# Swimming at the 2022 Commonwealth Games – Men's 50 metre backstroke

The men's 50 metre backstroke event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games will be held between 31 July 2022 and 1 August 2022 at the Sandwell Aquatics Centre.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world, Commonwealth and Games records were as follows:
| World record | Hunter Armstrong (USA) | 23.71 | Greensboro, United States | 28 April 2022 |
| Commonwealth record | Johannes Zandberg (RSA) | 24.34 | Rome, Italy | 2 August 2009 |
| Games record | Liam Tancock (ENG) | 24.62 | Delhi, India | 5 October 2010 |

## Schedule

The schedule is as follows:
All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)
| Date | Time | Round |
| Sunday 31 July 2022 | 10:51 | Heats |
| Sunday 31 July 2022 | 19:07 | Semi-final |
| Monday 1 August 2022 | 20:37 | Final |

## Results
### Heats

| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | 4 | Pieter Coetze | South Africa | 24.95 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | 4 | Andrew Jeffcoat | New Zealand | 25.04 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | 5 | Ben Armbuster | Australia | 25.18 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | 2 | Scott Gibson | Scotland | 25.26 | Q |
| 5 | 4 | 3 | Liam White | Wales | 25.30 | Q |
| 6 | 4 | 6 | Bradley Woodward | Australia | 25.39 | Q |
| 7 | 4 | 5 | Javier Acevedo | Canada | 25.48 | Q |
| 8 | 6 | 3 | Srihari Nataraj | India | 25.52 | Q |
| 8 | 6 | 4 | Mitch Larkin | Australia | 25.52 | Q |
| 10 | 5 | 2 | Joe Small | Wales | 25.60 | Q |
| 11 | 6 | 7 | Martyn Walton | Scotland | 25.62 | Q |
| 12 | 5 | 3 | Cameron Gray | New Zealand | 25.67 | Q |
| 13 | 6 | 5 | Quah Zheng Wen | Singapore | 25.78 | Q |
| 14 | 5 | 6 | Joe Litchfield | England | 25.80 | Q |
| 15 | 4 | 7 | Dylan Carter | Trinidad and Tobago | 25.81 | WD |
| 16 | 4 | 1 | Davante Carey | Bahamas | 25.86 | Q, NR |
| 17 | 4 | 2 | Harry Shalamon | Jersey | 25.93 | R, Q |
| 18 | 5 | 7 | Craig McNally | Scotland | 26.03 | R |
| 19 | 6 | 8 | Jack Kirby | Barbados | 26.10 | |
| 20 | 3 | 4 | Lamar Taylor | Bahamas | 26.12 | |
| 21 | 5 | 1 | Filippos Iakovidis | Cyprus | 26.15 | |
| 21 | 6 | 6 | Akalanka Peiris | Sri Lanka | 26.15 | NR |
| 23 | 4 | 8 | Sofoklis Mougis | Cyprus | 26.40 | |
| 24 | 3 | 5 | Harry Robinson | Isle of Man | 26.72 | |
| 25 | 5 | 8 | Jack Harvey | Bermuda | 26.88 | NR |
| 26 | 6 | 1 | Jeron Thompson | Trinidad and Tobago | 26.93 | |
| 27 | 3 | 2 | Warren Lawrence | Dominica | 27.32 | |
| 28 | 3 | 6 | Nathaniel Thomas | Jamaica | 27.60 | |
| 29 | 2 | 2 | Robbie Jones | Jersey | 27.70 | |
| 30 | 2 | 5 | Alan Koti Lopeti Uhi | Tonga | 27.79 | |
| 31 | 3 | 1 | Bede Aitu | Cook Islands | 27.89 | NR |
| 31 | 3 | 3 | Syed Muhammad Haseeb Tariq | Pakistan | 27.89 | |
| 33 | 2 | 3 | Tyler Fred | Seychelles | 28.05 | |
| 34 | 3 | 7 | Zackary Gresham | Grenada | 28.09 | |
| 35 | 2 | 4 | Kokoro Frost | Samoa | 28.37 | |
| 36 | 2 | 1 | Caio Lobo | Mozambique | 28.65 | |
| 37 | 2 | 7 | Rohan Shearer | Turks and Caicos Islands | 28.69 | |
| 38 | 2 | 6 | Sekhel Tzedeq | Guyana | 28.74 | |
| 39 | 3 | 8 | Jordan Gonzalez | Gibraltar | 28.94 | |
| 40 | 1 | 4 | Kenale Alleyne | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 29.71 | |
| 41 | 2 | 8 | Mohamed Aan Hussain | Maldives | 30.08 | |
| 42 | 1 | 2 | Alex Lake | Anguilla | 31.06 | |
| 43 | 1 | 3 | Bryson George | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 31.35 | |
| 44 | 1 | 5 | Mohamed Rihan Shiham | Maldives | 32.41 | |
| 45 | 1 | 6 | Joshua Yon | Saint Helena | 33.37 | |

### Semifinals

| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 2 | 4 | Pieter Coetze | South Africa | 24.81 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | 4 | Andrew Jeffcoat | New Zealand | 24.82 | Q, NR |
| 3 | 2 | 5 | Ben Armbuster | Australia | 25.21 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | 3 | Bradley Woodward | Australia | 25.25 | Q |
| 5 | 1 | 5 | Scott Gibson | Scotland | 25.29 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | 6 | Javier Acevedo | Canada | 25.29 | Q |
| 7 | 1 | 2 | Joe Small | Wales | 25.36 | Q |
| 8 | 1 | 6 | Srihari Nataraj | India | 25.38 | Q |
| 9 | 1 | 1 | Joe Litchfield | England | 25.44 | R |
| 10 | 2 | 3 | Liam White | Wales | 25.48 | R |
| 11 | 2 | 2 | Mitch Larkin | Australia | 25.53 | |
| 12 | 2 | 7 | Martyn Walton | Scotland | 25.58 | |
| 13 | 1 | 7 | Cameron Gray | New Zealand | 25.76 | |
| 14 | 1 | 8 | Harry Shalamon | Jersey | 25.85 | |
| 15 | 2 | 1 | Quah Zheng Wen | Singapore | 25.90 | |
| 16 | 2 | 8 | Davante Carey | Bahamas | 25.98 | |

### Final

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 5 | Andrew Jeffcoat | New Zealand | 24.65 | NR |
| | 4 | Pieter Coetze | South Africa | 24.77 | |
| | 7 | Javier Acevedo | Canada | 24.97 | NR |
| 4 | 6 | Bradley Woodward | Australia | 25.08 | |
| 5 | 8 | Srihari Nataraj | India | 25.23 | |
| 6 | 2 | Scott Gibson | Scotland | 25.34 | |
| 7 | 3 | Ben Armbuster | Australia | 25.37 | |
| 8 | 1 | Joe Small | Wales | 25.44 | |