Swimming at the 2018 Mediterranean Games – Women's 50 metre backstroke explained

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Event:	Women's 50 metre backstroke
Games:	2018 Mediterranean Games
Dates:	23 June
Venue:	Campclar Aquatic Center
Location:	Tarragona, Spain
Competitors:	15
Nations:	12
Win Value:	28.33
Gold:	Silvia Scalia
Gold Nation:	ITA
Silver:	Duane Da Rocha
Silver Nation:	ESP
Bronze:	Theodora Drakou
Bronze Nation:	GRE
Prev:	2013
Next:	2022

The women's 50 metre backstroke competition at the 2018 Mediterranean Games was held on 23 June 2018 at the Campclar Aquatic Center.^[1]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Mediterranean Games records were as follows:

World record		27.06	Rome, Italy	30 July 2009
Mediterranean Games record		28.48	Mersin, Turkey	21 June 2013

The following records were established during the competition:

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 10:00.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Theodora Drakou		28.67	Q
2	1	4	Silvia Scalia		28.69	Q
3	1	5	Duane Da Rocha		28.94	Q
4	2	6	Ekaterina Avramova		29.04	Q
5	1	3	Paloma de Bordóns		29.17	Q
6	2	5	Tania Quaglieri		29.28	Q
7	2	3	Camille Gheorghiu		29.34	Q
8	1	6	Amel Melih		29.69	Q
9	1	2	Sezin Eligül		29.86
10	1	7	Rim Ouenniche		30.17	NR
11	2	1	Katja Fain		30.97
12	2	2	Inês Fernandes		31.14
13	2	7	Kalia Antoniou		31.32
14	1	1	Fjorda Shabani		32.17
15	2	8			32.36

Final

The final was held at 17:56.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Silvia Scalia		28.33	GR
	3	Duane Da Rocha		28.57
	4	Theodora Drakou		28.61
4	6	Ekaterina Avramova		28.74
5	2	Paloma de Bordóns		28.87
6	7	Tania Quaglieri		28.92
7	1	Camille Gheorghiu		29.35
8	8	Amel Melih		29.41	NR

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2018 Mediterranean Games – Swimming schedule. tarragona2018.cat. 23 June 2018.
2. https://tarragona2018-reports.s3.amazonaws.com/SWM/MED18_SWMW50MBA-------------------------_C76_v1.pdf Final results