2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 50 metre breaststroke explained

Event:	Men's 50 metre breaststroke
Competition:	2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue:	WFCU Centre
Dates:	10 December (heats and semifinals) 11 December (final)
Competitors:	96
Nations:	73
Win Value:	25.64
Gold:	Cameron van der Burgh
Goldnoc:	RSA
Silver:	Peter Stevens
Silvernoc:	SLO
Bronze:	Felipe Lima
Bronzenoc:	BRA
Prev:	2014
Next:	2018

The Men's 50 metre breaststroke competition of the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 10 and 11 December 2016.^[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		25.63	Doha	7 December 2014

The heats were held at 11:51.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	9	4	26.23	Q
2	10	4	26.26	Q
3	8	1	26.33	Q
4	9	3	26.34	Q
5	11	5	26.44	Q
6	11	4	26.55	Q
7	11	7	26.56	Q
8	11	6	26.57	Q
9	10	5	26.58	Q
10	9	5	26.61	Q
11	7	9	26.64	Q
12	10	2	26.65	Q
13	11	3	26.67	Q
14	10	6	26.68	Q
15	10	8	26.75	Q
16	11	2	26.77	Q
17	8	9	26.78
17	9	7	26.78
19	8	0	26.81
19	10	0	26.81
21	9	9	26.83
22	11	8	26.91
23	10	9	26.95
24	10	3	27.00
25	9	2	27.04
26	9	8	27.07
27	9	1	27.09
28	8	3	27.10
29	8	2	27.17
30	9	0	27.18
31	8	7	27.23
31	8	8	27.23
33	7	7	27.24
34	7	6	27.25
35	10	1	27.28
36	10	7	27.38
37	11	1	27.43
38	11	0	27.44
39	11	9	27.57
40	8	4	27.58
41	8	6	27.62
42	6	4	27.65
43	8	5	27.69
44	7	3	27.77
45	7	5	27.97
46	7	8	27.99
47	6	8	28.18
48	7	1	28.19
49	6	5	28.20
50	7	2	28.21
51	6	2	28.26
52	5	5	28.38
53	6	7	28.41
54	6	1	28.42
55	6	6	28.51
56	6	2	28.55
57	5	8	28.58
58	4	3	28.65
59	5	4	28.71
60	5	6	28.77
61	5	0	28.79
62	7	0	28.91
63	6	9	28.92
64	1	3	29.09
65	4	7	29.18
66	5	1	29.20
67	5	9	29.24
68	5	2	29.26
69	9	6	29.52
70	4	8	29.57
70	5	7	29.57
72	5	3	29.66
73	4	9	29.71
74	4	1	29.82
75	3	3	29.85
75	4	5	29.85
77	1	5	29.90
78	4	4	30.07
79	3	5	30.36
80	3	4	30.48
81	4	6	30.80
82	3	6	31.35
83	3	0	31.39
84	2	4	32.32
85	2	5	32.45
86	2	8	32.70
87	3	8	33.02
88	3	1	33.34
89	2	1	33.45
90	2	2	33.88
91	2	7	36.93
92	2	9	36.99
93	2	0	37.09
94	3	7	37.28
95	1	2	38.31
	1	6		DNS
	2	3		DNS
	2	6		DNS
	3	2		DNS
	3	9		DNS
	4	0		DNS
	4	2		DNS
	6	0		DNS
	7	4		DNS
	1	4		DSQ

The semifinals were held at 19:30.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	25.95	Q
2	1	26.08	Q
3	3	26.10	Q
4	5	26.29	Q
5	6	26.39
6	2	26.43
7	7	26.86
8	8	26.95

The final was held at 19:50^[4]

Web site: Schedule . 2016-12-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161206122713/http://www.finawindsor2016.com/content/competition-schedule . 2016-12-06 . dead .
http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000110000D00020900FFFFFFFFFFFF02 Heats results
http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000110000D00020901FFFFFFFFFFFF02 Semifinals results
Web site: Final results . 2017-06-03 . 2017-03-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170329112957/http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000110000D00020902FFFFFFFFFFFF02 . dead .