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

Men's 50m Breaststroke at the 2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates	22 July (prelims, semifinals) 23 July (final)
Winning time	27.56 seconds
Medalists
James Gibson    Great Britain   Oleg Lisogor    Ukraine   Mihály Flaskay    Hungary
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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	James Gibson	Great Britain	27.56
2	Oleg Lisogor	Ukraine	27.74
3	Mihály Flaskay	Hungary	27.79
4	Mark Warnecke	Germany	27.87
5	Darren Mew	Great Britain	27.92
6	Alessandro Terrin	Italy	27.98
7	Emil Tahirovič	Slovenia	28.17
-	Mladen Tepavčević	Yugoslavia	DQ

Semifinals[]

Rank	Heat + Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	S2 L4	James Gibson	Great Britain	27.46	q, CR
2	S2 L5	Oleg Lisogor	Ukraine	27.86	q
3	S1 L5	Mark Warnecke	Germany	27.91	q
4	S1 L7	Darren Mew	Great Britain	27.98	q
5	S1 L4	Mihály Flaskay	Hungary	28.03	q
6	S1 L6	Alessandro Terrin	Italy	28.09	q
7	S2 L8	Mladen Tepavčević	Yugoslavia	28.10	q
8	S2 L3	Emil Tahirovič	Slovenia	28.12	q
9	S1 L1	Károly Güttler	Hungary	28.13
10	S2 L6	Brenton Rickard	Australia	28.16
11	S2 L2	Jens Kruppa	Germany	28.32
12	S1 L2	Matjaž Markič	Slovenia	28.33
13	S2 L7	Ed Moses	USA	28.36
14	S1 L3	Jarno Pihlava	Finland	28.39
15	S1 L8	Remo Lütolf	Switzerland	28.45
16	S2 L1		Norway	28.52

Preliminaries[]

Rank	Heat+Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	H14 L5	James Gibson		27.54	q
2	H13 L4	Mihály Flaskay		27.84	q
3	H14 L4	Oleg Lisogor		27.85	q
4	H14 L3	Mark Warnecke		27.96	q
5	H14 L1	Emil Tahirovič		27.97	q
6	H12 L8	Jarno Pihlava		28.04	q
7	H12 L7	Brenton Rickard		28.13	q
7	H13 L3	Alessandro Terrin		28.13	q
9	H12 L5	Jens Kruppa		28.18	q
10	H14 L6	Matjaž Markič		28.19	q
11	H13 L2	Ed Moses		28.25	q
12	H12 L4	Darren Mew		28.27	q
13	H13 L8			28.32	q
14	H13 L5	Károly Güttler		28.34	q
15	H13 L5	Mladen Tepavčević		28.42	q
16	H12 L1	Remo Lütolf		28.44	q
16	H14 L2	Morgan Knabe		28.44
18	H11 L7	Martin Gustavsson		28.51
19	H11 L5			28.54
20	H10 L6	Jim Piper		28.61
21	H14 L7	Eduardo Fischer		28.67
22	H11 L3			28.74
23	H13 L7	Qiliang Zeng		28.80
24	H13 L6	Vanja Rogulj		28.83
25	H12 L2			28.84
26	H14 L8			28.87
27	H13 L1	Daniel Málek		28.88
28	H08 L7	Arsenio López		28.92
29	H11 L8			28.93
30	H09 L7	Mike Brown		29.00
30	H10 L4	Malick Fall		29.00
32	H11 L6	Vlad Polyakov		29.05
33	H10 L2	Alwin de Prins		29.11
34	H11 L4	Haibo Wang		29.18
35	H10 L7	Sofiane Daid		29.28
36	H09 L4			29.49
37	H08 L8			29.55
38	H08 L2	Seung Hun You		29.63
39	H09 L5	Andrew Bree		29.65
40	H09 L3			29.78
41	H10 L3	Andrey Ivanov		29.79
42	H08 L3	Wickus Nienaber		29.82
43	H11 L2	Álvaro Fortuny		29.85
44	H09 L8			29.90
45	H11 L1	Juan Jose Madrigal		30.04
46	H10 L1	Francisco Suriano		30.06
47	H09 L6	Jakob Sveinsson		30.14
48	H07 L5			30.16
48	H07 L7	Željko Panić		30.16
50	H09 L1			30.25
51	H07 L1	Eric Williams		30.27
52	H07 L3	Francisco Picasso		30.42
53	H09 L2	Oleg Sidorov		30.58
54	H06 L5	Raphael Matthew Chua		30.65
55	H08 L4			30.67
56	H08 L5	Chi Kin Tam		30.69
57	H07 L2			30.70
58	H07 L8			30.77
59	H10 L8	Jean-Luc Razakarivony		30.79
60	H07 L6			30.89
61	H06 L8	Kevin Hensley		31.02
62	H06 L2	Santiago Cavanagh		31.21
63	H06 L6	Terrence Haynes		31.28
63	H07 L4	Antonio Leon		31.28
65	H08 L1	Marc Dansou		31.34
66	H06 L7	Conrad Francis		31.53
67	H06 L4			31.63
67	H06 L3			31.63
69	H05 L7			32.10
70	H05 L2	Onan Thom		32.26
71	H05 L8	Amar Shah		32.29
72	H05 L6	Chisela Kanchela		32.31
73	H04 L3			32.86
74	H08 L6	Daniel Kang		33.41
75	H05 L1	Joao Matias		33.72
76	H04 L5			33.90
77	H03 L5	Yan Lin Aung		34.28
77	H04 L6	Alice Shrestha		34.28
79	H03 L3			34.63
80	H03 L1			34.76
81	H04 L7			34.83
82	H04 L1	Omar Jasim		34.95
83	H01 L6			34.98
84	H03 L2			35.25
85	H02 L5	Bounthanom Vongphachanh		35.81
86	H03 L6	Stephenson Wallace		36.13
87	H03 L4			36.35
88	H02 L6			36.41
89	H03 L8	Sikhounxay Ounkhamphanyavong		37.16
90	H02 L2			37.28
91	H02 L3	Donnie Defreitas		37.52
92	H04 L8	Ganzi Mugula		37.55
93	H02 L1			39.69
94	H02 L7			41.95
-	H02 L4			DQ
-	H05 L5			DQ
-	H06 L1	Jamie Peterkin		DQ
-	H10 L5	Andrei Capitanciuc		DQ
-	-	Kosuke Kitajima		DNS
-	-			DNS
-	-			DNS
-	-			DNS
-	-	Natalya Filina		DNS	[Filina]
-	-			DNS
-	-			DNS
-	-			DNS
-	-			DNS
-	-			DNS

Notes:

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

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