Swimming at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 50 metre butterfly

Women's 50 metre butterfly at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships
Victory Ceremony
Dates	7 August (heats and semifinals) 8 August (final)
Competitors	64 from 56 nations
Winning time	24.96
Medalists
Sarah Sjöström    Sweden   Jeanette Ottesen    Denmark   Lu Ying    China
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The Women's 50 metre butterfly competition of the swimming events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held on 7 August with the heats and the semifinals and 8 August with the final. ^[1]

Records

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

World record	Sarah Sjöström  (SWE)	24.43	Borås, Sweden	5 July 2014
Competition record	Therese Alshammar  (SWE)	25.07	Rome, Italy	31 July 2009

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
7 August	Semifinal 2	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	25.06	CR
8 August	Final	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	24.96	CR

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 09:54 ^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	7	4	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	25.43	Q
2	5	4	Jeanette Ottesen	Denmark	25.51	Q
3	7	5	Inge Dekker	Netherlands	25.66	Q
4	5	5	Lu Ying	China	25.69	Q
5	6	4	Fran Halsall	Great Britain	25.86	Q
6	6	3	Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace	Bahamas	26.02	Q
7	6	6	Elena Gemo	Italy	26.07	Q
7	7	6	Kendyl Stewart	United States	26.07	Q
9	6	7	Anna Dowgiert	Poland	26.24	Q, NR
10	5	2	Kimberly Buys	Belgium	26.28	Q
11	6	5	Silvia Di Pietro	Italy	26.32	Q
12	7	2	Farida Osman	Egypt	26.33	Q
12	7	7	Mélanie Henique	France	26.33	Q
14	7	3	Béryl Gastaldello	France	26.46	Q
14	7	1	Noemie Thomas	Canada	26.46	Q
16	5	8	Daynara de Paula	Brazil	26.49	Q
17	6	2	Claire Donahue	United States	26.52
18	7	8	Nastja Govejšek	Slovenia	26.54
19	6	1	Rikako Ikee	Japan	26.66
20	6	8	Misaki Yamaguchi	Japan	26.68
21	4	7	Bryndis Hansen	Iceland	26.79	NR
21	5	3	Emma McKeon	Australia	26.79
23	5	0	Aleksandra Urbańczyk	Poland	26.82
24	4	3	Katarína Listopadová	Slovakia	26.84
25	6	9	Anna Ntountounaki	Greece	26.85
26	4	0	An Se-hyeon	South Korea	26.90
26	5	7	Amit Ivry	Israel	26.90
26	7	0	Brianna Throssell	Australia	26.90
29	5	1	Katerine Savard	Canada	26.93
30	4	8	Sviatlana Khakhlova	Belarus	26.99
31	4	4	Alia Atkinson	Jamaica	27.01
31	5	9	Lucie Svěcená	Czech Republic	27.01
33	4	2	Sasha Touretski	Switzerland	27.04	NR
34	5	6	Nataliya Lovtsova	Russia	27.11
35	4	5	Sze Hang Yu	Hong Kong	27.24
36	4	1	Fanny Teijonsalo	Finland	27.49
37	3	5	Carolina Colorado Henao	Colombia	27.58
37	4	9	Quah Ting Wen	Singapore	27.58
39	3	4	Jeserik Pinto	Venezuela	27.70
40	3	3	Jasmine Al-Khaldi	Philippines	28.16
41	3	6	Sotiria Neofytou	Cyprus	28.25
42	3	2	Amina Kajtaz	Bosnia and Herzegovina	28.32
43	7	9	Laura Arroyo	Mexico	28.98
44	3	1	Astri Foldarskar	Faroe Islands	29.00
45	6	0	Sharo Rodríguez	Mexico	29.13
46	2	3	San Su Moe Theint	Myanmar	29.21
47	3	9	María Ribera	Bolivia	29.22
48	3	7	Elinah Phillip	British Virgin Islands	29.29
49	2	4	Dalia Torrez Zamora	Nicaragua	29.31
50	3	8	Choe Su-rim	North Korea	29.57
51	3	0	Jannah Sonnenschein	Mozambique	29.66
52	2	7	Ann-Marie Hepler	Marshall Islands	30.02
53	2	6	Samantha Roberts	Antigua and Barbuda	30.16
54	2	5	Chade Nersicio	Curaçao	30.23
55	2	1	Tegan McCarthy	Papua New Guinea	30.27
56	2	9	Jamila Sanmoogan	Guyana	31.38
57	2	0	Dirngulbai Misech	Palau	31.70
58	2	8	Irene Prescott	Tonga	31.90
59	1	4	Rita Zeqiri	Kosovo	32.12
60	1	3	Sonia Aktar	Bangladesh	32.81
61	1	6	Angel de Jesús	Northern Mariana Islands	33.86
62	1	5	Rahel Gebresilassie	Ethiopia	36.15
63	2	2	Fatoumata Samassékou	Mali	36.31
64	1	2	Alzain Tareq	Bahrain	41.13
	4	6	Liliána Szilágyi	Hungary		DNS

Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 18:45. ^[3]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Jeanette Ottesen	Denmark	25.27	Q
2	5	Lu Ying	China	25.79	Q
3	3	Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace	Bahamas	25.81	Q
4	7	Farida Osman	Egypt	25.88	Q, AF
5	6	Kendyl Stewart	United States	25.93
6	8	Daynara de Paula	Brazil	26.24
7	1	Béryl Gastaldello	France	26.25
8	2	Kimberly Buys	Belgium	26.43

Semifinal 2

Second Semi

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	25.06	Q, CR
2	3	Fran Halsall	Great Britain	25.71	Q
3	5	Inge Dekker	Netherlands	25.90	Q
4	2	Anna Dowgiert	Poland	25.91	Q, NR
5	1	Mélanie Henique	France	26.03
6	6	Elena Gemo	Italy	26.11
7	7	Silvia Di Pietro	Italy	26.17
8	8	Noemie Thomas	Canada	26.37

Final

The final was held on 8 August at 17:32. ^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	24.96	CR
	5	Jeanette Ottesen	Denmark	25.34
	6	Lu Ying	China	25.37	AS
4	1	Inge Dekker	Netherlands	25.64
5	7	Farida Osman	Egypt	25.78	AF
6	3	Fran Halsall	Great Britain	25.85
7	2	Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace	Bahamas	25.93
8	8	Anna Dowgiert	Poland	26.20

References

1. Start list
2. Heats results
3. Semifinals results
4. Final results