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Swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre backstroke

The men's 100 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships was held on July 25 with the preliminary round and the semifinals and July 26 with the final.

Men's 100 metre backstroke
at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships
DatesJuly 25, 2011 (heats and semifinals)
July 26, 2011 (final)
Competitors50 from 36 nations
Winning time52.76
Medalists
gold medal Jérémy Stravius & Camille Lacourt   France
bronze medal Ryosuke Irie   Japan
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Records edit

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

Name Nation Time Location Date
World record Aaron Peirsol   United States 51.94 Indianapolis July 8, 2009
Championship record Aaron Peirsol   United States 52.19 Rome August 2, 2009

Results edit

Heats edit

50 swimmer participated in 7 heats.[1]

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 7 4 Camille Lacourt   France 53.30 Q
2 6 5 Jérémy Stravius   France 53.34 Q
3 7 5 David Plummer   United States 53.68 Q
4 6 4 Liam Tancock   Great Britain 53.84 Q
5 6 6 Stanislav Donets   Russia 53.85 Q
6 5 6 Ben Treffers   Australia 53.89 Q
7 7 8 Gareth Kean   New Zealand 53.89 Q
8 5 4 Ryosuke Irie   Japan 53.99 Q
9 7 3 Hayden Stoeckel   Australia 54.05 Q
10 5 3 Nick Thoman   United States 54.13 Q
11 7 6 Aschwin Wildeboer   Spain 54.14 Q
12 5 5 Helge Meeuw   Germany 54.15 Q
13 7 7 Aristeidis Grigoriadis   Greece 54.26 Q
14 5 2 Nick Driebergen   Netherlands 54.30 Q
15 6 3 Junya Koga   Japan 54.32 Q
16 4 1 Guy Barnea   Israel 54.43 swimoff
16 6 1 Sun Xiaolei   China 54.43 swimoff
18 4 5 Thiago Pereira   Brazil 54.47
19 6 7 Mirco di Tora   Italy 54.47
20 6 2 Cheng Feiyi   China 54.60
21 7 2 Vitaly Borisov   Russia 54.66
22 4 7 Charles Francis   Canada 54.68
23 7 1 Daniel Bell   New Zealand 54.75
24 2 4 Omar Pinzón   Colombia 54.88 NR
25 5 8 Jonatan Kopelev   Israel 54.90
26 5 1 Chris Walker-Hebborn   Great Britain 54.91
27 4 4 Guilherme Guido   Brazil 54.93
28 4 6 Radosław Kawęcki   Poland 55.01
29 5 7 Bastiaan Lijesen   Netherlands 55.09
30 4 2 Charl Crous   South Africa 55.14
31 3 5 Gerhard Zandberg   South Africa 55.21
32 4 8 Tobias Oriwol   Canada 55.27
33 4 3 Marcin Tarczyński   Poland 55.28
34 3 3 Péter Bernek   Hungary 55.32
35 6 8 Park Seon-Kwan   South Korea 55.39
36 3 1 Bradley Ally   Barbados 55.88 NR
37 3 6 Federico Grabich   Argentina 55.93
38 3 4 Simon Sjödin   Sweden 56.06
39 3 8 Matas Andriekus   Lithuania 56.10
40 3 7 Flori Lang    Switzerland 56.40
41 3 2 Abdullah Al-Tuwaini   Kuwait 56.94
42 2 3 Jean-François Schneiders   Luxembourg 57.03 NR
43 2 7 Heshan Unamboowe   Sri Lanka 57.95
44 2 5 Alex Hernandez Medina   Cuba 58.15
45 2 6 Charles William Walker   Philippines 58.82
46 1 4 Zane Jordan   Zambia 59.33
47 1 5 Antonio Tong   Macau 1:00.34
48 2 1 Awse Ma'aya   Jordan 1:00.64
49 2 2 Boris Kirillov   Azerbaijan 1:01.03
50 1 3 Andrey Molchanov   Turkmenistan 1:05.39

Swimoff edit

As two swimmers had the same time in the heats at place 16 they had to participate in a swimoff to determine the last semifinal swimmer, it was held at 11:36.[2]

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 5 Sun Xiaolei   China 54.20 Q
2 4 Guy Barnea   Israel 55.12

Semifinals edit

The semifinals were held at 18:10.[3]

Semifinal 1 edit

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 Jérémy Stravius   France 52.76 Q
2 6 Ryosuke Irie   Japan 53.05 Q
3 7 Helge Meeuw   Germany 53.34 Q
4 2 Nick Thoman   United States 53.49 Q
5 5 Liam Tancock   Great Britain 53.60 Q
6 3 Ben Treffers   Australia 53.87
7 1 Nick Driebergen   Netherlands 53.98
8 8 Sun Xiaolei   China 54.21

Semifinal 2 edit

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 Camille Lacourt   France 53.09 Q
2 5 David Plummer   United States 53.30 Q
3 6 Gareth Kean   New Zealand 53.69 Q
4 2 Hayden Stoeckel   Australia 53.70
5 7 Aschwin Wildeboer   Spain 54.03
6 3 Stanislav Donets   Russia 54.10
7 8 Junya Koga   Japan 54.16
8 1 Aristeidis Grigoriadis   Greece 54.22

Final edit

The final was held at 19:06.[4]

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
  3 Camille Lacourt   France 52.76
  4 Jérémy Stravius   France 52.76
  5 Ryosuke Irie   Japan 52.98
4 7 Nick Thoman   United States 53.01
5 6 David Plummer   United States 53.04
6 1 Liam Tancock   Great Britain 53.25
7 2 Helge Meeuw   Germany 53.28
8 8 Gareth Kean   New Zealand 53.50 NR

References edit

  1. ^ "2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre backstroke (heats)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 2011-07-25.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ "2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre backstroke (swimoff)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 2011-07-25.[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ "2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre backstroke (semifinals)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 2011-07-25.[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ "2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre backstroke (final)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 2011-07-26.[permanent dead link]

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