Slovakia 26.03 Q
13 14 6 Arkady Vyatchanin   Russia 26.14 Q
14 12 5 OUYANG Kunpeng   China 26.20 Q
15 12 2 Flori Lang    Switzerland 26.23 Q
16 13 8 Guy Barnea   Israel 26.24 Q
17 12 6 David Ortega Pitarch   Spain 26.26
18 10 7 Vytautas Janušaitis   Lithuania 26.34 (scratched semis)
18 11 4 ZHANG Chang   China 26.34
20 11 5 Eduardo German Otero   Argentina 26.37
21 14 7 Hayden Stoeckel   Australia 26.38
22 13 1 Ivan Tolic   Croatia 26.42
22 14 1 Andriy Oleynyk   Ukraine 26.42
24 11 7 Garth Tune   South Africa 26.49
25 13 7 Simon Dufour   France 26.58
26 10 1 Itai Chammah   Israel 26.67
27 11 2 Ioannis Kokkodis   Greece 26.69
28 12 8 Derya Büyükuncu   Turkey 26.71
28 14 2 Matthew Rose   Canada 26.71
30 10 5 Pavel Sankovich   Belarus 26.81
31 10 3 Kim Torry Simmenes   Norway 26.89
31 11 3 Leonardo Guedes   Brazil 26.89
33 12 1 Ante Cvitkovic   Croatia 26.94
34 11 8 Danil Bugakov   Uzbekistan 26.97
35 10 6 Stanislav Osinsky   Kazakhstan 26.98
36 11 6 Gabriel Mangabeira   Brazil 27.07
37 11 1 Mathias Stenderup Gydesen   Denmark 27.37
38 9 4 Seunghyeon Lee   South Korea 27.44
39 9 7 Yu An Lin   Chinese Taipei 27.69
40 9 6 Giorgios Mylonas   Cyprus 27.71
41 1 5 Romāns Miloslavskis   Latvia 27.74
42 9 3 Geoffrey Robin Cheah   Hong Kong 27.81
43 10 8 David Dunford   Kenya 27.93
44 9 5 Rony Bakale   Congo 27.96
45 7 2 Andy Wibowo   Indonesia 27.97
46 7 4 Felix Cristiadi Sutanto   Indonesia 27.98
47 7 3 Miguel Robles   Mexico 28.00
48 8 5 Suriya Suksuphak   Thailand 28.05
49 8 4 Jared Heine   Marshall Islands 28.24
50 9 1 Taki Mrabet   Tunisia 28.41
51 8 2 Sandeep Nagar Anthal   India 28.50
52 9 8 Arjun Muralidharan   India 28.62
53 2 1 Roy-Allan Saul Burch Burch   Bermuda 28.67
54 7 7 Zhi Cong Lim   Singapore 28.75
54 8 7 Shahin Baradaran Nakhjavani   Iran 28.75
54 9 2 Amine Kouam   Morocco 28.75
57 6 2 Jorge Arturo Arce Aita   Costa Rica 28.81
58 8 3 Iurii Zakharov   Kyrgyzstan 28.85
59 7 8 Mario Montoya   Costa Rica 28.89
60 6 4 Wen Hao Joshua Lim   Singapore 28.95
61 7 5 Gael Adam   Mauritius 29.13
62 7 6 Yassir Abalalla   Bolivia 29.16
63 8 6 Obaid Al-Jasmi   United Arab Emirates 29.19
63 8 1 Onan Thom   Guyana 29.19
65 6 8 Adonis Ganiev   Uzbekistan 29.22
66 2 8 Eric Chang   Malaysia 29.28
67 5 7 Khaly Ciss   Senegal 29.36
68 6 5 Heshan Unamboowe   Sri Lanka 29.40
69 5 6 Sohaib Kalali   Syria 29.49
70 5 8 Rainui Terupaia   Tahiti 29.50
71 6 1 Jonathan Calderon   Saint Lucia 29.70
72 5 5 Hong Nam Lei   Macau 29.72
73 6 3 Erik Rajohnson   Madagascar 29.92
74 6 7 Tural Abbasov   Azerbaijan 30.47
75 5 2 Kin Wa Cheong   Macau 30.70
76 5 3 Jamie Zammitt   Gibraltar 30.72
77 4 6 Fadi Awesat   Palestine 30.84
78 4 4 Kerson Hadley   Federated States of Micronesia 30.89
79 3 4 Tony Augustine   Federated States of Micronesia 30.91
80 4 5 Zane Jordan   Zambia 31.21
81 4 8 Hernan Bonsembiante   Guam 31.42
82 5 1 Richard Randrianandraina   Madagascar 31.60
83 4 3 Jamaal Sobers   Guyana 32.08
84 3 7 Justin Decoster   Marshall Islands 32.94
85 4 2 Sami Nassar   Palestine 33.46
86 3 1 Isao Misech   Palau 33.54
87 3 5 Monder Al−Jabali   Libya 33.82
88 3 2 Rahim Karmali   Uganda 34.28
89 3 8 Ali Zayeri   Brunei 34.82
90 2 4 Ibrahim Shameel   Maldives 36.34
91 2 6 Bulguitei Buyankhishig   Mongolia 36.65
92 1 3 Herve Nkurrnziza   Burundi 36.86
93 4 7 Kevin Cheung   Mauritius 36.96
94 2 2 Ching Maou Wei   American Samoa 38.65
95 2 5 Mohammed Al Qerbi   Yemen 38.75
96 1 4 Boipelo Makhothi   Lesotho 40.72 NR
97 2 7 Thabiso Baholo   Lesotho 43.67
999 2 3 Jules Yao Bessan   Benin DQ
998 3 3 Carlos Shimizu   Guam DNS
998 3 6 Ashraf Ahmed   Sudan DNS
998 4 1 Marbi Hani   Albania DNS
998 5 4 João Aguiar   Angola DNS
998 6 6 Samson Opuakpo   Nigeria DNS
998 7 1 Mohammad Rubel   Bangladesh DNS
998 8 8 Essossimana Awizoba   Togo DNS
998 10 2 Jason Dunford   Kenya DNS
998 10 4 Markus Rogan   Austria DNS

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "FINA World Championships Men's 50m Backstroke Heats Official Results" (PDF). OmegaTiming (official timer of the 2007 Worlds).
  2. ^ "FINA World Championships Men's 50m Backstroke Semifinals Official Results" (PDF). OmegaTiming (official timer of the 2007 Worlds).
  3. ^ "FINA World Championships Men's 50m Backstroke Final Official Results" (PDF). OmegaTiming (official timer of the 2007 Worlds).
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