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

Event:	Women's 50m Freestyle
Competition:	2012 Short Course Worlds
Dates:	15 December (heats and semifinals) 16 December (final)
Win Value:	23.64
Gold:	Aleksandra Gerasimenya
Goldnoc:	BLR
Silver:	Francesca Halsall
Silvernoc:	GBR
Bronze:	Jeanette Ottesen
Bronzenoc:	DEN
Prev:	2010
Next:	2014

The women's 50 metre freestyle 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.

No new records were set during this competition.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	11	4	24.27	Q
2	12	4	24.41	Q
3	12	7	24.42	Q
4	10	4	24.50	Q
5	10	7	24.58	Q
6	12	5	24.60	Q
7	10	3	24.64	Q
8	12	3	24.70	Q
9	10	2	24.81	Q
10	12	6	24.82	Q
11	11	3	24.87	Q
12	10	8	24.90	Q
13	12	0	24.92	Q
14	2	4	24.95	Q
15	10	6	24.97	Q
16	12	2	25.00	Q
17	11	2	25.01
18	10	1	25.09
19	12	1	25.16
20	10	9	25.18
20	11	7	25.18
22	10	5	25.20
23	9	6	25.26
24	11	0	25.30
25	1	7	25.32
26	9	4	25.33
27	9	3	25.41
28	11	6	25.43
29	9	8	25.45
30	11	8	25.53
31	9	7	25.54
32	11	9	25.75
33	9	5	25.78
34	12	9	25.80
35	9	2	25.82
36	8	2	25.95
37	6	4	26.26
37	9	1	26.26
39	9	0	26.30
39	10	0	26.30
41	8	0	26.37
42	7	6	26.48	NR
43	7	9	26.54	NR
44	6	3	26.61	NR
45	8	3	26.64
46	8	9	26.65
47	8	6	26.68	NR
48	9	9	26.73
49	8	5	26.89
50	8	8	26.94	NR
51	5	4	27.05
51	7	4	27.05
53	8	4	27.07
54	7	8	27.15
55	7	3	27.22
56	7	5	27.24
57	6	0	27.25
58	5	2	27.29
59	5	6	27.32
60	7	2	27.40
61	7	7	27.41
62	6	5	27.52
63	2	2	27.65
64	6	8	27.72
65	7	0	27.75
66	7	1	27.86
67	6	6	27.89
68	5	3	28.08
69	6	1	28.14
70	5	5	28.22
70	5	8	28.22
72	6	2	28.45
73	2	3	28.46
74	6	7	28.47
75	6	9	28.74
76	5	7	28.88
77	2	7	29.06
78	4	0	29.22
79	2	6	29.34
79	3	9	29.34
81	4	5	29.50
82	1	2	29.58
83	5	1	29.60
84	2	8	29.77
85	4	6	29.84
86	4	9	29.85
87	4	2	29.98
88	4	1	30.02
89	4	8	30.11
90	5	0	30.16
91	1	1	30.28
92	4	4	30.47
93	3	3	30.50
94	3	5	30.58
95	4	7	30.62
96	3	4	30.71
97	3	6	31.67
98	5	9	31.72
99	3	0	31.76
100	2	9	31.93
101	3	2	31.96
102	1	5	32.80
103	3	1	33.52
104	3	7	33.54
105	2	0	38.45	NR
106	2	5	39.65
107	1	3	41.15
108	1	6	50.63
	2	1
	1	4
	3	8
	4	3
	8	1
	8	7
	11	1
	11	5
	12	8

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	2	4		24.13	Q
2	1	3		24.25	Q
3	1	5		24.27	Q
4	1	4		24.49	Q
4	2	5	Christine Magnuson	24.49	Q
6	2	6	Marieke Guehrer	24.50	Q
7	2	3	Flávia Cazziolato	24.55	Q
8	1	6	Svetlana Kniaginina	24.57	Q
9	1	8	Miki Uchida	24.69	NR
10	2	1	Trudi Maree	24.74
11	2	7	Anna Santamans	24.80
12	2	8	Chantal van Landeghem	24.81
12	2	2	Daniela Schreiber	24.81
14	1	2	Hanna-Maria Seppälä	24.87
15	1	1	Chen Xinyi	24.88
16	1	7	Sally Foster	24.97

The final was held at 20:12.^[3]

Web site: 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 50 metre freestyle (heats). Omega Timing. 2012-12-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20121218110233/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010C010D01001400FFFFFFFFFFFF02. 2012-12-18. dead.
Web site: 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 50 metre freestyle (semifinals). Omega Timing. 2012-12-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20121218100800/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010C010D01001401FFFFFFFFFFFF02. 2012-12-18. dead.
Web site: 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 50 metre freestyle (final). Omega Timing. 2012-12-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20121218233612/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010C010D01001402FFFFFFFFFFFF02. 2012-12-18. dead.