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Men's 50 metre backstroke
at the 2018 Mediterranean Games
Men's 50 metre backstroke ; at the 2018 Mediterranean Games
Venue	Campclar Aquatic Center
Location	Tarragona, Spain
Dates	23 June
Competitors	20 from 13 nations
Winning time	25.11
Medalists
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The men's 50 metre backstroke competition at the 2018 Mediterranean Games was held on 23 June 2018 at the Campclar Aquatic Center.^[1]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Mediterranean Games records were as follows:

World record	Liam Tancock (GBR)	24.04	Rome, Italy	2 August 2009
Mediterranean Games record	Aschwin Wildeboer (ESP)	24.73	Pescara, Italy	27 June 2009

The heats were held at 09:55.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4	Niccolò Bonacchi	Italy	25.34	Q
2	2	4	Apostolos Christou	Greece	25.43	Q
3	1	4	Simone Sabbioni	Italy	25.49	Q
4	1	5	Hugo González	Spain	25.59	Q
5	3	5	Nikolaos Sofianidis	Greece	25.90	Q
6	3	3	Youssef Said	Egypt	25.97	Q
7	2	3	Sergio Campos	Spain	26.03	Q
8	2	5	Alexis Santos	Portugal	26.18	Q
9	2	2	Tryfonas Hadjichristoforou	Cyprus	26.31	NR
10	1	2	Anže Ferš Eržen	Slovenia	26.44
10	1	3	Gabriel José Lopes	Portugal	26.44
12	2	6	İskender Baslakov	Turkey	26.62
13	3	1	Driss Lahrichi	Morocco	26.68
14	3	2	Vangelis Zorbis	Cyprus	26.93
15	2	7	Anton Lončar	Croatia	27.24
16	1	6	Geoffroy Mathieu	France	27.43
17	3	3	Ege Başer	Turkey	27.51
18	3	7	Ryad Bouhamidi	Algeria	27.59
19	1	7	Abdelrahman Elaraby	Egypt	27.81
20	2	1	Dion Kadriu	Bosnia and Herzegovina	30.43

The final was held at 17:54.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	3	Simone Sabbioni	Italy	25.11
	4	Niccolò Bonacchi	Italy	25.21
	5	Apostolos Christou	Greece	25.35
4	6	Hugo González	Spain	25.56
5	2	Nikolaos Sofianidis	Greece	25.71
6	1	Sergio Campos	Spain	26.06
7	8	Alexis Santos	Portugal	26.07
7	7	Youssef Said	Egypt	26.07