2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 50 metre backstroke
The Men's 50 metre backstroke competition of the 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships was held on 5 December with the heats and the semifinals and 6 December with the final.Records
Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
The following records were established during the competition:
| Date | Event | Name | Nation | Time | Record |
| 6 December | Final | Florent Manaudou | | 22.22 | WR, CR |
Results
Heats
The heats were held 09:38.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 10 | 4 | Florent Manaudou | | 23.24 | Q |
| 2 | 11 | 6 | Stanislav Donets | | 23.29 | Q |
| 3 | 8 | 4 | Matt Grevers | | 23.32 | Q |
| 4 | 11 | 4 | Eugene Godsoe | | 23.37 | Q |
| 5 | 10 | 3 | Chris Walker-Hebborn | | 23.44 | Q |
| 6 | 11 | 5 | Benjamin Stasiulis | | 23.48 | Q |
| 7 | 11 | 2 | Lavrans Solli | | 23.50 | Q |
| 8 | 10 | 5 | Guilherme Guido | | 23.55 | Q |
| 9 | 11 | 3 | Niccolo Bonacchi | | 23.60 | Q |
| 10 | 9 | 4 | Mitch Larkin | | 23.69 | Q |
| 11 | 9 | 3 | Christian Diener | | 23.70 | Q |
| 12 | 7 | 2 | Albert Subirats | | 23.71 | Q |
| 13 | 10 | 9 | Ryosuke Irie | | 23.75 | Q |
| 14 | 10 | 6 | Sun Xiaolei | | 23.77 | Q |
| 15 | 9 | 5 | Guy Barnea | | 23.87 | Q |
| 16 | 9 | 7 | Henrique Martins | | 23.90 | Q |
| 17 | 9 | 2 | Russell Wood | | 23.93 | |
| 18 | 11 | 0 | Daniel Carranza | | 23.97 | |
| 19 | 6 | 4 | Omar Pinzón | | 23.98 | |
| 20 | 9 | 1 | Simone Sabbioni | | 23.99 | |
| 20 | 11 | 1 | Yuki Shirai | | 23.99 | |
| 22 | 9 | 0 | Apostolos Christou | | 24.06 | |
| 23 | 11 | 7 | David Gamburg | | 24.11 | |
| 24 | 10 | 7 | Viktar Staselovich | | 24.15 | |
| 25 | 7 | 9 | Antons Voitovs | | 24.23 | |
| 26 | 11 | 9 | Dávid Földházi | | 24.25 | |
| 27 | 10 | 2 | Alexandr Tarabrin | | 24.26 | |
| 28 | 6 | 2 | Rexford Tullius | | 24.27 | |
| 29 | 9 | 6 | Alexis Santos | | 24.29 | |
| 29 | 10 | 1 | Ryan Pini | | 24.29 | |
| 31 | 9 | 8 | Robert Glinţă | | 24.34 | |
| 32 | 11 | 8 | Ricky Ellis | | 24.45 | |
| 33 | 10 | 0 | Gábor Balog | | 24.49 | |
| 34 | 8 | 6 | Lin Yongqing | | 24.61 | |
| 35 | 7 | 3 | Charl Crous | | 24.63 | |
| 36 | 10 | 8 | Jānis Šaltāns | | 24.75 | |
| 37 | 8 | 8 | Martin Baďura | | 24.82 | |
| 38 | 8 | 1 | Lukas Rauftlin | | 24.84 | |
| 39 | 8 | 3 | Lau Shiu Yue | | 24.86 | |
| 40 | 7 | 5 | Martin Zhelev | | 24.91 | |
| 41 | 8 | 0 | Wang Yu-lian | | 25.02 | |
| 42 | 6 | 3 | Armando Barrera | | 25.04 | |
| 43 | 8 | 7 | Saša Gerbec | | 25.08 | |
| 44 | 8 | 5 | Charles Hockin | | 25.28 | |
| 45 | 6 | 8 | Boris Kirillov | | 25.36 | |
| 36 | 8 | 2 | Ryad Djendouci | | 25.39 | |
| 47 | 7 | 7 | Jamal Chavoshifar | | 25.40 | |
| 48 | 8 | 9 | Kristinn Þórarinsson | | 25.41 | |
| 49 | 9 | 9 | Ng Kai Hong Henry | | 25.46 | |
| 50 | 5 | 4 | Matthew Abeysinghe | | 25.57 | |
| 51 | 7 | 6 | Daniil Bukin | | 25.73 | |
| 52 | 6 | 5 | Merdan Ataýew | | 25.80 | |
| 53 | 6 | 1 | David van der Colff | | 25.99 | |
| 54 | 7 | 8 | Soroush Ghandchi | | 26.05 | |
| 55 | 7 | 4 | Kolbeinn Hrafnkelsson | | 26.10 | |
| 56 | 7 | 1 | Gabriel Melconian | | 26.39 | |
| 57 | 5 | 1 | Peter Wetzlar | | 26.47 | |
| 58 | 6 | 6 | Chad Idensohn | | 26.52 | |
| 59 | 5 | 5 | Grigorii Kalminskiy | | 26.53 | |
| 60 | 6 | 9 | Gorazd Chepishevski | | 26.56 | |
| 61 | 6 | 0 | Driss Lahrichi | | 26.57 | |
| 62 | 5 | 3 | Neil Muscat | | 26.60 | |
| 63 | 5 | 8 | Rodrigo Suriano | | 26.70 | |
| 64 | 4 | 2 | Axel Ngui | | 26.77 | |
| 65 | 3 | 4 | Winter Heaven | | 26.95 | |
| 66 | 6 | 7 | Hamdan Bayusuf | | 27.00 | |
| 67 | 4 | 5 | Patrick Groters | | 27.08 | |
| 68 | 5 | 2 | Yum Cheng Man | | 27.23 | |
| 69 | 5 | 6 | Yaaqoub Al-Saadi | | 27.30 | |
| 70 | 4 | 3 | Igor Mogne | | 27.40 | |
| 71 | 5 | 7 | Maroun Waked | | 27.51 | |
| 72 | 5 | 9 | Jeremy Kostons | | 27.65 | |
| 73 | 4 | 9 | Noah Mascoll-Gomes | | 27.87 | |
| 74 | 4 | 6 | Faraj Saleh | | 27.89 | |
| 75 | 3 | 3 | Mohammad Abdo | | 28.06 | |
| 76 | 5 | 0 | Aram Kostanyan | | 28.15 | |
| 77 | 7 | 0 | Jevon Atkinson | | 28.23 | |
| 78 | 4 | 4 | Jordan Gonzalez | | 28.31 | |
| 79 | 4 | 1 | Nathan Nades | | 28.36 | |
| 80 | 4 | 0 | Rony Bakale | | 28.46 | |
| 81 | 4 | 7 | Noah Al-Khulaifi | | 28.73 | |
| 82 | 4 | 8 | Matar Samb | | 29.29 | |
| 83 | 3 | 2 | Andrew Hopkin | | 29.33 | |
| 84 | 3 | 7 | Arnold Kisulo | | 29.56 | |
| 85 | 3 | 8 | Dean Hoffman | | 29.67 | |
| 86 | 3 | 1 | Nikolas Sylvester | | 29.93 | |
| 87 | 3 | 6 | Kgosietsile Molefinyane | | 29.97 | |
| 88 | 3 | 0 | Emil Rahmatulin | | 30.09 | |
| 89 | 2 | 5 | Aliasger Karimjee | | 30.25 | |
| 90 | 2 | 6 | Giordan Harris | | 30.27 | |
| 91 | 2 | 2 | Tongli Panuve | | 30.49 | |
| 92 | 1 | 4 | Thol Thoeun | | 30.57 | |
| 93 | 3 | 5 | J'Air Smith | | 30.67 | |
| 94 | 2 | 1 | Adam Moncherry | | 30.83 | |
| 95 | 2 | 4 | Aleksander Ngresi | | 31.05 | |
| 96 | 2 | 3 | Temaruata Strickland | | 31.22 | |
| 97 | 3 | 9 | Storm Hablich | | 31.59 | |
| 98 | 2 | 9 | Htut Ahnt Khaung | | 31.97 | |
| 99 | 1 | 7 | Justine Rodriguez | | 32.00 | |
| 100 | 1 | 8 | Tommy Imazu | | 32.59 | |
| 101 | 1 | 1 | Tanner Poppe | | 33.47 | |
| 102 | 1 | 5 | Miraj Prajapati | | 33.57 | |
| 103 | 1 | 6 | Ebrahim Al-Maleki | | 33.61 | |
| 104 | 1 | 2 | Sami Al-Sayaghi | | 36.07 | |
| 105 | 1 | 3 | Awoussou Ablam | | 37.38 | |
| 105 | 2 | 0 | Idriss Mutankabandi | | 37.38 | |
| 107 | 2 | 8 | Billy-Scott Irakoze | | 37.91 | |
| — | 1 | 0 | Mazabalo Awizoba | | | DNS |
| — | 2 | 7 | Umarkhon Alizoda | | | DNS |
Semifinals
The semifinals were held 18:05.Semifinal 1
Semifinal 2
Final
The final were held 18:11.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 4 | Florent Manaudou | | 22.22 | WR |
| 3 | Eugene Godsoe | | 23.05 | |
| 8 | Stanislav Donets | | 23.10 | |
| 4 | 5 | Albert Subirats | | 23.16 | SA |
| 5 | 2 | Mitch Larkin | | 23.18 | |
| 6 | 6 | Matt Grevers | | 23.32 | |
| 7 | 1 | Chris Walker-Hebborn | | 23.33 | |
| 8 | 7 | Lavrans Solli | | 23.48 | |
