2024 World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 50 metre freestyle

Women's 50 metre freestyle
at the 2024 World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25 m)
Women's 50 metre freestyle ; at the 2024 World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue	Duna Arena
Location	Budapest, Hungary
Dates	14 December (heats and semifinals); 15 December (final)
Competitors	94 from 85 nations
Winning time	22.83 WR
Medalists
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The Women's 50 metre freestyle competition of the 2024 World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 14 and 15 December 2024.^[1]

Records

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

World record	Ranomi Kromowidjojo (NED)	22.93	Berlin, Germany	7 August 2017
Competition record	Emma McKeon (AUS)	23.04	Melbourne, Australia	17 December 2022

The following record was established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
14 December	Heat 8	Gretchen Walsh	United States	23.02	CR
14 December	Semifinal 2	Gretchen Walsh	United States	22.87	WR
15 December	Final	Gretchen Walsh	United States	22.83	WR

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 14 December at 9:53.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	8	3	Gretchen Walsh	United States	23.02	Q, CR, AM
2	9	5	Kate Douglass	United States	23.20	Q
3	10	4	Katarzyna Wasick	Poland	23.64	Q
4	10	5	Arina Surkova	Neutral Athletes B	23.86	Q
5	9	2	Silvia Di Pietro	Italy	23.88	Q
5	10	2	Mélanie Henique	France	23.88	Q
7	9	4	Sara Curtis	Italy	23.93	Q
8	8	5	Meg Harris	Australia	23.98	Q
8	9	3	Liu Shuhan	China	23.98	Q
10	7	4	Eva Okaro	Great Britain	24.02	Q
11	8	4	Alexandria Perkins	Australia	24.11	Q
12	7	3	Caitlin de Lange	South Africa	24.14	Q, AF
13	9	1	Maaike de Waard	Netherlands	24.20	Q
14	8	6	Barbora Janíčková	Czech Republic	24.27	Q
15	9	6	Daria Trofimova	Neutral Athletes B	24.31	Q
16	10	7	Milou van Wijk	Netherlands	24.33	Q
17	9	0	Jana Pavalić	Croatia	24.34	R
18	10	3	Danielle Hill	Ireland	24.35	R
19	9	7	Sara Junevik	Sweden	24.39
19	9	9	Jenjira Srisa-Ard	Thailand	24.39	NR
21	10	6	Analia Pigrée	France	24.42
22	8	7	Kalia Antoniou	Cyprus	24.50
23	8	2	Yume Jinno	Japan	24.51
24	7	7	Nele Schulze	Germany	24.53
25	8	1	Petra Senanszky	Hungary	24.55
26	8	0	Kornelia Fiedkiewicz	Poland	24.57
27	8	8	Theodora Drakou	Greece	24.58	NR
28	8	9	Nina Jazy	Germany	24.61
29	9	8	Lillian Slušná	Slovakia	24.64
30	6	3	Jillian Crooks	Cayman Islands	24.70	NR
31	7	2	Li Sum Yiu	Hong Kong	24.80
31	7	5	Smiltė Plytnykaitė	Lithuania	24.80
31	7	9	Zoe Pedersen	New Zealand	24.80
34	6	4	Mari Moen	Norway	24.85
35	6	2	Marina Spadoni	El Salvador	24.86	NR
35	10	1	Hur Yeon-kyung	South Korea	24.86
37	7	1	Penny Oleksiak	Canada	24.90
37	10	9	María Daza	Spain	24.90
39	6	7	Kirabo Namutebi	Uganda	24.93	NR
40	6	6	Yeo Chiok Sze	Singapore	25.00
41	10	8	Xie Ziqi	China	25.07
42	6	5	Amel Melih	Algeria	25.09	=NR
43	7	6	Lena Kreundl	Austria	25.25
44	7	8	Jóhanna Elín Guðmundsdóttir	Iceland	25.28
45	7	0	Rafaela Fernandini	Peru	25.41
46	5	5	Elisabeth Timmer	Aruba	25.45	NR
47	6	9	Sara Mose	Kenya	25.62	NR
48	6	1	Nguyễn Thúy Hiền	Vietnam	25.79
49	6	0	Elizaveta Pecherskikh	Kyrgyzstan	25.83	NR
50	5	6	Pak Mi-song	North Korea	26.11
51	5	1	Jovana Kuljača	Montenegro	26.22
52	5	4	Adaku Nkem Nwandu	Nigeria	26.24
53	4	5	Varsenik Manucharyan	Armenia	26.26	NR
54	5	3	Hana Beiqi	Kosovo	26.35
55	5	2	Oumy Diop	Senegal	26.45	NR
56	5	7	Antsa Rabejaona	Madagascar	26.46	NR
57	4	4	Aunjelique Liddie	Netherlands Antilles	26.47
58	6	8	Rhanishka Gibbs	Bahamas	26.54
59	3	0	Davia Richardson	Belize	26.60
60	5	8	Christina Rach	Eritrea	26.76
61	5	0	Darielys Ortiz	Dominican Republic	26.93
62	4	7	Jhnayali Tokome-Garap	Papua New Guinea	26.96
63	4	1	Naekeisha Louis	Saint Lucia	26.97
64	4	2	Noelie Annette Lacour	Gabon	27.01
65	5	9	Riley Sofia Miller	United States Virgin Islands	27.14	NR
66	4	6	Aleka Persaud	Guyana	27.15
67	4	3	Ionnah Eliane Douillet	Benin	27.29	NR
68	4	8	Batsanalyn Maral	Mongolia	27.37
69	3	3	Maria Lopes Freitas	Angola	27.62
70	3	4	Anastasiya Morginshtern	Turkmenistan	27.63	NR
71	3	8	Sharmeen Mohd Mharvin	Brunei	27.82
72	1	6	Liana Planz	American Samoa	27.84
73	3	6	Kyra Dalilah De Cuba	Curaçao	27.87
74	4	9	Marina Abu Shamaleh	Palestine	28.01
75	3	5	Carolann Faeamani	Tonga	28.18
76	4	0	Kaiya Brown	Samoa	28.37
77	2	6	Mayah Chouloute	Haiti	28.43
78	3	2	Southada Daviau	Laos	28.55
79	2	3	Jasmine Schofield	Dominica	28.61
80	2	4	Maesha Saadi	Comoros	28.76	NR
81	3	1	Siwakhile Dlamini	Eswatini	28.80
82	1	4	Chanchakriya Kheun	Cambodia	29.14
83	3	7	Tayamika Changanamuno	Malawi	29.58
84	2	2	Saba Sultan	Kuwait	29.65
85	3	9	Anushiya Tandukar	Nepal	29.81
86	1	1	Aragsan Mugabo	Rwanda	30.05
87	2	7	Grace Manuela Nguelo'O	Cameroon	30.72
88	2	1	Leena Mohamedahmed	Sudan	30.78
89	2	8	Lina Alemayehu Selo	Ethiopia	31.31
90	1	3	Aliyana Kachra	Tanzania	31.75
91	2	9	Emiliya Khalikova	Tajikistan	32.49
92	1	7	Hazel Alamy	Sierra Leone	36.36
93	1	2	Xiang Kombate	Togo	41.69
94	1	5	Salena Marlin	Timor-Leste	42.76
	1	0	Ibrahim Miandabu Anyatu	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Did not start
	1	8	Mimarcia Ie	Guinea-Bissau
	2	0	Mariama Touré	Guinea
	2	5	Angelina Smythe	Seychelles
	10	0	Fanny Teijonsalo	Finland

Semifinals

The semifinals were started on 14 December at 17:48.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Gretchen Walsh	United States	22.87	Q, WR
2	1	4	Kate Douglass	United States	23.35	Q
3	2	5	Katarzyna Wasick	Poland	23.46	Q
4	2	3	Silvia Di Pietro	Italy	23.68	Q, NR
5	1	5	Arina Surkova	Neutral Athletes B	23.69	Q
6	1	2	Eva Okaro	Great Britain	23.71	Q
7	1	6	Meg Harris	Australia	23.74	Q
8	2	6	Sara Curtis	Italy	23.76	Q
9	1	3	Mélanie Henique	France	23.89
10	1	1	Barbora Janíčková	Czech Republic	23.99	NR
11	2	7	Alexandria Perkins	Australia	24.01
12	2	2	Liu Shuhan	China	24.03
13	1	8	Milou van Wijk	Netherlands	24.08
14	2	8	Daria Trofimova	Neutral Athletes B	24.11
15	1	7	Caitlin de Lange	South Africa	24.21
16	2	1	Maaike de Waard	Netherlands	24.22

Final

The final was held on 15 December at 17:32.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Gretchen Walsh	United States	22.83	WR
	5	Kate Douglass	United States	23.05
	3	Katarzyna Wasick	Poland	23.37
4	7	Eva Okaro	Great Britain	23.66	WJ
5	1	Meg Harris	Australia	23.73
6	6	Silvia Di Pietro	Italy	23.85
7	8	Sara Curtis	Italy	23.87
8	2	Arina Surkova	Neutral Athletes B	23.95

References

^ "Competition Schedule" (PDF). Omega Timing. 8 December 2024. Retrieved 9 December 2024.
^ "Women's 50m Freestyle – Heats – Results Summary" (PDF). Omega Timing. 14 December 2024. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
^ "Women's 50m Freestyle – Semifinals – Results Summary" (PDF). Omega Timing. 14 December 2024. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
^ "Women's 50m Freestyle – Final – Results" (PDF). Omega Timing. 15 December 2024. Retrieved 15 December 2024.

[1] "Competition Schedule" (PDF). Omega Timing. 8 December 2024. Retrieved 9 December 2024.

[2] "Women's 50m Freestyle – Heats – Results Summary" (PDF). Omega Timing. 14 December 2024. Retrieved 18 December 2024.

[3] "Women's 50m Freestyle – Semifinals – Results Summary" (PDF). Omega Timing. 14 December 2024. Retrieved 18 December 2024.

[4] "Women's 50m Freestyle – Final – Results" (PDF). Omega Timing. 15 December 2024. Retrieved 15 December 2024.

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