# 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 50 metre backstroke

The Men's 50 metre backstroke competition of the 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 5 December with the heats and the semifinals and 6 December with the final.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
| | Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date |
| World record | Peter Marshall | United States | 22.61 | Singapore | 22 November 2009 |
| Championship record | Stanislav Donets | Russia | 22.93 | Dubai | 18 December 2010 |
The following records were established during the competition:
| Date | Event | Name | Nation | Time | Record |
| 6 December | Final | Florent Manaudou | France | 22.22 | WR, CR |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held 09:38.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 10 | 4 | Florent Manaudou | France | 23.24 | Q |
| 2 | 11 | 6 | Stanislav Donets | Russia | 23.29 | Q |
| 3 | 8 | 4 | Matt Grevers | United States | 23.32 | Q |
| 4 | 11 | 4 | Eugene Godsoe | United States | 23.37 | Q |
| 5 | 10 | 3 | Chris Walker-Hebborn | Great Britain | 23.44 | Q |
| 6 | 11 | 5 | Benjamin Stasiulis | France | 23.48 | Q |
| 7 | 11 | 2 | Lavrans Solli | Norway | 23.50 | Q |
| 8 | 10 | 5 | Guilherme Guido | Brazil | 23.55 | Q |
| 9 | 11 | 3 | Niccolo Bonacchi | Italy | 23.60 | Q |
| 10 | 9 | 4 | Mitch Larkin | Australia | 23.69 | Q |
| 11 | 9 | 3 | Christian Diener | Germany | 23.70 | Q |
| 12 | 7 | 2 | Albert Subirats | Venezuela | 23.71 | Q |
| 13 | 10 | 9 | Ryosuke Irie | Japan | 23.75 | Q |
| 14 | 10 | 6 | Sun Xiaolei | China | 23.77 | Q |
| 15 | 9 | 5 | Guy Barnea | Israel | 23.87 | Q |
| 16 | 9 | 7 | Henrique Martins | Brazil | 23.90 | Q |
| 17 | 9 | 2 | Russell Wood | Canada | 23.93 | |
| 18 | 11 | 0 | Daniel Carranza | Mexico | 23.97 | |
| 19 | 6 | 4 | Omar Pinzón | Colombia | 23.98 | NR |
| 20 | 9 | 1 | Simone Sabbioni | Italy | 23.99 | |
| 20 | 11 | 1 | Yuki Shirai | Japan | 23.99 | |
| 22 | 9 | 0 | Apostolos Christou | Greece | 24.06 | |
| 23 | 11 | 7 | David Gamburg | Israel | 24.11 | |
| 24 | 10 | 7 | Viktar Staselovich | Belarus | 24.15 | |
| 25 | 7 | 9 | Antons Voitovs | Latvia | 24.23 | |
| 26 | 11 | 9 | Dávid Földházi | Hungary | 24.25 | |
| 27 | 10 | 2 | Alexandr Tarabrin | Kazakhstan | 24.26 | |
| 28 | 6 | 2 | Rexford Tullius | United States Virgin Islands | 24.27 | |
| 29 | 9 | 6 | Alexis Santos | Portugal | 24.29 | |
| 29 | 10 | 1 | Ryan Pini | Papua New Guinea | 24.29 | |
| 31 | 9 | 8 | Robert Glinţă | Romania | 24.34 | |
| 32 | 11 | 8 | Ricky Ellis | South Africa | 24.45 | |
| 33 | 10 | 0 | Gábor Balog | Hungary | 24.49 | |
| 34 | 8 | 6 | Lin Yongqing | China | 24.61 | |
| 35 | 7 | 3 | Charl Crous | South Africa | 24.63 | |
| 36 | 10 | 8 | Jānis Šaltāns | Latvia | 24.75 | |
| 37 | 8 | 8 | Martin Baďura | Czech Republic | 24.82 | |
| 38 | 8 | 1 | Lukas Rauftlin | Switzerland | 24.84 | |
| 39 | 8 | 3 | Lau Shiu Yue | Hong Kong | 24.86 | |
| 40 | 7 | 5 | Martin Zhelev | Bulgaria | 24.91 | |
| 41 | 8 | 0 | Wang Yu-lian | Chinese Taipei | 25.02 | |
| 42 | 6 | 3 | Armando Barrera | Cuba | 25.04 | |
| 43 | 8 | 7 | Saša Gerbec | Croatia | 25.08 | |
| 44 | 8 | 5 | Charles Hockin | Paraguay | 25.28 | |
| 45 | 6 | 8 | Boris Kirillov | Azerbaijan | 25.36 | |
| 36 | 8 | 2 | Ryad Djendouci | Algeria | 25.39 | |
| 47 | 7 | 7 | Jamal Chavoshifar | Iran | 25.40 | |
| 48 | 8 | 9 | Kristinn Þórarinsson | Iceland | 25.41 | |
| 49 | 9 | 9 | Ng Kai Hong Henry | Hong Kong | 25.46 | |
| 50 | 5 | 4 | Matthew Abeysinghe | Sri Lanka | 25.57 | |
| 51 | 7 | 6 | Daniil Bukin | Uzbekistan | 25.73 | |
| 52 | 6 | 5 | Merdan Ataýew | Turkmenistan | 25.80 | |
| 53 | 6 | 1 | David van der Colff | Botswana | 25.99 | |
| 54 | 7 | 8 | Soroush Ghandchi | Iran | 26.05 | |
| 55 | 7 | 4 | Kolbeinn Hrafnkelsson | Iceland | 26.10 | |
| 56 | 7 | 1 | Gabriel Melconian | Uruguay | 26.39 | |
| 57 | 5 | 1 | Peter Wetzlar | Zimbabwe | 26.47 | |
| 58 | 6 | 6 | Chad Idensohn | Zimbabwe | 26.52 | |
| 59 | 5 | 5 | Grigorii Kalminskii | Azerbaijan | 26.53 | |
| 60 | 6 | 9 | Gorazd Chepishevski | Macedonia | 26.56 | |
| 61 | 6 | 0 | Driss Lahrichi | Morocco | 26.57 | |
| 62 | 5 | 3 | Neil Muscat | Malta | 26.60 | |
| 63 | 5 | 8 | Rodrigo Suriano | El Salvador | 26.70 | |
| 64 | 4 | 2 | Axel Ngui | Philippines | 26.77 | |
| 65 | 3 | 4 | Winter Heaven | Samoa | 26.95 | |
| 66 | 6 | 7 | Hamdan Bayusuf | Kenya | 27.00 | |
| 67 | 4 | 5 | Patrick Groters | Aruba | 27.08 | |
| 68 | 5 | 2 | Yum Cheng Man | Macau | 27.23 | |
| 69 | 5 | 6 | Yaaqoub Al-Saadi | United Arab Emirates | 27.30 | |
| 70 | 4 | 3 | Igor Mogne | Mozambique | 27.40 | |
| 71 | 5 | 7 | Maroun Waked | Lebanon | 27.51 | |
| 72 | 5 | 9 | Jeremy Kostons | Curaçao | 27.65 | |
| 73 | 4 | 9 | Noah Mascoll-Gomes | Antigua and Barbuda | 27.87 | |
| 74 | 4 | 6 | Faraj Saleh | Bahrain | 27.89 | |
| 75 | 3 | 3 | Mohammad Abdo | Palestine | 28.06 | |
| 76 | 5 | 0 | Aram Kostanyan | Armenia | 28.15 | |
| 77 | 7 | 0 | Jevon Atkinson | Jamaica | 28.23 | |
| 78 | 4 | 4 | Jordan Gonzalez | Gibraltar | 28.31 | |
| 79 | 4 | 1 | Nathan Nades | Papua New Guinea | 28.36 | |
| 80 | 4 | 0 | Rony Bakale | Republic of the Congo | 28.46 | |
| 81 | 4 | 7 | Noah Al-Khulaifi | Qatar | 28.73 | |
| 82 | 4 | 8 | Matar Samb | Senegal | 29.29 | |
| 83 | 3 | 2 | Andrew Hopkin | Grenada | 29.33 | |
| 84 | 3 | 7 | Arnold Kisulo | Uganda | 29.56 | |
| 85 | 3 | 8 | Dean Hoffman | Seychelles | 29.67 | |
| 86 | 3 | 1 | Nikolas Sylvester | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 29.93 | |
| 87 | 3 | 6 | Kgosietsile Molefinyane | Botswana | 29.97 | |
| 88 | 3 | 0 | Emil Rahmatulin | Turkmenistan | 30.09 | |
| 89 | 2 | 5 | Aliasger Karimjee | Tanzania | 30.25 | |
| 90 | 2 | 6 | Giordan Harris | Marshall Islands | 30.27 | |
| 91 | 2 | 2 | Tongli Panuve | Tonga | 30.49 | |
| 92 | 1 | 4 | Thol Thoeun | Cambodia | 30.57 | |
| 93 | 3 | 5 | J'Air Smith | Antigua and Barbuda | 30.67 | |
| 94 | 2 | 1 | Adam Moncherry | Seychelles | 30.83 | |
| 95 | 2 | 4 | Aleksander Ngresi | Albania | 31.05 | |
| 96 | 2 | 3 | Temaruata Strickland | Cook Islands | 31.22 | |
| 97 | 3 | 9 | Storm Hablich | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 31.59 | |
| 98 | 2 | 9 | Htut Ahnt Khaung | Myanmar | 31.97 | |
| 99 | 1 | 7 | Justine Rodriguez | Federated States of Micronesia | 32.00 | |
| 100 | 1 | 8 | Tommy Imazu | Guam | 32.59 | |
| 101 | 1 | 1 | Tanner Poppe | Guam | 33.47 | |
| 102 | 1 | 5 | Miraj Prajapati | Nepal | 33.57 | |
| 103 | 1 | 6 | Ebrahim Al-Maleki | Yemen | 33.61 | |
| 104 | 1 | 2 | Sami Al-Sayaghi | Yemen | 36.07 | |
| 105 | 1 | 3 | Awoussou Ablam | Benin | 37.38 | |
| 105 | 2 | 0 | Idriss Mutankabandi | Burundi | 37.38 | |
| 107 | 2 | 8 | Billy-Scott Irakoze | Burundi | 37.91 | |
| — | 1 | 0 | Mazabalo Awizoba | Togo | | DNS |
| — | 2 | 7 | Umarkhon Alizoda | Tajikistan | | DNS |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held 18:05.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 7 | Albert Subirats | Venezuela | 23.17 | Q, SA |
| 2 | 5 | Eugene Godsoe | United States | 23.19 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Mitch Larkin | Australia | 23.33 | Q |
| 4 | 4 | Stanislav Donets | Russia | 23.41 | Q |
| 5 | 6 | Guilherme Guido | Brazil | 23.42 | |
| 6 | 3 | Benjamin Stasiulis | France | 23.47 | |
| 7 | 1 | Sun Xiaolei | China | 23.62 | |
| 8 | 8 | Henrique Martins | Brazil | 23.93 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Florent Manaudou | France | 22.97 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Matt Grevers | United States | 23.27 | Q |
| 3 | 6 | Lavrans Solli | Norway | 23.33 | Q |
| 4 | 3 | Chris Walker-Hebborn | Great Britain | 23.34 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | Niccolo Bonacchi | Italy | 23.48 | |
| 6 | 8 | Guy Barnea | Israel | 23.49 | |
| 7 | 7 | Christian Diener | Germany | 23.51 | |
| 8 | 1 | Ryosuke Irie | Japan | 23.63 | |

### Final

The final were held 18:11.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 4 | Florent Manaudou | France | 22.22 | WR |
| | 3 | Eugene Godsoe | United States | 23.05 | |
| | 8 | Stanislav Donets | Russia | 23.10 | |
| 4 | 5 | Albert Subirats | Venezuela | 23.16 | SA |
| 5 | 2 | Mitch Larkin | Australia | 23.18 | |
| 6 | 6 | Matt Grevers | United States | 23.32 | |
| 7 | 1 | Chris Walker-Hebborn | Great Britain | 23.33 | |
| 8 | 7 | Lavrans Solli | Norway | 23.48 | |