The men's 100 metre backstroke at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships took place on 26 March (heats and semifinals) and the evening of 27 March (final) at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia. 92 swimmers were entered in the event, of which 90 swam.

Existing records at the start of the event were: World record (WR): 53.17, Aaron Peirsol (USA), 2 April 2005 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. Championship record (CR): 53.61, Aaron Peirsol (USA), Barcelona 2003 (22 July 2003)

Results

Final Place Lane Name Nationality 50m Split Time 3 Aaron Peirsol 25.80 52.98   WR 4 Ryan Lochte 25.77 53.50 5 Liam Tancock 25.68 53.61 4 2 Arkady Vyatchanin 26.40 53.69 5 6 Markus Rogan 26.58 53.78 6 7 Gerhard Zandberg 26.07 54.59 7 8 Matt Welsh 26.61 54.65 8 1 Tomomi Morita 26.47 55.04

Semifinals Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality 50m split Time Notes 1 S2 L2 Ryan Lochte 25.80 53.51 CR Q 2 S1 L4 Liam Tancock 25.85 53.71 Q 3 S1 L5 Aaron Peirsol 26.08 53.92 Q 4 S2 L4 Markus Rogan 26.24 53.98 Q 5 S1 L3 Arkady Vyatchanin 26.89 54.30 Q 6 S2 L5 Gerhard Zandberg 26.29 54.54 Q 7 S2 L6 Tomomi Morita 26.48 54.77 Q 8 S2 L1 Matt Welsh 26.63 54.92 Q8.5 S1.5 54.95 O 9 S2 L8 Steffen Driesen 26.58 54.97 10 S1 L1 Răzvan Florea 26.61 55.02 11 S2 L3 Aristeidis Grigoriadis 26.56 55.12 12 S1 L7 Thiago Pereira 27.01 55.30 13 S1 L6 Matthew Clay 26.20 55.32 14 S2 L7 Masafumi Yamaguchi 26.59 55.34 15 S1 L2 Helge Meeuw 26.95 55.37 16 S1 L8 Hayden Stoeckel 27.11 55.51

Heats Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality 50m split Time Notes 1 H10 L5 Markus Rogan 26.89 00:54.34 Q 2 H11 L3 Liam Tancock 25.65 00:54.54 Q 3 H12 L7 Gerhard Zandberg 26.47 00:54.83 Q 4 H12 L4 Aaron Peirsol 26.66 00:54.88 Q 5 H12 L3 Aristeidis Grigoriadis 26.31 00:54.95 Q 6 H10 L4 Arkady Vyatchanin 27.38 00:55.00 Q 7 H11 L5 Tomomi Morita 26.60 00:55.06 Q 8 H10 L3 Matthew Clay 26.72 00:55.07 Q 9 H12 L5 Ryan Lochte 27.00 00:55.08 Q 10 H11 L4 Helge Meeuw 26.55 00:55.11 Q 11 H12 L6 Masafumi Yamaguchi 26.80 00:55.30 Q 12 H09 L4 Vytautas Janušaitis 26.65 00:55.36 Q 13 H09 L6 Thiago Pereira 27.04 00:55.44 Q 14 H12 L2 Matt Welsh 26.36 00:55.50 Q 15 H10 L7 Răzvan Florea 26.82 00:55.53 Q 16 H10 L6 Steffen Driesen 26.97 00:55.63 Q16.5 H09.5 00:55.635 O 17 H11 L2 Hayden Stoeckel 26.57 00:55.64 18 H11 L6 Ouyang Kunpeng 26.69 00:55.75 19 H09 L8 Guy Barne'a 26.83 00:55.88 20 H10 L1 Damiano Lestingi 27.46 00:56.07 21 H11 L1 Ľuboš Križko 26.93 00:56.13 22 H12 L1 Evgeny Aleshin 26.93 00:56.14 23 H11 L7 Simon Dufour 27.21 00:56.15 24 H10 L2 Andriy Oleynyk 27.37 00:56.18 25 H09 L3 Nicholas Neckles 27.22 00:56.20 26 H11 L8 Leonardo Guedes 27.19 00:56.42 27 H10 L8 Derya Büyükuncu 27.37 00:56.50 28 H09 L5 George du Rand 27.55 00:56.59 29 H09 L7 Ehud Segal 27.66 00:56.73 30 H12 L8 Zhang Bodong 27.28 00:56.87 31 H07 L4 Pedro Oliveira 27.79 00:56.96 32 H08 L5 Pavel Sankovich 27.42 00:57.09 33 H08 L4 Flori Lang 27.24 00:57.10 34 H09 L1 Cameron Gibson 27.58 00:57.40 35 H08 L6 Mathias Gydesen 27.96 00:57.46 36 H08 L7 Eduardo German Otero 27.49 00:57.50 37 H09 L2 Ante Cvitkovic 28.09 00:57.57 38 H07 L3 Tomas Fucik 27.89 00:57.69 39 H08 L8 Seunghyeon Lee 27.80 00:58.08 40 H08 L2 Stanislav Osinsky 27.67 00:58.20 41 H08 L1 Kim Torry Simmenes 27.21 00:58.24 42 H08 L3 Ivan Tolic 27.97 00:58.36 43 H07 L2 Danil Bugakov 28.20 00:58.74 44 H06 L8 Taki Mrabet 28.31 00:58.82 45 H07 L6 David Dunford 28.31 00:58.86 46 H06 L6 Miguel Robles 28.53 00:58.96 47 H07 L8 Geoffrey Robin Cheah 28.64 00:59.15 48 H07 L1 Ioannis Giannoulis 28.71 00:59.22 49 H04 L2 Felix Cristiadi Sutanto 29.13 00:59.39 50 H06 L2 Sergey Pankov 29.17 00:59.99 51 H06 L4 Jared Heine 28.70 1:00.28 52 H07 L5 Rony Bakale 29.06 1:00.44 53 H07 L7 Iurii Zakharov 29.03 1:00.64 54 H06 L3 Suriya Suksuphak 29.37 1:00.73 55 H04 L3 Giorgios Mylonas 28.80 1:00.91 56 H06 L5 Yu An Lin 29.17 1:00.95 57 H05 L2 Sandeep Nagar Anthal 29.81 1:00.98 58 H05 L7 Zhi Cong Lim 29.69 1:01.09 59 H05 L4 Gael Adam 29.55 1:01.15 60 H05 L1 Wei Shien Zach Ong 29.52 1:01.27 61 H05 L3 Juan Montenegro 30.12 1:01.36 62 H05 L5 Shahin Baradaran Nakhjavani 29.16 1:01.56 63 H04 L4 Souhaib Kalala 30.35 1:01.66 64 H05 L8 Amine Kouam 29.65 1:01.78 65 H06 L7 Mario Montoya 30.25 1:01.84 66 H03 L4 Yousuf Alyousuf 30.45 1:01.87 67 H04 L7 Carlos Eduardo Gil 30.36 1:02.03 68 H01 L4 Eric Chang 29.82 1:02.32 69 H05 L6 Arjun Muralidharan 29.42 1:02.35 70 H02 L8 Roy-Allan Burch 29.33 1:02.72 71 H04 L6 Heshan Unamboowe 30.61 1:02.84 72 H04 L1 Melvin Chua 30.70 1:03.10 73 H03 L5 Khaly Ciss 31.03 1:03.23 74 H03 L1 Rainui Terupaia 31.56 1:04.66 75 H04 L5 Nuno Rola 31.34 1:05.55 76 H04 L8 Ahmed Salamoun 31.21 1:05.77 77 H02 L4 Andrey Molchanov 31.19 1:05.95 77 H03 L3 Tural Abbasov 30.79 1:05.95 79 H03 L6 Fadi Awesat 31.62 1:06.20 80 H03 L8 Kin Wa Cheong 32.52 1:07.19 81 H03 L7 Richard Randrianandraina 32.43 1:08.73 82 H02 L5 Celestino Aguon 33.32 1:09.18 83 H02 L3 Jamaal Sobers 32.80 1:10.05 84 H02 L6 Timur Atahanov 33.19 1:12.50 85 H01 L6 Yannick Roberts 35.04 1:12.78 86 H02 L2 Ali Zayeri 36.81 1:15.39 87 H02 L7 Ibrahim Shameel 39.24 1:24.63 88 H02 L1 Mohammed Al Qerbi 40.46 1:24.75 89 H01 L3 Boipelo Makhothi 42.61 1:32.14 90 H01 L5 Thabiso Gilbert 43.00 1:35.01 999 H03 L2 Samson Opuakpo 999 DNS 999 H06 L1 Mohammad Rubel 999 DNS

See also Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre backstroke

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