2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 50 metre backstroke

The women's 50 metre backstroke competition of the 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 6 December with the heats and the semifinals and 7 December with the final.

Women's 50 metre backstroke at the 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Dates	6 December (heats and semifinals) 7 December (final)
Competitors	69 from 52 nations
Winning time	25.67
Medalists
Etiene Medeiros   Brazil   Emily Seebohm   Australia   Katinka Hosszú   Hungary

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Sanja Jovanović	Croatia	25.70	Istanbul	12 December 2009
Championship record	Zhao Jing	China	25.95	Istanbul	16 December 2012

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nation	Time	Record
6 December	Semifinals	Emily Seebohm	Australia	25.87	CR
6 December	Final	Etiene Medeiros	Brazil	25.67	WR, CR

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 09:38.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	7	4	Emily Seebohm	Australia	26.07	Q
2	8	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	26.45	Q
3	7	5	Aleksandra Urbanczyk	Poland	26.54	Q
3	8	3	Felicia Lee	United States	26.54	Q
5	7	6	Daryna Zevina	Ukraine	26.62	Q
6	6	6	Simona Baumrtová	Czech Republic	26.63	Q
7	7	3	Georgia Davies	Great Britain	26.67	Q
8	7	7	Shiho Sakai	Japan	26.74	Q
9	6	4	Etiene Medeiros	Brazil	27.06	Q
10	8	5	Mie Nielsen	Denmark	27.09	Q
11	8	6	Madison Wilson	Australia	27.13	Q
12	4	5	Amy Bilquist	United States	27.17	Q
13	8	1	Stephanie Au	Hong Kong	27.22	Q
14	6	8	Yekaterina Rudenko	Kazakhstan	27.26	Q
15	6	0	Arianna Barbieri	Italy	27.28	Q
16	6	3	Michelle Coleman	Sweden	27.30	Q
17	7	1	Mathilde Cini	France	27.31
18	8	9	Carolina Colorado Henao	Colombia	27.35
19	6	7	Daria Ustinova	Russia	27.41
19	8	7	Sanja Jovanović	Croatia	27.41
21	6	5	Qiu Yuhan	China	27.45
22	6	2	Wang Xueer	China	27.50
23	5	5	Isabella Arcila	Colombia	27.62
24	5	7	Ekaterina Avramova	Turkey	27.64
25	7	9	Mimosa Jallow	Finland	27.66
26	6	9	Hilary Caldwell	Canada	27.80
27	8	8	Eygló Ósk Gústafsdóttir	Iceland	27.82
28	7	2	Sayaka Akase	Japan	27.84
29	5	4	Ida Lindborg	Sweden	27.88
30	6	1	Anni Alitalo	Finland	27.93
31	8	0	Duane Da Rocha	Spain	28.03
32	5	8	Erin Gallagher	South Africa	28.04
33	5	6	Genevieve Cantin	Canada	28.12
34	5	2	Tereza Grusová	Czech Republic	28.36
35	5	3	Karolina Hájková	Slovakia	28.57
36	7	0	Anastasiia Osipenko	Russia	28.64
37	5	9	Zanre Oberholzer	Namibia	28.80
38	5	1	Sezin Eligül	Turkey	28.85
39	4	6	Anna Schegoleva	Cyprus	28.86
40	4	1	Araya Wongvat	Thailand	29.35
41	4	9	Ajna Késely	Hungary	29.42
42	5	0	Parita Damrongrat	Thailand	29.55
43	4	4	Joyce Tafatatha	Malawi	29.82
43	4	2	Lauren Hew	Cayman Islands	29.82
45	7	8	Alexus Laird	Seychelles	30.31
46	3	6	Evelina Afoa	Samoa	30.39
47	4	3	Lara Butler	Cayman Islands	30.46
48	4	7	Roxanne Yu	Philippines	30.80
49	3	2	Chiara Gualtieri	San Marino	30.82
50	3	3	Talisa Lanoe	Kenya	30.98
50	3	1	Anna-Liza Mopio-Jane	Papua New Guinea	30.98
52	3	4	Deandre Small	Barbados	31.44
53	3	5	Ariana Herranz	Philippines	31.45
54	3	7	Shanice Paraka	Papua New Guinea	31.58
55	4	8	Maeform Borriello	Honduras	31.80
56	3	0	Jamaris Washshah	United States Virgin Islands	31.86
57	3	8	Yuliya Stisyuk	Azerbaijan	32.10
58	3	9	Irene Prescott	Tonga	33.20
59	2	5	Areeba Shaikh	Pakistan	33.55
60	2	4	Ann-Marie Hepler	Marshall Islands	33.72
61	2	7	Meryem Bada	Morocco	34.01
62	2	2	Sonia Tumiotto	Tanzania	34.11
63	4	0	Catherine Mason	Tanzania	34.90
64	2	3	Diana Basho	Albania	35.40
65	2	8	Seabe Ebineng	Botswana	35.67
66	2	1	Roylin Akiwo	Palau	36.03
67	1	3	Mayra-Linda Paul	Federated States of Micronesia	36.54
68	2	0	Hem Thon Vitiny	Cambodia	36.72
69	1	5	Angela Kendrick	Marshall Islands	37.75
—	8	2	Katarína Listopadová	Slovakia		DNS
—	1	4	Salie Alatrash	Palestine		DSQ

Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 18:15.

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Felicia Lee	United States	26.22	Q
2	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	26.38	Q
3	3	Simona Baumrtová	Czech Republic	26.44	Q
4	6	Shiho Sakai	Japan	26.71
5	7	Amy Bilquist	United States	26.78
6	2	Mie Nielsen	Denmark	26.85
7	1	Yekaterina Rudenko	Kazakhstan	27.34
8	8	Michelle Coleman	Sweden	27.65

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Emily Seebohm	Australia	25.87	Q, CR
2	2	Etiene Medeiros	Brazil	25.99	Q, AM
3	3	Daryna Zevina	Ukraine	26.20	Q
4	6	Georgia Davies	Great Britain	26.22	Q
5	5	Aleksandra Urbanczyk	Poland	26.36	Q
6	7	Madison Wilson	Australia	26.65
7	8	Arianna Barbieri	Italy	27.01
8	1	Stephanie Au	Hong Kong	27.04

Final

The final was held at 18:11.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Etiene Medeiros	Brazil	25.67	WR
	4	Emily Seebohm	Australia	25.83	OC
	1	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	25.96
4	3	Daryna Zevina	Ukraine	25.99
5	6	Felicia Lee	United States	26.16
6	7	Aleksandra Urbanczyk	Poland	26.37
7	2	Georgia Davies	Great Britain	26.38
7	8	Simona Baumrtová	Czech Republic	26.38