Swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre backstroke
| Men's 100 metre backstroke at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships |
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| Dates | July 25, 2011 (heats and semifinals) July 26, 2011 (final) |
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| Competitors | 50 from 36 nations | ||||||
| Winning time | 52.76 | ||||||
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The men's 100 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships was held on July 25 with the preliminary round and the semifinals and July 26 with the final.
Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
50 swimmer participated in 7 heats.
As two swimmers had the same time in the heats at place 16 they had to participate in a swimoff to determine the last semifinal swimmer, it was held at 11:36.
The semifinals were held at 18:10.
The final was held at 19:06.
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