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

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.

Men's 100 metre backstroke
at the 2005 FINA World Championships
Dates25 July 2005 (heats, semifinals)
26 July 2005 (final)
Competitors74 from 68 nations
Winning time53.62 seconds
Medalists
gold medal    United States
silver medal    United States
bronze medal    Hungary
← 2003
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Records

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

Name Nationality Time Location Date
World record Aaron Peirsol   United States 53.17 Indianapolis 2 April 2005
Championship record Aaron Peirsol   United States 53.61 Barcelona 22 July 2003

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

Results

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Preliminary heats

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

Semifinals

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Rank Heat/Lane Swimmer Nationality Time Notes
1 S2 L4 Aaron Peirsol   USA 54.46 q
2 S2 L5 Randall Bal   USA 54.49 q
2 S2 L8 Tomomi Morita   Japan 54.49 q
4 S2 L3 László Cseh   Hungary 54.52 q
4 S2 L2 Arkady Vyatchanin   Russia 54.52 q
6 S1 L4 Aristeidis Grigoriadis   Greece 54.69 q
7 S1 L3 Markus Rogan   Austria 54.75 q
8 S2 L6 Blaž Medvešek   Slovenia 54.88 q
9 S2 L1 Matt Welsh   Australia 54.89
10 S1 L1 Liam Tancock   Great Britain 55.07
11 S2 L7 Gordan Kožulj   Croatia 55.08
12 S1 L2 Răzvan Florea   Romania 55.34
13 S1 L7 Steffen Driesen   Germany 55.37
14 S1 L5 Andrew Lauterstein   Australia 55.43
15 S1 L6 Junichi Miyashita   Japan 55.44
16 S1 L8 David Ortega   Spain 55.73

Final

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Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
  Aaron Peirsol   USA 53.62
  Randall Bal   USA 54.02
  László Cseh   Hungary 54.27
4 Tomomi Morita   Japan 54.31
5 Arkady Vyatchanin   Russia 54.50
6 Aristeidis Grigoriadis   Greece 54.61
7 Markus Rogan   Austria 54.81
8 Blaž Medvešek   Slovenia 55.13

References

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