Symplocarpus Foetidus

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

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	39.03	NR
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