Swimming at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 50 metre freestyle

Women's 50 metre freestyle at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships
Victory Ceremony
Dates	8 August (heats and semifinals) 9 August (final)
Competitors	115 from 102 nations
Winning time	24.12
Medalists
Bronte Campbell   Australia   Ranomi Kromowidjojo   Netherlands   Sarah Sjöström   Sweden

The Women's 50 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held on 8 August with the heats and the semifinals and 9 August with the final.

Records

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

World record	Britta Steffen (GER)	23.73	Rome, Italy	2 August 2009
Competition record	Britta Steffen (GER)	23.73	Rome, Italy	2 August 2009

Results

Heats

The heats were held on 8 August at 09:30.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	12	4	Cate Campbell	Australia	24.40	Q
2	10	5	Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace	Bahamas	24.43	Q
3	10	4	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	24.53	Q
4	11	5	Ranomi Kromowidjojo	Netherlands	24.62	Q
5	12	3	Jeanette Ottesen	Denmark	24.66	Q
6	10	6	Dorothea Brandt	Germany	24.71	Q
7	12	5	Bronte Campbell	Australia	24.74	Q
8	11	4	Francesca Halsall	Great Britain	24.80	Q
9	12	8	Liu Xiang	China	24.82	Q
10	12	7	Anna Santamans	France	24.90	Q
11	10	3	Simone Manuel	United States	24.91	Q
12	11	2	Chantal van Landeghem	Canada	24.94	Q
13	11	3	Etiene Medeiros	Brazil	24.97	Q
14	11	8	Michelle Williams	Canada	25.13	Q
15	11	6	Pernille Blume	Denmark	25.14	Q
16	10	8	Maria Kameneva	Russia	25.18	Q
17	10	0	Zhu Menghui	China	25.19
18	10	2	Aliaksandra Herasimenia	Belarus	25.20
19	9	2	Theodora Drakou	Greece	25.22
	12	1	Farida Osman	Egypt
21	10	7	Graciele Herrmann	Brazil	25.25
22	10	1	Miki Uchida	Japan	25.33
23	11	7	Silvia Di Pietro	Italy	25.34
24	11	9	Anna Dowgiert	Poland	25.44
	12	0	Erika Ferraioli	Italy
26	9	5	Sasha Touretski	Switzerland	25.49
	12	2	Ivy Martin	United States
28	9	4	Lauren Quigley	Great Britain	25.53
29	9	1	Cecilie Johannessen	Norway	25.55
	9	0	Julie Meynen	Luxembourg
31	8	6	Miroslava Syllabová	Slovakia	25.59
32	12	9	Birgit Koschischek	Austria	25.61
33	11	1	Nataliya Lovtsova	Russia	25.62
34	8	5	Anna Kolářová	Czech Republic	25.67
35	9	3	Zsuzsanna Jakabos	Hungary	25.79
36	8	4	Isabella Arcila	Colombia	25.83
37	9	8	Siobhán Haughey	Hong Kong	25.85
38	10	9	Yayoi Matsumoto	Japan	25.90
39	7	5	Nina Rangelova	Bulgaria	25.94
	7	3	Sanja Jovanović	Croatia
41	8	2	Arlene Semeco	Venezuela	25.98
42	8	3	Nastja Govejšek	Slovenia	26.00
43	8	9	Jenjira Srisa-Ard	Thailand	26.11
44	8	0	Chui Lai Kwan	Malaysia	26.13
45	8	8	Jasmine Alkhaldi	Philippines	26.15
46	8	1	Chinyere Pigot	Suriname	26.18
47	9	7	Zohar Shikler	Israel	26.19
48	9	6	Tessa Nurminen	Finland	26.23
49	8	7	Tess Grossmann	Estonia	26.31
50	7	6	Bryndís Hansen	Iceland	26.33
51	7	4	Allyson Ponson	Aruba	26.40
52	7	7	Karen Torrez	Bolivia	26.41
53	9	9	Quah Ting Wen	Singapore	26.51
54	6	4	Bayan Jumah	Syria	26.81
55	6	3	Dorian McMenemy	Dominican Republic	26.87
56	7	2	Miroslava Najdanovski	Serbia	26.89
57	7	0	Rebecca Heyliger	Bermuda	26.90
58	5	3	Jade Howard	Zambia	26.99
59	7	1	Nicola Muscat	Malta	27.10
60	6	2	Tracy Keith-Matchitt	Cook Islands	27.16
61	6	0	Astrið Foldarskarð	Faroe Islands	27.24
62	5	4	Jovana Terzić	Montenegro	27.44
63	6	5	Machiko Raheem	FINA Independent Athletes	27.49
64	6	6	Faye Sultan	Kuwait	27.63
	6	1	Karen Riveros	Paraguay
	7	8	Monika Vasilyan	Armenia
67	6	8	Shivani Kataria	India	27.65
68	6	7	Jennifer Rizkallah	Lebanon	27.76
69	5	5	Sofia Usher	Uruguay	27.93
70	4	3	Su Moe San	Myanmar	27.98
71	5	2	Nadia Cubells	Andorra	28.00
72	5	6	Long Chi Wai	Macau	28.02
	5	7	Ana Nóbrega	Angola
74	4	5	Tiara Anwar	Brunei	28.10
75	6	9	Beatrice Felici	San Marino	28.15
76	4	7	Amarah Phillip	British Virgin Islands	28.35
77	5	1	Noura Mana	Morocco	28.45
78	5	0	Fatima Alkaramova	Azerbaijan	28.50
79	4	8	Ann-Marie Hepler	Marshall Islands	28.52
80	4	2	Jamila Sanmoogan	Guyana	28.60
81	4	6	Lianna Swan	Pakistan	28.66
82	4	1	Irene Prescott	Tonga	28.74
83	5	9	Hannah Gill	Barbados	28.75
84	4	4	Barbara Vali-Skelton	Papua New Guinea	28.78
85	5	8	Sofia Shah	Nepal	29.43
86	3	3	Magdalena Moshi	Tanzania	29.62
87	3	6	Awa Ly N'diaye	Senegal	29.78
88	3	2	Yesui Bayar	Mongolia	29.90
89	3	4	Flaka Pruthi	Kosovo	30.16
90	4	0	Merjen Saryyeva	Turkmenistan	30.17
91	3	7	Zahra Pinto	Malawi	30.20
92	3	0	Miri Alatrash	Palestine	30.25
93	2	7	Debra Daniel	Federated States of Micronesia	30.48
94	3	8	Angel de Jesús	Northern Mariana Islands	30.57
95	2	4	Hemthon Vitiny	Cambodia	30.67
96	3	1	Angelika Ouedraogo	Burkina Faso	30.74
97	4	9	Roylin Akiwo	Palau	30.86
98	2	3	Sonia Aktar	Bangladesh	30.89
99	3	9	Rahel Gebresilassie	Ethiopia	32.49
100	3	5	Fatoumata Samassékou	Mali	32.79
101	1	5	Siri Budcharern	Laos	33.71
102	2	2	Elsie Uwamahoro	Burundi	34.08
103	2	5	Adzo Kpossi	Togo	34.46
104	1	9	Bellore Sangala	Congo	35.74
105	1	6	Alzain Tareq	Bahrain	35.78
106	1	3	Haneen Ibrahim	Sudan	36.14
107	2	1	Nazlati Mohamed Andhumdine	Comoros	37.64
108	1	4	Laraïba Seibou	Benin	37.67
109	1	2	Roukaya Mahamane	Niger	38.98
110	1	7	Natasha Addai	Ghana	41.71
111	1	1	Mariama Sow	Guinea	44.59
112	2	8	Chloe Sauvourel	Central African Republic	46.55
113	1	8	Bunturabie Jalloh	Sierra Leone	54.27
	2	6	Anastasiya Tyurina	Tajikistan		DSQ
	7	9	Talita Baqlah	Jordan		DSQ
	2	0	Teona Bostashvili	Georgia		DNS
	2	9	Liza Kafack	Cameroon		DNS
	11	0	Michelle Coleman	Sweden		DNS
	12	6	Femke Heemskerk	Netherlands		DNS

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 8 August at 18:28.

Semifinal 1

Kameneva from Russia at the start

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Ranomi Kromowidjojo	Netherlands	24.23	Q
2	4	Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace	Bahamas	24.38	Q
3	6	Francesca Halsall	Great Britain	24.50	Q
4	7	Chantal van Landeghem	Canada	24.52	Q, NR
5	3	Dorothea Brandt	Germany	24.75
6	1	Michelle Williams	Canada	24.84
7	2	Anna Santamans	France	24.93
8	8	Maria Kameneva	Russia	24.97

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Cate Campbell	Australia	24.22	Q
2	5	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	24.31	Q
3	6	Bronte Campbell	Australia	24.32	Q
4	7	Simone Manuel	United States	24.47	Q
5	3	Jeanette Ottesen	Denmark	24.61
6	2	Liu Xiang	China	24.78
7	8	Pernille Blume	Denmark	24.93
8	1	Etiene Medeiros	Brazil	25.03

Final

The final was held on 9 August at 18:05.

Sjöström wins her fifth medal in Kazan

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	6	Bronte Campbell	Australia	24.12
	5	Ranomi Kromowidjojo	Netherlands	24.22
	3	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	24.31
4	4	Cate Campbell	Australia	24.36
5	8	Chantal van Landeghem	Canada	24.39	NR
6	2	Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace	Bahamas	24.44
7	1	Francesca Halsall	Great Britain	24.51
8	7	Simone Manuel	United States	24.57