The Men's 100 metre backstroke competition of the 2021 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 16 and 17 December 2021.

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

Results Heats The heats were started on 16 December at 10:56.Heats results

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 3 Kacper Stokowski 50.38 Q 1 4 4 Guilherme Guido 50.38 Q 3 6 0 Shaine Casas 50.40 Q 3 6 6 Lorenzo Mora 50.40 Q 5 4 5 Pavel Samusenko Russian Swimming Federation 50.52 Q 6 6 4 Kliment Kolesnikov Russian Swimming Federation 50.55 Q 7 5 5 Apostolos Christou 50.80 Q 8 5 4 Robert Glință 50.83 Q 9 6 5 Christian Diener 50.88 Q 10 5 3 Gabriel Fantoni 50.92 Q 11 5 6 Thomas Ceccon 51.01 Q 12 5 2 Tomáš Franta 51.04 Q 13 6 1 Armin Evert Lelle 51.09 Q, NR 14 6 3 Radosław Kawęcki 51.25 Q 15 6 7 Hugo González 51.35 Q 16 4 7 Markus Lie 51.46 16 6 2 Yohann Ndoye Brouard 51.46 18 5 0 Mewen Tomac 51.50 18 5 7 Jan Čejka 51.50 20 4 2 Ole Braunschweig 51.87 21 5 1 Rasim Oğulcan Gör 51.92 22 5 9 Ádám Telegdy 52.07 23 3 4 Roman Mityukov 52.19 24 4 6 Viktar Staselovich 52.25 25 4 1 Yeziel Morales 52.26 26 5 8 Won Young-jun 52.54 27 4 8 Francisco Santos 52.78 28 4 9 Srihari Nataraj 52.81 NR 29 3 9 Jack Kirby 52.82 NR 30 6 8 Ronny Brännkärr 52.90 31 6 9 Lau Shiu Yue 52.96 32 3 6 Kaloyan Levterov 53.21 33 3 2 Song Yukuan 53.54 34 2 5 Max Mannes 53.63 35 2 3 Jerard Jacinto 53.69 NR 36 4 0 Michael Laitarovsky 53.82 37 3 5 Oleksandr Zheltiakov 53.90 38 3 8 Charles Hockin 54.22 39 2 4 I Gede Siman Sudartawa 54.27 40 3 1 Tonnam Kanteemool 54.54 NR 41 2 1 Akalanka Peiris 54.83 42 2 8 Steven Aimable 54.86 43 3 0 Ziyad Saleem 54.99 44 2 7 Filippos Iakovidis 55.00 NR 45 3 3 Maximillian Wilson 55.42 46 2 2 Julio Pérez 55.55 47 2 9 Felipe Jaramillo 56.28 48 3 7 Abdellah Ardjoune 56.94 49 2 0 Ali Al-Zamil 57.58 50 1 4 Mekhayl Engel 57.98 51 2 6 Omar Al-Rowaila 58.30 52 1 6 Juhn Tenorio 58.85 53 1 3 Rashad Alguliyev 58.96 54 1 2 Juwel Ahmmed 59.81 55 1 5 Ahmed Al-Marzooqi 56 1 7 Ali Imaan

Swim-off The swim-off was held on 16 December at 12:42.Swim-off results Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 Yohann Ndoye Brouard 51.09 Q 2 4 Markus Lie 51.21

Semifinals The semifinals were started on 16 December at 18:16.Semifinals results Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 3 Kliment Kolesnikov Russian Swimming Federation 49.57 Q 1 2 5 Shaine Casas 49.57 Q 3 2 6 Apostolos Christou 49.89 Q 4 2 4 Kacper Stokowski 49.94 Q 5 1 5 Lorenzo Mora 49.99 Q 6 1 4 Guilherme Guido 50.05 Q 7 2 3 Pavel Samusenko Russian Swimming Federation 50.11 Q 8 1 6 Robert Glință 50.21 Q 9 2 7 Thomas Ceccon 50.22 10 2 2 Christian Diener 50.30 11 1 2 Gabriel Fantoni 50.34 12 1 7 Tomáš Franta 50.59 NR 13 1 1 Radosław Kawęcki 50.88 14 1 8 Yohann Ndoye Brouard 50.96 15 2 1 Armin Evert Lelle 51.00 NR 16 2 8 Hugo González 51.34

Final The final was held on 17 December at 18:07.Final results Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 5 Shaine Casas 49.23 4 Kliment Kolesnikov Russian Swimming Federation 49.46 8 Robert Glință 49.60 4 1 Pavel Samusenko Russian Swimming Federation 49.65 5 6 Kacper Stokowski 49.80 5 7 Guilherme Guido 49.80 7 3 Apostolos Christou 49.91 8 2 Lorenzo Mora 49.93

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