The Women's 50m Butterfly at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships took place on 30 March (prelims & semifinals) and the evening of 31 March (finals) at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia. 99 swimmers were entered in the event, of whom 93 swam.

Existing records at the start of the event were: World Record (WR): 25.57, Anna-Karin Kammerling (Sweden), 30 July 2002 in Berlin, Germany. Championship Record (CR): 25.84, Inge de Bruijn (Netherlands), Barcelona 2003 (26 July 2003)

Results

Finals Place Name Nationality Time Note 1st Therese Alshammar 25.91 2nd Danni Miatke 26.05 3rd Inge Dekker 26.11 4th Anna-Karin Kammerling 26.32 5th Rachel Komisarz 26.41 6th Fabienne Nadarajah 26.77 7th Tao Li 26.80 8th Zhou Yafei 27.06

Semifinals Rank Swimmer Nation Time Note 1 Therese Alshammar 25.82 Q, CR 2 Inge Dekker 26.20 Q 3 Rachel Komisarz 26.48 Q 4 Danni Miatke 26.57 Q 5 Zhou Yafei 26.69 Q 6 Anna-Karin Kammerling 26.81 Q 7 Tao Li 26.82 Q 8 Fabienne Nadarajah 26.86 Q 9 Antje Buschschulte 26.89 10 Yuka Kato 26.91 11 Jeanette Ottesen 26.95 12 Kim Vandenberg 26.99 13 Chantal Groot 27.10 14 Ayako Doi 27.12 15 Irina Bespalova 27.17 16 Kimberly Buys 27.27

Preliminaries Rank Swimmer Nation Time Note 1 Danni Miatke 26.34 Q 2 Rachel Komisarz 26.58 Q 3 Inge Dekker 26.60 Q 4 Zhou Yafei 26.67 Q 5 Anna-Karin Kammerling 26.81 Q Jeanette Ottesen Q 7 Fabienne Nadarajah 26.99 Q 8 Chantal Groot 27.13 Q 9 Ayako Doi 27.15 Q 10 Tao Li 27.17 Q Yuka Kato Q Kimberly Buys Q 13 Therese Alshammar 27.26 Q 14 Irina Bespalova 27.27 Q 15 Kim Vandenberg 27.30 Q 16 Antje Buschschulte 27.31 Q 17 Elena Gemo 27.35 18 Lisbeth Lenton 27.36 19 Keri-Leigh Shaw 27.46 Daniela Samulski 21 Triin Aljand 27.60 22 Audrey Lacroix 27.73 23 Natalya Sutyagina 27.77 24 Marilies Demal 27.83 Aleksandra Urbanczyk 26 Aurore Mongel 27.87 Martina Moravcová 28 Camille Muffat 27.92 29 Zoë Baker 27.95 30 Rosalind Brett 28.02 31 Amit Ivry 28.10 32 Sara Oliveira 28.12 33 Hang Yu Sze 28.15 34 Carolina Colorado Henao 28.20 35 Heather Brand 28.23 36 Denisa Smolenova 28.25 37 Liz Coster 28.30 38 Micha Jensen 28.40 39 Hannah Wilson 28.46 40 Hae In Shin 28.50 41 Sharntelle McLean 28.64 42 Iris Rosenberger 28.65 43 Geneviève Saumur 28.81 44 Loren Bahamonde 28.98 45 Caroline Pickering 29.11 46 Chin Kuel Yang 29.11 47 You Ri Kown 29.16 Ellen Hight 49 Cheok Mei Ma 29.45 50 Maria Rodriguez 29.53 51 Irina Shlemova 29.63 52 Mylene Ong 29.64 53 Galina Dukhanova 30.02 54 Emma Hunter 30.19 Tojohanitra   Andriamanjatoprimamama 56 Marianella Quesada Barrantes 30.33 57 Binta Zahra Diop 30.37 58 Ileana Murillo Argueta 30.50 59 Sharon Paola Fajardo Sierra 30.52 60 Monika Spasova 30.61 61 Natasha Moodie 30.74 62 Davina Mangion 30.77 63 Rachel Ah Koy 30.79 Razan Taha 65 Elena Popovska 30.82 66 Jonay Briedenhann 30.91 67 Marie Laura Meza Peraza 30.96 68 Dalia Massiel Torrez Zamora 31.07 69 Thi Hanh Phan 31.12 Jessica Teixeira Vieira 71 Karen Torrez 31.14 72 Sara Elbekri 31.52 Miriam Hatamleh 74 Kiran Khan 31.56 75 Prisca Rose 31.63 76 Parita Parekh 32.07 77 Nicole Ellsworth 32.20 78 Ximene Vaz Gomez 32.54 79 Mercedes Milner 32.55 80 Kathryn Millin 32.57 81 Kelly How Tam Fat 33.42 82 Judith Meauri 33.61 83 Hussain Aminath Rouya 33.78 84 Virginia Farmer 33.80 85 Shannon Austin 33.98 86 Debra Daniel FS Micronesia 34.00 87 Saintsetseg Dashtseren 34.04 88 Chinyere Pigot 35.02 89 Samantha La Qua 35.13 90 Zakia Nassar 35.88 91 Senele Dlamini 36.14 92 Julianne Kirchner 37.71 93 Teran Matthews Saint Vincent         and the Grenadines 41.83 -- Katerina Izmailova DNS -- Ngozi Monu DNS -- Ana Roxiero DNS -- Chantal Van Wyk DNS -- XU Yanwei DNS -- Ira Kurniawan DQ

See also Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 50 metre butterfly Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 50 metre butterfly

References

Women's 50m Butterfly Preliminary results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); Retrieved 2009-07-11. Women's 50m Butterfly Semifinals results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); Retrieved 2009-07-11. Women's 50m Butterfly Final results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); Retrieved 2009-07-11.