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

Event:	Women's 50 metre backstroke
Competition:	2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue:	WFCU Centre
Dates:	9 December (heats and semifinals) 10 December (final)
Competitors:	81
Nations:	61
Win Value:	25.82
Gold:	Etiene Medeiros
Goldnoc:	BRA
Silver:	Katinka Hosszú
Silvernoc:	HUN
Bronze:	Ali DeLoof
Bronzenoc:	USA
Prev:	2014
Next:	2018

The Women's 50 metre backstroke competition of the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 9 and 10 December 2016.^[1]

Records

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

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 09:44.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	9	0			26.25	Q
2	8	4			26.43	Q
3	7	4			26.48	Q
4	8	6			26.57	Q, NR
5	8	5			26.63	Q
	8	7				Q
7	9	4			26.70	Q
8	9	5			26.74	Q
9	7	3			26.75	Q
10	6	2			26.76	Q, NR
11	9	3			26.82	Q
12	8	2			26.84	Q
13	7	5			26.87	Q
14	7	6			26.93	Q
15	7	1			26.95	Q
16	9	7			27.01	Q
17	7	7			27.03	NR
18	8	3			27.14
19	9	2			27.20
20	7	2			27.22
21	9	6			27.37
22	7	9			27.44
23	6	6			27.47
	9	1
25	9	8			27.51
26	8	1			27.71
27	8	0			27.77
28	6	5			27.80
	8	8
30	6	8			27.82
31	6	0			27.94	NR
32	6	4			27.95
33	7	0			28.01
34	6	7			28.05
	7	8
36	6	3			28.59
	6	9				NR
38	5	2			28.62	NR
39	5	5			28.76
40	4	4			28.81	NR
	5	0
42	4	2			28.86	NR
43	5	9			28.89	NR
44	4	5			28.92	NR
45	5	4			29.07
46	5	3			29.19	NR
47	5	7			29.20	NR
48	6	1			29.39
49	4	3			29.72
50	4	7			29.79	NR
51	5	1			29.81	NR
52	5	8			29.98
53	4	6			30.17
54	1	7			30.22	NR
55	4	9			30.50
56	3	5			30.60
57	3	6			30.73	NR
58	3	2			30.83
59	4	0			30.86
60	4	1			30.96	NR
61	3	4			31.01
62	2	1			31.13	NR
63	3	3			31.25
64	2	6			31.74
65	3	0			31.91
66	3	1			32.22
67	2	5			32.28
68	2	7			32.44	NR
69	3	7			32.49
70	2	3			32.57	NR
71	3	9			32.66
72	2	4			32.78	NR
73	2	8			32.92
74	3	8			33.37	NR
75	2	2	Dara Al-Bakry		33.67
76	1	6			33.96	NR
77	2	0			34.03
78	2	9			34.29	NR
79	1	4			34.70	NR
80	1	5			38.34
81	1	2			40.06
	1	3
	4	8
	5	6
	8	9
	9	9

Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 19:43.^[3]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4			26.33	Q
2	5			26.34	Q, NR
3	7			26.44	Q
4	3			26.52
	6
6	2			26.72	NR
7	1			26.90
8	8			27.20

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5			26.00	Q
2	4			26.12	Q
3	7			26.29	Q
4	6			26.37	Q
5	3			26.45	Q
6	2			26.65
7	1			26.70
8	8			27.21

Final

The final was held at 19:38.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4			25.82
	7			25.99
	5			26.14
4	3			26.15	NR
5	6			26.16
6	8			26.40
7	1			26.42
8	2			26.46

Notes and References

1. Web site: Schedule . 2016-12-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161206122713/http://www.finawindsor2016.com/content/competition-schedule . 2016-12-06 . dead .
2. http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000110000D01011A00FFFFFFFFFFFF02 Heats results
3. http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000110000D01011A01FFFFFFFFFFFF02 Semifinals results
4. Web site: Final results . 2017-06-14 . 2017-03-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170329113206/http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000110000D01011A02FFFFFFFFFFFF02 . dead .