Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre backstroke

Men's 100 metre backstroke at the 2009 FINA World Championships
Venue	Foro Italico
Dates	27 July 2009 (heats, semifinals) 28 July 2009 (final)
Competitors	121
Winning time	52.26 seconds
Medalists
Junya Koga    Japan   Helge Meeuw    Germany   Aschwin Wildeboer    Spain
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The men's 100 metre backstroke at the 2009 World Championships took place Monday 27 July (prelims and semifinals) and on the evening of Tuesday 28 July (final) at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy.

Records[]

The existing records at the start of the event were:

World Record (WR)
51.94	Aaron Peirsol	Indianapolis	8 July 2009
Championships Record (CR)
52.98	Aaron Peirsol	Melbourne	27 March 2007

Results[]

Heats[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Heat	Lane	Notes
1	Aschwin Wildeboer	Spain	52.93	12	4	CR, =NR
2	Ryosuke Irie	Japan	53.00	11	4
3	Liam Tancock	Great Britain	53.08	11	3	NR
3	Junya Koga	Japan	53.08	13	5
3	Aaron Peirsol	USA	53.08	13	4
6	Helge Meeuw	Germany	53.28	13	3
7	Ashley Delaney	Australia	53.33	12	6
8	Markus Rogan	Austria	53.62	11	2
9	Jérémy Stravius	France	53.67	12	3
10	Arkady Vyatchanin	Russia	53.73	11	5
11	Mirco di Tora	Italy	53.77	12	7	NR
12	Juan Miguel Rando	Spain	53.89	10	0
12	Stanislav Donets	Russia	53.89	11	6
14	Nicolaas Driebergen	Netherlands	53.94	10	5	NR
14	Aristeidis Grigoriadis	Greece	53.94	13	2
16	Matt Grevers	USA	54.04	12	5
17	Pascal Wollach	Canada	54.08	12	2
18	Guilherme Guido	Brazil	54.17	13	7
19	Benjamin Stasiulis	Lithuania	54.18	13	6
20	George Du Rand	South Africa	54.29	11	8
21	Răzvan Florea	Romania	54.47	13	1
22	Guy Barnea	Israel	54.51	13	8
23	Daniel Bell	New Zealand	54.58	13	0
24	Marco Loughran	Great Britain	54.61	11	1
25		Brazil	54.64	12	1
26	Radosław Kawęcki	Poland	54.66	11	0	NR
27		South Africa	54.67	10	6
28		Ireland	54.74	10	9	NR
29	Damiano Lestingi	Italy	54.77	11	7
30	Omar Pinzón	Colombia	54.97	11	9	NR
31	Jake Tapp	Canada	54.99	12	0
32	Robert Hurley	Australia	55.18	12	8
33	He Jianbin	China	55.24	10	7
34	Sung Min	South Korea	55.39	12	9
35	Cheng Feiyi	China	55.52	13	9
36	Sebastian Stoss	Austria	55.57	9	6
37	Derya Büyükuncu	Turkey	55.78	10	4
38	Flori Lang	Switzerland	55.84	10	3
39	Tomas Fucik	Czech Republic	56.10	8	7
39		Ukraine	56.10	10	1
41	Itai Chammah	Israel	56.15	1	5
41	Donal O'Neill	Ireland	56.15	10	8
43		Poland	56.23	10	2
44		Belgium	56.34	9	4
45	Andres Olvik	Estonia	56.37	8	2	NR
46	Dimitrios Chasiotis	Greece	56.58	9	1
47	Pedro Oliveira	Portugal	56.69	9	8
48	Danil Bugakov	Uzbekistan	56.77	9	3
49		Romania	56.80	8	1
50	Martin Liivamägi	Estonia	57.00	8	8
51	Stanislav Osinsky	Kazakhstan	57.02	8	5
52	Pedro Medel	Cuba	57.03	9	2
53	Miguel Robles	Mexico	57.14	9	7
54		Slovenia	57.45	8	3
55		Luxembourg	57.49	8	4
56		Latvia	57.68	7	6
57		Algeria	57.81	7	5	NR
58		Morocco	57.95	7	8	NR
59	Andrejs Dūda	Latvia	58.00	7	2
60	Raphael Stacchiotti	Luxembourg	58.03	9	0
61	Glenn Victor Sutanto	Indonesia	58.29	7	7
62		Singapore	58.57	7	4
63		Hong Kong	58.69	7	3
64		Cuba	58.70	7	1
65		Vietnam	58.79	7	0
66		Chinese Taipei	58.93	8	9
67		Uruguay	58.94	9	5
68		Moldova	58.97	9	9
69	Rony Bakale	Republic of the Congo	59.10	6	6
70	Yury Zaharov	Kyrgyzstan	59.13	8	6
71		Moldova	59.16	6	3
72		Sri Lanka	59.47	4	9
73		Morocco	59.49	5	1
74		Dominican Republic	1:00.16	6	7
75		Turkey	1:00.22	8	0
76		Armenia	1:00.31	6	5
77		Zimbabwe	1:00.34	5	5
78	Boris Kirillov	Azerbaijan	1:00.44	5	8
79	Radomyos Matjiur	Thailand	1:00.61	6	4
80		Namibia	1:00.85	5	9
81		India	1:00.90	5	3
82		United Arab Emirates	1:01.18	5	6
83		Macau	1:01.41	5	4
84		Suriname	1:01.65	4	5
85		United States Virgin Islands	1:01.69	4	2
86		Faroe Islands	1:01.70	6	1
87		Guatemala	1:01.92	3	4
88		San Marino	1:02.18	5	0
89		Saudi Arabia	1:02.28	6	2
90		Bolivia	1:02.87	3	5
91		Lebanon	1:03.28	6	9
92		Macau	1:03.69	4	7
93		India	1:03.74	6	8
94	Samson Opuakpo	Nigeria	1:03.81	3	1
95		American Samoa	1:03.86	3	9
96	Javier Hernandez Maradiaga	Honduras	1:03.98	6	0
97		Grenada	1:04.02	4	1
98	Ronny Vencatachellum	Mauritius	1:04.11	4	8
99	Tural Abbasov	Azerbaijan	1:04.47	5	7
100		Senegal	1:04.71	5	2
101		Malta	1:05.08	4	3
102	Edward Caruana Dingli	Malta	1:05.43	3	7
103	Vincent Perry	French Polynesia	1:05.72	4	6
104		Honduras	1:06.01	3	8
105		Mongolia	1:06.96	4	0
106	Mathieu Marquet	Mauritius	1:07.26	2	4
107	Sidni Hoxha	Albania	1:08.15	4	4
108		Iraq	1:08.21	1	4
109	Paul Elaisa	Fiji	1:08.81	2	8
110		Brunei	1:08.98	3	2
111		Angola	1:09.14	2	3
112		Turkmenistan	1:09.42	2	2
112		Guatemala	1:09.42	3	0
114		Nigeria	1:10.45	2	6
115		Fiji	1:11.00	2	7
116		Libya	1:16.32	2	1
117		Maldives	1:19.06	2	0
—		Albania	DNS	2	5
—	Hocine Haciane	Andorra	DNS	3	6
—	Brett Fraser	Cayman Islands	DNS	7	9
—	Faiz Muhammad	Pakistan	DSQ	3	3

Semifinals[]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	5	Junya Koga	Japan	52.39	CR, AS
2	1	3	Helge Meeuw	Germany	52.49	NR
3	1	4	Ryosuke Irie	Japan	52.73
4	2	4	Aschwin Wildeboer	Spain	52.76	NR
5	1	8	Matt Grevers	United States	52.82
6	2	8	Aristeidis Grigoriadis	Greece	53.03	NR
7	1	2	Arkady Vyatchanin	Russia	53.11
8	2	5	Liam Tancock	Great Britain	53.12
9	2	3	Aaron Peirsol	United States	53.22
10	2	6	Ashley Delaney	Australia	53.24
11	1	6	Markus Rogan	Austria	53.40
12	2	2	Jérémy Stravius	France	53.82
13	2	7	Mirco di Tora	Italy	53.88
14	1	1	Nicolaas Driebergen	Netherlands	53.92	NR
15	1	7	Juan Miguel Rando	Spain	54.13
16	2	1	Stanislav Donets	Russia	54.24

Final[]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Junya Koga	Japan	52.26	CR, AS
	5	Helge Meeuw	Germany	52.54
	6	Aschwin Wildeboer	Spain	52.64
4	3	Ryosuke Irie	Japan	52.73
4	8	Liam Tancock	Great Britain	52.73	NR
6	1	Arkady Vyatchanin	Russia	52.87	NR
7	2	Matt Grevers	United States	53.14
8	7	Aristeidis Grigoriadis	Greece	53.43

See also[]

• Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre backstroke
• Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre backstroke

References[]

• Worlds 2009 results: Men's 100m Back Heats; published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '09 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-28.
• Worlds 2009 results: Men's 100m Back Semifinals; published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '09 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-28.
• Worlds 2009 results: Men's 100m Back Final; published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '09 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-28.