Year	Gold			Silver			Bronze
2025 Men 100m Backstroke	Pieter Coetze	RSA	51.85s	Thomas Ceccon	ITA	51.90s	Yohann Ndoye-Brouard	FRA	51.92s
2024 Men 100m Backstroke	Hunter Armstrong	USA	52.68s	Hugo Gonzalez	ESP	52.70s	Apostolos Christou	GRE	53.36s
2023 Men 100m Backstroke	Ryan Murphy	USA	52.22s	Thomas Ceccon	ITA	52.27s	Hunter Armstrong	USA	52.58s
2022 Men 100m Backstroke	Thomas Ceccon	ITA	51.60s	Ryan Murphy	USA	51.97s	Hunter Armstrong	USA	51.98s
2019 Men_100m_Backstroke	Jiayu Xu	CHN	52.43s	Evgeny Rylov	RUS	52.67s	Mitch Larkin	AUS	52.77s
2017 Men_100m_Backstroke	Jiayu Xu	CHN	52.44s	Matt Grevers	USA	52.48s	Ryan Murphy	USA	52.59s
2015 Men_100m_Backstroke	Mitchell Larkin	AUS	52.40s	Camille Lacourt	FRA	52.48s	Matt Grevers	USA	52.66s
2013 Men_100m_Backstroke	Matt Grevers	USA	52.93s	David Plummer	USA	53.12s	Jeremy Stravius	FRA	53.21s
2011 Men_100m_Backstroke	Jeremy Stravius	FRA	52.76s				Ryosuke Irie	JPN	52.98s
	Camille Lacourt	FRA	52.76s
2009 Men 100m Backstroke	Junya Koga	JPN	52.26s	Helge Meew	GER	52.54s	Aschwin Wildeboer	ESP	52.64s
2007 Men_100m_Backstroke	Aaron Peirsol	USA	52.98s	Ryan Lochte	USA	53.50s	Liam Tancock	GBR	53.61a
2005 Men_100m_Backstroke	Aaron Peirsol	USA	53.62s	Randall Bal	USA	54.02s	Laszlo Cseh	HUN	54.27s
2003 Men_100m_Backstroke	Aaron Peirsol	USA	53.61s	Arkady Vyatchanin	RUS	53.92s
				Matthew Welsh	AUS	53.92s
2001 Men_100m_Backstroke	Matt Welsh	AUS	54.31s	Orn Arnarson	ISL	54.75s	Steffen Driesen	GER	54.91s
1998 Men_100m_Backstroke	Lenny Krayzelburg	USA	55.00s	Mark Versfeld	CAN	55.17s	Stev Theloke	GER	55.20s
1994 Men_100m_Backstroke	Martin Lopez-Zubero	ESP	55.17s	Jeff Rouse	USA	55.51s	Tamas Deutsch	HUN	55.69s
1991 Men 100m Backstroke	Jeff Rouse	USA	55.23s	Mark Tewksbury	CAN	55.29s	Martin Lopez-Zubero	ESP	55.61s
1986 Men_100m_Backstroke	Igor Polyanski	URS	55.58s	Dirk Richter	GDR	56.49s	Sergei Zabolotnov	URS	56.57s
1982 Men 100m Backstroke	Dirk Richter	GDR	55.95s	Rick Karey	USA	56.04s	Vladimir Shemetov	URS	56.42s
1978 Men 100m Backstroke	Bob Jackson	USA	56.36s	Peter Roca	USA	56.69s	Romulo Arantes Filho	BRA	58.01s
1975 Men 100m Backstroke	Roland Matthes	GDR	58.15s	John Murphy	USA	58.34s	Mel Nash	USA	58.38s
1973 Men 100m Backstroke	Roland Matthes	GDR	57.47s	Mike Stamm	USA	58.77s	Lutz Wanja	GDR	59.08s

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Last updated: 13 Aug 2025
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