2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 50 metre backstroke

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record Championship record	Florent Manaudou	France	22.22	Doha	6 December 2014

The heats were held at 10:06.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	8	5	Junya Koga	Japan	22.93	Q
2	9	4	Jérémy Stravius	France	23.09	Q
3	9	3	Xu Jiayu	China	23.42	Q
4	7	5	Miguel Ortiz-Cañavate	Spain	23.47	Q
4	9	5	Pavel Sankovich	Belarus	23.47	Q
6	7	4	Tomasz Polewka	Poland	23.50	Q
7	8	4	Mitch Larkin	Australia	23.57	Q
8	5	4	Albert Subirats	Venezuela	23.59	Q
9	8	0	Grigory Tarasevich	Russia	23.70	Q
9	8	6	Robert Glință	Romania	23.70	Q
11	8	3	Robert Hurley	Australia	23.71	Q
12	9	6	Iskender Baskalov	Turkey	23.83	Q
13	6	2	Michael Taylor	United States	23.87	Q
14	6	3	Jacob Pebley	United States	23.88	Q
15	7	6	Masaki Kaneko	Japan	23.89	Q
16	8	2	Viktar Staselovich	Belarus	23.98	Q
17	9	0	Charles Hockin	Paraguay	24.06
18	7	2	Javier Acevedo	Canada	24.11
19	5	7	Daniel Carranza	Mexico	24.27
19	7	7	Lê Nguyễn Paul	Vietnam	24.27
21	9	2	Magnus Jakupsson	Denmark	24.31
22	8	7	Danas Rapsys	Lithuania	24.32
23	6	4	Ryan Pini	Papua New Guinea	24.35
24	9	1	David Gamburg	Israel	24.37
25	8	1	Charlie Boldison	Great Britain	24.39
26	7	2	Andrei Shabasov	Russia	24.41
27	9	8	Thomas Avetand	France	24.45
28	7	1	Tomas Franta	Czech Republic	24.52
29	8	9	Apostolos Christou	Greece	24.53
30	2	9	Anton Louie Loncar	Croatia	24.74
31	2	8	Gaston Hernandez	Argentina	24.75
32	7	9	Axel Pettersson	Iceland	24.85
33	1	3	Duy Khoi Tran	Vietnam	24.90
34	7	0	Christopher Courtis	Barbados	24.94
34	8	8	Gabriel Lopes	Portugal	24.94
36	5	6	Markus Thormeyer	Canada	24.97
37	1	5	Justin Plaschka	Jamaica	25.01
38	6	7	Neil Fair	South Africa	25.06
39	6	5	Ricky Ellis	South Africa	25.10
40	5	5	David Adalsteinsson	Iceland	25.24
41	7	8	Kristinn Porarinsson	Iceland	25.27
42	6	6	Kristóf Rasovszky	Hungary	25.49
43	5	2	Boris Kirillov	Azerbaijan	25.61
44	5	3	Ivo Kunzle Savastano	Paraguay	25.75
45	5	8	Sheikh Tariq	Pakistan	25.93
46	6	9	Gorazd Chepishevski	Macedonia	25.97
47	6	1	Francis Fong	Singapore	26.08
48	5	1	Eisner Barbera Espinoza	Nicaragua	26.17
49	4	7	Keanan Michael Dols	Jamaica	26.33
50	4	8	Adel El Fakir	Libya	26.39
51	6	0	Pok Man Ngou	Macau	26.47
52	4	4	Axel Steven Ngui	Philippines	26.69
53	4	3	William Clark	Fiji	26.85	NR
54	4	0	Adil Assouab	Morocco	26.92
55	2	0	Sébastien Kouma	Mali	26.99
55	4	6	Jordan Gonzalez	Gibraltar	26.99
57	1	6	Akaki Vashakidze	Georgia	27.21
58	2	7	Mohammad Juwel Ahmed	Bangladesh	27.25
58	5	0	Cheng Man Yum	Macau	27.25
60	4	1	Alex McCallum	Cayman Islands	27.48

The semifinals were held at 19:51.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Jérémy Stravius	France	23.16	Q
2	5	Miguel Ortiz-Cañavate	Spain	23.33	Q
3	6	Albert Subirats	Venezuela	23.37	Q
4	3	Tomasz Polewka	Poland	23.47	Q
5	1	Jacob Pebley	United States	23.63
6	2	Robert Glință	Romania	23.64
7	7	Iskender Baslakov	Turkey	23.85
8	8	Viktar Staselovich	Belarus	24.08

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Junya Koga	Japan	22.81	Q
2	3	Pavel Sankovich	Belarus	23.07	Q
3	7	Robert Hurley	Australia	23.20	Q
4	5	Xu Jiayu	China	23.39	Q
5	6	Mitch Larkin	Australia	23.57
6	2	Grigory Tarasevich	Russia	23.64
7	8	Masaki Kaneko	Japan	23.65
8	1	Michael Taylor	United States	23.84

The final was held at 19:32^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Junya Koga	Japan	22.85
	3	Jérémy Stravius	France	22.99
	5	Pavel Sankovich	Belarus	23.03
4	7	Albert Subirats	Venezuela	23.26
5	6	Robert Hurley	Australia	23.32
6	2	Miguel Ortiz-Cañavate	Spain	23.40
6	8	Tomasz Polewka	Poland	23.40
8	1	Xu Jiayu	China	23.54