Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships – Women's 50 metre freestyle

The Women's 50 metre freestyle competition of the 2014 European Aquatics Championships was held on 23–24 August.[1]

Women's 50 metre freestyle
at the Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships
Dates23–24 August
Competitors40 from 24 nations
Winning time24.32
Medalists
gold medal    Great Britain
silver medal    Sweden
bronze medal    Denmark

Records

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

Name Nation Time Location Date
World record Britta Steffen   Germany 23.73 Rome 2 August 2009
European record
Championship record Marleen Veldhuis   Netherlands 24.09 Eindhoven 24 March 2008

Results

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Heats

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The heats were held at 10:04.[2]

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 4 Sarah Sjöström   Sweden 24.38 Q
2 3 4 Jeanette Ottesen   Denmark 24.67 Q
3 5 3 Dorothea Brandt   Germany 24.77 Q
3 5 4 Francesca Halsall   Great Britain 24.77 Q
5 4 5 Pernille Blume   Denmark 25.03 Q
6 5 7 Therese Alshammar   Sweden 25.06 Q
7 3 3 Anna Santamans   France 25.15 Q
8 3 7 Maud van der Meer   Netherlands 25.18 Q
8 5 6 Elizaveta Bazarova   Russia 25.18 Q
10 5 5 Aleksandra Gerasimenya   Belarus 25.19 Q
11 4 7 Silvia di Pietro   Italy 25.22 Q
12 5 2 Erika Ferraioli   Italy 25.33 Q
13 4 6 Aleksandra Urbanczyk   Poland 25.36 Q
14 3 5 Inge Dekker   Netherlands 25.38 Q
15 3 1 Julie Levisen   Denmark 25.46
15 4 2 Michelle Coleman   Sweden 25.46
17 3 2 Rūta Meilutytė   Lithuania 25.54
18 5 1 Darya Stepanyuk   Ukraine 25.55 Q
19 3 6 Hanna-Maria Seppälä   Finland 25.58 Q
20 4 1 Birgit Koschischek   Austria 25.59
21 4 8 Yuliya Khitraya   Belarus 25.65
22 3 8 Cecilie Johannessen   Norway 25.72
23 2 3 Anna Kolárová   Czech Republic 25.87
24 2 0 Nina Rangelova   Bulgaria 25.91
25 5 9 Sviatlana Khakhlova   Belarus 25.97
25 5 0 Jolien Sysmans   Belgium 25.97
27 4 0 Fatima Gallardo   Spain 25.99
28 2 5 Tess Grossmann   Estonia 26.02
29 3 0 Maria Kameneva   Russia 26.08
30 2 4 Magdalena Kuras   Sweden 26.12
31 3 9 Ilse Kraaijeveld   Netherlands 26.15
32 2 6 Anna Dowgiert   Poland 26.26
32 4 9 Miroslava Najdanovski   Serbia 26.26
34 2 7 Mimosa Jallow   Finland 26.36
35 2 8 Eva Gliožerytė   Lithuania 26.55
36 2 2 Ingibjörg Jónsdóttir   Iceland 26.92
37 1 4 Julia Kukla   Austria 27.33
38 1 5 Ivana Ninković   Bosnia and Herzegovina 27.35
39 1 3 Katharina Egger   Austria 27.50
40 1 6 Monika Vasilyan   Armenia 27.72
2 1 Anna Mäkinen   Finland DNS
2 9 Shauna Lee   Great Britain DNS
4 3 Femke Heemskerk   Netherlands DNS
5 8 Mie Nielsen   Denmark DNS

Semifinals

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The semifinals were held at 17.35.[3]

Semifinal 1

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Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 5 Francesca Halsall   Great Britain 24.45 Q
2 4 Jeanette Ottesen   Denmark 24.55 Q
3 1 Inge Dekker   Netherlands 24.86 Q
4 3 Therese Alshammar   Sweden 24.99 Q
5 2 Aleksandra Gerasimenya   Belarus 25.20
6 6 Maud van der Meer   Netherlands 25.26
7 7 Erika Ferraioli   Italy 25.38
8 8 Hanna-Maria Seppälä   Finland 25.55

Semifinal 2

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Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 Sarah Sjöström   Sweden 24.39 Q
2 5 Dorothea Brandt   Germany 24.60
3 2 Elizaveta Bazarova   Russia 24.94 Q
4 6 Anna Santamans   France 25.03 Q
5 7 Silvia di Pietro   Italy 25.04 Q
6 3 Pernille Blume   Denmark 25.12
7 1 Aleksandra Urbanczyk   Poland 25.31
8 8 Darya Stepanyuk   Ukraine 25.44

Final

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The final was held at 16:02.[4]

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
  5 Francesca Halsall   Great Britain 24.32
  4 Sarah Sjöström   Sweden 24.37
  3 Jeanette Ottesen   Denmark 24.53
4 1 Anna Santamans   France 24.81
5 8 Silvia di Pietro   Italy 24.84
6 2 Elizaveta Bazarova   Russia 24.91
7 6 Inge Dekker   Netherlands 25.01
8 7 Therese Alshammar   Sweden 25.20

References

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