Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 50 metre breaststroke

Women's 50m Breaststroke at the 2005 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates	30 July (prelims, semifinals) 31 July (final)
Competitors	52 from 41 nations
Winning time	30.45 seconds
Medalists
Jade Edmistone    Australia   Jessica Hardy    United States   Brooke Hanson    Australia
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The Women's 50 Breaststroke event at the 11th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam 30 – 31 July 2005 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Preliminary and Semifinal heats were swum on 30 July with the heats being held in the morning session^[1] and the semifinals being held in the evening session.^[2] The final was held on 31 July.^[3]

At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championships (CR) records were:

• WR: 30.57, Zoë Baker (Great Britain) swum 30 July 2002 in Manchester, UK
• CR: 30.64, LUO Xuejuan (China) swum 26 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain

Results[]

Preliminary heats[]

Rank	Heat + Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	H7 L4	Jade Edmistone		30.79	q
2	H6 L4	Brooke Hanson		30.99	q
3	H6 L3	Jessica Hardy		31.13	q
4	H7 L5	Zoë Baker		31.30	q
5	H6 L5	Kate Haywood		31.66	q
6	H5 L5	Tara Kirk		31.71	q
7	H7 L3	Janne Schaefer		32.00	q
8	H5 L4	LUO Xuejuan		32.08	q
9	H7 L6			32.14	q
10	H5 L3			32.15	q
11	H6 L8	Suzaan van Biljon		32.19	q
12	H7 L7	Eeva Saarinen		32.28	q
13	H5 L6	Elena Bogomazova		32.35	q
14	H7 L2			32.43	q
15	H6 L6	Moniek Nijhuis		32.62	q
16	H5 L2	Mirna Jukić		32.71	q
17	H5 L7	Ina Kapishina		32.79
18	H4 L4	Diana Gomes		33.00
18	H6 L2			33.00
20	H4 L8			33.01
20	H5 L8	Petra Chocová		33.01
22	H6 L1			33.03
23	H5 L1	Annabelle Carey		33.04
24	H4 L3	Alia Atkinson		33.26
25	H7 L8			33.29
26	H4 L7			33.38
27	H7 L1	Angeliki Exarchou		33.59
28	H3 L4	Kathleen Stoody		33.74
29	H3 L5	Marina Kuč		33.76
29	H4 L6			33.76
31	H4 L1	Louise Jansen		33.86
32	H3 L3	Megumi Taneda		33.97
33	H4 L2			33.98
34	H3 L6	Valeria Silva		34.14
35	H3 L2	Nicolette Teo		34.42
36	H3 L7			34.56
37	H3 L1			35.36
38	H3 L8			35.75
39	H2 L5	Alexis Jordan		35.87
40	H2 L2			36.15
41	H2 L7	Ellen Hight		37.03
42	H2 L6	Mayumi Raheem		37.04
43	H2 L3			37.14
44	H2 L1	Katerine Moreno		38.15
45	H2 L4			38.75
46	H1 L6			40.18
47	H2 L8			41.69
48	H1 L3	Pamela Girimbabazi Rugabira		46.38
--	--			DNS
--	--	Eliane Droubry Dohi		DNS
--	--	Christin Petelski		DNS
--	--	Rebeca Gusmão		DNS

Semifinals[]

Rank	Heat + Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	S2 L4	Jade Edmistone	Australia	30.61	q, CR
2	S2 L5	Jessica Hardy	USA	31.10	q
3	S1 L4	Brooke Hanson	Australia	31.15	q
4	S1 L3	Tara Kirk	USA	31.26	q
5	S2 L3	Kate Haywood	Great Britain	31.41	q
6	S1 L6	LUO Xuejuan	China	31.45	q
7	S1 L5	Zoë Baker	New Zealand	31.58	q
8	S2 L6	Janne Schaefer	Germany	31.76	q
9	S2 L2		Russia	31.99
10	S1 L2		Poland	32.12
11	S2 L1	Elena Bogomazova	Russia	32.35
12	S1 L1		Sweden	32.36
13	S2 L8	Moniek Nijhuis	Netherlands	32.61
14	S1 L8	Mirna Jukić	Austria	32.67
14	S2 L7	Suzaan van Biljon	South Africa	32.67
16	S1 L7	Eeva Saarinen	Finland	32.73

Final[]

Place	Swimmer	National	Time	Notes
	Jade Edmistone	Australia	30.45	WR
	Jessica Hardy	USA	30.85
	Brooke Hanson	Australia	30.89
4	Tara Kirk	USA	31.38
5	Zoë Baker	New Zealand	31.43
6	Kate Haywood	Great Britain	31.49
7	LUO Xuejuan	China	31.50
8	Janne Schaefer	Germany	32.45

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