# 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 100 metre backstroke

The Men's 100 metre backstroke competition of the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 6 and 7 December 2016.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
| | Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date |
| World record | Matt Grevers | United States | 48.92 | Indianapolis | 12 December 2015 |
| Championship record | Stanislav Donets | Russia | 48.95 | Dubai | 19 December 2010 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held at 11:28.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 8 | 5 | Xu Jiayu | China | 50.21 | Q |
| 2 | 8 | 3 | Mitch Larkin | Australia | 50.22 | Q |
| 3 | 8 | 4 | Radosław Kawęcki | Poland | 50.63 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | 7 | Jacob Pebley | United States | 50.64 | Q |
| 5 | 7 | 3 | Junya Koga | Japan | 50.71 | Q |
| 5 | 7 | 4 | Andrey Shabasov | Russia | 50.71 | Q |
| 7 | 8 | 9 | Grigoriy Tarasevich | Russia | 50.93 | Q |
| 8 | 7 | 5 | Masaki Kaneko | Japan | 51.01 | Q |
| 9 | 8 | 6 | Robert Glință | Romania | 51.03 | Q |
| 10 | 6 | 4 | Pavel Sankovich | Belarus | 51.07 | Q |
| 11 | 6 | 3 | Tomasz Polewka | Poland | 51.11 | Q |
| 12 | 6 | 5 | Bobby Hurley | Australia | 51.13 | Q |
| 13 | 7 | 7 | Javier Acevedo | Canada | 51.32 | Q |
| 14 | 6 | 2 | Miguel Ortiz-Cañavate | Spain | 51.50 | Q |
| 15 | 6 | 6 | Danas Rapšys | Lithuania | 51.61 | Q |
| 15 | 7 | 6 | David Gamburg | Israel | 51.61 | Q |
| 17 | 8 | 7 | Thomas Avetand | France | 51.80 | |
| 18 | 4 | 3 | Anton Loncar | Croatia | 51.86 | |
| 19 | 6 | 8 | Ádám Telegdy | Hungary | 52.02 | |
| 20 | 7 | 9 | Apostolos Christou | Greece | 52.07 | NR |
| 21 | 8 | 0 | Gabriel Lopes | Portugal | 52.21 | |
| 22 | 8 | 8 | Tomáš Franta | Czech Republic | 52.24 | |
| 23 | 6 | 1 | Oleg Garasymovytch | France | 52.36 | |
| 24 | 5 | 1 | Lê Nguyễn Paul | Vietnam | 52.57 | NR |
| 25 | 7 | 8 | Charlie Boldison | Great Britain | 52.61 | |
| 26 | 7 | 1 | Viktar Staselovich | Belarus | 52.62 | |
| 27 | 5 | 6 | Charles Hockin | Paraguay | 52.80 | NR |
| 28 | 5 | 3 | Markus Thormeyer | Canada | 53.15 | |
| 29 | 7 | 2 | Iskender Baslakov | Turkey | 53.19 | |
| 30 | 6 | 9 | Mattias Carlsson | Sweden | 53.34 | |
| 31 | 5 | 2 | Ricky Ellis | South Africa | 53.37 | |
| 31 | 7 | 0 | Ryan Pini | Papua New Guinea | 53.37 | |
| 33 | 5 | 8 | Trần Duy Khôi | Vietnam | 53.64 | |
| 34 | 5 | 5 | Gaston Hernandez | Argentina | 53.71 | |
| 35 | 8 | 1 | Magnus Jakupsson | Denmark | 53.89 | |
| 36 | 5 | 7 | Christopher Courtis | Barbados | 53.94 | NR |
| 37 | 5 | 0 | David Adalsteinsson | Iceland | 54.12 | |
| 38 | 5 | 4 | Kristinn Þórarinsson | Iceland | 54.43 | |
| 39 | 5 | 9 | Kristóf Rasovszky | Hungary | 54.52 | |
| 40 | 4 | 5 | Francis Fong | Singapore | 54.89 | |
| 41 | 1 | 1 | Boris Kirillov | Azerbaijan | 54.90 | NR |
| 42 | 4 | 6 | Jarryd Baxter | South Africa | 55.18 | |
| 43 | 4 | 9 | Keanan Dols | Jamaica | 55.39 | NR |
| 44 | 4 | 7 | Yeziel Morales Miranda | Puerto Rico | 55.68 | |
| 45 | 3 | 7 | Adel Elfakir | Libya | 55.83 | NR |
| 46 | 4 | 8 | Gorazd Chepishevski | Macedonia | 55.98 | NR |
| 47 | 3 | 0 | Syed Hasseb Tariq | Pakistan | 56.79 | NR |
| 48 | 3 | 4 | Adil Assouab | Morocco | 56.82 | |
| 49 | 3 | 6 | Jarod Alexander Arroyo | Puerto Rico | 57.32 | |
| 50 | 2 | 5 | Jordan Gonzalez | Gibraltar | 57.65 | NR |
| 51 | 3 | 8 | Hernan Gonzalez Medina | Panama | 57.68 | NR |
| 52 | 4 | 2 | Ivo Kunzle Savastano | Paraguay | 57.78 | |
| 53 | 4 | 0 | Eisner Barberena Espinoza | Nicaragua | 57.89 | NR |
| 54 | 1 | 8 | Sebastien Kouma | Mali | 58.03 | NR |
| 55 | 2 | 4 | Steven Kimani Maina | Kenya | 58.18 | |
| 56 | 3 | 1 | Alex McCallum | Cayman Islands | 58.38 | |
| 57 | 3 | 5 | Abdullah Al-Doori | Iraq | 58.63 | NR |
| 58 | 2 | 3 | William Clark | Fiji | 58.77 | NR |
| 59 | 3 | 3 | Yum Cheng Man | Macau | 59.71 | |
| 60 | 3 | 2 | Heriniavo Michael Rasolonjatovo | Madagascar | 1:00.05 | NR |
| 61 | 1 | 7 | Mohammad Juwel Ahmed | Bangladesh | 1:00.98 | NR |
| 62 | 2 | 6 | Kennet Libohova | Albania | 1:01.96 | |
| 63 | 2 | 2 | Livingston Aika | Papua New Guinea | 1:02.55 | |
| 64 | 2 | 1 | Daryl Appleton | Antigua and Barbuda | 1:02.96 | NR |
| 65 | 2 | 8 | Elijah James Cruz | Gibraltar | 1:03.90 | |
| 66 | 2 | 0 | Temaruata Strickland | Cook Islands | 1:04.57 | NR |
| 67 | 1 | 4 | Tongli Panuve | Tonga | 1:05.86 | NR |
| 68 | 3 | 9 | Naveed Hussian | Pakistan | 1:07.01 | |
| 69 | 2 | 9 | Cruz Halbich | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 1:07.78 | NR |
| 70 | 1 | 5 | Aaron de Freitas | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 1:13.93 | |
| 71 | 1 | 2 | Joseph Richard Sumari | Tanzania | 1:14.93 | |
| 72 | 1 | 6 | Dennis Hamis Mhini | Tanzania | 1:17.30 | |
| | 6 | 0 | Michael Taylor | United States | | DSQ |
| | 1 | 3 | Tanner Poppe | Guam | | DNS |
| | 2 | 7 | Hasan Isam Sadeq | Iraq | | DNS |
| | 4 | 1 | Driss Lachrichi | Morocco | | DNS |
| | 4 | 4 | Daniil Bukin | Uzbekistan | | DNS |
| | 8 | 2 | Dylan Carter | Trinidad and Tobago | | DNS |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 18:46.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | Andrey Shabasov | Russia | 49.71 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Mitch Larkin | Australia | 50.10 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | Jacob Pebley | United States | 50.56 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Masaki Kaneko | Japan | 50.65 | |
| 5 | 2 | Pavel Sankovich | Belarus | 50.83 | |
| 6 | 7 | Bobby Hurley | Australia | 50.87 | |
| 7 | 1 | Miguel Ortiz-Cañavate | Spain | 51.43 | |
| 8 | 8 | David Gamburg | Israel | 51.76 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Xu Jiayu | China | 49.99 | Q, AS |
| 2 | 5 | Radosław Kawęcki | Poland | 50.17 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Robert Glință | Romania | 50.37 | Q, NR |
| 4 | 6 | Grigoriy Tarasevich | Russia | 50.54 | Q |
| 5 | 3 | Junya Koga | Japan | 50.59 | Q |
| 6 | 8 | Danas Rapšys | Lithuania | 51.10 | |
| 7 | 1 | Javier Acevedo | Canada | 51.16 | |
| 8 | 7 | Tomasz Polewka | Poland | 51.37 | |

### Final

The final was held at 18:37.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 3 | Mitch Larkin | Australia | 49.65 |
| | 4 | Andrey Shabasov | Russia | 49.69 |
| | 5 | Xu Jiayu | China | 50.02 |
| 4 | 8 | Junya Koga | Japan | 50.21 |
| 5 | 6 | Radosław Kawęcki | Poland | 50.22 |
| 6 | 1 | Jacob Pebley | United States | 50.24 |
| 7 | 2 | Robert Glință | Romania | 50.52 |
| 8 | 7 | Grigoriy Tarasevich | Russia | 50.95 |