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

The women's 50 metre butterfly competition of the swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships was held on July 29 with the heats and the semifinals and July 30 with the final.

Women's 50 metre butterfly
at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships
DatesJuly 29, 2011 (heats and semifinals)
July 30, 2011 (final)
Competitors52 from 47 nations
Winning time25.71
Medalists
gold medal    Netherlands
silver medal    Sweden
bronze medal    France
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Records

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

Name Nation Time Location Date
World record
Championship record
Therese Alshammar   Sweden 25.07 Rome July 31, 2009

Results

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Heats

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51 swimmers participated in 7 heats.[1]

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 7 4 Therese Alshammar   Sweden 25.68 Q
2 7 5 Jeanette Ottesen   Denmark 25.88 Q
3 7 7 Dana Vollmer   United States 25.98 Q
4 6 6 Lu Ying   China 26.16 Q
5 5 4 Sarah Sjöström   Sweden 26.17 Q
6 6 2 Christine Magnuson   United States 26.20 Q
7 6 4 Inge Dekker   Netherlands 26.32 Q
8 5 3 Mélanie Henique   France 26.37 Q
9 6 3 Yuka Kato   Japan 26.37 Q
10 5 6 Triin Aljand   Estonia 26.43 Q
11 7 6 Tao Li   Singapore 26.43 Q
12 7 3 Marleen Veldhuis   Netherlands 26.50 Q
13 5 5 Marieke Guehrer   Australia 26.59 Q
14 5 7 Daynara de Paula   Brazil 26.60 Q
15 7 1 Vanessa Mohr   South Africa 26.69 Q
16 6 7 Amit Ivry   Israel 26.83 Q
17 6 8 Elena Gemo   Italy 26.86
18 4 3 Katerine Savard   Canada 26.87
19 6 1 Sviatlana Khakhlova   Belarus 26.98
20 5 2 Ingvild Snildal   Norway 27.01
21 7 8 Ellen Gandy   Great Britain 27.01
22 7 2 Jiao Liuyang   China 27.03
23 5 1 Kristel Vourna   Greece 27.15
24 6 5 Yolane Kukla   Australia 27.24
25 5 8 Fabienne Nadarajah   Austria 27.27
26 4 4 Hannah Wilson   Hong Kong 27.38
27 4 5 Eszter Dara   Hungary 27.53
28 4 6 Svetlana Fedulova   Russia 27.61
29 3 5 Katarina Listopadova   Slovakia 27.62
30 4 1 Sara Oliveira   Portugal 27.75
31 4 8 Iris Rosenberger   Turkey 27.82
32 3 4 Jeserick Pinto   Venezuela 27.91
33 3 3 Gabriela Ņikitina   Latvia 27.92
34 4 7 Alana Dillette   Bahamas 27.98
35 3 2 Talita Baqlah   Jordan 29.16
36 3 6 Dorian McMenemy   Dominican Republic 29.37
37 3 1 Dalia Torrez   Nicaragua 29.67
38 3 7 Kiran Khan   Pakistan 30.50
39 1 6 Ann-Marie Hepler   Marshall Islands 30.69
40 2 3 Sylvia Brunlehner   Kenya 30.81
41 2 4 Hazboun Sabine   Palestine 31.12
42 3 8 Reshika Udugampola   Sri Lanka 31.15
43 2 5 Judith Meauri   Papua New Guinea 31.56
44 2 2 Kuheilani Snow   French Polynesia 32.27
45 2 6 Johanna Umurungi   Rwanda 32.68
46 2 7 Ouyngerel Gantumur   Mongolia 33.48
47 2 8 Deandra van der Colff   Botswana 34.06
48 2 1 Mariana Henriques   Angola 34.59
49 1 4 Karin O'Reilly Clashing   Antigua and Barbuda 36.87
50 1 5 Shajan Aminath   Maldives 38.37
51 1 3 Adzo Rebecca Kpossi   Togo 55.17
- 4 2 Hayley Palmer   New Zealand DNS

Semifinals

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The semifinals were held at 18:19.[2]

Semifinal 1

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Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 5 Lu Ying   China 25.87 Q
2 6 Mélanie Henique   France 26.29 Q
3 1 Daynara de Paula   Brazil 26.39
4 3 Christine Magnuson   United States 26.43
5 2 Triin Aljand   Estonia 26.48
6 4 Jeanette Ottesen   Denmark 26.53
7 7 Marleen Veldhuis   Netherlands 26.61
8 8 Amit Ivry   Israel 26.79

Semifinal 2

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Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 Therese Alshammar   Sweden 25.52 Q
2 6 Inge Dekker   Netherlands 25.78 Q
3 3 Sarah Sjöström   Sweden 25.90 Q
4 2 Yuka Kato   Japan 26.07 Q, =NR
5 1 Marieke Guehrer   Australia 26.12 Q
6 5 Dana Vollmer   United States 26.32 Q
7 7 Tao Li   Singapore 26.34
8 8 Vanessa Mohr   South Africa 26.74

Final

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The final was held at 18:02.[3]

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
  5 Inge Dekker   Netherlands 25.71
  4 Therese Alshammar   Sweden 25.76
  1 Mélanie Henique   France 25.86 NR
4 3 Lu Ying   China 25.87
4 6 Sarah Sjöström   Sweden 25.87
6 2 Yuka Kato   Japan 26.02 NR
7 8 Dana Vollmer   United States 26.06
8 7 Marieke Guehrer   Australia 26.21

References

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  1. ^ "2011 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 50 metre butterfly (heats)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 2011-07-29.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ "2011 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 50 metre butterfly (semifinals)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 2011-07-29.[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ "2011 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 50 metre butterfly (final)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 2011-07-30.[permanent dead link]
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