Swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 50 metre backstroke explained

Event:	Women's 50 metre backstroke
Competition:	2011 World Aquatics Championships
Dates:	July 27, 2011 (heats and semifinals) July 28, 2011 (final)
Competitors:	57
Nations:	48
Win Value:	27.79
Gold:	Anastasia Zuyeva
Goldnoc:	RUS
Silver:	Aya Terakawa
Silvernoc:	JPN
Bronze:	Missy Franklin
Bronzenoc:	USA
Prev:	2009
Next:	2013

The women's 50 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships took place on July 27 with the heats and the semifinals and July 28 with the final.

Records

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

Results

Heats

57 swimmers participated in 8 heats.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	6	4	28.20	Q
2	6	7	28.24	Q
3	8	4	28.27	Q
4	8	5	28.34	Q
5	7	8	28.35	Q
6	8	2	28.37	Q
7	7	4	28.38	Q
8	7	5	28.39	Q
8	8	6	28.39	Q
10	6	2	28.46	Q, NR
10	6	5	28.46	Q
12	7	3	28.62	Q
13	6	8	28.66	Q, NR
14	8	8	28.71	Q
15	8	3	28.79	Q
16	6	6	28.84	Q
17	7	1	28.87
18	3	4	28.89
19	6	3	28.89
20	7	6	28.92
21	5	3	28.99
22	5	6	29.03
22	5	7	29.03
24	7	7	29.12
25	7	2	29.16
26	8	7	29.24
27	4	6	29.27
28	5	2	29.29
28	6	1	29.29
30	5	4	29.37
31	4	8	29.39
32	5	5	29.40
33	8	1	29.45
34	4	4	29.50
35	5	1	29.66
36	5	8	29.71
37	3	3	29.73
38	4	5	29.76
39	4	1	29.78
40	4	3	29.79
41	4	7	29.90
42	4	2	29.97
43	3	5	30.22
44	3	2	30.59
45	3	6	30.66
46	3	7	32.09
47	2	4	32.29
48	3	8	32.49
49	3	1	32.62
50	2	5	32.91
51	2	3	33.18
52	2	6	33.19
53	2	2	33.43
54	2	7	36.57
55	1	3	37.79
56	1	4	38.06
57	1	5	39.02

Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 18:13.^[2]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	2	27.93	Q
2	7	28.10	Q
3	3	28.14	Q
4	5	28.16	Q
5	6	28.19	Q
6	4	28.44
7	1	28.75
8	8	28.83

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	27.88	Q
2	6	27.93	Q
3	5	28.05	Q
4	7	28.25	NR
5	2	28.26
6	1	28.64	NR
7	8	28.75
8	3	28.85

Final

The final was held at 19:17.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Time
	4	27.79
	1	27.93
	7	28.01
4	6	28.06
5	8	28.07
6	2	28.09
6	3	28.09
8	5	28.42

External links

2011 World Aquatics Championships: Women's 50 metre backstroke start list, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2011-07-23.

Notes and References

Web site: 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 50 metre backstroke (heats). Omega Timing. 2011-07-27.
Web site: 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 50 metre backstroke (semifinals). Omega Timing. 2011-07-27.
Web site: 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre butterfly (final). Omega Timing. 2011-07-28.