2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 50 metre breaststroke explained

Event:	Men's 50 metre breaststroke
Competition:	2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Dates:	6 December (heats and semifinals) 7 December (final)
Competitors:	109
Nations:	82
Win Value:	25.63
Gold:	Felipe França Silva
Goldnoc:	BRA
Silver:	Adam Peaty
Silvernoc:	GBR
Silver2:	Cameron van der Burgh
Silvernoc2:	RSA
Prev:	2012
Next:	2016

The men's 50 metre breaststroke competition of the 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 6 December with the heats and the semifinals and 7 December with the final.^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Cameron van der Burgh		25.25	Berlin	14 November 2009
Championship record	Felipe França Silva		25.95	Dubai	19 December 2010

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nation	Time	Record
6 December	Semifinals			25.75	CR
7 December	Final			25.63	CR

The heats were held at 12:12.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	11	1		26.07	Q
2	11	2		26.27	Q
3	12	4		26.37	Q
4	11	4		26.39	Q
5	10	5		26.46	Q
6	11	3		26.55	Q
7	12	3		26.56	Q
8	10	3		26.59	Q
9	11	6		26.61	Q
10	12	5		26.65	Q
11	10	4		26.74	Q
12	12	6		26.80	Q
13	11	7		26.84	Q
14	11	5		26.85	Q
15	8	5		26.87	Q
16	12	7		26.88	Q
17	12	2		26.95
18	10	1		27.00
19	12	1		27.04
19	12	0		27.04
21	10	0		27.06
22	9	8		27.11
23	12	8		27.17
24	11	0		27.19
25	11	9		27.20
26	11	8		27.25
27	10	7		27.26
28	12	9		27.32
29	10	8		27.39
30	9	5		27.40
31	8	6		27.43
32	9	9		27.45
33	9	1		27.47
34	9	4		27.65
35	8	4		27.66
35	9	3		27.66
37	8	9		27.67
38	8	2		27.68
39	10	9		27.69
40	8	7		27.76
41	9	6		27.77
42	9	2		27.79
43	9	0		27.89
44	8	1		27.98
45	8	8		28.09
46	7	5		28.13
47	9	7		28.14
48	7	4		28.17
49	7	8		28.28
49	8	0		28.28
51	5	8		28.35
52	7	1		28.63
53	6	0		28.75
54	6	4		28.78
55	6	8		28.80
56	7	2		28.82
57	7	6		28.87
58	7	9		28.94
59	8	3		29.02
60	7	7		29.32
61	7	0		29.42
62	6	5		29.46
63	6	2		29.47
64	6	1		29.48
65	5	3		29.50
66	6	6		29.69
67	4	2		29.74
68	4	1		29.76
69	6	3		29.77
70	6	9		29.81
71	5	1		30.28
72	5	6	Omar Al-Malki	30.29
73	5	5		30.31
74	5	4		30.32
75	5	2		30.47
76	4	3		30.83
77	5	7		30.85
78	4	0		31.10
79	5	0		31.14
80	4	6		31.16
81	5	9		31.17
82	4	4		31.31
83	6	7		31.37
84	3	6		31.60
85	3	1		31.78
86	4	5		31.84
87	4	7		32.17
88	3	2		32.18
89	4	8		32.19
90	3	8		32.23
91	4	9		32.38
92	3	3		32.69
93	2	6		32.98
94	3	5		33.60
95	2	4		33.82
96	2	2		34.01
97	3	9		34.16
98	3	7		34.31
99	2	1		34.99
100	2	8		35.09
101	2	3		35.26
102	2	0		36.27
103	1	3		37.64
104	3	0		38.59
105	2	7		39.13
106	1	6		40.43
—	1	5			DNS
—	3	4			DNS
—	7	3			DNS
—	10	2			DNS
—	10	6			DNS
—	1	4			DSQ
—	2	5			DSQ
—	2	9			DSQ

The semifinals were held at 19:32.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	26.11	Q
2	6	26.25	Q
3	5	26.33	Q
4	2	26.36	Q
5	1	26.43
6	8	26.52
7	3	26.54
8	7	26.59

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	25.75	Q, CR
2	5	25.77	Q
3	6	26.04	Q
4	3	26.31	Q
5	2	26.58
6	1	26.68
7	8	26.75
8	7	26.91

The final was held at 19:03.^[4]