2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 50 metre butterfly explained

Event:	Women's 50 metre butterfly
Competition:	2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue:	WFCU Centre
Dates:	8 December (heats and semifinals) 9 December (final)
Competitors:	73
Nations:	61
Win Value:	24.92
Gold:	Jeanette Ottesen
Goldnoc:	DEN
Silver:	Kelsi Worrell
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Rikako Ikee
Bronzenoc:	JPN
Prev:	2014
Next:	2018

The Women's 50 metre butterfly competition of the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 8 and 9 December 2016.^[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	Sarah Sjöström		24.58	Doha	5 December 2014

The heats were held at 09:51.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	8	3	24.94	Q, AM
2	6	4	25.37	Q
3	8	4	25.38	Q
4	8	6	25.55	Q, WJR
5	8	5	25.62	Q
6	7	4	25.65	Q
7	6	8	25.88	Q
7	8	2	25.88	Q
9	6	6	25.96	Q
10	6	1	25.98	Q
11	7	7	26.06	Q
12	6	2	26.11	Q
12	7	6	26.11	Q
14	8	1	26.18	Q, NR
15	7	3	26.22	Q, NR
16	6	7	26.26	Q
17	8	8	26.35
18	7	1	26.38
19	7	2	26.43
20	8	7	26.49
21	8	0	26.63
22	5	4	26.67
23	8	9	26.83
24	6	0	26.87
25	6	9	26.93	NR
25	7	8	26.93
27	5	7	27.20	NR
28	7	9	27.23
29	7	0	27.35
30	5	3	27.36
31	5	1	27.38
32	7	5	27.47
33	5	5	27.57
34	4	1	27.58
35	5	6	27.86
36	5	8	27.89
37	4	4	28.03
38	4	5	28.04	NR
39	4	8	28.05	NR
40	5	9	28.06
41	4	6	28.08
42	5	0	28.16	NR
43	5	2	28.21
44	4	3	28.27
45	3	5	28.38	NR
46	4	2	28.43
47	3	2	28.44	NR
48	2	4	28.83
49	3	4	29.05	NR
50	4	7	29.07	NR
51	3	3	29.36
52	3	8	29.47
53	1	2	29.48	NR
54	4	9	29.52	NR
55	3	0	29.58	NR
56	3	7	29.59
57	4	0	29.71
58	2	5	29.75
59	3	1	29.85
60	3	6	29.87
61	2	3	30.02
62	2	0	30.12	NR
63	3	9	30.14
64	2	6	30.35	NR
65	2	2	30.90	NR
66	2	8	31.10
67	2	1	31.56
68	2	9	32.34
69	1	4	32.65	NR
70	1	5	32.77	NR
71	2	7	32.97
72	1	3	34.97
73	1	6	35.82
	1	1
	1	7
	6	3
	6	5

The semifinals were held at 19:15.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	25.50	Q
2	5	25.63	Q
3	3	25.66	Q
4	6	25.75	Q
5	2	25.83
6	7	26.05
7	1	26.09	NR
8	8	26.16

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	25.18	Q
2	5	25.29	Q
3	3	25.59	Q
4	2	25.76	Q
5	1	25.90
6	6	25.92
7	7	26.22
8	8	26.38

The final was held at 18:37.^[4]

Web site: Schedule . 2016-12-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161206122713/http://www.finawindsor2016.com/content/competition-schedule . 2016-12-06 . dead .
Web site: Heats results . 2017-06-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180930094753/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000110000D01032000FFFFFFFFFFFF02 . 2018-09-30 . dead .
http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000110000D01032001FFFFFFFFFFFF02 Semifinals results
Web site: Final results . 2017-06-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170329113134/http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000110000D01032002FFFFFFFFFFFF02 . 2017-03-29 . dead .