The men's 50 metre backstroke at the 2025 Summer World University Games in Rhine-Ruhr, Germany was held from 20 to 21 July 2025. Pieter Coetze from South Africa won the gold medal, Yoon Ji-hwan from South Korea took the silver medal and Daniel Diehl from the United States earned the bronze medal.
Schedule All times are Central European Time (UTC+1) Date Time Round20 July 09:39 Heats 20:01 Semifinals 21 July 20:30 Final
Records Prior to the competition, the world and Universiade records were as follows. Category Swimmer Record Date Place Event World record Kliment Kolesnikov 23.55 27 July 2023 Kazan, Russia 2023 Swim Cup Of Russia Universiade record Zane Waddell 24.46 6 July 2019 Naples, Italy 2019 Summer Universiade
Results Heats All entered athletes competed across multiple seeded heats in the morning session. Swimmers with the top 16 fastest times advanced, regardless of which individual heat they swam.
Rank Heat Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 6 4 24.69 2 7 4 Yoon Ji-hwan 24.74 3 5 4 24.82 4 7 7 24.93 5 6 1 25.27 6 6 6 25.42 7 5 6 25.50 8 5 5 25.58 8 7 6 Chuang Mu-lun 25.58 10 4 5 25.59 11 7 3 25.61 11 6 3 25.61 13 6 7 25.65 14 7 5 25.67 15 6 5 25.73 16 5 2 25.78 17 6 8 25.79 18 3 4 25.96 19 5 8 26.00 20 5 1 Kim Min-ju 26.05 21 1 5 26.11 22 4 6 26.15 23 7 1 26.21 23 5 3 26.21 25 4 7 Ng Cheuk Yin 26.26 26 4 2 26.31 27 5 7 26.32 28 6 2 26.37 29 7 8 26.41 30 4 3 26.42 31 4 4 26.45 32 4 1 26.47 33 4 8 26.63 34 2 7 26.82 35 3 6 26.94 36 3 5 27.08 37 3 3 27.10 38 3 7 27.26 39 3 1 27.34 40 3 2 27.76 41 1 3 27.88 42 2 4 28.02 43 1 4 28.26 44 3 8 28.70 45 2 1 28.97 46 2 5 32.18 47 2 3 33.04 48 2 2 35.91 — 7 2 — 2 6
Semifinals The 16 advancing swimmers were split into two semifinal heats of 8 during the evening session. The swimmers recording the top 8 fastest times advanced to the final round.
Rank Heat Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 2 4 24.50 2 2 5 24.80 3 1 4 Yoon Ji-hwan 24.94 3 1 5 24.94 5 2 6 25.20 6 1 3 25.34 6 1 7 25.34 8 2 3 25.36 8 1 6 25.36 10 2 1 25.38 11 1 2 25.39 12 1 1 25.46 13 2 2 Chuang Mu-lun 25.58 13 1 8 25.58 15 2 8 25.60 16 2 7 25.69
Swim-off The tied swimmers raced to claim the 8th place and final lane in the medal final.
Rank Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 5 25.31 2 4 25.39
Final The fastest 8 swimmers competed in a single race to determine the gold, silver and bronze medalists.
Rank Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 4 24.49 6 Yoon Ji-hwan 24.51 3 24.75 4 5 24.78 5 8 25.04 6 7 25.14 7 1 25.19 8 2 25.36
External links Swimming Rhine Ruhr 2025
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