The Men's 50 metre backstroke competition at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships was held on 17 and 18 February 2024.
Qualification
Each National Federation was permitted to enter a maximum of two qualified athletes in each individual event, but only if both of them had attained the "A" standard qualification time at approved qualifying events. For this event, the "A" standard qualification time was 25.16 seconds. Federations could enter one athlete into the event if they met the "B" standard qualification time. For this event, the "B" standard qualification time was 26.04. Athletes could also enter the event if they had met an "A" or "B" standard in a different event and their Federation had not entered anyone else. Additional considerations applied to Federations who had few swimmers enter through the standard qualification times. Federations in this category could at least enter two men and two women into the competition, all of whom could enter into up to two events.
Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
Results Heats The heats were held on 17 February at 09:57.
Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 5 Ksawery Masiuk 24.58 Q 1 5 4 Hunter Armstrong 24.66 Q 3 3 7 Hugo González 24.72 Q 4 3 4 Isaac Cooper 24.75 Q 4 4 4 Pieter Coetze 24.75 Q 6 4 5 Michael Andrew 24.82 Q 7 5 6 Michele Lamberti 24.88 Q 8 5 3 Ole Braunschweig 24.94 Q 9 5 7 Yoon Ji-hwan 25.01 Q 10 3 2 Ulises Saravia 25.02 Q 11 3 5 Apostolos Christou 25.03 Q 12 4 7 Björn Seeliger 25.10 Q 13 4 3 Miroslav Knedla 25.14 Q 14 5 8 Adrian Santos 25.15 Q 15 3 3 Andrew Jeffcoat 25.16 Q 16 3 1 Evangelos Makrygiannis 25.18 Q 17 3 6 Javier Acevedo 25.28 18 4 1 Bradley Woodward 25.41 19 2 4 Ádám Jászó 25.43 20 5 2 Oleksandr Zheltiakov 25.60 21 5 1 Lamar Taylor 25.80 22 2 7 Dimuth Peiris 25.86 23 5 0 Jerard Jacinto 25.92 24 5 9 Diego Camacho 25.97 25 3 9 Dino Hasibović 26.06 25 4 8 I Gede Siman Sudartawa 26.06 27 2 6 Ģirts Feldbergs 26.08 28 3 8 Yeziel Morales 26.17 29 2 3 Kaloyan Levterov 26.25 29 2 8 Merdan Ataýew 26.25 31 4 9 Bernhard Reitshammer 26.33 32 4 6 Andrei-Mircea Anghel 26.36 33 2 2 Xu Yifan 26.37 34 2 5 Filippos Iakovidis 26.43 35 4 0 Charles Hockin 26.45 36 2 9 Erkhes Enkhtur 26.72 37 2 1 Lau Shiu Yue 26.74 38 1 4 Guido Montero 27.71 39 1 5 Oscar Peyre 27.79 40 2 0 Antoine De Lapparent 27.93 41 1 6 Tajhari Williams 28.78 42 1 3 Hasan Al-Zinkee 28.97 43 1 1 Brandon George 29.16 44 1 2 Giorgio Nguichie 33.95 1 7 Ibrahim Kamara 1 8 Yousef Al-Khulaifi 4 2 Conor Ferguson 3 0 Mantas Kauspedas
Semifinals The semifinals were held on 17 February at 20:06.
Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 5 Isaac Cooper 24.12 Q, OC 2 1 4 Hunter Armstrong 24.43 Q 3 2 3 Pieter Coetze 24.46 Q 3 2 4 Ksawery Masiuk 24.46 Q 5 2 5 Hugo González 24.60 Q 6 2 6 Michele Lamberti 24.68 Q 7 1 3 Michael Andrew 24.70 Q 8 1 6 Ole Braunschweig 24.74 Q 9 1 8 Evangelos Makrygiannis 24.84 10 2 8 Andrew Jeffcoat 24.88 11 2 7 Apostolos Christou 25.01 12 2 1 Miroslav Knedla 25.06 13 1 1 Adrian Santos 25.09 14 1 7 Björn Seeliger 25.10 15 1 2 Ulises Saravia 25.13 16 2 2 Yoon Ji-hwan 25.14
Final The final was held on 18 February at 19:02.
Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Isaac Cooper 24.13 5 Hunter Armstrong 24.33 6 Ksawery Masiuk 24.44 =NR 4 3 Pieter Coetze 24.59 5 8 Ole Braunschweig 24.74 6 2 Hugo González 24.77 7 7 Michele Lamberti 24.82 8 1 Michael Andrew 24.86
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