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Swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre backstroke

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Men's 50 metre backstroke
at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships
DatesJuly 30, 2011 (heats and semifinals)
July 31, 2011 (final)
Competitors43 from 38 nations
Winning time24.50
Medalists
gold medal    Great Britain
silver medal    France
bronze medal    South Africa
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The men's 50 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships was held on July 30 with the heats and the semifinals and July 31 with the final.

Records

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

Name Nation Time Location Date
World record
Championship record
Liam Tancock  United Kingdom 24.04 Rome August 2, 2009

Results

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Heats

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39 swimmers participated in 6 heats.[1]

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 5 Gerhard Zandberg  South Africa 24.72 Q
2 6 4 Camille Lacourt  France 25.03 Q
3 6 2 Helge Meeuw  Germany 25.04 Q
4 4 7 Flori Lang   Switzerland 25.12 Q
5 4 2 Aschwin Wildeboer  Spain 25.14 Q
6 6 5 Junya Koga  Japan 25.17 Q
7 4 3 Guy Barnea  Israel 25.18 Q
8 4 4 Nick Thoman  United States 25.22 Q
8 5 5 David Plummer  United States 25.22 Q
10 5 4 Liam Tancock  Great Britain 25.26 Q
10 5 1 Aristeidis Grigoriadis  Greece 25.26 Q
12 6 1 Mirco di Tora  Italy 25.28 Q
13 5 6 Hayden Stoeckel  Australia 25.29 Q
14 6 3 Ashley Delaney  Australia 25.33 Q
14 6 6 Bastiaan Lijesen  Netherlands 25.33 Q
16 5 8 Charles Francis  Canada 25.43 Q
17 5 3 Sun Xiaolei  China 25.44
18 5 7 Cheng Feiyi  China 25.52
19 4 1 Guilherme Guido  Brazil 25.58
20 5 2 Vitaly Borisov  Russia 25.60
21 4 8 Pavel Sankovich  Belarus 25.80
22 6 7 Daniel Bell  New Zealand 25.91
23 3 3 Roko Šimunić  Croatia 26.07
24 3 4 Pedro Medel  Cuba 26.08
25 6 8 Federico Grabich  Argentina 26.13
26 3 6 Jean-François Schneiders  Luxembourg 26.70
27 3 7 Oliver Elliot Banados  Chile 26.72 NR
28 3 1 Zane Jordan  Zambia 27.12
29 3 2 Boris Kirillov  Azerbaijan 27.25
30 2 4 Emile Bakale  Congo 28.34
31 3 8 Antonio Tong  Macau 28.46
32 2 5 Alban Laye-Joseph Diop  Senegal 29.02
33 1 3 Kerson Hadley  Micronesia 30.46
34 2 2 Ahmed Atari  Qatar 32.37
35 2 7 Husam Ahmed  Maldives 33.44
36 2 1 Mulualem Girma  Ethiopia 33.85
37 1 4 Phathana Inthavong  Laos 35.30
38 2 8 Mohamed Eltayeb  Sudan 35.98
39 1 5 Thierry Videgni  Benin 42.95
2 3 Adbulrahman Alishaq  Qatar DNS
2 6 Folarin Ogunsola  Gambia DNS
3 5 Omar Pinzón  Colombia DNS
4 6 Ryosuke Irie  Japan DNS

Semifinals

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The semifinals were held at 19:14.[2]

Semifinal 1

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Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 2 Liam Tancock  Great Britain 24.62 Q
2 4 Camille Lacourt  France 24.85 Q
3 6 Nick Thoman  United States 25.03 Q
4 5 Flori Lang   Switzerland 25.07 Q
5 3 Junya Koga  Japan 25.14
6 7 Mirco di Tora  Italy 25.40
7 1 Ashley Delaney  Australia 25.43
8 8 Charles Francis  Canada 25.56

Semifinal 2

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Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 Gerhard Zandberg  South Africa 24.91 Q
2 3 Aschwin Wildeboer  Spain 24.99 Q
3 2 David Plummer  United States 25.03 Q
4 6 Guy Barnea  Israel 25.09 Q
5 1 Hayden Stoeckel  Australia 25.20
6 5 Helge Meeuw  Germany 25.20
7 7 Aristeidis Grigoriadis  Greece 25.46
8 8 Bastiaan Lijesen  Netherlands 25.51

Final

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The final was held at 18:35.[3]

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) 4 Liam Tancock  Great Britain 24.50
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 5 Camille Lacourt  France 24.57
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 3 Gerhard Zandberg  South Africa 24.66
4 6 Aschwin Wildeboer  Spain 24.82
5 7 David Plummer  United States 24.92
6 2 Nick Thoman  United States 25.01
6 8 Guy Barnea  Israel 25.01
8 1 Flori Lang   Switzerland 25.15

References

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  1. ^ "2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre backstroke (heats)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 2011-07-29.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ "2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre backstroke (semifinals)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 2011-07-29.[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ "2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre backstroke (final)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 2011-07-31.[permanent dead link]
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