Swimming at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 50 metre butterfly explained

Event:	Women's 50 metre butterfly
Competition:	2001 FINA World Championships
Dates:	25 July 2001 (heats, semifinals) 26 July 2001 (final)
Competitors:	45
Win Value:	25.90 seconds
Gold:	Inge de Bruijn
Goldnoc:	NED
Silver:	Therese Alshammar
Silvernoc:	SWE
Bronze:	Anna-Karin Kammerling
Bronzenoc:	SWE
Next:	2003

See main article: Swimming at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships.

The women's 50 metre butterfly event at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships took place 26 July. The heats^[1] and semifinals^[2] took place 25 July, with the final^[3] being held on 26 July.

Records

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

World record		25.64	Sheffield, United Kingdom	align=right	26 May 2000
Championship record	New event

The following record was established during the competition:

Date	Round	Time	Record
25 July	Heat 5	26.52	CR
25 July	Semifinal 1	26.10	CR
26 July	Final	25.90	CR

Results

Heats

Rank	Time	Notes
1	26.52	Q, CR
2	26.63	Q
3	26.89	Q
4	27.01	Q
5	27.02	Q
6	27.05	Q
7	27.11	Q
8	27.16	Q
9	27.19	Q
10	27.33	Q
11	27.39	Q
12	27.40	Q
13	27.47	Q
14	27.51	Q
15	27.53	Q
16	27.54	Q
17	27.61
18	27.64
19	27.84
20	27.88
21	28.04
22	28.04
23	28.27
24	28.32
25	28.42
26	28.46
27	28.47
28	29.00
29	29.02
30	29.10
31	29.15
32	29.42
33	29.63
34	29.75
35	29.82
36	29.85
37	30.55
38	31.36
39	31.81
40	32.17
41	32.34
42	32.53
43	32.75
44	34.32
45	35.46

Semifinals

Rank	Time	Notes
1	26.10	Q, CR
2	26.18	Q
3	26.56	Q
4	26.64	Q
5	26.78	Q
6	26.87	Q
7	27.05	Q
8	27.10	Q
9	27.12
10	27.15
11	27.17
12	27.18
12	27.18
14	27.46
15	27.49
16	27.69

Final

Rank	Time	Notes
	25.90	CR
	26.18
	26.45
4	26.70
5	26.91
6	27.02
7	27.03
8	27.19

Notes and References

Web site: Heats Results . 2023-08-06 . FINA. https://web.archive.org/web/20041019205413/http://www.fina.org/fukuoka_SwimmingResultsDay4.html#50ButtW . 19 October 2004 .
Web site: Semifinals Results . 2023-08-06 . FINA. https://web.archive.org/web/20011218002311/http://www.fina.org/fukuoka_SwimmingResultsDay4Final.html . 18 December 2001 .
Web site: Final Results . 2023-08-06 . FINA. https://web.archive.org/web/20041019132855/http://www.fina.org/fukuoka_SwimmingResultsW50fly.html . 19 October 2004 .