Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 50 metre freestyle

The Women's 50m Freestyle at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships took place on 31 March (prelims & semifinals) and 1 April (finals) at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia. A total of 143 swimmers were entered in the event; 138 swam the event.

The existing records at the start of the competition were:

Results

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Final

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Place Name Nationality Time Note
1 Lisbeth Lenton   Australia 24.53
2 Therese Alshammar   Sweden 24.62
3 Marleen Veldhuis   Netherlands 24.70
4 Britta Steffen   Germany 24.79
5 Kara Lynn Joyce   USA 24.83
6 Jodie Henry   Australia 24.96
7 Malia Metella   France 25.02
8 Natalie Coughlin   USA 25.31

Semifinals

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Rank Name Nationality Time Note
1 Marleen Veldhuis   Netherlands 24.79 Q
2 Kara Lynn Joyce   USA 24.80 Q
3 Therese Alshammar   Sweden 24.83 Q
4 Lisbeth Lenton   Australia 24.89 Q
5 Jodie Henry   Australia 25.06 Q
Britta Steffen   Germany Q
7 Natalie Coughlin   USA 25.08 Q
8 Malia Metella   France 25.10 Q
9 Aleksandra Gerasimenya   Belarus 25.28
10 XU Yanwei   China 25.31
11 Francesca Halsall   Great Britain 25.32
12 Anna-Karin Kammerling   Sweden 25.37
13 Hanna-Maria Seppälä   Finland 25.47
14 Inge Dekker   Netherlands 25.50
15 Céline Couderc   France 25.54
16 Erica Morningstar   Canada 25.61

Prelims

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Rank Name Nationality Time Note
1 Kara Lynn Joyce   USA 25.23 Q
2 Lisbeth Lenton   Australia 25.24 Q
3 Therese Alshammar   Sweden 25.34 Q
4 Britta Steffen   Germany 25.40 Q
5 XU Yanwei   China 25.41 Q
6 Jodie Henry   Australia 25.42 Q
7 Francesca Halsall   Great Britain 25.43 Q
8 Marleen Veldhuis   Netherlands 25.45 Q
9 Aleksandra Gerasimenya   Belarus 25.51 Q
10 Erica Morningstar   Canada 25.54 Q
Natalie Coughlin   USA Q
12 Anna Karin Kammerling   Sweden 25.56 Q
13 Inge Dekker   Netherlands 25.60 Q
14 Hanna-Maria Seppälä   Finland 25.61 Q
15 Malia Metella   France 25.63 Q
16 Céline Couderc   France 25.70 Q
17 Sviatlana Khakhlova   Belarus 25.73
18 Vanessa García   Puerto Rico 25.81
19 Daniela Gotz   Germany 25.83
20 Cristina Chiuso   Italy 25.85
21 Oxana Serikova   Ukraine 25.93
22 Arlene Semeco   Venezuela 26.10
23 Flávia Delaroli   Brazil 26.13
24 Jeanette Ottesen   Denmark 26.28
25 Fabienne Nadarajah   Austria 26.41
26 Triin Aljand   Estonia 26.52
Lauren Boyle   New Zealand
28 Jana Kolukanova   Estonia 26.55
29 Victoria Poon   Canada 26.56
30 Caroline Pickering   Fiji 26.57
31 Marilies Demal   Austria 26.60
Sze Hang Yu   Hong Kong
33 Hannah Wilson   Hong Kong 26.64
34 Ragnheidur Ragnarsdottir   Iceland 26.67
35 Miroslava Najdanovski   Serbia 26.73
36 Emily Vavourakis   Belgium 26.85
37 Lee Keo-Ra   South Korea 26.87
38 Sharntelle McLean   Trinidad and Tobago 26.89
Petra Klosova   Czech Republic
Pin Chieh Nieh   Chinese Taipei
41 Tine Bossuyt   Belgium 26.92
42 Ionela Cozma   Romania 27.00
43 Ximena Vilar   Venezuela 27.04
44 Lynette Ng   Singapore 27.09
45 Karin Prinsloo   South Africa 27.12
46 Natasha Moodie   Jamaica 27.24
47 Carolina Colorado Henao   Colombia 27.26
48 Yang Chin-Kuei   Chinese Taipei 27.28
49 Madeleine Scerri   Malta 27.29
50 Anna Stylianou   Cyprus 27.37
51 Ruth Ho   Singapore 27.38
52 Yamile Bahamonde   Ecuador 27.40
53 Pannika Prachgosin   Thailand 27.41
54 Sara Yasmine Chahed   Tunisia 27.42
55 Heather Brand   Zimbabwe 27.43
56 Nicole Marmol Gilbert   Ecuador 27.45
57 Kimberly Eeson   Zimbabwe 27.67
58 Anna-Liza Mopio-Jane   Papua New Guinea 27.70
Ellen Hight   Zambia
60 Cheok Mei Ma   Macau 27.71
61 Alexia Pamela Benitez Quijada   El Salvador 27.82
62 Irina Shlemova   Uzbekistan 27.88
63 Marianela Quesada   Costa Rica 27.94
64 Sharon Paola Fajardo Sierra   Honduras 28.03
65 Kiera Aitken   Bermuda 28.04
66 Veronica Vdovicenco   Moldova 28.06
67 Felicia Leksono   Indonesia 28.14
68 Nilshaira Isenia   Netherlands Antilles 28.21
69 Rachel Ah Koy   Fiji 28.26
70 Elena Popovska   Macedonia 28.29
71 Nancy Suryaatmadja   Indonesia 28.31
72 Khadija Ciss   Senegal 28.33
73 Emma Hunter   Samoa 28.47
74 Jessica Teixeira Vieira   Mozambique 28.64
75 Parita Parekh   India 28.69
76 Mariya Bugakova   Uzbekistan 28.70
77 Marie Laura Meza   Costa Rica 28.71
78 Rovena Marku   Albania 28.76
79 Jakie Wellman   Zambia 28.77
80 Ximene Gomes   Mozambique 28.81
81 Massie Milagros Carrillo   Peru 28.82
82 Razan Taha   Jordan 28.87
83 Ngozi Monu   Nigeria 28.89
84 Dohi Eliane Droubry   Côte d'Ivoire 28.92
85 Tojohanitra Andriamanjatoprimamama   Madagascar 29.07
86 Dalia Tórrez Zamora   Nicaragua 29.14
87 Kshipra Mahajan   India 29.22
88 Jonay Briedenhann   Namibia 29.27
89 Danielle Beaubrun   Saint Lucia 29.30
90 Judith Meauri   Papua New Guinea 29.38
91 Miriam Hatamleh   Jordan 29.42
92 Katerine Moreno   Bolivia 29.43
93 Fiorella Gomez-Sanchez   Peru 29.51
94 Chinyere Pigot   Suriname 29.55
Karen Torrez   Bolivia
96 Talisa Pace   Malta 29.58
97 April Chang   Samoa 29.60
98 Binta Zahra Diop   Senegal 29.65
99 Sook Fun Chai   Malaysia 29.71
100 Rachel Fortunato   Gibraltar 29.78
101 Lacey Palmer-Martin   Saint Lucia 29.83
102 Marike Meyer   Namibia 29.84
Stephanie Anne Maitland   Seychelles
104 Dashtserengiin Saintsetseg   Mongolia 30.00
105 Shannon Austin   Seychelles 30.17
106 Uche Monu   Nigeria 30.18
107 Senele Dlamini   Swaziland 30.33
108 Pina Ercolano   Kenya 30.36
109 Aminath Rouya Hussain   Maldives 30.46
110 Herinantenaina Ravoajanahary   Madagascar 30.50
111 Rachel Lannen   Guam 30.53
Prisca Rose   Mauritius
113 Telmen Batjargal   Mongolia 30.61
114 Diane Etiennette   Mauritius 30.63
Olivia Aya Nakitanda   Uganda
116 Kathryn Millin   Swaziland 30.73
117 Sameera Al-Bitar   Brunei 31.12
118 Sarah Elizabeth Johnson   Northern Mariana Islands 31.39
119 Maria Gibbons   Palau 31.75
120 Debra Daniel   Federated States
        of Micronesia
32.07
121 Amber Yobech   Palau 32.10
Maxine Pardo   Gibraltar
123 Zakia Nassar   Palestine 32.17
124 Julianne Kirchner   Marshall Islands 32.74
125 Natasha Ratter   Uganda 33.10
126 Teran Matthews   Saint Vincent
        and the Grenadines
33.18
127 Magdalena Moshi   Tanzania 33.57
128 Samphors Seng   Cambodia 34.25
129 Karishma Karki     Nepal 34.97
130 Vilayphone Vongphachanh   Laos 35.44
131 Nahed Akhlif   Libya 36.47
132 Elisabeth Nikiema   Burkina Faso 38.33
133 Elsie Uwamahoro   Burundi 39.79
134 Aminath Inas Ismail   Maldives 40.75
135 Daoheuang Inthavong   Laos 43.28
136 Ingrid Rabienne Outtara   Burkina Faso 44.09
-- Gloria Koussihouede   Benin DNS
-- Soraya Abdourahmane   Mauritania DNS
-- Ana Roxiero   Angola DNS
-- Chanelle Van Wyk   South Africa DNS
-- Martina Moravcová   Slovakia DNS
-- Anisa Curraj   Albania DQ
-- Zhu Yingwen   China DQ

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