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.Start list

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

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 29.97† CR 3 August Heats Yuliya Yefimova 29.78 3 August Semifinal 2 Rūta Meilutytė 29.48 † – en route to final mark

Results

Heats The heats were held at 10:32.Heats Results Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 8 5 Yuliya Yefimova 29.78 Q, 2 8 4 Jessica Hardy 29.99 Q 3 6 4 Rūta Meilutytė 30.07 Q 4 7 4 Breeja Larson 30.46 Q 5 6 5 Jennie Johansson 30.55 Q, NR 6 8 6 Mariya Liver 30.68 Q, NR 7 7 5 Petra Chocová 30.77 Q, NR 8 8 3 Moniek Nijhuis 30.82 Q 9 7 6 Fiona Doyle 30.93 Q, NR 10 7 3 Alia Atkinson 31.12 Q 11 7 8 Marina García 31.22 Q 12 6 3 31.23 Q 13 7 7 Rebecca Ejdervik 31.39 Q 14 6 8 He Yuzhe 31.46 Q 15 8 8 Samantha Marshall 31.49 Q 16 5 8 Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir 31.50 Q, NR 17 6 7 Michela Guzzetti 31.51 18 7 9 Kim Janssens 31.52 NR 19 6 2 Valentina Artemyeva 31.56 20 6 6 Beatriz Travalon 31.59 21 8 1 Viktoriya Solnceva 31.63 22 6 9 Veera Kivirinta 31.66 23 5 5 Amit Ivry 31.67 NR 24 7 2 Suo Ran 31.70 25 7 1 Caroline Ruhnau 31.73 26 8 0 Jessica Vall 31.77 27 8 2 Lisa Fissneider 31.94 28 5 6 Kim Go-Eun 31.95 29 7 0 Anna Makinen 32.02 30 8 7 Tera van Beilen 32.03 31 6 0 Henriette Brekke 32.11 32 5 7 Julia Sebastian 32.28 33 8 9 Ivana Ninković 32.32 34 5 4 Rie Kaneto 32.37 35 4 7 Yvette Man Yi Kong 32.56 36 4 3 Mercedes Toledo 32.61 NR 37 3 4 Samantha Yeo 32.69 38 5 3 Caroline Reitshammer 32.72 39 5 1 Erica Dittmer 32.73 40 5 2 Sarah Vaisse 32.74 41 4 4 Zuzana Mimovičová 32.79 42 1 2 Dariya Talanova 32.83 43 3 6 Tatiana Chişca 32.85 44 5 0 Ioana Alexandra Popa 32.96 45 4 2 Tara-Lynn Nicholas 33.04 46 4 9 Mai Atef 33.08 47 4 8 Vangelina Draganova 33.10 47 3 3 Christina Loh 33.10 49 5 9 Lei On Kei 33.37 50 4 6 Monica Álvarez 33.39 50 3 5 Chen I-chuan 33.39 52 4 5 Miriam Corsini 33.45 53 4 0 Evita Leter 33.55 54 4 1 Maria Romanjuk 33.56 55 3 7 Pilar Shimizu 34.20 56 3 8 Tilka Paljk 34.28 57 2 4 Vanessa Rivas 34.52 NR 58 3 9 Tegan McCarthy 34.81 59 3 1 Rachael Tonjor 35.41 60 3 2 Natalia Gomez 35.49 61 2 7 Mahfuza Khatun 35.63 62 2 5 Shne Joachim 35.76 63 2 8 Bonita Imsirovic 36.53 64 2 0 Teona Bostashvili 37.04 65 3 0 Oreoluwa Cherebin 37.11 66 2 6 Chade Nersicio 37.43 67 2 3 Altansukh Nomin 37.78 68 2 9 Mariam Foum 38.21 69 1 4 Anum Bandey 38.50 70 2 2 Hemthon Vitiny 39.53 71 1 3 Angelika Ouedraogo 39.58 72 1 5 Ramatoulaye Camara 48.31 73 1 6 Haoua Sangare 49.68 74 1 7 Lareiba Seibon 49.72 2 1 Vanessa Kokoe 6 1 Satomi Suzuki

Semifinals The semifinals were held at 18:26.Semifinals Results

Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Jessica Hardy 29.90 Q 2 5 Breeja Larson 30.20 Q 3 7 30.57 Q 4 6 Moniek Nijhuis 30.61 Q 5 3 Mariya Liver 30.94 6 2 Alia Atkinson 31.27 7 8 Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir 31.37 NR 8 1 He Yuzhe 31.67

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

Final The final was held at 18:08.Final Results

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 5 Yuliya Yefimova 29.52 NR 4 Rūta Meilutytė 29.59 3 Jessica Hardy 29.80 =AM 4 6 Breeja Larson 29.95 5 8 Jennie Johansson 30.23 6 7 30.72 7 1 Moniek Nijhuis 31.31 2 Petra Chocová

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