Swimming at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships – Women's 50 metre butterfly explained

Event:	Women's 50 metre butterfly
Championship:	2016 European Aquatics Championships
Dates:	16–17 May
Competitors:	45
Nations:	27
Win Value:	24.99
Gold:	Sarah Sjöström
Goldnoc:	SWE
Silver:	Jeanette Ottesen
Silvernoc:	DEN
Bronze:	Francesca Halsall
Bronzenoc:	GBR
Prev:	2014
Next:	2018

The Women's 50 metre butterfly competition of the 2016 European Aquatics Championships was held on 16 and 17 May 2016.^[1] ^[2]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	align=left rowspan=2	Sarah Sjöström	align=left rowspan=2		align=left rowspan=2	24.43	Borås	5 July 2014
European record							Borås	5 July 2014
Championship record	Sarah Sjöström		24.87	Berlin	18 August 2014

The heats were held on 16 May at 10:28.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	5	4	25.59	Q
2	4	4	25.80	Q
2	5	5	25.80	Q
4	3	4	26.01	Q
5	5	6	26.05	Q
6	4	5	26.32	Q
7	5	2	26.36	Q
8	3	5	26.38	Q
9	3	6	26.41	Q
10	5	3	26.44	Q
11	3	3	26.46	Q
12	4	3	26.47	Q
13	4	6	26.52	Q
14	4	1	26.65	Q
15	5	8	26.66
16	3	0	26.68	Q
17	3	2	26.74	Q
18	4	2	26.90
19	2	4	26.92
19	5	1	26.92
21	5	7	26.95
21	3	8	26.95
23	3	9	26.96
24	4	7	27.10
25	2	5	27.14
26	2	2	27.19
26	5	0	27.19
28	4	8	27.30
29	5	9	27.34
30	2	8	27.37
30	2	1	27.37
32	4	0	27.39
33	2	3	27.46
34	3	7	27.47
35	1	5	27.64
36	1	4	27.72
37	4	9	27.82
38	2	6	27.83
39	2	0	27.86
40	2	7	27.90
41	2	9	28.09
42	1	3	28.11
43	1	6	28.30
44	1	2	28.55
45	1	7	29.53
	3	1

The semifinals were held on 16 May at 18:11.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	5	25.35	Q
2	4	25.70	Q
3	3	26.05	Q
4	2	26.10	Q
5	6	26.14	Q
6	7	26.40
7	1	26.49
8	8	26.75

The final was held on 17 May at 18:21.^[5]