Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 50 metre freestyle

The heats for the women's 50 m freestyle race at the 2009 World Championships took place on the morning of 1 August and the final took place in the evening session of 2 August at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy.

Medalists[]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Britta Steffen Germany	Therese Alshammar Sweden	Cate Campbell Australia Marleen Veldhuis Netherlands

Records[]

World record	Marleen Veldhuis (NED)	23,96	Amsterdam, Netherlands	19 April 2009
Championship record	Inge de Bruijn (NED)	24,45	Fukuoka, Japan	28 July 2001

Results[]

Heats[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Heat	Lane	Notes
1	Cate Campbell	Australia	24.24	17	5	CR
2	Therese Alshammar	Sweden	24.30	18	5
3	Amanda Weir	United States	24.36	18	6
4	Marleen Veldhuis	Netherlands	24.41	18	4
5	Britta Steffen	Germany	24.42	18	3
6	Francesca Halsall	Great Britain	24.47	17	3	NR
7	Dara Torres	United States	24.67	17	4
8	Jeanette Ottesen	Denmark	24.72	16	6	NR
9	Libby Trickett	Australia	24.74	16	4
10	Hinkelien Schreuder	Netherlands	24.78	16	5
11	Aleksandra Gerasimenya	Belarus	24.85	17	6
12	Malia Metella	France	25.01	16	3
13	Arlene Semeco	Venezuela	25.11	17	2
14	Victoria Poon	Canada	25.15	18	7
15	Hanna-Maria Seppälä	Finland	25.17	17	7
16	Sviatlana Khakhlova	Belarus	25.19	16	7
17	Miroslava Najdanovski	Serbia	25.21	15	6	NR
18	Josefin Lillhage	Sweden	25.23	17	8
19	Dar'ya Stepanyuk	Ukraine	25.32	18	1
20	Triin Aljand	Estonia	25.33	18	8
21	Xu Yanwei	China	25.41	16	8
22	Anastasia Aksenova	Russia	25.46	17	1
23	Misaki Yamaguchi	Japan	25.47	18	9
24	Oksana Serikova	Ukraine	25.48	17	9
25	Flávia Delaroli	Brazil	25.54	16	2
26	Ragnheidur Ragnarsdottir	Iceland	25.55	15	4
26	Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace	Bahamas	25.55	16	0
28	Martina Moravcová	Slovakia	25.63	15	5
29	Tatiana Barbosa	Brazil	25.64	15	4
30	Liliana Ibanez	Mexico	25.70	15	1	NR
30	Amanda Lim	Singapore	25.70	15	9
32	Katarzyna Wilk	Poland	25.71	18	0
33		Italy	25.74	15	7
34	Vanessa García	Puerto Rico	25.78	15	0
34	Jolien Sysmans	Belgium	25.78	17	0
36		Norway	25.81	14	4
36	Emma Wilkins	Great Britain	25.81	16	9
38	Sharntelle McLean	Trinidad and Tobago	25.92	14	8
39	Cristina Chiuso	Italy	25.93	16	1
40	Heather MacLean	Canada	25.94	13	8
41	Natasha Moodie	Jamaica	25.95	15	8	=NR
42		Austria	25.97	14	5
42		South Korea	25.97	14	3
44	Quah Ting Wen	Singapore	26.05	15	2
45	Petra Klosova	Czech Republic	26.06	13	5
46		Norway	26.09	12	3
47		Ireland	26.20	12	4
47	Yamile Bahamonde	Ecuador	26.20	13	9
49		Slovenia	26.22	14	2
50		Finland	26.24	13	1
51		Belgium	26.27	13	3
52	Nina Sovinek	Slovenia	26.30	14	1
52		Argentina	26.30	14	9	NR
54	Yayoi Matsumoto	Japan	26.36	14	6
55	Fiona Doyle	Ireland	26.38	13	2
55	Natthanan Junkrajang	Thailand	26.38	13	7
57		Zimbabwe	26.39	12	2
58		Lithuania	26.43	13	4
59	Katarina Listopadova	Slovakia	26.46	13	0
60	Rugile Mileisyte	Lithuania	26.48	14	0
61		Venezuela	26.52	11	5
62	Tsai Hiu Wai Sherry	Hong Kong	26.56	13	6
63		Czech Republic	26.58	12	7
64		Algeria	26.64	11	4
65		Colombia	26.72	7	6
66	Farida Osman	Egypt	26.77	11	3
67	Kiera Aitken	Bermuda	26.83	11	9	NR
68	Anna-Liza Mopio-Jane	Papua New Guinea	26.84	12	5
69	Chinyere Pigot	Suriname	26.88	11	8	NR
70		Bahamas	26.97	11	2
71	Sze Hang Yu	Hong Kong	26.98	12	1
72		Zimbabwe	27.07	11	1
73	Pamela Benitez	El Salvador	27.13	11	6
73	Leung Chii Lin	Malaysia	27.13	12	8
75	Christine Mailliet	Luxembourg	27.18	10	2
76		Aruba	27.20	10	6
76		Puerto Rico	27.20	12	0
78		Suriname	27.22	9	5
79		Colombia	27.31	12	9
80	Marie Laura Meza	Costa Rica	27.33	9	8
81		Nicaragua	27.36	9	4
82		Lebanon	27.37	14	7
83		Ecuador	27.40	10	1
84	Marianela Quesada	Costa Rica	27.43	9	3
84	Yulduz Kuchkarova	Uzbekistan	27.43	10	7
86		Netherlands Antilles	27.45	10	5
87	Clelia Tini	San Marino	27.49	11	0
88		Faroe Islands	27.50	10	3
89		Mozambique	27.75	7	9
89	Sharon Paola Fajardo Sierra	Honduras	27.75	10	4
91	Razan Taha	Jordan	27.81	9	6
92		Faroe Islands	27.93	4	7
93	Natalya Filina	Azerbaijan	27.94	11	7
94	Sylvia Brunlehner	Kenya	27.95	8	8
95		Macau	27.97	10	9
96		Chinese Taipei	27.99	9	9
97		Syria	28.04	8	7
97		India	28.04	9	7
97		Malta	28.04	10	0
100		Jordan	28.10	9	2
101		Bolivia	28.11	9	1
102		Senegal	28.15	8	9
103		Brunei	28.23	6	8
104		Malta	28.28	8	5
105		Macau	28.30	8	6
106		Netherlands Antilles	28.32	8	4
107	Khadidiatou Dieng	Senegal	28.39	6	6
107	Chen Ting	Chinese Taipei	28.39	8	0
109		Papua New Guinea	28.49	6	7
110		India	28.53	8	1
111		Eswatini	28.55	7	2
112		French Polynesia	28.57	7	4
113		Saint Lucia	28.59	7	5
114	Cheyenne Rova	Fiji	28.60	6	4
115	Adele Rova	Fiji	28.66	5	5
116		Grenada	28.68	8	3
116		Seychelles	28.68	9	0
118		Namibia	28.71	7	3
119		Bolivia	28.98	6	5
120		Kenya	29.02	6	1
121		Nigeria	29.03	5	3
122	Anahit Barseghyan	Armenia	29.12	6	3
123	Rovena Marku	Albania	29.13	8	2
124		Monaco	29.31	4	9
125	Angelique Trinquier	Monaco	29.41	6	2
126		Mozambique	29.45	3	3
127		Palestine	29.68	5	7
128	Sameera Al Bitar	Bahrain	29.75	4	5
129		Mauritius	29.77	5	1
130		Mauritius	29.89	7	0
131		Uganda	29.95	2	5
132		Sri Lanka	29.97	4	0
133	Estellah Fils Rabetsara	Madagascar	29.99	7	8
134		Guyana	30.00	3	4
135		Grenada	30.01	6	9
136	Kiran Khan	Pakistan	30.06	4	4
137		Brunei	30.17	5	8
137		Lebanon	30.17	7	1
139	Doli Akhter	Bangladesh	30.19	4	6
140		American Samoa	30.20	5	9
141		Zambia	30.40	4	2
142		Palau	30.41	4	8
143	Sabine Hazboun	Palestine	30.62	5	0
144		Sri Lanka	30.68	4	1
145	Vitiny Hemthon	Cambodia	30.95	3	8
146	Jamila Lunkuse	Uganda	30.98	2	6
147		Albania	31.09	5	2
148	Debra Daniel	Federated States of Micronesia	31.12	2	7
149	Oyungerel Gantumur	Mongolia	31.15	7	7
150	Julianne Kirchner	Marshall Islands	31.22	4	3
151	Katerina Izmailova	Tajikistan	31.31	5	6
152		Mongolia	31.46	3	5
153		Mongolia	31.47	6	0
154		Tanzania	31.65	3	1
155		Marshall Islands	32.12	3	9
156		Pakistan	32.28	3	6
157		Federated States of Micronesia	32.96	2	1
158	Jennet Saryyeva	Turkmenistan	33.02	2	8
159	Shreya Dhital	Nepal	33.37	2	3
160		Palau	33.74	2	4
161		Nepal	33.83	2	2
162	Elisabeth Nikiema	Burkina Faso	34.07	1	2
163		Burundi	34.30	2	9
164		Benin	35.04	1	1
165	Elsie Uwamahoro	Burundi	36.56	2	0
166		Mali	37.07	1	6
167		Mali	37.47	1	3
168		Tajikistan	39.04	3	0
169		Tanzania	43.53	1	7
–		Democratic Republic of the Congo	DNS	1	5
–	Djene Barry	Guinea	DNS	3	7
–	Maroua Mathlouthi	Tunisia	DNS	10	8
–	Li Zhesi	China	DNS	18	2
–		Ethiopia	DSQ	1	4
–		Madagascar	DSQ	5	4
–	Cherelle Thompson	Trinidad and Tobago	DSQ	12	6

Semifinals[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Heat	Lane	Notes
1	Cate Campbell	Australia	24.08	2	4	CR
2	Marleen Veldhuis	Netherlands	24.20	1	5
3	Britta Steffen	Germany	24.28	2	3
4	Amanda Weir	United States	24.31	2	5
5	Therese Alshammar	Sweden	24.32	1	4
6	Libby Trickett	Australia	24.34	2	2
7	Francesca Halsall	Great Britain	24.42	1	3	NR
8	Dara Torres	United States	24.43	2	6
9	Malia Metella	France	24.58	1	7	NR
10	Jeanette Ottesen	Denmark	24.62	1	6	NR
11	Sviatlana Khakhlova	Belarus	24.69	1	8
12	Aleksandra Gerasimenya	Belarus	24.69	2	7
13	Victoria Poon	Canada	24.75	1	1	NR
14	Arlene Semeco	Venezuela	24.76	2	1	SA
15	Hinkelien Schreuder	Netherlands	24.85	1	2
16	Hanna-Maria Seppälä	Finland	25.09	2	8

Final[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Lane	Notes
	Britta Steffen	Germany	23.73	3	WR
	Therese Alshammar	Sweden	23.88	2	NR
	Cate Campbell	Australia	23.99	4
	Marleen Veldhuis	Netherlands	23.99	5
5	Francesca Halsall	Great Britain	24.11	1	NR
6	Libby Trickett	Australia	24.19	7
7	Amanda Weir	United States	24.23	6
8	Dara Torres	United States	24.48	8