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

Event:	Women's 50m Freestyle
Competition:	2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Dates:	6 December (heats and semifinals) 7 December (final)
Competitors:	122
Nations:	88
Win Value:	23.32
Gold:	Ranomi Kromowidjojo
Goldnoc:	NED
Silver:	Bronte Campbell
Silvernoc:	AUS
Bronze:	Dorothea Brandt
Bronzenoc:	GER
Prev:	2012
Next:	2016

The Women's 50m Freestyle 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	Ranomi Kromowidjojo		23.24	Eindhoven	7 August 2013
Championship record	Marleen Veldhuis		23.25	Manchester	13 April 2008

The heats were held at 10:37.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	11	4	23.81	Q
1	13	4	23.81	Q
3	11	7	24.07	Q
4	11	5	24.08	Q
5	12	4	24.11	Q
6	12	6	24.12	Q
7	13	5	24.24	Q
8	13	1	24.27	Q
9	13	6	24.29	Q
10	11	3	24.35	Q
11	11	6	24.40	Q
12	13	3	24.52	Q
13	12	3	24.56	Q
14	12	7	24.57	Q
15	12	2	24.61	Q
16	13	2	24.67	Q
17	9	1	24.79
18	11	2	24.87
19	10	5	24.88
20	13	7	24.93
21	9	5	24.93
22	12	8	24.96
23	11	0	24.99
24	13	0	25.06
25	11	1	25.07
25	13	9	25.07
27	12	0	25.10
28	10	1	25.11
29	12	1	25.12
30	9	2	25.13
31	12	9	25.20
32	13	8	25.37
33	10	0	25.40
34	10	7	25.41
35	10	4	25.43
36	10	8	25.49
37	9	0	25.50
38	9	3	25.63
39	9	4	25.66
40	10	9	25.69
41	8	8	25.70
42	11	8	25.85
43	11	9	25.91
44	8	7	25.97
45	4	2	26.00
46	9	6	26.03
47	8	4	26.06
48	8	9	26.13
49	9	7	26.14
50	4	1	26.23
50	9	9	26.23
52	7	2	26.30
53	9	8	26.34
54	8	2	26.39
55	7	6	26.55
56	8	0	26.57
57	8	1	26.59
58	8	5	26.64
59	7	5	26.74
60	6	7	26.76
61	6	5	26.93
62	6	9	26.96
63	7	4	26.98
64	5	5	27.05
65	6	0	27.19
66	7	0	27.21
67	6	4	27.27
67	7	3	27.27
69	7	1	27.32
70	6	3	27.34
71	7	8	27.37
72	8	6	27.38
73	7	9	27.43
74	3	4	27.46
75	6	6	27.47
76	4	7	27.54	NR
77	5	8	27.63
78	6	8	27.666
79	4	0	27.67
80	6	2	27.69
81	5	2	27.87
82	7	7	27.88
83	4	5	28.04
84	8	3	28.05
85	5	3	28.07
86	5	1	28.10
87	4	4	28.17
87	5	7	28.17
89	4	6	28.22
90	5	6	28.28
91	5	9	28.35
92	4	9	28.56
93	5	4	28.60
94	4	3	28.62
95	3	3	28.65
96	3	6	28.89
97	3	5	29.02
98	6	1	29.06
99	2	5	29.40
100	2	6	29.49
101	3	7	29.75
102	2	2	29.79
103	2	8	30.01
104	4	8	30.20
105	3	8	30.23
106	1	5	30.54
107	2	3	30.56
108	5	0	30.59
109	3	9	30.60
110	3	0	30.66
111	3	2	30.78
112	1	4	30.91
113	2	1	30.94
114	3	1	31.04
115	2	7	31.32
116	1	6	32.16
117	1	3	33.55
118	1	7	35.63
119	1	8	37.98
120	1	1	40.14
—	1	2		DNS
—	2	0		DNS
—	2	4		DNS
—	10	2		DNS
—	10	6		DNS
—	12	5		DNS
—	2	9		DSQ
—	10	3		DSQ

The semifinals were held at 18:44.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	23.43	Q
2	5	24.03	Q
3	3	24.10	Q
4	7	24.12	Q
5	6	24.23
6	2	24.24
7	1	24.37
8	8	25.02

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	5	23.96	Q
2	4	24.01	Q
3	6	24.08	Q
4	3	24.13	Q
5	2	24.22
6	7	24.35
7	8	24.70
8	1	24.78

The final was held at 19:13.^[4]