2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 50 metre freestyle

Women's 50 metre freestyle
at the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Women's 50 metre freestyle ; at the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue	Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center
Dates	15 December (heats and semifinals); 16 December (final)
Competitors	97
Winning time	23.19
Medalists
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The Women's 50 metre freestyle competition of the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 15 and 16 December 2018 at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center.^[1]^[2]

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Ranomi Kromowidjojo	Netherlands	22.93	Berlin	7 August 2017
Championship record	Marleen Veldhuis	Netherlands	23.25	Manchester	13 April 2008

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 15 December at 11:09.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	8	4	Femke Heemskerk	Netherlands	23.90	Q
2	9	5	Mariia Kameneva	Russia	23.93	Q
3	10	6	Holly Barratt	Australia	23.94	Q
4	9	3	Etiene Medeiros	Brazil	24.00	Q
5	10	4	Ranomi Kromowidjojo	Netherlands	24.07	Q
6	9	1	Mallory Comerford	United States	24.18	Q
6	10	3	Anika Apostalon	Czech Republic	24.18	Q
8	10	5	Zhu Menghui	China	24.20	Q
9	10	7	Aya Sato	Japan	24.23	Q
10	8	1	Madison Kennedy	United States	24.24	Q
11	8	6	Wu Yue	China	24.25	Q
12	10	1	Melanie Henique	France	24.31	Q
13	8	3	Michelle Coleman	Sweden	24.39	Q
14	8	2	Erin Gallagher	South Africa	24.41	Q, AF
15	10	2	Lidón Muñoz	Spain	24.60	Q
16	9	4	Rozaliya Nasretdinova	Russia	24.62	Q
17	9	6	Mimosa Jallow	Finland	24.65	R
18	9	7	Barbora Seemanová	Czech Republic	24.76	R
19	8	7	Nastassia Karakouskaya	Belarus	24.80
20	10	0	Isabella Arcila	Colombia	24.83
21	9	2	Susann Bjørnsen	Norway	24.87
22	7	3	Ko Miso	South Korea	25.16
22	8	9	Diana Petkova	Bulgaria	25.16
24	9	9	Jeserik Pinto	Venezuela	25.17
25	10	9	Neža Klančar	Slovenia	25.19
26	9	0	Sze Hang Yu	Hong Kong	25.44
27	8	8	Selen Özbilen	Turkey	25.46
28	8	0	Rebecca Moynihan	New Zealand	25.51
29	7	5	Karen Torrez	Bolivia	25.53
30	10	8	Gabriela Ņikitina	Latvia	25.63
31	7	4	Ingibjörg Kristín Jónsdóttir	Iceland	25.67
32	7	6	Barbora Mikuskova	Slovakia	25.78
32	9	8	Rūta Meilutytė	Lithuania	25.78
34	7	8	Lamija Medošević	Bosnia and Herzegovina	25.80	NR
35	4	8	Pak Mi-song	North Korea	25.91
36	7	2	Francesca Falzon Young	Malta	26.03	NR
37	7	0	Bayan Jumah	Syria	26.24	NR
38	6	3	Ariel Weech	Bahamas	26.28
39	7	9	Mariel Mencia	Dominican Republic	26.40	NR
40	7	1	Inés Remersaro	Uruguay	26.41
41	6	2	Elisabeth Timmer	Aruba	26.51
42	7	7	Yolani Julia Blake	Fiji	26.54
43	6	1	Tonia Papapetrou	Cyprus	26.57
44	6	7	Nikol Merizaj	Albania	26.68	NR
45	6	8	Varsenik Manucharyan	Armenia	26.80
46	6	4	Jeanne Boutbien	Senegal	26.81	NR
47	6	5	Noura Mana	Morocco	27.07
48	1	7	Savindi Jayaweera	Sri Lanka	27.15
49	4	0	Arleigha Hall	Turks and Caicos Islands	27.31
50	6	0	Mariam Imnadze	Georgia	27.37
51	2	3	Enkhzul Khuyagbaatar	Mongolia	27.44
52	6	9	Fjorda Shabani	Kosovo	27.45
53	3	5	Olivia Fuller	Antigua and Barbuda	27.58
54	3	4	Maayaa Ayawere	Ghana	27.60
55	4	1	María Castillo	Panama	27.73
56	2	4	Abiola Ogunbanwo	Nigeria	27.83
57	6	6	Tan Chi Yan	Macau	27.88
58	5	8	Daila Ismatul	Guatemala	28.00
59	5	3	Colleen Furgeson	Marshall Islands	28.32
60	5	4	Jamila Sanmoogan	Guyana	28.33
61	5	5	Selina Katumba	Uganda	28.42
62	3	8	Jannat Bique	Mozambique	28.68
63	2	0	Andrea Schuster	Samoa	28.81
64	5	1	Margie Winter	Federated States of Micronesia	28.86
65	5	9	Georgia-Leigh Vele	Papua New Guinea	28.89
66	2	1	Larissa Joassaint	Haiti	28.91
67	3	7	Mary Al-Atrash	Palestine	28.95
68	1	4	Noelani Day	Tonga	29.04
69	5	2	Ammara Pinto	Malawi	29.07
70	2	8	Anastasiya Tyurina	Tajikistan	29.24
71	5	6	Samantha Rakotovelo	Madagascar	29.39
72	4	9	Tisa Shakya	Nepal	29.46
73	1	5	Anna-Sica Guerard	Togo	29.55
74	3	0	Alaa Binrajab	Bahrain	29.81
75	3	9	Daniela Costa	Angola	29.90
76	5	7	Catarina Ferreira	Cape Verde	29.97
77	1	1	Sonia Aktar	Bangladesh	30.21
78	4	5	Nafissath Radji	Benin	30.40
79	4	3	Senamile Dlamini	Eswatini	30.88
80	4	4	Siri Arun Budcharern	Laos	31.19
81	5	0	Kayla Temba	Tanzania	31.37
82	2	6	San Bopha	Cambodia	32.87
83	4	2	Wendy Charles	Solomon Islands	34.16
84	3	3	Odrina Kaze	Burundi	34.72
85	2	5	Haneen Ibrahim	Sudan	34.86
86	3	1	Roukaya Mahamane	Niger	34.91
87	2	9	Lina Selo	Ethiopia	35.42
88	4	7	Safia Houssein Barkat	Djibouti	35.77
89	3	6	Raaidah Aqeel	Pakistan	36.15
90	3	2	Tity Dumbuya	Sierra Leone	36.71
91	1	2	Gniene Faouzia Sessouma	Burkina Faso	38.94
92	1	3	Ana Oafini	Timor-Leste	41.11
93	2	7	Sainabou Sam	Gambia	46.14
	1	6	Lucie Kouadio-Patinier	Ivory Coast	DNS
	2	2	Fatoumata Samassékou	Mali	DNS
	4	6	Chloe Sauvourel	Central African Republic	DNS
	8	5	Larissa Oliveira	Brazil	DNS

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 15 December at 19:47.^[4]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Etiene Medeiros	Brazil	23.82	Q, =AM
2	3	Mallory Comerford	United States	23.83	Q
3	4	Maria Kameneva	Russia	23.87	Q
4	6	Zhu Menghui	China	23.95	Q, AS
5	2	Madison Kennedy	United States	24.00	Q
6	7	Melanie Henique	France	24.14	R
7	1	Erin Gallagher	South Africa	24.38	AF
8	8	Rozaliya Nasretdinova	Russia	24.47

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Ranomi Kromowidjojo	Netherlands	23.50	Q
2	4	Femke Heemskerk	Netherlands	23.75	Q
3	5	Holly Barratt	Australia	23.89	Q
4	1	Michelle Coleman	Sweden	24.21	R
5	2	Aya Sato	Japan	24.25
6	6	Anika Apostalon	Czech Republic	24.30
7	7	Wu Yue	China	24.33
8	8	Lidón Muñoz del Campo	Spain	24.75

Final

The Final was held on 16 December at 19:33.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Ranomi Kromowidjojo	Netherlands	23.19	CR
	5	Femke Heemskerk	Netherlands	23.67
	3	Etiene Medeiros	Brazil	23.76	AM
4	6	Mallory Comerford	United States	23.86
5	7	Holly Barratt	Australia	23.92
5	8	Melanie Henique	France	24.01
7	2	Maria Kameneva	Russia	24.06
8	1	Madison Kennedy	United States	24.11

References

↑ "Competition Schedule". Retrieved 2018-12-17.
↑ "2018 Short Course World Championships". swimswam.com. 25 August 2018.
↑ Heats results
↑ "Semifinal results". Archived from the original on 2018-12-18. Retrieved 2018-12-17.
↑ "Final results". Archived from the original on 2018-12-16. Retrieved 2018-12-17.

[1] "Competition Schedule". Retrieved 2018-12-17.

[2] "2018 Short Course World Championships". swimswam.com. 25 August 2018.

[3] Heats results

[4] "Semifinal results". Archived from the original on 2018-12-18. Retrieved 2018-12-17.

[5] "Final results". Archived from the original on 2018-12-16. Retrieved 2018-12-17.

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