Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 50 metre backstroke

Women's 50m Backstroke at the 2005 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates	27 July (heats and semifinals) 28 July (final)
Competitors	65 from 47 nations
Winning time	28.63 seconds
Medalists
Giaan Rooney   Australia   Gao Chang   China   Antje Buschschulte   Germany

Main article: Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships

The Women's 50 Backstroke event at the 11th FINA World Aquatics Championships was swum 27 – 28 July 2005 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Preliminary (morning) and Semifinal (evening) heats were on 27 July, with the event's Final heat swum during the evening session on 28 July.

At the start of the vent, the existing World (WR) and Championships (CR) records were:

• WR: 28.19, Janine Pietsch (Germany) swum 25 May 2005 in Berlin, Germany;
• ER: 28.48, Nina Zhivanevskaya (Spain) swum 24 July 2004 in Barcelona, Spain

Results

Preliminaries

Rank	Heat + Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	H7 L4	GAO Chang	China	28.70	q
2	H7 L5	Mai Nakamura	Japan	28.92	q
3	H9 L4	Janine Pietsch	Germany	28.95	q
4	H8 L4	Giaan Rooney	Australia	28.99	q
4	H9 L5	Antje Buschschulte	Germany	28.99	q
6	H6 L4	Elizabeth Coster	New Zealand	29.05	q
7	H8 L1	Hannah McLean	New Zealand	29.06	q
8	H9 L6	Fabienne Nadarajah	Austria	29.14	q
9	H8 L5	Sophie Edington	Australia	29.22	q
10	H8 L7	Svitlana Khakhlova	Belarus	29.23	q
10	H9 L3	Louise Ørnstedt	Denmark	29.23	q
12	H7 L3	Hinkelien Schreuder	Netherlands	29.25	q
13	H7 L1	Nam-Eun Lee	South Korea	29.26	q
14	H9 L1	Sanja Jovanović	Croatia	29.27	q
15	H9 L7	Fabíola Molina	Brazil	29.40	q
16	H7 L7	Erin Gammel	Canada	29.44	q
17	H8 L3	Hanae Ito	Japan	29.45
18	H8 L6	Jennifer Carroll	Canada	29.55
19	H9 L2	Iryna Amshennikova	Ukraine	29.59
20	H8 L2	Chen Yanyan	China	29.63
21	H7 L6	Elena Gemo	Italy	29.65
22	H7 L8	Kateryna Zubkova	Ukraine	29.68
23	H6 L1	Margaret Hoelzer	United States	29.71
24	H5 L2	Anna Gostomelsky	Israel	29.79
25	H7 L2	Ilona Hlaváčková	Czech Republic	29.97
26	H6 L7	Katarzyna Staszak	Poland	30.11
27	H9 L8	Gisela Morales	Guatemala	30.12
28	H5 L4	Jeri Moss	United States	30.16
29	H8 L8	Alexandra Putra	France	30.28
30	H6 L8	Petra Klosova	Czech Republic	30.34
31	H5 L3	Kiera Aitken	Bermuda	30.36
32	H5 L7	Hannah Wilson	Hong Kong	30.52
33	H5 L5	Hanna-Maria Seppälä	Finland	30.55
34	H4 L4	Marilies Demal	Austria	30.70
35	H6 L3	Jane Kaljonen	Finland	30.82
36	H6 L2	Yu Yon Kim	South Korea	30.96
37	H6 L5	Flavia Cazziolato	Brazil	30.99
38	H6 L6	Chonlathorn Vorathamrong	Thailand	31.17
39	H5 L1	Lynette Ng	Singapore	31.19
40	H5 L8	Carolina Colorado Henao	Colombia	31.31
41	H5 L6	Ting-Wei Lin	Chinese Taipei	31.63
42	H4 L8	Lenient Obia	Nigeria	31.79
43	H4 L2	Danit Kama	Israel	32.17
44	H4 L6	Fatima Valderrama	Peru	32.38
45	H4 L7	Khadija Ciss	Senegal	32.45
46	H4 L3	Saida Iskandarova	Uzbekistan	32.47
47	H3 L6	Nicole Marmol	Ecuador	32.63
48	H4 L1	Mireille Hakimeh	Syria	32.79
49	H3 L4	Cheok Mei Ma	Macau	32.93
50	H3 L8	Imane Boulaamane	Morocco	33.13
50	H4 L5	Laura Rodriguez	Dominican Republic	33.13
52	H2 L6	Ellen Hight	Zambia	33.22
53	H3 L2	Jonay Briedenhann	Namibia	33.46
54	H3 L1	Kiran Khan	Pakistan	33.61
55	H2 L5	Prabha Madhavi Dharmadasa	Sri Lanka	33.73
56	H3 L7	Jessica Vieira	Mozambique	34.09
57	H3 L3	Weng I Kuan	Macau	34.11
58	H3 L5	Ruth Ho	Singapore	34.13
59	H2 L4	Rubab Raza	Pakistan	34.66
60	H2 L2	Jakie Wellman	Zambia	34.74
61	H1 L4	Yelena Rojkova	Turkmenistan	35.33
62	H2 L7	Mbolatiana Ramanisa	Madagascar	35.45
63	H2 L3	Sussie Pineda	Honduras	35.46
64	H1 L3	Debra Daniel	Federated States of Micronesia	35.97
65	H1 L5	Natasaha Ratter	Uganda	37.89

Semifinals

Rank	Heat + Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	S2 L4	GAO Chang	China	28.31	q, CR
2	S1 L5	Giaan Rooney	Australia	28.78	q
3	S1 L4	Mai Nakamura	Japan	28.87	q
3	S2 L2	Sophie Edington	Australia	28.87	q
5	S2 L3	Antje Buschschulte	Germany	28.90	q
6	S2 L5	Janine Pietsch	Germany	28.93	q
7	S2 L1	Nam-Eun Lee	South Korea	28.95	q
8	S2 L6	Hannah McLean	New Zealand	28.99	q
9	S2 L7	Louise Ørnstedt	Denmark	29.03
10	S1 L1	Sanja Jovanović	Croatia	29.06
11	S1 L3	Elizabeth Coster	New Zealand	29.15
12	S1 L6	Fabienne Nadarajah	Austria	29.19
13	S1 L8	Erin Gammel	Canada	29.35
14	S2 L8	Fabíola Molina	Brazil	29.39
15	S1 L2	Svitlana Khakhlova	Belarus	29.41
16	S1 L7	Hinkelien Schreuder	Netherlands	29.61

Final

Rank	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
	Giaan Rooney	Australia	28.63
	GAO Chang	China	28.69
	Antje Buschschulte	Germany	28.72
4	Mai Nakamura	Japan	28.86
5	Sophie Edington	Australia	28.87
6	Janine Pietsch	Germany	28.88
7	Hannah McLean	New Zealand	28.90
8	Nam-Eun Lee	South Korea	29.35