The men’s 100 back final featured a close race to the finish. At the touch it was France’s\u00a0Camille Lacourt<\/strong> who touched first, stopping the clock at a 53.79. Lacourt’s best for 2016 sits at a 52.97 from the French Championships resting him at third in the world rankings.<\/p>\n Finishing close behind Lacourt was Russia’s\u00a0Grigory Tarasevich<\/strong> with a final time of 53.89 to be the only other athlete under the 54-second mark. Tarasevich currently occupies fifth in the world rankings for 2016 after posting a 53.03 at the Russian Championships earlier this year.<\/p>\n The bronze medal was split between Italy’s\u00a0Simone Sabbioni<\/strong> and Greece’s\u00a0Apostolos Christou<\/strong>. The pair simultaneously stopped the clock at a 54.19. Both occupy spots in the top 20 world rankings for 2016 with Sabbioni at tenth (53.34) and Christou at twelfth (53.36).<\/p>\n Hungary’s\u00a0Gabor Balog<\/strong> finished fifth overall with a time of 54.35, just ahead of another tie. Romania’s\u00a0Robert Glinta<\/strong> and Israel’s\u00a0Yakov Yan Toumarkin<\/strong> delivered matching times of 54.36.<\/p>\n Rounding out the top eight was\u00a0Shane Ryan<\/strong> of Ireland at 54.49.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Men’s 100 Back Final: The men’s 100 back final featured a close race to the finish. At the touch it was France’s\u00a0Camille Lacourt who touched first, stopping the clock at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":44777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[57626],"class_list":["post-203522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-2016-european-aquatics-championships"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n