Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre backstroke

The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Time	OR	WR
August 10	Heat 4	Matt Grevers Matt Grevers Matt Grevers is a professional American swimmer. He is best known for winning the silver medal in the 100 m backstroke at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.-Personal life:...	53.41	OR
August 11	Semifinal 1	Arkady Vyatchanin Arkady Vyatchanin Arkady Arkadyevich Vyatchanin is an Russian backstroke swimmer. Vyatchanin has lived and trained in Taganrog since 1999 and is a student of the South Federal University...	53.06	OR
August 11	Semifinal 2	Hayden Stoeckel Hayden Stoeckel Hayden Ernest Stoeckel is an Olympic and National Record holding backstroke swimmer from Australia...	52.97	OR
August 12	Final	Aaron Peirsol Aaron Peirsol Aaron Wells Peirsol is a former American swimmer who specialized in the backstroke. He is a three-time Olympian and seven-time Olympic medalist . As part of the American team, he holds the world record in the 4×100-meter medley relay...	52.54	OR	WR

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Matt Grevers Matt Grevers Matt Grevers is a professional American swimmer. He is best known for winning the silver medal in the 100 m backstroke at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.-Personal life:...	0:53.41	Q, OR
2	4	5	Arkady Vyatchanin Arkady Vyatchanin Arkady Arkadyevich Vyatchanin is an Russian backstroke swimmer. Vyatchanin has lived and trained in Taganrog since 1999 and is a student of the South Federal University...	0:53.64	Q
3	6	4	Aaron Peirsol Aaron Peirsol Aaron Wells Peirsol is a former American swimmer who specialized in the backstroke. He is a three-time Olympian and seven-time Olympic medalist . As part of the American team, he holds the world record in the 4×100-meter medley relay...	0:53.65	Q
4	6	7	Aschwin Wildeboer	0:53.67	Q
5	3	5	Gerhard Zandberg	0:53.75	Q
6	6	5	Liam Tancock Liam Tancock Liam John Tancock is an English backstroke swimmer who specializes in the 50 m and 100 m events. He began his swimming career at Exeter City Swimming Club in Devon and continued at Loughborough University where he studied sports science...	0:53.85	Q
7	5	3	Hayden Stoeckel Hayden Stoeckel Hayden Ernest Stoeckel is an Olympic and National Record holding backstroke swimmer from Australia...	0:53.93	Q
8	3	8	Ľuboš Križko Luboš Križko Ľuboš Križko is an Olympic swimmer from Trenčín, Slovakia who competes in men's 100 meter backstroke. He finished 13th at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and tied for 27th at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens....	0:54.07	Q
9	5	5	Ashley Delaney Ashley Delaney Ashley Jason Delaney is a national-record holding and Olympic and World Championship medal-winning swimmer from Australia...	0:54.08	Q
10	5	2	Junichi Miyashita Junichi Miyashita is a Japanese swimmer. He won a bronze medal in the men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay at the 2008 Summer Olympics.-External links:*...	0:54.12	Q
11	4	2	Stanislav Donets Stanislav Donets Stanislav Donets is a Russian swimmer from Dimitrovgrad. He was the world record holder for the 100m backstroke .-References:...	0:54.18	Q
12	4	3	Tomomi Morita Tomomi Morita is a backstroke swimmer from Japan. He represented his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. There, he won two bronze medals in the 100 m backstroke and as a member of the 4x100 m medley relay team.-References:* *...	0:54.21	Q
13	6	3	Markus Rogan Markus Rogan Markus Antonius Rogan is an Austrian swimmer, who won two silver medals at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece and a gold medal for 200 m backstroke at the 2008 World Championships in Manchester...	0:54.22	Q
14	6	1	Mirco Di Tora	0:54.39	Q
15	5	1	Guy Barnea Guy Barnea Guy Marcos Barnea is an Israeli swimmer who represented Israel at the 2008 Summer Olympics.-Biography:Barnea is Jewish. He currently attends UC Berkeley.He competed on behalf of Israel at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.- External links :*...	0:54.50	Q
16	5	6	Gregor Tait Gregor Tait Gregor Tait is a Scottish swimmer. He was the Commonwealth Games 200 m backstroke and 200 m individual medley champion at the 2006 games in Melbourne....	0:54.62	Q
17	4	6	Aristeidis Grigoriadis Aristeidis Grigoriadis Aristeidis Grigoriadis is a Greek swimmer from Thessaloniki.-Career:Grigoriadis was the first Greek swimmer to be crowned world champion in the 50 m backstroke event of the 2005 World Championships in Montreal...	0:54.71
18	3	4	Damiano Lestingi	0:54.78
19	5	4	Helge Meeuw Helge Meeuw Helge Meeuw is a German swimmer from Wiesbaden. At the 2008 German Swimming Championships in Berlin, he swam in 53.10 sec a new European record at 100 m backstroke...	0:54.88
20	6	2	Guilherme Guido Guilherme Guido Guilherme Guido is a Brazilian backstroke swimmer who specializes in sprint events.-See also:Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics ChampionshipsList of South American records in swimming...	0:54.89
21	6	8	Răzvan Florea Razvan Florea Răzvan Florea is a former Olympic and national record setting backstroke swimmer from Romania. He was the first Romanian male to win an Olympic medal in Swimming when he won the bronze medal in the 200 backstroke at the 2004 Olympics...	0:54.89
22	4	8	George Du Rand George Du Rand Johannes Du Rand is a South African swimmer. As of 2008, he is the African and South African record holder in the men's long course 200 m backstroke...	0:54.90
23	3	7	Min Sung	0:54.99
24	4	1	Gordan Kožulj Gordan Kožulj Gordan Kožulj is a former backstroke swimmer from Croatia, who competed in four consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1996....	0:55.05
25	3	3	Benjamin Stasiulis	0:55.08
26	2	6	Omar Pinzón Omar Pinzón Omar Andrés Pinzón García is a Colombian international swimmer. He competed at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece and 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China. Pinzón attended college in the United States, where he swam for the University of Florida.At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Pinzón finished...	0:55.11
27	3	6	Jonathan Massacand	0:55.21
28	4	7	Nick Driebergen Nick Driebergen Nick Driebergen is a Dutch Swimmer who is specialized in backstroke. He currently holds national long course records in all backstroke events and in the 4×100 medley relay. At short course he holds the national record in 50 and 100 m backstroke and in the 4×50 medley relay...	0:55.31
29	2	5	Pavel Sankovich	0:55.39
30	3	1	Derya Büyükuncu Derya Büyükunçu Derya Büyükuncu is a five-time olympic backstroke and butterfly swimmer from Turkey.In 2009, during the LEN Shourt Course European Championships, Buyukuncu was a finalist in 200 m backstroke. He finished in 5th place at the age of 33. -References:...	0:55.43
31	5	8	Jake Tapp	0:55.54
32	3	2	Vytautas Janušaitis Vytautas Janušaitis Vytautas Janušaitis is an Olympic swimmer from Lithuania, who represented his home country at the 2004 and 2008 Games.He has swam at every edition of the SC Europeans from 2004-'08....	0:55.65
33	6	6	Thomas Rupprath Thomas Rupprath Thomas Rupprath is an Olympic swimmer from Germany, who is nicknamed "The New Albatross". A specialist in the backstroke and butterfly, especially in short course, he held the world record for the 50 m backstroke with a time of 23.27 seconds set on 31 November 2002. This was broken by Robert...	0:55.77
34	5	7	Marko Strahija Marko Strahija Marko Strahija is a backstroke swimmer from Croatia, who competed at two Summer Olympics, starting in 1996....	0:55.89
35	2	4	Örn Arnarson Örn Arnarson Örn Arnarson is a backstroke swimmer from Iceland, who won his first major title in 1998 at the European SC Championships in Sheffield. There he captured the title in the 200 m backstroke....	0:56.15
36	2	3	Roland Rudolf	0:56.25
37	2	2	Xiaolei Sun	0:56.44
38	2	8	Oleksandr Isakov	0:56.55
39	1	4	Danil Bugakov	0:56.59
40	2	7	German Eduardo Otero	0:56.74
41	2	1	Tomáš Fučík	0:57.29
42	1	5	Stanislav Osinsky Stanislav Osinsky Stanislav Aleksandrovich Osinsky is a male backstroke swimmer from Kazakhstan, who twice competed for his native country at the Summer Olympics: 2004 and 2008. His best result was finishing in 41st place in the men's 100m backstroke event in Athens, Greece .-References:*...	0:57.42
43	1	3	Jared J Heine	0:58.86
44	1	2	Souhaib Kalala	1:00.24
45	1	6	Rubel Mohammad Rana	1:04.82

Semifinals

Rank	Semifinal	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	2	6	Hayden Stoeckel Hayden Stoeckel Hayden Ernest Stoeckel is an Olympic and National Record holding backstroke swimmer from Australia...	52.97	Q, OR
2	2	4	Matt Grevers Matt Grevers Matt Grevers is a professional American swimmer. He is best known for winning the silver medal in the 100 m backstroke at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.-Personal life:...	52.99	Q
3	1	4	Arkady Vyatchanin Arkady Vyatchanin Arkady Arkadyevich Vyatchanin is an Russian backstroke swimmer. Vyatchanin has lived and trained in Taganrog since 1999 and is a student of the South Federal University...	53.06	Q, OR
4	1	5	Aschwin Wildeboer	53.51	Q
5	2	5	Aaron Peirsol Aaron Peirsol Aaron Wells Peirsol is a former American swimmer who specialized in the backstroke. He is a three-time Olympian and seven-time Olympic medalist . As part of the American team, he holds the world record in the 4×100-meter medley relay...	53.56	Q
6	1	3	Liam Tancock Liam Tancock Liam John Tancock is an English backstroke swimmer who specializes in the 50 m and 100 m events. He began his swimming career at Exeter City Swimming Club in Devon and continued at Loughborough University where he studied sports science...	53.61	Q
7	1	2	Junichi Miyashita Junichi Miyashita is a Japanese swimmer. He won a bronze medal in the men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay at the 2008 Summer Olympics.-External links:*...	53.69	Q
8	2	2	Ashley Delaney Ashley Delaney Ashley Jason Delaney is a national-record holding and Olympic and World Championship medal-winning swimmer from Australia...	53.76	Q
9	2	1	Markus Rogan Markus Rogan Markus Antonius Rogan is an Austrian swimmer, who won two silver medals at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece and a gold medal for 200 m backstroke at the 2008 World Championships in Manchester...	53.80
10	1	7	Tomomi Morita Tomomi Morita is a backstroke swimmer from Japan. He represented his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. There, he won two bronze medals in the 100 m backstroke and as a member of the 4x100 m medley relay team.-References:* *...	53.95
11	2	3	Gerhard Zandberg	53.98
12	1	8	Gregor Tait Gregor Tait Gregor Tait is a Scottish swimmer. He was the Commonwealth Games 200 m backstroke and 200 m individual medley champion at the 2006 games in Melbourne....	54.37
13	1	6	Ľuboš Križko Luboš Križko Ľuboš Križko is an Olympic swimmer from Trenčín, Slovakia who competes in men's 100 meter backstroke. He finished 13th at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and tied for 27th at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens....	54.38
14	2	7	Stanislav Donets Stanislav Donets Stanislav Donets is a Russian swimmer from Dimitrovgrad. He was the world record holder for the 100m backstroke .-References:...	54.57
15	1	1	Mirco Di Tora	54.92
16	2	8	Guy Barnea Guy Barnea Guy Marcos Barnea is an Israeli swimmer who represented Israel at the 2008 Summer Olympics.-Biography:Barnea is Jewish. He currently attends UC Berkeley.He competed on behalf of Israel at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.- External links :*...	54.93

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
	2	Aaron Peirsol Aaron Peirsol Aaron Wells Peirsol is a former American swimmer who specialized in the backstroke. He is a three-time Olympian and seven-time Olympic medalist . As part of the American team, he holds the world record in the 4×100-meter medley relay...	0:52.54
	5	Matt Grevers Matt Grevers Matt Grevers is a professional American swimmer. He is best known for winning the silver medal in the 100 m backstroke at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.-Personal life:...	0:53.11
	3	Arkady Vyatchanin Arkady Vyatchanin Arkady Arkadyevich Vyatchanin is an Russian backstroke swimmer. Vyatchanin has lived and trained in Taganrog since 1999 and is a student of the South Federal University...	0:53.18
	4	Hayden Stoeckel Hayden Stoeckel Hayden Ernest Stoeckel is an Olympic and National Record holding backstroke swimmer from Australia...	0:53.18
5	8	Ashley Delaney Ashley Delaney Ashley Jason Delaney is a national-record holding and Olympic and World Championship medal-winning swimmer from Australia...	0:53.31
6	7	Liam Tancock Liam Tancock Liam John Tancock is an English backstroke swimmer who specializes in the 50 m and 100 m events. He began his swimming career at Exeter City Swimming Club in Devon and continued at Loughborough University where he studied sports science...	0:53.39	NR
7	6	Aschwin Wildeboer	0:53.51
8	1	Junichi Miyashita Junichi Miyashita is a Japanese swimmer. He won a bronze medal in the men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay at the 2008 Summer Olympics.-External links:*...	0:53.99

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