Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 50m freestyle
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The Women's 50m Freestyle at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships
2007 World Aquatics Championships
The 2007 World Aquatics Championships or the XII FINA World Championships were held in Melbourne, Australia from 17 March to 1 April 2007...

 took place on 31 March (prelims & semifinals) and 1 April (finals) at Rod Laver Arena
Rod Laver Arena
Rod Laver Arena is a tennis stadium that is part of the Melbourne Park complex located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, and has been the main venue for the Australian Open in tennis since 1988, replacing the ageing Kooyong Stadium...

 in Melbourne, Australia
Melbourne
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. A total of 143 swimmers were entered in the event; 138 swam the event.

The existing records at the start of the competition were:
  • World Record (WR): 24.13, Inge de Bruijn
    Inge de Bruijn
    Inge de Bruijn is a Dutch former swimmer. She was a four-time Olympic champion and a former world record holder.-Biography:De Bruijn was born in Barendrecht, South Holland, and tried several sports before settling with swimming....

     (Netherlands), 22 September 2000 in Sydney, Australia
    Swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics
    At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, 32 swimming events were contested, between September 15–23, 2000. There was a total of 954 participants from 150 countries competing.-Medal table:-Men:...

    .
  • Championship Record (CR): 24.45, Inge de Bruijn
    Inge de Bruijn
    Inge de Bruijn is a Dutch former swimmer. She was a four-time Olympic champion and a former world record holder.-Biography:De Bruijn was born in Barendrecht, South Holland, and tried several sports before settling with swimming....

     (Netherlands), Fukuoka 2001
    2001 World Aquatics Championships
    rightThe 2001 World Aquatics Championships or the 9th FINA World Swimming Championships were held in Fukuoka, Japan between 16 July and 29 July 2001....

     (Jul.28.2001).

Final

Place Name Nationality Time Note
1st Lisbeth Lenton   Australia 24.53
2nd Therese Alshammar
Therese Alshammar
Malin Therese Alshammar is a Swedish swimmer who has won three Olympic medals, 25 World Championship medals, and 43 European Championship medals. Standing at 1.80 m, she is a specialist of short races in freestyle and butterfly...

 
 Sweden 24.62
3rd Marleen Veldhuis
Marleen Veldhuis
Magdalena Johanna Maria Veldhuis is a professional swimmer from the Netherlands. She is world record holder in 4 events . Veldhuis has won 6 world championships gold medals and 20 European championships gold medals...

 
 Netherlands 24.70
4th Britta Steffen
Britta Steffen
Britta Steffen is a German swimmer who specializes in freestyle, who is the current holder of the world record in women's 50 and 100 metre freestyle....

 
 Germany 24.79
5th Kara Lynn Joyce
Kara Lynn Joyce
Kara Lynn Joyce is an American swimmer and four-time Olympic silver medalist.-High school career:...

 
 United States 24.83
6th Jodie Henry
Jodie Henry
Jodie Clare Henry OAM is an Australian swimmer, Olympic gold medalist and former world-record holder.-Swimming career:Jodie Henry began swimming competitively at the relatively late age of 14....

 
 Australia 24.96
7th Malia Metella
Malia Metella
Malia Metella is a French Olympic freestyle swimmer from French Guiana. She swam for France at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics, winning a silver medal in 2004 in the women's 50 free....

 
 Early Modern France 25.02
8th Natalie Coughlin
Natalie Coughlin
Natalie Anne Coughlin is an American swimmer and eleven-time Olympic medallist.At the 2008 Summer Olympics, Coughlin became the first American female athlete in modern Olympic history to win six medals in one Olympics and the first woman ever to win a 100 m backstroke gold in two consecutive...

 
 United States 25.31

Semifinals

Rank Name Nationality Time Note
1 Marleen Veldhuis
Marleen Veldhuis
Magdalena Johanna Maria Veldhuis is a professional swimmer from the Netherlands. She is world record holder in 4 events . Veldhuis has won 6 world championships gold medals and 20 European championships gold medals...

 
 Netherlands 24.79 Q
2 Kara Lynn Joyce
Kara Lynn Joyce
Kara Lynn Joyce is an American swimmer and four-time Olympic silver medalist.-High school career:...

 
 United States 24.80 Q
3 Therese Alshammar
Therese Alshammar
Malin Therese Alshammar is a Swedish swimmer who has won three Olympic medals, 25 World Championship medals, and 43 European Championship medals. Standing at 1.80 m, she is a specialist of short races in freestyle and butterfly...

 
 Sweden 24.83 Q
4 Lisbeth Lenton   Australia 24.89 Q
5 Jodie Henry
Jodie Henry
Jodie Clare Henry OAM is an Australian swimmer, Olympic gold medalist and former world-record holder.-Swimming career:Jodie Henry began swimming competitively at the relatively late age of 14....

 
 Australia 25.06 Q
Britta Steffen
Britta Steffen
Britta Steffen is a German swimmer who specializes in freestyle, who is the current holder of the world record in women's 50 and 100 metre freestyle....

 
 Germany Q
7 Natalie Coughlin
Natalie Coughlin
Natalie Anne Coughlin is an American swimmer and eleven-time Olympic medallist.At the 2008 Summer Olympics, Coughlin became the first American female athlete in modern Olympic history to win six medals in one Olympics and the first woman ever to win a 100 m backstroke gold in two consecutive...

 
 United States 25.08 Q
8 Malia Metella
Malia Metella
Malia Metella is a French Olympic freestyle swimmer from French Guiana. She swam for France at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics, winning a silver medal in 2004 in the women's 50 free....

 
 Early Modern France 25.10 Q
9 Aleksandra Gerasimenya
Aleksandra Gerasimenya
Aleksandra Gerasimenya is a swimmer from Belarus.-References:...

 
 Belarus 25.28
10 XU Yanwei   Mainland China 25.31
11 Francesca Halsall
Francesca Halsall
Francesca Jean Halsall is a British freestyle and butterfly swimmer.Halsall was the youngest member of the Team England swim squad at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne where she won silver medals in the 4×100 m freestyle and 4×100 m medley relays.She was a member of the European...

 
 United Kingdom 25.32
12 Anna-Karin Kammerling
Anna-Karin Kammerling
Anna-Karin Kammerling is a world-record breaking Swedish swimmer, who was born in Malmö, Sweden. Currently she resides in Sundsvall and trains with the Sundsvalls Swim Club under coach Hans Bergquist....

 
 Sweden 25.37
13 Hanna-Maria Seppälä   Finland 25.47
14 Inge Dekker
Inge Dekker
Inge Dekker is a butterfly and freestyle swimmer from Netherlands, who won the bronze medal with the Dutch women's 4×100 m freestyle relay team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. She did so alongside Inge de Bruijn, Marleen Veldhuis and Chantal Groot...

 
 Netherlands 25.50
15 Céline Couderc
Céline Couderc
Céline Couderc is a female freestyle swimmer from France, who twice competed for her native country at the Summer Olympics: in 2004 and 2008.- References :*...

 
 Early Modern France 25.54
16 Erica Morningstar
Erica Morningstar
Erica Rachelle Morningstar is a Canadian swimmer originally from Regina, Saskatchewan who is now based in Calgary, Alberta. She has competed in events all over the world including the 2008 Olympic games held in Beijing, China. She is sponsored by Speedo Canada, and regularly appears in their...

 
 Canada 25.61

Prelims

Rank Name Nationality Time Note
1 Kara Lynn Joyce
Kara Lynn Joyce
Kara Lynn Joyce is an American swimmer and four-time Olympic silver medalist.-High school career:...

 
 United States 25.23 Q
2 Lisbeth Lenton   Australia 25.24 Q
3 Therese Alshammar
Therese Alshammar
Malin Therese Alshammar is a Swedish swimmer who has won three Olympic medals, 25 World Championship medals, and 43 European Championship medals. Standing at 1.80 m, she is a specialist of short races in freestyle and butterfly...

 
 Sweden 25.34 Q
4 Britta Steffen
Britta Steffen
Britta Steffen is a German swimmer who specializes in freestyle, who is the current holder of the world record in women's 50 and 100 metre freestyle....

 
 Germany 25.40 Q
5 XU Yanwei   Mainland China 25.41 Q
6 Jodie Henry
Jodie Henry
Jodie Clare Henry OAM is an Australian swimmer, Olympic gold medalist and former world-record holder.-Swimming career:Jodie Henry began swimming competitively at the relatively late age of 14....

 
 Australia 25.42 Q
7 Francesca Halsall
Francesca Halsall
Francesca Jean Halsall is a British freestyle and butterfly swimmer.Halsall was the youngest member of the Team England swim squad at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne where she won silver medals in the 4×100 m freestyle and 4×100 m medley relays.She was a member of the European...

 
 United Kingdom 25.43 Q
8 Marleen Veldhuis
Marleen Veldhuis
Magdalena Johanna Maria Veldhuis is a professional swimmer from the Netherlands. She is world record holder in 4 events . Veldhuis has won 6 world championships gold medals and 20 European championships gold medals...

 
 Netherlands 25.45 Q
9 Aleksandra Gerasimenya
Aleksandra Gerasimenya
Aleksandra Gerasimenya is a swimmer from Belarus.-References:...

 
 Belarus 25.51 Q
10 Erica Morningstar
Erica Morningstar
Erica Rachelle Morningstar is a Canadian swimmer originally from Regina, Saskatchewan who is now based in Calgary, Alberta. She has competed in events all over the world including the 2008 Olympic games held in Beijing, China. She is sponsored by Speedo Canada, and regularly appears in their...

 
 Canada 25.54 Q
Natalie Coughlin
Natalie Coughlin
Natalie Anne Coughlin is an American swimmer and eleven-time Olympic medallist.At the 2008 Summer Olympics, Coughlin became the first American female athlete in modern Olympic history to win six medals in one Olympics and the first woman ever to win a 100 m backstroke gold in two consecutive...

 
 United States Q
12 Anna Karin Kammerling   Sweden 25.56 Q
13 Inge Dekker
Inge Dekker
Inge Dekker is a butterfly and freestyle swimmer from Netherlands, who won the bronze medal with the Dutch women's 4×100 m freestyle relay team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. She did so alongside Inge de Bruijn, Marleen Veldhuis and Chantal Groot...

 
 Netherlands 25.60 Q
14 Hanna-Maria Seppälä   Finland 25.61 Q
15 Malia Metella
Malia Metella
Malia Metella is a French Olympic freestyle swimmer from French Guiana. She swam for France at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics, winning a silver medal in 2004 in the women's 50 free....

 
 Early Modern France 25.63 Q
16 Céline Couderc
Céline Couderc
Céline Couderc is a female freestyle swimmer from France, who twice competed for her native country at the Summer Olympics: in 2004 and 2008.- References :*...

 
 Early Modern France 25.70 Q
17 Sviatlana Khakhlova   Belarus 25.73
18 Vanessa García
Vanessa García
Vanessa García Vega is an Olympic and National Record holding freestyle swimmer from Puerto Rico. She swam for her native country at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics....

 
 Puerto Rico 25.81
19 Daniela Gotz
Daniela Götz
Daniela Götz is a German swimmer.Götz represented Germany in the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics. She won bronze medal at the 2004 Olympics in 4×100 metre medley relay. An the 2008 Olympics she cometed in 4×100 metre freestyle relay....

 
 Germany 25.83
20 Cristina Chiuso
Cristina Chiuso
Cristina Chiuso is a former Italian swimmer.Italian record holder of 50 freestyle and 4x100 freestyle relay in short and long course, was captain of Italian women swimming team....

 
 Italy 25.85
21 Oxana Serikova   Ukraine 25.93
22 Arlene Semeco
Arlene Semeco
Arlene Iradie Semeco Arismendi is a female freestyle swimmer from Venezuela, who represented her native country in two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2004. She won two gold medals at the 2007 Pan American Games. She attended the University of Alabama.-References:* *...

 
 Venezuela 26.10
23 Flávia Delaroli
Flávia Delaroli
Flávia Delaroli is an Olympic and National Record holding freestyle swimmer from Brazil, who won the silver medal in the women's 50 m freestyle at the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.A resident of São Paulo, she also represented her native country at the 2004 and 2008...

 
 Brazil 26.13
24 Jeanette Ottesen
Jeanette Ottesen
Jeanette Ottesen is a Danish swimmer who participated at the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics in swimming. She currently holds the Danish record in 100 m freestyle...

 
 Denmark 26.28
25 Fabienne Nadarajah   Austria 26.41
26 Triin Aljand
Triin Aljand
Triin Aljand is an Estonian swimmer. She was a member of the Estonian national team that competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics and multiple FINA World Aquatics Championships. She competed again for the team in the 2008 Summer Olympics.She currently attends Texas A&M University, where she swims for...

 
 Estonia 26.52
Lauren Boyle
Lauren Boyle
Lauren Marie Boyle is a New Zealand swimming competitor. She won a bronze medal with Helen Norfolk, Alison Fitch and Melissa Ingram in the 4x200m freestyle relay at the 2006 Commonwealth Games....

 
 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
Hang Yu Sze   Hong Kong
33 Hannah Wilson
Hannah Wilson
Hannah Wilson is a Hong Kong amateur swimmer. She is a two-time Olympic swimmer for Hong Kong, having swam at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens and the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in the Water Cube in Beijing. She has won two career Universiade gold medals...

 
 Hong Kong 26.64
34 Ragnheidur Ragnarsdottir   Iceland 26.67
35 Miroslava Najdanovski
Miroslava Najdanovski
Miroslava Najdanovski is a 2-time Serbian Olympic swimmer.Najdanovski represented Serbia and Montenegro at the 2004 Summer Olympics. At only 16 years of age, she was the youngest member of the Serbo-Montenegrin delegation and also one of the youngest athletes to compete at the 2004 Summer Olympics...

 
 Serbia 26.73
36 Emily Vavourakis   Belgium 26.85
37 Keo Ra Lee   South Korea 26.87
38 Sharntelle McLean
Sharntelle McLean
Sharntelle McLean is a 2-time Olympic swimmer from Trinidad and Tobago. She swam for Trinidad and Tobago at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics...

 
 Trinidad and Tobago 26.89
Petra Klosova   Czech Republic
Pin Chieh Nieh   Chinese Taipei
41 Tine Bossuyt   Belgium 26.92
42 Ionela Cozma   Kingdom of Romania 27.00
43 Ximena Vilar   Venezuela 27.04
44 Hiang Yuet Lynette Ng   Singapore 27.09
45 Karin Prinsloo   South Africa 27.12
46 Natasha Moodie   Jamaica 27.24
47 Carolina Colorado   Colombia 27.26
48 Chin Kuei Yang   Chinese Taipei 27.28
49 Madeleine Scerri   Malta 27.29
50 Anna Stylianou   Cyprus 27.37
51 Ruyu Ruth Ho   Singapore 27.38
52 Loren 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 Marianella Quesada Barrantes   Costa Rica 27.94
64 Sharon Paola Fajardo Sierra   Honduras 28.03
65 Kiera Aitken
Kiera Aitken
Kiera Aitken is an Olympic and national-record holding swimmer from Bermuda. She is one of Bermuda's most successful swimmers, and has twice been named Bermuda's Female Athlete of the Year...

 
 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
Rachel Ah Koy
Rachel Ah Koy is a Fiji Islander swimmer.She competed in the 2002 Commonwealth Games, setting a national record in the women's 50 metres breaststroke, with a time of 34.99 sec. during the qualifiers, and a national record in the women's 100 m breaststroke heats, with a time of 1:17.33...

 
 Fiji 28.26
70 Elena Popovska   Republic of Macedonia 28.29
71 Nancy Suryaatmadja   Indonesia 28.31
72 Khadija Ciss   Senegal 28.33
73 Emma Hunter
Emma Hunter
Emma Hunter is a Samoan New Zealander swimmer. Born in Samoa, she now lives in Auckland, New Zealand.-Biography:In 2008, she was to become Samoa's first-ever female Olympic swimmer, by representing Samoa in freestyle and butterfly events at the Beijing...

 
 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 Peraza   Costa Rica 28.71
78 Rovena Marku
Rovena Marku
Rovena Marku is an Olympic freestyle swimmer from Albania, who represented her native country at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics....

 
 Albania 28.76
79 Matana Wellman   Zambia 28.77
80 Ximene Van Gomez   Mozambique 28.81
81 Massie Milagros Carrillo   Peru 28.82
82 Razan Taha   Jordan 28.87
83 Ngozi Monu
Ngozi Monu
Ngozi Rosalin Monu is a Nigerian swimmer. Monu is the most prolific female swimmer from Nigeria. She focuses on the 50m & 100m freestyle event. She competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics and 2008 Summer Olympics...

 
 Nigeria 28.89
84 Dohi Eliane Droubry   Côte d'Ivoire 28.92
85 Tojohanitra Andriamanjatoprimamama   Madagascar 29.07
86 Dalia Massiel Tórrez Zamora   Nicaragua 29.14
87 Kshipra Mahajan   India 29.22
88 Jonay Briedenhann   Namibia 29.27
89 Danielle Beaubrun
Danielle Beaubrun
Danielle Beaubrun is an Olympic and National Record holding swimmer from the Caribbean island nation of Saint Lucia...

 
 Saint Lucia 29.30
90 Judith Meauri   Papua New Guinea 29.38
91 Miriam Hatamleh   Jordan 29.42
92 Katerine Moreno
Katerine Moreno
Katerine Moreno de Quintanilla is a retired female swimmer from Bolivia. She competed in four Summer Olympics for her native South American country, starting in 1988.-References:*...

 
 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 Saintsetseg Dashtseren   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 Hussain Aminath Rouya   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 Anouchka Diane Etiennette   Mauritius 30.63
Olivia Aya Nakitanda   Uganda
116 Kathryn Millin   Swaziland 30.73
117 Sameera Albitar   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
Federated States of Micronesia
The Federated States of Micronesia or FSM is an independent, sovereign island nation, made up of four states from west to east: Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei and Kosrae. It comprises approximately 607 islands with c...

 
32.07
121 Amber Sikosan Yobech   Palau 32.10
Maxine Pardo   Gibraltar
123 Zakia Nassar   Palestinian territories 32.17
124 Julianne Kirchner   Marshall Islands 32.74
125 Natasha Ratter   Uganda 33.10
126 Teran Matthews    Saint Vincent
        and the Grenadines
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is an island country in the Lesser Antilles chain, namely in the southern portion of the Windward Islands, which lie at the southern end of the eastern border of the Caribbean Sea where the latter meets the Atlantic Ocean....

 
33.18
127 Ruth Magdalena Moshi   Tanzania 33.57
128 Samphors Seng   Cambodia 34.25
129 Karishma Karki
Karishma karki
Karishma Karki is Nepali Olympian swimmer. Born: July 18, 1993 in Bansbari, Kathmandu, Nepal .She had participated in Beijing Olympics 2008. Swimmer Karishma Karki has already created national record by bagging 12 gold medals at the Fifth National Games. She was awarded The Best Female Player Of...

 
 Nepal 34.97
130 Vilayphone Vongphachanh
Vilayphone Vongphachanh
Vilayphone Vongphachanh is a female Laotian Olympic freestyle swimmer.As a member of the Laos team she competed at the age of 15 in the 2004 Summer Olympics in the Women's 50m Freestyle...

 
 Laos 35.44
131 Nahed Akhlif   Libya 36.47
132 Elisabeth Nikiema   Burkina Faso 38.33
133 Elsie Uwamah   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
Gloria Koussihouede
Gloria Koussihouede, occasionally listed in results as "M. Koussihouede" is an Olympic swimmer from Benin. She swam at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics.-Results:*2004 Olympics: Women's 100 free, 1:30.90...

 
 Benin DNS
-- Soraya Abdourahmane   Mauritania DNS
-- Ana Roxiero   Angola DNS
-- Chanelle Van Wyk   South Africa DNS
-- Martina Moravcová
Martina Moravcová
Martina Moravcová is a medley, butterfly and freestyle swimmer from Slovakia. She made her international swimming debut in 1991 for Czechoslovakia, and has gone on to compete in five consecutive Summer Olympics...

 
 Slovakia DNS
-- Anisa Curraj   Albania DQ
-- ZHU Yingwen  Mainland China DQ
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