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

Women's 50 metres butterfly at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
Venue	Manchester Aquatics Centre
Dates	30-31 July 2002
Competitors	28 from 21 nations
Winning time	26.66 s
Medalists
Petria Thomas   Australia   Nicole Irving   Australia   Alison Sheppard   Scotland

The women's 50 metre butterfly event at the 2002 Commonwealth Games took place 30-31 July. The heats and the semi were held on 30 July, the final on 31 July.

Results

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Petria Thomas	Australia	26.66	GR
	5	Nicole Irving	Australia	27.13
	3	Alison Sheppard	Scotland	27.30
4	2	Rosalind Brett	England	27.41
5	6	Mandy Loots	South Africa	27.55
6	1	Joscelin Yeo	Singapore	27.88
7	7	Kerry Martin	Scotland	27.94
8	8	Karla Hancocks	Wales	28.22

Key: WR = World record

Semifinals

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Petria Thomas	Australia	27.09	Q
2	1	4	Nicole Irving	Australia	27.19	Q
3	2	5	Alison Sheppard	Scotland	27.30	Q
4	1	5	Mandy Loots	South Africa	27.48	Q
5	2	3	Rosalind Brett	England	27.57	Q
6	2	6	Kerry Martin	Scotland	27.74	Q
7	1	3	Joscelin Yeo	Singapore	27.83	Q
8	2	8	Karla Hancocks	Wales	27.89	Q
9	1	6	Georgie Lee	England	27.97
9	2	2	Nadine Rolland	Canada	27.97
11	1	8	Julie Douglas	Northern Ireland	28.07
12	1	2	Audrey Lacroix	Canada	28.15
13	2	1	Maria Papadopoulou	Cyprus	28.19
14	1	1	Hannah McLean	New Zealand	28.21
14	2	7	Leah Martindale	Barbados	28.21
16	1	7	Sarah Ryan	Australia	28.33

Preliminaries

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Petria Thomas	Australia	27.09	Q
2	2	4	Nicole Irving	Australia	27.22	Q
3	3	5	Alison Sheppard	Scotland	27.39	Q
4	2	5	Mandy Loots	South Africa	27.60	Q
5	3	4	Rosalind Brett	England	27.80	Q
6	4	5	Joscelin Yeo	Singapore	27.87	Q
7	4	3	Kerry Martin	Scotland	27.88	Q
8	3	2	Georgie Lee	England	28.02	Q
9	3	3	Nadine Rolland	Canada	28.14	Q
10	4	7	Audrey Lacroix	Canada	28.17	Q
11	4	2	Leah Martindale	Barbados	28.18	Q
12	2	3	Sarah Ryan	Australia	28.23	Q
12	4	1	Maria Papadopoulou	Cyprus	28.23	Q
14	2	6	Hannah McLean	New Zealand	28.41	Q
15	3	6	Julie Douglas	Northern Ireland	28.43	Q
15	4	7	Karla Hancocks	Wales	28.43	Q
17	3	7	Mandy Leach	Zimbabwe	28.68
18	2	7	Jennifer Fratesi	Canada	28.82
19	2	1	Emma Hirst	Jersey	29.09
20	3	1	Caroline Pickering	Fiji	29.11
21	3	8	Sharntelle McLean	Trinidad and Tobago	29.23
22	2	2	Tamara Swaby	Jamaica	29.28
23	1	4	Emily Crookall-Nixon	Isle of Man	29.76
24	2	8	Angela Galea	Malta	29.94
25	1	5	Elaine Reyes	Gibraltar	31.79
26	1	3	Sana Abdul Wahid	Pakistan	33.53
27	1	6	Keren Lee Visser	Zambia	34.18
-	4	8	Natalia Roumbina	Cyprus	DQ

References

Results