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

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]

Women's 50 metre butterfly
at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships
Victory Ceremony
Dates7 August (heats and semifinals)
8 August (final)
Competitors64 from 56 nations
Winning time24.96
Medalists
 Sarah Sjöström   Sweden
 Jeanette Ottesen   Denmark
 Lu Ying   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  Sarah Sjöström (SWE)24.43Borås, Sweden5 July 2014
Competition record  Therese Alshammar (SWE)25.07Rome, Italy31 July 2009

The following new records were set during this competition.

DateEventNameNationalityTimeRecord
7 AugustSemifinal 2Sarah Sjöström Sweden25.06CR
8 AugustFinalSarah Sjöström Sweden24.96CR

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 09:54[2]

RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
174Sarah Sjöström Sweden25.43Q
254Jeanette Ottesen Denmark25.51Q
375Inge Dekker Netherlands25.66Q
455Lu Ying China25.69Q
564Fran Halsall Great Britain25.86Q
663Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace Bahamas26.02Q
766Elena Gemo Italy26.07Q
776Kendyl Stewart United States26.07Q
967Anna Dowgiert Poland26.24Q, NR
1052Kimberly Buys Belgium26.28Q
1165Silvia Di Pietro Italy26.32Q
1272Farida Osman Egypt26.33Q
1277Mélanie Henique France26.33Q
1473Beryl Gastaldello France26.46Q
1471Noemie Thomas Canada26.46Q
1658Daynara de Paula Brazil26.49Q
1762Claire Donahue United States26.52
1878Nastja Govejšek Slovenia26.54
1961Rikako Ikee Japan26.66
2068Misaki Yamaguchi Japan26.68
2147Bryndis Hansen Iceland26.79NR
2153Emma McKeon Australia26.79
2350Aleksandra Urbańczyk Poland26.82
2443Katarína Listopadová Slovakia26.84
2569Anna Ntountounaki Greece26.85
2640An Se-hyeon South Korea26.90
2657Amit Ivry Israel26.90
2670Brianna Throssell Australia26.90
2951Katerine Savard Canada26.93
3048Sviatlana Khakhlova Belarus26.99
3144Alia Atkinson Jamaica27.01
3159Lucie Svěcená Czech Republic27.01
3342Sasha Touretski  Switzerland27.04NR
3456Nataliya Lovtsova Russia27.11
3545Sze Hang Yu Hong Kong27.24
3641Fanny Teijonsalo Finland27.49
3735Carolina Colorado Henao Colombia27.58
3749Quah Ting Wen Singapore27.58
3934Jeserik Pinto Venezuela27.70
4033Jasmine Al-Khaldi Philippines28.16
4136Sotiria Neofytou Cyprus28.25
4232Amina Kajtaz Bosnia and Herzegovina28.32
4379Laura Arroyo Mexico28.98
4431Astri Foldarskar Faroe Islands29.00
4560Sharo Rodríguez Mexico29.13
4623San Su Moe Theint Myanmar29.21
4739María Ribera Bolivia29.22
4837Elinah Phillip British Virgin Islands29.29
4924Dalia Torrez Zamora Nicaragua29.31
5038Choe Su-rim North Korea29.57
5130Jannah Sonnenschein Mozambique29.66
5227Ann-Marie Hepler Marshall Islands30.02
5326Samantha Roberts Antigua and Barbuda30.16
5425Chade Nersicio Curaçao30.23
5521Tegan McCarthy Papua New Guinea30.27
5629Jamila Sanmoogan Guyana31.38
5720Dirngulbai Misech Palau31.70
5828Irene Prescott Tonga31.90
5914Rita Zeqiri Kosovo32.12
6013Sonia Aktar Bangladesh32.81
6116Angel de Jesús Northern Mariana Islands33.86
6215Rahel Gebresilassie Ethiopia36.15
6322Fatoumata Samassékou Mali36.31
6412Alzain Tareq Bahrain41.13
46Liliána Szilágyi HungaryDNS

Semifinals

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

Semifinal 1
RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
14Jeanette Ottesen Denmark25.27Q
25Lu Ying China25.79Q
33Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace Bahamas25.81Q
47Farida Osman Egypt25.88Q, AF
56Kendyl Stewart United States25.93
68Daynara de Paula Brazil26.24
71Beryl Gastaldello France26.25
82Kimberly Buys Belgium26.43

Semifinal 2
Second Semi
RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
14Sarah Sjöström Sweden25.06Q, CR
23Fran Halsall Great Britain25.71Q
35Inge Dekker Netherlands25.90Q
42Anna Dowgiert Poland25.91Q, NR
51Mélanie Henique France26.03
66Elena Gemo Italy26.11
77Silvia Di Pietro Italy26.17
88Noemie Thomas Canada26.37

Final

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

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
4Sarah Sjöström Sweden24.96CR
5Jeanette Ottesen Denmark25.34
6Lu Ying China25.37AS
41Inge Dekker Netherlands25.64
57Farida Osman Egypt25.78AF
63Fran Halsall Great Britain25.85
72Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace Bahamas25.93
88Anna Dowgiert Poland26.20

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