Swimming at the 2018 Commonwealth Games – Men's 50 metre breaststroke

Men's 50 metre breaststroke
at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
Men's 50 metre breaststroke ; at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
Venue	Gold Coast Aquatic Centre
Dates	8 April (heats, semifinals); 9 April (final)
Competitors	34 from 21 nations
Winning time	26.58
Medalists
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The men's 50 metre breaststroke event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games was held on 8 and 9 April at the Gold Coast Aquatic Centre.

Records edit

Prior to this competition, the existing world, Commonwealth and Games records were as follows:

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
8 April	Semifinal	Adam Peaty	England	26.49	GR

The heats were held on 8 April at 10:46.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Adam Peaty	England	26.98	Q
2	4	4	Cameron van der Burgh	South Africa	27.01	Q
3	5	5	Jake Packard	Australia	27.42	Q
4	3	4	James McKechnie	Australia	27.53	Q
5	3	5	James Wilby	England	27.58	Q
6	5	3	Euan Inglis	Scotland	27.84	Q
7	5	6	Michael Houlie	South Africa	27.92	Q
8	4	5	Craig Benson	Scotland	28.06	Q
9	3	3	Mark Campbell	Scotland	28.10	Q
9	4	6	Liam Hunter	Australia	28.10	Q
11	3	6	Brad Tandy	South Africa	28.17	Q
12	5	2	Elijah Wall	Canada	28.29	Q
13	4	2	Ludovico Corsini	Mozambique	28.56	Q
14	4	3	Jamie Graham	Northern Ireland	28.80	Q
15	3	2	Izaak Bastian	Bahamas	29.39	Q
16	4	8	Epeli Rabua Herbert	Fiji	29.61	Q
17	3	7	Taichi Vakasama Taichi	Fiji	29.79
18	2	5	Samuele Rossi	Seychelles	29.82
18	4	1	Guy Davies	Isle of Man	29.82
20	4	7	Corey Ollivierre	Grenada	29.85
21	5	7	David Ebanks	Cayman Islands	30.04
22	2	4	Alexandros Axiotis	Zambia	30.10
23	5	8	Mohammad Islam	Bangladesh	30.37
24	3	1	Ashley Seeto	Papua New Guinea	30.51
25	3	8	Ahllan Bique	Mozambique	30.52
26	2	3	Leonard Kalate	Papua New Guinea	30.97
27	2	6	Jonathan Chung Yee	Mauritius	31.25
28	2	1	Moonakala Kumaren	Zambia	29.39
29	2	2	Jadon Wuilliez	Antigua and Barbuda	31.38
30	2	7	Nikolas Sylvester	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	31.64
31	1	3	Duwaine Yon	Saint Helena	36.52
32	2	8	Colby Thomas	Saint Helena	37.41
33	1	4	Faletiute Tinapa	Tuvalu	38.44
34	1	5	Scott George	Saint Helena	40.58
	5	1	Ralph Goveia	Zambia	DNS

The semifinals were held on 8 April at 20:19.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Cameron van der Burgh	South Africa	26.95	Q
2	5	James McKechnie	Australia	27.67	Q
3	3	Euan Inglis	Scotland	27.85	Q
4	6	Craig Benson	Scotland	28.00
5	2	Liam Hunter	Australia	28.05
6	7	Elijah Wall	Canada	28.52
7	1	Jamie Graham	Northern Ireland	28.66
8	8	Izaak Bastian	Bahamas	29.79

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Adam Peaty	England	26.49	Q, GR
2	3	James Wilby	England	27.41	Q
3	5	Jake Packard	Australia	27.55	Q
4	6	Michael Houlie	South Africa	27.64	Q
5	7	Brad Tandy	South Africa	27.99	Q
6	2	Mark Campbell	Scotland	28.07
7	1	Ludovico Corsini	Mozambique	28.53
8	8	Epeli Rabua Herbert	Fiji	29.28

The final was held on 9 April at 21:07.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	5	Cameron van der Burgh	South Africa	26.58
	4	Adam Peaty	England	26.62
	3	James Wilby	England	27.37
4	6	Jake Packard	Australia	27.53
5	7	James McKechnie	Australia	27.59
6	2	Michael Houlie	South Africa	27.83
7	1	Euan Inglis	Scotland	28.03
8	8	Brad Tandy	South Africa	28.37