Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre breaststroke explained

Event:	Men's 50m Breaststroke
Competition:	2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates:	22 July (prelims, semifinals) 23 July (final)
Win Value:	27.56 seconds
Gold:	James Gibson
Goldnoc:	GBR
Silver:	Oleg Lisogor
Silvernoc:	UKR
Bronze:	Mihály Flaskay
Bronzenoc:	HUN
Prev:	2001
Next:	2005

See main article: Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships.

The Men's 50 Breaststroke event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam July 22 – 23, 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary^[1] and Semifinal^[2] heats were on 22 July, with Prelims swum in the morning session and Semifinals in the evening session. The Final^[3] swam in the evening session on 25 July.

At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were:

WR: 27.18 swum by Oleg Lisogor (Ukraine) on August 2, 2002 in Berlin, Germany
CR: 27.52 swum by Oleg Lisogor (Ukraine) on July 29, 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan

Results

Final

Place	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1			27.56
2			27.74
3			27.79
4			27.87
5			27.92
6			27.98
7			28.17
-			DQ

Semifinals

Rank	Heat + Lane	Time	Notes
1	S2 L4	27.46	q, CR
2	S2 L5	27.86	q
3	S1 L5	27.91	q
4	S1 L7	27.98	q
5	S1 L4	28.03	q
6	S1 L6	28.09	q
7	S2 L8	28.10	q
8	S2 L3	28.12	q

9	S1 L1	28.13
10	S2 L6	28.16
11	S2 L2	28.32
12	S1 L2	28.33
13	S2 L7	28.36
14	S1 L3	28.39
15	S1 L8	28.45
16	S2 L1	28.52

Preliminaries

Rank	Heat+Lane	Swimmer	Time	Notes
1	H14 L5		27.54	q
2	H13 L4		27.84	q
3	H14 L4		27.85	q
4	H14 L3		27.96	q
5	H14 L1		27.97	q
6	H12 L8		28.04	q
7	H12 L7		28.13	q
7	H13 L3		28.13	q
9	H12 L5		28.18	q
10	H14 L6		28.19	q
11	H13 L2		28.25	q
12	H12 L4		28.27	q
13	H13 L8		28.32	q
14	H13 L5		28.34	q
15	H13 L5		28.42	q
16	H12 L1		28.44	q

16	H14 L2		28.44
18	H11 L7		28.51
19	H11 L5		28.54
20	H10 L6		28.61
21	H14 L7		28.67
22	H11 L3		28.74
23	H13 L7		28.80
24	H13 L6		28.83
25	H12 L2		28.84
26	H14 L8		28.87
27	H13 L1		28.88
28	H08 L7		28.92
29	H11 L8		28.93
30	H09 L7		29.00
30	H10 L4		29.00
32	H11 L6		29.05
33	H10 L2		29.11
34	H11 L4		29.18
35	H10 L7		29.28
36	H09 L4		29.49
37	H08 L8		29.55
38	H08 L2		29.63
39	H09 L5		29.65
40	H09 L3		29.78
41	H10 L3		29.79
42	H08 L3		29.82
43	H11 L2		29.85
44	H09 L8		29.90
45	H11 L1		30.04
46	H10 L1		30.06
47	H09 L6		30.14
48	H07 L5		30.16
48	H07 L7		30.16
50	H09 L1		30.25
51	H07 L1		30.27
52	H07 L3		30.42
53	H09 L2		30.58
54	H06 L5		30.65
55	H08 L4		30.67
56	H08 L5		30.69
57	H07 L2		30.70
58	H07 L8		30.77
59	H10 L8		30.79
60	H07 L6		30.89
61	H06 L8		31.02
62	H06 L2		31.21
63	H06 L6		31.28
63	H07 L4		31.28
65	H08 L1		31.34
66	H06 L7		31.53
67	H06 L4		31.63
67	H06 L3		31.63
69	H05 L7		32.10
70	H05 L2		32.26
71	H05 L8		32.29
72	H05 L6		32.31
73	H04 L3		32.86
74	H08 L6		33.41
75	H05 L1		33.72
76	H04 L5		33.90
77	H03 L5	Yan Lin Aung	34.28
77	H04 L6		34.28
79	H03 L3		34.63
80	H03 L1		34.76
81	H04 L7		34.83
82	H04 L1		34.95
83	H01 L6		34.98
84	H03 L2		35.25
85	H02 L5		35.81
86	H03 L6		36.13
87	H03 L4		36.35
88	H02 L6		36.41
89	H03 L8		37.16
90	H02 L2		37.28
91	H02 L3		37.52
92	H04 L8		37.55
93	H02 L1		39.69
94	H02 L7		41.95
-	H02 L4		DQ
-	H05 L5		DQ
-	H06 L1		DQ
-	H10 L5		DQ
-	-		DNS
-	-		DNS
-	-		DNS
-	-		DNS
-	-		DNS
-	-		DNS
-	-		DNS
-	-		DNS
-	-		DNS
-	-		DNS

Notes:

Filina: Natalya Filina was mis-entered in the men's event, rather than the women's event.

Notes and References

Worlds 2003 results: Men's 50m Breast -- Prelims. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-22; retrieved 2013-06-10.
Worlds 2003 results: Men's 50m Breast -- Semifinals. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-22; retrieved 2013-06-10.
Worlds 2003 results: Men's 50m Breast -- Final. Published by Omega Timing (official timer) on 2003-07-22; retrieved 2013-06-10.