Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre backstroke

Men's 100 metre backstroke
at the 2007 FINA World Championships
Men's 100 metre backstroke ; at the 2007 FINA World Championships
Venue	Rod Laver Arena
Date	March 2007
Competitors	92
Winning time	52.98 seconds
Medalists
	← 2005 2009 →

The men's 100 metre backstroke at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships took place on 26 March (heats^[1] and semifinals^[2]) and the evening of 27 March (final)^[3] at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia. 92 swimmers were entered in the event, of which 90 swam.

Existing records at the start of the event^[1] were:

World record (WR): 53.17, Aaron Peirsol (USA), 2 April 2005 in Indianapolis, IN, USA.
Championship record (CR): 53.61, Aaron Peirsol (USA), Barcelona 2003 (22 July 2003)

Results[]

Final[]

Place	Lane	Name	Nationality	50m Split	Time
	3	Aaron Peirsol	United States	25.80	52.98 WR
	4	Ryan Lochte	United States	25.77	53.50
	5	Liam Tancock	Great Britain	25.68	53.61
4	2	Arkady Vyatchanin	Russia	26.40	53.69
5	6	Markus Rogan	Austria	26.58	53.78
6	7	Gerhard Zandberg	South Africa	26.07	54.59
7	8	Matt Welsh	Australia	26.61	54.65
8	1	Tomomi Morita	Japan	26.47	55.04

Semifinals[]

Rank	Heat Lane	Name	Nationality	50m split	Time	Notes
1	S2 L2	Ryan Lochte	United States	25.80	53.51 CR	Q
2	S1 L4	Liam Tancock	Great Britain	25.85	53.71	Q
3	S1 L5	Aaron Peirsol	United States	26.08	53.92	Q
4	S2 L4	Markus Rogan	Austria	26.24	53.98	Q
5	S1 L3	Arkady Vyatchanin	Russia	26.89	54.30	Q
6	S2 L5	Gerhard Zandberg	South Africa	26.29	54.54	Q
7	S2 L6	Tomomi Morita	Japan	26.48	54.77	Q
8	S2 L1	Matt Welsh	Australia	26.63	54.92	Q
8.5	S1.5				54.95	O
9	S2 L8	Steffen Driesen	Germany	26.58	54.97
10	S1 L1	Răzvan Florea	Romania	26.61	55.02
11	S2 L3	Aristeidis Grigoriadis	Greece	26.56	55.12
12	S1 L7	Thiago Pereira	Brazil	27.01	55.30
13	S1 L6	Matthew Clay	Great Britain	26.20	55.32
14	S2 L7		Japan	26.59	55.34
15	S1 L2	Helge Meeuw	Germany	26.95	55.37
16	S1 L8	Hayden Stoeckel	Australia	27.11	55.51

Heats[]

Rank	Heat Lane	Name	Nationality	50m split	Time	Notes
1	H10 L5	Markus Rogan	Austria	26.89	00:54.34	Q
2	H11 L3	Liam Tancock	Great Britain	25.65	00:54.54	Q
3	H12 L7	Gerhard Zandberg	South Africa	26.47	00:54.83	Q
4	H12 L4	Aaron Peirsol	United States	26.66	00:54.88	Q
5	H12 L3	Aristeidis Grigoriadis	Greece	26.31	00:54.95	Q
6	H10 L4	Arkady Vyatchanin	Russia	27.38	00:55.00	Q
7	H11 L5	Tomomi Morita	Japan	26.60	00:55.06	Q
8	H10 L3	Matthew Clay	Great Britain	26.72	00:55.07	Q
9	H12 L5	Ryan Lochte	United States	27.00	00:55.08	Q
10	H11 L4	Helge Meeuw	Germany	26.55	00:55.11	Q
11	H12 L6		Japan	26.80	00:55.30	Q
12	H09 L4	Vytautas Janušaitis	Lithuania	26.65	00:55.36	Q
13	H09 L6	Thiago Pereira	Brazil	27.04	00:55.44	Q
14	H12 L2	Matt Welsh	Australia	26.36	00:55.50	Q
15	H10 L7	Răzvan Florea	Romania	26.82	00:55.53	Q
16	H10 L6	Steffen Driesen	Germany	26.97	00:55.63	Q
16.5	H09.5				00:55.635	O
17	H11 L2	Hayden Stoeckel	Australia	26.57	00:55.64
18	H11 L6	Ouyang Kunpeng	China	26.69	00:55.75
19	H09 L8	Guy Barne'a	Israel	26.83	00:55.88
20	H10 L1	Damiano Lestingi	Italy	27.46	00:56.07
21	H11 L1	Ľuboš Križko	Slovakia	26.93	00:56.13
22	H12 L1	Evgeny Aleshin	Russia	26.93	00:56.14
23	H11 L7	Simon Dufour	France	27.21	00:56.15
24	H10 L2		Ukraine	27.37	00:56.18
25	H09 L3	Nicholas Neckles	Barbados	27.22	00:56.20
26	H11 L8		Brazil	27.19	00:56.42
27	H10 L8	Derya Büyükuncu	Turkey	27.37	00:56.50
28	H09 L5	George du Rand	South Africa	27.55	00:56.59
29	H09 L7		Israel	27.66	00:56.73
30	H12 L8		China	27.28	00:56.87
31	H07 L4	Pedro Oliveira	Portugal	27.79	00:56.96
32	H08 L5	Pavel Sankovich	Belarus	27.42	00:57.09
33	H08 L4	Flori Lang	Switzerland	27.24	00:57.10
34	H09 L1	Cameron Gibson	New Zealand	27.58	00:57.40
35	H08 L6	Mathias Gydesen	Denmark	27.96	00:57.46
36	H08 L7	Eduardo German Otero	Argentina	27.49	00:57.50
37	H09 L2		Croatia	28.09	00:57.57
38	H07 L3	Tomas Fucik	Czech Republic	27.89	00:57.69
39	H08 L8		South Korea	27.80	00:58.08
40	H08 L2	Stanislav Osinsky	Kazakhstan	27.67	00:58.20
41	H08 L1		Norway	27.21	00:58.24
42	H08 L3	Ivan Tolic	Croatia	27.97	00:58.36
43	H07 L2	Danil Bugakov	Uzbekistan	28.20	00:58.74
44	H06 L8	Taki M'Rabet	Tunisia	28.31	00:58.82
45	H07 L6	David Dunford	Kenya	28.31	00:58.86
46	H06 L6	Miguel Robles	Mexico	28.53	00:58.96
47	H07 L8		Hong Kong	28.64	00:59.15
48	H07 L1	Ioannis Giannoulis	Greece	28.71	00:59.22
49	H04 L2		Indonesia	29.13	00:59.39
50	H06 L2	Sergey Pankov	Uzbekistan	29.17	00:59.99
51	H06 L4	Jared Heine	Marshall Islands	28.70	1:00.28
52	H07 L5	Rony Bakale	Republic of the Congo	29.06	1:00.44
53	H07 L7	Iurii Zakharov	Kyrgyzstan	29.03	1:00.64
54	H06 L3		Thailand	29.37	1:00.73
55	H04 L3		Cyprus	28.80	1:00.91
56	H06 L5	Yu An Lin	Chinese Taipei	29.17	1:00.95
57	H05 L2		India	29.81	1:00.98
58	H05 L7		Singapore	29.69	1:01.09
59	H05 L4	Gael Adam	Mauritius	29.55	1:01.15
60	H05 L1		Singapore	29.52	1:01.27
61	H05 L3		Guatemala	30.12	1:01.36
62	H05 L5		Iran	29.16	1:01.56
63	H04 L4	Souhaib Kalala	Syria	30.35	1:01.66
64	H05 L8		Morocco	29.65	1:01.78
65	H06 L7	Mario Montoya	Costa Rica	30.25	1:01.84
66	H03 L4		Saudi Arabia	30.45	1:01.87
67	H04 L7		Peru	30.36	1:02.03
68	H01 L4		Malaysia	29.82	1:02.32
69	H05 L6	Arjun Muralidharan	India	29.42	1:02.35
70	H02 L8	Roy-Allan Burch	Bermuda	29.33	1:02.72
71	H04 L6	Heshan Unamboowe	Sri Lanka	30.61	1:02.84
72	H04 L1		Malaysia	30.70	1:03.10
73	H03 L5		Senegal	31.03	1:03.23
74	H03 L1		Tahiti	31.56	1:04.66
75	H04 L5		Angola	31.34	1:05.55
76	H04 L8		Qatar	31.21	1:05.77
77	H02 L4	Andrey Molchanov	Turkmenistan	31.19	1:05.95
77	H03 L3	Tural Abbasov	Azerbaijan	30.79	1:05.95
79	H03 L6		Palestine	31.62	1:06.20
80	H03 L8		Macau	32.52	1:07.19
81	H03 L7		Madagascar	32.43	1:08.73
82	H02 L5		Guam	33.32	1:09.18
83	H02 L3		Guyana	32.80	1:10.05
84	H02 L6		Turkmenistan	33.19	1:12.50
85	H01 L6		Guyana	35.04	1:12.78
86	H02 L2		Brunei	36.81	1:15.39
87	H02 L7	Ibrahim Shameel	Maldives	39.24	1:24.63
88	H02 L1		Yemen	40.46	1:24.75
89	H01 L3	Boipelo Makhothi	Lesotho	42.61	1:32.14
90	H01 L5		Lesotho	43.00	1:35.01
999	H03 L2	Samson Opuakpo	Nigeria	999	DNS
999	H06 L1		Bangladesh	999	DNS

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "FINA World Championships Men's 100m Backstroke Heats Official Results" (PDF). FINA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 June 2007.
^ "FINA World Championships Men's 100m Backstroke Semifinals Official Results" (PDF). FINA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 April 2007.
^ "FINA World Championships Men's 100m Backstroke Final Official Results" (PDF). FINA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 July 2009.

[prelims-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b "FINA World Championships Men's 100m Backstroke Heats Official Results" (PDF). FINA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 June 2007.

[2] "FINA World Championships Men's 100m Backstroke Semifinals Official Results" (PDF). FINA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 April 2007.

[Men's_100m_Backstroke_Final-3] "FINA World Championships Men's 100m Backstroke Final Official Results" (PDF). FINA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 July 2009.

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