2021 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 50 metre backstroke

Men's 50 metre backstroke
at the 2021 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Men's 50 metre backstroke ; at the 2021 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue	Etihad Arena
Location	Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Dates	18 December (heats and semifinals); 19 December (final)
Competitors	49 from 42 nations
Medalists
	Kliment Kolesnikov
	← 2018 2022 →

The Men's 50 metre backstroke competition of the 2021 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 18 and 19 December 2021.^[1]

Records

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

World record	Florent Manaudou (FRA)	22.22	Doha, Qatar	6 December 2014
Competition record	Florent Manaudou (FRA)	22.22	Doha, Qatar	6 December 2014

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 18 December at 09:59.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	4	Kliment Kolesnikov	Russian Swimming Federation	23.14	Q
2	5	3	Gabriel Fantoni	Brazil	23.15	Q
3	3	4	Shaine Casas	United States	23.23	Q
4	5	5	Pavel Samusenko	Russian Swimming Federation	23.26	Q
5	6	5	Christian Diener	Germany	23.28	Q
6	4	6	Kacper Stokowski	Poland	23.33	Q
7	4	5	Guilherme Guido	Brazil	23.47	Q
8	4	3	Lorenzo Mora	Italy	23.49	Q
8	4	7	Jan Čejka	Czech Republic	23.49	Q, NR
10	5	4	Michele Lamberti	Italy	23.50	Q
11	5	2	Mohamed Samy	Egypt	23.54	Q, NR
11	6	3	Apostolos Christou	Greece	23.54	Q
13	5	6	Ole Braunschweig	Germany	23.57	Q
14	4	4	Robert Glință	Romania	23.58	Q
15	5	7	Simon Bucher	Austria	23.63	Q
16	6	1	Alexis Santos	Portugal	23.75	QSO
16	6	2	Tomáš Franta	Czech Republic	23.75	QSO
18	6	7	Grigori Pekarski	Belarus	23.77
18	6	8	Mewen Tomac	France	23.77
20	5	1	Won Young-jun	South Korea	23.94
21	5	8	Doruk Tekin	Turkey	23.96
21	6	6	Viktar Staselovich	Belarus	23.96
23	4	2	Markus Lie	Norway	23.98
24	4	1	Yohann Ndoye Brouard	France	24.03
25	4	0	Michael Laitarovsky	Israel	24.32
26	3	1	Jerard Jacinto	Philippines	24.40	NR
26	4	9	Srihari Nataraj	India	24.40	NR
28	6	9	Hugo González	Spain	24.41
29	5	0	Lau Shiu Yue	Hong Kong	24.42
30	4	8	Yeziel Morales	Puerto Rico	24.44
31	6	0	Charles Hockin	Paraguay	24.48
32	3	7	Jack Kirby	Barbados	24.71	NR
33	5	9	I Gede Siman Sudartawa	Indonesia	24.76
34	3	8	Oleksandr Zheltiakov	Ukraine	24.82
35	3	9	Filippos Iakovidis	Cyprus	25.17	NR
36	3	6	Max Mannes	Luxembourg	25.30
37	2	4	Akalanka Peiris	Sri Lanka	25.31
38	3	5	Maximillian Wilson	United States Virgin Islands	25.49
39	2	5	Ali Al-Zamil	Kuwait	25.86
40	3	0	Gabriel Castillo	Bolivia	25.96
41	2	3	Felipe Jaramillo	Ecuador	26.18	NR
42	3	2	Omar Al-Rowaila	Bahrain	26.38
43	3	3	Abdellah Ardjoune	Algeria	26.56
44	2	2	Mekhayl Engel	Curaçao	26.68
45	2	1	Juwel Ahmmed	Bangladesh	27.04
46	2	6	Tameea Elhamayda	Qatar	27.80
47	1	3	Rohan Shearer	Turks and Caicos Islands	28.96
48	2	7	Ahmed Al-Marzooqi	United Arab Emirates	29.44
49	2	8	Papa Poku-Dwumoh	Ghana	30.17
	1	4	Souleymane Napare	Burkina Faso	DNS
	1	5	Yousef Al-Washali	Yemen	DNS

Swim-off

The swim-off was held on 18 December at 11:38.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Alexis Santos	Portugal	23.41	Q, NR
2	5	Tomáš Franta	Czech Republic	23.71

Semifinals

The semifinals were started on 18 December at 19:25.^[4]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	5	Pavel Samusenko	Russian Swimming Federation	22.74	Q
2	2	4	Kliment Kolesnikov	Russian Swimming Federation	22.78	Q
3	2	3	Christian Diener	Germany	22.89	Q
4	1	6	Lorenzo Mora	Italy	23.13	Q
4	2	5	Shaine Casas	United States	23.13	Q
6	1	2	Michele Lamberti	Italy	23.15	Q
7	1	3	Kacper Stokowski	Poland	23.17	Q
8	1	7	Apostolos Christou	Greece	23.26	Q
9	1	1	Robert Glință	Romania	23.28
10	1	8	Alexis Santos	Portugal	23.35	NR
11	1	4	Gabriel Fantoni	Brazil	23.37
12	2	2	Jan Čejka	Czech Republic	23.40	NR
13	2	6	Guilherme Guido	Brazil	23.51
14	2	1	Ole Braunschweig	Germany	23.54
15	2	8	Simon Bucher	Austria	23.58
16	2	7	Mohamed Samy	Egypt	23.65

Final

The final was held on 19 December at 19:35.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	5	Kliment Kolesnikov	Russian Swimming Federation	22.66
	3	Christian Diener	Germany	22.90
	6	Lorenzo Mora	Italy	22.90
4	4	Pavel Samusenko	Russian Swimming Federation	22.93
5	7	Michele Lamberti	Italy	22.94
6	1	Kacper Stokowski	Poland	22.98
7	2	Shaine Casas	United States	22.99
8	8	Apostolos Christou	Greece	23.08

References

^ "Competition Schedule" (PDF). Omega Timing. 17 December 2021. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
^ Heats results
^ Swim-off results
^ Semifinals results
^ Final results

[1] "Competition Schedule" (PDF). Omega Timing. 17 December 2021. Retrieved 19 December 2021.

[2] Heats results

[3] Swim-off results

[4] Semifinals results

[5] Final results

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