Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 50 metre freestyle

Women's 50m Freestyle at the 2005 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates	30 July (heats and semifinals) 31 July (final)
Competitors	86 from 64 nations
Winning time	24.59 seconds
Medalists
Libby Lenton    Australia   Marleen Veldhuis    Netherlands   Zhu Yingwen    China
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The Women's 50m Freestyle event at the 11th FINA World Aquatics Championships was swum 30 – 31 July 2005 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Preliminary heats and Semifinal heats were 30 July; the final was 31 July.

At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championships (CR) records were:

• WR: 24.13, Inge de Bruijn (Netherlands) swum 22 September 2000 in Sydney, Australia
• CR: 24.45, Inge de Bruijn (Netherlands) swum 28 July 2011 in Fukuoka, Japan

Results[]

Final[]

Rank	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
	Libby Lenton	Australia	24.59
	Marleen Veldhuis	Netherlands	24.83
	Yingwen Zhu	China	24.91
4	Therese Alshammar	Sweden	24.96
5	Alice Mills	Australia	25.02
6	Svitlana Khakhlova	Belarus	25.17
7	Kara Lynn Joyce	USA	25.36
8	Jana Kolukanova	Estonia	25.56

Semifinals[]

Rank	Heat + Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	S1 L5	Marleen Veldhuis	Netherlands	24.92	q
2	S1 L4	Therese Alshammar	Sweden	24.99	q
3	S2 L3	Libby Lenton	Australia	25.05	q
4	S2 L4	Alice Mills	Australia	25.10	q
4	S2 L5	Yingwen Zhu	China	25.10	q
6	S1 L3	Kara Lynn Joyce	USA	25.14	q
6	S2 L2	Svitlana Khakhlova	Belarus	25.14	q
8	S1 L2	Jana Kolukanova	Estonia	25.28	q
9	S2 L6	Malia Metella	France	25.35
10	S2 L1	Amanda Weir	USA	25.46
11	S1 L1	Cristina Chiuso	Italy	25.51
12	S1 L6	Flavia Cazziolato	Brazil	25.53
13	S2 L8	Celine Couderc	France	25.64
14	S2 L7	Hanna-Maria Seppälä	Finland	25.70
15	S1 L7	Anna-Karin Kammerling	Sweden	25.75
16	S1 L8	Nery-Mantey Niangkouara	Greece	25.78

Preliminaries[]

Rank	Heat + Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	H11 L4	Alice Mills		25.15
2	H11 L5	Therese Alshammar		25.19
3	H9 L7	Yingwen Zhu		25.22
4	H9 L5	Marleen Veldhuis		25.27
5	H10 L4	Lisbeth Lenton		25.29
5	H10 L5	Kara Lynn Joyce		25.29
7	H9 L4	Malia Metella		25.42
8	H10 L3	Flavia Cazziolato		25.55
9	H9 L3	Svitlana Khakhlova		25.56
10	H9 L8	Jana Kolukanova		25.64
11	H9 L2	Hanna-Maria Seppälä		25.65
12	H11 L3	Anna-Karin Kammerling		25.68
13	H10 L2	Amanda Weir		25.69
14	H11 L2	Cristina Chiuso		25.71
15	H10 L7	Celine Couderc		25.83
16	H11 L6	Nery-Mantey Niangkouara		25.91
17	H9 L6	Chantal Groot		25.94
18	H11 L8			25.95
19	H11 L7	Martina Moravcová		26.19
20	H10 L1	Triin Aljand		26.23
21	H8 L7	Vanessa García		26.24
22	H8 L5			26.26
23	H8 L6			26.39
24	H7 L4	Ragnheidur Ragnarsdottir		26.42
25	H8 L1	Petra Klosova		26.47
26	H11 L1			26.48
27	H7 L3			26.49
27	H8 L8			26.49
29	H10 L8	Jeanette Ottesen		26.51
30	H7 L5	Hannah Wilson		26.53
31	H8 L2	Alison Fitch		26.60
32	H4 L6	Heather Brand		26.65
33	H7 L1	Keo Ra Lee		26.68
34	H7 L8	Jennifer Carroll		26.69
35	H8 L3			26.72
36	H6 L6	Hang Yu Sze		26.74
37	H7 L6	Joscelin Yeo		27.00
38	H7 L7	Shikha Tandon		27.04
39	H6 L3			27.08
40	H6 L4			27.16
41	H7 L2			27.23
42	H6 L7	Yamilé Bahamonde		27.28
43	H6 L2	Irina Shlemova		27.43
44	H6 L8	Nikia Deveaux		27.49
45	H5 L5	Carolina Colorado		27.70
46	H5 L3			27.72
47	H6 L1			27.73
48	H4 L3	Alexis Jordan		27.77
49	H5 L7			27.80
50	H5 L4	Gisela Morales		27.89
50	H5 L8	Kiera Aitken		27.89
52	H5 L6			27.90
53	H4 L8	Carolina Cerqueda		28.13
54	H5 L2			28.19
55	H4 L1			28.23
56	H4 L7	Jakie Wellman		28.27
56	H5 L1	Khadija Ciss		28.27
58	H3 L4			28.32
59	H4 L5	Sharon Fajardo		28.59
60	H2 L4	Mbolatiana Ramanisa		28.99
61	H4 L2			29.06
62	H3 L7	Katerine Moreno		29.08
63	H3 L6			29.38
64	H4 L4			29.42
65	H2 L5	Rubab Raza		29.57
66	H3 L1	Jessica Vieira		29.61
67	H3 L2	Binta Zahra Diop		30.07
68	H3 L8			30.34
69	H2 L1			30.51
70	H2 L6			30.54
71	H2 L7	Aminath Rouya		30.62
72	H2 L3	Kiran Khan		31.18
73	H2 L2	Sameera Al Bitar		31.19
74	H2 L8	Christal Clashing		31.45
75	H1 L5			34.14
76	H1 L6	Raksmey Hem		35.29
–	H1 L2			DNS
–	H1 L3	Yelena Rojkova		DNS
–	H1 L4			DNS
–	H1 L7			DNS
–	H3 L3	Eliane Droubry Dohi		DNS
–	H3 L5	Lenient Obia		DNS
–	H6 L5			DNS
–	H8 L4			DNS
–	H9 L1	Daniela Gotz		DNS
–	H10 L6	Rebeca Gusmão		DNS

References[]

• Women's 50m Freestyle results (Prelims), from the 2005 FINA World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); Retrieved 2010-02-07.
• Women's 50m Freestyle results (Semifinals), from the 2005 FINA World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); Retrieved 2010-02-07.
• Women's 50m Freestyle results (Finals), from the 2005 FINA World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); Retrieved 2010-02-07.