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

The Women's 50m Breaststroke at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships took place on 31 March (prelims & semifinals) and the evening of 1 April (finals) at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia. 86 swimmers were entered in the event, of which 74 swam.

Existing records at the start of the event were:

• World Record (WR): 30.31, Jade Edmistone (Australia), 30 January 2006 in Melbourne, Australia.
• Championship Record (CR): 30.45, Jade Edmistone (Australia), Montreal 2005 (31 July 2005)

Results[]

Finals[]

Place	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
1st	Jessica Hardy	USA	30.63
2nd	Leisel Jones	Australia	30.70
3rd	Tara Kirk	USA	31.05
4th	Tarnee White	Australia	31.14
5th	Janne Schafer	Germany	31.35
6th	Zoë Baker	New Zealand	31.79
7th	Kate Haywood	Great Britain	31.82
8th		Sweden	31.86

Semifinals[]

Rank	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Note
1	Leisel Jones	Australia	30.91	Q
2	Jessica Hardy	USA	31.09	Q
3	Tarnee White	Australia	31.14	Q
4	Janne Schafer	Germany	31.23	Q
5	Tara Kirk	USA	31.27	Q
6	Zoë Baker	New Zealand	31.49	Q
7		Sweden	31.71	Q
8	Kate Haywood	Great Britain	31.72	Q
9	Ji Liping	China	31.75
10	Mirna Jukić	Austria	31.78
11	Elena Bogomazova	Russia	32.08
12	Roberta Panara	Italy	32.10
13	Anna Khlistunova	Ukraine	32.12
14	Anne-Sophie Le Paranthoën	France	32.17
15		Norway	32.34	NR[1]
--	Ina Kapishina	Belarus	DQ

Preliminaries[]

Rank	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Note
1	Jessica Hardy	USA	30.85	Q
2	Zoë Baker	New Zealand	31.35	Q
3	Leisel Jones	Australia	31.39	Q
	Tara Kirk	USA		Q
5		Sweden	31.54	Q
6	Tarnee White	Australia	31.65	Q
7	Anna Khlistunova	Ukraine	31.73	Q, NR
8	Janne Schafer	Germany	31.77	Q
9	Anne-Sophie Le Paranthoën	France	31.84	Q
10	Ina Kapishina	Belarus	31.93	Q
11	Kate Haywood	Great Britain	31.95	Q
12	Mirna Jukić	Austria	32.06	Q
13	Roberta Panara	Italy	32.17	Q
14	Ji Liping	China	32.25	Q
15		Norway	32.35	Q, NR[2]
16	Elena Bogomazova	Russia	32.51	Q
17	Annabelle Carey	New Zealand	32.60
18		Japan	32.63
19		Ireland	32.69
	Hanna Westrin	Sweden
21		Poland	32.81
22	Suzaan van Biljon	South Africa	32.87
	Chen Huijia	China
24	Veronica Vdovicenco	Moldova	33.31
	Diana Gomes	Portugal
26	Valeria Silva	Peru	33.32
27	Yuliya Pidlisna	Ukraine	33.88
28	Sara Elbekri	Morocco	34.11
29		Cyprus	34.35
30	Man Yi Yvette Kong	Hong Kong	34.36
31	Marina Kuc	Montenegro	34.41
32		Chinese Taipei	34.48
33	Roanne Ho	Singapore	34.52
34	Larisa Lăcustă	Romania	34.58
35		Singapore	35.06
36		Venezuela	35.38
37	Danielle Beaubrun	Saint Lucia	35.42
38		Indonesia	35.43
39	Rachel Ah Koy	Fiji	35.44
40		Macao	35.69
41		Netherlands Antilles	35.77
42		Indonesia	35.79
43	Dohi Eliane Droubry	Côte d'Ivoire	36.06
44	Natasha Moodie	Jamaica	36.08
45		Madagascar	36.19
46		Vietnam	36.72
47		Macao	36.73
48	Olga Gnedovskaya	Uzbekistan	36.81
49		Mongolia	36.99
50		Nigeria	37.01
51		Honduras	37.25
52	Katerine Moreno	Bolivia	37.29
53	Oksana Hatamkhanova	Azerbaijan	37.31
54		Vietnam	37.36
55	Cai Lin Khoo	Malaysia	37.49
56	Nibal Yamout	Lebanon	37.61
57		Guam	37.63
58		Mauritius	37.88
59		Mozambique	37.95
60		Zambia	38.12
	Chinyere Pigot	Suriname
62		Swaziland	38.34
63	Razan Taha	Jordan	38.38
64	Rovena Marku	Albania	38.64
65		Grenada	39.04
66		Mongolia	40.16
67		Nepal	41.23
68		Uganda	41.42
69	Debra Daniel	FS Micronesia	42.35
70		Albania	42.56
71	Julianne Kirchner	Marshall Islands	43.66
72	Pamela Girimbazi Rugabira	Rwanda	47.27
73		Maldives	48.10
74		Burkina Faso	48.51
--		Burundi	DNS
--	Gloria Koussihouede	Benin	DNS
--	Mahfuza Khatun	Bangladesh	DNS
--	Doli Akhter	Bangladesh	DNS
--	Adriana Marmolejo	Mexico	DNS
--	Asami Kitagawa	Japan	DNS
--	Kirsty Balfour	Great Britain	DNS
--	Elisabeth Nikiema	Burkina Faso	DNS

References[]

• Women's 50m Breaststroke Preliminary results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); Retrieved 2009-07-11.
• Women's 50m Breaststroke Semifinals results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); Retrieved 2009-07-11.
• Women's 50m Breaststroke Final results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); Retrieved 2009-07-11.