Swimming at the 2018 Commonwealth Games – Men's 50 metre breaststroke

Men's 50 metre breaststroke at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
Venue	Gold Coast Aquatic Centre
Dates	8 April (heats, semifinals) 9 April (final)
Competitors	34 from 21 nations
Winning time	26.58
Medalists
Cameron van der Burgh    South Africa   Adam Peaty    England   James Wilby    England
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Swimming at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
50 m S7/S8	men	women
100 m	men	women
100 m S9	men	women
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 S9	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
100 m SB8/SB9	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m	men	women
50 m S7		women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m	men	women
200 m SM8	men
200 m SM10		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 men's 50 metre breaststroke event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games was held on 8 and 9 April at the Gold Coast Aquatic Centre.

Records[]

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

World record	Adam Peaty (GBR)	25.95	Budapest, Hungary	25 July 2017
Commonwealth record	Adam Peaty (GBR)	25.95	Budapest, Hungary	25 July 2017
Games record	Adam Peaty (ENG)	26.74	Gold Coast, Australia	7 April 2018

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
8 April	Semifinal	Adam Peaty	England	26.49	GR

Results[]

Heats[]

The heats were held on 8 April at 10:46.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Adam Peaty	England	26.98	Q
2	4	4	Cameron van der Burgh	South Africa	27.01	Q
3	5	5	Jake Packard	Australia	27.42	Q
4	3	4		Australia	27.53	Q
5	3	5	James Wilby	England	27.58	Q
6	5	3		Scotland	27.84	Q
7	5	6	Michael Houlie	South Africa	27.92	Q
8	4	5	Craig Benson	Scotland	28.06	Q
9	3	3		Scotland	28.10	Q
9	4	6		Australia	28.10	Q
11	3	6	Brad Tandy	South Africa	28.17	Q
12	5	2		Canada	28.29	Q
13	4	2	Ludovico Corsini	Mozambique	28.56	Q
14	4	3		Northern Ireland	28.80	Q
15	3	2	Izaak Bastian	Bahamas	29.39	Q
16	4	8		Fiji	29.61	Q
17	3	7		Fiji	29.79
18	2	5	Samuele Rossi	Seychelles	29.82
18	4	1		Isle of Man	29.82
20	4	7	Corey Ollivierre	Grenada	29.85
21	5	7		Cayman Islands	30.04
22	2	4	Alexandros Axiotis	Zambia	30.10
23	5	8		Bangladesh	30.37
24	3	1	Ashley Seeto	Papua New Guinea	30.51
25	3	8		Mozambique	30.52
26	2	3	Leonard Kalate	Papua New Guinea	30.97
27	2	6		Mauritius	31.25
28	2	1		Zambia	29.39
29	2	2		Antigua and Barbuda	31.38
30	2	7	Nikolas Sylvester	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	31.64
31	1	3		Saint Helena	36.52
32	2	8		Saint Helena	37.41
33	1	4		Tuvalu	38.44
34	1	5		Saint Helena	40.58
	5	1	Ralph Goveia	Zambia	DNS

Semifinals[]

The semifinals were held on 8 April at 20:19.^[2]

Semifinal 1[]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Cameron van der Burgh	South Africa	26.95	Q
2	5		Australia	27.67	Q
3	3		Scotland	27.85	Q
4	6	Craig Benson	Scotland	28.00
5	2		Australia	28.05
6	7		Canada	28.52
7	1		Northern Ireland	28.66
8	8	Izaak Bastian	Bahamas	29.79

Semifinal 2[]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Adam Peaty	England	26.49	Q, GR
2	3	James Wilby	England	27.41	Q
3	5	Jake Packard	Australia	27.55	Q
4	6	Michael Houlie	South Africa	27.64	Q
5	7	Brad Tandy	South Africa	27.99	Q
6	2		Scotland	28.07
7	1	Ludovico Corsini	Mozambique	28.53
8	8		Fiji	29.28

Final[]

The final was held on 9 April at 21:07.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Cameron van der Burgh	South Africa	26.58
	4	Adam Peaty	England	26.62
	3	James Wilby	England	27.37
4	6	Jake Packard	Australia	27.53
5	7		Australia	27.59
6	2	Michael Houlie	South Africa	27.83
7	1		Scotland	28.03
8	8	Brad Tandy	South Africa	28.37

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