The Men's 50 metre backstroke competition of the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 8 and 9 December 2016.
Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows. Name Nation Time Location DateWorld recordChampionship recordFlorent Manaudou22.22Doha6 December 2014
Results Heats The heats were held at 10:06.Heats results
Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 8 5 Junya Koga 22.93 Q 2 9 4 Jérémy Stravius 23.09 Q 3 9 3 Xu Jiayu 23.42 Q 4 7 5 Miguel Ortiz-Cañavate 23.47 Q 4 9 5 Pavel Sankovich 23.47 Q 6 7 4 Tomasz Polewka 23.50 Q 7 8 4 Mitch Larkin 23.57 Q 8 5 4 Albert Subirats 23.59 Q 9 8 0 Grigory Tarasevich 23.70 Q 9 8 6 Robert Glință 23.70 Q 11 8 3 Robert Hurley 23.71 Q 12 9 6 Iskender Baskalov 23.83 Q 13 6 2 Michael Taylor 23.87 Q 14 6 3 Jacob Pebley 23.88 Q 15 7 6 Masaki Kaneko 23.89 Q 16 8 2 Viktar Staselovich 23.98 Q 17 9 0 Charles Hockin 24.06 18 7 2 Javier Acevedo 24.11 19 5 7 Daniel Carranza 24.27 19 7 7 Lê Nguyễn Paul 24.27 21 9 2 Magnus Jakupsson 24.31 22 8 7 Danas Rapsys 24.32 23 6 4 Ryan Pini 24.35 24 9 1 David Gamburg 24.37 25 8 1 Charlie Boldison 24.39 26 7 2 Andrei Shabasov 24.41 27 9 8 Thomas Avetand 24.45 28 7 1 Tomas Franta 24.52 29 8 9 Apostolos Christou 24.53 30 2 9 Anton Louie Loncar 24.74 31 2 8 Gaston Hernandez 24.75 32 7 9 Axel Pettersson 24.85 33 1 3 Duy Khoi Tran 24.90 34 7 0 Christopher Courtis 24.94 34 8 8 Gabriel Lopes 24.94 36 5 6 Markus Thormeyer 24.97 37 1 5 Justin Plaschka 25.01 38 6 7 Neil Fair 25.06 39 6 5 Ricky Ellis 25.10 40 5 5 David Adalsteinsson 25.24 41 7 8 Kristinn Porarinsson 25.27 42 6 6 Kristóf Rasovszky 25.49 43 5 2 Boris Kirillov 25.61 44 5 3 Ivo Kunzle Savastano 25.75 45 5 8 Sheikh Tariq 25.93 46 6 9 Gorazd Chepishevski 25.97 47 6 1 Francis Fong 26.08 48 5 1 Eisner Barbera Espinoza 26.17 49 4 7 Keanan Michael Dols 26.33 50 4 8 Adel El Fakir 26.39 51 6 0 Pok Man Ngou 26.47 52 4 4 Axel Steven Ngui 26.69 53 4 3 William Clark 26.85 NR 54 4 0 Adil Assouab 26.92 55 2 0 Sébastien Kouma 26.99 55 4 6 Jordan Gonzalez 26.99 57 1 6 Akaki Vashakidze 27.21 58 2 7 Mohammad Juwel Ahmed 27.25 58 5 0 Cheng Man Yum 27.25 60 4 1 Alex McCallum 27.48
Semifinals The semifinals were held at 19:51.
Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Jérémy Stravius 23.16 Q 2 5 Miguel Ortiz-Cañavate 23.33 Q 3 6 Albert Subirats 23.37 Q 4 3 Tomasz Polewka 23.47 Q 5 1 Jacob Pebley 23.63 6 2 Robert Glință 23.64 7 7 Iskender Baslakov 23.85 8 8 Viktar Staselovich 24.08
Semifinal 2 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Junya Koga 22.81 Q 2 3 Pavel Sankovich 23.07 Q 3 7 Robert Hurley 23.20 Q 4 5 Xu Jiayu 23.39 Q 5 6 Mitch Larkin 23.57 6 2 Grigory Tarasevich 23.64 7 8 Masaki Kaneko 23.65 8 1 Michael Taylor 23.84
Final The final was held at 19:32
Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Junya Koga 22.85 3 Jérémy Stravius 22.99 5 Pavel Sankovich 23.03 4 7 Albert Subirats 23.26 5 6 Robert Hurley 23.32 6 2 Miguel Ortiz-Cañavate 23.40 6 8 Tomasz Polewka 23.40 8 1 Xu Jiayu 23.54
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