The men's 50 metre backstroke event at the 2024 World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25 m) was held from 12 to 13 December 2024 at the Duna Arena in Budapest, Hungary.
Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
Background With defending champion Ryan Murphy absent, Australia’s Isaac Cooper entered the event as the top seed. Cooper, the reigning long course world champion, won silver at the 2022 Short Course World Championships and led the world rankings in 2024 with a 22.58 from the World Cup in Shanghai. Pieter Coetze (22.75) and Kliment Kolesnikov (22.78), who ranked second and third globally in the season so far, were not competing. Russian teenager Miron Lifintsev, competing as a neutral athlete, recorded a 22.79 at the Russian Championships and was considered a strong medal contender. Italy’s Lorenzo Mora entered with a season best of 22.89 and a lifetime best of 22.65 from the 2022 Worlds, where he placed fourth. France’s Mewen Tomac (22.84) and Japan’s Kaiya Seki (22.85) were also entered with sub-23 performances. Other contenders included Hungary’s Hubert Kós, Poland’s Kacper Stokowski (23.05), Trinidad and Tobago's Dylan Carter, and the USA's Michael Andrew.
SwimSwam predicted Cooper would win, Lifintsev would finish second, and Mora would finish third.
Results Heats The heats were started on 12 December at 9:17. Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 4 Miron Lifintsev Neutral Athletes B 22.87 Q 2 6 3 Kacper Stokowski 22.89 Q 3 5 6 Shane Ryan 22.98 Q 4 6 4 Isaac Cooper 23.01 Q 5 4 2 Pavel Samusenko Neutral Athletes B 23.02 Q 6 3 5 Hubert Kós 23.05 Q, NR 7 4 6 Ralf Tribuntsov 23.06 Q, NR 8 5 2 Guilherme Basseto 23.11 Q 9 6 7 Miroslav Knedla 23.13 Q, NR 10 4 3 Marius Kusch 23.28 Q 11 4 7 Ruard van Renen 23.29 Q 11 6 6 Thierry Bollin 23.29 Q 13 4 4 Mewen Tomac 23.32 Q 14 4 5 Ole Braunschweig 23.33 Q 15 2 5 Finlay Knox 23.35 Q 16 3 3 Yohann Ndoye-Brouard 23.37 16 5 9 Mantas Kaušpėdas 23.37 , NR 18 6 5 Kaiya Seki 23.41 R 19 5 1 Denis Popescu 23.44 20 5 5 Lorenzo Mora 23.45 21 3 1 Lamar Taylor 23.51 NR 21 5 3 Masaki Yura 23.51 21 6 0 Cooper Morley 23.51 24 5 7 Iván Martínez 23.61 25 6 1 Oliver Morgan 23.64 26 6 8 Grigori Pekarski Neutral Athletes A 23.66 27 4 0 Ksawery Masiuk 23.69 28 5 8 Simon Bucher 23.70 29 4 1 Markus Lie 23.76 30 2 3 Maximillian Wilson 23.81 NR 31 5 0 Dino Hasibović Sirotanović 23.84 32 3 7 Ulises Saravia 23.91 33 4 9 Evangelos Makrygiannis 23.95 34 3 2 Ádám Jászó 23.98 35 3 6 Oleksandr Zheltiakov 23.99 36 4 8 Xu Yifan 24.01 37 3 8 Mert Ali Satır 24.02 38 2 2 Samuel Törnqvist 24.05 39 3 0 Chuang Mu-lun 24.28 40 2 4 Noe Pantskhava 24.29 NR 40 3 4 Jason Mahmutoglu 24.29 NR 42 2 7 Ģirts Feldbergs 24.55 43 2 8 Mikhail Kleshko 24.64 NR 43 3 9 Meiron Amir Cheruti 24.64 45 2 1 Charles Hockin 24.76 46 1 2 Akash Mani 24.87 47 2 0 Mohamad Zubaid 25.06 NR 48 2 9 Samiul Islam Rafi 25.09 NR 49 2 6 Kokoro Frost 25.58 NR 50 1 5 Tendo Kaumi 27.30 NR 51 1 4 Amos Ferley 27.35 1 6 Fahim Anwari 1 7 Joash McKonie 6 2 Dylan Carter 6 9 Michael Andrew
Swim-off The swim-off was held on 12 December at 11:45. Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 Mantas Kaušpėdas 22.91 Q, NR 2 4 Yohann Ndoye-Brouard 23.27
Semifinals The semifinals were started on 12 December at 17:57. Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 2 4 Miron Lifintsev Neutral Athletes B 22.70 Q 2 2 3 Pavel Samusenko Neutral Athletes B 22.72 Q 3 1 4 Kacper Stokowski 22.73 Q, NR 3 1 7 Thierry Bollin 22.73 Q, NR 5 2 2 Miroslav Knedla 22.74 Q, NR 6 1 5 Isaac Cooper 22.79 Q 7 1 3 Hubert Kós 22.85 Q, NR 8 2 5 Shane Ryan 22.89 Q 9 2 8 Finlay Knox 23.03 R, NR 10 2 1 Mewen Tomac 23.06 R 11 1 8 Mantas Kaušpėdas 23.09 12 2 7 Ruard van Renen 23.21 13 2 6 Ralf Tribuntsov 23.23 14 1 6 Guilherme Basseto 23.30 15 1 1 Ole Braunschweig 23.48 16 1 2 Marius Kusch 23.55
Final The final was started on 13 December at 18:12. Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Miron Lifintsev Neutral Athletes B 22.47 WJ 7 Isaac Cooper 22.49 OC 8 Shane Ryan 22.56 NR 4 1 Hubert Kós 22.64 NR 5 3 Kacper Stokowski 22.68 NR 6 5 Pavel Samusenko Neutral Athletes B 22.74 7 2 Miroslav Knedla 22.89 8 6 Thierry Bollin 22.97
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