Swimming at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 50 metre backstroke explained

Event:	Women's 50 metre backstroke
Championship:	2019 World Aquatics Championships
Dates:	24 July (heats and semifinals) 25 July (final)
Venue:	Nambu University Municipal Aquatics Center
Location:	Gwangju, South Korea
Competitors:	48
Nations:	43
Win Value:	27.33
Gold:	Olivia Smoliga
Gold Nation:	USA
Silver:	Etiene Medeiros
Silver Nation:	BRA
Bronze:	Daria Vaskina
Bronze Nation:	RUS
Prev:	2017
Next:	2022

The Women's 50 metre backstroke competition at the 2019 World Championships was held on 24 and 25 July 2019.^{[1] [2]}

Records

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

Results

Heats

The heats were held on 24 July at 10:03.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4			27.70	Q
2	5	5			27.85	Q
3	5	7			27.86	Q
4	4	4			27.92	Q
5	5	8			27.95	Q
6	3	5			27.96	Q
7	5	1			28.00	Q
8	3	4			28.02	Q
9	4	5			28.04	Q
10	3	3			28.14	Q
11	4	6			28.17	Q
12	3	6			28.19	Q
	5	3			28.19	Q
14	4	3			28.23	Q
15	5	2			28.28	Q
16	5	6			28.29	Q
17	4	2			28.30
18	3	7			28.31
19	4	1			28.32
20	3	2			28.41
21	3	1			28.48
22	3	8			28.50
23	5	0			28.67
24	3	0			28.84
25	4	0			29.04
26	3	9			29.12
27	4	9			29.51
28	5	9			29.61
29	2	4			29.82
30	2	6			30.39	NR
31	2	3			30.53
32	1	9			30.77
33	2	5			30.86
34	2	7			31.42
35	1	1			31.98
36	2	2			32.27
37	2	8			33.01
38	2	0			33.28
39	2	1			33.54
40	1	8			33.99
41	1	2			34.08
42	1	7			35.04
43	2	9			35.17
44	1	4			35.41	NR
45	1	6			36.01
46	1	0			37.95
47	1	3			38.49
48	1	5			38.96
	4	7
	4	8

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 24 July at 20:37.^[4]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4			27.69	Q
2	5			27.72	Q
3	1			27.73	Q
4	3			27.76	Q
5	8			27.79	Q
6	6			28.01
7	7			28.04
8	2			28.18

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	7			27.62	Q
2	8			27.77	Q, NR
3	5			27.78	Q
4	4			27.84
5	6			27.91
6	1			28.07
7	2			28.10
8	3			28.24

Final

The final was held on 25 July at 20:37.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	2			27.33	NR
	5			27.44
	8			27.51
4	3			27.65
	6
6	4			27.69
7	7			27.78
8	1			27.85

Notes and References

1. https://www.fina.org/sites/default/files/general/fina_wch_gwangju_2019_-_comeptition_schedule_-_rev.18.06.2019.pdf Schedule
2. http://omegatiming.com/File/00011301070202EB01FFFFFFFFFFFF00.pdf Start list
3. http://www.omegatiming.com/File/00011301070202EB01FFFFFFFFFFFF01.pdf Heats results
4. http://www.omegatiming.com/File/00011301070202EB02FFFFFFFFFFFF01.pdf Semifinals results
5. http://www.omegatiming.com/File/00011301070202EB04FFFFFFFFFFFF01.pdf Final results