Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 50 metre backstroke

2007 FINA
World Championships

Melbourne, Australia
Diving
Individual
1 m men women
3 m men women
10 m men women
Synchronised
3 m men women
10 m men women
Open water swimming
5 km men women
10 km men women
25 km men women
Swimming
Freestyle
50 m men women
100 m men women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m men women
1500 m men women
Backstroke
50 m men women
100 m men 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
400 m men women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m men women
4×200 m men women
Medley relay
4×100 m men women
Synchronised swimming
Solo Technical Free
Duet Technical Free
Team Technical Free
Combination
Water polo

The Women's 50m Backstroke at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships took place on 28 March (prelims & semifinals) and the evening of 29 March (finals) at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia. 95 swimmers were entered in the event, of which, 93 swam.

The USA's Natalie Coughlin established a new Championship Record for the distance (28.30) the day prior to the event, with her split from the women's 100m Back final. The record for the distance had been 28.31 by China's Gao Chang from the 2005 Worlds.

Existing records at the start of the event started were:

Results

Finals

Place Name Nationality Time Note
1st Leila Vaziri  USA 28.16 =WR
2nd Aleksandra Gerasimenya  Belarus 28.46
3rd Tayliah Zimmer  Australia 28.50
4th Zhao Jing  China 28.54
5th Reiko Nakamura  Japan 28.64
6th Gao Chang  China 28.70
7th Mai Nakamura  Japan 28.86
8th Janine Pietsch  Germany 28.87

Semifinals

Rank Swimmer Nation Time Note
1 Leila Vaziri  USA 28.16 Q WR
2 Aleksandra Gerasimenya  Belarus 28.38 Q
3 Reiko Nakamura  Japan 28.58 Q
4 Mai Nakamura  Japan 28.59 Q
5 Janine Pietsch  Germany 28.72 Q
6 Zhao Jing  China 28.74 Q
7 Tayliah Zimmer  Australia 28.78 Q
8 Gao Chang  China 28.81 Q
9 Anastasia Zuyeva  Russia 28.85
10 Iryna Amshennikova  Ukraine 28.91
11 Margaret Hoelzer  USA 28.94
12 Antje Buschschulte  Germany 29.00
13 Fabíola Molina  Brazil 29.02
14 Emily Seebohm  Australia 29.04
15 Hannah McLean  New Zealand 29.22
16 Elena Gemo  Italy 29.94

Preliminaries

Rank Swimmer Nation Time Note
1 Leila Vaziri  USA 28.25 Q, CR
2 Aleksandra Gerasimenya  Belarus 28.71 Q
3 Laure Manaudou  France 28.84 Q
4 Janine Pietsch  Germany 28.85 Q
Reiko Nakamura  Japan Q
6 Mai Nakamura  Japan 28.89 Q
7 Margaret Hoelzer  USA 28.93 Q
Emily Seebohm  Australia Q
9 ZHOA Jing  China 29.00 Q
Tayliah Zimmer  Australia Q
11 Iryna Amshennikova  Ukraine 29.01 Q
12 GAO Chang  China 29.02 Q
13 Fabíola Molina  Brazil 29.04 Q
14 Anastasia Zuyeva  Russia 29.05 Q
15 Hannah McLean  New Zealand 29.14 Q
16 Antje Buschschulte  Germany 29.22 Q
17 Elena Gemo  Italy 29.25
18 Kateryna Zubkova  Ukraine 29.37
19 Louise Ørnstedt  Denmark 29.38
20 Hiu Wai Sherry Tsai  Hong Kong 29.39
21 Nikolett Szepesi  Hungary 29.46
Mercedes Peris  Spain
23 Sanja Jovanović  Croatia 29.52
24 Fabienne Nadarajah  Austria 29.54
25 Hinkelien Schreuder  Netherlands 29.61
26 TAO Li  Singapore 29.63
27 Karin Prinsloo  South Africa 29.66
28 Liz Coster  New Zealand 29.73
29 Kelly Stefanyshyn  Canada 29.77
30 Anna Gostomelsky  Israel 29.84
31 Esther Baron  France 29.88
32 Tine Bossuyt  Belgium 30.00
33 Evelyn Verrasztó  Hungary 30.03
34 Triin Aljand  Estonia 30.04
35 Nam Eun Lee  South Korea 30.19
36 Iwona Lefanowicz  Poland 30.33
37 Jorina Aerents  Belgium 30.38
38 Yoo Jin Jung  South Korea 30.39
39 Therese Svendsen  Sweden 30.44
40 Chanelle Van Wyk  South Africa 30.52
41 Lynette Ng  Singapore 30.53
42 Kiera Aitken  Bermuda 30.61
43 Carolina Colorado  Colombia 30.67
44 Carin Moller  Sweden 30.73
45 Caroline Pickering Puamau  Fiji 31.07
46 Natalie Ferdinand  Barbados 31.13
47 Massie Milagros Carrillo  Peru 31.14
48 Nazli Ege Calisal  Turkey 31.40
49 Melanie Nocher  Ireland 31.52
50 Felicia Leksono  Indonesia 31.68
51 LIN Man Hsu  Chinese Taipei 31.69
52 Lourdes Villaseñor  Mexico 31.94
53 Wenika Kaewchaiwong  Thailand 32.08
54 Khadija Ciss  Senegal 32.14
55 Layla Alghul  Jordan 32.18
56 Cheok Mei Ma  Macau 32.22
Obia Inyengivyikabo  Nigeria
58 Christie Bodden  Panama 32.29
59 Weng Kuan  Macau 32.35
60 Hsu Jung He  Chinese Taipei 32.43
61 Sook Fun Chai  Malaysia 32.46
62 Kiran Khan  Pakistan 32.61
63 Jonay Briedenhann  Namibia 32.70
64 Olga Gnedovskaya  Uzbekistan 32.76
65 Jessica Teixeira Vieira  Mozambique 32.93
Slavica Pavic  Peru
67 Siona Huxley  Saint Lucia 33.10
68 Thi Cuc Hoang  Vietnam 33.18
69 Maria Virginia Baez Franco  Paraguay 33.58
70 Parita Parekh  India 33.75
71 Lacy Palmer-Martin  Saint Lucia 33.94
72 Marie Laura Meza Peraza  Costa Rica 33.98
73 Rachel Fortunato  Gibraltar 34.12
74 April Chang  Samoa 34.17
75 Ekaterina Mamatkulova  Uzbekistan 34.30
76 Talisa Pace  Malta 34.56
77 Mercedes Milner  Zambia 34.80
78 Dalia Massiel Torrez Zamora  Nicaragua 34.85
79 Debra Daniel Federated States of Micronesia FS Micronesia 34.98
80 Anouchka Diane Etiennette  Mauritius 35.18
81 Mirjana Stojanova  Macedonia 35.24
82 Uche Monu  Nigeria 35.33
83 Judith Meauri  Papua New Guinea 35.39
84 Maxine Pardo  Gibraltar 35.73
85 Patricia Wellman  Zambia 36.07
86 Telmen Batjargal  Mongolia 36.67
87 Amber Sikosang Yobech  Palau 36.97
88 Natasha Ratter  Uganda 37.42
89 Kelly How Tam Fat  Mauritius 37.52
90 Sainzaya Khurelbaatar  Mongolia 37.80
91 Sarah Elizabeth Johnson  Northern Mariana Islands 37.86
92 Teran Matthews Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Saint Vincent
        and the Grenadines
39.02
93 Olga Hachatryan  Turkmenistan 39.48
-- Gloria Koussihouede  Benin DNS
-- Anisa Curraj  Albania DNS

References

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