Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre backstroke

The men's 100 metre backstroke event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on 10–12 August at the Beijing National Aquatics Center in Beijing, China.[1]

Men's 100 metre backstroke
at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
VenueBeijing National Aquatics Center
DateAugust 10, 2008 (heats)
August 11, 2008 (semifinals)
August 12, 2008 (final)
Competitors45 from 35 nations
Winning time52.54 WR
Medalists
Aaron Peirsol  United States
Matt Grevers  United States
Hayden Stoeckel  Australia
Arkady Vyatchanin  Russia
Swimming at the
2008 Summer Olympics
Qualification
Freestyle
50 mmenwomen
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
800 mwomen
1500 mmen
Backstroke
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Breaststroke
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Butterfly
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Individual medley
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
Freestyle relay
4×100 mmenwomen
4×200 mmenwomen
Medley relay
4×100 mmenwomen
Marathon
10 kmmenwomen

Aaron Peirsol established a new world record of 52.54 to defend his Olympic title in the event. His teammate Matt Grevers earned a silver in 53.11, giving the United States a one-two finish.[2][3] Meanwhile, Australia's Hayden Stoeckel and Russia's Arkady Vyatchanin, who both finished behind Grevers by 0.07 of a second, tied for the bronze medal in a matching time of 53.18.[4]

Stoeckel's teammate Ashley Delaney finished fifth in 53.31, while Great Britain's Liam Tancock, who led a field in the first 50 metres, faded only to sixth place in 53.39.[5] Spain's Aschwin Wildeboer (53.51) and Japan's Junichi Miyashita (53.99) rounded out the finale. For the first time in Olympic history, all eight swimmers went faster than a winning time of 54.09, previously set by Peirsol in Athens four years earlier.[2]

Earlier, Grevers erased Peirsol's 2004 Olympic record of 53.45 to pick up a top seed in the prelims, until Stoeckel broke a 53-second barrier, and eventually lowered the record to 52.97 in the semifinals.[6]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World record Aaron Peirsol (USA)52.89Omaha, United States1 July 2008
Olympic record Aaron Peirsol (USA)53.45Athens, Greece21 August 2004

The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.

DateEventNameNationalityTimeRecord
August 10Heat 4Matt Grevers United States53.41OR
August 11Semifinal 1Arkady Vyatchanin Russia53.06OR
August 11Semifinal 2Hayden Stoeckel Australia52.97OR
August 12FinalAaron Peirsol United States52.54WR, OR

Results

Heats
RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
144Matt Grevers United States53.41Q, OR
245Arkady Vyatchanin Russia53.64Q
364Aaron Peirsol United States53.65Q
467Aschwin Wildeboer Spain53.67Q
535Gerhard Zandberg South Africa53.75Q, AF
665Liam Tancock Great Britain53.85Q
753Hayden Stoeckel Australia53.93Q
838Ľuboš Križko Slovakia54.07Q, NR
955Ashley Delaney Australia54.08Q
1052Junichi Miyashita Japan54.12Q
1142Stanislav Donets Russia54.18Q
1243Tomomi Morita Japan54.21Q
1363Markus Rogan Austria54.22Q
1461Mirco Di Tora Italy54.39Q
1551Guy Barnea Israel54.50Q
1656Gregor Tait Great Britain54.62Q
1746Aristeidis Grigoriadis Greece54.71
1834Damiano Lestingi Italy54.78
1954Helge Meeuw Germany54.88
2062Guilherme Guido Brazil54.89
68Răzvan Florea Romania
2248George Du Rand South Africa54.90
2337Sung Min South Korea54.99
2441Gordan Kožulj Croatia55.05
2533Benjamin Stasiulis France55.08
2626Omar Pinzón Colombia55.11
2736Jonathan Massacand Switzerland55.21NR
2847Nick Driebergen Netherlands55.31
2925Pavel Sankovich Belarus55.39
3031Derya Büyükuncu Turkey55.43
3158Jake Tapp Canada55.54
3232Vytautas Janušaitis Lithuania55.65
3366Thomas Rupprath Germany55.77
3457Marko Strahija Croatia55.89
3524Örn Arnarson Iceland56.15
3623Roland Rudolf Hungary56.25
3722Sun Xiaolei China56.44
3828Oleksandr Isakov Ukraine56.55
3914Danil Bugakov Uzbekistan56.59
4027Eduardo Germán Otero Argentina56.74
4121Tomáš Fučík Czech Republic57.29
4215Stanislav Osinsky Kazakhstan57.42
4313Jared Heine Marshall Islands58.86
4412Souhaib Kalala Syria1:00.24
4516Rubel Mohammad Rana Bangladesh1:04.82

Semifinal 1
RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
1 4 Arkady Vyatchanin Russia 53.06Q, OR, EU
2 5 Aschwin Wildeboer Spain 53.51Q
3 3 Liam Tancock Great Britain 53.61Q
4 2 Junichi Miyashita Japan 53.69Q, AS
5 7 Tomomi Morita Japan 53.95
6 8 Gregor Tait Great Britain 54.37
7 6 Ľuboš Križko Slovakia 54.38
8 1 Mirco Di Tora Italy 54.92

Semifinal 2
RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
1 6 Hayden Stoeckel Australia 52.97Q, OR
2 4 Matt Grevers United States 52.99Q
3 5 Aaron Peirsol United States 53.56Q
4 2 Ashley Delaney Australia 53.76Q
5 1 Markus Rogan Austria 53.80
6 3 Gerhard Zandberg South Africa 53.98
7 7 Stanislav Donets Russia 54.57
8 8 Guy Barnea Israel 54.93

Final
RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
2 Aaron Peirsol United States 52.54WR
5 Matt Grevers United States 53.11
3 Arkady Vyatchanin Russia 53.18
4 Hayden Stoeckel Australia
5 8 Ashley Delaney Australia 53.31
6 7 Liam Tancock Great Britain 53.39NR
7 6 Aschwin Wildeboer Spain 53.51
8 1 Junichi Miyashita Japan 53.99

References
  1. "Olympic Swimming Schedule". USA Today. 9 August 2008. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
  2. Lohn, John (11 August 2008). "Olympics, Swimming: Aaron Peirsol Crushes 100 Back World Record En Route To Win". Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the original on 2 June 2013. Retrieved 16 May 2013.
  3. "Aaron Peirsol wins gold in 100m backstroke; Matt Grevers takes silver". Los Angeles Times. 11 August 2008. Retrieved 16 May 2013.
  4. "Dead-heat bronze for Stoeckel, Peirsol wins backstroke gold". ABC News. 12 August 2008. Retrieved 16 May 2013.
  5. "Peirsol wins 100m backstroke gold". BBC Sport. 12 August 2008. Retrieved 16 May 2013.
  6. Lohn, John (10 August 2008). "Olympics, Swimming: Club 52 Grows to Four, Hayden Stoeckel Wins Semifinal Round of 100 Back". Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the original on 1 November 2012. Retrieved 16 May 2013.
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