Swimming at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 50 metre freestyle

Women's 50 metre freestyle at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Danube Arena
Location	Budapest, Hungary
Dates	24 June (heats and semifinals) 25 June (final)
Competitors	82 from 80 nations
Winning time	23.98
Medalists
Sarah Sjöström   Sweden   Katarzyna Wasick   Poland   Erika Brown   United States   Meg Harris   Australia

The Women's 50 metre freestyle competition at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships was held on 24 and 25 June 2022.

Records

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

World record	Sarah Sjöström (SWE)	23.67	Budapest, Hungary	29 July 2017
Competition record	Sarah Sjöström (SWE)	23.67	Budapest, Hungary	29 July 2017

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 24 June at 09:00.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	10	4	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	24.40	Q
2	8	4	Katarzyna Wasick	Poland	24.45	Q
3	9	3	Meg Harris	Australia	24.68	Q
4	10	3	Erika Brown	United States	24.71	Q
5	10	5	Zhang Yufei	China	24.81	Q
6	8	3	Anna Hopkin	Great Britain	24.82	Q
7	8	6	Emma Chelius	South Africa	24.87	Q
8	8	5	Torri Huske	United States	24.91	Q
9	9	2	Julie Kepp Jensen	Denmark	25.04	Q
9	9	6	Valerie van Roon	Netherlands	25.04	Q
11	10	7	Kim Busch	Netherlands	25.06	Q
12	10	0	Kalia Antoniou	Cyprus	25.14	Q, NR
13	10	2	Kayla Sanchez	Canada	25.15	Q, WD
14	9	1	Petra Senánszky	Hungary	25.24	Q
15	8	7	Silvia Di Pietro	Italy	25.33	Q
16	10	6	Marie Wattel	France	25.34	Q
17	9	7	Lorrane Ferreira	Brazil	25.36	Q
18	8	2	Rika Omoto	Japan	25.38
19	10	1	Neža Klančar	Slovenia	25.47
20	8	1	Jeong So-eun	South Korea	25.53
21	7	5	Sasha Touretski	Switzerland	25.68
22	9	9	Amanda Lim	Singapore	25.85
23	8	9	Chelsey Edwards	New Zealand	25.91
24	7	0	Daria Golovaty	Israel	25.97
24	7	4	Diana Petkova	Bulgaria	25.97
26	7	6	Cherelle Thompson	Trinidad and Tobago	26.01
27	7	1	Maddy Moore	Bermuda	26.04
28	8	0	Amel Melih	Algeria	26.07
29	7	3	Huang Mei-chien	Chinese Taipei	26.12
30	9	8	Jenjira Srisaard	Thailand	26.13
31	10	9	Anicka Delgado	Ecuador	26.18
32	7	2	Jasmine Alkhaldi	Philippines	26.20
32	7	7	Camille Cheng	Hong Kong	26.20
34	7	9	Gabriela Ņikitina	Latvia	26.25
34	8	8	Rūta Meilutytė	Lithuania	26.25
36	6	3	Kirabo Namutebi	Uganda	26.26
37	6	4	Rafaela Fernandini	Peru	26.31
38	6	5	Nikol Merizaj	Albania	26.44
39	7	8	Karen Torrez	Bolivia	26.46
40	6	7	Kenisha Gupta	India	26.72
41	6	1	Jillian Crooks	Cayman Islands	26.75
42	6	6	Chloe Farro	Aruba	26.98
43	6	2	Norah Milanesi	Cameroon	26.99
44	5	6	Varsenik Manucharyan	Armenia	27.08
45	6	0	Mikaili Charlemagne	Saint Lucia	27.16
46	6	8	Maria Schutzmeier	Nicaragua	27.20
47	5	4	Maxine Egner	Botswana	27.37
48	6	9	Marie Khoury	Lebanon	27.40
49	2	3	Olivia Fuller	Antigua and Barbuda	27.81
50	5	5	Cheyenne Rova	Fiji	27.82
51	5	3	Lina Khiyara	Morocco	27.83
52	1	3	Lucia Ruchti	Suspended Member Federation	27.92
53	2	4	Hana Beiqi	Kosovo	28.03
54	4	4	Nomvula Mjimba	Zimbabwe	28.13
55	5	8	Dorcas Oka	Nigeria	28.14
56	5	1	Khema Elizabeth	Seychelles	28.18
57	5	0	Jovana Kuljača	Montenegro	28.37
58	5	9	Georgia-Leigh Vele	Papua New Guinea	28.46
59	4	5	Antsa Rabejaona	Madagascar	28.51
60	1	4	Marina Abu Shamaleh	Palestine	28.52
61	5	7	Bisma Khan	Pakistan	28.57
62	4	3	Vorleak Sok	Cambodia	28.62
63	4	2	Ariel Rodrigues	Guyana	28.71
64	3	7	Ayah Binrajab	Brunei	28.81
65	5	2	Yusra Mardini	FINA Refugee Team	28.95
66	2	8	Ekaterina Bordachyova	Tajikistan	29.10
67	3	9	Kaya Forson	Ghana	29.25
68	4	6	Nafissath Radji	Benin	29.38
69	4	8	Taffi Illis	Sint Maarten	30.00
70	1	5	Sonia Aktar	Bangladesh	30.05
71	2	5	Hamna Ahmed	Maldives	30.61
72	4	1	Tayamika Chang'anamuno	Malawi	30.81
73	3	1	Eunike Fugo	Tanzania	31.06
74	3	0	Jinie Thompson	Northern Mariana Islands	31.36
75	3	5	Jennifer Lynn Harding-Marlin	Saint Kitts and Nevis	31.80
76	4	0	Alyse Maniriho	Burundi	31.82
77	2	0	Yuri Hosei	Palau	32.05
78	2	2	Kayla Hepler	Marshall Islands	33.05
79	3	4	Roukaya Mahamane	Niger	33.31	NR
80	3	3	Brhane Demeke Amare	Ethiopia	34.92
81	2	9	Maesha Saadi	Comoros	35.26
82	3	6	Rita Ekomba Ocomo	Equatorial Guinea	43.27
	2	1	Sainabou Sam	Gambia	Did not start
	2	6	Lucie Kouadio	Ivory Coast
	2	7	Marie Amenou	Togo
	3	2	Mashael Al-Ayed	Saudi Arabia
	3	8	Vanessa Bobimbo Loufouimpou	Republic of the Congo
	4	7	Iman Kouraogo	Burkina Faso
	4	9	Chloe Sauvourel	Central African Republic
	9	0	Theodora Drakou	Greece
	9	4	Shayna Jack	Australia
	9	5	Cheng Yujie	China
	10	8	Farida Osman	Egypt

Semifinals

The semifinals were started on 24 June at 18:17.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	4	Katarzyna Wasick	Poland	24.11	Q, NR
2	2	4	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	24.15	Q
3	2	5	Meg Harris	Australia	24.39	Q
4	1	5	Erika Brown	United States	24.59	Q
5	1	3	Anna Hopkin	Great Britain	24.60	Q
5	2	3	Zhang Yufei	China	24.60	Q
7	1	6	Torri Huske	United States	24.63	Q
8	2	2	Julie Kepp Jensen	Denmark	24.86	Q
9	2	6	Emma Chelius	South Africa	24.87
10	1	7	Kalia Antoniou	Cyprus	24.94	NR
11	2	1	Petra Senánszky	Hungary	24.95
12	2	8	Marie Wattel	France	25.04
13	1	2	Valerie van Roon	Netherlands	25.19
13	2	7	Kim Busch	Netherlands	25.19
15	1	8	Lorrane Ferreira	Brazil	25.24
–	1	1	Silvia Di Pietro	Italy	Disqualified

Final

The final was held on 25 June at 18:47.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	23.98
	4	Katarzyna Wasick	Poland	24.18
	3	Meg Harris	Australia	24.38
	6	Erika Brown	United States	24.38
5	7	Zhang Yufei	China	24.57
6	1	Torri Huske	United States	24.64
7	2	Anna Hopkin	Great Britain	24.71
8	8	Julie Kepp Jensen	Denmark	24.96