2016 Summer Olympics Results - Swimming
| Men's 100m Backstroke | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| August 7 - Final | |||
 |  USAUnited States | Ryan Murphy | 51.97 OR |
 |  CHNChina | Xu Jiayu | 52.31 |
 | USAUnited States | David Plummer | 52.40 |
| 4 |  AUSAustralia | Mitch Larkin | 52.43 |
| 5 |  FRAFrance | Camille Lacourt | 52.70 |
| 6 |  RUSRussia | Evgeny Rylov | 52.74 |
| 7 |  JPNJapan | Ryosuke Irie | 53.42 |
| 8 |  ROURomania | Robert Glinta | 53.50 |
| 9 | RUSRussia | Grigory Tarasevich | 53.46 |
| 10 |  RSASouth Africa | Christopher Reid | 53.70 |
| 11 |  GBRGreat Britain | Chris Walker-Hebborn | 53.75 |
| 12 |  GERGermany | Jan-Philip Glania | 53.94 |
| 13 | AUSAustralia | Josh Beaver | 53.95 |
| 14 |  BRABrazil | Guilherme Guido | 54.16 |
| 15 |  NZLNew Zealand | Corey Main | 54.29 |
| 16 |  IRLIreland | Shane Ryan | 54.40 |
| 17 |  CANCanada | Javier Acevedo | 54.11 |
| 18 |  GREGreece | Apostolos Christou | 54.12 |
| 19 | JPNJapan | Junya Hasegawa | 54.17 |
| 20 |  ESPSpain | Hugo Gonzalez de Oliveira | 54.18 |
| 21 | CHNChina | Li Guangyuan | 54.36 |
| 22 |  SGPSingapore | Quah Zheng Wen | 54.38 |
| 23 |  POLPoland | Radoslaw Kawecki | 54.39 |
| 24 |  LTULithuania | Danas Rapsys | 54.40 |
| 25 |  HUNHungary | Gábor Balog | 54.48 |
| 26 | POLPoland | Tomasz Polewka | 54.52 |
| 27 |  ISRIsrael | Yakov-Yan Toumarkin | 54.66 |
| 28 |  ITAItaly | Simone Sabbioni | 54.91 |
| 29 |  BLRBelarus | Mikita Tsmyh | 54.97 |
| 30 |  KORSouth Korea | Won Youngjun | 55.05 |
| 31 |  VENVenezuela | Albert Subirats | 55.44 |
| 32 | BLRBelarus | Viktar Staselovich | 55.68 |
| 33 |  TKMTurkmenistan | Merdan Atayev | 56.34 |
| 34 |  JAMJamaica | Timothy Wynter | 57.20 |
| 35 |  BOTBotswana | David Van Der Colff | 57.77 |
| 36 |  MARMorocco | Driss Lahrichi | 58.01 |
| 37 |  UAEUnited Arab Emirates | Yaaqoub Alsaadi | 59.58 |
| 38 |  KENKenya | Hamdan Bayusuf | 1:00.28 |
| 39 |  QATQatar | Noah Al-Khulaifi | 1:07.47 |
| Men's 100m Backstroke, Heats | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| August 7 - Final | |||
| 1 | FRAFrance | Camille Lacourt | 52.96 Q |
| 2 | CHNChina | Xu Jiayu | 53.01 Q |
| 3 | AUSAustralia | Mitch Larkin | 53.04 Q |
| 4 | USAUnited States | Ryan Murphy | 53.06 Q |
| 5 | USAUnited States | David Plummer | 53.19 Q |
| 6 | RUSRussia | Evgeny Rylov | 53.25 Q |
| 7 | AUSAustralia | Josh Beaver | 53.47 Q |
| 8 | JPNJapan | Ryosuke Irie | 53.49 Q |
| 9 | ROURomania | Robert Glinta | 53.51 Q |
| 10 | GBRGreat Britain | Chris Walker-Hebborn | 53.54 Q |
| 11 | RUSRussia | Grigory Tarasevich | 53.65 Q |
| 12 | RSASouth Africa | Christopher Reid | 53.68 Q |
| 13 | BRABrazil | Guilherme Guido | 53.80 Q |
| 14 | IRLIreland | Shane Ryan | 53.85 Q |
| 15 | GERGermany | Jan-Philip Glania | 53.87 Q |
| 16 | NZLNew Zealand | Corey Main | 53.99 Q |
| 17 | CANCanada | Javier Acevedo | 54.11 |
| 18 | GREGreece | Apostolos Christou | 54.12 |
| 19 | JPNJapan | Junya Hasegawa | 54.17 |
| 20 | ESPSpain | Hugo Gonzalez de Oliveira | 54.18 |
| 21 | CHNChina | Li Guangyuan | 54.36 |
| 22 | SGPSingapore | Quah Zheng Wen | 54.38 |
| 23 | POLPoland | Radoslaw Kawecki | 54.39 |
| 24 | LTULithuania | Danas Rapsys | 54.40 |
| 25 | HUNHungary | Gábor Balog | 54.48 |
| 26 | POLPoland | Tomasz Polewka | 54.52 |
| 27 | ISRIsrael | Yakov-Yan Toumarkin | 54.66 |
| 28 | ITAItaly | Simone Sabbioni | 54.91 |
| 29 | BLRBelarus | Mikita Tsmyh | 54.97 |
| 30 | KORSouth Korea | Won Youngjun | 55.05 |
| 31 | VENVenezuela | Albert Subirats | 55.44 |
| 32 | BLRBelarus | Viktar Staselovich | 55.68 |
| 33 | TKMTurkmenistan | Merdan Atayev | 56.34 |
| 34 | JAMJamaica | Timothy Wynter | 57.20 |
| 35 | BOTBotswana | David Van Der Colff | 57.77 |
| 36 | MARMorocco | Driss Lahrichi | 58.01 |
| 37 | UAEUnited Arab Emirates | Yaaqoub Alsaadi | 59.58 |
| 38 | KENKenya | Hamdan Bayusuf | 1:00.28 |
| 39 | QATQatar | Noah Al-Khulaifi | 1:07.47 |
| Men's 100m Backstroke, Final | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| August 9 - Final | |||
| 1 | USAUnited States | Ryan Murphy | 51.97 OR |
| 2 | CHNChina | Xu Jiayu | 52.31 |
| 3 | USAUnited States | David Plummer | 52.40 |
| 4 | AUSAustralia | Mitch Larkin | 52.43 |
| 5 | FRAFrance | Camille Lacourt | 52.70 |
| 6 | RUSRussia | Evgeny Rylov | 52.74 |
| 7 | JPNJapan | Ryosuke Irie | 53.42 |
| 8 | ROURomania | Robert Glinta | 53.50 |
| Men's 100m Backstroke, Semifinal, Semifinal 2 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| August 8 - Final | |||
| 1 | USAUnited States | David Plummer | 52.50 |
| 2 | AUSAustralia | Mitch Larkin | 52.70 |
| 3 | FRAFrance | Camille Lacourt | 52.72 |
| 4 | ROURomania | Robert Glinta | 53.34 |
| 5 | RUSRussia | Grigory Tarasevich | 53.46 |
| 6 | GERGermany | Jan-Philip Glania | 53.94 |
| 7 | AUSAustralia | Josh Beaver | 53.95 |
| 8 | BRABrazil | Guilherme Guido | 54.16 |
| Men's 100m Backstroke, Semifinal, Semifinal 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| August 8 - Final | |||
| 1 | USAUnited States | Ryan Murphy | 52.49 |
| 2 | CHNChina | Xu Jiayu | 52.73 |
| 3 | RUSRussia | Evgeny Rylov | 52.84 |
| 4 | JPNJapan | Ryosuke Irie | 53.21 |
| 5 | RSASouth Africa | Christopher Reid | 53.70 |
| 6 | GBRGreat Britain | Chris Walker-Hebborn | 53.75 |
| 7 | NZLNew Zealand | Corey Main | 54.29 |
| 8 | IRLIreland | Shane Ryan | 54.40 |
| Men's 100m Backstroke, Semifinal | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| August 8 - Final | |||
| 1 | USAUnited States | Ryan Murphy | 52.49 Q |
| 2 | USAUnited States | David Plummer | 52.50 Q |
| 3 | AUSAustralia | Mitch Larkin | 52.70 Q |
| 4 | FRAFrance | Camille Lacourt | 52.72 Q |
| 5 | CHNChina | Xu Jiayu | 52.73 Q |
| 6 | RUSRussia | Evgeny Rylov | 52.84 Q |
| 7 | JPNJapan | Ryosuke Irie | 53.21 Q |
| 8 | ROURomania | Robert Glinta | 53.34 Q |
| 9 | RUSRussia | Grigory Tarasevich | 53.46 |
| 10 | RSASouth Africa | Christopher Reid | 53.70 |
| 11 | GBRGreat Britain | Chris Walker-Hebborn | 53.75 |
| 12 | GERGermany | Jan-Philip Glania | 53.94 |
| 13 | AUSAustralia | Josh Beaver | 53.95 |
| 14 | BRABrazil | Guilherme Guido | 54.16 |
| 15 | NZLNew Zealand | Corey Main | 54.29 |
| 16 | IRLIreland | Shane Ryan | 54.40 |
| Men's 100m Backstroke, Heats, Heat 5 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| August 7 - Final | |||
| 1 | FRAFrance | Camille Lacourt | 52.96 |
| 2 | AUSAustralia | Mitch Larkin | 53.04 |
| 3 | AUSAustralia | Josh Beaver | 53.47 |
| 4 | JPNJapan | Ryosuke Irie | 53.49 |
| 5 | BRABrazil | Guilherme Guido | 53.80 |
| 6 | GREGreece | Apostolos Christou | 54.12 |
| 7 | JPNJapan | Junya Hasegawa | 54.17 |
| 8 | BLRBelarus | Mikita Tsmyh | 54.97 |
| Men's 100m Backstroke, Heats, Heat 4 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| August 7 - Final | |||
| 1 | USAUnited States | David Plummer | 53.19 |
| 2 | ROURomania | Robert Glinta | 53.51 |
| 3 | GBRGreat Britain | Chris Walker-Hebborn | 53.54 |
| 4 | RUSRussia | Grigory Tarasevich | 53.65 |
| 5 | RSASouth Africa | Christopher Reid | 53.68 |
| 6 | CANCanada | Javier Acevedo | 54.11 |
| 7 | SGPSingapore | Quah Zheng Wen | 54.38 |
| 8 | POLPoland | Radoslaw Kawecki | 54.39 |
| Men's 100m Backstroke, Heats, Heat 3 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| August 7 - Final | |||
| 1 | CHNChina | Xu Jiayu | 53.01 |
| 2 | USAUnited States | Ryan Murphy | 53.06 |
| 3 | RUSRussia | Evgeny Rylov | 53.25 |
| 4 | IRLIreland | Shane Ryan | 53.85 |
| 5 | GERGermany | Jan-Philip Glania | 53.87 |
| 6 | HUNHungary | Gábor Balog | 54.48 |
| 7 | ISRIsrael | Yakov-Yan Toumarkin | 54.66 |
| 8 | ITAItaly | Simone Sabbioni | 54.91 |
| Men's 100m Backstroke, Heats, Heat 2 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| August 7 - Final | |||
| 1 | NZLNew Zealand | Corey Main | 53.99 |
| 2 | ESPSpain | Hugo Gonzalez de Oliveira | 54.18 |
| 3 | CHNChina | Li Guangyuan | 54.36 |
| 4 | LTULithuania | Danas Rapsys | 54.40 |
| 5 | POLPoland | Tomasz Polewka | 54.52 |
| 6 | KORSouth Korea | Won Youngjun | 55.05 |
| 7 | VENVenezuela | Albert Subirats | 55.44 |
| 8 | BLRBelarus | Viktar Staselovich | 55.68 |
| Men's 100m Backstroke, Heats, Heat 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| August 7 - Final | |||
| 1 | TKMTurkmenistan | Merdan Atayev | 56.34 |
| 2 | JAMJamaica | Timothy Wynter | 57.20 |
| 3 | BOTBotswana | David Van Der Colff | 57.77 |
| 4 | MARMorocco | Driss Lahrichi | 58.01 |
| 5 | UAEUnited Arab Emirates | Yaaqoub Alsaadi | 59.58 |
| 6 | KENKenya | Hamdan Bayusuf | 1:00.28 |
| 7 | QATQatar | Noah Al-Khulaifi | 1:07.47 |
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