Swimming at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 50 metre freestyle

Women's 50 metre freestyle at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Danube Arena
Location	Budapest, Hungary
Dates	29 July (heats and semifinals) 30 July (final)
Competitors	88 from 80 nations
Winning time	23.69
Medalists
Sarah Sjöström    Sweden   Ranomi Kromowidjojo    Netherlands   Simone Manuel    United States
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The Women's 50 metre freestyle competition at the 2017 World Championships was held on 29 and 30 July 2017.^[1][2]

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

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
29 July	Semifinal	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	23.67	WR, CR

The heats were held on 29 July at 09:30.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	10	4	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	24.08	Q
2	8	4	Pernille Blume	Denmark	24.32	Q
3	9	4	Ranomi Kromowidjojo	Netherlands	24.53	Q
4	10	5	Simone Manuel	United States	24.54	Q
5	8	5	Bronte Campbell	Australia	24.61	Q
6	9	2	Michelle Toro	Canada	24.64	Q
7	9	7	Zhu Menghui	China	24.65	Q
8	10	6	Anna Santamans	France	24.71	Q
9	8	7	Farida Osman	Egypt	24.78	Q, AF
	10	2	Liu Xiang	China		Q
11	9	5	Aliaksandra Herasimenia	Belarus	24.82	Q
12	8	6	Shayna Jack	Australia	24.85	Q
13	10	3	Abbey Weitzeil	United States	24.92	Q
14	9	6	Tamara van Vliet	Netherlands	24.94	Q
15	8	1	Sandrine Mainville	Canada	24.99	Q
16	8	3	Rikako Ikee	Japan	25.04	Q
17	10	7	Silvia di Pietro	Italy	25.07
18	10	1	Yuliya Khitraya	Belarus	25.10
19	8	8	Theodora Drakou	Greece	25.22
20	8	2	Rozaliya Nasretdinova	Russia	25.23
21	9	3	Etiene Medeiros	Brazil	25.26
22	10	0	Susann Bjørnsen	Norway	25.27
23	9	0	Michelle Coleman	Sweden	25.36
24	10	8	Gabrielle Fa'amausili	New Zealand	25.38
25	7	8	Mimosa Jallow	Finland	25.44
26	7	2	Maria Ugolkova	Switzerland	25.47
27	7	5	Anna Kolářová	Czech Republic	25.56
28	7	6	Andrea Berrino	Argentina	25.61	NR
	9	1	Flóra Molnár	Hungary
30	9	9	Zohar Shikler	Israel	25.65
31	10	9	Julie Meynen	Luxembourg	25.67
32	7	4	Freya Anderson	Great Britain	25.68
33	7	3	Isabella Arcila	Colombia	25.70
34	6	5	Emma Chellius	South Africa	25.73
35	7	7	Gabriela Ņikitina	Latvia	25.78
36	8	9	Liliana Ibáñez	Mexico	25.84
37	7	9	Rūta Meilutytė	Lithuania	26.03
38	6	6	Karen Torrez	Bolivia	26.16
39	7	1	Jeserik Pinto	Venezuela	26.19
40	6	3	Sze Hang Yu	Hong Kong	26.21
41	7	0	Ingibjörg Jónsdóttir	Iceland	26.24
42	6	7	Kalia Antoniou	Cyprus	26.31
43	5	4	Inés Remersaro	Uruguay	26.59	NR
44	6	4	Allyson Ponson	Aruba	26.76
45	6	2	Elinah Phillip	British Virgin Islands	26.85
46	6	1	Chade Nersicio	Curaçao	26.91
47	6	8	Catharine Cooper	Panama	26.99
48	6	0	Cheyenne Rova	Fiji	27.05
49	5	3	Dara Al-Bakry	Jordan	27.23
50	5	5	Lei On Kei	Macau	27.37
51	3	7	Ani Poghosyan	Armenia	27.46
52	5	2	Nikol Merizaj	Albania	27.51	NR
	5	6	Jovana Terzić	Montenegro
54	6	9	Alexus Laird	Seychelles	27.65
55	3	0	Pak Mi-song	North Korea	27.94
56	3	6	Naomy Grand'Pierre	Haiti	28.06
57	2	4	Gabriela Hernandez	Nicaragua	28.07
58	3	3	Catarina Sousa	Angola	28.12
59	5	7	Jeanne Boutbien	Senegal	28.25
60	5	1	Mikaili Charlemagne	Saint Lucia	28.26
61	5	8	Colleen Furgeson	Marshall Islands	28.32
62	5	9	Jamila Sanmoogan	Guyana	28.45
63	3	1	Lea Ricart Martínez	Andorra	28.61
64	5	0	Yesuin Bayar	Mongolia	28.74
65	2	1	Hantan Raharvel	Madagascar	28.84	NR
66	4	4	Flaka Pruthi	Kosovo	29.19	NR
67	4	3	Angelika Ouedraogo	Burkina Faso	29.38	NR
68	4	5	Hemthon Vitiny	Cambodia	29.69
69	1	5	Sofia Shah	Nepal	29.73
70	2	2	Avice Meya	Uganda	29.88
71	3	8	Gisela Cossa	Mozambique	30.12	NR
72	1	3	Aminath Shajan	Maldives	30.50
73	4	6	Ammara Pinto	Malawi	30.59
74	1	4	Mahfuza Khatun	Bangladesh	30.73
75	4	7	Salie Al-Atrash	Palestine	30.82
76	4	1	Anastasiya Tyurina	Tajikistan	31.15	NR
77	3	9	Ritaj Amin	Bahrain	31.34
78	4	8	Siri Arun Budcharern	Laos	31.86	NR
79	2	0	Kestra Kihleng	Micronesia	32.10
80	4	0	Adzo Kpossi	Togo	32.26	NR
81	2	8	Nafissath Radji	Benin	32.53	NR
82	2	3	Imelda Ximenes Belo	East Timor	34.63
83	3	4	Chloe Sauvourel	Central African Republic	35.04	NR
84	2	9	Lena Irankunda	Burundi	35.56
85	4	9	Roukaya Mahamane	Niger	35.77
86	2	6	Safia Houssein Barkat	Djibouti	39.59	NR
87	2	7	Bunturabie Jalloh	Sierra Leone	40.63
	2	5	Fatoumata Konate	Mali	DNS
	3	5	Nazlati Mohamed Andhumdine	Comoros
	4	2	Maayaa Ayawere	Ghana
	8	0	Mélanie Henique	France
	9	8	Aleksandra Urbańczyk	Poland	DSQ

The semifinals were held on 29 July at 18:28.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Pernille Blume	Denmark	24.05	Q, NR
2	5	Simone Manuel	United States	24.12	Q
3	6	Anna Santamans	France	24.54	Q, NR
4	2	Liu Xiang	China	24.56	Q
5	3	Michelle Toro	Canada	24.66
6	7	Shayna Jack	Australia	24.69
7	1	Tamara van Vliet	Netherlands	24.72
8	8	Rikako Ikee	Japan	24.84

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	23.67	Q, WR
2	5	Ranomi Kromowidjojo	Netherlands	24.20	Q
3	3	Bronte Campbell	Australia	24.43	Q
4	7	Aliaksandra Herasimenia	Belarus	24.59	Q
5	2	Farida Osman	Egypt	24.62	AF
6	8	Sandrine Mainville	Canada	24.67
7	6	Zhu Menghui	China	24.68
8	1	Abbey Weitzeil	United States	24.80

The final was held on 30 July at 17:50.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	23.69
	6	Ranomi Kromowidjojo	Netherlands	23.85	NR
	3	Simone Manuel	United States	23.97	AM
4	5	Pernille Blume	Denmark	24.00	NR
5	8	Aliaksandra Herasimenia	Belarus	24.46
6	1	Liu Xiang	China	24.58
6	7	Anna Santamans	France	24.58
6	2	Bronte Campbell	Australia	24.58