The Women's 50m Breaststroke at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships took place on 31 March (prelims & semifinals) and the evening of 1 April (finals) at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia. 86 swimmers were entered in the event, of which 74 swam.

Existing records at the start of the event were: World Record (WR): 30.31, Jade Edmistone (Australia), 30 January 2006 in Melbourne, Australia. Championship Record (CR): 30.45, Jade Edmistone (Australia), Montreal 2005 (31 July 2005)

Results

Finals Place Name Nationality Time Note 1st Jessica Hardy 30.63 2nd Leisel Jones 30.70 3rd Tara Kirk 31.05 4th Tarnee White 31.14 5th Janne Schafer 31.35 6th Zoë Baker 31.79 7th Kate Haywood 31.82 8th Rebecca Ejdervik 31.86

Semifinals Rank Swimmer Nation Time Note 1 Leisel Jones 30.91 Q 2 Jessica Hardy 31.09 Q 3 Tarnee White 31.14 Q 4 Janne Schafer 31.23 Q 5 Tara Kirk 31.27 Q 6 Zoë Baker 31.49 Q 7 Rebecca Ejdervik 31.71 Q 8 Kate Haywood 31.72 Q 9 Ji Liping 31.75 10 Mirna Jukić 31.78 11 Elena Bogomazova 32.08 12 Roberta Panara 32.10 13 Anna Khlistunova 32.12 14 Anne-Sophie Le Paranthoën 32.17 15 Anne-Mari Gulbrandsen 32.34 NR God avslutning av de norske VM svømmerne (trans: "Good end for Norway World Championships swimming"); by Rune Eknes. Published by Norwegian Swimming Federation on 2 April 2007; Retrieved 18 July 2009. -- Ina Kapishina DQ

Preliminaries Rank Swimmer Nation Time Note 1 Jessica Hardy 30.85 Q 2 Zoë Baker 31.35 Q 3 Leisel Jones 31.39 Q Tara Kirk Q 5 Rebecca Ejdervik 31.54 Q 6 Tarnee White 31.65 Q 7 Anna Khlistunova 31.73 Q, NR 8 Janne Schafer 31.77 Q 9 Anne-Sophie Le Paranthoën 31.84 Q 10 Ina Kapishina 31.93 Q 11 Kate Haywood 31.95 Q 12 Mirna Jukić 32.06 Q 13 Roberta Panara 32.17 Q 14 Ji Liping 32.25 Q 15 Anne-Mari Gulbrandsen 32.35 Q, NR Anne-Mari til semifinalen med ny norsk rekord på 50m bryst (trans: "Anne-Mari [Gulbrandsen] to the semifinals in new Norwegian Record for 50m breast"); by Rune Eknes for the Norwegian Swimming Federation; published 2007-03-31, Retrieved 18 July 2009. 16 Elena Bogomazova 32.51 Q 17 Annabelle Carey 32.60 18 Yoshimi Miwa 32.63 19 Ciara Farrell 32.69 Hanna Westrin 21 Beata Kaminska 32.81 22 Suzaan van Biljon 32.87 Chen Huijia 24 Veronica Vdovicenco 33.31 Diana Gomes 26 Valeria Silva 33.32 27 Yuliya Pidlisna 33.88 28 Sara Elbekri 34.11 29 Anastasia Christoforou 34.35 30 Man Yi Yvette Kong 34.36 31 Marina Kuc 34.41 32 I Chuan Chen 34.48 33 Roanne Ho 34.52 34 Larisa Lăcustă 34.58 35 Koh Ting Ting 35.06 36 Daniela Victoria 35.38 37 Danielle Beaubrun 35.42 38 Desak Nyoman Rina 35.43 39 Rachel Ah Koy 35.44 40 On Kei Lei 35.69 41 Nilshaira Isenia 35.77 42 Lina Cahya Utami 35.79 43 Dohi Eliane Droubry 36.06 44 Natasha Moodie 36.08 45 Herinantenaina Ravoajanahary 36.19 46 Thi Thuan Tran 36.72 47 Sin Ian Lei 36.73 48 Olga Gnedovskaya 36.81 49 Saintsetseg Dashtseren 36.99 50 Blessing Forcados 37.01 51 Karen Poujol Zepeda 37.25 52 Katerine Moreno 37.29 53 Oksana Hatamkhanova 37.31 54 Thi Hue Pham 37.36 55 Cai Lin Khoo 37.49 56 Nibal Yamout 37.61 57 Rachel Lannen 37.63 58 Kelly How Tam Fat 37.88 59 Monica Fernandovna Bernardo 37.95 60 Mercedes Milner 38.12 Chinyere Pigot 62 Stacey Ryder 38.34 63 Razan Taha 38.38 64 Rovena Marku 38.64 65 Samantha La Qua 39.04 66 Sainzaya Khurelbaatar 40.16 67 Bibidha Rimal 41.23 68 Natasha Ratter 41.42 69 Debra Daniel FS Micronesia 42.35 70 Anisa Curraj 42.56 71 Julianne Kirchner 43.66 72 Pamela Girimbazi Rugabira 47.27 73 Aminath Inas Ismail 48.10 74 Ingrid Fabienne Outtara 48.51 -- Kezimani Liesse DNS -- Gloria Koussihouede DNS -- Mahfuza Khatun DNS -- Doli Akhter DNS -- Adriana Marmolejo DNS -- Asami Kitagawa DNS -- Kirsty Balfour DNS -- Elisabeth Nikiema DNS

References

Women's 50m Breaststroke Preliminary results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); Retrieved 2009-07-11. Women's 50m Breaststroke Semifinals results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); Retrieved 2009-07-11. Women's 50m Breaststroke Final results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); Retrieved 2009-07-11.