Swimming at the 2018 Commonwealth Games – Women's 50 metre freestyle

Women's 50 metre freestyle at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
Venue	Gold Coast Aquatic Centre
Dates	6 April (heats, semifinals) 7 April (final)
Competitors	40 from 30 nations
Winning time	23.78
Medalists
Cate Campbell    Australia   Bronte Campbell    Australia   Taylor Ruck    Canada
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The women's 50 metre freestyle event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games was held on 6 and 7 April at the Gold Coast Aquatic Centre.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world, Commonwealth and Games records were as follows:

World record	Sarah Sjöström  (SWE)	23.67	Budapest, Hungary	29 July 2017
Commonwealth record	Cate Campbell  (AUS)	23.79	Gold Coast, Australia	3 March 2018
Games record	Francesca Halsall  (ENG)	23.96	Glasgow, United Kingdom	26 July 2014

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
6 April	Semifinal	Cate Campbell	Australia	23.88	GR
7 April	Final	Cate Campbell	Australia	23.78	CR, GR

Results

Heats

The heats were held on 6 April at 10:47. ^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nation	Time	Notes
1	6	4	Cate Campbell	Australia	24.24	Q
2	4	4	Shayna Jack	Australia	24.50	Q
3	5	4	Bronte Campbell	Australia	24.87	Q
4	6	5	Taylor Ruck	Canada	25.13	Q
5	5	3	Erin Gallagher	South Africa	25.21	Q
6	5	5	Anna Hopkin	England	25.29	Q
7	6	3	Kayla Sanchez	Canada	25.47	Q
8	5	6	Emma Chelius	South Africa	25.62	Q
9	6	6	Lucy Hope	Scotland	25.85	Q
10	4	2	Laticia Transom	New Zealand	25.96	Q
11	4	6	Kalia Antoniou	Cyprus	25.97	Q
12	6	2	Jessica Jackson	England	26.01	Q
13	5	2	Danielle Hill	Northern Ireland	26.02	Q
14	4	5	Quah Ting Wen	Singapore	26.22	Q
15	5	7	Lauren Hew	Cayman Islands	26.59	Q
16	6	8	Maria Brunlehner	Kenya	26.70	Q
17	6	7	Lushavel Stickland	Samoa	26.84
18	5	1	Cheyenne Rova	Fiji	27.08
19	6	1	Emily Siobhan Muteti	Kenya	27.14
20	3	3	Matelita Buadromo	Fiji	27.19
21	4	7	Alison Jackson	Cayman Islands	27.34
22	5	8	Tilka Paljk	Zambia	27.47
23	3	7	Tatiana Tostevin	Guernsey	27.52
24	4	8	Elodie Poo Cheong	Mauritius	27.63
25	3	6	Dilrukshi Perera	Sri Lanka	27.75
26	1	5	Maayaa Ayawere	Ghana	28.38
26	3	2	Oreoluwa Cherebin	Grenada	28.38
28	2	5	Therese Soukup	Seychelles	28.45
29	3	4	Aaliyah Palestrini	Seychelles	28.52
30	3	8	Makaela Holowchak	Antigua and Barbuda	28.65
31	2	2	Christina Linares	Gibraltar	28.68
32	3	5	Bisma Khan	Pakistan	28.75
33	2	4	Vinoli Kaluarachchi	Sri Lanka	28.76
34	3	1	Jamila Sanmoogan	Guyana	28.86
35	2	6	Avice Meya	Uganda	29.09
36	1	3	Charissa Panuve	Tonga	30.34
37	2	3	Miss Khatun	Bangladesh	31.10
38	2	7	Aliah Maginley	Antigua and Barbuda	31.20
39	4	1	Angelia Charles	Solomon Islands	36.18
40	1	4	Bunturabie Jalloh	Sierra Leone	38.27
	4	3	Penny Oleksiak	Canada	DNS

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 6 April at 20:12. ^[2]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nation	Result	Notes
1	4	Shayna Jack	Australia	24.63	Q
2	5	Taylor Ruck	Canada	24.72	Q
3	3	Anna Hopkin	England	25.33	Q
4	6	Emma Chelius	South Africa	25.89
5	2	Laticia Transom	New Zealand	25.95
6	7	Jessica Jackson	England	26.08
7	1	Quah Ting Wen	Singapore	26.25
8	8	Maria Brunlehner	Kenya	26.63

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nation	Result	Notes
1	4	Cate Campbell	Australia	23.88	Q, GR
2	5	Bronte Campbell	Australia	24.38	Q
3	3	Erin Gallagher	South Africa	25.03	Q
4	6	Kayla Sanchez	Canada	25.20	Q
5	1	Danielle Hill	Northern Ireland	25.80	Q
6	2	Lucy Hope	Scotland	25.87
7	7	Kalia Antoniou	Cyprus	25.89
8	8	Lauren Hew	Cayman Islands	26.61

Final

The final was held on 7 April at 19:43. ^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nation	Result	Notes
	4	Cate Campbell	Australia	23.78	CR, GR
	5	Bronte Campbell	Australia	24.26
	6	Taylor Ruck	Canada	24.26	NR
4	3	Shayna Jack	Australia	24.57
5	2	Erin Gallagher	South Africa	25.03
6	7	Kayla Sanchez	Canada	25.12
7	1	Anna Hopkin	England	25.28
8	8	Danielle Hill	Northern Ireland	25.56

References

1. Heats results
2. Semifinals results
3. Final results