Swimming at the 2017 Summer Universiade – Women's 50 metre butterfly explained

Event:	Women's 50 metre butterfly
Games:	2017 Summer Universiade
Dates:	20 August (heats and semifinals) 21 August (final)
Venue:	National Taiwan Sport University Arena
Location:	Taipei, Taiwan
Competitors:	56
Nations:	38
Win Value:	26.16
Gold:	Aliena Schmidtke
Gold Nation:	GER
Silver:	Elena Di Liddo
Silver Nation:	ITA
Bronze:	Yukina Hirayama
Bronze Nation:	JPN
Prev:	2015
Next:	2019

The Women's 50 metre butterfly competition at the 2017 Summer Universiade was held on 20 and 21 August 2017.^[1]

Records

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

The heats were held on 20 August at 9:30.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	7	4		26.29	Q
2	8	5	Katerine Savard	26.39	Q
3	6	7	Kaho Okano	26.71	Q
4	8	4	Anna Dowgiert	26.75	Q
5	6	6	Kinge Zandringa	26.78	Q
5	7	3	Bruna Lemos Rocha	26.78	Q
7	8	6	Yukina Hirayama	26.84	Q
8	7	5	Rachael Kelly	26.85	Q
9	6	5	Daynara de Paula	26.91	Q
10	8	3	Elena Di Liddo	26.96	Q
11	6	1	Kathryn McLaughlin	26.97	Q
12	6	4	Hellen Moffitt	27.00	Q
13	6	3		27.21	Q
14	6	2	Nastassia Karakouskaya	27.31	Q
15	8	2		27.39	Q
16	8	7	Aglaia Pezzato	27.41	Q,
17	7	7	Anna Hopkin	27.43	Q,
18	5	5		27.45	Q
19	6	8	Elmira Ibraim	27.59
20	7	6	Jessica Steiger	27.60
20	7	2	Chan Kin Lok	27.60
22	8	8	Nea Norismaa	27.63
23	7	8	Gemma Cooney	27.68
24	5	6	Emma Chelius	27.81
25	5	4	Hwang Seo-jin	27.84
26	8	1	María Belén Díaz	27.93
27	5	8	Tam Hoi Lam	27.96
28	4	7	Lin Xinlan	28.03
29	7	1	Szimonetta Galamb	28.05
30	5	2		28.13
31	5	3	Park Jin-young	28.37
32	5	7	Fanny Teijonsalo	28.40
33	5	1		28.42
34	4	6	Maria Paola Muñoz	28.83
35	4	5	Amira Pilgrim	28.92
36	4	2	Song Yutong	29.11
37	4	3	Nida Eliz Üstündağ	29.47
38	3	6	Emily Visagie	29.70
39	3	7	Daniela Reyes Hinrichsen	29.79
39	3	4	María Quintero Sosa	29.79
41	3	5	Tan Chi Yan	30.02
42	4	1	Karen Riveros	30.06
43	4	4	Karleen Kersa	30.20
44	3	3	Mariya Liver	30.42
45	4	8	Jennifer Rizkallah	30.50
46	3	2	Ho Yan Lum Deborah	30.56
47	3	1	Ana Euceda Gutierrez	30.95
48	2	4	Stefanía Piccardo Uriarte	31.12
49	3	5	Alejandra Chamorro	31.19
50	2	5	Avice Meya	31.28
51	1	5	Jannat Bique	31.55
52	2	3	Carolina Cazot	31.93
53	2	7	Gretel-Marie Siimar	32.67
54	2	2	Alic Dela Cruz	34.97
55	1	4	Madhawee Kaluarachchilage Don	36.27
56	1	3	Alliah Saliendra	38.05
	2	1	Sarah Fearnot
	2	6	Doutimi Okoko Gaebe

The semifinals were held on 20 August at 19:10.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	4	Katerine Savard	26.36	Q
2	5	Anna Dowgiert	26.40	Q
3	7	Hellen Moffitt	26.66	Q
4	6	Rachael Kelly	26.71	Q
5	2	Elena Di Liddo	26.74	Q
6	3	Bruna Lemos Rocha	26.92
7	1	Nastassia Karakouskaya	27.35
7	8		27.35

Rank	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	4		26.07	Q
2	5	Yukina Hirayama	26.66	Q
3	6	Kathryn McLaughlin	26.78	Q
4	2	Daynara de Paula	26.81
5	3	Kinge Zandringa	26.83
6	7	Kaho Okano	26.96
6	1		26.96
8	8		27.39

The final was held on 21 August at 19:29.^[4]