The Men's 100 metre backstroke event at the 2002 Commonwealth Games took place between 2 August 2002 and 3 August 2002 at Manchester Aquatics Centre.

Schedule All times are Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) DateTimeEventFriday, 2 August 2002 11:16 Heat 1 11:19 Heat 2 10:23 Heat 3 10:26 Heat 4 19:46 Semifinal 1 19:50 Semifinal 2Saturday, 3 August 2002 19:58 Final

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows. Name Nation Time Location DateWorld recordLenny Krayzelburg53.60Sydney24 August 1999Games recordMark Versfeld55.52Kuala Lumpur16 September 1998

The following new records were set during this competition. Date Event Name Nation Time Record 3 August Final Matt Welsh 54.72 GR

Results

Heats The heats were held the morning session on 2 August.

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 4 Matt Welsh56.35 Q 2 3 4 Ian Thorpe56.45 Q 3 3 3 Adam Ruckwood56.87 Q 4 4 3 Ethan Rolff57.04 Q 5 4 2 Martin Harris57.06 Q 6 2 6 Gerhard Zandberg57.09 Q 7 2 4 Gregor Tait57.23 Q 8 3 2 Nicholas Neckles57.49 Q 9 2 5 Tobias Oriwol57.70 Q 10 4 6 Simon Burnett57.79 Q 11 3 5 Alex Lim57.88 Q 12 3 6 James Veldman58.20 Q 13 4 5 Riley Janes58.41 Q 14 2 3 Cameron Gibson58.50 Q 15 4 7 Andrew Mackay59.66 Q 16 3 7 Ramon James Q 17 2 2 Ron Cowen 17 2 7 Dane Harrop 19 4 1 Ian Powell 20 2 8 Jonathon Le Noury 21 3 8 Folahan Oluwole 22 4 8 Rubel Rana 23 1 5 Jamie Zammitt 24 1 3 Jean Francois Wai Choon 25 1 4 Kabir Walia 26 2 1 Roy-Allan Burch 27 1 6 Lateef Aliasau 28 1 2 David Korpela

Semifinals The semifinals were held the evening session on 2 August.

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 2 4 Matt Welsh55.91 Q 2 2 7 Alex Lim56.11 Q 3 2 6 Gregor Tait56.32 Q 4 1 4 Ian Thorpe56.49 Q 5 2 5 Adam Ruckwood56.61 Q 6 1 5 Ethan Rolff56.83 Q 7 1 3 Gerhard Zandberg57.00 Q 8 2 3 Martin Harris57.26 Q 9 2 1 Riley Janes57.28 10 1 2 Simon Burnett57.34 11 2 2 Tobias Oriwol57.47 12 1 7 James Veldman57.52 12 1 1 Cameron Gibson57.62 14 1 6 Nicholas Neckles57.84 15 2 8 Andrew Mackay59.49 16 1 8 Ramon James

Final The final were held the evening session on 3 August.

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Matt Welsh 54.72 GR 6 Ian Thorpe 55.38 5 Alex Lim 55.44 4 1 Gerhard Zandberg 55.98 5 3 Gregor Tait 56.08 6 2 Adam Ruckwood 56.65 7 7 Ethan Rolff 56.98 8 8 Martin Harris 58.40

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