2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 50 metre backstroke explained

Event:	Women's 50 metre backstroke
Competition:	2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Dates:	6 December (heats and semifinals) 7 December (final)
Competitors:	69
Nations:	52
Win Value:	25.67
Gold:	Etiene Medeiros
Goldnoc:	BRA
Silver:	Emily Seebohm
Silvernoc:	AUS
Bronze:	Katinka Hosszú
Bronzenoc:	HUN
Prev:	2012
Next:	2016

The women's 50 metre backstroke competition of the 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 6 December with the heats and the semifinals and 7 December with the final.^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Sanja Jovanović		25.70	Istanbul	12 December 2009
Championship record	Zhao Jing		25.95	Istanbul	16 December 2012

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nation	Time	Record
6 December	Semifinals			25.87	CR
6 December	Final			25.67	WR, CR

The heats were held at 09:38.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	7	4	26.07	Q
2	8	4	26.45	Q
3	7	5	26.54	Q
3	8	3	26.54	Q
5	7	6	26.62	Q
6	6	6	26.63	Q
7	7	3	26.67	Q
8	7	7	26.74	Q
9	6	4	27.06	Q
10	8	5	27.09	Q
11	8	6	27.13	Q
12	4	5	27.17	Q
13	8	1	27.22	Q
14	6	8	27.26	Q
15	6	0	27.28	Q
16	6	3	27.30	Q
17	7	1	27.31
18	8	9	27.35
19	6	7	27.41
19	8	7	27.41
21	6	5	27.45
22	6	2	27.50
23	5	5	27.62
24	5	7	27.64
25	7	9	27.66
26	6	9	27.80
27	8	8	27.82
28	7	2	27.84
29	5	4	27.88
30	6	1	27.93
31	8	0	28.03
32	5	8	28.04
33	5	6	28.12
34	5	2	28.36
35	5	3	28.57
36	7	0	28.64
37	5	9	28.80
38	5	1	28.85
39	4	6	28.86
40	4	1	29.35
41	4	9	29.42
42	5	0	29.55
43	4	4	29.82
43	4	2	29.82
45	7	8	30.31
46	3	6	30.39
47	4	3	30.46
48	4	7	30.80
49	3	2	30.82
50	3	3	30.98
50	3	1	30.98
52	3	4	31.44
53	3	5	31.45
54	3	7	31.58
55	4	8	31.80
56	3	0	31.86
57	3	8	32.10
58	3	9	33.20
59	2	5	33.55
60	2	4	33.72
61	2	7	34.01
62	2	2	34.11
63	4	0	34.90
64	2	3	35.40
65	2	8	35.67
66	2	1	36.03
67	1	3	36.54
68	2	0	36.72
69	1	5	37.75
—	8	2		DNS
—	1	4		DSQ

The semifinals were held at 18:15.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	25.87	Q, CR
2	2	25.99	Q, AM
3	3	26.20	Q
4	6	26.22	Q
5	5	26.36	Q
6	7	26.65
7	8	27.01
8	1	27.04

The final was held at 18:11.^[4]