Swimming at the 1998 Asian Games – Men's 100 metre backstroke

All times are Indochina Time (UTC+07:00)

Legend

• DNS — Did not start

Heats

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	3	Fu Yong (CHN)	57.41
2	2	Alex Lim (MAS)	57.65
2	3	Atsushi Nishikori (JPN)	57.65
4	3	Shu Xin (CHN)	57.74
5	2	Takafumi Oishi (JPN)	58.09
6	1	Raymond Papa (PHI)	58.28
7	1	Dulyarit Phuangthong (THA)	58.90
8	2	Kim Min-suk (KOR)	59.44
9	1	Pavel Sidorov (KAZ)	59.89
10	2	Artem Rodin (KAZ)	1:00.11
11	1	Konstantin Priahin (KGZ)	1:00.40
12	2	Kwok Sze Wai (HKG)	1:00.77
13	3	Pathunyu Yimsomruay (THA)	1:00.78
14	1	Tseng Cheng-hua (TPE)	1:00.85
15	3	Aleksandr Yegorov (KGZ)	1:01.04
16	3	Wu Nien-pin (TPE)	1:01.34
17	1	Fahad Al-Otaibi (KUW)	1:04.34
18	3	Majid Imani (IRI)	1:06.52
19	2	Lam Pui Kay (MAC)	1:06.74
20	1	Abdur Rahman Khan (BAN)	1:08.51
21	3	Mesned Al-Hajri (QAT)	1:16.08
—	2	G. Mönkhbayar (MGL)	DNS

Finals

Final B

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Pavel Sidorov (KAZ)	59.42
2	Pathunyu Yimsomruay (THA)	59.44
3	Konstantin Priahin (KGZ)	59.50
4	Artem Rodin (KAZ)	59.71
5	Aleksandr Yegorov (KGZ)	1:00.63
6	Kwok Sze Wai (HKG)	1:00.66
7	Tseng Cheng-hua (TPE)	1:00.88
8	Wu Nien-pin (TPE)	1:01.62

Final A

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
	Alex Lim (MAS)	55.53	GR
	Fu Yong (CHN)	56.40
	Raymond Papa (PHI)	56.83
4	Atsushi Nishikori (JPN)	57.14
5	Shu Xin (CHN)	57.55
6	Takafumi Oishi (JPN)	57.70
7	Dulyarit Phuangthong (THA)	58.31
8	Kim Min-suk (KOR)	1:09.25

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