Swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 50 metre freestyle

The women's 50 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships was held on July 30 with the heats and the semifinals and July 31 with the final.

Women's 50 metre freestyle
at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships
DatesJuly 30, 2011 (heats and semifinals)
July 31, 2011 (final)
Competitors95 from 85 nations
Winning time24.14
Medalists
gold medal    Sweden
silver medal    Netherlands
bronze medal    Netherlands
← 2009
2013 →

Records

edit

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

Name Nation Time Location Date
World record
Championship record
Britta Steffen   Germany 23.73 Rome August 2, 2009

Results

edit

Heats

edit

87 swimmers participated in 12 heats.[1]

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 11 4 Therese Alshammar   Sweden 24.82 Q
1 11 5 Jessica Hardy   United States 24.82 Q
3 12 5 Aleksandra Gerasimenya   Belarus 24.85 Q
4 10 5 Dorothea Brandt   Germany 24.86 Q
5 10 4 Marleen Veldhuis   Netherlands 25.01 Q
6 12 4 Ranomi Kromowidjojo   Netherlands 25.03 Q
7 11 8 Chantal van Landeghem   Canada 25.05 Q
7 12 3 Francesca Halsall   Great Britain 25.05 Q
9 10 3 Amanda Weir   United States 25.11 Q
9 12 6 Yolane Kukla   Australia 25.11 Q
11 10 8 Theodora Drakou   Greece 25.13 Q
12 10 6 Olivia Halicek   Australia 25.18 Q
13 12 2 Jeanette Ottesen   Denmark 25.23 Q
14 11 6 Victoria Poon   Canada 25.24 Q
15 9 3 Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace   Bahamas 25.28 Q, NR
16 10 7 Yayoi Matsumoto   Japan 25.34 Q
17 12 7 Triin Aljand   Estonia 25.41
18 12 8 Flávia Delaroli   Brazil 25.47
19 9 5 Darya Stepanyuk   Ukraine 25.50
20 12 1 Sviatlana Khakhlova   Belarus 25.54
21 9 8 Ragnheiður Ragnarsdóttir   Iceland 25.57
21 11 1 Zhu Qianwei   China 25.57
23 9 6 Hanna-Maria Seppälä   Finland 25.79
24 9 7 Hannah Wilson   Hong Kong 25.82
25 10 2 Karin Prinsloo   South Africa 25.89
25 10 1 Svetlana Fedulova   Russia 25.89
27 8 6 Burcu Dolunay   Turkey 26.01 NR
28 8 5 Liliana Ibáñez   Mexico 26.04
29 9 2 Miroslava Najdanovski   Serbia 26.09
30 9 1 Amanda Lim   Singapore 26.12
31 8 4 Cecilie Johannessen   Norway 26.14
32 8 2 Chinyere Pigot   Suriname 26.19
33 8 7 Gabriela Ņikitina   Latvia 26.20 NR
34 8 3 Lai Kwan Chui   Malaysia 26.22
35 8 8 Megan Fonteno   American Samoa 26.46
36 8 1 Katarina Filova   Slovakia 26.83
37 7 6 Anna-Liza Mopio   Papua New Guinea 26.91
38 7 3 Nicole Horn   Zimbabwe 27.01
39 6 5 Karen Torrez   Bolivia 27.08
40 7 7 Jessica Vieira   Mozambique 27.11
41 7 4 Clelia Tini   San Marino 27.15
42 7 2 Cherelle Thompson   Trinidad and Tobago 27.21
43 7 8 Kiera Aitken   Bermuda 27.38
44 7 1 Christine Briedenhann   Namibia 27.46
45 7 5 Nicola Muscat   Malta 27.56
46 6 3 Talita Baqlah   Jordan 27.71
47 6 4 Karen Schulz   Paraguay 27.76
48 6 6 Fabiola Isabel Espinoza   Nicaragua 28.18
49 5 5 Zamantha Hoss   Panama 28.19
50 9 4 Sylvia Brunlehner   Kenya 28.20
51 6 7 Jamila Lunkuse   Uganda 28.34
52 5 4 Ifiezegbe Gagbe   Nigeria 28.35
53 5 7 Ann-Marie Hepler   Marshall Islands 28.43
54 6 8 Monica Vasilyan   Armenia 28.51
55 6 1 Pilar Shimizu   Guam 28.71
56 5 3 Hazboun Sabine   Palestine 29.16
57 5 8 Keesha Keane   Palau 29.33
58 5 6 Celeste Brown   Cook Islands 29.59
59 6 2 Siona Huxley   Saint Lucia 29.79
60 5 1 Amelie Trinquier   Monaco 29.94
61 5 2 Magdalena Moshi   Tanzania 30.01
62 4 2 Deandra van der Colff   Botswana 30.60
63 3 2 Mariana Henriques   Angola 30.83
64 3 6 Antoinette Guedia Mouafo   Cameroon 30.84
65 4 3 Grace Kimball   Northern Mariana Islands 30.94
66 4 7 Osisang Chilton   Palau 31.07
67 4 5 Katerina Izmaylova   Tajikistan 31.38
68 3 3 Alphonsine Agahozo   Rwanda 31.41
68 4 1 Karin O'Reilly Clashing   Antigua and Barbuda 31.41
70 4 6 Vitiny Hemthon   Cambodia 31.45
71 4 8 Faleumata Samassekou   Mali 32.40
72 3 8 Shreya Dhital     Nepal 32.44
73 3 1 Gebremedhin Yanet Seyoum   Ethiopia 33.17
74 3 5 Shajan Aminath   Maldives 33.43
75 2 6 Angelika Sita Ouedraogo   Burkina Faso 33.54
76 3 4 Sara Al Flaij   Bahrain 33.98
77 2 2 Toure Assita   Ivory Coast 34.45
78 2 7 Elsie Uwamahoro   Burundi 35.11
79 2 4 Vilayphone Vongphachanh   Laos 35.99
80 1 5 Aminata Aboubakar Yacoub   Congo 37.07
81 2 1 Mhasin El Nour Fadlalla   Sudan 38.15
82 2 3 Aicha Hassan Abdillahi   Djibouti 38.38
83 2 5 Angele Gbenou   Benin 38.40
84 1 3 Nafissa Adamou   Niger 43.36
85 2 8 Ingrid Outtara   Burkina Faso 44.43
86 1 2 Adzo Rebecca Kpossi   Togo 44.60
87 4 4 Masempe Theko   Lesotho 49.75 NR
1 1 Vandenboss Samira   Central African Republic DNS
1 4 Soukeina Abdellahi   Mauritania DNS
- 1 6 Maihi Asono-Nathalie   DR Congo DNS
1 7 Ophelia Swyne   Ghana DNS
1 8 Nganga-Ngbo Tania   DR Congo DNS
3 7 Sophia Adecky   Gambia DNS
- 11 3 Britta Steffen   Germany DNS
11 7 Li Zhesi   China DNS

Semifinals

edit

The semifinals were held at 18:57.[2]

Semifinal 1

edit
Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 3 Ranomi Kromowidjojo   Netherlands 24.56 Q
2 6 Francesca Halsall   Great Britain 24.80 Q
3 4 Jessica Hardy   United States 25.00 Q
4 5 Dorothea Brandt   Germany 25.06
5 2 Yolane Kukla   Australia 25.11
6 7 Olivia Halicek   Australia 25.20
7 1 Victoria Poon   Canada 25.26
8 8 Triin Aljand   Estonia 25.57

Semifinal 2

edit
Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 1 Jeanette Ottesen   Denmark 24.61 Q NR
2 4 Therese Alshammar   Sweden 24.63 Q
3 5 Aleksandra Gerasimenya   Belarus 24.69 Q
4 3 Marleen Veldhuis   Netherlands 24.88 Q
5 8 Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace   Bahamas 25.05 Q NR
6 2 Amanda Weir   United States 25.14
7 7 Theodora Drakou   Greece 25.22
8 6 Chantal van Landeghem   Canada 25.23

Final

edit

The final was held at 18:20.[3]

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
  3 Therese Alshammar   Sweden 24.14
  4 Ranomi Kromowidjojo   Netherlands 24.27
  7 Marleen Veldhuis   Netherlands 24.49
4 2 Francesca Halsall   Great Britain 24.60
5 6 Aleksandra Gerasimenya   Belarus 24.65
6 5 Jeanette Ottesen   Denmark 24.67
7 8 Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace   Bahamas 24.79 NR
8 1 Jessica Hardy   United States 24.87

References

edit
  1. ^ "2011 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 50 metre freestyle (heats)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 2011-07-30.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ "2011 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 50 metre freestyle (semifinals)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 2011-07-30.[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ "2011 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 50 metre freestyle (final)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 2011-07-31.[permanent dead link]
edit