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

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
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Swimming at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
50 m EAD	men	women
100 m	men	women
100 m EAD	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men	women
4×200 m	men	women
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women
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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.

All times are Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)

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

The heats were held the morning session on 2 August.^[1]

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

The semifinals were held the evening session on 2 August.^[2]

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

The final were held the evening session on 3 August.^[3]

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