The men's 50 metre backstroke at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships took place on 31 March (prelims and semifinals ) and on the evening of 1 April (final) at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia. 107 swimmers were entered in the event, of which 98 swam.

Existing records at the start of the event were: World record (WR): 24.80, Thomas Rupprath (Germany), 27 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Championship record (CR): same

Results

Final Place Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 3 Gerhard Zandberg 24.98 6 Thomas Rupprath 25.20 4 Liam Tancock 25.23 4 5 Steffen Driesen 25.29 5 2 Matthew Clay 25.32 6 1 Aristeidis Grigoriadis 25.52 7 7 Junya Koga 25.56 8 8 Matt Welsh 25.61

Semifinals Rank Heat & Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 H2-L3 Liam Tancock 25.08 Q 2 H2-L5 Steffen Driesen 25.21 Q 3 H1-L4 Gerhard Zandberg 25.26 Q 4 H2-L4 Thomas Rupprath 25.29 Q 5 H1-L5 Matthew Clay 25.48 Q 6 H2-L6 Junya Koga 25.55 Q 7 H1-L3 Aristeidis Grigoriadis 25.66 Q 8 H1-L6 Matt Welsh 25.76 Q 8.5 H1.5 25.79 O 9 H2-L1 Flori Lang 25.81 10 H2-L2 Tomomi Morita 25.93 11 H1-L2 Ľuboš Križko 25.96 12 H2-L7 Arkady Vyatchanin 26.03 13 H2-L8 David Ortega Pitarch 26.26 14 H1-L8 ZHANG Chang 26.33 15 H1-L1 Guy Barnea 26.45 999 H1-L7 Ouyang Kunpeng DQ

Heats Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 12 3 Thomas Rupprath 25.25 Q 2 13 6 Gerhard Zandberg 25.47 Q 3 13 5 Steffen Driesen 25.52 Q 4 13 4 Matthew Clay 25.66 Q 5 12 7 Ryan Lochte 25.68 Q (scratched semis) 5 14 4 Liam Tancock 25.68 Q 7 12 4 Aristeidis Grigoriadis 25.74 Q 8 14 3 Junya Koga 25.88 Q 9 14 5 Matt Welsh 25.93 Q 10 14 8 Aaron Peirsol 25.96 Q (scratched semis) 11 13 3 Tomomi Morita 25.98 Q 12 13 2 Ľuboš Križko 26.03 Q 13 14 6 Arkady Vyatchanin 26.14 Q 14 12 5 OUYANG Kunpeng 26.20 Q 15 12 2 Flori Lang 26.23 Q 16 13 8 Guy Barnea 26.24 Q 17 12 6 David Ortega Pitarch 26.26 18 10 7 Vytautas Janušaitis 26.34 (scratched semis) 18 11 4 ZHANG Chang 26.34 20 11 5 Eduardo German Otero 26.37 21 14 7 Hayden Stoeckel 26.38 22 13 1 Ivan Tolic 26.42 22 14 1 Andriy Oleynyk 26.42 24 11 7 Garth Tune 26.49 25 13 7 Simon Dufour 26.58 26 10 1 Itai Chammah 26.67 27 11 2 Ioannis Kokkodis 26.69 28 12 8 Derya Büyükuncu 26.71 28 14 2 Matthew Rose 26.71 30 10 5 Pavel Sankovich 26.81 31 10 3 Kim Torry Simmenes 26.89 31 11 3 Leonardo Guedes 26.89 33 12 1 Ante Cvitkovic 26.94 34 11 8 Danil Bugakov 26.97 35 10 6 Stanislav Osinsky 26.98 36 11 6 Gabriel Mangabeira 27.07 37 11 1 Mathias Stenderup Gydesen 27.37 38 9 4 Seunghyeon Lee 27.44 39 9 7 Yu An Lin 27.69 40 9 6 Giorgios Mylonas 27.71 41 1 5 Romāns Miloslavskis 27.74 42 9 3 Geoffrey Robin Cheah 27.81 43 10 8 David Dunford 27.93 44 9 5 Rony Bakale 27.96 45 7 2 Andy Wibowo 27.97 46 7 4 Felix Cristiadi Sutanto 27.98 47 7 3 Miguel Robles 28.00 48 8 5 Suriya Suksuphak 28.05 49 8 4 Jared Heine 28.24 50 9 1 Taki Mrabet 28.41 51 8 2 Sandeep Nagar Anthal 28.50 52 9 8 Arjun Muralidharan 28.62 53 2 1 Roy-Allan Saul Burch Burch 28.67 54 7 7 Zhi Cong Lim 28.75 54 8 7 Shahin Baradaran Nakhjavani 28.75 54 9 2 Amine Kouam 28.75 57 6 2 Jorge Arturo Arce Aita 28.81 58 8 3 Iurii Zakharov 28.85 59 7 8 Mario Montoya 28.89 60 6 4 Wen Hao Joshua Lim 28.95 61 7 5 Gael Adam 29.13 62 7 6 Yassir Abalalla 29.16 63 8 6 Obaid Al-Jasmi 29.19 63 8 1 Onan Thom 29.19 65 6 8 Adonis Ganiev 29.22 66 2 8 Eric Chang 29.28 67 5 7 Khaly Ciss 29.36 68 6 5 Heshan Unamboowe 29.40 69 5 6 Sohaib Kalali 29.49 70 5 8 Rainui Terupaia 29.50 71 6 1 Jonathan Calderon 29.70 72 5 5 Hong Nam Lei 29.72 73 6 3 Erik Rajohnson 29.92 74 6 7 Tural Abbasov 30.47 75 5 2 Kin Wa Cheong 30.70 76 5 3 Jamie Zammitt 30.72 77 4 6 Fadi Awesat 30.84 78 4 4 Kerson Hadley 30.89 79 3 4 Tony Augustine 30.91 80 4 5 Zane Jordan 31.21 81 4 8 Hernan Bonsembiante 31.42 82 5 1 Richard Randrianandraina 31.60 83 4 3 Jamaal Sobers 32.08 84 3 7 Justin Decoster 32.94 85 4 2 Sami Nassar 33.46 86 3 1 Isao Misech 33.54 87 3 5 Monder Al−Jabali 33.82 88 3 2 Rahim Karmali 34.28 89 3 8 Ali Zayeri 34.82 90 2 4 Ibrahim Shameel 36.34 91 2 6 Bulguitei Buyankhishig 36.65 92 1 3 Herve Nkurrnziza 36.86 93 4 7 Kevin Cheung 36.96 94 2 2 Ching Maou Wei 38.65 95 2 5 Mohammed Al Qerbi 38.75 96 1 4 Boipelo Makhothi 40.72 NR 97 2 7 Thabiso Baholo 43.67 999 2 3 Jules Yao Bessan DQ 998 3 3 Carlos Shimizu DNS 998 3 6 Ashraf Ahmed DNS 998 4 1 Marbi Hani DNS 998 5 4 João Aguiar DNS 998 6 6 Samson Opuakpo DNS 998 7 1 Mohammad Rubel DNS 998 8 8 Essossimana Awizoba DNS 998 10 2 Jason Dunford DNS 998 10 4 Markus Rogan DNS

See also Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre backstroke (previous Worlds) Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre backstroke (next Worlds)

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