The women's 50 metre backstroke at the 2025 Summer World University Games in Rhine-Ruhr, Germany was held from 21 to 22 July 2025. Leah Shackley from the United States won the gold medal, Kennedy Noble from the United States took the silver medal and Olivia Nel from South Africa earned the bronze medal.

Schedule All times are Central European Time (UTC+1) Date Time Round21 July 10:03 Heats 19:44 Semifinals 22 July 19:29 Final

Records Prior to the competition, the world and Universiade records were as follows. Category Swimmer Record Date Place Event World record Kaylee McKeown 26.86 20 October 2023 Budapest, Hungary 2023 World Cup Universiade record Adela Piskorska 27.84 6 August 2023 Chengdu, China 2021 Summer World University Games

Results Heats All entered athletes competed across multiple seeded heats in the morning session. Swimmers with the top 16 fastest times advanced, regardless of which individual heat they swam.

Rank Heat Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 5 4 28.03 2 5 3 28.19 3 4 4 28.20 4 5 5 28.30 5 3 4 28.32 6 3 5 28.54 7 4 3 28.62 8 4 6 Lee Eun-ji 28.68 9 3 7 Kim Ye-eun 28.80 10 5 6 28.83 11 3 3 28.90 12 3 2 29.17 13 4 2 Liao Yu-fei 29.22 14 4 7 29.36 15 3 6 29.37 16 5 2 29.38 17 5 7 29.40 18 3 1 29.69 19 5 8 30.01 20 4 8 30.17 21 3 8 30.90 22 1 4 30.98 23 2 3 31.34 24 1 5 31.64 25 2 8 31.67 25 2 2 Kuok Hei Cheng 31.67 27 2 4 32.10 28 1 3 32.49 29 2 5 32.94 30 2 6 Cheong I Weng 33.39 31 2 7 36.88 32 2 1 46.20 33 1 6 50.58

Semifinals The 16 advancing swimmers were split into two semifinal heats of 8 during the evening session. The swimmers recording the top 8 fastest times advanced to the final round.

Rank Heat Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 2 4 27.66 2 2 5 27.81 3 1 4 27.96 4 1 5 28.00 5 2 3 28.14 6 2 6 28.35 7 1 6 Lee Eun-ji 28.56 8 1 3 28.69 9 1 2 28.79 10 2 7 28.81 11 2 2 Kim Ye-eun 28.85 12 1 7 29.04 13 1 8 29.28 14 2 8 29.29 15 1 1 29.34 16 2 1 Liao Yu-fei 29.42

Final The fastest 8 swimmers competed in a single race to determine the gold, silver and bronze medalists.

Rank Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 4 27.31 5 27.67 3 27.91 4 2 28.31 5 6 28.37 6 7 28.45 7 1 Lee Eun-ji 28.66 8 8 28.70

External links Swimming Rhine Ruhr 2025

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