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

Women's 50-meter 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