Swimming at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre backstroke

The Men's 50 metre backstroke competition at the 2019 World Championships was held on 27 and 28 July 2019.[1][2]

Men's 50 metre backstroke at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Nambu University Municipal Aquatics Center
Location	Gwangju, South Korea
Dates	27 July (heats and semifinals) 28 July (final)
Competitors	74 from 67 nations
Winning time	24.43
Medalists
Zane Waddell    South Africa   Evgeny Rylov    Russia   Kliment Kolesnikov    Russia

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

World record	Kliment Kolesnikov (RUS)	24.00	Glasgow, United Kingdom	4 August 2018
Competition record	Liam Tancock (GBR)	24.04	Rome, Italy	2 August 2009

Results

Heats

The heats were held on 27 July at 10:23.[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	8	4	Kliment Kolesnikov	Russia	24.61	Q
2	7	5	Michael Andrew	United States	24.70	Q
3	8	3	Jérémy Stravius	France	24.78	Q
4	7	6	Zane Waddell	South Africa	24.84	Q
5	6	5	Xu Jiayu	China	24.87	Q
6	6	4	Ryan Murphy	United States	24.93	Q
7	5	6	Mohamed Samy	Egypt	24.95	Q, NR
8	6	2	Guilherme Guido	Brazil	24.98	Q
9	7	4	Robert Glință	Romania	25.00	Q
9	8	7	Apostolos Christou	Greece	25.00	Q
11	8	5	Shane Ryan	Ireland	25.10	WD
12	6	6	Jonatan Kopelev	Israel	25.11	Q
12	7	3	Mikita Tsmyh	Belarus	25.11	Q
14	8	6	Richárd Bohus	Hungary	25.12	Q
15	8	2	Evgeny Rylov	Russia	25.16	Q
16	7	2	Michael Laitarovsky	Israel	25.26	Q
17	7	7	Simone Sabbioni	Italy	25.28	Q
18	8	8	Gábor Balog	Hungary	25.29
19	7	0	Tomasz Polewka	Poland	25.31
20	6	3	Mitch Larkin	Australia	25.33
21	7	8	Thierry Bollin	Switzerland	25.37
22	5	4	Lee Ju-ho	South Korea	25.42
23	6	1	Juan Segura	Spain	25.46
24	5	2	Quah Zheng Wen	Singapore	25.50
24	8	1	Bernhard Reitshammer	Austria	25.50
26	6	0	Thomas Ceccon	Italy	25.58
26	6	8	Nicholas Pyle	Great Britain	25.58
28	6	7	Conor Ferguson	Ireland	25.60
29	5	3	Charles Hockin	Paraguay	25.62
30	5	5	Alexis Santos	Portugal	25.68
31	6	9	Tomáš Franta	Czech Republic	25.69
32	5	1	Nguyen Paul Le	Vietnam	25.73
33	8	9	Wang Peng	China	25.79
34	4	6	Srihari Nataraj	India	25.83	NR
35	4	2	Merdan Ataýew	Turkmenistan	25.84
36	4	7	Kristofer Rogic	Croatia	25.91
37	4	3	Metin Aydin	Turkey	25.95
37	5	7	Emir Muratović	Bosnia and Herzegovina	25.95
39	5	0	Karl Johann Luht	Estonia	25.97
40	4	4	Chuang Mu-lun	Chinese Taipei	25.99
41	7	1	I Gede Siman Sudartawa	Indonesia	26.00
42	4	1	Driss Lahrichi	Morocco	26.12
42	5	8	Tern Jian Han	Malaysia	26.12
44	4	8	Kristinn Þórarinsson	Iceland	26.42
44	4	9	Ģirts Feldbergs	Latvia	26.42
46	3	6	Steven Aimable	Senegal	26.48
46	7	9	Robinson Molina	Venezuela	26.48
48	4	0	Jack Kirby	Barbados	26.52
49	5	9	Armando Barrera	Cuba	26.53
50	2	1	Ali Al-Zamil	Kuwait	26.79
51	3	1	Jason Arthur	Ghana	26.84
52	3	2	Gabriel Castillo	Bolivia	26.94
53	4	5	Kasipat Chograthin	Thailand	26.95
54	3	5	Filippos Iakovidis	Cyprus	27.00
55	3	4	Dimuth Peiris	Sri Lanka	27.18
56	1	3	Ghirmai Efrem	Eritrea	27.96
57	3	3	Bradley Vincent	Mauritius	27.97
58	1	5	Delron Felix	Grenada	28.15
59	3	7	Eisner Barberena	Nicaragua	28.25
60	3	8	Ado Gargović	Montenegro	28.27
61	2	7	Omar Alrowaila	Bahrain	28.57
63	2	8	Juhn Tenorio	Northern Mariana Islands	29.42
62	2	2	Juwel Ahmmed	Bangladesh	29.33
64	2	4	Tendo Mukalazi	Uganda	29.70
65	3	0	Leon Seaton	Guyana	29.92
66	2	0	Alassane Lancina	Niger	30.01
67	3	9	Santisouk Inthavong	Laos	30.75
68	2	5	Olimjon Ishanov	Tajikistan	31.51
69	1	2	Samuele Rossi	Seychelles	31.67
70	2	3	Alie Kamara	Sierra Leone	34.66
71	2	9	Houmed Barkat	Djibouti	37.03
72	1	6	Hollingsword Wolul	Vanuatu	38.67
73	2	6	Hedayatullah Noorzad	Afghanistan	39.09
74	1	4	Phillip Kinono	Marshall Islands	41.27
	8	0	Tomoe Zenimoto Hvas	Norway	DNS

Semifinals

The semifinals were started on 27 July at 21:08.[4]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Evgeny Rylov	Russia	24.56	Q
2	3	Ryan Murphy	United States	24.64	Q
3	5	Zane Waddell	South Africa	24.72	Q
4	4	Michael Andrew	United States	24.76	Q
5	2	Apostolos Christou	Greece	24.76	Q, NR
6	6	Guilherme Guido	Brazil	24.87
7	8	Simone Sabbioni	Italy	25.06
8	7	Mikita Tsmyh	Belarus	25.12

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Kliment Kolesnikov	Russia	24.35	Q
2	2	Robert Glință	Romania	24.53	Q
3	3	Xu Jiayu	China	24.73	Q
4	1	Richárd Bohus	Hungary	24.88
5	5	Jérémy Stravius	France	24.98
6	8	Michael Laitarovsky	Israel	25.01
7	7	Jonatan Kopelev	Israel	25.02
8	6	Mohamed Samy	Egypt	25.16

Final

The final was held on 28 July at 20:02.[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	2	Zane Waddell	South Africa	24.43
	3	Evgeny Rylov	Russia	24.49
	4	Kliment Kolesnikov	Russia	24.51
4	6	Ryan Murphy	United States	24.53
5	1	Michael Andrew	United States	24.58
6	7	Xu Jiayu	China	24.64
7	5	Robert Glință	Romania	24.67
8	8	Apostolos Christou	Greece	24.75	NR

References

1. Schedule
2. Start list
3. Heats results
4. Semifinals results
5. Final results