Swimming at the 2010 Commonwealth Games – Men's 50 metre breaststroke

The Men's 50 metre Breaststroke event at the 2010 Commonwealth Games took place on 7 and 8 October 2010, at the SPM Swimming Pool Complex.

Five heats were held, with most containing the maximum number of swimmers (eight). The top sixteen advanced to the semifinals and the top eight from there qualified for the finals.

Heats summary Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 5 Glenn Snyders 28.15 Q 2 4 4 Brenton Rickard 28.46 Q 3 2 5 Daniel Sliwinski 28.47 Q 4 2 3 Sandeep Sejwal 28.58 Q 5 2 4 Cameron van der Burgh 28.73 Q 6 3 3 Amini Fonua 28.90 Q 7 3 5 Christian Sprenger 28.94 Q 8 3 4 Scott Dickens 28.96 Q 9 4 3 Robert Holderness 29.01 Q 10 3 6 Michael Dawson 29.36 Q 11 4 6 Agnishwar Jayaprakash 29.66 Q 12 2 6 See Yap 29.92 Q 13 1 3 Puneet Rana 30.45 Q 14 3 2 Amar Shah 31.14 Q 15 4 2 Richard Chng 31.33 Q 16 2 2 Shajahan Ali 31.36 Q

Semifinals

Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Brenton Rickard 28.11 Q 2 6 Scott Dickens 28.35 Q 3 3 Amini Fonua 28.73 Q 4 5 Sandeep Sejwal 28.82 5 2 Michael Dawson 29.53 6 7 See Yap 29.78 7 1 Amar Shah 30.53 NR 8 8 Shajahan Ali 30.57

Semifinal 2 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 3 Cameron van der Burgh 27.86 Q 1 4 Glenn Snyders 27.86 Q 3 6 Christian Sprenger 28.10 Q 4 5 Daniel Sliwinski 28.53 Q 5 2 Robert Holderness 28.74 Q 6 7 Agnishwar Jayaprakash 28.74 7 1 Puneet Rana 30.12 8 8 Lijie Chng 31.03

Final Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Cameron van der Burgh 27.18 CG 5 Glenn Snyders 27.67 6 Brenton Rickard 27.67 4 3 Christian Sprenger 27.87 5 2 Scott Dickens 28.07 6 7 Daniel Sliwinski 28.12 7 1 Amini Fonua 28.69 8 8 Sandeep Sejwal 28.85

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