Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre backstroke

The men's 100 metre backstroke at the 2009 World Championships took place Monday 27 July (prelims and semifinals) and on the evening of Tuesday 28 July (final) at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy.

Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and competition records were as follows: World record 51.94 Indianapolis, United States 8 July 2009Championship record 52.98 Melbourne, Australia 27 March 2007

The following records were established during the competition:

DateRoundNameNationalityTimeRecord 27 July Heat 12 Aschwin Wildeboer Spain 52.93 CR 27 July Semifinal 1 Junya Koga Japan 52.39 CR 28 July Final Junya Koga Japan 52.26 CR

Results

Heats Rank Name Nationality Time Heat Lane Notes 1 Aschwin Wildeboer 52.93 12 4 CR 2 Ryosuke Irie 53.00 11 4 3 Liam Tancock 53.08 11 3 NR 3 Junya Koga 53.08 13 5 3 Aaron Peirsol United States 53.08 13 4 6 Helge Meeuw 53.28 13 3 7 Ashley Delaney 53.33 12 6 8 Markus Rogan 53.62 11 2 9 Jérémy Stravius 53.67 12 3 10 Arkady Vyatchanin 53.73 11 5 11 Mirco di Tora 53.77 12 7 NR 12 Juan Miguel Rando 53.89 10 0 12 Stanislav Donets 53.89 11 6 14 Nicolaas Driebergen 53.94 10 5 NR 14 Aristeidis Grigoriadis 53.94 13 2 16 Matt Grevers United States 54.04 12 5 17 Pascal Wollach 54.08 12 2 18 Guilherme Guido 54.17 13 7 19 Benjamin Stasiulis 54.18 13 6 20 George Du Rand 54.29 11 8 21 Răzvan Florea 54.47 13 1 22 Guy Barnea 54.51 13 8 23 Daniel Bell 54.58 13 0 24 Marco Loughran 54.61 11 1 25 Leonardo Guedes 54.64 12 1 26 Radosław Kawęcki 54.66 11 0 NR 27 Charl Van Zyl 54.67 10 6 28 Karl Burdis 54.74 10 9 NR 29 Damiano Lestingi 54.77 11 7 30 Omar Pinzón 54.97 11 9 NR 31 Jake Tapp 54.99 12 0 32 Robert Hurley 55.18 12 8 33 He Jianbin 55.24 10 7 34 Sung Min 55.39 12 9 35 Cheng Feiyi 55.52 13 9 36 Sebastian Stoss 55.57 9 6 37 Derya Büyükuncu 55.78 10 4 38 Flori Lang 55.84 10 3 39 Tomas Fucik 56.10 8 7 39 Andriy Kovbasa 56.10 10 1 41 Itai Chammah 56.15 1 5 41 Donal O'Neill 56.15 10 8 43 Krzysztof Jankiewicz 56.23 10 2 44 Bruno Claeys 56.34 9 4 45 Andres Olvik 56.37 8 2 NR 46 Dimitrios Chasiotis 56.58 9 1 47 Pedro Oliveira 56.69 9 8 48 Danil Bugakov 56.77 9 3 49 Alexandru Felix Maestru 56.80 8 1 50 Martin Liivamägi 57.00 8 8 51 Stanislav Osinsky 57.02 8 5 52 Pedro Medel 57.03 9 2 53 Miguel Robles 57.14 9 7 54 Robi Zbogar 57.45 8 3 55 Jean-François Schneiders 57.49 8 4 56 Konstantins Bohins 57.68 7 6 57 Naoufel Benabid 57.81 7 5 NR 58 Kouam Amine 57.95 7 8 NR 59 Andrejs Dūda 58.00 7 2 60 Raphaël Stacchiotti 58.03 9 0 61 Glenn Victor Sutanto 58.29 7 7 62 Ng Kai Wee Raine 58.57 7 4 63 Cheah Geoffrey Robin 58.69 7 3 64 David Rodriguez 58.70 7 1 65 Do Huy Long 58.79 7 0 66 Tsung Chao-Lin 58.93 8 9 67 Nicolas Francia Viña 58.94 9 5 68 Artiom Gladun 58.97 9 9 69 Rony Bakale 59.10 6 6 70 Yury Zaharov 59.13 8 6 71 Serghei Golban 59.16 6 3 72 Heshan Bandara Unamboowe 59.47 4 9 73 Achelhi Bilal 59.49 5 1 74 Jean Luis Gomez 1:00.16 6 7 75 Doğa Çelik 1:00.22 8 0 76 Khachik Plavchyan 1:00.31 6 5 77 Nicholas James 1:00.34 5 5 78 Boris Kirillov 1:00.44 5 8 79 Radomyos Matjiur 1:00.61 6 4 80 Byron Briedenhann 1:00.85 5 9 81 Ashwin Menon 1:00.90 5 3 82 Mohammed Al Ghaferi 1:01.18 5 6 83 Antonio Tong 1:01.41 5 4 84 Marcelino Richaards 1:01.65 4 5 85 Ryan Nelthropp 1:01.69 4 2 86 Kari Joannesarson Hoevdanum 1:01.70 6 1 87 Fernando Castellanos 1:01.92 3 4 88 Alberto Tasini 1:02.18 5 0 89 Yousuf Essa Al Yousuf 1:02.28 6 2 90 Armando Zayas Claure 1:02.87 3 5 91 Abbas Raad 1:03.28 6 9 92 Ngou Pok Man 1:03.69 4 7 93 Praveen Tokas 1:03.74 6 8 94 Samson Opuakpo 1:03.81 3 1 95 Benjamin Gabbard 1:03.86 3 9 96 Javier Hernandez Maradiaga 1:03.98 6 0 97 Nicholas Coard 1:04.02 4 1 98 Ronny Vencatachellum 1:04.11 4 8 99 Tural Abbasov 1:04.47 5 7 100 Matar Samb 1:04.71 5 2 101 Mark Sammut 1:05.08 4 3 102 Edward Caruana Dingli 1:05.43 3 7 103 Vincent Perry 1:05.72 4 6 104 Juan Carlos Sikaffy Diaz 1:06.01 3 8 105 Batsaikhan Dulguun 1:06.96 4 0 106 Mathieu Marquet 1:07.26 2 4 107 Sidni Hoxha 1:08.15 4 4 108 Saif Alaslam Saeed Alsaadi 1:08.21 1 4 109 Paul Elaisa 1:08.81 2 8 110 Siu Kent Chung 1:08.98 3 2 111 Carlos Alberto 1:09.14 2 3 112 Timur Atahanov 1:09.42 2 2 112 Gary Pineda 1:09.42 3 0 114 Pepelate Gbagi 1:10.45 2 6 115 Elaijie Erasito 1:11.00 2 7 116 Nadir Elmofti 1:16.32 2 1 117 Shameel Ibrahim 1:19.06 2 0 — Mario Sulkja DNS 2 5 — Hocine Haciane DNS 3 6 — Brett Fraser DNS 7 9 — Faiz Muhammad DSQ 3 3

Semifinals Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 5 Junya Koga 52.39 CR, AS 2 1 3 Helge Meeuw 52.49 NR 3 1 4 Ryosuke Irie 52.73 4 2 4 Aschwin Wildeboer 52.76 5 1 8 Matt Grevers 52.82 6 2 8 Aristeidis Grigoriadis 53.03 NR 7 1 2 Arkady Vyatchanin 53.11 8 2 5 Liam Tancock 53.12 9 2 3 Aaron Peirsol 53.22 10 2 6 Ashley Delaney 53.24 11 1 6 Markus Rogan 53.40 12 2 2 Jérémy Stravius 53.82 13 2 7 Mirco di Tora 53.88 14 1 1 Nicolaas Driebergen 53.92 NR 15 1 7 Juan Miguel Rando 54.13 16 2 1 Stanislav Donets 54.24

Final Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Junya Koga 52.26 CR, AS 5 Helge Meeuw 52.54 6 Aschwin Wildeboer 52.64 4 3 Ryosuke Irie 52.73 4 8 Liam Tancock 52.73 NR 6 1 Arkady Vyatchanin 52.87 NR 7 2 Matt Grevers 53.14 8 7 Aristeidis Grigoriadis 53.43

See also Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre backstroke Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre backstroke

References Worlds 2009 results: Men's 100m Back Heats; published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '09 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-28. Worlds 2009 results: Men's 100m Back Semifinals; published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '09 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-28. Worlds 2009 results: Men's 100m Back Final; published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '09 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-28.