2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 50 metre backstroke explained

Event:	Women's 50m Backstroke
Competition:	2010 Short Course Worlds
Dates:	18 December 2010 (heats and semifinals) 19 December 2010 (final)
Competitors:	73
Win Value:	26.27
Gold:	Zhao Jing
Goldnoc:	CHN
Silver:	Rachel Goh
Silvernoc:	AUS
Bronze:	Mercedes Peris
Bronzenoc:	ESP
Prev:	2008
Next:	2012

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The Women's 50 Backstroke event at the 10th Short Course World Swimming Championships took place 18–19 December 2010 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The heats and semifinals were 18 December;^[1] ^[2] the final was 19 December.^[3]

73 swimmers swam the event.

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Sanja Jovanović		align=left	25.70	Istanbul	12 December 2009
Championship record	Sanja Jovanović		align=left	26.37		13 April 2008

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nation	Time	WR	CR
18 December 2010	Semifinals			26.37		=CR
19 December 2010	Final			26.27		CR

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	9	2	26.73	Q
2	1	3	26.99	Q
2	10	3	26.99	Q
4	9	4	27.02	Q
5	10	5	27.12	Q
6	10	4	27.26	Q
7	9	5	27.27	Q
8	8	6	27.39	Q
8	8	1	27.39	Q
10	8	5	27.45	Q
10	9	6	27.45	Q
12	7	3	27.48	Q
13	9	3	27.50	Q
14	10	2	27.55	Q
15	8	2	27.62	Q
16	10	1	27.73	Q
17	10	6	27.78
18	7	2	27.90
19	7	6	27.96
20	9	8	27.98
21	8	3	28.03
22	9	7	28.09
23	7	1	28.27
24	10	7	28.31
25	8	8	28.33
26	6	4	28.36
27	5	6	28.47
28	7	8	28.57
29	7	4	28.60
30	10	8	28.61
31	6	1	28.68
32	6	2	28.84
33	6	8	28.89
34	6	6	29.01
34	9	1	29.01
36	6	5	29.03
37	8	7	29.16
38	6	3	29.19
39	5	4	29.48
40	6	7	29.62
41	7	7	29.67
42	5	2	30.08
43	5	3	30.49
44	5	1	30.56
45	4	3	30.59
46	4	4	30.74
47	5	8	30.92
48	5	7	30.98
49	4	5	31.31
50	4	7	31.44	NR
51	3	3	31.48
52	4	2	31.82
53	4	1	32.01
54	4	6	32.14
55	4	8	32.43
56	3	4	32.63
57	3	7	32.72
58	3	6	32.76
59	1	4	32.97
60	3	5	32.99
61	2	7	33.94
62	3	1	35.40
63	2	4	35.72
64	2	5	35.85
65	3	8	36.04
66	2	6	36.72
67	3	2	36.91
68	1	5	36.99
69	2	3	37.43
70	2	2	37.77
-	5	5	DNS
-	7	5	DNS
-	8	4	DNS

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	26.37	Q, =CR
2	5	26.77	Q
3	3	27.11	Q
3	2	27.17
5	6	27.19
6	8	27.48
6	7	27.49
8	1	27.54

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	26.68	Q
2	5	26.92	Q
3	3	27.09	Q
4	7	27.10	Q
5	8	27.13	Q
6	2	27.27
7	1	27.33
8	6	27.65

Final

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
	4	26.27	CR
	5	26.54
	6	26.80
4	7	26.91
5	1	27.00
6	2	27.01
7	3	27.02
8	8	27.67

External links

2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m): Women's 50 m backstroke entry list, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2010-12-16.

Notes and References

Web site: 2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 50 metre backstroke (heats). Omega Timing. 2010-12-18.
Web site: 2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 50 metre backstroke (semifinals). Omega Timing. 2010-12-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20120316144854/http://omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2010/WSC_DUBAI/C74A_ResSummary_227_Semifinals_Women_50_Back.pdf. 16 March 2012. dead.
Web site: 2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 50 metre backstroke (final) . Omega Timing . 2010-12-19 .