Swimming at the 2018 Mediterranean Games – Men's 100 metre backstroke

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The men's 100 metre backstroke competition at the 2018 Mediterranean Games was held on 24 June 2018 at the Campclar Aquatic Center.

Men's 100 metre backstroke at the 2018 Mediterranean Games
Venue	Campclar Aquatic Center
Location	Tarragona, Spain
Dates	24 June
Competitors	17 from 12 nations
Winning time	54.68
Medalists
Apostolos Christou    Greece   Simone Sabbioni    Italy   Christopher Ciccarese    Italy

Records

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

World record	Ryan Murphy (USA)	51.85	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	13 August 2016
Mediterranean Games record	Aschwin Wildeboer (ESP)	52.38	Pescara, Italy	1 July 2009

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 10:18.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Simone Sabbioni	Italy	54.72	Q
2	1	7	Christopher Ciccarese	Italy	54.75	Q
3	1	5	Youssef Said	Egypt	55.74	Q
4	3	3	Gabriel José Lopes	Portugal	55.79	Q
5	2	3	Jorge Martín	Spain	56.26	Q
6	3	4	Apostolos Christou	Greece	56.64	Q
7	3	5	Nikolaos Sofianidis	Greece	56.80	Q
8	3	6	Anton Lončar	Croatia	56.97	Q
9	3	2	Anže Ferš Eržen	Slovenia	57.07
10	1	6	Ege Başer	Turkey	57.32
11	2	5	Juan Segura	Spain	57.37
12	2	6	Francisco Santos	Portugal	57.43
13	1	3	Geoffroy Mathieu	France	57.54
14	2	7	Driss Lahrichi	Morocco	57.77
15	1	2	Filippos Iakovidis	Cyprus	57.98
16	2	2	Ryad Bouhamidi	Algeria	58.51
17	3	7	Tryfonas Hadjichristoforou	Cyprus	58.67

Final

The final was held at 18:32.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	7	Apostolos Christou	Greece	54.68
	4	Simone Sabbioni	Italy	54.77
	5	Christopher Ciccarese	Italy	54.77
4	1	Nikolaos Sofianidis	Greece	55.23
5	6	Gabriel José Lopes	Portugal	55.77
6	2	Jorge Martín	Spain	55.88
7	8	Anton Lončar	Croatia	56.22
8	3	Youssef Said	Egypt	56.48