The men's 50 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 2013 Mediterranean Games took place on June 21 at the Mersin Olympic Swimming Pool in Mersin, Turkey.

The race consisted of one length of the pool in backstroke.

Schedule All times are Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+03:00) DateTimeEventFriday, 21 June 2013 09:35 Heats 18:05 Final

Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Mediterranean Games records were as follows: World record24.04Rome, ItalyAugust 2, 2009Mediterranean Games record24.73Pescara, ItalyJune 27, 2009

Results All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedGRGames recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best

Heats Swimming - Men's 50m Backstroke Heat 1 (Startlist)Swimming - Men's 50m Backstroke Heat 2 (Startlist) RankHeatLaneAthleteTimeNotes 1 2 5 25.51 Q 2 1 3 25.86 Q 3 1 4 25.87 Q 4 2 4 26.06 Q 5 1 5 26.07 Q 6 1 6 26.24 Q 7 2 3 26.40 Q 8 2 6 26.94 Q 9 1 2 27.12 10 2 7 28.19 11 2 2 28.61

Final Swimming - Men's 50m Backstroke Final (Official) RankLaneAthleteTimeNotes 4 25:35 3 25.42 5 25.66 4 6 25.76 5 2 25:89 6 1 26.12 7 7 26.38 8 8 26.99

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