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

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	Sarah Katsoulis (AUS)	30.16	Rome, Italy	2 August 2009
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	Kathryn Johnstone	Scotland	31.38	Q
9	5	6	Tara-Lynn Nicholas	South Africa	31.48	Q
10	4	5	Lorna Tonks	Australia	31.70	Q
11	3	3	Andrea Strachan	Scotland	31.90	Q
12	3	6	Laura Kinley	Isle of Man	31.97	Q
13	5	2	Molly Renshaw	England	32.72	Q
14	3	8	Bethan Sloan	Wales	33.22	Q
15	5	7	Samantha Yeo	Singapore	33.26	Q
16	4	7	Niamh Robinson	Isle of Man	33.28	Q
17	3	2	Erika Kong	Malaysia	33.51
18	4	2	Christina Loh	Malaysia	33.64
19	2	2	Rebecca Kamau	Kenya	33.83
20	2	3	Jamila Lunkuse	Uganda	34.62
21	4	1	Irene Chrysostomou	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	Nadia Adrianna Redza Goh	Malaysia	35.95
28	5	1	Barbara Vali-Skelton	Papua New Guinea	36.13
29	4	8	Tegan McCarthy	Papua New Guinea	36.32
30	2	8	Jocelyn Flynn	Papua New Guinea	36.44
31	2	1	Nadeera Jayasekera	Sri Lanka	36.52
32	1	5	Martha Opiyo	Kenya	36.81
33	1	4	Mariam Foum	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	Kathryn Johnstone	Scotland	31.12	Q
7	1	2	Lorna Tonks	Australia	31.44	Q
8	2	7	Andrea Strachan	Scotland	31.52	Q
9	2	3	Sycerika McMahon	Northern Ireland	31.56
10	1	3	Sally Hunter	Australia	31.60
11	1	7	Laura Kinley	Isle of Man	32.05
12	2	2	Tara-Lynn Nicholas	South Africa	32.32
13	2	1	Molly Renshaw	England	32.47
14	2	8	Samantha Yeo	Singapore	32.83
15	1	8	Niamh Robinson	Isle of Man	33.38
16	1	1	Bethan Sloan	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	Kathryn Johnstone	Scotland	31.47
7	1	Lorna Tonks	Australia	31.48
8	8	Andrea Strachan	Scotland	31.99

References