2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 50 metre freestyle explained

Event:	Women's 50 metre freestyle
Competition:	2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue:	Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center
Dates:	15 December (heats and semifinals) 16 December (final)
Competitors:	97
Win Value:	23.19
Gold:	Ranomi Kromowidjojo
Goldnoc:	NED
Silver:	Femke Heemskerk
Silvernoc:	NED
Bronze:	Etiene Medeiros
Bronzenoc:	BRA
Prev:	2016
Next:	2021

The Women's 50 metre freestyle competition of the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 15 and 16 December 2018 at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center.^[1] ^[2]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Ranomi Kromowidjojo		22.93	Berlin	7 August 2017
Championship record	Marleen Veldhuis		23.25	Manchester	13 April 2008

The heats were started on 15 December at 11:09.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	8	4		23.90	Q
2	9	5		23.93	Q
3	10	6		23.94	Q
4	9	3		24.00	Q
5	10	4		24.07	Q
6	9	1		24.18	Q
6	10	3		24.18	Q
8	10	5		24.20	Q
9	10	7		24.23	Q
10	8	1		24.24	Q
11	8	6		24.25	Q
12	10	1		24.31	Q
13	8	3		24.39	Q
14	8	2		24.41	Q, AF
15	10	2		24.60	Q
16	9	4		24.62	Q
17	9	6		24.65	R
18	9	7		24.76	R
19	8	7		24.80
20	10	0		24.83
21	9	2		24.87
22	7	3		25.16
22	8	9		25.16
24	9	9		25.17
25	10	9		25.19
26	9	0		25.44
27	8	8		25.46
28	8	0		25.51
29	7	5		25.53
30	10	8		25.63
31	7	4		25.67
32	7	6		25.78
32	9	8		25.78
34	7	8		25.80	NR
35	4	8	Pak Mi-song	25.91
36	7	2		26.03	NR
37	7	0		26.24	NR
38	6	3		26.28
39	7	9		26.40	NR
40	7	1		26.41
41	6	2		26.51
42	7	7		26.54
43	6	1		26.57
44	6	7		26.68	NR
45	6	8		26.80
46	6	4		26.81	NR
47	6	5		27.07
48	1	7		27.15
49	4	0		27.31
50	6	0		27.37
51	2	3		27.44
52	6	9		27.45
53	3	5		27.58
54	3	4		27.60
55	4	1		27.73
56	2	4		27.83
57	6	6		27.88
58	5	8		28.00
59	5	3		28.32
60	5	4		28.33
61	5	5		28.42
62	3	8		28.68
63	2	0		28.81
64	5	1		28.86
65	5	9		28.89
66	2	1		28.91
67	3	7		28.95
68	1	4		29.04
69	5	2		29.07
70	2	8		29.24
71	5	6		29.39
72	4	9		29.46
73	1	5		29.55
74	3	0		29.81
75	3	9		29.90
76	5	7		29.97
77	1	1		30.21
78	4	5		30.40
79	4	3		30.88
80	4	4		31.19
81	5	0		31.37
82	2	6		32.87
83	4	2		34.16
84	3	3		34.72
85	2	5		34.86
86	3	1		34.91
87	2	9		35.42
88	4	7		35.77
89	3	6		36.15
90	3	2		36.71
91	1	2		38.94
92	1	3		41.11
93	2	7		46.14
	1	6
	2	2
	4	6
	8	5

The semifinals were held on 15 December at 19:47.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	5	23.82	Q, =AM
2	3	23.83	Q
3	4	23.87	Q
4	6	23.95	Q, AS
5	2	24.00	Q
6	7	24.14	R
7	1	24.38	AF
8	8	24.47

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	3	23.50	Q
2	4	23.75	Q
3	5	23.89	Q
4	1	24.21	R
5	2	24.25
6	6	24.30
7	7	24.33
8	8	24.75

The Final was held on 16 December at 19:33.^[5]

Web site: Competition Schedule . 2018-12-17 .
Web site: 2018 Short Course World Championships . swimswam.com . 25 August 2018.
http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000112010C0201EB01FFFFFFFFFFFF01 Heats results
Web site: Semifinal results . 2018-12-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181218102009/http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000112010C0201EB02FFFFFFFFFFFF01 . 2018-12-18 . dead .
Web site: Final results . 2018-12-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181216163611/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000112010C0201EB04FFFFFFFFFFFF01 . 2018-12-16 . dead .