The Women's 50 metre backstroke competition at the 2019 World Championships was held on 24 and 25 July 2019.ScheduleStart list

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

Results Heats The heats were held on 24 July at 10:03.Heats results

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 4 Fu Yuanhui 27.70 Q 2 5 5 Etiene Medeiros 27.85 Q 3 5 7 Kira Toussaint 27.86 Q 4 4 4 Georgia Davies 27.92 Q 5 5 8 Julie Kepp Jensen 27.95 Q 6 3 5 Olivia Smoliga 27.96 Q 7 5 1 Simona Kubová 28.00 Q 8 3 4 Anastasia Fesikova 28.02 Q 9 4 5 Mimosa Jallow 28.04 Q 10 3 3 Alicja Tchórz 28.14 Q 11 4 6 Kathleen Baker 28.17 Q 12 3 6 Maaike de Waard 28.19 Q 5 3 Chen Jie 28.19 Q 14 4 3 Kaylee McKeown 28.23 Q 15 5 2 Caroline Pilhatsch 28.28 Q 16 5 6 Daria Vaskina 28.29 Q 17 4 2 Silvia Scalia 28.30 18 3 7 Stephanie Au 28.31 19 4 1 Minna Atherton 28.32 20 3 2 Natsumi Sakai 28.41 21 3 1 Theodora Drakou 28.48 22 3 8 Im Da-sol 28.50 23 5 0 Ingeborg Løyning 28.67 24 3 0 Katalin Burián 28.84 25 4 0 Karolina Hájková 29.04 26 3 9 Louise Hansson 29.12 27 4 9 Diana Nazarova 29.51 28 5 9 Ekaterina Avramova 29.61 29 2 4 Eygló Ósk Gústafsdóttir 29.82 30 2 6 Marie Khoury 30.39 NR 31 2 3 Mónica Ramírez 30.53 32 1 9 Nimia Murua 30.77 33 2 5 Maria Arrua 30.86 34 2 7 Xiomara Getrouw 31.42 35 1 1 Sophia Diagne 31.98 36 2 2 Kimberly Ince 32.27 37 2 8 Cheang Weng Lam 33.01 38 2 0 Colleen Furgeson 33.28 39 2 1 Robyn Young 33.54 40 1 8 Nooran Ba-Matraf 33.99 41 1 2 Jennifer Harding-Marlin 34.08 42 1 7 Aika Watanabe 35.04 43 2 9 Noelani Day 35.17 44 1 4 Aishath Sausan 35.41 NR 45 1 6 Nafissath Radji 36.01 46 1 0 Ekaterina Bordachyova 37.95 47 1 3 Tayamika Chang'anamuno 38.49 48 1 5 Shivani Bhatt 38.96 4 7 Mie Nielsen 4 8 Alexandra Touretski

Semifinals The semifinals were held on 24 July at 20:37.Semifinals results

Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Etiene Medeiros 27.69 Q 2 5 Georgia Davies 27.72 Q 3 1 Kaylee McKeown 27.73 Q 4 3 Olivia Smoliga 27.76 Q 5 8 Daria Vaskina 27.79 Q 6 6 Anastasia Fesikova 28.01 7 7 Maaike de Waard 28.04 8 2 Alicja Tchórz 28.18

Semifinal 2 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 7 Kathleen Baker 27.62 Q 2 8 Caroline Pilhatsch 27.77 Q, NR 3 5 Kira Toussaint 27.78 Q 4 4 Fu Yuanhui 27.84 5 6 Simona Kubová 27.91 6 1 Chen Jie 28.07 7 2 Mimosa Jallow 28.10 8 3 Julie Kepp Jensen 28.24

Final The final was held on 25 July at 20:37.Final results

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 2 Olivia Smoliga 27.33 NR 5 Etiene Medeiros 27.44 8 Daria Vaskina 27.51 4 3 Georgia Davies 27.65 6 Kaylee McKeown 6 4 Kathleen Baker 27.69 7 7 Caroline Pilhatsch 27.78 8 1 Kira Toussaint 27.85

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