2023 World Para Swimming Championships – Men's 100 metre backstroke

The men's 100m backstroke events at the 2023 World Para Swimming Championships were held at the Manchester Aquatics Centre between 31 July and 6 August.

Medalists

Event Gold Silver Bronze
S1 Kamil Otowski
 Poland
Anton Kol
 Ukraine
Francesco Bettella
 Italy
S2 Gabriel Araújo
 Brazil
Alberto Abarza
 Chile
Jacek Czech
 Poland
S6 Yang Hong
 China
Dino Sinovčić
 Croatia
Matías de Andrade
 Argentina
S7 Andrii Trusov
 Ukraine
Yurii Shenhur
 Ukraine
Federico Bicelli
 Italy
S8 Iñigo Lloips Sanz
 Spain
Kota Kubota
 Japan
Sam Downie
 Great Britain
S9 Simone Barlaam
 Italy
Ugo Didier
 France
Timothy Hodge
 Australia
S10 Stefano Raimondi
 Italy
Riccardo Menciotti
 Italy
Ihor Nimchenko
 Ukraine
S11 Mykhailo Serbin
 Ukraine
Marco Meneses
 Portugal
Rogier Dorsman
 Netherlands
S12 Stephen Clegg
 Great Britain
Raman Salei
 Azerbaijan
Douglas Matera
 Brazil
S13 Thomas van Wanrooij
 Netherlands
Enrique José Alhambra Mollar
 Spain
Oleksii Virchenko
 Ukraine
S14 Benjamin Hance
 Australia
Gabriel Bandeira
 Brazil
Alexander Hillhouse
 Denmark

Results

S1

The applicable records entering the event were as follows:

Record Swimmer Time
World record Hennadii Boiko Ukraine 2:08.01
Championship record Iyad Shalabi Israel 2:25.51


Final

The event took place on 2 Aug 2023 at 17:35. Five swimmers entered and the event progressed directly to final.


Rank Lane Athlete Nation Result Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) 4 Kamil Otowski  Poland 2:18.60
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 5 Anton Kol  Ukraine 2:27.55
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 3 Francesco Bettella  Italy 2:30.89
4 6 Iyad Shalabi  Israel 2:33.53
5 2 Dimitrios Karypidis  Greece 3:04.90

S2

The applicable records entering the event were as follows:

Record Swimmer Time
World record Liankang Zou China 1:45.25
Championship record Santos Araujo Dos Brazil 1:57.69


Final

The event took place on 2 Aug 2023 at 17:42. Seven swimmers entered and the event was treated as a direct final.


Rank Lane Athlete Nation Result Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) 4 Gabriel Araújo  Brazil 1:55.34
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 5 Alberto Abarza Diaz  Chile 2:06.42
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 3 Jacek Czech  Poland 2:07.04
4 6 Roman Bondarenko  Ukraine 2:13.80
5 2 C Tronco Sanchez  Mexico 2:17.05
6 1 Rodrigo Santillan  Peru 2:19.13
7 7 Conrad Hildebrand  Sweden 2:42.85

S6

The event took place on the morning and evening of 31 July.

Entering the event, the World and championships records were as follows:[1]

Record Swimmer Time
World record China Zheng Tao : 1:10.84
Championship record China Zheng Tao : 1:12.94
Heats

Nine swimmers entered the event. The top eight, regardless of heat, advanced to the final.[2]

Rank Heat Lane Name Nation Result Notes
1 2 6 Yang Hong  China 1:16.55 Q
2 1 5 Jia Hongguang  China 1:17.32 Q
3 2 4 Dino Sinovcic  Croatia 1:17.51 Q
4 1 6 Wang Jingang  China 1:18.46 Q
5 1 4 Matias de Andrade  Argentina 1:19.23 Q
6 2 5 Nelson Crispín  Colombia 1:22.12 Q
7 2 3 David Sanchez Sierra  Spain 1:22.13 Q
8 1 3 Daniel Videira  Portugal 1:22.92 Q
9 2 2 Raul Gutierrez  Mexico 1:24.48
Final

Eight swimmers from six nations took part.[3]

Rank Name Nation Result Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Yang Hong  China 1:15.17
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Dino Sinovčić  Croatia 1:17.71
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Matías de Andrade  Argentina 1:18.74
4 Wang Jingang  China 1:19.42
5 Nelson Crispín  Colombia 1:19.87
6 Jia Hongguang  China 1:20.72
7 David Sanchez Sierra  Spain 1:20.94
8 Daniel Videira  Portugal 1:22.79

S7

The applicable records entering the event were as follows:

Record Swimmer Time
World record Andrii Trusov Ukraine 1:08.14
Championship record Bohdan Hrynenko Ukraine 1:08.92
Heats

The event took place on 3 Aug 2023 at 10:26. Nine swimmers entered. The highest ranked eight, regardless of heat, progressed to the final

Rank Heat Lane Name Nation Result Notes
1 2 4 Andrii Trusov  Ukraine 1:12.13 Q
1 1 5 Yurii Shenhur  Ukraine 1:12.13 Q
3 2 3 Christian Sadie  South Africa 1:14.10 Q
4 1 4 Federico Bicelli  Italy 1:15.06 Q
5 2 5 Inaki Basiloff  Argentina 1:15.40 Q
6 1 3 Marian Kvasnytsia  Ukraine 1:15.45 Q
7 1 6 Nicolas Poggi  Argentina 1:16.22 Q
8 2 2 Wei Soong Toh  Singapore 1:18.60 Q
9 2 6 Carlos Serrano Zárate  Colombia 1:20.69


Final

The event took place on 3 Aug 2023 at 20:12.


Rank Lane Athlete Nation Result Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) 5 Andrii Trusov  Ukraine 1:09.37
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 4 Yurii Shenhur  Ukraine 1:10.67
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 6 Federico Bicelli  Italy 1:12.08
4 3 Christian Sadie  South Africa 1:12.99
5 2 Inaki Basiloff  Argentina 1:13.37
6 8 Wei Soong Toh  Singapore 1:14.97
7 7 Marian Kvasnytsia  Ukraine 1:15.44
8 1 Nicolas Poggi  Argentina 1:17.45

S8

The applicable records entering the event were as follows:

Record Swimmer Time
World record Robert Griswold United States 1:02.55
Championship record Konstantin Lisenkov Russia 1:03.32
Final

The event took place on 3 Aug 2023 at 20:12.


Rank Lane Athlete Nation Result Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) 5 Inigo Llopis Sanz  Spain 1:05.32
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 4 Kota Kubota  Japan 1:06.40
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 2 Sam Downie  Great Britain 1:08.36
4 6 Mark Malyar  Israel 1:09.17
5 3 Kotaro Ogiwara  Japan 1:09.39
6 1 Pipo Carlomagno  Argentina 1:11.08
7 7 S Martos Minguet  Spain 1:11.31
8 8 Jurijs Semjonovs  Latvia 1:19.60

S9

The applicable records entering the event were as follows:

Record Swimmer Time
World record Simone Barlaam Italy 59.72
Championship record Simone Barlaam Italy 59.72


Heats

10 swimmers entered the competition.

Rank Lane Athlete Nation Result Notes "
1 5 Timothy Hodge  Australia 1:01.90
2 4 Ugo Didier  France 1:02.58
3 4 Simone Barlaam  Italy 1:04.46
4 5 Jesse Reynolds  New Zealand 1:04.85
5 2 Eduard Horodianyn  Ukraine 1:05.52
6 3 Barry Mcclements  Ireland 1:06.37
7 3 Jendi Pangabean  Indonesia 1:06.43
8 6 Brenden Hall  Australia 1:06.80
9 6 Visser Sam De  Belgium 1:07.56
10 2 Brun Jacobo Garrido  Spain 1:11.68
Final
Rank Lane Athlete Nation Result Notes "
1 3 Simone Barlaam  Italy 1:00.35
2 5 Ugo Didier  France 1:00.42
3 4 Timothy Hodge  Australia 1:02.15
4 6 Jesse Reynolds  New Zealand 1:04.95
5 2 Eduard Horodianyn  Ukraine 1:05.69
6 7 Barry Mcclements  Ireland 1:05.90
7 8 Brenden Hall  Australia 1:06.35

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S12

The event took place on the morning and evening of 31 July.

Entering the event, the World and championship records were as follows:

Record Swimmer Time
World record Russia A Svetov-Nevolin : 59.35
Championship record Ukraine Yaroslav Denysenko : 59.40
Heats

12 swimmers took part. The Top eight, regardless of heat, progress to the final[4]

Rank Heat Lane Name Nation Result Notes
1 2 4 Stephen Clegg  Great Britain 1:00.01 Q
2 1 4 Raman Salei  Azerbaijan 1:02.26 Q
3 1 5 Martin Alex Villarejo  Spain 1:05.62 Q
4 1 3 Dmytro Sukhanov  Ukraine 1:08.30 Q
5 2 5 Maulana Rifky Yavianda  Indonesia 1:08.39 Q
6 2 3 Douglas Matera  Brazil 1:09.19 Q
7 2 2 Roman Mychka  Ukraine 1:09.69 Q
8 2 7 Jahan Abadi Karimi  Iran 1:10.39 Q
9 2 6 Tamayo Borja Sanz  Spain 1:10.58
10 1 6 Daniel Giraldo Correa  Colombia 1:10.84
11 1 2 Roman Potapov  Kazakhstan 1:12.31
12 1 7 Andrey Afanasyev  Kazakhstan 1:14.66
Final

Eight swimmers from seven nations took part.[5]

Rank Name Nation Result Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Stephen Clegg  Great Britain 1:00.13
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Raman Salei  Azerbaijan 1:00.83
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Douglas Matera  Brazil 1:04.60
4 Maulana Rifky Yavianda  Indonesia 1:05.00
5 Alex Villarejo Martin  Spain 1:05.69
6 Dmytro Sukhanov  Ukraine 1:06.72
7 Karimi Jahan Abadi  Iran 1:10.68
8 Roman Mychka  Ukraine 1:10.68

S14

The event took place on the morning and evening of 1 August.

Entering the event, the World and championship records were as follows:

Record Swimmer Time
World record Australia Benjamin Hance : 56.88
Championship record Australia Benjamin Hance : 57.34
Heats

13 swimmers took part. The Top eight, regardless of heat, progress to the final[6]

Rank Heat Lane Name Nation Result Notes
1 2 4 Benjamin Hance  Australia 57.48 Q
2 1 4 Gabriel Bandeira  Brazil 1:00.05 Q
3 2 5 Alexander Hillhouse  Denmark 1:00.41 Q
4 1 5 Jordan Catchpole  Great Britain 1:01.11 Q
5 1 3 Vasyl Krainyk  Ukraine 1:01.44 Q
6 2 3 Ricky Betar  Australia 1:01.81 Q
7 2 6 Louis Lawlor  Great Britain 1:01.84 Q
8 1 6 Lee In-kook  South Korea 1:02.19 Q
9 1 7 Lautaro Maidana  Argentina 1:03.02
10 1 2 Hui Ka Chun  Hong Kong 1:03.36
11 2 2 Muhammad Redzuan  Malaysia 1:03.83
12 2 7 Nicholas Bennett  Canada 1:04.19
13 2 1 Cameron Vearncombe  Great Britain 1:05.46
Final

Eight swimmers from seven nations took part.[7]

Rank Name Nation Result Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Benjamin Hance  Australia 57.26 CR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Gabriel Bandeira  Brazil 59.05
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Alexander Hillhouse  Denmark 59.86
4 Jordan Catchpole  Great Britain 1:00.41
5 Vasyl Krainyk  Ukraine 1:01.81
6 Louis Lawlor  Great Britain 1:01.86
7 Ricky Betar  Australia 1:01.89
8 Lee In-kook  South Korea 1:02.31

References

  1. ^ "Manchester 2023 World Para Swimming Championships - Initial Records". www.paralympic.org. Retrieved 2023-08-01.
  2. ^ "Men's 100m backstroke S6 Heats" (PDF). paralympic.org. 31 July 2023. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
  3. ^ "Men's 100m backstroke S6 Finals" (PDF). paralympic.org. 31 July 2023. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
  4. ^ "Men's 100m backstroke S12 Heats" (PDF). paralympic.org. 31 July 2023. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
  5. ^ "Men's 100m backstroke S12 Finals" (PDF). paralympic.org. 31 July 2023. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
  6. ^ "Men's 100m backstroke S14 Heats" (PDF). paralympic.org. 1 August 2023. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
  7. ^ "Men's 100m backstroke S14 Finals" (PDF). paralympic.org. 1 August 2023. Retrieved 1 August 2023.