The Women's 50m Freestyle event at the 11th FINA World Aquatics Championships was swum 30 – 31 July 2005 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Preliminary heats and Semifinal heats were 30 July; the final was 31 July.

At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championships (CR) records were: WR: 24.13, Inge de Bruijn (Netherlands) swum 22 September 2000 in Sydney, Australia CR: 24.45, Inge de Bruijn (Netherlands) swum 28 July 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan

Results

Final Rank Swimmer Nation Time Notes Libby Lenton 24.59 Marleen Veldhuis 24.83 Yingwen Zhu 24.91 4 Therese Alshammar 24.96 5 Alice Mills 25.02 6 Svitlana Khakhlova 25.17 7 Kara Lynn Joyce 25.36 8 Jana Kolukanova 25.56

Semifinals Rank Heat + Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 S1 L5 Marleen Veldhuis 24.92 q 2 S1 L4 Therese Alshammar 24.99 q 3 S2 L3 Libby Lenton 25.05 q 4 S2 L4 Alice Mills 25.10 q 4 S2 L5 Yingwen Zhu 25.10 q 6 S1 L3 Kara Lynn Joyce 25.14 q 6 S2 L2 Svitlana Khakhlova 25.14 q 8 S1 L2 Jana Kolukanova 25.28 q 9 S2 L6 Malia Metella 25.35 10 S2 L1 Amanda Weir 25.46 11 S1 L1 Cristina Chiuso 25.51 12 S1 L6 Flavia Cazziolato 25.53 13 S2 L8 Celine Couderc 25.64 14 S2 L7 Hanna-Maria Seppälä 25.70 15 S1 L7 Anna-Karin Kammerling 25.75 16 S1 L8 Nery-Mantey Niangkouara 25.78

Preliminaries Rank Heat + Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 H11 L4 Alice Mills 25.15 2 H11 L5 Therese Alshammar 25.19 3 H9 L7 Yingwen Zhu 25.22 4 H9 L5 Marleen Veldhuis 25.27 5 H10 L4 Lisbeth Lenton 25.29 5 H10 L5 Kara Lynn Joyce 25.29 7 H9 L4 Malia Metella 25.42 8 H10 L3 Flavia Cazziolato 25.55 9 H9 L3 Svitlana Khakhlova 25.56 10 H9 L8 Jana Kolukanova 25.64 11 H9 L2 Hanna-Maria Seppälä 25.65 12 H11 L3 Anna-Karin Kammerling 25.68 13 H10 L2 Amanda Weir 25.69 14 H11 L2 Cristina Chiuso 25.71 15 H10 L7 Celine Couderc 25.83 16 H11 L6 Nery-Mantey Niangkouara 25.91 17 H9 L6 Chantal Groot 25.94 18 H11 L8 Nichola Chellingworth 25.95 19 H11 L7 Martina Moravcová 26.19 20 H10 L1 Triin Aljand 26.23 21 H8 L7 Vanessa García 26.24 22 H8 L5 Binan Wu 26.26 23 H8 L6 Kaori Yamada 26.39 24 H7 L4 Ragnheidur Ragnarsdottir 26.42 25 H8 L1 Petra Klosova 26.47 26 H11 L1 Maryia Hanchar 26.48 27 H7 L3 Ionela Cozma 26.49 27 H8 L8 Atsumi Yamada 26.49 29 H10 L8 Jeanette Ottesen 26.51 30 H7 L5 Hannah Wilson 26.53 31 H8 L2 Alison Fitch 26.60 32 H4 L6 Heather Brand 26.65 33 H7 L1 Keo Ra Lee 26.68 34 H7 L8 Jennifer Carroll 26.69 35 H8 L3 Pin-Chieh Nieh 26.72 36 H6 L6 Hang Yu Sze 26.74 37 H7 L6 Joscelin Yeo 27.00 38 H7 L7 Shikha Tandon 27.04 39 H6 L3 Chin-Kuei Yang 27.08 40 H6 L4 Shu Yong Ho 27.16 41 H7 L2 Annette Hansen 27.23 42 H6 L7 Yamilé Bahamonde 27.28 43 H6 L2 Irina Shlemova 27.43 44 H6 L8 Nikia Deveaux 27.49 45 H5 L5 Carolina Colorado Henao 27.70 46 H5 L3 Anna Liza Mopio Jane 27.72 47 H6 L1 Sarah Chahed 27.73 48 H4 L3 Alexis Jordan 27.77 49 H5 L7 Melissa Vincent 27.80 50 H5 L4 Gisela Morales 27.89 50 H5 L8 Kiera Aitken 27.89 52 H5 L6 Samantha Fajardo 27.90 53 H4 L8 Carolina Cerqueda 28.13 54 H5 L2 Ashley Aitken 28.19 55 H4 L1 Jasna Ovsenik 28.23 56 H4 L7 Jakie Wellman 28.27 56 H5 L1 Khadija Ciss 28.27 58 H3 L4 Cheok Mei Ma 28.32 59 H4 L5 Sharon Fajardo 28.59 60 H2 L4 Mbolatiana Ramanisa 28.99 61 H4 L2 Man Wai Fong 29.06 62 H3 L7 Katerine Moreno 29.08 63 H3 L6 Jonay Briedenhann 29.38 64 H4 L4 Mireille Hakimeh 29.42 65 H2 L5 Rubab Raza 29.57 66 H3 L1 Jessica Vieira 29.61 67 H3 L2 Binta Zahra Diop 30.07 68 H3 L8 Heba Bashouti 30.34 69 H2 L1 Aya Nakitanda 30.51 70 H2 L6 Sussie Pineda 30.54 71 H2 L7 Aminath Rouya 30.62 72 H2 L3 Kiran Khan 31.18 73 H2 L2 Sameera Al Bitar 31.19 74 H2 L8 Christal Clashing 31.45 75 H1 L5 Oshin Bharati 34.14 76 H1 L6 Raksmey Hem 35.29 – H1 L2 Ayele Sika Ornella Pamela Dossavi DNS – H1 L3 Yelena Rojkova DNS – H1 L4 Anifath F.M. Okanla DNS – H1 L7 Lasm Quissoh Genevieve Meledje DNS – H3 L3 Eliane Droubry Dohi DNS – H3 L5 Lenient Obia DNS – H6 L5 Jiratida Phinyosophon DNS – H8 L4 Fabienne Nadarajah DNS – H9 L1 Daniela Gotz DNS – H10 L6 Rebeca Gusmão DNS

References Women's 50m Freestyle results (Prelims), from the 2005 FINA World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); Retrieved 2010-02-07. Women's 50m Freestyle results (Semifinals), from the 2005 FINA World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); Retrieved 2010-02-07. Women's 50m Freestyle results (Finals), from the 2005 FINA World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); Retrieved 2010-02-07.