Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre backstroke

Men's 100 metre backstroke
at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Competitors 45
Medalists
  Aaron Peirsol   United States
  Matt Grevers   United States
  Hayden Stoeckel   Australia
  Arkady Vyatchanin   Russia
«2004 2012»
Swimming events at the
2008 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
50 m   men   women
100 m men women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m women
1500 m men
Backstroke
100 m men women
200 m men women
Breaststroke
100 m men women
200 m men women
Butterfly
100 m men women
200 m men women
Individual medley
200 m men women
400 m men women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m men women
4×200 m men women
Medley relay
4×100 m men women
Marathon
10 km men women

The men's 100 metre backstroke event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place between August 10 and 12, at the Beijing National Aquatics Center. This swimming event used the backstroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of two lengths of the pool.

Six heats were held, with most containing the maximum number of swimmers (eight). The heat in which a swimmer competed did not formally matter for advancement, as the swimmers with the top sixteen times from the entire field qualified for the semifinals. Two semifinal heats of eight swimmers each were held. The swimmers with the eight fastest times again advanced to the finals; there, they all competed in a single final heat to earn final placements.

The qualifying standards were for the 2008 event were 55.14 seconds (A norm) and 57.07 seconds (B norm). NOCs with two or more swimmers meeting the A standard could enter any two such swimmers; otherwise, they could enter a single swimmer meeting the B standard.

Contents

Records

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

World record  Aaron Peirsol (USA) 52.89 Omaha, USA 1 July 2008
Olympic record  Aaron Peirsol (USA) 53.45 Athens, Greece 21 August 2004

The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.

Date Event Name Nationality Time OR WR
August 10 Heat 4 Matt Grevers United States 53.41 OR
August 11 Semifinal 1 Arkady Vyatchanin Russia 53.06 OR
August 11 Semifinal 2 Hayden Stoeckel Australia 52.97 OR
August 12 Final Aaron Peirsol United States 52.54 OR WR

Heats

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 4 Matt Grevers United States 0:53.41 Q, OR
2 4 5 Arkady Vyatchanin Russia 0:53.64 Q
3 6 4 Aaron Peirsol United States 0:53.65 Q
4 6 7 Aschwin Wildeboer Spain 0:53.67 Q
5 3 5 Gerhard Zandberg South Africa 0:53.75 Q
6 6 5 Liam Tancock Great Britain 0:53.85 Q
7 5 3 Hayden Stoeckel Australia 0:53.93 Q
8 3 8 Ľuboš Križko Slovakia 0:54.07 Q
9 5 5 Ashley Delaney Australia 0:54.08 Q
10 5 2 Junichi Miyashita Japan 0:54.12 Q
11 4 2 Stanislav Donets Russia 0:54.18 Q
12 4 3 Tomomi Morita Japan 0:54.21 Q
13 6 3 Markus Rogan Austria 0:54.22 Q
14 6 1 Mirco Di Tora Italy 0:54.39 Q
15 5 1 Guy Barnea Israel 0:54.50 Q
16 5 6 Gregor Tait Great Britain 0:54.62 Q
17 4 6 Aristeidis Grigoriadis Greece 0:54.71
18 3 4 Damiano Lestingi Italy 0:54.78
19 5 4 Helge Meeuw Germany 0:54.88
20 6 2 Guilherme Guido Brazil 0:54.89
21 6 8 Răzvan Florea Romania 0:54.89
22 4 8 George Du Rand South Africa 0:54.90
23 3 7 Min Sung South Korea 0:54.99
24 4 1 Gordan Kožulj Croatia 0:55.05
25 3 3 Benjamin Stasiulis France 0:55.08
26 2 6 Omar Pinzón Colombia 0:55.11
27 3 6 Jonathan Massacand Switzerland 0:55.21
28 4 7 Nick Driebergen Netherlands 0:55.31
29 2 5 Pavel Sankovich Belarus 0:55.39
30 3 1 Derya Büyükuncu Turkey 0:55.43
31 5 8 Jake Tapp Canada 0:55.54
32 3 2 Vytautas Janušaitis Lithuania 0:55.65
33 6 6 Thomas Rupprath Germany 0:55.77
34 5 7 Marko Strahija Croatia 0:55.89
35 2 4 Örn Arnarson Iceland 0:56.15
36 2 3 Roland Rudolf Hungary 0:56.25
37 2 2 Xiaolei Sun China 0:56.44
38 2 8 Oleksandr Isakov Ukraine 0:56.55
39 1 4 Danil Bugakov Uzbekistan 0:56.59
40 2 7 German Eduardo Otero Argentina 0:56.74
41 2 1 Tomáš Fučík Czech Republic 0:57.29
42 1 5 Stanislav Osinsky Kazakhstan 0:57.42
43 1 3 Jared J Heine Marshall Islands 0:58.86
44 1 2 Souhaib Kalala Syria 1:00.24
45 1 6 Rubel Mohammad Rana Bangladesh 1:04.82

Semifinals

Rank Semifinal Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 2 6 Hayden Stoeckel Australia 52.97 Q, OR
2 2 4 Matt Grevers United States 52.99 Q
3 1 4 Arkady Vyatchanin Russia 53.06 Q, OR
4 1 5 Aschwin Wildeboer Spain 53.51 Q
5 2 5 Aaron Peirsol United States 53.56 Q
6 1 3 Liam Tancock Great Britain 53.61 Q
7 1 2 Junichi Miyashita Japan 53.69 Q
8 2 2 Ashley Delaney Australia 53.76 Q
9 2 1 Markus Rogan Austria 53.80
10 1 7 Tomomi Morita Japan 53.95
11 2 3 Gerhard Zandberg South Africa 53.98
12 1 8 Gregor Tait Great Britain 54.37
13 1 6 Ľuboš Križko Slovakia 54.38
14 2 7 Stanislav Donets Russia 54.57
15 1 1 Mirco Di Tora Italy 54.92
16 2 8 Guy Barnea Israel 54.93

Final

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
2 Aaron Peirsol United States 0:52.54 WR [1]
5 Matt Grevers United States 0:53.11
3 Arkady Vyatchanin Russia 0:53.18
4 Hayden Stoeckel Australia 0:53.18
5 8 Ashley Delaney Australia 0:53.31
6 7 Liam Tancock Great Britain 0:53.39 NR
7 6 Aschwin Wildeboer Spain 0:53.51
8 1 Junichi Miyashita Japan 0:53.99

References

  1. ^ "Results Men's 100m Backstroke Final". Beijing 2008. 2008-08-12. http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/INF/SW/C73A1/SWM041101.shtml#SWM041101. Retrieved 2008-08-12.