Swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 50 metre breaststroke explained

Event:	Women's 50 metre breaststroke
Competition:	2013 World Aquatics Championships
Venue:	Palau Sant Jordi
Dates:	August 3, 2013 (heats &<br/>semifinals) August 4, 2013 (final)
Competitors:	74
Nations:	66
Win Value:	29.52
Gold:	Yuliya Yefimova
Goldnoc:	RUS
Silver:	Rūta Meilutytė
Silvernoc:	LTU
Bronze:	Jessica Hardy
Bronzenoc:	USA
Prev:	2011
Next:	2015

The women's 50 metre breaststroke event in swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships took place on 3–4 August at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, Spain.^{[1] [2]}

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and championship records were:

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
29 July		align=left		align=left		29.97†	CR
3 August	Heats	align=left		align=left		29.78	, CR
3 August	Semifinal 2	align=left		align=left		29.48	, CR

† – en route to final mark

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 10:32.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	8	5			29.78	Q,
2	8	4			29.99	Q
3	6	4			30.07	Q
4	7	4			30.46	Q
5	6	5			30.55	Q, NR
6	8	6			30.68	Q, NR
7	7	5			30.77	Q, NR
8	8	3			30.82	Q
9	7	6			30.93	Q, NR
10	7	3			31.12	Q
11	7	8			31.22	Q
12	6	3			31.23	Q
13	7	7			31.39	Q
14	6	8			31.46	Q
15	8	8			31.49	Q
16	5	8			31.50	Q, NR
17	6	7			31.51
18	7	9			31.52	NR
19	6	2			31.56
20	6	6			31.59
21	8	1			31.63
22	6	9			31.66
23	5	5			31.67	NR
24	7	2			31.70
25	7	1			31.73
26	8	0			31.77
27	8	2			31.94
28	5	6			31.95
29	7	0			32.02
30	8	7			32.03
31	6	0			32.11
32	5	7			32.28
33	8	9			32.32
34	5	4			32.37
35	4	7			32.56
36	4	3			32.61	NR
37	3	4			32.69
38	5	3			32.72
39	5	1			32.73
40	5	2			32.74
41	4	4			32.79
42	1	2			32.83
43	3	6			32.85
44	5	0			32.96
45	4	2			33.04
46	4	9			33.08
47	4	8			33.10
47	3	3			33.10
49	5	9			33.37
50	4	6			33.39
50	3	5			33.39
52	4	5			33.45
53	4	0			33.55
54	4	1			33.56
55	3	7			34.20
56	3	8			34.28
57	2	4			34.52	NR
58	3	9			34.81
59	3	1			35.41
60	3	2			35.49
61	2	7			35.63
62	2	5			35.76
63	2	8			36.53
64	2	0			37.04
65	3	0			37.11
66	2	6			37.43
67	2	3			37.78
68	2	9			38.21
69	1	4			38.50
70	2	2			39.53
71	1	3			39.58
72	1	5			48.31
73	1	6			49.68
74	1	7			49.72
	2	1
	6	1

Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 18:26.^[4]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4			29.90	Q
2	5			30.20	Q
3	7			30.57	Q
4	6			30.61	Q
5	3			30.94
6	2			31.27
7	8			31.37	NR
8	1			31.67

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5			29.48	Q,
2	4			29.88	Q
3	6			30.31	Q, NR
4	3			30.66	Q
5	7			31.24
6	8			31.26
7	2			31.52
8	1			31.73

Final

The final was held at 18:08.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5			29.52	NR
	4			29.59
	3			29.80	=AM
4	6			29.95
5	8			30.23
6	7			30.72
7	1			31.31
	2

External links

• Barcelona 2013 Swimming Coverage

Notes and References

1. Web site: BCN 2013 – Swimming: Schedule. FINA. 8 July 2013. 21 July 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20131223050621/http://www.fina.org/H2O/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3355&Itemid=1407. 23 December 2013.
2. http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010D020101021D00FFFFFFFFFFFF01 Start list
3. http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010D020101021D00FFFFFFFFFFFF02 Heats Results
4. http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010D020101021D01FFFFFFFFFFFF02 Semifinals Results
5. http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010D020101021D02FFFFFFFFFFFF02 Final Results