Swimming at the 2009 Maccabiah Games – Men's 100 metre backstroke

Swimming events at the
2009 Maccabiah Games
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

The men's 100 metre backstroke event at the 2009 Maccabiah Games took place on 9 July, at the Wingate Institute. 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.

Three heats were held. 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.

Nations with three or more swimmers meeting the standard could enter only three such swimmers in the final.

Medalists

Games Gold Silver Bronze
100 m backstroke Israel Guy Barnea
Israel (ISR)
United States Joshua Hafkin
United States (USA)
Israel Itai Chammah
Israel (ISR)

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing Maccabiah record was as follows.

National record  Guy Barnea (ISR) 55.11 Netanya, Israel 9 August 2007 [1]
Maccabiah record  Lenny Krayzelburg (USA) 55.24 Haifa, Israel 15 July 2001 -

The following new Maccabiah records were set during this competition.

Date Event Name Nationality Time MR NR
July 21 Final Guy Barnea  Israel 54.22 MR NR

Heats

Rank Name Nationality Time Heat Lane Notes
1 Itai Chammah  Israel 56.79 3 3 Q
2 Joshua Hafkin  United States 56.98 3 4 Q
3 Ilia Ayzenshtok  Israel 57.20 3 5 Q
4 Guy Barnea  Israel 57.29 2 4 Q
5 Iouri Samouilich  Israel 58.08 2 3 Q
6 Shaun Weinberg  United States 58.09 1 6
7 Doron Benjamin  South Africa 59.06 1 2
8 Dashiell Rothberg  United States 59.59 2 5
9 David Schnabl  Australia 59.65 2 6
10 Adam Pluemer  United States 1:01.51 1 5 Q
11 Jason Galet  Canada 1:01.84 3 6 Q
12 Andrew Novakoff  United States 1:02.04 1 3
13 Yuriy Burunov  Australia 1:02.76 2 2
14 Gregory Shein  Australia 1:02.94 3 2
15 Iosif Emil Horvath  Canada 1:05.62 3 7
16 Ilan Levy  Mexico 1:10.20 1 7
17 Nathan Hirshbein  Venezuela 1:10.75 2 7
18 Luis Roberto Schoenfeld  Mexico 1:11.66 2 1

Final

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1st 6 Guy Barnea  Israel 54.22
2nd 5 Joshua Hafkin  United States 56.43
3rd 4 Itai Chammah  Israel 57.15
4 3 Ilia Ayzenshtok  Israel 57.63
5 2 Shaun Weinberg  United States 58.37
6 7 Doron Benjamin  South Africa 59.25
7 8 Adam Pluemer  United States 1:00.24

References

  1. "Maccabiah 2009 Swimming Results" (PDF). Israel Swim Association. Retrieved 30 July 2009.