Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre breaststroke

Men's 50 metre breaststroke at the 2007 FINA World Championships
Venue	Rod Laver Arena
Dates	27 March 2007 (heats, semifinals) 28 March 2007 (final)
Competitors	136
Winning time	27.66 seconds
Medalists
Oleg Lisogor    Ukraine   Brendan Hansen    United States   Cameron van der Burgh    South Africa
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The men's 50 metre breaststroke at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships took place on 27 March (heats and semifinals) and on the evening of 28 March (final) at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia. 136 swimmers were entered in the event, of which 127 swam.

Existing records at the start of the event were:

• World record (WR): 27.18, Oleg Lisogor (Ukraine), 2 August 2002 in Berlin, Germany.
• Championship record (CR): 27.46, James Gibson (Great Britain), Barcelona 2003 (22 July 2003)

Results[]

Finals[]

Place	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
1	Oleg Lisogor	Ukraine	27.66
2	Brendan Hansen	USA	27.69
3	Cameron van der Burgh	South Africa	27.88
4	Alessandro Terrin	Italy	28.09
5	Kosuke Kitajima	Japan	28.10
6		Israel	28.19
7	Brenton Rickard	Australia	28.24
8	Valeriy Dymo	Ukraine	28.27

Semifinals[]

Rank	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Note
1	Brendan Hansen	USA	27.51	Q
2	Oleg Lisogor	Ukraine	27.53	Q
3	Alessandro Terrin	Italy	27.55	Q
4	Kosuke Kitajima	Japan	27.89	Q
5	Valeriy Dymo	Ukraine	27.97	Q
6	Brenton Rickard	Australia	27.98	Q
7	Cameron van der Burgh	South Africa	27.99	Q
8		Israel	28.08	Q
9	Roman Sloudnov	Russia	28.09
10	Robin van Aggele	Netherlands	28.10
11	James Gibson	Great Britain	28.21
12	Hugues Duboscq	France	28.36
13	Mladen Tepavčević	Serbia	28.38
14	Emil Tahirovič	Slovenia	28.40
15	Matjaž Markič	Slovenia	28.45
16	Wang Haibo	China	28.66

Heats[]

Rank	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Note
1	Cameron van der Burgh	South Africa	27.49	Q
2	Alessandro Terrin	Italy	27.53	Q
3	Brendan Hansen	USA	27.64	Q
4	Oleg Lisogor	Ukraine	27.69	Q
5	Brenton Rickard	Australia	27.80	Q
6		Israel	27.92	Q
7	Kosuke Kitajima	Japan	27.97	Q
8	Valeriy Dymo	Ukraine	28.04	Q
9	James Gibson	Great Britain	28.06	Q
10	Roman Sloudnov	Russia	28.11	Q
11	Wang Haibo	China	28.12	Q
12	Matjaž Markič	Slovenia	28.15	Q
13	Hugues Duboscq	France	28.17	Q
14	Emil Tahirovič	Slovenia	28.18	Q
15	Mladen Tepavčević	Serbia	28.24	Q
16	Robin van Aggele	Netherlands	28.25	Q
17	Mark Warnecke	Germany	28.28
18	Mihail Alexandrov	Bulgaria	28.34
19	Jiri Jedlicka	Czech Republic	28.39
20	Darren Mew	Great Britain	28.43
21	Alexander Dale Oen	Norway	28.48
22	Aleksander Hetland	Norway	28.49
23	Johannes Neumann	Germany	28.50
24	Felipe Lima	Brazil	28.54
25	Henrique Barbosa	Brazil	28.58
26	Qu Jingyu	China	28.62
27	Glenn Snyders	New Zealand	28.64
28	Scott Usher	USA	28.68
29		South Africa	28.78
	Valentin Preda	Romania
31	Giedrius Titenis	Lithuania	28.82
32	Malick Fall	Senegal	28.85
33	Sławomir Wolniak	Poland	28.87
34	Mike Brown	Canada	28.90
35	Maxim Podoprigora	Austria	28.91
36	Dmitry Komornikov	Russia	29.00
37	Jakob Jóhann Sveinsson	Iceland	29.02
38		Japan	29.06
39	Andrei Cross	Barbados	29.08
40		Switzerland	29.28
41	Mohammad Alirezaei	Iran	29.31
42	Edvinas Dautartas	Lithuania	29.32
43		Croatia	29.36
44	Martin Liivamägi	Estonia	29.38
		Lebanon
46	Alwin de Prins	Luxembourg	29.44
47	Edgar Robert Crespo	Panama	29.51
48	Miguel Molina	Philippines	29.56
49	Sergiu Postica	Moldova	29.59
50		Belarus	29.67
51	Andrei Capitanciuc	Moldova	29.68
52		Chinese Taipei	29.69
53		Tahiti	29.74
54	Martti Aljand	Estonia	29.76
55		Latvia	29.83
56	Adam Lucas	Australia	29.84
57	Tom Be'eri	Israel	29.92
58	Yevgeniy Ryzhkov	Kazakhstan	30.02
59		Latvia	30.04
60		Singapore	30.14
61	Josh Laban	Virgin Islands	30.21
62	Kevin Hensley	Virgin Islands	30.22
63		Indonesia	30.27
64		Bosnia and Herzegovina	30.32
65		South Korea	30.35
	Francisco Picasso Risso	Uruguay
67		Indonesia	30.47
68		Singapore	30.55
69	Eric Williams	Nigeria	30.56
70	Wei Wen Wang	Chinese Taipei	30.59
71		Philippines	30.71
		Paraguay
73	Genaro Mathias Prono Britez	Paraguay	30.91
74	Amar Shah	Kenya	31.08
75		Malaysia	31.19
76	Chisela Kanchela	Zambia	31.25
77	Rodion Davelaar	Netherlands Antilles	31.46
78		Morocco	31.60
79	Onan Thom	Guyana	31.69
80		Panama	31.92
81	Erik Rajohnson	Madagascar	31.96
82		Mongolia	32.00
83		Guam	32.11
84		Bolivia	32.16
85	Joao Matias	Angola	32.25
86	Omar Jasim	Brunei	32.33
87		Jordan	32.40
88		Senegal	32.43
89		Gibraltar	32.59
90		Malaysia	32.50
91		Macao	32.66
92	Chakyl Camal	Mozambique	32.74
93		Tahiti	32.78
94		Macao	32.79
95		Turkmenistan	33.03
96	Kevin Cheung	Mauritius	33.26
97	Neil Agius	Malta	33.34
98		Armenia	33.44
99		India	33.73
100		Palestine	33.86
101	Eli Ebenezer Wong	Northern Mariana Islands	33.89
102		Federated States of Micronesia	33.96
103		Libya	34.01
104		Kyrgyzstan	34.16
105		Seychelles	34.18
106		Maldives	34.67
107		Samoa	34.88
108		United Arab Emirates	35.00
109		Federated States of Micronesia	36.10
110	Niall Roberts	Guyana	36.31.
111	Stephenson Wallace	Saint Vincent       and the Grenadines	37.02
112		Marshall Islands	37.43
113	Petero Okotai	Cook Islands	37.86
114		Uganda	38.00
115		Congo	38.16
116		Niger	38.50
117		Mongolia	38.91
118		American Samoa	39.46
119		Congo	39.47
120	Ahmed Adam	Sudan	40.81
121	Boipelo Makhothi	Lesotho	41.91
122	Lehlohonolo Moromella	Lesotho	42.93
123		American Samoa	43.24
124	Giordan Harris	Marshall Islands	47.28
125		Sierra Leone	55.11
--		Ghana	DQ
--		Syria	DQ
--		Burkina Faso	DNS
--		Burkina Faso	DNS
--		Niger	DNS
--		Mauritania	DNS
--		Togo	DNS
--	Joao Aguiar	Angola	DNS
--		Bangladesh	DNS
--		Qatar	DNS
--	Vanja Rogulj	Croatia	DNS

See also[]

• Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre breaststroke
• Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre breaststroke

References[]

• Men's 50m Breast Heats results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-11.
• Men's 50m Breast Semifinals results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-11.
• Men's 50m Breast Final results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-11.