# Swimming at the 2014 Commonwealth Games – Men's 50 metre backstroke

The men's 50 metre backstroke event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games as part of the swimming programme took place on 26 and 27 July at the Tollcross International Swimming Centre in Glasgow, Scotland.
The medals were presented by Antonio Gopal, President of the Seychelles Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association and the quaichs were presented by Mike Summers, Chairman of the Falkland Islands Overseas Games Association.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Commonwealth Games records were as follows.
| World record | Liam Tancock (GBR) | 24.04 | Rome, Italy | 2 August 2009 |
| Commonwealth record | Liam Tancock (ENG) | 24.04 | Rome, Italy | 2 August 2009 |
| Games record | Liam Tancock (ENG) | 24.62 | Delhi, India | 5 October 2010 |

## Results
### Heats

| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | 5 | Chris Walker-Hebborn | England | 25.12 | Q |
| =2 | 3 | 5 | Josh Beaver | Australia | 25.28 | Q |
| =2 | 5 | 4 | Ben Treffers | Australia | 25.28 | Q |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | Marco Loughran | Wales | 25.37 | Q |
| 5 | 3 | 4 | Liam Tancock | England | 25.49 | Q |
| 6 | 5 | 7 | George Bovell | Trinidad and Tobago | 25.50 | Q |
| 7 | 4 | 5 | Mitch Larkin | Australia | 25.53 | Q |
| 8 | 3 | 3 | Russell Wood | Canada | 25.75 | Q |
| 9 | 5 | 6 | Andrew McGovern | Scotland | 25.98 | Q |
| 10 | 4 | 3 | Quah Zheng Wen | Singapore | 25.99 | Q, NR |
| 11 | 3 | 6 | Jordan Sloan | Northern Ireland | 26.25 | Q |
| 12 | 5 | 3 | Jack Ness | Scotland | 26.47 | Q |
| 13 | 4 | 7 | Grant Halsall | Isle of Man | 26.51 | Q |
| 14 | 4 | 6 | Rory Lamont | Scotland | 26.56 | Q |
| 15 | 3 | 7 | Jordan Augier | Saint Lucia | 26.82 | Q |
| 16 | 3 | 2 | Tom Gallichan | Jersey | 27.19 | Q |
| 17 | 5 | 2 | Tern Jian Han | Malaysia | 27.32 | |
| 18 | 4 | 2 | Timothy Wynter | Jamaica | 27.47 | |
| 19 | 4 | 1 | Hamdan Bayusuf | Kenya | 27.53 | |
| 20 | 3 | 1 | Christopher Courtis | Barbados | 27.70 | |
| 21 | 5 | 1 | Heshan Unamboowe | Sri Lanka | 27.86 | |
| 22 | 5 | 8 | James Jurkiewicz | Guernsey | 27.89 | |
| 23 | 2 | 5 | Igor Mogne | Mozambique | 28.19 | |
| 24 | 2 | 3 | Alexandros Axiotis | Zambia | 28.24 | |
| 25 | 4 | 8 | Alex McCallum | Cayman Islands | 28.27 | |
| 26 | 3 | 8 | Xander Beaton | Guernsey | 28.86 | |
| 27 | 2 | 4 | Jordan Gonzalez | Gibraltar | 29.83 | |
| 28 | 2 | 6 | Hilal Hemed Hilal | Tanzania | 30.11 | |
| 29 | 2 | 8 | Arnold Kisulo | Uganda | 30.73 | |
| =30 | 1 | 3 | Dean Hoffman | Seychelles | 30.87 | |
| =30 | 2 | 7 | Milimo Mweetwa | Zambia | 30.87 | |
| 32 | 1 | 4 | Andrew Hopkin | Grenada | 30.97 | |
| 33 | 1 | 6 | Storm Halbich | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 31.80 | |
| 34 | 2 | 2 | Haris Bandey | Pakistan | 32.05 | |
| 35 | 2 | 1 | Nikolas Sylvester | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 32.28 | |
| 36 | 1 | 2 | Dillon Gooding | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 32.64 | |
| 37 | 1 | 5 | Nana Antwi | Ghana | 33.63 | |

### Semifinals

| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 2 | 5 | Ben Treffers | Australia | 24.78 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | 4 | Chris Walker-Hebborn | England | 24.92 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | 5 | Marco Loughran | Wales | 25.12 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | 4 | Josh Beaver | Australia | 25.20 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | 3 | Liam Tancock | England | 25.21 | Q |
| 6 | 2 | 6 | Mitch Larkin | Australia | 25.22 | Q |
| 7 | 1 | 6 | Russell Wood | Canada | 25.29 | Q |
| 8 | 1 | 3 | George Bovell | Trinidad and Tobago | 25.39 | Q |
| 9 | 1 | 2 | Quah Zheng Wen | Singapore | 26.15 | |
| 10 | 1 | 7 | Jack Ness | Scotland | 26.17 | |
| 11 | 2 | 2 | Andrew McGovern | Scotland | 26.19 | |
| 12 | 2 | 7 | Jordan Sloan | Northern Ireland | 26.28 | |
| 13 | 1 | 1 | Rory Lamont | Scotland | 26.69 | |
| 14 | 2 | 1 | Grant Halsall | Isle of Man | 26.72 | |
| 15 | 2 | 8 | Jordan Augier | Saint Lucia | 26.82 | |
| 16 | 1 | 8 | Tom Gallichan | Jersey | 27.16 | |

### Final

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 4 | Ben Treffers | Australia | 24.67 |
| | 7 | Mitch Larkin | Australia | 24.80 |
| | 2 | Liam Tancock | England | 24.98 |
| 4 | 5 | Chris Walker-Hebborn | England | 25.14 |
| 5 | 6 | Josh Beaver | Australia | 25.19 |
| 6 | 3 | Marco Loughran | Wales | 25.36 |
| 7 | 1 | Russell Wood | Canada | 25.55 |
| 8 | 8 | Quah Zheng Wen | Singapore | 26.26 |
George Bovell, who qualified in eighth place, pulled out of the final to concentrate on the 50 m freestyle where he finished fifth in the final. He was replaced by the first reserve, Singapore's Quah Zheng Wen.