Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre backstroke

Men's 50 metre backstroke at the 2007 FINA World Championships
Venue	Rod Laver Arena
Dates	31 March 2007 (heats, semifinals) 1 April 2007 (final)
Competitors	107
Winning time	24.98 seconds
Medalists
Gerhard Zandberg    South Africa   Thomas Rupprath    Germany   Liam Tancock    Great Britain
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The men's 50 metre backstroke at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships took place on 31 March (prelims^[1] and semifinals^[2] ) and on the evening of 1 April (final)^[3] 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
	3	Gerhard Zandberg	South Africa	24.98
	6	Thomas Rupprath	Germany	25.20
	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	Greece	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	Greece	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	Slovakia	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	Israel	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	Greece	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	Slovakia	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	Israel	26.24	Q
17	12	6	David Ortega Pitarch	Spain	26.26
18	10	7	Vytautas Janušaitis	Lithuania	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	Croatia	26.42
22	14	1	Andriy Oleynyk	Ukraine	26.42
24	11	7	Garth Tune	South Africa	26.49
25	13	7	Simon Dufour	France	26.58
26	10	1	Itai Chammah	Israel	26.67
27	11	2	Ioannis Kokkodis	Greece	26.69
28	12	8	Derya Büyükuncu	Turkey	26.71
28	14	2	Matthew Rose	Canada	26.71
30	10	5	Pavel Sankovich	Belarus	26.81
31	10	3	Kim Torry Simmenes	Norway	26.89
31	11	3	Leonardo Guedes	Brazil	26.89
33	12	1	Ante Cvitkovic	Croatia	26.94
34	11	8	Danil Bugakov	Uzbekistan	26.97
35	10	6	Stanislav Osinsky	Kazakhstan	26.98
36	11	6	Gabriel Mangabeira	Brazil	27.07
37	11	1	Mathias Stenderup Gydesen	Denmark	27.37
38	9	4	Seunghyeon Lee	South Korea	27.44
39	9	7	Yu An Lin	Chinese Taipei	27.69
40	9	6	Giorgios Mylonas	Cyprus	27.71
41	1	5	Romāns Miloslavskis	Latvia	27.74
42	9	3	Geoffrey Robin Cheah	Hong Kong	27.81
43	10	8	David Dunford	Kenya	27.93
44	9	5	Rony Bakale	Congo	27.96
45	7	2	Andy Wibowo	Indonesia	27.97
46	7	4	Felix Cristiadi Sutanto	Indonesia	27.98
47	7	3	Miguel Robles	Mexico	28.00
48	8	5	Suriya Suksuphak	Thailand	28.05
49	8	4	Jared Heine	Marshall Islands	28.24
50	9	1	Taki Mrabet	Tunisia	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	Bermuda	28.67
54	7	7	Zhi Cong Lim	Singapore	28.75
54	8	7	Shahin Baradaran Nakhjavani	Iran	28.75
54	9	2	Amine Kouam	Morocco	28.75
57	6	2	Jorge Arturo Arce Aita	Costa Rica	28.81
58	8	3	Iurii Zakharov	Kyrgyzstan	28.85
59	7	8	Mario Montoya	Costa Rica	28.89
60	6	4	Wen Hao Joshua Lim	Singapore	28.95
61	7	5	Gael Adam	Mauritius	29.13
62	7	6	Yassir Abalalla	Bolivia	29.16
63	8	6	Obaid Al-Jasmi	United Arab Emirates	29.19
63	8	1	Onan Thom	Guyana	29.19
65	6	8	Adonis Ganiev	Uzbekistan	29.22
66	2	8	Eric Chang	Malaysia	29.28
67	5	7	Khaly Ciss	Senegal	29.36
68	6	5	Heshan Unamboowe	Sri Lanka	29.40
69	5	6	Sohaib Kalali	Syria	29.49
70	5	8	Rainui Terupaia	Tahiti	29.50
71	6	1	Jonathan Calderon	Saint Lucia	29.70
72	5	5	Hong Nam Lei	Macau	29.72
73	6	3	Erik Rajohnson	Madagascar	29.92
74	6	7	Tural Abbasov	Azerbaijan	30.47
75	5	2	Kin Wa Cheong	Macau	30.70
76	5	3	Jamie Zammitt	Gibraltar	30.72
77	4	6	Fadi Awesat	Palestine	30.84
78	4	4	Kerson Hadley	Federated States of Micronesia	30.89
79	3	4	Tony Augustine	Federated States of Micronesia	30.91
80	4	5	Zane Jordan	Zambia	31.21
81	4	8	Hernan Bonsembiante	Guam	31.42
82	5	1	Richard Randrianandraina	Madagascar	31.60
83	4	3	Jamaal Sobers	Guyana	32.08
84	3	7	Justin Decoster	Marshall Islands	32.94
85	4	2	Sami Nassar	Palestine	33.46
86	3	1	Isao Misech	Palau	33.54
87	3	5	Monder Al−Jabali	Libya	33.82
88	3	2	Rahim Karmali	Uganda	34.28
89	3	8	Ali Zayeri	Brunei	34.82
90	2	4	Ibrahim Shameel	Maldives	36.34
91	2	6	Bulguitei Buyankhishig	Mongolia	36.65
92	1	3	Herve Nkurrnziza	Burundi	36.86
93	4	7	Kevin Cheung	Mauritius	36.96
94	2	2	Ching Maou Wei	American Samoa	38.65
95	2	5	Mohammed Al Qerbi	Yemen	38.75
96	1	4	Boipelo Makhothi	Lesotho	40.72	NR
97	2	7	Thabiso Baholo	Lesotho	43.67
999	2	3	Jules Yao Bessan	Benin	DQ
998	3	3	Carlos Shimizu	Guam	DNS
998	3	6	Ashraf Ahmed	Sudan	DNS
998	4	1	Marbi Hani	Albania	DNS
998	5	4	João Aguiar	Angola	DNS
998	6	6	Samson Opuakpo	Nigeria	DNS
998	7	1	Mohammad Rubel	Bangladesh	DNS
998	8	8	Essossimana Awizoba	Togo	DNS
998	10	2	Jason Dunford	Kenya	DNS
998	10	4	Markus Rogan	Austria	DNS

See also

• Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre backstroke (previous Worlds)
• Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre backstroke (next Worlds)

References