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Women's 50 metre backstroke
at the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Women's 50 metre backstroke ; at the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue	Hangzhou Sports Park Stadium
Dates	14 December (heats and semifinals); 15 December (final)
Competitors	57
Winning time	25.88
Medalists
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The women's 50 metre backstroke competition of the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 14 and 15 December 2018.^[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 started on 14 December at 9:38.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Etiene Medeiros	Brazil	26.13	Q
2	5	6	Fu Yuanhui	China	26.26	Q
3	6	3	Olivia Smoliga	United States	26.41	Q
4	3	4	Maaike de Waard	Netherlands	26.48	Q
5	5	7	Caroline Pilhatsch	Austria	26.51	Q
6	4	3	Miyuki Takemura	Japan	26.53	Q
7	4	5	Georgia Davies	Great Britain	26.56	Q
7	6	2	Holly Barratt	Australia	26.56	Q
9	5	2	Mathilde Cini	France	26.57	Q
10	5	3	Simona Kubová	Czech Republic	26.58	Q
11	4	6	Mimosa Jallow	Finland	26.60	Q
12	5	5	Ranomi Kromowidjojo	Netherlands	26.63	Q
13	6	1	Anastasia Fesikova	Russia	26.70	Q
14	6	5	Alicja Tchórz	Poland	26.74	Q
15	6	6	Kathleen Baker	United States	26.77	Q
16	4	4	Emily Seebohm	Australia	26.81	Q
17	3	6	Karolína Hájková	Slovakia	27.13
18	4	2	Liu Xiang	China	27.21
18	5	0	Andrea Berrino	Argentina	27.21
20	4	0	Laura Riedemann	Germany	27.22
21	3	2	Ingrid Wilm	Canada	27.25
22	3	5	Isabella Arcila	Colombia	27.26
23	5	8	Anastasiya Shkurdai	Belarus	27.40
24	6	7	Emi Moronuki	Japan	27.50
25	4	1	Hanna Rosvall	Sweden	27.54
26	5	1	Stephanie Au	Hong Kong	27.57
27	5	9	Carlotta Zofkova	Italy	27.62
28	6	9	Seraina Sturzenegger	Switzerland	27.64
29	4	8	Ekaterina Avramova	Turkey	27.81
30	3	3	Jeserik Pinto	Venezuela	27.99	NR
30	4	9	Ingibjörg Kristín Jónsdóttir	Iceland	27.99
32	6	0	Paige Flynn	New Zealand	28.20
33	3	7	Hiba Fahsi	Morocco	29.22	NR
34	3	1	Nimia Murua	Panama	30.34
35	3	8	Guiliana Dudok	Uruguay	30.74
36	3	9	Kimberly Ince	Grenada	31.38
37	1	1	Britheny Joassaint	Haiti	31.48	NR
38	3	0	Eda Zeqiri	Kosovo	31.55
39	2	0	Therese Soukup	Seychelles	31.97
40	2	4	Jannat Bique	Mozambique	32.05
41	2	3	Annie Hepler	Marshall Islands	33.19
42	1	6	Naima Akter	Bangladesh	33.86
42	2	6	Roylin Akiwo	Palau	33.86
44	2	8	Daniela Costa	Angola	34.01
45	2	5	Ada Thioune	Senegal	34.32
46	1	7	Fatema Almahmeed	Brunei	34.35
47	1	5	Noelani Day	Tonga	34.45
48	1	3	Danielle George	Guyana	34.74
49	2	2	Kayla Temba	Tanzania	36.48
50	2	9	Ina Gadama	Malawi	42.87
51	1	2	Kanu Isha	Sierra Leone	48.97
52	2	1	R.B.A.Ibrahim	Sudan	49.06
	1	4	Bopha Sam	Cambodia	DNS
	4	7	Elena Di Liddo	Italy	DNS
	6	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	DNS
	6	8	Jenna Laukkanen	Finland	DNS
	2	7	Evalyn Tome	Solomon Islands	DSQ

Semifinals

The semifinals were started on 14 December at 20:15.^[3]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Miyuki Takemura	Japan	26.31	Q
2	4	Fu Yuanhui	China	26.33	Q
3	1	Alicja Tchórz	Poland	26.36	Q
4	6	Holly Barratt	Australia	26.38	Q
5	7	Ranomi Kromowidjojo	Netherlands	26.54	QSO
6	2	Simona Kubová	Czech Republic	26.60
7	5	Maaike de Waard	Netherlands	26.74
8	8	Emily Seebohm	Australia	26.93

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Olivia Smoliga	United States	26.06	Q
2	3	Caroline Pilhatsch	Austria	26.21	Q
3	6	Georgia Davies	Great Britain	26.28	Q
4	2	Mathilde Cini	France	26.54	QSO
5	7	Mimosa Jallow	Finland	26.74
6	1	Anastasia Fesikova	Russia	26.76
6	8	Kathleen Baker	United States	26.76
8	4	Etiene Medeiros	Brazil	26.91

Final

The final was held on 15 December at 20:10.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Olivia Smoliga	United States	25.88	NR
	5	Caroline Pilhatsch	Austria	25.99	NR
	1	Holly Barratt	Australia	26.04
4	2	Fu Yuanhui	China	26.06
5	8	Mathilde Cini	France	26.17
6	6	Miyuki Takemura	Japan	26.30
7	3	Georgia Davies	Great Britain	26.31
8	7	Alicja Tchórz	Poland	26.42

References

^ "Competition schedule". Omega Timing. 14 December 2018. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
^ Heats results
^ Semifinals results
^ Final results

[1] "Competition schedule". Omega Timing. 14 December 2018. Retrieved 27 December 2018.

[2] Heats results

[3] Semifinals results

[4] Final results

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2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 50 metre backstroke