Swimming at the 2014 Commonwealth Games – Women's 50 metre butterfly

Women's 50 metre butterfly at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Venue	Tollcross International Swimming Centre
Dates	26 July 2014 (2014-07-26) (heats & semis) 27 July 2014 (2014-07-27) (final)
Competitors	47 from 29 nations
Winning time	25.20 GR
Medalists
Francesca Halsall    England   Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace    Bahamas   Brittany Elmslie    Australia

The women's 50 metre butterfly event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games as part of the swimming programme took place on 26 and 27 July at the Tollcross International Swimming Centre in Glasgow, Scotland.

The medals were presented by Tony Ward, International Paralympics Committee Technical Delegate and the quaichs were presented by Mike Summers, Chairman of the Falkland Islands Overseas Games Association.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Commonwealth Games records were as follows.

World record	Sarah Sjöström (SWE)	24.43	Borås, Sweden	5 July 2014
Commonwealth record	Marieke Guehrer (AUS)	25.48	Rome, Italy	1 August 2009
Games record	Marieke Guehrer (AUS)	26.07	Delhi, India	4 October 2010

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
26 July	Heat	Francesca Halsall	England	25.64	GR
26 July	Semifinal	Francesca Halsall	England	25.36	GR
27 July	Final	Francesca Halsall	England	25.20	GR

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	4	Francesca Halsall	England	25.64	Q, GR
2	5	4	Brittany Elmslie	Australia	26.18	Q
3	4	4	Katerine Savard	Canada	26.33	Q
4	6	5	Alicia Coutts	Australia	26.43	Q
=5	5	5	Amy Smith	England	26.44	Q
	6	6	Tao Li	Singapore
	6	2	Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace	Bahamas
8	4	5	Sandrine Mainville	Canada	26.46	Q
9	5	3	Madeline Groves	Australia	26.74	Q
=10	4	3	Laura Quilter	New Zealand	26.92	Q
	6	3	Rachael Kelly	England
12	4	6	Michelle Williams	Canada	27.02	Q
13	5	6	Sian Harkin	Scotland	27.03	Q
14	5	2	Alys Thomas	Wales	27.14	Q
15	6	7	Marne Erasmus	South Africa	27.40	Q
16	5	7	Trudi Maree	South Africa	27.62	Q
17	4	2	Charlotte Atkinson	Isle of Man	27.63
18	4	7	Quah Ting Wen	Singapore	27.87
19	5	1	Marina Chan	Singapore	28.06
20	6	8	Gemma Kane	Northern Ireland	28.22
21	6	1	Yap Siew Hui	Malaysia	28.30
22	4	1	Bethany Firth	Northern Ireland	28.51
23	3	4	Trudiann Patrick	Jamaica	28.78
24	3	3	Sylvia Brunlehner	Kenya	28.79
25	3	5	Felicity Passon	Seychelles	28.95
26	5	8	Jannah Sonnenschein	Mozambique	29.13
27	3	2	Niamh Robinson	Isle of Man	29.30
28	3	6	Emily Chan Chee	Mauritius	29.34
29	4	8	Caroline Puamau	Fiji	29.46
30	2	6	Joyce Tafatatha	Malawi	29.59
31	3	7	Ophelia Swayne	Ghana	29.66
32	2	1	Izzy Joachim	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	30.10
33	2	3	Oreoluwa Cherebin	Grenada	30.20
34	2	2	Kimiko Raheem	Sri Lanka	30.44
35	2	4	Tegan McCarthy	Papua New Guinea	30.55
36	2	5	Kiran Khan	Pakistan	30.56
37	3	8	Cheyenne Rova	Fiji	30.67
38	1	2	Amarah Phillip	British Virgin Islands	30.94
39	1	4	Evelina Afoa	Samoa	31.23
40	1	1	Ger Ogot	Kenya	31.31
41	1	3	Tieri Erasito	Fiji	31.40
42	1	6	Savannah Tkatchenko	Papua New Guinea	31.79
43	2	8	Anita Field	Kenya	31.84
44	3	1	Irene Prescott	Tonga	31.98
45	1	5	Nadeera Jayasekera	Sri Lanka	32.05
46	2	7	Areeba Shaikh	Pakistan	32.12
47	1	7	Aminath Shajan	Maldives	35.00

Semifinals

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Francesca Halsall	England	25.36	Q, GR
2	2	6	Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace	Bahamas	25.90	Q
3	1	4	Brittany Elmslie	Australia	25.91	Q
4	2	5	Katerine Savard	Canada	26.31	Q
5	1	3	Tao Li	Singapore	26.33	Q
6	2	3	Amy Smith	England	26.43	Q
7	1	6	Sandrine Mainville	Canada	26.48	Q
8	1	5	Alicia Coutts	Australia	26.49	Q
9	2	2	Madeline Groves	Australia	26.62
10	2	7	Rachael Kelly	England	26.68
11	1	2	Laura Quilter	New Zealand	27.00
12	1	1	Alys Thomas	Wales	27.03
13	1	7	Michelle Williams	Canada	27.04
14	2	8	Marne Erasmus	South Africa	27.45
15	2	1	Sian Harkin	Scotland	27.52
16	1	8	Trudi Maree	South Africa	27.64

Finals

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Francesca Halsall	England	25.20	GR
	5	Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace	Bahamas	25.53
	3	Brittany Elmslie	Australia	25.91
4	7	Amy Smith	England	26.24
5	2	Tao Li	Singapore	26.26
6	6	Katerine Savard	Canada	26.27
7	8	Alicia Coutts	Australia	26.52
8	1	Sandrine Mainville	Canada	26.64