Swimming 2020/Men's 100 metre backstroke

Men's 100 metre backstroke
General information
Sport	Swimming 2020
Date	25-27 July 2021
Competitors	41 athletes
Venue	Tokyo Aquatics Centre
Previous medalists
Gold	Ryan Murphy
Silver	Xu Jiayu
Bronze	David Plummer
Conditions
Length	100 metres
Medalists
	Evgeny Rylov
	Kliment Kolesnikov
	Ryan Murphy

The men's 100 metre backstroke of Swimming 2020 during the 2020 Summer Olympics was held on 25-27 July 2021 in the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. With 41 athletes competing, the event was won by Evgeny Rylov from ROC, with Kliment Kolesnikov from ROC taking the silver medal and Ryan Murphy from United States taking bronze.

Format

The competition exists out of three rounds, each with races of up to nine athletes. In the first round, the sixteen fastest athletes qualify for the semifinals. In the semifinals, the two fastest athletes of each race, as well as the four fastest non-qualifiers advance to the final. The fastest competitor in the final is the winner of the event.

Preview

Forty-one athletes qualified for the event with plenty of medal contenders in a strong field. Xu Jiayu was the reigning world champion, but the Russian representation was also very strong with the world-leading time of Evgeny Rylov and the junior world record holder Kliment Kolesnikov. Ryan Murphy was the defending Olympic champion in a field that also featured the bronze medalist of the most recent world championships Mitch Larkin, three-time bronze medalist at the European championships Apostolos Christou, European champion Robert Glinta, and 2012 bronze medalist Ryosuke Irie.

Current Records

Record	Date	Nat.	Name	Time
WR	13 August 2016		Ryan Murphy	51.85
OR	13 August 2016		Ryan Murphy	51.85

Summary

Round 1

Heat 1 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Merdan Atayev	55.24	NR
2		Gabriel Castillo	58.24
3		Heriniavo Rasolonjatovo	59.81

Heat 2 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Kacper Stokowski	53.99
2		Francisco Rogerio Santos	54.35	NR
3		Jan Cejka	54.69
4		Dylan Carter	54.82
5		Michael Laitarovsky	55.34
6		Kaloyan Levterov	55.60

Heat 3 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Marek Ulrich	53.74	Q, PR
2		Guilherme Basseto	53.84
3		Zheng Wen Quah	53.94
4		Ole Braunschweig	54.14
5		Srihari Nataraj	54.31
6		Yakov Toumarkin	54.81
7		Mikita Tsmyh	54.88
8		Bernhard Reitshammer	55.26

Heat 4 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Xu Jiayu	52.70	Q
2		Mewen Tomac	53.49	Q
3		Guilherme Guido	53.65	Q
4		Isaac Cooper	53.73	Q
5		Joseph Armstrong	53.77	Q
6		Luke Greenbank	53.79
7		Adam Telegdy	54.42
8		Daniel Martin	56.91

Heat 5 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Kliment Kolesnikov	52.15	Q
2		Thomas Ceccon	52.49	Q, NR
3		Mitch Larkin	52.97	Q
4		Ryosuke Irie	52.99	Q
5		Hugo Gonzalez	53.45	Q
6		Simone Sabbioni	53.79
7		Lee Ju-ho	53.84
8		Pieter Coetze	54.05

Heat 6 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Yohann Ndoye-Brouard	53.13	Q
2		Evgeny Rylov	53.22	Q
2		Ryan Murphy	53.22	Q
4		Robert Glinta	53.67	Q
5		Apostolos Christou	53.77	Q
6		Markus Thormeyer	53.80
7		Cole Pratt	54.27
-		Richard Bohus	DQ

Semifinals

Semifinal 1 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Ryan Murphy	52.24	Q
2		Mitch Larkin	52.76	Q
3		Thomas Ceccon	52.78	Q
4		Robert Glinta	53.20	Q
5		Apostolos Christou	53.41
6		Marek Ulrich	53.54	PR
7		Mewen Tomac	53.62
-		Yohann Ndoye-Brouard	DQ

Semifinal 2 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Kliment Kolesnikov	52.29	Q
2		Evgeny Rylov	52.91	Q
3		Xu Jiayu	52.94	Q
4		Hugo Gonzalez	53.05	Q
5		Ryosuke Irie	53.21
5		Joseph Armstrong	53.21
7		Isaac Cooper	53.43	PR
8		Guilherme Guido	53.80

Final

Final Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Evgeny Rylov	51.98	AR
2		Kliment Kolesnikov	52.00	PR
3		Ryan Murphy	52.19
4		Thomas Ceccon	52.30	NR
5		Xu Jiayu	52.51
6		Hugo Gonzalez	52.78	PR
7		Mitch Larkin	52.79
8		Robert Glinta	52.95

Results

Result	Athlete	Nationality
	Evgeny Rylov	ROC
	Kliment Kolesnikov	ROC
	Ryan Murphy	United States
4	Thomas Ceccon	Italy
5	Xu Jiayu	China
6	Hugo Gonzalez	Spain
7	Mitch Larkin	Australia
8	Robert Glinta	Romania
9	Ryosuke Irie	Japan
9	Joseph Armstrong	United States
11	Apostolos Christou	Greece
12	Isaac Cooper	Australia
13	Marek Ulrich	Germany
14	Mewen Tomac	France
15	Guilherme Guido	Brazil
16	Yohann Ndoye-Brouard	France
17	Luke Greenbank	Great Britain
17	Simone Sabbioni	Italy
19	Markus Thormeyer	Canada
20	Guilherme Basseto	Brazil
20	Lee Ju-ho	South Korea
22	Zheng Wen Quah	Singapore
23	Kacper Stokowski	Poland
24	Pieter Coetze	South Africa
25	Ole Braunschweig	Germany
26	Cole Pratt	Canada
27	Srihari Nataraj	India
28	Francisco Rogerio Santos	Portugal
29	Adam Telegdy	Hungary
30	Jan Cejka	Czech Republic
31	Yakov Toumarkin	Israel
32	Dylan Carter	Trinidad and Tobago
33	Mikita Tsmyh	Belarus
34	Merdan Atayev	Turkmenistan
35	Bernhard Reitshammer	Austria
36	Micahel Laitarovsky	Israel
37	Kaloyan Levterov	Bulgaria
38	Daniel Martin	Romania
39	Gabriel Castillo	Bolivia
40	Heriniavo Rasolonjatovo	Madagascar
-	Richard Bohus	Hungary

2020 Summer Olympic Games
Swimming 2020
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Men
Freestyle	Backstroke
50 m	100 m
100 m	200 m
200 m	Breaststroke
400 m	100 m
800 m	200 m
1500 m
Butterfly	Individual Medley
100 m	200 m
200 m	400 m
Freestyle Relay
4x100 m	4x100 m medley
4x200 m	10 km open water
Women
Freestyle	Backstroke
50 m	100 m
100 m	200 m
200 m	Breaststroke
400 m	100 m
800 m	200 m
1500 m
Butterfly	Individual Medley
100 m	200 m
200 m	400 m
Freestyle Relay
4x100 m	4x100 m medley
4x200 m	10 km open water
Mixed
4x100 m medley