Swimming at the 2002 Commonwealth Games – Women's 50 metre backstroke

Women's 50 metre backstroke at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
Venue	Manchester Aquatics Centre
Dates	2-3 August 2002
Winning time	28.98 s
Medalists
Dyana Calub  Australia   Jennifer Carroll  Canada   Sarah Price  England

The women's 50 metre backstroke event at the 2002 Commonwealth Games took place 2-3 August. The heats and the semi were held on 2 August, the final on 3 August.

Results

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Dyana Calub	Australia	28.98	GR
	6	Jennifer Carroll	Canada	29.05
	5	Sarah Price	England	29.08
4	3	Giaan Rooney	Australia	29.11
5	1	Charlene Wittstock	South Africa	29.18
6	2	Michelle Lischinsky	Canada	29.30
7	7	Kirsty Coventry	Zimbabwe	29.51
8	8	Hannah McLean	New Zealand	29.64

Key: WR = World record

Semifinals

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	4	Dyana Calub	Australia	29.07	Q, GR
2	2	4	Sarah Price	England	29.13	Q
3	1	5	Giaan Rooney	Australia	29.15	Q
4	2	5	Jennifer Carroll	Canada	29.21	Q
5	2	3	Michelle Lischinsky	Canada	29.38	Q
6	2	6	Kirsty Coventry	Zimbabwe	29.43	Q
7	1	3	Charlene Wittstock	South Africa	29.46	Q
8	1	6	Hannah McLean	New Zealand	29.46	Q
9	1	2	Katy Sexton	England	29.69
10	2	2	Erin Gammel	Canada	29.70
11	1	7	Rebecca Creedy	Australia	30.26
12	2	7	Caroline Pickering	Fiji	30.31
13	2	1	Melissa Ingram	New Zealand	30.56
14	1	1	Kiera Aitken	Bermuda	31.12
15	1	8	Emily Crookall-Nixon	Isle of Man	32.53
16	2	8	Mariana Chuck	Jamaica	32.57

Preliminaries

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	5	Sarah Price	England	29.31	Q
2	3	4	Dyana Calub	Australia	29.33	Q
3	4	4	Jennifer Carroll	Canada	29.41	Q
4	2	4	Giaan Rooney	Australia	29.44	Q
5	2	5	Michelle Lischinsky	Canada	29.45	Q
6	3	5	Charlene Wittstock	South Africa	29.63	Q
7	3	2	Kirsty Coventry	Zimbabwe	29.68	Q
8	3	3	Hannah McLean	New Zealand	29.82	Q
9	4	3	Erin Gammel	Canada	29.83	Q
10	4	6	Katy Sexton	England	30.04	Q
11	4	2	Caroline Pickering	Fiji	30.34	Q
12	3	6	Rebecca Creedy	Australia	30.48	Q
13	2	2	Melissa Ingram	New Zealand	30.55	Q
14	2	3	Kiera Aitken	Bermuda	31.28	Q
15	3	7	Mariana Chuck	Jamaica	32.42	Q
16	2	1	Emily Crookall-Nixon	Isle of Man	32.87	Q
17	4	1	Andri Hadjiantoniou	Cyprus	32.93
18	4	7	Gail Strobridge	Guernsey	33.10
19	2	7	Tanya Anacleto	Mozambique	33.25
20	3	1	Rachel Fortunato	Gibraltar	33.58
21	1	4	Kiran Khan	Pakistan	35.00
22	4	8	Nathalie Lee Baw	Mauritius	35.55
23	1	3	Ursula Kuenzli	Zambia	38.25
24	1	5	Olivia Nikitanda	Uganda	40.48

References

Heats Results