50 m Backstroke, Men

Competition 2009 World Aquatics Championships
Venue Roma ITA
Held 1 – 2 August 2009
Status Medal
Competitors 130
Countries 93
Pos Athlete(s) Country Preliminary Round Semi-Finals Final
πŸ₯‡ Liam Tancock GBR 24.55
(4 h15)		 24.08
(1 h1)		 24.04
(1 F)
πŸ₯ˆ Junya Koga JPN 24.57
(5 h15)		 24.29
(2 h2)		 24.24
(2 F)
πŸ₯‰ Gerhard Zandberg RSA 24.68
(7 h13)		 24.68
(6 h2)		 24.34
(3 F)
4 Aschwin Wildeboer ESP 24.50
(2 h14)		 24.48
(4 h1)		 24.57
(4 F)
5 Camille Lacourt FRA 24.52
(3 h13)		 24.46
(3 h2)		 24.61
(5 F)
6 Helge Meeuw GER 24.60
(6 h14)		 24.59
(5 h1)		 24.63
(6 F)
7 Aris Grigoriadis GRE 24.80
(11 h15)		 24.77
(=7 h2)		 24.87
(7 F)
8 Mirco Di Tora ITA 25.01
(16 h14)		 24.77
(=7 h1)		 25.15
(8 F)
9 Flori Lang SUI 24.75
(8 h14)		 24.78
(9 h1)		 β€”
10 Ryosuke Irie JPN 24.87
(12 h15)		 24.79
(10 h1)		 β€”
11 Juan Rando ESP 24.77
(9 h13)		 24.80
(11 h2)		 β€”
12 Guy Barnea ISR 24.79
(10 h14)		 24.81
(12 h1)		 β€”
13 Thomas Rupprath GER 24.92
(13 h15)		 24.87
(13 h2)		 β€”
14 Daniel Orzechowski BRA 24.97
(=14 h14)		 24.92
(14 h1)		 β€”
15 Guilherme Guido BRA 24.49
(1 h13)		 24.98
(15 h2)		 β€”
16 Ash Delaney AUS 24.97
(=14 h15)		 25.02
(16 h2)		 β€”
17 Nick Driebergen NED 25.08
(17 h14)		 β€” β€”
18 Enrico Catalano ITA 25.10
(18 h13)		 β€” β€”
19 Matt Grevers USA 25.13
(19 h15)		 β€” β€”
20 Pascal Wollach CAN 25.23
(20 h13)		 β€” β€”
21 Vytautas JanuΕ‘aitis LTU 25.24
(21 h11)		 β€” β€”
22 Aaron Peirsol USA 25.30
(22 h14)		 β€” β€”
23 Daniel Bell NZL 25.31
(23 h13)		 β€” β€”
24 Benjamin Stasiulis FRA 25.32
(24 h13)		 β€” β€”
25 Răzvan Florea ROU 25.34
(25 h14)		 β€” β€”
26 Arkady Vyatchanin RUS 25.36
(26 h15)		 β€” β€”
27 Charl Crous RSA 25.39
(27 h13)		 β€” β€”
28 Karl Burdis IRL 25.40
(28 h9)		 β€” β€”
29 Marco Loughran GBR 25.44
(29 h12)		 β€” β€”
30 Paval Sankovich BLR 25.53
(30 h12)		 β€” β€”
31 Stanislav Donets RUS 25.54
(31 h12)		 β€” β€”
32 Seong Min KOR 25.57
(32 h15)		 β€” β€”
33 Markus Rogan AUT 25.59
(33 h15)		 β€” β€”
34 Jake Tapp CAN 25.68
(34 h12)		 β€” β€”
35 Jeong Du-Hui KOR 25.77
(35 h10)		 β€” β€”
36 Bruno Claeys BEL 25.84
(36 h13)		 β€” β€”
37 Nadav Kochavi ISR 25.94
(37 h11)		 β€” β€”
38 Danil Bugakov UZB 25.97
(38 h12)		 β€” β€”
39 Cheng Feiyi CHN 26.01
(39 h12)		 β€” β€”
40 Derya BΓΌyΓΌkuncu TUR 26.07
(40 h11)		 β€” β€”
41 RadosΕ‚aw KawΔ™cki POL 26.08
(41 h14)		 β€” β€”
42 Andres Olvik EST 26.11
(42 h10)		 β€” β€”
43 Krzysztof Jankiewicz POL 26.19
(43 h12)		 β€” β€”
44 Donal O'Neill IRL 26.29
(44 h12)		 β€” β€”
45 Pedro Medel CUB 26.35
(45 h10)		 β€” β€”
46 TomÑő Fučík CZE 26.40
(46 h9)		 β€” β€”
47 Robert Ε½bogar SLO 26.41
(47 h10)		 β€” β€”
48 Zhang Yu CHN 26.42
(48 h11)		 β€” β€”
49 Jean-François Schneiders LUX 26.54
(49 h12)		 β€” β€”
50 David Dunford KEN 26.62
(50 h8)		 β€” β€”
51 Kaspar Raigla EST 26.63
(51 h9)		 β€” β€”
52 Erwin Dokter AUT 26.68
(52 h11)		 β€” β€”
53 Amine Kouame MAR 26.69
(53 h11)		 β€” β€”
54 Rainer Ng SGP 26.70
(54 h10)		 β€” β€”
55 Mindaugas Sadauskas LTU 26.71
(55 h7)		 β€” β€”
56 KonstantΔ«ns Blohins LAT 26.72
(56 h8)		 β€” β€”
57 Andrejs DΕ«da LAT 26.84
(57 h8)		 β€” β€”
58 Oliver Elliot CHI 26.94
(58 h9)		 β€” β€”
59 Nicholas James ZIM 27.01
(59 h7)		 β€” β€”
60 Stanislav Osinsky KAZ 27.06
(60 h11)		 β€” β€”
61 David RodrΓ­guez CUB 27.07
(61 h9)		 β€” β€”
=62 Miguel Robles MEX 27.10
(=62 h10)		 β€” β€”
=62 Christian Homer TTO 27.10
(=62 h9)		 β€” β€”
64 Artiom Gladun MDA 27.13
(64 h10)		 β€” β€”
65 NicolΓ‘s Francia URU 27.29
(65 h11)		 β€” β€”
66 Glenn Sutanto INA 27.32
(66 h11)		 β€” β€”
67 Geoffrey Cheah HKG 27.36
(67 h8)		 β€” β€”
=68 Đỗ Huy Long VIE 27.39
(=68 h8)		 β€” β€”
=68 Grant Beahan ZIM 27.39
(=68 h8)		 β€” β€”
70 Doğa Γ‡elik TUR 27.51
(70 h10)		 β€” β€”
71 Jean GΓ³mez DOM 27.58
(71 h7)		 β€” β€”
72 Kari HΓΈvdanum FAR 27.65
(72 h8)		 β€” β€”
73 Rony Bakale CGO 27.70
(73 h8)		 β€” β€”
74 Radomyos Matjiur THA 27.73
(74 h10)		 β€” β€”
=75 Fernando Castellanos GUA 27.83
(=75 h7)		 β€” β€”
=75 Heshan Unamboowe SRI 27.83
(=75 h7)		 β€” β€”
77 Yury Zakharov KGZ 27.94
(77 h10)		 β€” β€”
78 Zane Jordan ZAM 27.95
(78 h6)		 β€” β€”
79 Mohammed Al-Ghaferi UAE 28.05
(79 h6)		 β€” β€”
80 Antonio Tong MAC 28.15
(80 h8)		 β€” β€”
81 Boris Kirillov AZE 28.36
(81 h6)		 β€” β€”
82 Byron Briedenhann NAM 28.38
(82 h6)		 β€” β€”
83 Brett Fraser CAY 28.47
(83 h6)		 β€” β€”
84 JoΓ£o Matias ANG 28.48
(84 h7)		 β€” β€”
=85 Khachik Plavchyan ARM 28.57
(=85 h7)		 β€” β€”
=85 Samson Opuakpo NGR 28.57
(=85 h5)		 β€” β€”
87 Tsung Chao-Lin TPE 28.62
(87 h9)		 β€” β€”
88 Abbas Raad LBN 28.70
(88 h6)		 β€” β€”
89 Mario Montoya CRC 28.85
(89 h6)		 β€” β€”
90 Erik Rajohnson MAD 28.90
(90 h9)		 β€” β€”
91 Marcelino Richaards SUR 29.16
(91 h6)		 β€” β€”
92 Ronny Vencatachellum MRI 29.18
(92 h5)		 β€” β€”
93 Tural Abbasov AZE 29.28
(93 h7)		 β€” β€”
94 Faiz Muhammad PAK 29.33
(94 h5)		 β€” β€”
95 Nicholas Coard GRN 29.60
(95 h5)		 β€” β€”
96 Matar Samb SEN 29.61
(96 h5)		 β€” β€”
97 Jean-Luc Augier LCA 29.66
(97 h4)		 β€” β€”
98 Kerson Hadley FSM 29.71
(98 h3)		 β€” β€”
99 Kailan Staal NMI 29.75
(99 h4)		 β€” β€”
100 Andrey Molchanov TKM 29.76
(100 h3)		 β€” β€”
101 Mark Sammut MLT 29.82
(101 h5)		 β€” β€”
=102 Ngou Pok Man MAC 29.99
(=102 h12)		 β€” β€”
=102 Heimanu Sichan FPN 29.99
(=102 h5)		 β€” β€”
104 Rainui Teriipaia-Rentier FPN 30.15
(104 h5)		 β€” β€”
105 Milimo Mweetwa ZAM 30.18
(105 h4)		 β€” β€”
106 Ivo Chilaule MOZ 30.35
(106 h2)		 β€” β€”
107 Batsaikhanyn DΓΆlgΓΆΓΆn MGL 30.41
(107 h6)		 β€” β€”
108 Peter Pokawin PNG 30.56
(108 h4)		 β€” β€”
109 Carlos Alberto ANG 30.64
(109 h4)		 β€” β€”
110 Perelate Gbagi NGR 30.83
(110 h4)		 β€” β€”
111 Douglas Miller FIJ 30.95
(111 h3)		 β€” β€”
112 Mathieu Marquet MRI 31.18
(112 h4)		 β€” β€”
113 Gary Pineda GUA 31.46
(113 h3)		 β€” β€”
114 Juan Carlos Sikaffy HON 31.47
(114 h4)		 β€” β€”
115 Henk Lowe GUY 31.53
(115 h1)		 β€” β€”
116 Danny Pryke PNG 31.55
(116 h3)		 β€” β€”
117 Timur Atahanov TKM 31.58
(117 h3)		 β€” β€”
118 Patrick Vera MOZ 31.66
(118 h7)		 β€” β€”
119 Kent Chung Siu BRU 31.74
(119 h3)		 β€” β€”
120 Mario Sulkja ALB 31.88
(120 h5)		 β€” β€”
121 Saif Alaslam Al-Saadi IRQ 32.22
(121 h2)		 β€” β€”
122 Jake Villarreal MHL 32.26
(122 h2)		 β€” β€”
123 Elaijie Erasito FIJ 32.82
(123 h3)		 β€” β€”
124 Quenton Dupont SWZ 33.07
(124 h2)		 β€” β€”
125 Mohamed Mujahid MDV 34.06
(125 h2)		 β€” β€”
126 Ibrahim Shameel MDV 34.66
(126 h2)		 β€” β€”
127 Omar Abdalla TAN 37.84
(127 h2)		 β€” β€”
128 Alain Nsumizi BDI 39.17
(128 h3)		 β€” β€”
129 Said Seba TAN 43.64
(129 h1)		 β€” β€”
130 Isidore Kpobli BEN 46.10
(130 h1)		 β€” β€”
DNS Alejandro JacoboDNS MEX β€”
(DNS h1)		 β€” β€”
DNS Mohamed BanguraDNS SLE β€”
(DNS h1)		 β€” β€”
DNS Abdul Kader HousseinDNS DJI β€”
(DNS h2)		 β€” β€”
DNS Yves HabonimanaDNS BDI β€”
(DNS h2)		 β€” β€”
DNS Houmed Hassan AliDNS DJI β€”
(DNS h2)		 β€” β€”
DNS Branden WhitehurstDNS ISV β€”
(DNS h3)		 β€” β€”
DNS Hocine HacianeDNS AND β€”
(DNS h4)		 β€” β€”
DNS Bilal AchalhiDNS MAR β€”
(DNS h5)		 β€” β€”
DNS Nicholas ThomsonDNS BER β€”
(DNS h6)		 β€” β€”
DNS Charles WalkerDNS PHI β€”
(DNS h8)		 β€” β€”
DNS Omar PinzΓ³nDNS COL β€”
(DNS h9)		 β€” β€”
DNS Albert SubiratsDNS VEN β€”
(DNS h11)		 β€” β€”
DNS Brett FraserDNS CAY β€”
(DNS h6)		 β€” β€”
DNS Mario MontoyaDNS CRC β€”
(DNS h5)		 β€” β€”
DNS Nicholas ThomsonDNS BER β€”
(DNS h7)		 β€” β€”

Preliminary Round

Heat 1

Pos Athlete(s) Country Mark
115 Henk Lowe GUY 31.53
129 Said Seba TAN 43.64
130 Isidore Kpobli BEN 46.10
DNS Alejandro JacoboDNS MEX β€”
DNS Mohamed BanguraDNS SLE β€”

Heat 10

Pos Athlete(s) Country Mark
35 Jeong Du-Hui KOR 25.77
42 Andres Olvik EST 26.11
45 Pedro Medel CUB 26.35
47 Robert Ε½bogar SLO 26.41
54 Rainer Ng SGP 26.70
=62 Miguel Robles MEX 27.10
64 Artiom Gladun MDA 27.13
70 Doğa Γ‡elik TUR 27.51
74 Radomyos Matjiur THA 27.73
77 Yury Zakharov KGZ 27.94

Heat 11

Pos Athlete(s) Country Mark
21 Vytautas JanuΕ‘aitis LTU 25.24
37 Nadav Kochavi ISR 25.94
40 Derya BΓΌyΓΌkuncu TUR 26.07
48 Zhang Yu CHN 26.42
52 Erwin Dokter AUT 26.68
53 Amine Kouame MAR 26.69
60 Stanislav Osinsky KAZ 27.06
65 NicolΓ‘s Francia URU 27.29
66 Glenn Sutanto INA 27.32
DNS Albert SubiratsDNS VEN β€”

Heat 12

Pos Athlete(s) Country Mark
29 Marco Loughran GBR 25.44
30 Paval Sankovich BLR 25.53
31 Stanislav Donets RUS 25.54
34 Jake Tapp CAN 25.68
38 Danil Bugakov UZB 25.97
39 Cheng Feiyi CHN 26.01
43 Krzysztof Jankiewicz POL 26.19
44 Donal O'Neill IRL 26.29
49 Jean-François Schneiders LUX 26.54
=102 Ngou Pok Man MAC 29.99

Heat 13

Pos Athlete(s) Country Mark
1 Guilherme Guido BRA 24.49
3 Camille Lacourt FRA 24.52
7 Gerhard Zandberg RSA 24.68
9 Juan Rando ESP 24.77
18 Enrico Catalano ITA 25.10
20 Pascal Wollach CAN 25.23
23 Daniel Bell NZL 25.31
24 Benjamin Stasiulis FRA 25.32
27 Charl Crous RSA 25.39
36 Bruno Claeys BEL 25.84

Heat 14

Pos Athlete(s) Country Mark
2 Aschwin Wildeboer ESP 24.50
6 Helge Meeuw GER 24.60
8 Flori Lang SUI 24.75
10 Guy Barnea ISR 24.79
=14 Daniel Orzechowski BRA 24.97
16 Mirco Di Tora ITA 25.01
17 Nick Driebergen NED 25.08
22 Aaron Peirsol USA 25.30
25 Răzvan Florea ROU 25.34
41 RadosΕ‚aw KawΔ™cki POL 26.08

Heat 15

Pos Athlete(s) Country Mark
4 Liam Tancock GBR 24.55
5 Junya Koga JPN 24.57
11 Aris Grigoriadis GRE 24.80
12 Ryosuke Irie JPN 24.87
13 Thomas Rupprath GER 24.92
=14 Ash Delaney AUS 24.97
19 Matt Grevers USA 25.13
26 Arkady Vyatchanin RUS 25.36
32 Seong Min KOR 25.57
33 Markus Rogan AUT 25.59

Heat 2

Pos Athlete(s) Country Mark
106 Ivo Chilaule MOZ 30.35
121 Saif Alaslam Al-Saadi IRQ 32.22
122 Jake Villarreal MHL 32.26
124 Quenton Dupont SWZ 33.07
125 Mohamed Mujahid MDV 34.06
126 Ibrahim Shameel MDV 34.66
127 Omar Abdalla TAN 37.84
DNS Abdul Kader HousseinDNS DJI β€”
DNS Yves HabonimanaDNS BDI β€”
DNS Houmed Hassan AliDNS DJI β€”

Heat 3

Pos Athlete(s) Country Mark
98 Kerson Hadley FSM 29.71
100 Andrey Molchanov TKM 29.76
111 Douglas Miller FIJ 30.95
113 Gary Pineda GUA 31.46
116 Danny Pryke PNG 31.55
117 Timur Atahanov TKM 31.58
119 Kent Chung Siu BRU 31.74
123 Elaijie Erasito FIJ 32.82
128 Alain Nsumizi BDI 39.17
DNS Branden WhitehurstDNS ISV β€”

Heat 4

Pos Athlete(s) Country Mark
97 Jean-Luc Augier LCA 29.66
99 Kailan Staal NMI 29.75
105 Milimo Mweetwa ZAM 30.18
108 Peter Pokawin PNG 30.56
109 Carlos Alberto ANG 30.64
110 Perelate Gbagi NGR 30.83
112 Mathieu Marquet MRI 31.18
114 Juan Carlos Sikaffy HON 31.47
DNS Hocine HacianeDNS AND β€”

Heat 5

Pos Athlete(s) Country Mark
=85 Samson Opuakpo NGR 28.57
92 Ronny Vencatachellum MRI 29.18
94 Faiz Muhammad PAK 29.33
95 Nicholas Coard GRN 29.60
96 Matar Samb SEN 29.61
101 Mark Sammut MLT 29.82
=102 Heimanu Sichan FPN 29.99
104 Rainui Teriipaia-Rentier FPN 30.15
120 Mario Sulkja ALB 31.88
DNS Bilal AchalhiDNS MAR β€”
DNS Mario MontoyaDNS CRC β€”

Heat 6

Pos Athlete(s) Country Mark
78 Zane Jordan ZAM 27.95
79 Mohammed Al-Ghaferi UAE 28.05
81 Boris Kirillov AZE 28.36
82 Byron Briedenhann NAM 28.38
83 Brett Fraser CAY 28.47
88 Abbas Raad LBN 28.70
89 Mario Montoya CRC 28.85
91 Marcelino Richaards SUR 29.16
107 Batsaikhanyn DΓΆlgΓΆΓΆn MGL 30.41
DNS Nicholas ThomsonDNS BER β€”
DNS Brett FraserDNS CAY β€”

Heat 7

Pos Athlete(s) Country Mark
55 Mindaugas Sadauskas LTU 26.71
59 Nicholas James ZIM 27.01
71 Jean GΓ³mez DOM 27.58
=75 Fernando Castellanos GUA 27.83
=75 Heshan Unamboowe SRI 27.83
84 JoΓ£o Matias ANG 28.48
=85 Khachik Plavchyan ARM 28.57
93 Tural Abbasov AZE 29.28
118 Patrick Vera MOZ 31.66
DNS Nicholas ThomsonDNS BER β€”

Heat 8

Pos Athlete(s) Country Mark
50 David Dunford KEN 26.62
56 KonstantΔ«ns Blohins LAT 26.72
57 Andrejs DΕ«da LAT 26.84
67 Geoffrey Cheah HKG 27.36
=68 Đỗ Huy Long VIE 27.39
=68 Grant Beahan ZIM 27.39
72 Kari HΓΈvdanum FAR 27.65
73 Rony Bakale CGO 27.70
80 Antonio Tong MAC 28.15
DNS Charles WalkerDNS PHI β€”

Heat 9

Pos Athlete(s) Country Mark
28 Karl Burdis IRL 25.40
46 TomÑő Fučík CZE 26.40
51 Kaspar Raigla EST 26.63
58 Oliver Elliot CHI 26.94
61 David RodrΓ­guez CUB 27.07
=62 Christian Homer TTO 27.10
87 Tsung Chao-Lin TPE 28.62
90 Erik Rajohnson MAD 28.90
DNS Omar PinzΓ³nDNS COL β€”

Semi-Finals

Heat 1

Pos Athlete(s) Country Mark
1 Liam Tancock GBR 24.08
4 Aschwin Wildeboer ESP 24.48
5 Helge Meeuw GER 24.59
=7 Mirco Di Tora ITA 24.77
9 Flori Lang SUI 24.78
10 Ryosuke Irie JPN 24.79
12 Guy Barnea ISR 24.81
14 Daniel Orzechowski BRA 24.92

Heat 2

Pos Athlete(s) Country Mark
2 Junya Koga JPN 24.29
3 Camille Lacourt FRA 24.46
6 Gerhard Zandberg RSA 24.68
=7 Aris Grigoriadis GRE 24.77
11 Juan Rando ESP 24.80
13 Thomas Rupprath GER 24.87
15 Guilherme Guido BRA 24.98
16 Ash Delaney AUS 25.02

Final

Pos Athlete(s) Country Mark
1 Liam Tancock GBR 24.04
2 Junya Koga JPN 24.24
3 Gerhard Zandberg RSA 24.34
4 Aschwin Wildeboer ESP 24.57
5 Camille Lacourt FRA 24.61
6 Helge Meeuw GER 24.63
7 Aris Grigoriadis GRE 24.87
8 Mirco Di Tora ITA 25.15