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

Event:	Women's 50 metre butterfly
Competition:	2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Dates:	4 December (heats and semifinals) 5 December (final)
Competitors:	81
Nations:	66
Win Value:	24.58
Gold:	Sarah Sjöström
Goldnoc:	SWE
Silver:	Jeanette Ottesen
Silvernoc:	DEN
Bronze:	Inge Dekker
Bronzenoc:	NED
Prev:	2012
Next:	2016

The Women's 50 metre butterfly competition of the 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 4 December with the heats and the semifinals and 5 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	Therese Alshammar		24.38	Singapore	22 November 2009
Championship record	Therese Alshammar		24.87	Dubai	17 December 2010

The following records were established during the competition:

The heats were held at 10:40.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	9	4	25.08	Q
2	7	4	25.39	Q
3	8	4	25.61	Q
4	7	5	25.65	Q
5	7	3	25.66	Q
6	7	2	25.81	Q
7	8	5	25.83	Q
7	9	3	25.83	Q
7	9	2	25.83	Q
10	8	7	25.87	Q
11	9	6	25.97	Q
12	9	8	25.99	Q
13	8	3	26.04	Q
14	9	7	26.05	Q
15	7	6	26.07	Q
16	7	1	26.11	Q
17	8	6	26.16
18	9	5	26.22
19	8	2	26.26
20	8	1	26.31
21	9	1	26.37
22	8	8	26.46
23	7	8	26.54
24	8	0	26.61
25	7	0	26.84
26	7	7	26.92
27	6	0	27.04
28	8	9	27.10
29	9	9	27.37
30	6	4	27.45
30	6	3	27.45
32	5	3	27.52
33	6	2	27.67
34	5	2	27.69
35	6	8	27.70
36	5	4	27.80
37	6	1	27.99
38	6	5	28.09
39	5	5	28.13
40	7	9	28.23
41	5	6	28.49
42	6	9	28.53
43	4	4	28.89
44	5	9	28.91
45	5	8	29.09
46	6	7	29.21
47	4	5	29.31
48	5	0	29.45
49	4	1	29.52
50	4	2	29.72
51	5	1	29.81
52	3	7	29.96
53	4	0	29.97
54	3	1	30.09
55	4	3	30.13
55	5	7	30.13
57	4	9	30.41
58	4	8	30.43
59	3	5	30.71
59	3	0	30.71
61	3	2	30.81
62	3	3	30.98
63	2	3	31.39
64	2	9	31.57
65	3	4	31.82
66	2	4	31.86
67	2	1	32.10
68	2	2	32.14
69	3	8	32.18
70	2	7	32.42
71	3	6	32.54
72	2	8	32.64
73	2	5	32.89
74	2	6	33.04
76	2	0	33.09
75	3	9	33.64
77	1	5	33.77
78	1	4	33.98
79	1	2	34.31
80	1	3	36.15
81	1	7	38.97
—	1	1		DNS
—	1	6		DNS
—	4	6		DNS
—	4	7		DNS
—	6	6		DNS
—	9	0		DNS

The semifinals were held at 18:39.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	24.91	Q
2	5	25.50	Q
3	3	25.54	Q, SA
4	6	25.61	Q
5	2	25.72
6	1	25.84
7	8	26.08
8	7	26.15

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	25.02	Q
2	5	25.31	Q
3	3	25.43	Q
4	1	25.68	Q
5	6	25.86
6	8	25.92
7	2	25.95
8	7	26.01

The final was held at 18:44.^[4]

http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010E010D01032000FFFFFFFFFFFF01 Start list
Web site: Heats Results . 2014-12-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924140900/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010E010D01032000FFFFFFFFFFFF02 . 2015-09-24 . dead .
Web site: Semifinals Results . 2014-12-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924140904/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010E010D01032001FFFFFFFFFFFF02 . 2015-09-24 . dead .
http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010E010D01032002FFFFFFFFFFFF02 Final Results