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Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre backstroke
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| event | Men's 50 metre backstroke |
| competition | 2007 FINA World Championships |
| venue | Rod Laver Arena |
| dates | 31 March 2007 (heats, semifinals) |
| 1 April 2007 (final) | |
| competitors | 107 |
| win_value | 24.98 seconds |
| gold | Gerhard Zandberg |
| goldNOC | RSA |
| silver | Thomas Rupprath |
| silverNOC | GER |
| bronze | Liam Tancock |
| bronzeNOC | GBR |
| prev | 2005 |
| next | 2009 |
1 April 2007 (final) Main article: Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships
The men's 50 metre backstroke at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships took place on 31 March (prelims and semifinals ) and on the evening of 1 April (final) at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia. 107 swimmers were entered in the event, of which 98 swam.
Existing records at the start of the event were:
- World record (WR): 24.80, Thomas Rupprath (Germany), 27 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain.
- Championship record (CR): same
Results
Final
| Place | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [[Image:Med 1.png]] | 3 | Gerhard Zandberg | South Africa | 24.98 | |
| [[Image:Med 2.png]] | 6 | Thomas Rupprath | Germany | 25.20 | |
| [[Image:Med 3.png]] | 4 | Liam Tancock | Great Britain | 25.23 | |
| 4 | 5 | Steffen Driesen | Germany | 25.29 | |
| 5 | 2 | Matthew Clay | Great Britain | 25.32 | |
| 6 | 1 | Aristeidis Grigoriadis | 25.52 | ||
| 7 | 7 | Junya Koga | Japan | 25.56 | |
| 8 | 8 | Matt Welsh | Australia | 25.61 |
Semifinals
| Rank | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heat & | |||||
| Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes | |
| 1 | H2-L3 | Liam Tancock | Great Britain | 25.08 | Q |
| 2 | H2-L5 | Steffen Driesen | Germany | 25.21 | Q |
| 3 | H1-L4 | Gerhard Zandberg | South Africa | 25.26 | Q |
| 4 | H2-L4 | Thomas Rupprath | Germany | 25.29 | Q |
| 5 | H1-L5 | Matthew Clay | Great Britain | 25.48 | Q |
| 6 | H2-L6 | Junya Koga | Japan | 25.55 | Q |
| 7 | H1-L3 | Aristeidis Grigoriadis | 25.66 | Q | |
| 8 | H1-L6 | Matt Welsh | Australia | 25.76 | Q |
| 8.5 | H1.5 | 25.79 | O | ||
| 9 | H2-L1 | Flori Lang | Switzerland | 25.81 | |
| 10 | H2-L2 | Tomomi Morita | Japan | 25.93 | |
| 11 | H1-L2 | Ľuboš Križko | 25.96 | ||
| 12 | H2-L7 | Arkady Vyatchanin | Russia | 26.03 | |
| 13 | H2-L8 | David Ortega Pitarch | Spain | 26.26 | |
| 14 | H1-L8 | ZHANG Chang | China | 26.33 | |
| 15 | H1-L1 | Guy Barnea | 26.45 | ||
| 999 | H1-L7 | Ouyang Kunpeng | China | DQ |
Heats
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 3 | Thomas Rupprath | Germany | 25.25 | Q |
| 2 | 13 | 6 | Gerhard Zandberg | South Africa | 25.47 | Q |
| 3 | 13 | 5 | Steffen Driesen | Germany | 25.52 | Q |
| 4 | 13 | 4 | Matthew Clay | Great Britain | 25.66 | Q |
| 5 | 12 | 7 | Ryan Lochte | USA | 25.68 | Q |
| (scratched semis) | ||||||
| 5 | 14 | 4 | Liam Tancock | Great Britain | 25.68 | Q |
| 7 | 12 | 4 | Aristeidis Grigoriadis | 25.74 | Q | |
| 8 | 14 | 3 | Junya Koga | Japan | 25.88 | Q |
| 9 | 14 | 5 | Matt Welsh | Australia | 25.93 | Q |
| 10 | 14 | 8 | Aaron Peirsol | USA | 25.96 | Q |
| (scratched semis) | ||||||
| 11 | 13 | 3 | Tomomi Morita | Japan | 25.98 | Q |
| 12 | 13 | 2 | Ľuboš Križko | 26.03 | Q | |
| 13 | 14 | 6 | Arkady Vyatchanin | Russia | 26.14 | Q |
| 14 | 12 | 5 | OUYANG Kunpeng | China | 26.20 | Q |
| 15 | 12 | 2 | Flori Lang | Switzerland | 26.23 | Q |
| 16 | 13 | 8 | Guy Barnea | 26.24 | Q | |
| 17 | 12 | 6 | David Ortega Pitarch | Spain | 26.26 | |
| 18 | 10 | 7 | Vytautas Janušaitis | 26.34 | (scratched semis) | |
| 18 | 11 | 4 | ZHANG Chang | China | 26.34 | |
| 20 | 11 | 5 | Eduardo German Otero | Argentina | 26.37 | |
| 21 | 14 | 7 | Hayden Stoeckel | Australia | 26.38 | |
| 22 | 13 | 1 | Ivan Tolic | 26.42 | ||
| 22 | 14 | 1 | Andriy Oleynyk | 26.42 | ||
| 24 | 11 | 7 | Garth Tune | South Africa | 26.49 | |
| 25 | 13 | 7 | Simon Dufour | France | 26.58 | |
| 26 | 10 | 1 | Itai Chammah | 26.67 | ||
| 27 | 11 | 2 | Ioannis Kokkodis | 26.69 | ||
| 28 | 12 | 8 | Derya Büyükuncu | 26.71 | ||
| 28 | 14 | 2 | Matthew Rose | Canada | 26.71 | |
| 30 | 10 | 5 | Pavel Sankovich | 26.81 | ||
| 31 | 10 | 3 | Kim Torry Simmenes | 26.89 | ||
| 31 | 11 | 3 | Leonardo Guedes | Brazil | 26.89 | |
| 33 | 12 | 1 | Ante Cvitkovic | 26.94 | ||
| 34 | 11 | 8 | Danil Bugakov | 26.97 | ||
| 35 | 10 | 6 | Stanislav Osinsky | 26.98 | ||
| 36 | 11 | 6 | Gabriel Mangabeira | Brazil | 27.07 | |
| 37 | 11 | 1 | Mathias Stenderup Gydesen | 27.37 | ||
| 38 | 9 | 4 | Seunghyeon Lee | 27.44 | ||
| 39 | 9 | 7 | Yu An Lin | 27.69 | ||
| 40 | 9 | 6 | Giorgios Mylonas | 27.71 | ||
| 41 | 1 | 5 | Romāns Miloslavskis | 27.74 | ||
| 42 | 9 | 3 | Geoffrey Robin Cheah | 27.81 | ||
| 43 | 10 | 8 | David Dunford | 27.93 | ||
| 44 | 9 | 5 | Rony Bakale | Congo | 27.96 | |
| 45 | 7 | 2 | Andy Wibowo | 27.97 | ||
| 46 | 7 | 4 | Felix Cristiadi Sutanto | 27.98 | ||
| 47 | 7 | 3 | Miguel Robles | Mexico | 28.00 | |
| 48 | 8 | 5 | Suriya Suksuphak | 28.05 | ||
| 49 | 8 | 4 | Jared Heine | 28.24 | ||
| 50 | 9 | 1 | Taki Mrabet | 28.41 | ||
| 51 | 8 | 2 | Sandeep Nagar Anthal | India | 28.50 | |
| 52 | 9 | 8 | Arjun Muralidharan | India | 28.62 | |
| 53 | 2 | 1 | Roy-Allan Saul Burch Burch | 28.67 | ||
| 54 | 7 | 7 | Zhi Cong Lim | 28.75 | ||
| 54 | 8 | 7 | Shahin Baradaran Nakhjavani | 28.75 | ||
| 54 | 9 | 2 | Amine Kouam | 28.75 | ||
| 57 | 6 | 2 | Jorge Arturo Arce Aita | 28.81 | ||
| 58 | 8 | 3 | Iurii Zakharov | 28.85 | ||
| 59 | 7 | 8 | Mario Montoya | 28.89 | ||
| 60 | 6 | 4 | Wen Hao Joshua Lim | 28.95 | ||
| 61 | 7 | 5 | Gael Adam | 29.13 | ||
| 62 | 7 | 6 | Yassir Abalalla | 29.16 | ||
| 63 | 8 | 6 | Obaid Al-Jasmi | 29.19 | ||
| 63 | 8 | 1 | Onan Thom | 29.19 | ||
| 65 | 6 | 8 | Adonis Ganiev | 29.22 | ||
| 66 | 2 | 8 | Eric Chang | 29.28 | ||
| 67 | 5 | 7 | Khaly Ciss | 29.36 | ||
| 68 | 6 | 5 | Heshan Unamboowe | 29.40 | ||
| 69 | 5 | 6 | Sohaib Kalali | 29.49 | ||
| 70 | 5 | 8 | Rainui Terupaia | 29.50 | ||
| 71 | 6 | 1 | Jonathan Calderon | 29.70 | ||
| 72 | 5 | 5 | Hong Nam Lei | 29.72 | ||
| 73 | 6 | 3 | Erik Rajohnson | 29.92 | ||
| 74 | 6 | 7 | Tural Abbasov | 30.47 | ||
| 75 | 5 | 2 | Kin Wa Cheong | 30.70 | ||
| 76 | 5 | 3 | Jamie Zammitt | 30.72 | ||
| 77 | 4 | 6 | Fadi Awesat | 30.84 | ||
| 78 | 4 | 4 | Kerson Hadley | 30.89 | ||
| 79 | 3 | 4 | Tony Augustine | 30.91 | ||
| 80 | 4 | 5 | Zane Jordan | 31.21 | ||
| 81 | 4 | 8 | Hernan Bonsembiante | 31.42 | ||
| 82 | 5 | 1 | Richard Randrianandraina | 31.60 | ||
| 83 | 4 | 3 | Jamaal Sobers | 32.08 | ||
| 84 | 3 | 7 | Justin Decoster | 32.94 | ||
| 85 | 4 | 2 | Sami Nassar | 33.46 | ||
| 86 | 3 | 1 | Isao Misech | 33.54 | ||
| 87 | 3 | 5 | Monder Al−Jabali | Libya | 33.82 | |
| 88 | 3 | 2 | Rahim Karmali | 34.28 | ||
| 89 | 3 | 8 | Ali Zayeri | 34.82 | ||
| 90 | 2 | 4 | Ibrahim Shameel | 36.34 | ||
| 91 | 2 | 6 | Bulguitei Buyankhishig | 36.65 | ||
| 92 | 1 | 3 | Herve Nkurrnziza | 36.86 | ||
| 93 | 4 | 7 | Kevin Cheung | 36.96 | ||
| 94 | 2 | 2 | Ching Maou Wei | 38.65 | ||
| 95 | 2 | 5 | Mohammed Al Qerbi | 38.75 | ||
| 96 | 1 | 4 | Boipelo Makhothi | 40.72 | NR | |
| 97 | 2 | 7 | Thabiso Baholo | 43.67 | ||
| 999 | 2 | 3 | Jules Yao Bessan | DQ | ||
| 998 | 3 | 3 | Carlos Shimizu | DNS | ||
| 998 | 3 | 6 | Ashraf Ahmed | DNS | ||
| 998 | 4 | 1 | Marbi Hani | DNS | ||
| 998 | 5 | 4 | João Aguiar | DNS | ||
| 998 | 6 | 6 | Samson Opuakpo | DNS | ||
| 998 | 7 | 1 | Mohammad Rubel | DNS | ||
| 998 | 8 | 8 | Essossimana Awizoba | DNS | ||
| 998 | 10 | 2 | Jason Dunford | DNS | ||
| 998 | 10 | 4 | Markus Rogan | DNS |
References
References
- "FINA World Championships Men's 50m Backstroke Heats Official Results". OmegaTiming (official timer of the 2007 Worlds).
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