Swimming at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 50 metre freestyle

Women's 50 metre freestyle at the 2001 FINA World Championships
Dates	28 July 2001 (heats, semifinals) 29 July 2001 (final)
Competitors	64 from 49 nations
Winning time	24.47 seconds
Medalists
Inge de Bruijn    Netherlands   Therese Alshammar    Sweden   Sandra Volker    Germany
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The women's 50 metre freestyle event at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships was held on 28 (heats and semifinals) and 29 July 2001 at the Fukuoka, Japan.

Results[]

Heats[]

Rank	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Inge de Bruijn	Netherlands	24.79
2	Alison Sheppard	United Kingdom	25.07
3	Tammie Spatz-Stone	United States	25.11
4	Sandra Volker	Germany	25.37
5	Sumika Minamoto	Japan	25.62
6	Olga Mukomol	Ukraine	25.68
7	Therese Alshammar	Sweden	25.72
8	Katrin Meissner	Germany	25.79
9	Rosalind Brett	United Kingdom	25.82
9		Slovakia	25.82
11	Jana Kolukanova	Estonia	25.83
12	Haley Cope	United States	25.84
12	Alena Popchanka	Belarus	25.84
14	Michelle Engelsman	Australia	25.87
15	Judith Draxler	Austria	25.92
16	Ekaterina Kibalo	Russia	25.93
17	Xue Han	China	25.95
18	Anna-Karin Kammerling	Sweden	25.96
18	Laura Nicholls	Canada	25.96
20	Sarah Ryan	Australia	25.97
21	Agata Korc	Poland	26.01
22		Slovenia	26.06
23	Inna Yaitskaya	Russia	26.09
24	Cecilia Vianini	Italy	26.11
25	Vivienne Rignall	New Zealand	26.14
26	Leah Martindale	Barbados	26.15
27	Aliaksandra Herasimenia	Belarus	26.16
28	Cristina Chiuso	Italy	26.17
29	Hanna-Maria Seppala	Finland	26.23
30	Yingwen Zhu	China	26.30
31	Flavia Delaroli-Cazziolato	Brazil	26.32
31	Mette Jacobsen	Denmark	26.32
33		Netherlands	26.35
34		Ireland	26.37
35	Tomoko Nagai	Japan	26.43
36	Ilona Hlavackova	Czech Republic	26.57
37	Dominique Diezi	Switzerland	26.60
38	Karen Egdal	Denmark	26.64
39		Romania	26.74
40	Nina van Koeckhoven	Belgium	26.79
41	Anna Gostomelsky	Israel	26.86
42	Elina Partoka	Estonia	26.99
43		Singapore	27.12
44	Chantal Gibney	Ireland	27.13
45	Sharntelle McLean	Trinidad and Tobago	27.21
46	Maria Wong	Peru	27.68
47	Nicole Hayes	Palau	27.99
48		Chinese Taipei	28.01
49	Shikha Tandon	India	28.02
50		Macau	28.09
51		Trinidad and Tobago	28.11
52		India	28.20
53		Macau	28.51
54		Chinese Taipei	28.68
55		Northern Mariana Islands	28.78
56	Yuliana Mikheeva	Armenia	29.15
57	Khadija Ciss	Senegal	29.37
58	Xenia Peni	Papua New Guinea	30.65
59	Monika Bakale	Republic of the Congo	30.78
60		Ivory Coast	31.01
61		Kenya	31.59
62		Kenya	31.66
63	Larissa Inangorore	Burundi	37.02
64		Mongolia	DNS

Semifinals[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Inge de Bruijn	Netherlands	24.45	CR
2	Therese Alshammar	Sweden	24.87
3	Tammie Spatz-Stone	United States	25.11
4	Alison Sheppard	United Kingdom	25.13
5	Sandra Volker	Germany	25.20
6	Haley Cope	United States	25.26
7	Alena Popchanka	Belarus	25.45
8	Katrin Meissner	Germany	25.48
9	Sumika Minamoto	Japan	25.49
10	Olga Mukomol	Ukraine	25.53
11	Ekaterina Kibalo	Russia	25.64
12	Jana Kolukanova	Estonia	25.65
13	Michelle Engelsman	Australia	25.77
13	Martina Moravcova	Slovakia	25.77
15	Rosalind Brett	United Kingdom	25.81
15	Judith Draxler	Austria	25.81

Final[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Inge de Bruijn	Netherlands	24.47
	Therese Alshammar	Sweden	24.88
	Sandra Volker	Germany	24.96
4	Alison Sheppard	United Kingdom	25.00
5	Tammie Spatz-Stone	United States	25.10
6	Haley Cope	United States	25.25
7	Katrin Meissner	Germany	25.40
7	Alena Popchanka	Belarus	25.73

References[]

• "9th FINA World Swimming Championships". FINA. 2001-07-28. Retrieved 2020-03-22.