Swimming at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre breaststroke explained

Event:	Men's 50 metre breaststroke
Championship:	2015 World Aquatics Championships
Dates:	4 August 2015 (heats and semifinals) 5 August 2015(final)
Competitors:	78
Nations:	75
Win Value:	26.51
Gold:	Adam Peaty
Goldnoc:	GBR
Silver:	Cameron van der Burgh
Silvernoc:	RSA
Bronze:	Kevin Cordes
Bronzenoc:	USA
Prev:	2013
Next:	2017

The Men's 50 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held with the heats and the semifinals on 4 August 2015 and the final on 5 August 2015.^[1]

Records

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

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
4 August	Heat 7	align=left		align=left		26.62
4 August	Semifinal 1	align=left		align=left		26.42

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 09:30.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	7	4	26.62	Q,
2	9	4	26.68	Q
3	8	3	26.70	Q, NR
4	9	6	26.93	Q
5	8	5	27.10	Q
6	7	5	27.19	Q
7	7	7	27.23	Q
8	7	3	27.37	Q
9	8	6	27.41	Q
10	8	2	27.42	Q
11	8	1	27.43	Q
12	9	7	27.46	Q
13	8	0	27.47	Q
13	9	5	27.47	Q
15	6	3	27.51	Q
15	7	6	27.51	Q
17	8	4	27.54
18	9	3	27.62
19	7	1	27.65
20	8	8	27.71
21	9	2	27.85
22	5	2	27.94	NR
23	6	7	27.99
23	7	8	27.99
25	8	7	28.00
26	9	0	28.02
27	6	9	28.05	NR
28	7	2	28.06
29	6	4	28.12
30	9	1	28.13
31	8	9	28.15
32	6	1	28.22
33	9	9	28.26
34	6	2	28.29
35	6	0	28.36
36	6	6	28.38
37	5	5	28.40
38	9	8	28.47
39	7	9	28.53
40	6	5	28.57
41	5	9	28.64
42	5	8	28.71
43	5	1	28.74
43	7	0	28.74
45	4	3	28.85	NR
46	5	7	28.87
47	4	4	28.99
48	5	0	29.08
49	5	6	29.15
50	5	3	29.17
51	4	6	29.45
52	3	4	29.92
53	4	5	29.93
54	4	1	29.96
55	4	9	30.24
56	4	2	30.33
57	4	7	30.40
58	3	3	30.61
59	3	6	30.95
60	4	0	30.97
61	3	5	31.00
62	3	1	31.46
63	3	2	32.07
64	3	9	33.00	NR
65	3	7	33.09
66	3	8	33.14
67	4	8	33.91
68	2	3	34.87
69	2	6	34.94
70	2	4	35.89
71	2	1	36.63
72	2	7	37.20
73	2	2	38.65
74	1	5	41.33
75	1	4	41.49
76	2	5	42.88
	3	0		DSQ
	6	8		DSQ
	1	3		DNS
	2	8		DNS
	5	4		DNS

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 4 August at 17:48.^[3]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	26.42	Q,
2	5	26.76	Q, =AM
3	3	27.19	Q
4	8	27.20	Q, NR
5	6	27.50
5	7	27.50
7	2	27.51
8	1	27.61

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	26.74	Q
2	3	26.87	Q
3	5	26.92	Q
4	6	27.17	Q
5	1	27.24	AS
6	2	27.31
7	7	27.47
8	8	27.79

Final

The final was held at 18:10.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Time
	4	26.51
	5	26.66
	3	26.86
4	6	26.87
5	2	27.23
5	8	27.23
7	7	27.36
8	1	27.45

Notes and References

Web site: Start list . 2015-08-01 . 2017-08-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170803163610/http://www.omegatiming.com/file/download/?id=00010F020000020900FFFFFFFFFFFF01 . live .
Web site: Heats results . 2015-08-04 . 2015-09-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924141453/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010F020000020900FFFFFFFFFFFF02 . live .
Web site: Semifinals results . 2015-08-04 . 2015-09-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924141457/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010F020000020901FFFFFFFFFFFF02 . live .
Web site: Final results . 2015-08-05 . 2017-08-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170803165204/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010F020000020902FFFFFFFFFFFF02 . live .