title: Swimming at the 2013 Mediterranean Games – Men's 50 metre backstroke
text: # Swimming at the 2013 Mediterranean Games – Men's 50 metre backstroke
  
  The men's 50 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 2013 Mediterranean Games took place on June 21 at the Mersin Olympic Swimming Pool in Mersin, Turkey.
  
  The race consisted of one length of the pool in backstroke.
  
  ## Schedule
  
  All times are Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+03:00)
  
  | Date | Time | Event |
  | - | - | - |
  | Friday, 21 June 2013 | 09:35 | Heats |
  | Friday, 21 June 2013 | 18:05 | Final |
  
  ## Records
  
  Prior to this competition, the existing world and Mediterranean Games records were as follows:
  
  | World record | Liam Tancock (GBR) | 24.04 | Rome, Italy | August 2, 2009 |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Mediterranean Games record | Aschwin Wildeboer (ESP) | 24.73 | Pescara, Italy | June 27, 2009 |
  
  ## Results
  
  All times are in minutes and seconds.
  
  | KEY: | q | Fastest non-qualifiers | Q | Qualified | GR | Games record | NR | National record | PB | Personal best | SB | Seasonal best |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  
  ### Heats
  
  | Rank | Heat | Lane | Athlete | Time | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | 2 | 5 | Oscar Pereiro (ESP) | 25.51 | Q |
  | 2 | 1 | 3 | Juan Francisco Segura (ESP) | 25.86 | Q |
  | 3 | 1 | 4 | Niccolò Bonacchi (ITA) | 25.87 | Q |
  | 4 | 2 | 4 | Mauro Pizzamiglio (ITA) | 26.06 | Q |
  | 5 | 1 | 5 | Güven Duvan (TUR) | 26.07 | Q |
  | 6 | 1 | 6 | Bilal Achelhi (MAR) | 26.24 | Q |
  | 7 | 2 | 3 | Eric Ress (FRA) | 26.40 | Q |
  | 8 | 2 | 6 | Burak Kartal (TUR) | 26.94 | Q |
  | 9 | 1 | 2 | Robert Žbogar (SLO) | 27.12 | |
  | 10 | 2 | 7 | Gorazd Chepishevski (MKD) | 28.19 | |
  | 11 | 2 | 2 | Sofyan El Gadi (LBA) | 28.61 | |
  
  ### Final
  
  | Rank | Lane | Athlete | Time |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | | 4 | Mauro Pizzamiglio (ITA) | 25:35 |
  | | 3 | Niccolò Bonacchi (ITA) | 25.42 |
  | | 5 | Juan Francisco Segura (ESP) | 25.66 |
  | 4 | 6 | Oscar Pereiro (ESP) | 25.76 |
  | 5 | 2 | Güven Duvan (TUR) | 25:89 |
  | 6 | 1 | Eric Ress (FRA) | 26.12 |
  | 7 | 7 | Bilal Achelhi (MAR) | 26.38 |
  | 8 | 8 | Burak Kartal (TUR) | 26.99 |
  