The women's 50 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships took place on July 27 with the heats and the semifinals and July 28 with the final.

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows. Name Nation Time Location DateWorld record Championship recordZhao Jing 27.06 RomeJuly 30, 2009

Results

Heats 57 swimmers participated in 8 heats.

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 6 4 Anastasia Zuyeva 28.20 Q 2 6 7 Zhou Yanxin 28.24 Q 3 8 4 Gao Chang 28.27 Q 4 8 5 Aya Terakawa 28.34 Q 5 7 8 Elizabeth Pelton 28.35 Q 6 8 2 Missy Franklin 28.37 Q 7 7 4 Aleksandra Gerasimenya 28.38 Q 8 7 5 Emily Seebohm 28.39 Q 8 8 6 Georgia Davies 28.39 Q 10 6 2 Theodora Drakou 28.46 Q, NR 10 6 5 Mercedes Peris 28.46 Q 12 7 3 Julia Wilkinson 28.62 Q 13 6 8 Ekaterina Avramova 28.66 Q, NR 14 8 8 Kseniya Moskvina 28.71 Q 15 8 3 Gemma Spofforth 28.79 Q 16 6 6 Jenny Mensing 28.84 Q 17 7 1 Sinead Russell 28.87 18 3 4 Mie Nielsen 28.89 19 6 3 Shiho Sakai 28.89 20 7 6 Belinda Hocking 28.92 21 5 3 Daryna Zevina 28.99 22 5 6 Sanja Jovanović 29.03 22 5 7 Karin Prinsloo 29.03 24 7 7 Elena Gemo 29.12 25 7 2 Etiene Medeiros 29.16 26 8 7 Alina Vats 29.24 27 4 6 Isabella Arcila 29.27 28 5 2 Fabienne Nadarajah 29.29 28 6 1 Sviatlana Khakhlova 29.29 30 5 4 Simona Baumrtova 29.37 31 4 8 Anni Alitalo 29.39 32 5 5 Tao Li 29.40 33 8 1 Maria Gonzalez Ramirez 29.45 34 4 4 Alicja Tchorz 29.50 35 5 1 Ingibjoerg Kristi Jonsdottir 29.66 36 5 8 Hazal Sarikaya 29.71 37 3 3 Cecilia Bertoncello 29.73 38 4 5 Yekaterina Rudenko 29.76 39 4 1 Kiera Aitken 29.78 40 4 3 Lau Yin Yan 29.79 41 4 7 Sophia Batchelor 29.90 42 4 2 Alana Dillette 29.97 43 3 5 Kah Chan 30.22 44 3 2 Anna Volchkov 30.59 45 3 6 Monica Ramirez Abella 30.66 46 3 7 Sylvia Bruhnlehner 32.09 47 2 4 Jessika Cossa 32.29 48 3 8 Anahit Barseghyan 32.49 49 3 1 Nicola Muscat 32.62 50 2 5 Jade Ashleigh Howard 32.91 51 2 3 Kiran Khan 33.18 52 2 6 Angelique Trinquier 33.19 53 2 2 Mareme Faye 33.43 54 2 7 Vitiny Hemthon 36.57 55 1 3 Faleumata Samassekou 37.79 56 1 4 Gebremedhin Yanet Seyoum 38.06 57 1 5 Antoinette Guedia Mouafo 39.02

Semifinals The semifinals were held at 18:13.

Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 2 Mercedes Peris 27.93 Q 2 7 Julia Wilkinson 28.10 Q 3 3 Missy Franklin 28.14 Q 4 5 Aya Terakawa 28.16 Q 5 6 Emily Seebohm 28.19 Q 6 4 Zhou Yanxin 28.44 7 1 Kseniya Moskvina 28.75 8 8 Jenny Mensing 28.83

Semifinal 2 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Anastasia Zuyeva 27.88 Q 2 6 Aleksandra Gerasimenya 27.93 Q 3 5 Gao Chang 28.05 Q 4 7 Theodora Drakou 28.25 NR 5 2 Georgia Davies 28.26 6 1 Ekaterina Avramova 28.64 NR 7 8 Gemma Spofforth 28.75 8 3 Elizabeth Pelton 28.85

Final The final was held at 19:17. Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Anastasia Zuyeva 27.79 1 Aya Terakawa 27.93 7 Missy Franklin 28.01 4 6 Gao Chang 28.06 5 8 Emily Seebohm 28.07 6 2 Julia Wilkinson 28.09 6 3 Aliaksandra Herasimenia 28.09 8 5 Mercedes Peris Minguet 28.42

References

External links 2011 World Aquatics Championships: Women's 50 metre backstroke start list, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2011-07-23.