The Men's 50 metre breaststroke event at the 2002 Commonwealth Games took place between 2 August 2002 and 3 August 2002 at Manchester Aquatics Centre.

Schedule All times are Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) DateTimeEventFriday, 2 August 2002 10:00 Heat 1 10:03 Heat 2 10:06 Heat 3 19:06 Semifinal 1 19:09 Semifinal 2Saturday, 3 August 2002 19:16 Final

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows. Name Nation Time Location DateWorld recordEd Moses27.39Austin31 March 2001Games recordFirst time held

The following new records were set during this competition. Date Event Name Nation Time Record 2 August Heats Morgan Knabe 28.95 GR 2 August Heats James Gibson 28.42 GR 2 August Heats Darren Mew 27.99 GR 2 August Semifinals James Gibson 27.56 GR

Results

Heats The heats were held the morning session on 2 August.

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 3 4 Darren Mew27.99 Q GR 2 2 4 James Gibson28.42 Q 3 3 5 Adam Whitehead28.64 Q 4 1 4 Morgan Knabe28.95 Q 5 2 5 Brett Petersen29.06 Q 6 3 3 Robert van der Zant29.55 Q 7 1 5 Jim Piper29.96 Q 8 2 3 Andrei Cross30.07 Q 9 3 1 Wickus Nienaber30.54 Q 10 1 6 Travano McPhee31.05 Q 11 1 3 Dave Batty31.25 Q 12 2 6 Eric Williams31.37 Q 13 3 6 Afolabi Adeleke-Adedoyin31.40 Q 14 3 2 Graham Smith31.60 Q 15 2 2 Mohammad Niaz Ali32.09 Q 16 1 2 Jamie Zammitt32.98 Q 17 2 7 Chisela Kanchela33.07 18 3 7 Gavin Santos34.26 1 7 Joel Kisuule

Semifinals The semifinals were held the evening session on 2 August.

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 4 James Gibson27.56 Q GR 2 2 4 Darren Mew27.57 Q 3 1 5 Morgan Knabe28.36 Q 4 2 5 Adam Whitehead28.48 Q 5 2 3 Brett Petersen28.62 Q 6 1 3 Robert van der Zant28.93 Q 7 1 6 Andrei Cross29.96 Q 8 2 6 Jim Piper30.03 Q 9 2 2 Wickus Nienaber30.24 Q 10 1 2 Travano McPhee30.90 11 2 7 Dave Batty31.24 12 2 1 Afolabi Adeleke-Adedoyin31.54 12 1 1 Graham Smith31.54 14 1 7 Eric Williams31.67 15 2 8 Mohammad Niaz Ali32.13 16 1 8 Jamie Zammitt32.69

Final The final were held the evening session on 3 August.

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 James Gibson 27.72 6 Adam Whitehead 27.79 5 Darren Mew 27.80 4 2 Brett Petersen 28.64 5 3 Morgan Knabe 28.67 6 7 Andrei Cross 29.73 7 8 Wickus Nienaber 30.38 8 1 Jim Piper 30.45

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