Swimming at the 2002 Commonwealth Games – Men's 50 metre breaststroke

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.

Men's 50 metre breaststroke at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
Venue	Manchester Aquatics Centre
Date	August 2, 2002 (2002-08-02) August 3, 2002 (2002-08-03)
Competitors	19 from 14 nations
Winning time	27.72
Medalists
James Gibson    England   Adam Whitehead    England   Darren Mew    England

Main article: Swimming at the 2002 Commonwealth Games

Schedule

All times are Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)

Date	Time	Event
Friday, 2 August 2002	10:00	Heat 1
	10:03	Heat 2
	10:06	Heat 3
	19:06	Semifinal 1
	19:09	Semifinal 2
Saturday, 3 August 2002	19:16	Final

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Ed Moses	United States	27.39	Austin	31 March 2001
Games record	First time held

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nation	Time	Record
2 August	Heats	Morgan Knabe	Canada	28.95	GR
2 August	Heats	James Gibson	England	28.42	GR
2 August	Heats	Darren Mew	England	27.99	GR
2 August	Semifinals	James Gibson	England	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 Mew	England	27.99	Q GR
2	2	4	James Gibson	England	28.42	Q
3	3	5	Adam Whitehead	England	28.64	Q
4	1	4	Morgan Knabe	Canada	28.95	Q
5	2	5	Brett Petersen	South Africa	29.06	Q
6	3	3	Robert van der Zant	Australia	29.55	Q
7	1	5	Jim Piper	Australia	29.96	Q
8	2	3	Andrei Cross	Barbados	30.07	Q
9	3	1	Wickus Nienaber	Swaziland	30.54	Q
10	1	6	Travano McPhee	Bahamas	31.05	Q
11	1	3	Dave Batty	Isle of Man	31.25	Q
12	2	6	Eric Williams	Nigeria	31.37	Q
13	3	6	Afolabi Adeleke-Adedoyin	Nigeria	31.40	Q
14	3	2	Graham Smith	Bermuda	31.60	Q
15	2	2	Mohammad Niaz Ali	Bangladesh	32.09	Q
16	1	2	Jamie Zammitt	Gibraltar	32.98	Q
17	2	7	Chisela Kanchela	Zambia	33.07
18	3	7	Gavin Santos	Gibraltar	34.26
	1	7	Joel Kisuule	Uganda	Disqualified

Semifinals

The semifinals were held the evening session on 2 August.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	4	James Gibson	England	27.56	Q GR
2	2	4	Darren Mew	England	27.57	Q
3	1	5	Morgan Knabe	Canada	28.36	Q
4	2	5	Adam Whitehead	England	28.48	Q
5	2	3	Brett Petersen	South Africa	28.62	Q
6	1	3	Robert van der Zant	Australia	28.93	Q WD
7	1	6	Andrei Cross	Barbados	29.96	Q
8	2	6	Jim Piper	Australia	30.03	Q
9	2	2	Wickus Nienaber	Swaziland	30.24	Q
10	1	2	Travano McPhee	Bahamas	30.90
11	2	7	Dave Batty	Isle of Man	31.24
12	2	1	Afolabi Adeleke-Adedoyin	Nigeria	31.54
12	1	1	Graham Smith	Bermuda	31.54
14	1	7	Eric Williams	Nigeria	31.67
15	2	8	Mohammad Niaz Ali	Bangladesh	32.13
16	1	8	Jamie Zammitt	Gibraltar	32.69

Final

The final were held the evening session on 3 August.

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