Swimming at the 2014 Commonwealth Games – Women's 50 metre breaststroke

Women's 50 metre breaststroke at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Venue	Tollcross International Swimming Centre
Dates	24 July 2014 (2014-07-24) (heats & semis) 25 July 2014 (2014-07-25) (final)
Competitors	35 from 23 nations
Winning time	30.59
Medalists
Leiston Pickett    Australia   Alia Atkinson    Jamaica   Corrie Scott    Scotland
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Swimming at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
100 m S8		women
100 m S8	men
200 m	men	women
200 m S14	men
400 m	men	women
800 m		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
100 m SB9		women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m	men	women
200 m SM8	men
200 m SM8		women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men	women
4×200 m	men	women
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women
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The women's 50 metre breaststroke event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games as part of the swimming programme took place on 24 and 25 July at the Tollcross International Swimming Centre in Glasgow, Scotland.

The medals were presented by Sophie, Countess of Wessex and the quaichs were presented by , Honorary Life Vice-President of the Commonwealth Games Federation and President of the Jamaica Olympic Association.

Records[]

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Commonwealth Games records were as follows.

World record	Rūta Meilutytė (LTU)	29.48	Barcelona, Spain	3 August 2013
Commonwealth record
Games record	Jade Edmistone (AUS)	30.51	Melbourne, Australia	16 March 2006

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
24 July	Semifinal	Alia Atkinson	Jamaica	30.17	GR

Results[]

Heats[]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4	Alia Atkinson	Jamaica	30.49	Q
2	4	4	Sophie Taylor	England	30.56	Q
3	3	5	Corrie Scott	Scotland	30.64	Q
4	5	4	Leiston Pickett	Australia	30.70	Q
5	4	6	Sycerika McMahon	Northern Ireland	31.12	Q
6	5	5	Sally Hunter	Australia	31.13	Q
7	5	3	Tera van Beilen	Canada	31.31	Q
8	4	3		Scotland	31.38	Q
9	5	6		South Africa	31.48	Q
10	4	5	Lorna Tonks	Australia	31.70	Q
11	3	3		Scotland	31.90	Q
12	3	6		Isle of Man	31.97	Q
13	5	2	Molly Renshaw	England	32.72	Q
14	3	8		Wales	33.22	Q
15	5	7	Samantha Yeo	Singapore	33.26	Q
16	4	7		Isle of Man	33.28	Q
17	3	2		Malaysia	33.51
18	4	2		Malaysia	33.64
19	2	2	Rebecca Kamau	Kenya	33.83
20	2	3	Jamila Lunkuse	Uganda	34.62
21	4	1		Cyprus	34.68
22	3	1	Izzy Joachim	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	34.80
23	3	7	Tilka Paljk	Zambia	35.19
24	2	5	Lianna Swan	Pakistan	35.72	NR[1]
25	2	4	Oreoluwa Cherebin	Grenada	35.78
26	2	7	Mahfuza Khatun	Bangladesh	35.88
27	5	8		Malaysia	35.95
28	5	1		Papua New Guinea	36.13
29	4	8	Tegan McCarthy	Papua New Guinea	36.32
30	2	8		Papua New Guinea	36.44
31	2	1		Sri Lanka	36.52
32	1	5		Kenya	36.81
33	1	4		Tanzania	37.61
34	2	6	Anum Bandey	Pakistan	38.93
35	1	3	Aishath Sajina	Maldives	40.81

Semifinals[]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Alia Atkinson	Jamaica	30.17	Q, GR
2	1	5	Leiston Pickett	Australia	30.64	Q
3	2	6	Tera van Beilen	Canada	30.74	Q
4	2	5	Corrie Scott	Scotland	30.79	Q
5	1	4	Sophie Taylor	England	30.86	Q
6	1	6		Scotland	31.12	Q
7	1	2	Lorna Tonks	Australia	31.44	Q
8	2	7		Scotland	31.52	Q
9	2	3	Sycerika McMahon	Northern Ireland	31.56
10	1	3	Sally Hunter	Australia	31.60
11	1	7		Isle of Man	32.05
12	2	2		South Africa	32.32
13	2	1	Molly Renshaw	England	32.47
14	2	8	Samantha Yeo	Singapore	32.83
15	1	8		Isle of Man	33.38
16	1	1		Wales	33.87

Final[]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Leiston Pickett	Australia	30.59
	4	Alia Atkinson	Jamaica	30.67
	6	Corrie Scott	Scotland	30.75
4	2	Sophie Taylor	England	31.08
5	3	Tera van Beilen	Canada	31.22
6	7		Scotland	31.47
7	1	Lorna Tonks	Australia	31.48
8	8		Scotland	31.99

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