Swimming at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 50 metre breaststroke

Women's 50 metre breaststroke at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships
Victory Ceremony
Dates	8 August (heats and semifinals) 9 August (final)
Competitors	74 from 67 nations
Winning time	30.05
Medalists
Jennie Johansson    Sweden   Alia Atkinson    Jamaica   Yuliya Yefimova    Russia
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The Women's 50 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held on 8 August with the heats and the semifinals and 9 August with the final.^[1]

Records[]

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

World record	Rūta Meilutytė (LTU)	29.48	Barcelona, Spain	3 August 2013
Competition record	Rūta Meilutytė (LTU)	29.48	Barcelona, Spain	3 August 2013

Results[]

Heats[]

The heats were held on 8 August at 10:08.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	8	4	Rūta Meilutytė	Lithuania	29.74	Q
2	6	4	Alia Atkinson	Jamaica	30.27	Q
3	7	5	Jennie Johansson	Sweden	30.30	Q
4	7	4	Jessica Hardy	United States	30.44	Q
5	8	5	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia	30.45	Q
6	8	3	Mariya Liver	Ukraine	30.60	Q, NR
7	6	7	Fanny Lecluyse	Belgium	30.75	Q, NR
8	7	6	Jenna Laukkanen	Finland	30.79	Q, NR
9	6	5	Moniek Nijhuis	Netherlands	30.81	Q
10	7	3	Martina Carraro	Italy	30.83	Q
11	7	7	Rachel Nicol	Canada	30.86	Q
12	8	7	Arianna Castiglioni	Italy	30.90	Q
12	8	1	Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir	Iceland	30.90	Q, NR
14	8	0	Suo Ran	China	31.12	Q
15	8	2	Petra Chocová	Czech Republic	31.21	Q
16	6	2	Lorna Tonks	Australia	31.22	Q
17	7	2	Fiona Doyle	Ireland	31.31
18	5	6	Dominika Sztandera	Poland	31.34	NR
19	6	3	Micah Lawrence	United States	31.38
20	8	8	Amit Ivry	Israel	31.39
21	7	9	Jhennifer Conceição	Brazil	31.44
22	6	1	Viktoriya Zeynep Gunes	Turkey	31.45
23	6	6	Rikke Møller Pedersen	Denmark	31.48
24	7	8	Shi Jinglin	China	31.57
25	5	1	Aikaterini Sarakatsani	Greece	31.58
26	6	9	Alina Zmushka	Belarus	31.65
26	7	1	Veera Kivirinta	Finland	31.65
26	8	6	Sycerika McMahon	Ireland	31.65
29	5	7	Lena Kreundl	Austria	31.83
30	5	0	Mercedes Toledo	Venezuela	31.88	NR
31	5	5	Rie Kaneto	Japan	31.99
32	6	8	Tjaša Vozel	Slovenia	32.00
33	6	0	Martina Moravčíková	Czech Republic	32.08
34	5	3	Anna Sztankovics	Hungary	32.11
35	5	4	Julia Sebastian	Argentina	32.13
36	4	7		Egypt	32.14
37	8	9	Maria Astashkina	Russia	32.18
38	4	4		Slovakia	32.20
38	7	0	Roanne Ho	Singapore	32.20
40	5	9	Maria Romanjuk	Estonia	32.30
41	4	2		Malaysia	32.37
42	5	8	Tatiana Chișca	Moldova	32.38
43	5	2		South Korea	32.63
44	4	6	Kong Yvette Man Yi	Hong Kong	32.72
45	4	9	Evita Leter	Suriname	33.19
46	4	1		Mexico	33.53
47	4	3	Ivana Ninković	Bosnia and Herzegovina	33.77
48	4	5	Dariya Talanova	Kyrgyzstan	33.89
49	4	0		Macau	33.94
50	4	8		North Korea	34.02
51	3	5	Izzy Joachim	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	34.09
52	3	3	Amy Micallef	Malta	34.78
53	3	4	Jamila Lunkuse	Uganda	34.93
54	3	6	Chade Nersicio	Curaçao	35.30
55	3	2	Oreoluwa Cherebin	Grenada	35.39
56	3	7	Rechael Tonjor	Nigeria	36.10
57	3	0		Botswana	36.46
58	3	1	Teona Bostashvili	Georgia	37.37
59	2	3	Darya Semyonova	Turkmenistan	37.64
60	3	9	Lianna Swan	Pakistan	37.66
61	2	6	Hemthon Vitiny	Cambodia	37.82
62	2	5	Angelika Ouedraogo	Burkina Faso	39.25
63	2	4	Karina Klimyk	Tajikistan	40.17
64	2	2	Daniah Hagul	Libya	41.17
65	1	7	Bellore Sangala	Congo	42.48
66	2	9		Laos	44.14
67	1	6		Comoros	45.75
68	2	0		Bahrain	45.91
69	2	8		Malawi	47.00
70	1	3		Ghana	51.73
71	1	5	Mariama Sow	Guinea	52.65
72	2	1	Roukaya Mahamane	Niger	52.88
73	1	2	Bunturabie Jalloh	Sierra Leone	57.64
	2	7		Benin		DSQ
	1	4		Cameroon		DNS
	3	8		Ivory Coast		DNS

Semifinals[]

The semifinals were held on 8 August at 17.56.^[3]

Semifinal 1[]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Jessica Hardy	United States	30.25	Q
2	3	Mariya Liver	Ukraine	30.64	Q
3	4	Alia Atkinson	Jamaica	30.78	Q
4	1	Suo Ran	China	31.03
5	8	Lorna Tonks	Australia	31.05
6	2	Martina Carraro	Italy	31.17
6	7	Arianna Castiglioni	Italy	31.17
8	6	Jenna Laukkanen	Finland	31.18

Semifinal 2[]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Rūta Meilutytė	Lithuania	29.98	Q
2	3	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia	30.14	Q
3	5	Jennie Johansson	Sweden	30.39	Q
4	1	Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir	Iceland	30.90	Q, =NR
5	2	Moniek Nijhuis	Netherlands	30.99	Q
6	7	Rachel Nicol	Canada	31.04
6	6	Fanny Lecluyse	Belgium	31.04
8	8	Petra Chocová	Czech Republic	31.40

Final[]

The final was held on 9 August at 17:39.^[4]

Johansson and Meilutytė after finish

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	6	Jennie Johansson	Sweden	30.05	NR
	7	Alia Atkinson	Jamaica	30.11	NR
	5	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia	30.13
4	4	Rūta Meilutytė	Lithuania	30.14
5	3	Jessica Hardy	United States	30.20
6	8	Suo Ran	China	30.74
7	1	Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir	Iceland	31.12
8	2	Mariya Liver	Ukraine	31.14

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