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

Event:	Women's 50 metre freestyle
Competition:	2001 FINA World Championships
Dates:	28 July 2001 (heats, semifinals) 29 July 2001 (final)
Competitors:	64
Nations:	49
Win Value:	24.47 seconds
Gold:	Inge de Bruijn
Goldnoc:	NED
Silver:	Therese Alshammar
Silvernoc:	SWE
Bronze:	Sandra Völker
Bronzenoc:	GER
Prev:	1998
Next:	2003

The women's 50 metre freestyle event at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships was held on 28 (heats^[1] and semifinals^[2]) and 29 July 2001 (final^[3]) at the Fukuoka, Japan.

Records

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

World record		24.13	Sydney, Australia	align=right	22 September 2000
Championship record		24.51	Rome, Italy	align=right	11 September 1994

The following record was established during the competition:

Web site: Heats Results . 2023-08-07 . FINA. https://web.archive.org/web/20041024130656/http://www.fina.org/fukuoka_SwimmingResultsDay7.html#50FreeW . 2004-10-24 .
Web site: Semifinals Results . 2023-08-07 . FINA. https://web.archive.org/web/20041210111349/http://www.fina.org/fukuoka_SwimmingResultsDay7FINAL.html#50freeW . 2004-12-10 .
Web site: Final Results . 2023-08-07 . FINA. https://web.archive.org/web/20041019133714/http://www.fina.org/fukuoka_SwimmingResultsW50free.html . 2004-10-19 .