Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre backstroke
Introduction The '''men's 100 metre backstroke''' at the 2009 World Championships took place Monday 27 July (prelims and semifinals) and on the evening of Tuesday 28 July (final) at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and competition records were as follows:'''World record'''    '''51.94'''  Indianapolis, United States  8 July 2009'''Championship record'''    '''52.98'''  Melbourne, Australia  27 March 2007The following records were established during the competition:DateRoundNameNationalityTimeRecord 27 July  Heat 12  Aschwin Wildeboer   Spain 52.93  '''CR''' 27 July  Semifinal 1  Junya Koga   Japan  52.39  '''CR''' 28 July  Final  Junya Koga   Japan 52.26  '''CR'''
Results ===Heats=== Rank  Name  Nationality  Time  Heat  Lane  Notes 1  Aschwin Wildeboer     52.93  12  4  '''CR''' 2  Ryosuke Irie     53.00  11  4   3  Liam Tancock     53.08  11  3  '''NR''' 3  Junya Koga     53.08  13  5   3  Aaron Peirsol   United States  53.08  13  4   6  Helge Meeuw     53.28  13  3   7  Ashley Delaney     53.33  12  6   8  Markus Rogan     53.62  11  2   9  Jérémy Stravius     53.67  12  3   10  Arkady Vyatchanin     53.73  11  5   11  Mirco di Tora     53.77  12  7  '''NR''' 12  Juan Miguel Rando     53.89  10  0   12  Stanislav Donets     53.89  11  6   14  Nicolaas Driebergen     53.94  10  5  '''NR''' 14  Aristeidis Grigoriadis     53.94  13  2   16  Matt Grevers   United States   54.04  12  5   17  Pascal Wollach     54.08  12  2   18  Guilherme Guido     54.17  13  7   19  Benjamin Stasiulis     54.18  13  6   20  George Du Rand     54.29  11  8   21  Răzvan Florea     54.47  13  1   22  Guy Barnea     54.51  13  8   23  Daniel Bell     54.58  13  0   24  Marco Loughran     54.61  11  1   25  Leonardo Guedes     54.64  12  1   26  Radosław Kawęcki     54.66  11  0  '''NR''' 27  Charl Van Zyl     54.67  10  6   28  Karl Burdis     54.74  10  9  '''NR''' 29  Damiano Lestingi     54.77  11  7   30  Omar Pinzón     54.97  11  9  '''NR''' 31  Jake Tapp     54.99  12  0   32  Robert Hurley     55.18  12  8   33  He Jianbin     55.24  10  7   34  Sung Min     55.39  12  9   35  Cheng Feiyi     55.52  13  9   36  Sebastian Stoss     55.57  9  6   37  Derya Büyükuncu     55.78  10  4   38  Flori Lang     55.84  10  3   39  Tomas Fucik     56.10  8  7   39  Andriy Kovbasa     56.10  10  1   41  Itai Chammah     56.15  1  5   41  Donal O'Neill     56.15  10  8   43  Krzysztof Jankiewicz     56.23  10  2   44  Bruno Claeys     56.34  9  4   45  Andres Olvik     56.37  8  2  '''NR''' 46  Dimitrios Chasiotis     56.58  9  1   47  Pedro Oliveira     56.69  9  8   48  Danil Bugakov     56.77  9  3   49  Alexandru Felix Maestru     56.80  8  1  50  Martin Liivamägi     57.00  8  8   51  Stanislav Osinsky     57.02  8  5   52  Pedro Medel     57.03  9  2   53  Miguel Robles     57.14  9  7   54  Robi Zbogar     57.45  8  3   55  Jean-François Schneiders     57.49  8  4   56  Konstantins Bohins     57.68  7  6   57  Naoufel Benabid     57.81  7  5  '''NR''' 58  Kouam Amine     57.95  7  8  '''NR''' 59  Andrejs Dūda     58.00  7  2    60  Raphaël Stacchiotti     58.03  9  0   61  Glenn Victor Sutanto     58.29  7  7   62  Ng Kai Wee Raine     58.57  7  4   63  Cheah Geoffrey Robin     58.69  7  3   64  David Rodriguez     58.70  7  1   65  Do Huy Long     58.79  7  0   66  Tsung Chao-Lin     58.93  8  9   67  Nicolas Francia Viña     58.94  9  5   68  Artiom Gladun     58.97  9  9   69  Rony Bakale     59.10  6  6  70  Yury Zaharov     59.13  8  6   71  Serghei Golban     59.16  6  3   72  Heshan Bandara Unamboowe     59.47  4  9   73  Achelhi Bilal     59.49  5  1   74  Jean Luis Gomez     1:00.16  6  7   75  Doğa Çelik     1:00.22  8  0   76  Khachik Plavchyan     1:00.31  6  5   77  Nicholas James     1:00.34  5  5   78  Boris Kirillov     1:00.44  5  8   79  Radomyos Matjiur     1:00.61  6  4  80  Byron Briedenhann     1:00.85  5  9   81  Ashwin Menon     1:00.90  5  3   82  Mohammed Al Ghaferi     1:01.18  5  6   83  Antonio Tong     1:01.41  5  4   84  Marcelino Richaards     1:01.65  4  5   85  Ryan Nelthropp     1:01.69  4  2   86  Kari Joannesarson Hoevdanum     1:01.70  6  1   87  Fernando Castellanos     1:01.92  3  4   88  Alberto Tasini     1:02.18  5  0   89  Yousuf Essa Al Yousuf     1:02.28  6  2  90  Armando Zayas Claure     1:02.87  3  5   91  Abbas Raad     1:03.28  6  9   92  Ngou Pok Man     1:03.69  4  7   93  Praveen Tokas     1:03.74  6  8   94  Samson Opuakpo     1:03.81  3  1   95  Benjamin Gabbard     1:03.86  3  9   96  Javier Hernandez Maradiaga     1:03.98  6  0   97  Nicholas Coard     1:04.02  4  1   98  Ronny Vencatachellum     1:04.11  4  8   99  Tural Abbasov     1:04.47  5  7  100  Matar Samb     1:04.71  5  2   101  Mark Sammut     1:05.08  4  3   102  Edward Caruana Dingli     1:05.43  3  7   103  Vincent Perry     1:05.72  4  6   104  Juan Carlos Sikaffy Diaz     1:06.01  3  8   105  Batsaikhan Dulguun     1:06.96  4  0   106  Mathieu Marquet     1:07.26  2  4   107  Sidni Hoxha     1:08.15  4  4   108  Saif Alaslam Saeed Alsaadi     1:08.21  1  4   109  Paul Elaisa     1:08.81  2  8  110  Siu Kent Chung     1:08.98  3  2   111  Carlos Alberto     1:09.14  2  3   112  Timur Atahanov     1:09.42  2  2   112  Gary Pineda     1:09.42  3  0   114  Pepelate Gbagi     1:10.45  2  6   115  Elaijie Erasito     1:11.00  2  7   116  Nadir Elmofti     1:16.32  2  1   117  Shameel Ibrahim     1:19.06  2  0   —  Mario Sulkja     DNS  2  5   —   Hocine Haciane     DNS  3  6  —   Brett Fraser     DNS  7  9   —   Faiz Muhammad     DSQ  3  3 ===Semifinals=== Rank  Heat  Lane  Name  Nationality  Time  Notes 1 1  5  Junya Koga     52.39  '''CR''', '''AS''' 2 1  3  Helge Meeuw     52.49  '''NR''' 3 1  4  Ryosuke Irie     52.73   4 2  4  Aschwin Wildeboer     52.76  5 1  8  Matt Grevers     52.82   6 2  8  Aristeidis Grigoriadis     53.03  '''NR''' 7 1  2  Arkady Vyatchanin     53.11    8 2  5  Liam Tancock     53.12   9 2  3  Aaron Peirsol     53.22   10  2  6  Ashley Delaney     53.24  11  1  6  Markus Rogan     53.40  12 2  2  Jérémy Stravius     53.82   13 2  7  Mirco di Tora     53.88   14  1  1  Nicolaas Driebergen     53.92   '''NR''' 15 1  7  Juan Miguel Rando     54.13    16  2  1  Stanislav Donets     54.24  ===Final=== Rank  Lane  Name  Nationality  Time  Notes  4  Junya Koga     52.26  '''CR''', '''AS'''  5  Helge Meeuw     52.54    6  Aschwin Wildeboer     52.64   4 3  Ryosuke Irie     52.73   4 8  Liam Tancock     52.73  '''NR''' 6 1  Arkady Vyatchanin     52.87  '''NR''' 7 2  Matt Grevers     53.14   8  7  Aristeidis Grigoriadis     53.43
See also *Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre backstroke*Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre backstroke
References * Worlds 2009 results: Men's 100m Back '''Heats'''; published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '09 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-28. * Worlds 2009 results: Men's 100m Back '''Semifinals'''; published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '09 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-28. * Worlds 2009 results: Men's 100m Back '''Final'''; published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '09 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-28.