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Women's 50 metre breaststroke
at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships
Women's 50 metre breaststroke ; at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Palau Sant Jordi
Dates	August 3, 2013 (heats &; semifinals); August 4, 2013 (final)
Competitors	74 from 66 nations
Winning time	29.52
Medalists
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The women's 50 metre breaststroke event in swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships took place on 3–4 August at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, Spain.^[1]^[2]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and championship records were:

World record	Jessica Hardy (USA)	29.80	Federal Way, United States	7 August 2009	^[3]^[4]
Competition record	Yuliya Yefimova (RUS)	30.09	Rome, Italy	2 August 2009	^[5]

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
29 July	Heats – Women's 100 metre breaststroke	Rūta Meilutytė	Lithuania	29.97†	CR
3 August	Heats	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia	29.78	WR, CR
3 August	Semifinal 2	Rūta Meilutytė	Lithuania	29.48	WR, CR

† – en route to final mark

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 10:32.^[6]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	8	5	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia	29.78	Q, WR
2	8	4	Jessica Hardy	United States	29.99	Q
3	6	4	Rūta Meilutytė	Lithuania	30.07	Q
4	7	4	Breeja Larson	United States	30.46	Q
5	6	5	Jennie Johansson	Sweden	30.55	Q, NR
6	8	6	Mariya Liver	Ukraine	30.68	Q, NR
7	7	5	Petra Chocová	Czech Republic	30.77	Q, NR
8	8	3	Moniek Nijhuis	Netherlands	30.82	Q
9	7	6	Fiona Doyle	Ireland	30.93	Q, NR
10	7	3	Alia Atkinson	Jamaica	31.12	Q
11	7	8	Marina García	Spain	31.22	Q
12	6	3	Rikke Møller Pedersen	Denmark	31.23	Q
13	7	7	Rebecca Ejdervik	Sweden	31.39	Q
14	6	8	He Yuzhe	China	31.46	Q
15	8	8	Samantha Marshall	Australia	31.49	Q
16	5	8	Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir	Iceland	31.50	Q, NR
17	6	7	Michela Guzzetti	Italy	31.51
18	7	9	Kim Janssens	Belgium	31.52	NR
19	6	2	Valentina Artemyeva	Russia	31.56
20	6	6	Beatriz Travalon	Brazil	31.59
21	8	1	Viktoriya Solnceva	Ukraine	31.63
22	6	9	Veera Kivirinta	Finland	31.66
23	5	5	Amit Ivry	Israel	31.67	NR
24	7	2	Suo Ran	China	31.70
25	7	1	Caroline Ruhnau	Germany	31.73
26	8	0	Jessica Vall	Spain	31.77
27	8	2	Lisa Fissneider	Italy	31.94
28	5	6	Kim Go-Eun	South Korea	31.95
29	7	0	Anna Makinen	Finland	32.02
30	8	7	Tera van Beilen	Canada	32.03
31	6	0	Henriette Brekke	Norway	32.11
32	5	7	Julia Sebastian	Argentina	32.28
33	8	9	Ivana Ninković	Bosnia and Herzegovina	32.32
34	5	4	Rie Kaneto	Japan	32.37
35	4	7	Yvette Man Yi Kong	Hong Kong	32.56
36	4	3	Mercedes Toledo	Venezuela	32.61	NR
37	3	4	Samantha Yeo	Singapore	32.69
38	5	3	Caroline Reitshammer	Austria	32.72
39	5	1	Erica Dittmer	Mexico	32.73
40	5	2	Sarah Vaisse	France	32.74
41	4	4	Zuzana Mimovičová	Slovakia	32.79
42	1	2	Dariya Talanova	Kyrgyzstan	32.83
43	3	6	Tatiana Chişca	Moldova	32.85
44	5	0	Ioana Alexandra Popa	Romania	32.96
45	4	2	Tara-Lynn Nicholas	South Africa	33.04
46	4	9	Mai Atef	Egypt	33.08
47	4	8	Vangelina Draganova	Bulgaria	33.10
47	3	3	Christina Loh	Malaysia	33.10
49	5	9	Lei On Kei	Macau	33.37
50	4	6	Monica Álvarez	Colombia	33.39
50	3	5	Chen I-chuan	Chinese Taipei	33.39
52	4	5	Miriam Corsini	Mozambique	33.45
53	4	0	Evita Leter	Suriname	33.55
54	4	1	Maria Romanjuk	Estonia	33.56
55	3	7	Pilar Shimizu	Guam	34.20
56	3	8	Tilka Paljk	Zambia	34.28
57	2	4	Vanessa Rivas	Dominican Republic	34.52	NR
58	3	9	Tegan McCarthy	Papua New Guinea	34.81
59	3	1	Rachael Tonjor	Nigeria	35.41
60	3	2	Natalia Gomez	Costa Rica	35.49
61	2	7	Mahfuza Khatun	Bangladesh	35.63
62	2	5	Shne Joachim	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	35.76
63	2	8	Bonita Imsirovic	Botswana	36.53
64	2	0	Teona Bostashvili	Georgia	37.04
65	3	0	Oreoluwa Cherebin	Grenada	37.11
66	2	6	Chade Nersicio	Netherlands Antilles	37.43
67	2	3	Altansukh Nomin	Mongolia	37.78
68	2	9	Mariam Foum	Tanzania	38.21
69	1	4	Anum Bandey	Pakistan	38.50
70	2	2	Hemthon Vitiny	Cambodia	39.53
71	1	3	Angelika Ouedraogo	Burkina Faso	39.58
72	1	5	Ramatoulaye Camara	Guinea	48.31
73	1	6	Haoua Sangare	Mali	49.68
74	1	7	Lareiba Seibon	Niger	49.72
	2	1	Vanessa Kokoe	Ivory Coast		DNS
	6	1	Satomi Suzuki	Japan		DNS

Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 18:26.^[7]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Jessica Hardy	United States	29.90	Q
2	5	Breeja Larson	United States	30.20	Q
3	7	Rikke Møller Pedersen	Denmark	30.57	Q
4	6	Moniek Nijhuis	Netherlands	30.61	Q
5	3	Mariya Liver	Ukraine	30.94
6	2	Alia Atkinson	Jamaica	31.27
7	8	Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir	Iceland	31.37	NR
8	1	He Yuzhe	China	31.67

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Rūta Meilutytė	Lithuania	29.48	Q, WR
2	4	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia	29.88	Q
3	6	Petra Chocová	Czech Republic	30.31	Q, NR
4	3	Jennie Johansson	Sweden	30.66	Q
5	7	Marina García	Spain	31.24
6	8	Samantha Marshall	Australia	31.26
7	2	Fiona Doyle	Ireland	31.52
8	1	Rebecca Ejdervik	Sweden	31.73

Final

The final was held at 18:08.^[8]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia	29.52	NR
	4	Rūta Meilutytė	Lithuania	29.59
	3	Jessica Hardy	United States	29.80	=AM
4	6	Breeja Larson	United States	29.95
5	8	Jennie Johansson	Sweden	30.23
6	7	Rikke Møller Pedersen	Denmark	30.72
7	1	Moniek Nijhuis	Netherlands	31.31
	2	Petra Chocová	Czech Republic		DSQ