Year	Gold			Silver			Bronze
2025 Men 50m Backstroke	Kliment Kolesnikov	|2~$23.68s	Pieter Coetze	RSA	24.17s
			Pavel Samusenko	NAA	24.17s
2024 Men 50m Backstroke	Isaac Cooper	AUS	24.13s	Hunter Armstrong	USA	24.33s	Ksawery Masiuk	POL	24.44s
2023 Men 50m Backstroke	Hunter Armstrong	USA	24.05s	Justin Ress	USA	24.24s	Jiayu Xu	CHN	24.50s
2022 Men 50m Backstroke	Justin Ress	USA	24.12s	Hunter Armstrong	USA	24.14s	Ksawery Masiuk	POL	24.49s
2019 Men_50m_Backstroke	Zane Waddell	RSA	24.43s	Evgeny Rylov	RUS	24.49s	Kliment Kolesnikov	RUS	24.51s
2017 Men_50m_Backstroke	Camille Lacourt	FRA	24.35s	Junya Koga	JPN	24.51s	Matt Grevers	USA	24.56s
2015 Men_50m_Backstroke	Camille Lacourt	FRA	24.23s	Matt Grevers	USA	24.61s	Ben Treffers	AUS	24.69s
2013 Men_50m_Backstroke	Camille Lacourt	FRA	24.39s	Jeremy Stravius	FRA	24.45s	Guy Marcos Barnea	ISR	24.73s
2011 Men_50m_Backstroke	Liam Tancock	GBR	24.50s	Camille Lacourt	FRA	24.57s	Gerhard Zandberg	RSA	24.66s
2009 Men_50m_Backstroke	Liam Tancock	GBR	24.04s	Junya Koga	JPN	24.24s	Gerhard Zandberg	RSA	24.34s
2007 Men_50m_Backstroke	Gerhard Zandberg	RSA	24.98s	Thomas Rupprath	GER	25.20s	Liam Tancock	GBR	25.23s
2005 Men_50m_Backstroke	Aristeidis Grigoriadis	GRE	24.95s	Matt Welsh	AUS	24.99s	Liam Tancock	GBR	25.02s
2003 Men_50m_Backstroke	Thomas Rupprath	GER	24.80s	Matthew Welsh	AUS	25.01s	Johannes Gerhardus Zandberg	RSA	25.07s
2001 Men 50m Backstroke	Randall Bal	USA	25.34s	Thomas Rupprath	GER	25.44s	Matt Welsh	AUS	25.49s

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Last updated: 12 Aug 2025
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