# 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 100 metre backstroke

The Men's 100 metre backstroke competition of the 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 3 December with the heats and the semifinals and 4 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 | Nick Thoman | United States | 48.94 | Manchester | 18 December 2009 |
| Championship record | Stanislav Donets | Russia | 48.95 | Dubai | 19 December 2010 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held at 10:20.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 7 | 1 | Matt Grevers | United States | 50.19 | Q |
| 2 | 9 | 4 | Mitch Larkin | Australia | 50.54 | Q |
| 3 | 8 | 6 | David Gamburg | Israel | 50.64 | Q |
| 4 | 9 | 5 | Benjamin Stasiulis | France | 50.66 | Q |
| 5 | 8 | 3 | Ryosuke Irie | Japan | 50.72 | Q |
| 6 | 7 | 4 | Christian Diener | Germany | 50.75 | Q |
| 7 | 8 | 4 | Eugene Godsoe | United States | 50.79 | Q |
| 8 | 7 | 5 | Chris Walker-Hebborn | Great Britain | 50.81 | Q |
| 9 | 7 | 6 | Stanislav Donets | Russia | 50.99 | Q |
| 9 | 9 | 7 | Radosław Kawęcki | Poland | 50.99 | Q |
| 11 | 9 | 3 | Guilherme Guido | Brazil | 51.05 | Q |
| 12 | 8 | 5 | Yuki Shirai | Japan | 51.06 | Q |
| 13 | 8 | 8 | Lavrans Solli | Norway | 51.33 | Q |
| 14 | 7 | 2 | Danas Rapšys | Lithuania | 51.35 | Q |
| 14 | 9 | 6 | Guy Barnea | Israel | 51.35 | Q |
| 16 | 8 | 2 | Russell Wood | Canada | 51.36 | Q |
| 17 | 8 | 9 | Omar Pinzón | Colombia | 51.45 | NR |
| 18 | 7 | 7 | Simone Sabbioni | Italy | 51.56 | |
| 19 | 9 | 2 | Niccolo Bonacchi | Italy | 51.65 | |
| 20 | 7 | 3 | Alexandr Tarabrin | Kazakhstan | 51.92 | |
| 21 | 7 | 8 | Ryan Pini | Papua New Guinea | 51.93 | |
| 22 | 5 | 9 | Robert Glință | Romania | 51.99 | |
| 23 | 9 | 8 | Lucas Salatta | Brazil | 52.08 | |
| 24 | 8 | 0 | Apostolos Christou | Greece | 52.17 | |
| 25 | 8 | 1 | Gábor Balog | Hungary | 52.30 | |
| 26 | 4 | 2 | Rexford Tullius | United States Virgin Islands | 52.33 | |
| 27 | 9 | 1 | Péter Bernek | Hungary | 52.82 | |
| 28 | 9 | 9 | Martin Baďura | Czech Republic | 52.90 | |
| 29 | 6 | 5 | Viktar Staselovich | Belarus | 52.97 | |
| 30 | 6 | 6 | Charl Crous | South Africa | 53.03 | |
| 31 | 7 | 0 | Lukas Rauftlin | Switzerland | 53.08 | |
| 32 | 8 | 7 | Alexis Santos | Portugal | 53.17 | |
| 33 | 6 | 1 | Antons Voitovs | Latvia | 53.29 | |
| 34 | 6 | 4 | Sun Xiaolei | China | 53.41 | |
| 35 | 9 | 0 | Janis Šaltāns | Latvia | 53.43 | |
| 36 | 6 | 2 | Martin Zhelev | Bulgaria | 53.73 | |
| 37 | 6 | 8 | Raphaël Stacchiotti | Luxembourg | 53.79 | |
| 38 | 7 | 9 | Stephanus Coetzer | South Africa | 53.88 | |
| 39 | 5 | 4 | Davíð Aðalsteinsson | Iceland | 54.04 | |
| 40 | 6 | 9 | Semen Makovich | Russia | 54.09 | |
| 41 | 6 | 7 | Charles Hockin | Paraguay | 54.14 | |
| 42 | 6 | 3 | Marko Krce-Rabar | Croatia | 54.25 | |
| 43 | 5 | 2 | Andres Montoya | Colombia | 54.33 | |
| 44 | 5 | 0 | Armando Barrera | Cuba | 54.41 | |
| 45 | 6 | 0 | Kristinn Þórarinsson | Iceland | 54.68 | |
| 46 | 5 | 5 | Lau Shiu Yue | Hong Kong | 54.86 | |
| 47 | 4 | 1 | Boris Kirillov | Azerbaijan | 54.92 | |
| 48 | 4 | 5 | Jamal Chavoshifar | Iran | 55.03 | |
| 49 | 5 | 1 | Roman Dmytrijev | Czech Republic | 55.23 | |
| 50 | 4 | 6 | David van der Cloff | Botswana | 55.37 | |
| 51 | 5 | 7 | Daniil Bukin | Uzbekistan | 55.46 | |
| 52 | 5 | 6 | Ryad Djendouci | Algeria | 55.50 | |
| 53 | 5 | 8 | Matías López | Paraguay | 55.56 | |
| 54 | 3 | 3 | Matthew Abeysinghe | Sri Lanka | 56.05 | |
| 55 | 4 | 4 | Lin Shih-chieh | Chinese Taipei | 56.28 | |
| 56 | 3 | 1 | Grigorii Kalminskii | Azerbaijan | 56.36 | |
| 57 | 5 | 3 | Ng Kai Hong Henry | Hong Kong | 56.41 | |
| 58 | 4 | 8 | Gorazd Chepishevski | Macedonia | 56.70 | |
| 59 | 4 | 3 | Merdan Ataýew | Turkmenistan | 56.82 | |
| 60 | 4 | 0 | Driss Lahrichi | Morocco | 57.31 | |
| 61 | 3 | 2 | Peter Wetzlar | Zimbabwe | 57.33 | |
| 62 | 3 | 4 | Rodrigo Suriano | El Salvador | 57.34 | |
| 63 | 4 | 7 | Soroush Ghandchi | Iran | 57.46 | |
| 64 | 3 | 5 | Neil Muscat | Malta | 57.55 | |
| 65 | 4 | 9 | Hamdan Bayusuf | Kenya | 58.01 | |
| 66 | 3 | 8 | Yaaqoub Al-Saadi | United Arab Emirates | 58.23 | |
| 67 | 3 | 6 | Aram Kostanyan | Armenia | 58.65 | |
| 68 | 3 | 9 | Igor Mogne | Mozambique | 58.69 | |
| 69 | 3 | 0 | Patrick Groters | Aruba | 58.78 | |
| 70 | 3 | 7 | Maroun Waked | Lebanon | 59.17 | |
| 71 | 2 | 4 | Yum Cheng Man | Macau | 59.81 | |
| 72 | 2 | 6 | Andrea Barberini | San Marino | 59.93 | |
| 73 | 2 | 5 | Jeremy Kostons | Curaçao | 1:00.10 | |
| 74 | 2 | 2 | Jordan Gonzalez | Gibraltar | 1:00.60 | |
| 75 | 2 | 3 | Noah Al-Khulaifi | Qatar | 1:01.34 | |
| 76 | 2 | 7 | Rony Bakale | Republic of the Congo | 1:02.64 | |
| 77 | 2 | 1 | Nathan Nades | Papua New Guinea | 1:02.94 | |
| 78 | 1 | 3 | Aliasger Karimjee | Tanzania | 1:04.78 | |
| 79 | 2 | 0 | J'Air Smith | Antigua and Barbuda | 1:05.22 | |
| 80 | 2 | 8 | Arnold Kisulo | Uganda | 1:05.70 | |
| 81 | 1 | 5 | Temaruata Strickland | Cook Islands | 1:05.74 | |
| 82 | 1 | 4 | Dean Hoffman | Seychelles | 1:06.51 | |
| 83 | 2 | 9 | Aleksander Ngresi | Albania | 1:08.85 | |
| 84 | 1 | 2 | Ahnt Khaung Htut | Myanmar | 1:09.07 | |
| 85 | 1 | 7 | Storm Hablich | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 1:10.02 | |
| 86 | 1 | 8 | Phathana Inthavong | Laos | 1:10.52 | |
| 87 | 1 | 1 | Tommy Imazu | Guam | 1:12.30 | |
| 88 | 1 | 6 | Dionisio Augustine | Federated States of Micronesia | 1:12.93 | |
| 89 | 1 | 0 | Tanner Poppe | Guam | 1:15.96 | |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 18:14.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Mitch Larkin | Australia | 49.62 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Christian Diener | Germany | 50.32 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Radosław Kawęcki | Poland | 50.54 | Q |
| 4 | 5 | Benjamin Stasiulis | France | 50.68 | Q |
| 5 | 6 | Chris Walker-Hebborn | Great Britain | 50.76 | |
| 6 | 7 | Yuki Shirai | Japan | 50.85 | |
| 7 | 1 | Danas Rapšys | Lithuania | 50.95 | |
| 8 | 8 | Russell Wood | Canada | 51.59 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 7 | Guilherme Guido | Brazil | 50.12 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Ryosuke Irie | Japan | 50.16 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | Matt Grevers | United States | 50.26 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Eugene Godsoe | United States | 50.42 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | Stanislav Donets | Russia | 50.69 | |
| 6 | 5 | David Gamburg | Israel | 50.78 | |
| 7 | 1 | Lavrans Solli | Norway | 51.33 | |
| 8 | 8 | Guy Barnea | Israel | 51.64 | |

### Final

The final was held at 18:34.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 4 | Mitch Larkin | Australia | 49.57 |
| | 1 | Radosław Kawęcki | Poland | 50.11 |
| | 3 | Ryosuke Irie | Japan | 50.12 |
| | 6 | Matt Grevers | United States | 50.12 |
| 5 | 2 | Christian Diener | Germany | 50.21 |
| 5 | 5 | Guilherme Guido | Brazil | 50.21 |
| 7 | 7 | Eugene Godsoe | United States | 50.40 |
| 8 | 8 | Benjamin Stasiulis | France | 50.86 |