# Swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre breaststroke

The men's 50 metre breaststroke event in swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships took place on 30–31 July at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, Spain.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and championship records were:
| World record | Cameron van der Burgh (RSA) | 26.67 | Rome, Italy | 29 July 2009 |
| Competition record | Cameron van der Burgh (RSA) | 26.67 | Rome, Italy | 29 July 2009 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held at 10:00.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 8 | 6 | Cameron van der Burgh | South Africa | 26.78 | Q |
| 2 | 7 | 7 | Felipe Lima | Brazil | 27.11 | Q |
| 3 | 8 | 4 | Glenn Snyders | New Zealand | 27.27 | Q |
| 4 | 9 | 4 | Christian Sprenger | Australia | 27.30 | Q |
| 5 | 7 | 6 | Kirill Strelnikov | Russia | 27.36 | Q |
| 6 | 9 | 7 | Giulio Zorzi | South Africa | 27.37 | Q |
| 7 | 9 | 9 | Gu Biaorong | China | 27.38 | Q |
| 8 | 7 | 4 | João Luiz Gomes Júnior | Brazil | 27.39 | Q |
| 9 | 8 | 9 | Kosuke Kitajima | Japan | 27.43 | Q |
| 10 | 9 | 5 | Kevin Steel | United States | 27.45 | Q |
| 11 | 7 | 0 | Dawid Szulich | Poland | 27.48 | Q, NR |
| 11 | 9 | 3 | Damir Dugonjič | Slovenia | 27.48 | Q |
| 13 | 7 | 5 | Mattia Pesce | Italy | 27.52 | Q |
| 13 | 9 | 6 | Barry Murphy | Ireland | 27.52 | Q |
| 15 | 7 | 2 | Johannes Skagius | Sweden | 27.57 | Q, NR |
| 16 | 9 | 8 | Eetu Karvonen | Finland | 27.58 | Q |
| 17 | 7 | 3 | Hendrik Feldwehr | Germany | 27.59 | |
| 18 | 8 | 5 | Fabio Scozzoli | Italy | 27.60 | |
| 19 | 8 | 8 | Yury Klemparski | Belarus | 27.61 | NR |
| 20 | 7 | 1 | Brenton Rickard | Australia | 27.66 | |
| 21 | 8 | 3 | Kevin Cordes | United States | 27.69 | |
| 22 | 5 | 3 | Miguel Ferreira | Venezuela | 27.78 | |
| 22 | 7 | 9 | Richard Funk | Canada | 27.78 | |
| 22 | 9 | 1 | Giacomo Perez d'Ortona | France | 27.78 | |
| 25 | 8 | 1 | Čaba Silađi | Serbia | 27.80 | |
| 25 | 8 | 7 | Ioannis Karpouzlis | Greece | 27.80 | |
| 27 | 6 | 0 | Petr Bartůněk | Czech Republic | 27.84 | |
| 28 | 6 | 4 | Édgar Crespo | Panama | 27.89 | |
| 29 | 8 | 2 | Giedrius Titenis | Lithuania | 27.93 | |
| 30 | 9 | 2 | Ross Murdoch | Great Britain | 28.00 | |
| 31 | 6 | 2 | Martin Schweizer | Switzerland | 28.01 | |
| 32 | 6 | 5 | Demir Atasoy | Turkey | 28.04 | NR |
| 33 | 6 | 9 | Ihor Borysyk | Ukraine | 28.07 | |
| 33 | 8 | 0 | Panteleimon Pantis | Greece | 28.07 | |
| 35 | 5 | 8 | Sandeep Sejwal | India | 28.12 | |
| 36 | 5 | 7 | Malick Fall | Senegal | 28.15 | |
| 37 | 5 | 9 | Carlos Almeida | Portugal | 28.16 | NR |
| 37 | 6 | 6 | Jorge Murillo | Colombia | 28.16 | =NR |
| 39 | 6 | 7 | Nikolajs Maskalenko | Latvia | 28.20 | |
| 40 | 6 | 3 | Martin Melconian | Uruguay | 28.21 | NR |
| 41 | 6 | 8 | Abraham McLeod | Trinidad and Tobago | 28.26 | |
| 42 | 5 | 5 | Shin Hyeong-Keun | South Korea | 28.29 | |
| 43 | 5 | 0 | David Oliver Mercado | Mexico | 28.39 | |
| 43 | 6 | 1 | Marek Botík | Slovakia | 28.39 | |
| 45 | 4 | 7 | Joshua Hall | Philippines | 28.48 | |
| 45 | 5 | 1 | Imri Ganiel | Israel | 28.48 | |
| 47 | 5 | 6 | Wong Chun Yan | Hong Kong | 28.69 | |
| 48 | 5 | 4 | Martin Liivamägi | Estonia | 28.82 | |
| 49 | 4 | 4 | Vladislav Mustafin | Uzbekistan | 28.97 | |
| 50 | 4 | 5 | Kirill Vais | Kyrgyzstan | 29.15 | |
| 51 | 4 | 8 | James Lawson | Zimbabwe | 29.22 | |
| 52 | 4 | 3 | Omiros Zagkas | Cyprus | 29.29 | |
| 53 | 4 | 0 | Radomyos Matjiur | Thailand | 29.41 | |
| 54 | 4 | 1 | Abdulrahman Al-Bader | Kuwait | 29.47 | |
| 55 | 5 | 2 | Shaun Yap | Malaysia | 29.58 | |
| 56 | 3 | 5 | Benjamin Schulte | Guam | 29.61 | |
| 57 | 4 | 2 | Rafael van Leeuwaarde | Suriname | 29.66 | |
| 58 | 4 | 6 | Mubarak Al-Besher | United Arab Emirates | 29.74 | |
| 59 | 4 | 9 | Jesús Flores | Honduras | 29.76 | |
| 60 | 3 | 2 | Andrew Rutherfurd | Bolivia | 30.29 | |
| 61 | 3 | 7 | Wael Koubrousli | Lebanon | 30.44 | |
| 62 | 3 | 1 | Serginni Marten | Netherlands Antilles | 30.89 | |
| 63 | 3 | 8 | Bradford Worrell | Saint Lucia | 31.00 | NR |
| 64 | 2 | 5 | Pierre-Andre Adam | Seychelles | 31.31 | |
| 65 | 2 | 2 | Troy Kojenlang | Marshall Islands | 31.38 | |
| 66 | 3 | 0 | Muhammad Isa Ahmad | Brunei | 31.68 | |
| 67 | 3 | 9 | Batsaikhan Dulguun | Mongolia | 31.76 | |
| 68 | 2 | 3 | Earlando McRae | Guyana | 32.24 | |
| 69 | 2 | 7 | Hemthon Ponloeu | Cambodia | 32.41 | |
| 70 | 2 | 4 | Joshua Tibatemwa | Uganda | 33.85 | |
| 71 | 2 | 6 | Lin Tin Kyaw | Myanmar | 33.89 | |
| 72 | 1 | 5 | Mohamed Cheic Camara | Guinea | 34.24 | |
| 73 | 3 | 3 | Ashraf Hassan | Maldives | 34.58 | |
| 74 | 1 | 3 | Thierry Sawadogo | Burkina Faso | 34.60 | |
| 75 | 3 | 6 | Abdourahman Osman | Djibouti | 34.93 | |
| 76 | 2 | 1 | Nikolas Sylvester | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 35.68 | |
| 77 | 2 | 8 | Yokubdzhon Umarov | Tajikistan | 36.50 | |
| 78 | 1 | 4 | Sahr James | Sierra Leone | 37.26 | |
| 79 | 3 | 4 | Kurt Oniangue | Congo | 39.98 | |
| 80 | 2 | 0 | Moctar Albachir | Niger | 43.58 | |
| | 2 | 9 | Boubou Togo | Mali | | DSQ |
| | 7 | 8 | Li Xiayan | China | | DSQ |
| | 9 | 0 | Tshisungu Kalala | DR Congo | | DSQ |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 18:18.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 7 | Damir Dugonjič | Slovenia | 26.83 | Q, =EU |
| 2 | 6 | João Luiz Gomes Júnior | Brazil | 27.05 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | Christian Sprenger | Australia | 27.10 | Q |
| 4 | 3 | Giulio Zorzi | South Africa | 27.44 | Q |
| 5 | 4 | Felipe Lima | Brazil | 27.48 | |
| 6 | 2 | Kevin Steel | United States | 27.60 | |
| 7 | 1 | Barry Murphy | Ireland | 27.78 | |
| | 8 | Eetu Karvonen | Finland | | DSQ |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Cameron van der Burgh | South Africa | 26.81 | Q |
| 2 | 8 | Johannes Skagius | Sweden | 27.16 | Q, NR |
| 3 | 5 | Glenn Snyders | New Zealand | 27.22 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | Mattia Pesce | Italy | 27.42 | Q |
| 5 | 6 | Gu Biaorong | China | 27.53 | |
| 5 | 7 | Dawid Szulich | Poland | 27.53 | |
| 7 | 3 | Kirill Strelnikov | Russia | 27.75 | |
| 8 | 2 | Kosuke Kitajima | Japan | 27.82 | |

### Final

The final was held at 18:41.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 4 | Cameron van der Burgh | South Africa | 26.77 |
| | 6 | Christian Sprenger | Australia | 26.78 |
| | 8 | Giulio Zorzi | South Africa | 27.04 |
| 4 | 5 | Damir Dugonjič | Slovenia | 27.05 |
| 5 | 3 | João Luiz Gomes Júnior | Brazil | 27.20 |
| 6 | 7 | Glenn Snyders | New Zealand | 27.21 |
| 7 | 2 | Johannes Skagius | Sweden | 27.48 |
| 8 | 1 | Mattia Pesce | Italy | 27.53 |