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Women's 50 metre backstroke
at the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Women's 50 metre backstroke ; at the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue	WFCU Centre
Dates	9 December (heats and semifinals); 10 December (final)
Competitors	81 from 61 nations
Winning time	25.82
Medalists
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The Women's 50 metre backstroke competition of the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 9 and 10 December 2016.^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record Championship record	Etiene Medeiros	Brazil	25.67	Doha	7 December 2014

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 09:44.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	9	0	Ali DeLoof	United States	26.25	Q
2	8	4	Emily Seebohm	Australia	26.43	Q
3	7	4	Etiene Medeiros	Brazil	26.48	Q
4	8	6	Kylie Masse	Canada	26.57	Q, NR
5	8	5	Daryna Zevina	Ukraine	26.63	Q
5	8	7	Kira Toussaint	Netherlands	26.63	Q
7	9	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	26.70	Q
8	9	5	Georgia Davies	Great Britain	26.74	Q
9	7	3	Mie Nielsen	Denmark	26.75	Q
10	6	2	Isabella Arcila	Colombia	26.76	Q, NR
11	9	3	Mariia Kameneva	Russia	26.82	Q
12	8	2	Kathleen Dawson	Great Britain	26.84	Q
13	7	5	Maaike de Waard	Netherlands	26.87	Q
14	7	6	Simona Baumrtová	Czech Republic	26.93	Q
15	7	1	Silvia Di Pietro	Italy	26.95	Q
16	9	7	Wang Xueer	China	27.01	Q
17	7	7	Andrea Berrino	Argentina	27.03	NR
18	8	3	Minna Atherton	Australia	27.14
19	9	2	Liu Xiang	China	27.20
20	7	2	Emi Moronuki	Japan	27.22
21	9	6	Mélanie Henique	France	27.37
22	7	9	Eygló Gústafsdóttir	Iceland	27.44
23	6	6	Clara Smiddy	United States	27.47
23	9	1	Silvia Scalia	Italy	27.47
25	9	8	Julie Kepp Jensen	Denmark	27.51
26	8	1	Mathilde Cini	France	27.71
27	8	0	Ida Lindborg	Sweden	27.77
28	6	5	Hilary Caldwell	Canada	27.80
28	8	8	Caroline Pilhatsch	Austria	27.80
30	6	8	Tayla Lovemore	South Africa	27.82
31	6	0	Naomi Ruele	Botswana	27.94	NR
32	6	4	Mariella Venter	South Africa	27.95
33	7	0	Miki Takahashi	Japan	28.01
34	6	7	Wong Toto Kwan To	Hong Kong	28.05
34	7	8	Hanna Rosvall	Sweden	28.05
36	6	3	Karolína Hájková	Slovakia	28.59
36	6	9	Lushavel Stickland	Samoa	28.59	NR
38	5	2	Amel Melih	Algeria	28.62	NR
39	5	5	Natthanan Junkrajang	Thailand	28.76
40	4	4	Celina Marquez	El Salvador	28.81	NR
40	5	0	Ugne Mazutaityte	Lithuania	28.81
42	4	2	Lauren Hew	Cayman Islands	28.86	NR
43	5	9	Kimiko Raheem	Sri Lanka	28.89	NR
44	4	5	Caylee Watson	United States Virgin Islands	28.92	NR
45	5	4	Hanna-Maria Seppälä	Finland	29.07
46	5	3	Maana Patel	India	29.19	NR
47	5	7	Sylvia Brunlehner	Kenya	29.20	NR
48	6	1	Alexus Laird	Seychelles	29.39
49	4	3	Hoong En Qi	Singapore	29.72
50	4	7	Jade Howard	Zambia	29.79	NR
51	5	1	Karen Vilorio	Honduras	29.81	NR
52	5	8	Gabriela Ņikitina	Lithuania	29.98
53	4	6	Mónica Ramírez	Andorra	30.17
54	1	7	Anastasia Bogdanovski	Macedonia	30.22	NR
55	4	9	Maria Arrua	Paraguay	30.50
56	3	5	Jennifer Rizkallah	Lebanon	30.60
57	3	6	Izzy Joachim	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	30.73	NR
58	3	2	Jamaris Washshah	United States Virgin Islands	30.83
59	4	0	Danielle Titus	Barbados	30.86
60	4	1	Estellah Fils Rabetsara	Madagascar	30.96	NR
61	3	4	Alma Castillo	Paraguay	31.01
62	2	1	Colleen Furgeson	Marshall Islands	31.13	NR
63	3	3	Alison Jackson	Cayman Islands	31.25
64	2	6	Lea Ricart Martinez	Andorra	31.74
65	3	0	Bisma Khan	Pakistan	31.91
66	3	1	Shanice Paraka	Papua New Guinea	32.22
67	2	5	Gabriela Hernandez	Nicaragua	32.28
68	2	7	Sonia Tumiotto	Tanzania	32.44	NR
69	3	7	Rahaf Baqleh	Jordan	32.49
70	2	3	Tiareth Cijntje	Curaçao	32.57	NR
71	3	9	Flaka Pruthi	Kosovo	32.66
72	2	4	Gabby Gittens	Antigua and Barbuda	32.78	NR
73	2	8	Annie Hepler	Marshall Islands	32.92
74	3	8	Alesia Neziri	Albania	33.37	NR
75	2	2	Dara Al-Bakry	Jordan	33.67
76	1	6	Robyn Young	Eswatini	33.96	NR
77	2	0	Ammara Pinto	Malawi	34.03
78	2	9	Aishath Sausan	Maldives	34.29	NR
79	1	4	Tilali Scanlan	American Samoa	34.70	NR
80	1	5	Tayamika Chang'anamuno	Malawi	38.34
81	1	2	Calina Panuve	Tonga	40.06
	1	3	Kokoe Vanessa Ahyee	Ivory Coast		DNS
	4	8	Cheyenne Rova	Fiji		DNS
	5	6	Felicity Passon	Seychelles		DNS
	8	9	Yekaterina Rudenko	Kazakhstan		DNS
	9	9	Fanny Teijonsalo	Finland		DNS

Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 19:43.^[3]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Emily Seebohm	Australia	26.33	Q
2	5	Kylie Masse	Canada	26.34	Q, NR
3	7	Kathleen Dawson	Great Britain	26.44	Q
4	3	Kira Toussaint	Netherlands	26.52
4	6	Georgia Davies	Great Britain	26.52
6	2	Isabella Arcila	Colombia	26.72	NR
7	1	Simona Baumrtová	Czech Republic	26.90
8	8	Wang Xueer	China	27.20

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Etiene Medeiros	Brazil	26.00	Q
2	4	Ali DeLoof	United States	26.12	Q
3	7	Mariia Kameneva	Russia	26.29	Q
4	6	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	26.37	Q
5	3	Daryna Zevina	Ukraine	26.45	Q
6	2	Mie Nielsen	Denmark	26.65
7	1	Maaike de Waard	Netherlands	26.70
8	8	Silvia Di Pietro	Italy	27.21

Final

The final was held at 19:38.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Etiene Medeiros	Brazil	25.82
	7	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	25.99
	5	Ali DeLoof	United States	26.14
4	3	Mariia Kameneva	Russia	26.15	NR
5	6	Emily Seebohm	Australia	26.16
6	8	Daryna Zevina	Ukraine	26.40
7	1	Kathleen Dawson	Great Britain	26.42
8	2	Kylie Masse	Canada	26.46