Swimming at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's 50 metre freestyle

Women's 50 metre freestyle
at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
VenueOlympic Aquatics Stadium
Dates12 August 2016 (heats &
semifinals)
13 August 2016 (final)
Competitors91 from 76 nations
Winning time24.07
Medalists
   Denmark
   United States
   Belarus
Swimming at the
2016 Summer Olympics
Qualification
Freestyle
50 m   men   women
100 m men women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m women
1500 m men
Backstroke
100 m men women
200 m men women
Breaststroke
100 m men women
200 m men women
Butterfly
100 m men women
200 m men women
Individual medley
200 m men women
400 m men women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m men women
4×200 m men women
Medley relay
4×100 m men women
Marathon
10 km men women

The women's 50 metre freestyle event at the 2016 Summer Olympics took place between 12–13 August at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium.[1]

Pernille Blume defeated the field of experienced sprinters to give Denmark its first Olympic swimming title in 68 years. Leading the program's shortest race from prelims into the semifinals, she splashed her way to a gold-medal triumph in 24.07, but fell short of her attempt to overhaul Ranomi Kromowidjojo's Olympic record by a small fraction of a second.[2][3] U.S. sprinter Simone Manuel, newly crowned Olympic champion of the 100 m freestyle, settled for the silver in 24.09, stopping 0.02 seconds behind Blume.[4][5] Meanwhile, London 2012 runner-up Aliaksandra Herasimenia of Belarus secured the top three spot with a 24.11 for the bronze.[6]

Great Britain's Francesca Halsall narrowly missed out of the medals by 0.02 of a second, finishing with a fourth-place time in 24.13.[7] Unable to bounce back from their out-of-medal feat in the 100 m freestyle, sisters and pre-race favorites Cate (24.15) and Bronte Campbell (24.42) slipped to fifth and seventh, respectively, while defending champion Kromowidjojo of the Netherlands split the Australian duo to take the sixth spot in 24.19.[8][9] Brazil's hometown favorite Etiene Medeiros wrapped up the top eight with a 24.69.[6]

Notable swimmers failed to reach the top eight final, including Blume's fellow sprinter Jeanette Ottesen, London 2012 finalist Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace of the Bahamas, and Swedish tandem of three-time medalist Sarah Sjöström and Therese Alshammar, who built a historic milestone as the first ever female in the pool to compete at her sixth Olympics.[10]

Records

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

World record  Britta Steffen (GER) 23.73 Rome, Italy 2 August 2009
Olympic record  Ranomi Kromowidjojo (NED) 24.05 London, United Kingdom 4 August 2012

Results

Heats

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 12 6 Pernille Blume  Denmark 24.23 Q
2 11 5 Francesca Halsall  Great Britain 24.26 Q
3 10 6 Aliaksandra Herasimenia  Belarus 24.42 Q
4 12 4 Bronte Campbell  Australia 24.45 Q
5 10 5 Abbey Weitzeil  United States 24.48 Q
11 6 Jeanette Ottesen  Denmark Q
7 11 4 Cate Campbell  Australia 24.52 Q
8 10 3 Chantal Van Landeghem  Canada 24.57 Q
10 4 Ranomi Kromowidjojo  Netherlands Q
10 12 5 Sarah Sjöström  Sweden 24.66 Q
11 11 3 Simone Manuel  United States 24.71 Q
12 11 7 Therese Alshammar  Sweden 24.73 Q
13 9 7 Inge Dekker  Netherlands 24.77 Q
12 3 Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace  Bahamas Q
12 7 Dorothea Brandt  Germany Q
16 11 2 Etiene Medeiros  Brazil 24.82 Q
17 11 8 Silvia di Pietro  Italy 24.89
18 9 4 Farida Osman  Egypt 24.91 AF
10 7 Liu Xiang  China
12 1 Michelle Williams  Canada
21 10 2 Anna Santamans  France 24.93
22 8 8 Vanessa García  Puerto Rico 24.94 NR
11 1 Rozaliya Nasretdinova  Russia
24 7 4 Susann Bjørnsen  Norway 25.05
25 10 8 Flóra Molnár  Hungary 25.07
26 7 6 Julie Meynen  Luxembourg 25.12
27 9 6 Yuliya Khitraya  Belarus 25.18
28 7 5 Liliana Ibáñez  Mexico 25.25
29 9 5 Aleksandra Urbańczyk  Poland 25.28
30 7 2 Isabella Arcila  Colombia 25.35
31 8 4 Melanie Henique  France 25.36
32 9 3 Theodora Drakou  Greece 25.36
33 8 7 Zohar Shikler  Israel 25.38
34 8 3 Erika Ferraioli  Italy 25.40
35 9 8 Andrea Murez  Israel 25.41
36 9 2 Rikako Ikee  Japan 25.45
37 8 5 Anna Dowgiert  Poland 25.54
38 12 8 Nataliya Lovtsova  Russia 25.55
39 8 6 Birgit Koschischek  Austria 25.58
40 10 1 Graciele Herrmann  Brazil 25.60
41 7 3 Alexandra Touretski  Switzerland 25.66
42 9 1 Darya Stepanyuk  Ukraine 25.67
43 8 1 Yayoi Matsumoto  Japan 25.73
44 7 8 Camille Cheng  Hong Kong 25.92
45 7 7 Allyson Ponson  Aruba 26.00
46 6 2 Karen Torrez  Bolivia 26.12
47 6 4 Naomi Ruele  Botswana 26.23
48 6 8 Elinah Phillip  British Virgin Islands 26.26
49 6 3 Bayan Jumah  Syria 26.41
7 1 Lin Pei-wun  Chinese Taipei
51 6 7 Talita Baqlah  Jordan 26.48
52 6 5 Rebecca Heyliger  Bermuda 26.54
53 6 6 Nicola Muscat  Malta 26.60
54 5 6 Faye Sultan  Individual Olympic Athletes 26.86
55 6 1 Dorian McMenemy  Dominican Republic 27.37
56 5 3 Naomy Grand Pierre  Haiti 27.46
57 5 5 Samatha Roberts  Antigua and Barbuda 27.95
58 4 4 Colleen Furgeson  Marshall Islands 28.16
59 5 2 Noura Mana  Morocco 28.20
60 4 6 Yesuin Bayar  Mongolia 28.40
61 5 8 Irene Prescott  Tonga 28.68
62 4 7 Mary Al-Atrash  Palestine 28.76
63 5 7 Jamila Sanmoogan  Guyana 28.88
64 5 1 Lianna Swan  Pakistan 29.02
65 3 3 Dirngulbai Misech  Palau 29.19
66 4 8 Hemthon Vitiny  Cambodia 29.37
67 3 4 Angelika Ouedraogo  Burkina Faso 29.44
4 5 Magdalena Moshi  Tanzania
69 3 5 Sonia Aktar  Bangladesh 29.99
70 1 6 Ei Ei Thet  Myanmar 30.25
71 4 2 Ammara Pinto  Malawi 30.32
72 4 1 Debra Daniel  Micronesia 30.83
73 2 2 Anastasiya Tyurina  Tajikistan 31.15
74 1 3 Fatema Almahmeed  Bahrain 32.28
75 3 6 Rahel Gebresilassie  Ethiopia 32.51
76 3 7 Siri Arun Budcharern  Laos 32.55
77 2 6 Laraïba Seibou  Benin 33.01
78 1 5 Nada Al-Bedwawi  United Arab Emirates 33.42
79 3 8 Adzo Kpossi  Togo 33.44
80 3 1 Elsie Uwamahoro  Burundi 33.70
81 2 4 Bellore Sangala  Congo 33.71
3 2 Fatoumata Samassékou  Mali
83 2 7 Roukaya Mahamane  Niger 35.60 NR
84 2 5 Haneen Ibrahim  Sudan 36.23
85 2 8 Chloe Sauvourel  Central African Republic 37.15
86 2 3 Nazlati Mohamed Andhumdine  Comoros 37.66
87 2 1 Mariama Sow  Guinea 39.85
88 1 4 Bunturabie Jalloh  Sierra Leone 39.93
5 4 Monika Vasilyan  Armenia DNS
12 2 Chen Xinyi  China DNS
4 3 Awa Ly N'diaye  Senegal DSQ

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 Francesca Halsall  Great Britain 24.41 Q
2 5 Bronte Campbell  Australia 24.43 Q
3 8 Etiene Medeiros  Brazil 24.45 Q, SA
4 1 Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace  Bahamas 24.60
5 6 Chantal Van Landeghem  Canada 24.61
6 3 Jeanette Ottesen  Denmark 24.62
7 2 Sarah Sjöström  Sweden 24.69
8 7 Therese Alshammar  Sweden 24.72

Semifinal 2

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 Pernille Blume  Denmark 24.28 Q
2 6 Cate Campbell  Australia 24.32 Q
3 2 Ranomi Kromowidjojo  Netherlands 24.39 Q
4 7 Simone Manuel  United States 24.44 Q
5 5 Aliaksandra Herasimenia  Belarus 24.53 Q
6 3 Abbey Weitzeil  United States 24.67
7 8 Dorothea Brandt  Germany 24.71
8 1 Inge Dekker  Netherlands 25.31

Final

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1st, gold medalist(s) 4 Pernille Blume  Denmark 24.07 NR
2nd, silver medalist(s) 7 Simone Manuel  United States 24.09
3rd, bronze medalist(s) 8 Aliaksandra Herasimenia  Belarus 24.11 NR
4 6 Francesca Halsall  Great Britain 24.13
5 5 Cate Campbell  Australia 24.15
6 3 Ranomi Kromowidjojo  Netherlands 24.19
7 2 Bronte Campbell  Australia 24.42
8 1 Etiene Medeiros  Brazil 24.69

References

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  4. Amick, Sam (13 August 2016). "Simone Manuel wins silver in women's 50 free". USA Today. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
  5. "Simone Manuel sprints to silver in 50 free; Denmark wins gold". Chicago Tribune. 13 August 2016. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
  6. 1 2 "Pernille Blume Dashes To 50 Free Dominance". Swimming World Magazine. 13 August 2016. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
  7. "Fran Halsall finishes fourth in 50m freestyle in latest Olympic near-miss for Team GB swimmers". Daily Mail. 13 August 2016. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
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