The Men's 100 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held on 3 August with the heats and the semifinals and 4 August with the final.Start list

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

Results Heats The heats were held on 3 August at 09:49.Heats results

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 6 5 Mitch Larkin 52.50 Q, OC 2 7 4 Matt Grevers 53.21 Q 3 6 4 Xu Jiayu 53.29 Q 4 6 6 Liam Tancock 53.35 Q 5 7 5 Ryosuke Irie 53.37 Q 6 6 3 Guilherme Guido 53.57 Q 7 5 4 53.64 Q 8 5 2 Grigory Tarasevich 53.69 Q 9 7 3 Evgeny Rylov 53.74 Q 10 6 1 Jan-Philip Glania 53.78 Q 11 7 6 Simone Sabbioni 53.83 Q 12 5 3 Jérémy Stravius 53.92 Q 6 2 Camille Lacourt Q 7 7 Yakov Toumarkin Q 15 5 6 Ben Treffers 54.00 Q 16 5 5 David Plummer 54.06 Q 17 7 2 Masaki Kaneko 54.19 18 5 1 Radosław Kawęcki 54.20 19 6 8 Tomasz Polewka 54.26 20 5 9 Li Guangyuan 54.34 21 7 9 Quah Zheng Wen 54.40 NR 22 7 0 Corey Main 54.51 23 4 4 Gábor Balog 54.65 24 7 8 Christian Diener 54.75 25 6 0 Park Seon-kwan 54.80 26 6 7 Christopher Ciccarese 54.81 6 9 Juan Miguel Rando 28 5 0 Danas Rapšys 54.86 29 5 7 Russell Wood 54.90 30 4 3 Robert Glință 55.07 31 7 1 Apostolos Christou 55.10 32 4 1 Ralf Tribuntsov 55.13 NR 33 4 0 Dylan Carter 55.24 34 4 5 Lavrans Solli 55.28 35 5 8 Pavel Sankovich 55.79 36 3 3 Mohamed Hussein 55.85 37 3 8 Rexford Tullius 55.88 38 4 7 Omar Pinzón 55.90 39 3 4 Lukas Rauftlin 56.11 40 4 6 Janis Šaltans 56.15 41 3 6 Ryan Pini 56.39 4 9 I Gede Siman Sudartawa 43 3 5 Doruk Tekin 56.57 44 4 8 Lê Nguyễn Paul 56.95 45 3 7 Petar Petrović 57.44 46 2 6 Timothy Wynter 57.47 47 2 2 Boris Kirillov 57.50 48 3 9 Martin Zhelev 57.55 49 2 3 Merdan Ataýew 57.57 50 3 0 Charles Hockin 57.84 51 2 1 David van der Colff 57.95 52 3 1 Jamal Chavoshifar 58.75 53 1 5 Eisner Barbarena 58.95 54 2 5 Ngou Pok Man 59.12 55 2 0 Jean Gómez 59.69 56 2 9 Lushano Lamprecht 59.77 57 1 4 Hamdan Bayusuf 58 2 8 Driss Lahrichi 59 1 3 Adel Elfakir 60 2 7 Yaaqoub Al-Saadi 61 1 2 Mohammed Bedour 62 1 7 Mohammad Ahmed 63 1 1 Farhan Saleh 64 1 8 Noah Al-Khulaifi 65 1 6 Arnold Kisulo 66 1 0 Temaruata Strickland 67 1 9 Htut Ahnt Khaung 2 4 Daniel Ramírez 4 2 Albert Subirats 3 2 Armando Barrera

Semifinals The semifinals were held on 3 August at 17:48.Semifinal results

Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Matt Grevers 52.73 Q 2 5 Liam Tancock 53.19 Q 3 8 David Plummer 53.54 4 6 Grigory Tarasevich 53.64 5 1 Yakov Toumarkin 53.77 6 2 Jan-Philip Glania 53.78 7 3 Guilherme Guido 53.88 8 7 Jérémy Stravius 54.54

Semifinal 2 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Mitch Larkin 52.38 Q, OC 2 1 Camille Lacourt 52.70 Q 3 3 Ryosuke Irie 53.13 Q 4 2 Evgeny Rylov 53.14 Q 5 5 Xu Jiayu 53.15 Q 6 6 Chris Walker-Hebborn 53.39 Q 7 7 Simone Sabbioni 53.60 8 Ben Treffers

Final

The final was held on 4 August at 18:36.Final results

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Mitch Larkin 52.40 5 Camille Lacourt 52.48 3 Matt Grevers 52.66 4 7 Xu Jiayu 52.89 5 8 Chris Walker-Hebborn 53.02 6 6 Ryosuke Irie 53.10 7 2 Evgeny Rylov 53.23 8 1 Liam Tancock 53.37

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