| Index | ||||||||||
| Swimming | ||||||||||
| Swimming - Men's World Records - Short Course | ||||||||||
| 50 Metres Backstroke | 100 Metres Backstroke | 200 Metres Backstroke | ||||||||
| 1991 | Tewksbury | CAN | 52.71 | Lopez-Zubero | ESP | 1.52.57 | ||||
| Tewksbury | CAN | 52.58 | ||||||||
| 1992 | Tewksbury | CAN | 52.52 | |||||||
| Tewksbury | CAN | 52.50. | ||||||||
| 1993 | Rouse | USA | 51.43 | |||||||
| 1994 | ||||||||||
| 1995 | Rouse | USA | 24.37 | |||||||
| 1996 | ||||||||||
| 1997 | ||||||||||
| 1998 | ||||||||||
| 1999 | Welsh | AUS | 24.13 | Krazelburg | USA | 1.52.47 | ||||
| Walker | AUS | 24.12 | ||||||||
| 2000 | Welsh | AUS | 24.11 | Krazelburg | USA | 51.28 | Krazelburg | USA | 1.52.43 | |
| Walker | AUS | 24.04 | Walker | AUS | 50.75 | Welsh | AUS | 1.51.62 | ||
| Walker | AUS | 23.42 | ||||||||
| 2001 | ||||||||||
| 2002 | Welsh | AUS | 23.31 | Rupprath | GER | 50.58 | Peirsol | USA | 1.51.17 | |
| 2003 | ||||||||||
| 2004 | Rupprath | GER | 23.27 | Marshall | USA | 50.32 | Peirsol | USA | 1.50.54 | |
| Peirsol | USA | 1.50.52 | ||||||||
| 2005 | Rogan | AUT | 1.50.43 | |||||||
| 2006 | Lochte | USA | 49.99 | Lochte | USA | 1.49.05 | ||||
| 2007 | ||||||||||
| 2008 | Bal | USA | 22.87 | Donets | RUS | 49.32 | Rogan | AUT | 1.47.84 | |
| 2009 | Marshall | USA | 22.75 | Wildeboer | ESP | 49.20 | Du Rand | RSA | 1.47.08 | |
| Marshall | USA | 22.73 | Thoman | USA | 48.94 | Vyatchanin | RUS | 1.46.11 | ||
| Marshall | USA | 22.61 | ||||||||