Swimming at the 2018 Commonwealth Games – Women's 50 metre butterfly explained

Event:	Women's 50 metre butterfly
Games:	2018
Venue:	Gold Coast Aquatic Centre
Dates:	7 April (heats, semifinals) 8 April (final)
Competitors:	29
Nations:	22
Win Value:	25.59
Gold:	Cate Campbell
Goldcga:	AUS
Silver:	Holly Barratt
Silvercga:	AUS
Bronze:	Madeline Groves
Bronzecga:	AUS
Prev:	2014
Next:	2022

The women's 50 metre butterfly event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games was held on 7 and 8 April at the Gold Coast Aquatic Centre.

Records

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

The heats were held on 7 April at 11:28.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	3	5	25.81	Q
2	4	4	25.83	Q
3	3	4	25.95	Q
4	2	4	26.14	Q
5	4	5	26.65	Q
6	4	6	26.91	Q
7	3	3	26.95	Q
8	4	3	27.05	Q
9	2	6	27.10	Q
9	2	5	27.10	Q
11	4	2	27.41	Q
12	3	6	27.44	Q
13	2	2	27.55	Q
14	2	3	27.72	Q
15	3	2	28.46	Q
16	4	7	28.63	Q
17	2	7	28.80
18	4	8	28.94
19	3	7	29.12
20	2	8	29.38
21	2	1	29.70
22	3	8	29.81	NR
23	3	1	29.97
24	1	4	30.43
25	4	1	30.59
26	1	3	31.92
27	1	6	32.50
28	1	5	32.96
29	1	2	33.09

The semifinals were held on 7 April at 20:39.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	4		25.56	Q
2	5		25.88	Q
3	3		26.84	Q
4	6		26.85	Q
5	2		27.03
6	7	Quah Ting Wen	27.35
7	1		27.57
8	8		28.43

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	25.54	Q
2	5	25.94	Q
3	6	26.68	Q
4	6	26.72	Q
5	7	27.17
6	2	27.19
7	1	27.52
8	8	28.63

The final was held on 8 April at 21:36.^[3]