Swimming at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 50 metre butterfly

Women's 50 metre butterfly
at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships
Women's 50 metre butterfly ; at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Marine Messe Fukuoka
Location	Fukuoka, Japan
Dates	28 July (heats and semifinals); 29 July (final)
Competitors	64 from 58 nations
Winning time	24.77
Medalists
	← 2022 2024 →

The women's 50 metre butterfly competition at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships was held on 28 and 29 July 2023.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.^[4]

World record	Sarah Sjöström (SWE)	24.43	Borås, Sweden	5 July 2014
Competition record	Sarah Sjöström (SWE)	24.60	Budapest, Hungary	29 July 2017

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 28 July at 11:39.^[5]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	7	4	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	25.04	Q
2	7	5	Zhang Yufei	China	25.33	Q
3	7	3	Rikako Ikee	Japan	25.50	Q
4	5	4	Mélanie Henique	France	25.75	Q
5	5	5	Farida Osman	Egypt	25.77	Q
6	6	4	Gretchen Walsh	United States	25.78	Q
7	5	8	Neža Klančar	Slovenia	25.81	Q, NR
8	7	6	Ai Soma	Japan	25.96	Q
9	6	5	Torri Huske	United States	25.98	Q
10	5	3	Angelina Köhler	Germany	26.02	Q
11	6	6	Sara Junevik	Sweden	26.04	Q
12	5	6	Anna Ntountounaki	Greece	26.14	Q
13	6	3	Maaike de Waard	Netherlands	26.17	Q
14	7	2	Yu Yiting	China	26.21	Q
15	5	1	Kim Busch	Netherlands	26.23	Q
15	7	1	Katerine Savard	Canada	26.23	Q
17	7	8	Helena Gasson	New Zealand	26.29
18	6	7	Brianna Throssell	Australia	26.30
19	6	2	Margaret MacNeil	Canada	26.33
20	6	1	Julie Kepp Jensen	Denmark	26.36
21	7	7	Emilie Beckmann	Denmark	26.43
22	6	8	Celine Souza Bispo	Brazil	26.55
22	7	0	Tamara Potocká	Slovakia	26.55
24	5	7	Vanessa Ouwehand	New Zealand	26.57
25	6	9	Quah Ting Wen	Singapore	26.67
26	5	2	Paulina Peda	Poland	26.71
27	4	6	Huang Mei-chien	Chinese Taipei	26.73
28	5	0	Jenjira Srisa-Ard	Thailand	26.78
29	5	9	Tayde Sansores	Mexico	26.82
30	4	4	Danielle Hill	Ireland	26.90
31	7	9	Tam Hoi Lam	Hong Kong	26.91
32	6	0	Barbora Seemanová	Czech Republic	27.02
33	4	5	Sirena Rowe	Colombia	27.19
34	4	3	Lismar Lyon	Venezuela	27.53
35	4	1	Olivia Borg	Samoa	27.77	NR
36	4	2	Amel Melih	Algeria	27.79
37	4	8	Oumy Diop	Senegal	27.86
38	4	7	Luana Alonso	Paraguay	28.13
39	3	5	Rhanishka Gibbs	Bahamas	28.43
40	4	0	Emily Muteti	Suspended Member Federation	28.46
41	3	3	María José Ribera	Bolivia	28.58
41	4	9	Maria Schutzmeier	Nicaragua	28.58
43	3	7	Cherelle Thompson	Trinidad and Tobago	28.84
44	3	6	Tara Naluwoza	Uganda	29.07
45	1	7	Adaku Nwandu	Nigeria	29.38
46	3	4	Mikaili Charlemagne	Saint Lucia	29.39
47	3	2	Chloe Farro	Aruba	29.41
48	3	1	Nubia Adjei	Ghana	29.54
49	3	8	Bisma Khan	Pakistan	29.63
50	3	0	Kennice Greene	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	29.90
51	3	9	Bianca Mitchell	Antigua and Barbuda	29.97
52	2	4	Hayley Hoy	Eswatini	30.73
53	2	5	Ayah Binrajab	Bahrain	30.86
54	2	0	Abigail Ai Tom	Papua New Guinea	31.46
55	2	3	Sonia Khatun	Bangladesh	31.51
56	2	2	Ekaterina Bordachyova	Tajikistan	32.09
57	1	4	Taeyanna Adams	Micronesia	32.53
58	2	7	Arleigha Hall	Turks and Caicos Islands	32.55
59	1	5	Maria Batallones	Northern Mariana Islands	33.49
60	2	9	Alyse Maniriho	Burundi	36.57
61	1	6	Lina Selo	Ethiopia	37.68
62	2	1	Galyah Mikel	Palau	38.22
63	2	8	Marie Amenou	Togo	39.50
64	1	2	Claudette Ishimwe	Rwanda	41.44
	1	3	Ruth Turay	Sierra Leone	DNS
	2	6	Taffi Illis	Sint Maarten	DNS

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 28 July at 21:08.^[6]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	24.74	Q
2	1	4	Zhang Yufei	China	25.17	Q, NR
3	1	3	Gretchen Walsh	United States	25.48	Q
4	1	5	Mélanie Henique	France	25.70	Q
5	2	5	Rikako Ikee	Japan	25.72	Q
6	2	3	Farida Osman	Egypt	25.74	Q
7	2	2	Torri Huske	United States	25.75	Q
8	2	7	Sara Junevik	Sweden	25.77	Q
9	1	7	Anna Ntountounaki	Greece	25.82
10	2	6	Neža Klančar	Slovenia	25.83
11	1	2	Angelina Köhler	Germany	25.88
12	1	8	Katerine Savard	Canada	25.98
13	2	1	Maaike de Waard	Netherlands	26.02
14	2	8	Kim Busch	Netherlands	26.14
15	1	6	Ai Soma	Japan	26.18
16	1	1	Yu Yiting	China	26.27

Final

The final was held on 29 July at 20:02.^[7]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	24.77
	5	Zhang Yufei	China	25.05	AS
	3	Gretchen Walsh	United States	25.46
4	7	Farida Osman	Egypt	25.62
5	1	Torri Huske	United States	25.64
6	8	Sara Junevik	Sweden	25.74
7	2	Rikako Ikee	Japan	25.78
8	6	Mélanie Henique	France	25.80

References

^ "Schedule" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 January 2024. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
^ Sutherland, James (13 January 2023). "World Aquatics Announces Competition Schedule For 2023 World Championships In Fukuoka". SwimSwam. Archived from the original on 18 January 2024. Retrieved 13 January 2023.
^ "Start list" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 21 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 July 2023.
^ "Records book" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 21 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 January 2024.
^ "Heats results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 28 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 January 2024.
^ "Semifinals results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 28 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 July 2023.
^ "Final results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 29 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 29 July 2023.

[1] "Schedule" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 January 2024. Retrieved 17 January 2023.

[2] Sutherland, James (13 January 2023). "World Aquatics Announces Competition Schedule For 2023 World Championships In Fukuoka". SwimSwam. Archived from the original on 18 January 2024. Retrieved 13 January 2023.

[3] "Start list" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 21 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 July 2023.

[4] "Records book" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 21 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 January 2024.

[5] "Heats results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 28 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 January 2024.

[6] "Semifinals results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 28 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 July 2023.

[7] "Final results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 29 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 29 July 2023.

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