Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre backstroke

Men's 50 metre backstroke at the 2009 FINA World Championships
Venue	Foro Italico
Dates	1 August 2009 (heats, semifinals) 2 August 2009 (final)
Competitors	142
Winning time	24.04 seconds
Medalists
Liam Tancock   Great Britain   Junya Koga   Japan   Gerhard Zandberg   South Africa

Main article: Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships

The heats for the men's 50 metre backstroke race at the 2009 World Championships took place in the morning and evening of 1 August, with the final in the evening session of 2 August at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and competition records were as follows:

World record	Randall Bal (USA)	24.33	Eindhoven, Netherlands	5 December 2008
Championship record	Thomas Rupprath (GER)	24.80	Barcelona, Spain	27 July 2003

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
1 August	Heat 13	Guilherme Guido	Brazil	24.49	CR
1 August	Semifinal 1	Liam Tancock	Great Britain	24.08	WR
2 August	Final	Liam Tancock	Great Britain	24.04	WR

Results

Heats

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Heat	Lane	Notes
1	Guilherme Guido	Brazil	24.49	13	4	CR, SA
2	Aschwin Wildeboer	Spain	24.50	14	5	NR
3	Camille Lacourt	France	24.52	13	5	NR
4	Liam Tancock	Great Britain	24.55	15	8
5	Junya Koga	Japan	24.57	15	4
6	Helge Meeuw	Germany	24.60	14	4	NR
7	Gerhard Zandberg	South Africa	24.68	13	8	AF
8	Flori Lang	Switzerland	24.75	14	3	NR
9	Juan Miguel Rando	Spain	24.77	13	3
10	Guy Barnea	Israel	24.79	14	9
11	Aristeidis Grigoriadis	Greece	24.80	15	7
12	Ryosuke Irie	Japan	24.87	15	6
13	Thomas Rupprath	Germany	24.92	15	5
14	Daniel Orzechowski	Brazil	24.97	14	8
14	Ashley Delaney	Australia	24.97	15	3
16	Mirco Di Tora	Italy	25.01	14	6
17	Nick Driebergen	Netherlands	25.08	14	7	NR
18	Enrico Catalano	Italy	25.10	13	7
19	Matt Grevers	USA	25.13	15	1
20	Pascal Wollach	Canada	25.23	13	3	NR
21	Vytautas Janušaitis	Lithuania	25.24	11	5	NR
22	Aaron Peirsol	USA	25.30	14	1
23	Daniel Bell	New Zealand	25.31	13	2
24	Benjamin Stasiulis	France	25.32	13	6
25	Răzvan Florea	Romania	25.34	14	2
26	Arkady Vyatchanin	Russia	25.36	15	2
27	Charl Van Zyl	South Africa	25.39	13	0
28	Karl Burdis	Ireland	25.40	9	6	NR
29	Marco Loughran	Great Britain	25.44	12	6
30	Pavel Sankovich	Belarus	25.53	12	3
31	Stanislav Donets	Russia	25.54	12	4
32	Sung Min	South Korea	25.57	15	0
33	Markus Rogan	Austria	25.59	15	9
34	Jake Tapp	Canada	25.68	12	9
35	Jeong Doohee	South Korea	25.77	10	6
36	Bruno Claeys	Belgium	25.84	13	9	NR
37	Nadav Kochavi	Israel	25.94	11	6
38	Danil Bugakov	Uzbekistan	25.97	12	7
39	Cheng Feiyi	China	26.01	12	2
40	Derya Büyükuncu	Turkey	26.07	11	0
41	Radosław Kawęcki	Poland	26.08	14	0
42	Andres Olvik	Estonia	26.11	10	7	NR
43	Krzysztof Jankiewicz	Poland	26.19	12	5
44	Donal O'Neill	Ireland	26.29	12	0
45	Pedro Medel	Cuba	26.35	10	5
46	Tomas Fucik	Czech Republic	26.40	9	2
47	Robi Zbogar	Slovenia	26.41	10	4
48	Zhang Yu	China	26.42	11	7
49	Jean-François Schneiders	Luxembourg	26.54	12	8
50	David Dunford	Kenya	26.62	8	6
51	Kaspar Raigla	Estonia	26.63	9	8
52	Erwin Dokter	Austria	26.68	11	3
53	Kouam Amine	Morocco	26.69	11	8	NR
54	Ng Kai Wee Rainer	Singapore	26.70	10	8	NR
55	Mindaugas Sadauskas	Lithuania	26.71	7	7
56	Konstantins Blohins	Latvia	26.72	8	2
57	Andrejs Dūda	Latvia	26.84	8	1
58	Oliver Elliot Banados	Chile	26.94	9	5
59	Nicholas James	Zimbabwe	27.01	7	9	NR
60	Stanislav Osinsky	Kazakhstan	27.06	11	1
61	David Rodriguez	Cuba	27.07	9	4
62	Christian Homer	Trinidad and Tobago	27.10	9	9
62	Miguel Robles	Mexico	27.10	10	1	NR
64	Artiom Gladun	Moldova	27.13	10	2
65	Nicolas Francia Vina	Uruguay	27.29	11	4
66	Glenn Victor Sutanto	Indonesia	27.32	11	9
67	Cheah Geoffrey Robin	Hong Kong	27.36	8	4
68	Do Huy Long	Vietnam	27.39	8	5
68	Grant Beahan	Zimbabwe	27.39	8	0
70	Doğa Çelik	Turkey	27.51	10	9
71	Jean Luis Gomez	Dominican Republic	27.58	7	3	NR
72	Kári J. á Høvdanum	Faroe Islands	27.65	8	9	NR
73	Rony Bakale	Republic of the Congo	27.70	8	8
74	Radomyos Matjiur	Thailand	27.73	10	0
75	Heshan Bandara Unamboowe	Sri Lanka	27.83	7	1
75	Fernando Castellanos	Guatemala	27.83	7	8
77	Yury Zaharov	Kyrgyzstan	27.94	10	3
78	Zane Jordan	Zambia	27.95	6	2
79	Mohammed Al Ghaferi	United Arab Emirates	28.05	6	3
80	Antonio Tong	Macau	28.15	8	7
81	Boris Kirillov	Azerbaijan	28.36	6	4
82	Byron Briedenhann	Namibia	28.38	6	9
83	Brett Fraser	Cayman Islands	28.47	6	6
84	Joao Matias	Angola	28.48	7	0
85	Samson Opuakpo	Nigeria	28.57	5	6
85	Khachik Plavchyan	Armenia	28.57	7	6
87	Tsung Chao-Lin	Chinese Taipei	28.62	9	0
88	Abbas Raad	Lebanon	28.70	6	0
89	Mario Montoya	Costa Rica	28.85	6	5
90	Erik Rajohnson	Madagascar	28.90	9	3
91	Marcelino Richaards	Suriname	29.16	6	1
92	Ronny Vencatachellum	Mauritius	29.18	5	5
93	Tural Abbasov	Azerbaijan	29.28	7	4
94	Faiz Muhammad	Pakistan	29.33	5	8	NR
95	Nicholas Coard	Grenada	29.60	5	1
96	Matar Samb	Senegal	29.61	5	4
97	Jean-Luc Augier	Saint Lucia	29.66	4	1
98	Kerson Hadley	Federated States of Micronesia	29.71	3	4
99	Kailan Staal	Northern Mariana Islands	29.75	4	6
100	Andrey Molchanov	Turkmenistan	29.76	3	2
101	Mark Sammut	Malta	29.82	5	9
102	Heimanu Sichan	French Polynesia	29.99	5	7
102	Ngou Pok Man	Macau	29.99	12	1
104	Rainui Teriipaia	French Polynesia	30.15	5	2
105	Milimo Mweetwa	Zambia	30.18	4	5
106	Ivo Chilaule	Mozambique	30.35	2	4
107	Batsaikhan Dulguun	Mongolia	30.41	6	8
108	Peter Popahun Pokawin	Papua New Guinea	30.56	4	7
109	Carlos Alberto	Angola	30.64	4	4
110	Pepelate Gbagi	Nigeria	30.83	4	9
111	Douglas Miller	Fiji	30.95	3	1
112	Mathieu Marquet	Mauritius	31.18	4	3
113	Gary Pineda	Guatemala	31.46	3	3
114	Juan Carlos Sikaffy Diaz	Honduras	31.47	4	2
115	Henk Aloysius Lowe	Guyana	31.53	1	2
116	Daniel Kevin Pryke	Papua New Guinea	31.55	3	8
117	Timur Atahanov	Turkmenistan	31.58	3	7
118	Patricio Vera	Mozambique	31.66	7	2
119	Siu Kent Chung	Brunei	31.74	3	5
120	Mario Sulkja	Albania	31.88	5	0
121	Saif Alaslam Saeed Al-Saadi	Iraq	32.22	2	0
122	Jake Villarreal	Marshall Islands	32.26	2	6
123	Elaijie Erasito	Fiji	32.82	3	0
124	Quenton Dupont	Eswatini	33.07	2	3
125	Mohamed Mujahid	Maldives	34.06	2	7
126	Shameel Ibrahim	Maldives	34.66	2	2
127	Omar Abdalla	Tanzania	37.84	2	9
128	Nsumizi Alain Boris	Burundi	39.17	3	6
129	Said Seba	Tanzania	43.64	1	4
130	Isidore Lokossou Krobli	Benin	46.10	1	1
–	Alejandro Jacobo	Mexico	DNS	1	3
–	Mohamed Bangura	Sierra Leone	DNS	1	5
–	Abdoulkader Houssein	Djibouti	DNS	2	1
–	Habonimana Yves	Burundi	DNS	2	5
–	Houmed Hassan Ali	Djibouti	DNS	2	8
–	Branden Whitehurst	United States Virgin Islands	DNS	3	9
–	Hocine Haciane	Andorra	DNS	4	8
–	Achelhi Bilal	Morocco	DNS	5	3
–	Nicholas Thomson	Bermuda	DNS	6	7
–	Charles William Walker	Philippines	DNS	8	3
–	Omar Pinzón	Colombia	DNS	9	7
–	Albert Subirats	Venezuela	DNS	11	2

Semifinals

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Heat	Lane	Notes
1	Liam Tancock	Great Britain	24.08	1	5	WR
2	Junya Koga	Japan	24.29	2	3	AS
3	Camille Lacourt	France	24.46	2	5	NR
4	Aschwin Wildeboer	Spain	24.48	1	4	NR
5	Helge Meeuw	Germany	24.59	1	3	NR
6	Gerhard Zandberg	South Africa	24.68	2	6	=AF
7	Mirco Di Tora	Italy	24.77	1	8	NR
7	Aristeidis Grigoriadis	Greece	24.77	2	7	NR
9	Flori Lang	Switzerland	24.78	1	6
10	Ryosuke Irie	Japan	24.79	1	7
11	Juan Miguel Rando	Spain	24.80	2	2
12	Guy Barnea	Israel	24.81	1	2
13	Thomas Rupprath	Germany	24.87	2	1
14	Daniel Orzechowski	Brazil	24.92	1	1
15	Guilherme Guido	Brazil	24.98	2	4
16	Ashley Delaney	Australia	25.02	2	8

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Lane	Notes
	Liam Tancock	Great Britain	24.04	4	WR
	Junya Koga	Japan	24.24	5	AS
	Gerhard Zandberg	South Africa	24.34	7	AF
4	Aschwin Wildeboer	Spain	24.57	6
5	Camille Lacourt	France	24.61	3
6	Helge Meeuw	Germany	24.63	2
7	Aristeidis Grigoriadis	Greece	24.87	8
8	Mirco Di Tora	Italy	25.15	1

External links

• Heats Results
• Semifinals Results
• Final Results