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

The women's 50 metre butterfly competition at the 2018 Mediterranean Games was held on 24 June 2018 at the Campclar Aquatic Center.^[1]

Records

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

World record		24.43	Borås, Sweden	5 July 2014
Mediterranean Games record		26.15	Mersin, Turkey	24 June 2013

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
24 June	Heats			25.86	GR
24 June	Final			25.48	GR

The heats were held at 10:15.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	3	4	Farida Osman	25.86	Q, GR
2	3	5	Elena Di Liddo	26.24	Q
3	1	4	Anna Ntountounaki	26.30	Q, NR
4	3	3	Aleyna Özkan	26.84	Q, NR
5	1	7	Léna Bousquin	26.88	Q
6	2	5	Elena Gemo	26.93	Q
7	1	5	Kristel Vourna	27.09	Q
8	2	4	Marie Wattel	27.30	Q
9	1	3	Amina Kajtaz	27.50
10	1	6	Sezin Eligul	27.53
11	2	3	Lidón Muñoz	27.73
12	2	6	María Herrero	28.10
13	3	6	Amel Melih	28.14
14	3	2	Ana Monteiro	28.24
15	1	2	Nesrine Medjahed	28.54
16	3	7	Beatrice Felici	28.64
17	2	2	Inês Fernandes	29.15
18	2	7	Tonia Papapetrou	29.23

The final was held at 18:19.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
	4	Farida Osman	25.48	GR
	5	Elena Di Liddo	26.21
	8	Marie Wattel	26.48
4	3	Anna Ntountounaki	26.57
5	1	Kristel Vourna	26.84
6	6	Aleyna Özkan	26.91
7	7	Elena Gemo	26.95
8	2	Léna Bousquin	27.21