2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 50 metre breaststroke explained

Event:	Men's 50m Breaststroke
Competition:	2012 Short Course Worlds
Dates:	15 December (heats and semifinals) 16 December (final)
Win Value:	26.30
Gold:	Aleksander Hetland
Goldnoc:	NOR
Silver:	Damir Dugonjič
Silvernoc:	SLO
Bronze:	Florent Manaudou
Bronzenoc:	FRA
Prev:	2010
Next:	2014

See main article: 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m).

The men's 50 metre breaststroke event at the 11th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) took place 15  - 16 December 2012 at the Sinan Erdem Dome.

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Cameron van der Burgh		align=left	25.25	Berlin	14 November 2009
Championship record			align=left	25.95		19 December 2010

No new records were set during this competition.

Results

Heats

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Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	11	4		26.60	Q
2	10	4		26.67	Q
3	12	3		26.72	Q
4	11	8		26.76	Q
5	9	8		26.77	Q
5	10	5		26.77	Q
7	11	5		26.83	Q
7	11	3		26.83	Q
9	9	5		26.91	Q
10	12	5		26.92	Q
11	8	6		26.93	Q
11	12	6		26.93	Q
13	10	6		26.98	Q
14	10	3		27.03	Q
15	10	2		27.18	Q
16	12	4		27.21
17	12	2		27.22	Q
18	12	7		27.28
19	11	6		27.29
20	9	4		27.37
21	10	7		27.43
22	11	7		27.46	NR
23	11	2		27.47
23	12	8		27.47	NR
25	11	1		27.48
26	12	9		27.54
27	3	8		27.56
27	9	2		27.56
29	12	1		27.58
30	10	8		27.62
31	12	0		27.63
32	10	1		27.85
33	9	6		27.90
34	10	9		27.94	NR
35	10	0		28.01	NR
36	11	0		28.03
37	8	4		28.06
38	9	1		28.08
39	7	6		28.09
40	9	7		28.10
41	9	3		28.23
42	11	9		28.26
43	9	9		28.30
44	2	5		28.32
45	3	2		28.36
46	8	5		28.43	NR
47	2	4		28.69
48	3	6		28.86
49	7	7		29.05
50	3	9		29.14	NR
51	8	2		29.18
52	8	9		29.20
53	8	8		29.31
54	7	5		29.37
54	8	3		29.37	NR
56	8	7		29.38
57	9	0		29.44
58	8	0		29.49
59	7	4		29.72
60	7	0		29.74	NR
61	6	2		30.09
62	7	2		30.10
63	1	4		30.24
64	6	5		30.25
65	7	1		30.38
66	6	4		30.45
67	6	8		30.47	NR
68	5	7		30.49
69	2	2		30.57
70	6	6		30.77
71	6	1		31.11
72	6	3		31.13
73	4	3		31.19
73	6	7		31.19
75	2	1		31.27
76	6	0		31.31
77	5	5		31.37
78	4	5		31.83
79	5	6		31.88
80	5	4		32.10
80	6	9		32.10
82	4	4		32.46
83	4	2		32.48
84	5	0		32.53
85	5	2		32.65
86	4	6		32.95
87	3	1		33.26
88	5	1		33.71
89	5	9		33.72
90	4	7		33.98
91	2	3		34.08
92	2	6		34.13
93	2	8		34.53
94	4	0		35.34
95	4	1		35.71
96	3	4		36.01
97	4	8		36.33
98	4	9		36.48
99	3	7		37.48
100	2	7		40.72
101	5	3		41.56
	1	3
	1	5
	7	3
	7	9
	8	1
	3	0
	3	3
	3	5
	5	8
	7	8

Semifinals

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Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	2	Damir Dugonjič		26.27	Q
2	1	4	Florent Manaudou		26.49	Q
3	2	6	João Gomes Jr.		26.50	Q
4	2	4	Aleksander Hetland		26.51	Q
5	2	7	Giulio Zorzi		26.54	Q
6	1	3	Sergey Geybel		26.63	Q
7	2	3	Kevin Cordes		26.70	Q
8	2	5	Felipe Lima		26.71	Q
9	2	2	Mihail Alexandrov		26.72
10	1	5	Barry Murphy		26.82
11	1	6	Mattia Pesce		26.86
12	2	1	Koichiro Okazaki		26.89
13	1	7	Petr Bartůněk		26.99
14	2	8	Emil Tahirovič		27.24
15	1	1	Li Xiayan		27.25
16	1	8	Sasa Gerbec		27.40

Final

The final was held at 20:01.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	6	Aleksander Hetland		26.30
	4	Damir Dugonjič		26.32
	5	Florent Manaudou		26.33
4	3	João Gomes Jr.		26.50
5	2	Giulio Zorzi		26.64
6	8	Felipe Lima		26.68
7	1	Kevin Cordes		26.79
8	7	Sergey Geybel		26.87

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 50 metre breaststroke (heats). Omega Timing. 2012-12-15.
2. Web site: 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 50 metre breaststroke (semifinals). Omega Timing. 2012-12-15.
3. Web site: 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 50 metre breaststroke (final). Omega Timing. 2012-12-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20121218233602/http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010C010D00020902FFFFFFFFFFFF02. 2012-12-18.