Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre backstroke explained

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The men's 100 metre backstroke event at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships took place between 25 July  - 26 July. Both the heats and semifinals were held on 25 July with the heats being held in the morning session and the semifinals being held in the evening session. The final was held on 26 July.

Records

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

	Name	Nationality	Time	Location	Date
World record			align=left	53.17		2 April 2005
Championship record			align=left	53.61		22 July 2003

No new world or competition records were set during this competition.

Results

Preliminary heats

Rank	Heat/Lane	Swimmer	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	H10 L4	Aaron Peirsol		54.41	q
2	H10 L3	Aristeidis Grigoriadis		54.84	q
3	H9 L4	Randall Bal		54.88	q
3	H10 L2	Andrew Lauterstein		54.88	q
5	H8 L5	László Cseh		54.89	q
6	H8 L4	Markus Rogan		54.97	q
7	H9 L2	Blaž Medvešek		55.03	q
8	H8 L6	Junichi Miyashita		55.05	q
9	H9 L3	Arkady Vyatchanin		55.14	q
10	H9 L7	Răzvan Florea		55.15	q
11	H10 L1	Gordan Kožulj		55.20	q
12	H10 L6	Steffen Driesen		55.25	q
13	H9 L5	Matt Welsh		55.40	q
14	H8 L2	Liam Tancock		55.47	q
15	H10 L5	Tomomi Morita		55.51	q
16	H9 L1	David Ortega		55.52	q
17	H9 L6	James Goddard		55.66
18	H7 L6	Vytautas Janušaitis		55.83
19	H10 L7	Alex Lim		55.88
20	H8 L3	Marco di Carli		55.95
21	H8 L8	Scott Talbot		56.07
22	H8 L7	Simon Dufour		56.10
23	H7 L4	Cameron Gibson		56.49
23	H7 L5	Nick Neckles		56.49
25	H7 L1	Pavel Suskov		56.50
26	H8 L1	Pavlo Illichov		56.58
27	H6 L4	Gabriel Mangabeira		56.64
28	H7 L8	Yoav Gath		56.79
29	H7 L3	Derya Büyükuncu		56.81
30	H7 L7	Tomasz Rumianowski		56.86
31	H9 L8	Pierre Roger		56.92
32	H10 L8	Aschwin Wildeboer		57.28
33	H7 L2	Örn Arnarson		57.43
34	H5 L4	Garth Tune		57.83
35	H6 L1	Seung-Hyeon Lee		58.11
36	H6 L5	Chris Vythoulkas		58.88
37	H6 L7	Suriya Suksuphak		59.17
38	H5 L8	Alessio Domenack		59.69
39	H4 L5	Jared Heine		59.76
40	H6 L3	Danil Bugakov		59.86
41	H5 L6	Rony Bakale		59.92
42	H6 L8	Mark Chay		1:00.10
43	H4 L3	Shawn Clarke		1:00.15
44	H5 L2	Andy Wibowo		1:00.65
45	H5 L3	Oleg Pukhnatiy		1:00.98
46	H4 L2	Jason Dunford		1:01.01
47	H4 L4	Zhi Cong Lim		1:01.05
48	H6 L6	Martin Verner		1:01.09
49	H4 L7	Kieran Locke		1:01.25
50	H6 L2	Yury Zaharov		1:01.31
51	H4 L6	David Dunford		1:01.52
52	H5 L5	Guntars Deicmans		1:01.57
53	H4 L1	Gael Adam		1:01.60
54	H3 L3	Francisco Montenegro		1:01.94
55	H1 L3	Onan Orlando Thom		1:02.47
56	H3 L4	Shahin Baradaran		1:02.48
57	H4 L8	LIN Yu-An		1:02.74
58	H3 L5	Andrei Mihailov		1:02.86
59	H3 L6	Khaly Ciss		1:02.95
60	H3 L2	Chi Lon Lei		1:03.15
61	H5 L1	Francois Ghattas		1:03.30
62	H3 L7	Daniel Carrillo		1:03.43
63	H3 L1	Antonio Tong		1:03.45
64	H2 L1	Horacio Carcamo		1:03.71
65	H2 L2	Yassir Abdalla		1:03.74
66	H2 L5	Diego Foianini		1:05.25
67	H5 L7	Romulo Pereira		1:05.29
68	H2 L3	Julio Rivera		1:05.54
69	H2 L7	Imdad Ali		1:06.17
70	H2 L4	Ganbold Urnultsaikhan		1:07.28
71	H2 L8	Andrey Molchanov		1:08.23
72	H1 L5	Alain Brigion-Tobe		1:08.79
-	H1 L4	Jonathan Calderon		DNS
-	H2 L6	Leonel Matonse		DNS

Semifinals

Rank	Heat/Lane	Swimmer	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	S2 L4		USA	54.46	q
2	S2 L5		USA	54.49	q
2	S2 L8		Japan	54.49	q
4	S2 L3		Hungary	54.52	q
4	S2 L2		Russia	54.52	q
6	S1 L4		Greece	54.69	q
7	S1 L3		Austria	54.75	q
8	S2 L6		Slovenia	54.88	q
9	S2 L1		Australia	54.89
10	S1 L1		Great Britain	55.07
11	S2 L7		Croatia	55.08
12	S1 L2		Romania	55.34
13	S1 L7		Germany	55.37
14	S1 L5		Australia	55.43
15	S1 L6		Japan	55.44
16	S1 L8		Spain	55.73

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
		USA	53.62
		USA	54.02
		Hungary	54.27
4		Japan	54.31
5		Russia	54.50
6		Greece	54.61
7		Austria	54.81
8		Slovenia	55.13

References

• Worlds 2005 results: Men's 100 m backstroke Heats, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); Retrieved 2010-01-19.
• Worlds 2005 results: Men's 100 m backstroke Semifinals, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); Retrieved 2010-01-19.
• Worlds 2005 results: Men's 100 m backstroke Finals, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); Retrieved 2010-01-19.