Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 50 metre freestyle explained

Event:	Women's 50m Freestyle
Competition:	2005 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates:	30 July (heats and semifinals) 31 July (final)
Competitors:	86
Nations:	64
Win Value:	24.59 seconds
Gold:	Libby Lenton
Goldnoc:	AUS
Silver:	Marleen Veldhuis
Silvernoc:	NED
Bronze:	Zhu Yingwen
Bronzenoc:	CHN
Prev:	2003
Next:	2007

See main article: Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships.

The Women's 50m Freestyle event at the 11th FINA World Aquatics Championships was swum 30 - 31 July 2005 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Preliminary heats and Semifinal heats were 30 July; the final was 31 July.

At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championships (CR) records were:

WR: 24.13, Inge de Bruijn (Netherlands) swum 22 September 2000 in Sydney, Australia
CR: 24.45, Inge de Bruijn (Netherlands) swum 28 July 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan

Results

Final

Rank	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
			24.59
			24.83
			24.91
4			24.96
5			25.02
6			25.17
7			25.36
8			25.56

Semifinals

Rank	Heat + Lane	Time	Notes
1	S1 L5	24.92	q
2	S1 L4	24.99	q
3	S2 L3	25.05	q
4	S2 L4	25.10	q
4	S2 L5	25.10	q
6	S1 L3	25.14	q
6	S2 L2	25.14	q
8	S1 L2	25.28	q
9	S2 L6	25.35
10	S2 L1	25.46
11	S1 L1	25.51
12	S1 L6	25.53
13	S2 L8	25.64
14	S2 L7	25.70
15	S1 L7	25.75
16	S1 L8	25.78

Preliminaries

Rank	Heat + Lane	Time
1	H11 L4	25.15
2	H11 L5	25.19
3	H9 L7	25.22
4	H9 L5	25.27
5	H10 L4	25.29
5	H10 L5	25.29
7	H9 L4	25.42
8	H10 L3	25.55
9	H9 L3	25.56
10	H9 L8	25.64
11	H9 L2	25.65
12	H11 L3	25.68
13	H10 L2	25.69
14	H11 L2	25.71
15	H10 L7	25.83
16	H11 L6	25.91
17	H9 L6	25.94
18	H11 L8	25.95
19	H11 L7	26.19
20	H10 L1	26.23
21	H8 L7	26.24
22	H8 L5	26.26
23	H8 L6	26.39
24	H7 L4	26.42
25	H8 L1	26.47
26	H11 L1	26.48
27	H7 L3	26.49
27	H8 L8	26.49
29	H10 L8	26.51
30	H7 L5	26.53
31	H8 L2	26.60
32	H4 L6	26.65
33	H7 L1	26.68
34	H7 L8	26.69
35	H8 L3	26.72
36	H6 L6	26.74
37	H7 L6	27.00
38	H7 L7	27.04
39	H6 L3	27.08
40	H6 L4	27.16
41	H7 L2	27.23
42	H6 L7	27.28
43	H6 L2	27.43
44	H6 L8	27.49
45	H5 L5	27.70
46	H5 L3	27.72
47	H6 L1	27.73
48	H4 L3	27.77
49	H5 L7	27.80
50	H5 L4	27.89
50	H5 L8	27.89
52	H5 L6	27.90
53	H4 L8	28.13
54	H5 L2	28.19
55	H4 L1	28.23
56	H4 L7	28.27
56	H5 L1	28.27
58	H3 L4	28.32
59	H4 L5	28.59
60	H2 L4	28.99
61	H4 L2	29.06
62	H3 L7	29.08
63	H3 L6	29.38
64	H4 L4	29.42
65	H2 L5	29.57
66	H3 L1	29.61
67	H3 L2	30.07
68	H3 L8	30.34
69	H2 L1	30.51
70	H2 L6	30.54
71	H2 L7	30.62
72	H2 L3	31.18
73	H2 L2	31.19
74	H2 L8	31.45
75	H1 L5	34.14
76	H1 L6	35.29
–	H1 L2	DNS
–	H1 L3	DNS
–	H1 L4	DNS
–	H1 L7	DNS
–	H3 L3	DNS
–	H3 L5	DNS
–	H6 L5	DNS
–	H8 L4	DNS
–	H9 L1	DNS
–	H10 L6	DNS

References

Women's 50m Freestyle results (Prelims), from the 2005 FINA World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); Retrieved 2010-02-07.
Women's 50m Freestyle results (Semifinals), from the 2005 FINA World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); Retrieved 2010-02-07.
Women's 50m Freestyle results (Finals), from the 2005 FINA World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); Retrieved 2010-02-07.