| Men's 50 metre backstroke at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships |
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| Dates | July 30, 2011 (heats and semifinals) July 31, 2011 (final) |
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| Competitors | 43 from 38 nations | |||||||||
| Winning time | 24.50 | |||||||||
| Medalists | ||||||||||
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| 2011 FINA World Championships Shanghai, China |
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| Diving | ||||
| Individual | ||||
| 1 m | men | women | ||
| 3 m | men | women | ||
| 10 m | men | women | ||
| Synchronised | ||||
| 3 m | men | women | ||
| 10 m | men | women | ||
| Open water swimming | ||||
| 5 km | men | women | ||
| 10 km | men | women | ||
| 25 km | men | women | ||
| Team | team | |||
| Swimming | ||||
| Freestyle | ||||
| 50 m | men | women | ||
| 100 m | men | women | ||
| 200 m | men | women | ||
| 400 m | men | women | ||
| 800 m | men | women | ||
| 1500 m | men | women | ||
| Backstroke | ||||
| 50 m | men | women | ||
| 100 m | men | women | ||
| 200 m | men | women | ||
| Breaststroke | ||||
| 50 m | men | women | ||
| 100 m | men | women | ||
| 200 m | men | women | ||
| Butterfly | ||||
| 50 m | men | women | ||
| 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 | ||
| Synchronised swimming | ||||
| Solo | technical | free | ||
| Duet | technical | free | ||
| Team | technical | free | ||
| combination | ||||
| Water polo | ||||
| men • women | ||||
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.
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Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
| Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date | |
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| World record Championship record |
Liam Tancock | United Kingdom | 24.04 | Rome | August 2, 2009 |
No new world or competition records were set during this competition.
39 swimmers participated in 6 heats.[1]
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 5 | Gerhardus 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 Faber | 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 | Nicholas 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 Simunic | 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 | Federated States of 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 | Pathana 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 |
The semifinals were held at 19:14.[2]
| 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 | Nicholas 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 |
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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| 1 | 4 | Gerhardus Zandberg | South Africa | 24.91 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Aschwin Wildeboer Faber | 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 |
The final was held at 18:35.[3]
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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| 4 | Liam Tancock | Great Britain | 24.50 | ||
| 5 | Camille Lacourt | France | 24.57 | ||
| 3 | Gerhardus Zandberg | South Africa | 24.66 | ||
| 4 | 6 | Aschwin Wildeboer Faber | Spain | 24.82 | |
| 5 | 7 | David Plummer | United States | 24.92 | |
| 6 | 2 | Nicholas Thoman | United States | 25.01 | |
| 6 | 8 | Guy Barnea | Israel | 25.01 | |
| 8 | 1 | Flori Lang | Switzerland | 25.15 |