Swimming at the 2013 Mediterranean Games – Men's 50 metre backstroke

The men's 50 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 2013 Mediterranean Games took place on June 21 at the Mersin Olympic Swimming Pool in Mersin, Turkey.[1]

Men's 50 metre backstroke
at the 2013 Mediterranean Games
VenueMersin Olympic Swimming Pool
DatesJune 21, 2013
Competitors11 from 8 nations
Winning time25:35
Medalists
gold medal    Italy
silver medal    Italy
bronze medal    Spain

The race consisted of one length of the pool in backstroke.

Schedule

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All times are Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+03:00)

Date Time Event
Friday, 21 June 2013 09:35 Heats
18:05 Final

Records

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Prior to this competition, the existing world and Mediterranean Games records were as follows:

World record   Liam Tancock (GBR) 24.04 Rome, Italy August 2, 2009
Mediterranean Games record   Aschwin Wildeboer (ESP) 24.73 Pescara, Italy June 27, 2009

Results

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All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY: q Fastest non-qualifiers Q Qualified GR Games record NR National record PB Personal best SB Seasonal best

Heats

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Rank Heat Lane Athlete Time Notes
1 2 5   Oscar Pereiro (ESP) 25.51 Q
2 1 3   Juan Francisco Segura (ESP) 25.86 Q
3 1 4   Niccolò Bonacchi (ITA) 25.87 Q
4 2 4   Mauro Pizzamiglio (ITA) 26.06 Q
5 1 5   Güven Duvan (TUR) 26.07 Q
6 1 6   Bilal Achelhi (MAR) 26.24 Q
7 2 3   Eric Ress (FRA) 26.40 Q
8 2 6   Burak Kartal (TUR) 26.94 Q
9 1 2   Robert Žbogar (SLO) 27.12
10 2 7   Gorazd Chepishevski (MKD) 28.19
11 2 2   Sofyan El Gadi (LBA) 28.61

Final

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Rank Lane Athlete Time Notes
  4   Mauro Pizzamiglio (ITA) 25:35
  3   Niccolò Bonacchi (ITA) 25.42
  5   Juan Francisco Segura (ESP) 25.66
4 6   Oscar Pereiro (ESP) 25.76
5 2   Güven Duvan (TUR) 25:89
6 1   Eric Ress (FRA) 26.12
7 7   Bilal Achelhi (MAR) 26.38
8 8   Burak Kartal (TUR) 26.99

References

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  1. ^ "Sessions". Mersin 2013. Archived from the original on 22 June 2013. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
  2. ^ Swimming - Men's 50m Backstroke Heat 1 (Startlist)
  3. ^ Swimming - Men's 50m Backstroke Heat 2 (Startlist)
  4. ^ Swimming - Men's 50m Backstroke Final (Official) Archived 2014-08-11 at the Wayback Machine