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

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

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Finals

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

Semifinals

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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

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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 Henao   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   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
39.02
93 Olga Hachatryan   Turkmenistan 39.48
-- Gloria Koussihouede   Benin DNS
-- Anisa Curraj   Albania DNS

References

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