Swimming at the 2018 Asian Games – Men's 100 metre backstroke

Men's 100 metre backstroke
at the 2018 Asian Games
Men's 100 metre backstroke ; at the 2018 Asian Games
Venue
Date	19 August
Competitors	28 from 17 nations
Medalists
	← 2014 →

The men's 100 metre backstroke event at the 2018 Asian Games took place on 19 August at the .^[1]^[2]^[3]

Schedule[]

All times are Western Indonesia Time (UTC+07:00)

Date	Time	Event
Sunday, 19 August 2018	09:53	Heats
Sunday, 19 August 2018	18:55	Final

Prior to this competition, the existing world, Asian and Games records were as follows.

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Time
1	4	Xu Jiayu (CHN)	53.60
2	3	Ryosuke Irie (JPN)	53.85
3	4	Li Guangyuan (CHN)	54.34
4	2	Masaki Kaneko (JPN)	54.81
5	3	Lee Ju-ho (KOR)	55.03
6	2	Paul Lê Nguyễn (VIE)	55.47
7	4	I Gede Siman Sudartawa (INA)	55.48
8	1	Srihari Nataraj (IND)	55.86
9	4	(SGP)	56.09
10	3	Merdan Ataýew (TKM)	56.20
11	2	Kang Ji-seok (KOR)	56.24
12	2	(TPE)	56.56
13	3	Ricky Anggawijaya (INA)	57.33
14	3	(MAS)	57.71
15	4	(TPE)	57.83
16	1	(IND)	58.09
17	3	(HKG)	58.38
18	2	Kasipat Chograthin (THA)	58.55
19	4	(HKG)	59.14
20	4	Haseeb Tariq (PAK)	59.20
21	2	Abdulaziz Al-Obaidly (QAT)	1:02.28
22	4	(MAC)	1:02.63
23	3	(MGL)	1:03.80
24	3	(MGL)	1:05.43
25	2	(PAK)	1:05.51
26	1	(QAT)	1:08.62
27	1	(MDV)	1:10.03
28	1	(MDV)	1:13.65

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
	Xu Jiayu (CHN)	52.34	=GR
	Ryosuke Irie (JPN)	52.53
	Lee Ju-ho (KOR)	54.52
4	Masaki Kaneko (JPN)	54.61
5	Li Guangyuan (CHN)	55.01
6	Paul Lê Nguyễn (VIE)	55.72
7	Srihari Nataraj (IND)	56.19
8	I Gede Siman Sudartawa (INA)	58.82