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

The Women's 50 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held on 5 August with the heats and the semifinals and 6 August with the final.[1]

Women's 50 metre backstroke
at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships
Victory Ceremony
Dates5 August (heats and semifinals)
6 August (final)
Competitors53 from 48 nations
Winning time27.11
Medalists
 Fu Yuanhui   China
 Etiene Medeiros   Brazil
 Liu Xiang   China
2015 FINA
World Championships
Diving
Individual
1 mmenwomen
3 mmenwomen
10 mmenwomen
3 m & 10 m mixed team
Synchronised
3 mmenwomen
3 m mixed
10 mmenwomen
10 m mixed
High diving
20 mwomen
27 mmen
Open water swimming
Single
5 kmmenwomen
10 kmmenwomen
25 kmmenwomen
Team
5 km mixed
Swimming
Freestyle
50 mmenwomen
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
800 mmenwomen
1500 mmenwomen
Backstroke
50 mmenwomen
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Breaststroke
50 mmenwomen
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Butterfly
50 mmenwomen
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Individual medley
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
Freestyle relay
4×100 mmenwomen
4×100 m mixed
4×200 mmenwomen
Medley relay
4×100 mmenwomen
4×100 m mixed
Synchronised swimming
Solo
Technicalwomen
Freewomen
Duet
Technicalwomen
Technical mixed
Freewomen
Free mixed
Team
Technicalwomen
Freewomen
Combinationwomen
Water polo
Tournamentmenwomen

Records

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

World record  Zhao Jing (CHN)27.06Rome, Italy30 July 2009
Competition record  Zhao Jing (CHN)27.06Rome, Italy30 July 2009

Results

Heats

The heats were held on 5 August at 09:30.[2]

RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
144Fu Yuanhui China27.66Q
264Etiene Medeiros Brazil27.74Q
354Emily Seebohm Australia27.75Q
455Liu Xiang China27.79Q
545Mie Nielsen Denmark27.89Q
665Lauren Quigley Great Britain27.94Q
746Beryl Gastaldello France28.02Q, NR
763Madison Wilson Australia28.02Q
956Kirsty Coventry Zimbabwe28.15Q
962Anastasia Fesikova Russia28.15Q
1166Elena Gemo Italy28.18Q
1260Theodora Drakou Greece28.35Q
1347Aleksandra Urbańczyk Poland28.36Q
1468Sanja Jovanović Croatia28.40Q
1561Mathilde Cini France28.46Q
1652Daria Ustinova Russia28.52Q
1758Sviatlana Khakhlova Belarus28.62
1850Katarína Listopadová Slovakia28.63
1959Dominique Bouchard Canada28.66
2053Yekaterina Rudenko Kazakhstan28.67
2051Simona Baumrtová Czech Republic28.67
2269Stephanie Au Hong Kong28.70
2340Eygló Ósk Gústafsdóttir Iceland28.75
2457Park Han-byeol South Korea28.85
2567Maaike de Waard Netherlands28.86
2641Alicja Tchórz Poland28.87
2735Gisela Morales Guatemala28.94
2848Daryna Zevina Ukraine28.97
2949Bobbie Gichard New Zealand29.15
3034Magdalena Kuras Sweden29.33
3125Naomi Ruele Botswana29.36
3236Yulduz Kuchkarova Uzbekistan29.37
3333Amit Ivry Israel29.50
3432Ekaterina Avramova Turkey29.60
3530Carolina Colorado Henao Colombia29.61
3637Sigrid Sepp Estonia29.95
3739Chan Caroline Zi Xin Malaysia30.14
3824Jessika Cossa Mozambique30.17
3931Anak Ratih Indonesia30.33
4023Ariel Weech Bahamas30.77
4122Monica Ramírez Andorra30.89
4238Andrea García Mexico30.94
4327Evelina Afoa Samoa31.74
4426Lauren Hew Cayman Islands32.33
4521Colleen Furgeson Marshall Islands33.04
4620Rita Zeqiri Kosovo33.65
4728Rahaf Baqleh Jordan33.67
4829Debra Daniel Federated States of Micronesia33.75
4914Yesui Bayar Mongolia35.44
5015Anastasiya Tyurina Tajikistan38.48
5113Tayamika Chang'Anamuno Malawi38.81
5216Fatema Abdulmohsen Bahrain40.40
42Mimosa Jallow FinlandDSQ
43Rachel Bootsma United StatesDNS

Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 17:42.[3]

Semifinal 1
Start of first semifinal
RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
14Etiene Medeiros Brazil27.41Q
25Liu Xiang China27.67Q
36Madison Wilson Australia27.83Q
43Lauren Quigley Great Britain27.88Q
57Theodora Drakou Greece28.01Q, NR
62Anastasia Fesikova Russia28.11
78Daria Ustinova Russia28.39
81Sanja Jovanović Croatia28.59

Semifinal 2
Second semifinal
RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
14Fu Yuanhui China27.18Q
23Mie Nielsen Denmark27.63Q, NR
35Emily Seebohm Australia27.70Q
48Mathilde Cini France28.16
57Elena Gemo Italy28.21
62Kirsty Coventry Zimbabwe28.28
76Beryl Gastaldello France28.30
81Aleksandra Urbańczyk Poland28.46

Final
Final heat

The final was held at 18:49.[4]

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
4Fu Yuanhui China27.11
5Etiene Medeiros Brazil27.26AM
6Liu Xiang China27.58
42Emily Seebohm Australia27.66
53Mie Nielsen Denmark27.73
67Madison Wilson Australia27.92
71Lauren Quigley Great Britain27.99
88Theodora Drakou Greece28.17

References
  1. Start list
  2. Heats results
  3. Semifinal results
  4. Final results
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