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

Event:	Women's 50 metre breaststroke
Competition:	2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue:	WFCU Centre
Dates:	6 December (heats and semifinals) 7 December (final)
Competitors:	60
Nations:	46
Win Value:	28.92
Gold:	Lilly King
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Alia Atkinson
Silvernoc:	JAM
Bronze:	Molly Hannis
Bronzenoc:	USA
Prev:	2014
Next:	2018

The Women's 50 metre breaststroke competition of the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 6 and 7 December 2016.^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Alia Atkinson		28.64	Tokyo	26 October 2016
Championship record	Rūta Meilutytė		28.81	Doha	3 December 2014

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 11:12.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	7	4			29.48	Q
2	7	5			29.71	Q, =NR
3	6	4			29.84	Q
4	5	4			29.92	Q
5	6	5			30.06	Q
6	5	5			30.23	Q
7	5	3			30.27	Q
8	7	1			30.35	Q
9	5	6			30.41	Q
10	7	6			30.43	Q
11	5	2			30.52	Q
	7	3				Q
13	6	3			30.55	Q
14	5	1			30.61	Q
15	7	2			30.64	Q, NR
16	5	0			30.70	Q
17	4	5			30.77
18	6	6			30.89
19	7	7			30.92
20	6	1			30.99
	7	8				NR
22	5	7			31.01	NR
23	7	0			31.05
24	6	2			31.07
25	6	8			31.13
26	5	9			31.17
	6	7
28	4	6			31.25
29	5	8			31.55
30	7	9			31.71
31	4	4			31.80
32	6	9			31.81
33	4	7			32.07	NR
34	4	1			32.18
35	4	0			32.29	NR
36	4	3			32.40
37	3	4			32.43	NR
38	4	2			32.75
39	4	8			32.81
40	6	0			33.29
41	4	9			33.38
42	3	5			33.51	NR
43	3	1			33.55
44	3	7			33.71
45	3	0			34.00	NR
46	3	2			34.07	NR
47	3	3			34.22
48	3	6			34.76
49	1	5			35.30	NR
50	3	9			35.34	NR
51	2	7			35.37	NR
52	3	8			35.78
53	2	3			36.08
54	2	5			37.04	NR
55	2	2			37.94	NR
56	2	6			38.65
57	2	8			38.85
58	2	0			40.48
59	2	4			41.15	NR
60	2	9			44.13	NR
	1	3
	1	4
	1	6
	2	1

Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 18:56.^[3]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5			29.88	Q
2	4			30.06	Q
3	6			30.22	Q
4	3			30.30	Q
5	8			30.39
6	2			30.43
7	7			30.70
8	1			30.80

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4			29.09	Q
2	5			29.17	Q, NR
3	3			30.17	Q
4	2			30.33	Q
5	6			30.35
6	7			30.38
7	8			30.47	NR
8	1			30.49

Final

The final was held at 19:11.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5			28.92	NR
	4			29.11
	3			29.58
4	6			29.72
5	1			30.14
6	8			30.28
7	7			30.43
8	2			30.45

Notes and References

1. Web site: Schedule . 2016-12-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161206122713/http://www.finawindsor2016.com/content/competition-schedule . 2016-12-06 . dead .
2. http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000110000D01021D00FFFFFFFFFFFF02 Heats results
3. http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000110000D01021D01FFFFFFFFFFFF02 Semifinals results
4. Web site: Final results . 2017-06-16 . 2017-03-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170329113118/http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000110000D01021D02FFFFFFFFFFFF02 . dead .