| Men 100m Backstroke XX Swimming World Championship 2023 Fukuoka, Japan - Tuesday, 25th July - Gold Medal: Ryan Murphy, United States | 
| Final 20:59 |   | time | gap | L | Ag | Rct | pts | 50m |  | 1. Ryan Murphy |   United States | 52.22s |   | 3 | 28 | 0.50 | 964 | 25.53s |  | 2. Thomas Ceccon |   Italy | 52.27s | +0.05s | 4 | 22 | 0.62 | 962 | 25.50s |  | 3. Hunter Armstrong |   United States | 52.58s | +0.36s | 8 | 22 | 0.68 | 945 | 25.60s |  | 4. Jiayu Xu |   China | 52.64s | +0.42s | 5 | 27 | 0.54 | 941 | 25.35s |  | 5. Yohann Ndoye-Brouard |   France | 52.84s | +0.62s | 2 | 22 | 0.59 | 931 | 25.68s |  | 6. Ksawery Masiuk |   Poland | 52.92s | +0.70s | 1 | 18 | 0.56 | 927 | 25.00s |  | 7. Hubert Kos |   Hungary | 53.11s | +0.89s | 7 | 20 | 0.53 | 917 | 25.63s |  | 8. Mewen Tomac |   France | 53.16s | +0.94s | 6 | 21 | 0.62 | 914 | 25.78s |   
| World and Championship Record: Thomas Ceccon, Italy 51.60s Budapest, Hungary 20th June 2022 |   
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 Semi-Finals - Monday, 24th July 20:17 |  | Best 8 times advanced to Final.  |   
| Semi 1 20:17 |   | time | gap | L | Ag | Rct | pts | Rk | 50m |  | 1. Thomas Ceccon |   Italy | 52.16s |   | 1 | 22 | 0.61 | 968 | 1. | 25.27s |  | 2. Ryan Murphy |   United States | 52.56s | +0.40s | 5 | 28 | 0.50 | 946 | 3. | 26.00s |  | 3. Mewen Tomac |   France | 52.86s | +0.70s | 3 | 21 | 0.62 | 930 | 4. | 25.72s |  | 4. Hubert Kos |   Hungary | 53.17s | +1.01s | 4 | 20 | 0.54 | 914 | 6. | 25.80s |  | 5. Hunter Armstrong |   United States | 53.21s | +1.05s | 8 | 22 | 0.69 | 911 | 8. | 25.81s |  | 6. Roman Mityukov |   Switzerland | 53.32s | +1.16s | 6 | 22 | 0.55 | 906 | 10. | 25.99s |  | 7. Kacper Stokowski |   Poland | 53.96s | +1.80s | 7 | 24 | 0.58 | 874 | 14. | 26.18s |  | 8. Joao Costa |   Portugal | 54.30s | +2.14s | 2 | 21 | 0.60 | 858 | 16. | 26.43s |   
| Semi 2 20:22 |   | time | gap | L | Ag | Rct | pts | Rk | 50m |  | 1. Jiayu Xu |   China | 52.42s | +0.26s | 4 | 27 | 0.53 | 953 | 2. | 25.07s |  | 2. Yohann Ndoye-Brouard |   France | 53.06s | +0.90s | 8 | 22 | 0.63 | 919 | 5. | 25.84s |  | 3. Ksawery Masiuk |   Poland | 53.20s | +1.04s | 5 | 18 | 0.57 | 912 | 7. | 25.67s |  | 4. Oliver Morgan |   Great Britain | 53.26s | +1.10s | 3 | 20 | 0.58 | 909 | 9. | 25.59s |  | 5. Hugo Gonzalez |   Spain | 53.38s | +1.22s | 2 | 24 | 0.61 | 903 | 11. | 26.02s |  | 6. Andrew Jeffcoat |   New Zealand | 53.46s | +1.30s | 1 | 24 | 0.56 | 899 | 12. | 25.83s |  | 7. Bradley Woodward |   Australia | 53.73s | +1.57s | 7 | 25 | 0.64 | 885 | 13. | 26.28s |  | 8. Ole Braunschweig |   Germany | 54.00s | +1.84s | 6 | 25 | 0.63 | 872 | 15. | 26.15s |   
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| Heat 7 11:06 |   | time | gap | L | Ag | Rct | pts | Rk | 50m |  | 1. Hubert Kos |   Hungary | 53.12s | +0.25s | 1 | 20 | 0.53 | 916 | 2. | 25.54s |  | 2. Ksawery Masiuk |   Poland | 53.15s | +0.28s | 3 | 18 | 0.56 | 915 | 3. | 25.48s |  | 3. Roman Mityukov |   Switzerland | 53.57s | +0.70s | 2 | 22 | 0.55 | 893 | 6. | 25.92s |  | 4. Kacper Stokowski |   Poland | 53.81s | +0.94s | 7 | 24 | 0.58 | 881 | 12. | 26.12s |  | 5. Thomas Ceccon |   Italy | 53.84s | +0.97s | 4 | 22 | 0.62 | 880 | 14. | 25.91s |  | 6. Isaac Cooper |   Australia | 53.95s | +1.08s | 6 | 19 | 0.54 | 874 | 17. | 25.66s |  | 8. Apostolos Christou |   Greece | 54.01s | +1.14s | 5 | 26 | 0.59 | 872 | 19. | 25.92s |  | 9. Guilherme Basseto |   Brazil | 54.45s | +1.58s | 0 | 26 | 0.56 | 851 | 23. | 25.98s |  | 10.Cameron Brooker |   Great Britain | 54.54s | +1.67s | 8 | 21 | 0.61 | 846 | 25. | 26.34s |  | 10.Srihari Nataraj |   India | 55.26s | +2.39s | 9 | 22 | 0.60 | 814 | 31. | 26.72s |   
| Heat 6 11:03 |   | time | gap | L | Ag | Rct | pts | Rk | 50m |  | 1. Jiayu Xu |   China | 52.87s |   | 5 | 27 | 0.55 | 929 | 1. | 25.82s |  | 2. Ryan Murphy |   United States | 53.43s | +0.56s | 4 | 28 | 0.51 | 900 | 4. | 25.94s |  | 3. Oliver Morgan |   Great Britain | 53.52s | +0.65s | 7 | 20 | 0.60 | 896 | 5. | 25.77s |  | 4. Ole Braunschweig |   Germany | 53.57s | +0.70s | 6 | 25 | 0.60 | 893 | 6. | 25.68s |  | 5. Bradley Woodward |   Australia | 53.72s | +0.85s | 1 | 25 | 0.63 | 886 | 11. | 26.23s |  | 6. Andrew Jeffcoat |   New Zealand | 53.82s | +0.95s | 2 | 24 | 0.55 | 881 | 13. | 25.97s |  | 7. Ryosuke Irie |   Japan | 53.98s | +1.11s | 3 | 33 | 0.56 | 873 | 18. | 26.05s |  | 8. Conor Ferguson |   Ireland | 54.36s | +1.49s | 8 | 23 | 0.52 | 855 | 22. | 25.92s |  | 9. Tomas Franta |   Czechia | 54.50s | +1.63s | 0 | 25 | 0.63 | 848 | 24. | 26.33s |  | -. Bernhard Reitshammer |   Austria | DNS |   | 9 | 29 | - | - | -. |   |   
| Heat 5 11:01 |   | time | gap | L | Ag | Rct | pts | Rk | 50m |  | 1. Mewen Tomac |   France | 53.57s | +0.70s | 3 | 21 | 0.62 | 893 | 6. | 25.98s |  | 2. Hugo Gonzalez |   Spain | 53.70s | +0.83s | 6 | 24 | 0.63 | 887 | 9. | 26.16s |  | 3. Joao Costa |   Portugal | 53.71s | +0.84s | 1 | 21 | 0.57 | 886 | 10. | 26.19s |  | 4. Yohann Ndoye-Brouard |   France | 53.90s | +1.03s | 5 | 22 | 0.65 | 877 | 15. | 26.26s |  | 5. Hunter Armstrong |   United States | 53.94s | +1.07s | 4 | 22 | 0.65 | 875 | 16. | 26.22s |  | 6. Juho Lee |   South Korea | 54.21s | +1.34s | 8 | 28 | 0.60 | 862 | 20. | 25.95s |  | 7. Benedek Bendeguz Kovacs |   Hungary | 54.24s | +1.37s | 2 | 25 | 0.69 | 860 | 21. | 26.20s |  | 8. Javier Acevedo |   Canada | 54.58s | +1.71s | 7 | 25 | 0.56 | 844 | 26. | 26.56s |  | 9. Erikas Grigaitis |   Lithuania | 55.23s | +2.36s | 9 | 20 | 0.60 | 815 | 30. | 26.70s |  | 10.Michael Laitarovsky |   Israel | 55.63s | +2.76s | 0 | 23 | 0.61 | 798 | 33. | 26.38s |   
| Heat 4 10:59 |   | time | gap | L | Ag | Rct | pts | Rk | 50m |  | 1. Markus Lie |   Norway | 54.66s | +1.79s | 5 | 28 | 0.56 | 841 | 27. | 26.36s |  | 2. Mu-Lun Chuang |   Chinese Taipei | 54.95s | +2.08s | 7 | 22 | 0.60 | 828 | 28. | 26.95s |  | 3. Berke Saka |   Turkey | 55.09s | +2.22s | 3 | 20 | 0.56 | 821 | 29. | 26.49s |  | 4. Zheng Wen Quah |   Singapore | 55.30s | +2.43s | 4 | 26 | 0.51 | 812 | 32. | 26.34s |  | 5. Andrei-Mircea Anghel |   Romania | 55.77s | +2.90s | 6 | 25 | 0.58 | 792 | 34. | 26.43s |  | 6. Diego Camacho Salgado |   Mexico | 55.80s | +2.93s | 1 | 20 | 0.51 | 790 | 35. | 26.74s |  | 7. Girts Feldbergs |   Latvia | 55.91s | +3.04s | 2 | 30 | 0.62 | 786 | 36. | 26.88s |  | 8. Ziyad Saleem |   Sudan | 56.02s | +3.15s | 8 | 20 | 0.61 | 781 | 37. | 26.94s |  | 9. Armin Evert Lelle |   Estonia | 57.06s | +4.19s | 9 | 24 | 0.59 | 739 | 43. | 27.41s |  | 10.Farrel Tangkas |   Indonesia | 58.06s | +5.19s | 0 | 21 | 0.58 | 701 | 49. | 27.88s |   
| Heat 3 10:56 |   | time | gap | L | Ag | Rct | pts | Rk | 50m |  | 1. Jack Kirby |   Barbados | 56.08s | +3.21s | 3 | 23 | 0.53 | 778 | 38. | 27.86s |  | 2. Charles Hockin Brusquetti |   Paraguay | 56.56s | +3.69s | 5 | 33 | 0.54 | 759 | 39. | 27.13s |  | 3. Maximillian Wilson |   US Virgin Islands | 56.65s | +3.78s | 8 | 19 | 0.60 | 755 | 40. | 26.95s |  | 4. Jack Harvey |   Bermuda | 57.04s | +4.17s | 9 | 20 | 0.58 | 740 | 42. | 27.64s |  | 5. Noe Pantskhava |   Georgia | 57.10s | +4.23s | 6 | 17 | 0.60 | 737 | 44. | 27.53s |  | 6. Davante Carey |   Bahamas | 57.50s | +4.63s | 0 | 21 | 0.52 | 722 | 47. | 27.68s |  | 7. Filippos Iakovidis |   Cyprus | 57.51s | +4.64s | 7 | 25 | 0.60 | 722 | 48. | 27.54s |  | 8. Shiu Yue Lau |   Hong Kong | 58.21s | +5.34s | 2 | 26 | 0.57 | 696 | 50. | 27.70s |  | 9. Jerard Jacinto |  SMF | 58.40s | +5.53s | 4 | 22 | 0.48 | 689 | 51. | 28.20s |  | 10.Homer Abbasi |   Iran | 58.45s | +5.58s | 1 | 20 | 0.54 | 688 | 52. | 27.90s |   
| Heat 2 10:53 |   | time | gap | L | Ag | Rct | pts | Rk | 50m |  | 1. Merdan Atayev |   Turkmenistan | 56.96s | +4.09s | 5 | 28 | 0.64 | 743 | 41. | 27.79s |  | 2. Yazan Al Bawwab |   Palestine | 57.16s | +4.29s | 3 | 23 | 0.58 | 735 | 45. | 27.82s |  | 3. Denilson Cyprianos |   Zimbabwe | 57.29s | +4.42s | 6 | 20 | 0.68 | 730 | 46. | 27.47s |  | 4. Zhulian Lavdaniti |   Albania | 58.48s | +5.61s | 4 | 20 | 0.59 | 686 | 53. | 28.55s |  | 5. Matthieu Ousmane Seye |   Senegal | 58.59s | +5.72s | 2 | 21 | 0.95 | 683 | 54. | 28.10s |  | 6. Zeke Chan |   Brunei | 59.61s | +6.74s | 0 | 15 | 0.56 | 648 | 56. | 28.85s |  | 7. Zackary Gresham |   Grenada | 59.68s | +6.81s | 8 | 18 | 0.58 | 646 | 57. | 28.88s |  | 8. Bede Aitu |   Cook Islands | 1:01.15 | +8.28s | 1 | 21 | 0.61 | 600 | 58. | 29.11s |  | 9. Adnan Kabuye |   Uganda | 1:05.57 | +12.70s | 9 | 20 | 0.67 | 487 | 61. | 31.62s |  | -. Erkhes Enkhtur |   Mongolia | 1:01.87 | DSQ | 7 | 15 | - | - | -. | 28.31s |   
| Heat 1 10:51 |   | time | gap | L | Ag | Rct | pts | Rk | 50m |  | 1. Mohamad Zubaid |   Kuwait | 59.56s | +6.69s | 4 | 15 | 0.69 | 650 | 55. | 28.48s |  | 2. Omer Sahib Kadhim Huraish |   Iraq | 1:03.15 | +10.28s | 3 | 18 | 0.57 | 545 | 59. | 30.58s |  | 3. Ali Imaan |   Maldives | 1:04.98 | +12.11s | 5 | 20 | 0.57 | 500 | 60. | 30.65s |   
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