2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 50 metre backstroke explained

Event:	Women's 50m Backstroke
Competition:	2012 Short Course Worlds
Dates:	15 December (heats and semifinals) 16 December (final)
Win Value:	25.95
Gold:	Zhao Jing
Goldnoc:	CHN
Silver:	Olivia Smoliga
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Aleksandra Urbanczyk
Bronzenoc:	POL
Prev:	2010
Next:	2014

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The women's 50 metre backstroke event at the 11th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) took place 15  - 16 December 2012 at the Sinan Erdem Dome.

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Sanja Jovanović		align=left	25.70		12 December 2009
Championship record			align=left	26.27		19 December 2010

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nation	Time	Record
15 December	Semifinals			26.11	CR
16 December	Final	Zhao Jing		25.95	CR

Results

Heats

^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	1	7		26.69	Q
2	1	6		26.75	Q, NR
3	7	4		26.86	Q
4	5	5		26.95	Q
5	6	4		27.01	Q
6	7	5		27.07	Q
7	7	6		27.21	Q
8	1	3		27.27	Q
9	6	5		27.30	Q
10	7	3		27.31	Q
11	6	3		27.36	Q
12	7	2		27.45	Q
13	5	4		27.48	Q
14	5	9		27.51	Q, NR
15	6	2		27.52	Q
16	6	6		27.56	Q
17	5	3		27.62
18	7	1		27.76
19	6	8		27.82	NR
20	5	1		27.84
21	4	5		27.94
22	5	2		28.13
23	7	7		28.29
24	5	7		28.45
25	6	0		28.47
26	5	6		28.51
26	5	0		28.51	NR
28	6	1		28.58
29	7	0		28.74
30	1	5		29.00
31	7	9		29.08
32	4	3		29.16
33	6	7		29.22
34	4	4		29.43
35	4	2		29.47
36	4	6		29.53
37	4	7		29.55
38	5	8		29.68
39	3	5		30.54
40	3	4		30.64
41	4	9		30.88
42	4	0		30.93	NR
43	4	1		31.01
44	3	6		31.04	NR
45	3	8		31.22
46	4	8		31.29
47	3	3		31.32
48	3	2		31.89	NR
49	3	7		32.02	NR
50	3	1		32.27
51	2	8		32.51
52	2	9		33.20
53	2	3		33.52
54	3	9		33.64
55	3	0		34.97
56	2	5		36.77
57	2	7		37.33
58	2	6		37.74
59	2	2		38.02
60	2	1		40.94
	2	0
	1	2
	1	4
	2	4
	6	9
	7	8

Semifinals

16 swimmers participated in 2 heats.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4			26.11	Q, CR
2	1	5			26.56	Q, NR
3	1	4			26.57	Q, NR
4	2	3			26.68	Q, =NR
5	1	3			26.84	Q, NR
6	2	6			26.85	Q
7	2	5			26.95	Q
8	2	8			27.01	Q
9	2	7			27.07	NR
10	2	2			27.13
11	1	6			27.28
12	2	1			27.31
13	1	7			27.38
14	1	2			27.42
15	1	1			27.45	NR
16	1	8			27.61

Final

The final was held at 19:06.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Zhao Jing		25.95	CR
	3	Olivia Smoliga		26.13	NR
	5	Aleksandra Urbanczyk		26.50	NR
4	2	Georgia Davies		26.56	NR
5	6	Simona Baumrtová		26.61	NR
6	1	Rachel Goh		26.91
7	8	Fabíola Molina		26.97
8	7	Grace Loh		27.45

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 50 metre backstroke (heats). Omega Timing. 2012-12-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20121219022623/http://www.omegatiming.com/file/download/?id=00010C010D01011A00FFFFFFFFFFFF02. 2012-12-19. dead.
2. Web site: 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 50 metre backstroke (semifinals). Omega Timing. 2012-12-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20121218110509/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010C010D01011A01FFFFFFFFFFFF02. 2012-12-18. dead.
3. Web site: 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 50 metre backstroke (final). Omega Timing. 2012-12-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20121218233624/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010C010D01011A02FFFFFFFFFFFF02. 2012-12-18. dead.