The men's 50 metre backstroke competition at the 2017 Summer Universiade was held on 22 and 23 August 2017.
Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and Universiade records were as follows.
Results Heats The heats were held on 22 August at 10:14.Heats results Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes184Justin Ress25.10Q283Shane Ryan25.12Q373Mikita Tsmyh25.17Q374Jonatan Kopelev25.17Q564Tomasz Polewka25.25Q665Apostolos Christou25.27Q775Taylor Dale25.32Q885Ben Treffers25.38Q986Nikita Ulyanov25.44Q1055Dmytro Gurnytskyi25.46Q1172Niccolò Bonacchi25.50Q1241Shuhei Uno25.53Q1276Viktar Staselovich25.53Q1466Matteo Milli25.59Q1582Won Young-jun25.61Q1654Charles Hockin25.73Q1778Gábor Balog25.75 1871Andrey Arbuzov25.85 1977Henrique Martins25.86 2067Guilherme Basseto25.91 2162Gustav Hökfelt25.92 2288Gytis Stankevičius26.00 2361Rafał Bugdol26.06 2487Georgios Spanoudakis26.09 2552Bayley Main26.142663Bohdan Kasian26.18 2768Bence Szentes26.24 2843Adil Kaskabay26.30 2934Guido Buscaglia26.34 3051Nicolás Deferrari26.38 3147Bernhard Reitshammer26.41 3245Girts Feldbergs26.483346Corneille Coetzee26.51 3458Axel Pettersson26.563544Gabriel Lópes26.57 3637Andy Song26.583731Lau Shiu Yue26.633835Chang Hou-chi26.72 3956David Céspedes26.73 4026Andrei Gussev26.754136Clayton Jimmie26.78 4253Oren Malka26.80 4348Rory Mcevoy26.96 4433Chang Kuo-chi27.00 4538Janne Markkanen27.054624Neil Fair27.17 4725Jaakko Rautalin27.56 4823Daniel Mitsumasu27.93 4921Christian Sidler28.13 4927Pedro Chiancone28.13 5157Gorazd Chepishevski28.16 5232Nassim Aboub28.20 5322Maroun Waked28.915328Arian Puyo28.91 5514Alfredo Yaluk30.32 5616Kalana Weeramuni30.59 5711Daniil Latt32.47 5818Salim Al-Masroori33.02 5913Kobe Soguilon33.706017Murtaza Naimee45.75 12Joseph Godbless 15Amukali Oduni 42Mehdi Benbara 81Shunichi Nakao
Semifinals The semifinals were held on 22 August at 20:48.Semifinals results
Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes14Shane Ryan24.97 Q23Apostolos Christou25.20 Q36Ben Treffers25.34 Q47Viktar Staselovich25.40 55Mikita Tsmyh25.43 61Matteo Milli25.55 72Dmytro Gurnytskyi25.59 88Charles Hockin25.85
Semifinal 2 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes13Tomasz Polewka25.11 Q12Nikita Ulyanov25.11 Q38Won Young-jun25.13 Q44Justin Ress25.19 Q 56Taylor Dale25.22 Q65Jonatan Kopelev25.42 77Niccolò Bonacchi25.46 81Shuhei Uno25.55
Final The final was held on 23 August at 20:40.Final results Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes4Shane Ryan24.72 NR2Justin Ress24.736Won Young-jun25.06 41Taylor Dale25.15 53Tomasz Polewka25.18 65Nikita Ulyanov25.20 78Ben Treffers25.21 87Apostolos Christou25.27
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