# Swimming at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships – Women's 50 metre freestyle

The Women's 50 metre freestyle competition of the 2014 European Aquatics Championships was held on 23–24 August.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows.
| | Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date |
| World record | Britta Steffen | Germany | 23.73 | Rome | 2 August 2009 |
| European record | Britta Steffen | Germany | 23.73 | Rome | 2 August 2009 |
| Championship record | Marleen Veldhuis | Netherlands | 24.09 | Eindhoven | 24 March 2008 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held at 10:04.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | 4 | Sarah Sjöström | Sweden | 24.38 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | 4 | Jeanette Ottesen | Denmark | 24.67 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | 3 | Dorothea Brandt | Germany | 24.77 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | 4 | Francesca Halsall | Great Britain | 24.77 | Q |
| 5 | 4 | 5 | Pernille Blume | Denmark | 25.03 | Q |
| 6 | 5 | 7 | Therese Alshammar | Sweden | 25.06 | Q |
| 7 | 3 | 3 | Anna Santamans | France | 25.15 | Q |
| 8 | 3 | 7 | Maud van der Meer | Netherlands | 25.18 | Q |
| 8 | 5 | 6 | Elizaveta Bazarova | Russia | 25.18 | Q |
| 10 | 5 | 5 | Aleksandra Gerasimenya | Belarus | 25.19 | Q |
| 11 | 4 | 7 | Silvia di Pietro | Italy | 25.22 | Q |
| 12 | 5 | 2 | Erika Ferraioli | Italy | 25.33 | Q |
| 13 | 4 | 6 | Aleksandra Urbanczyk | Poland | 25.36 | Q |
| 14 | 3 | 5 | Inge Dekker | Netherlands | 25.38 | Q |
| 15 | 3 | 1 | Julie Levisen | Denmark | 25.46 | |
| 15 | 4 | 2 | Michelle Coleman | Sweden | 25.46 | |
| 17 | 3 | 2 | Rūta Meilutytė | Lithuania | 25.54 | |
| 18 | 5 | 1 | Darya Stepanyuk | Ukraine | 25.55 | Q |
| 19 | 3 | 6 | Hanna-Maria Seppälä | Finland | 25.58 | Q |
| 20 | 4 | 1 | Birgit Koschischek | Austria | 25.59 | |
| 21 | 4 | 8 | Yuliya Khitraya | Belarus | 25.65 | |
| 22 | 3 | 8 | Cecilie Johannessen | Norway | 25.72 | |
| 23 | 2 | 3 | Anna Kolárová | Czech Republic | 25.87 | |
| 24 | 2 | 0 | Nina Rangelova | Bulgaria | 25.91 | |
| 25 | 5 | 9 | Sviatlana Khakhlova | Belarus | 25.97 | |
| 25 | 5 | 0 | Jolien Sysmans | Belgium | 25.97 | |
| 27 | 4 | 0 | Fatima Gallardo | Spain | 25.99 | |
| 28 | 2 | 5 | Tess Grossmann | Estonia | 26.02 | |
| 29 | 3 | 0 | Maria Kameneva | Russia | 26.08 | |
| 30 | 2 | 4 | Magdalena Kuras | Sweden | 26.12 | |
| 31 | 3 | 9 | Ilse Kraaijeveld | Netherlands | 26.15 | |
| 32 | 2 | 6 | Anna Dowgiert | Poland | 26.26 | |
| 32 | 4 | 9 | Miroslava Najdanovski | Serbia | 26.26 | |
| 34 | 2 | 7 | Mimosa Jallow | Finland | 26.36 | |
| 35 | 2 | 8 | Eva Gliožerytė | Lithuania | 26.55 | |
| 36 | 2 | 2 | Ingibjörg Jónsdóttir | Iceland | 26.92 | |
| 37 | 1 | 4 | Julia Kukla | Austria | 27.33 | |
| 38 | 1 | 5 | Ivana Ninković | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 27.35 | |
| 39 | 1 | 3 | Katharina Egger | Austria | 27.50 | |
| 40 | 1 | 6 | Monika Vasilyan | Armenia | 27.72 | |
| — | 2 | 1 | Anna Mäkinen | Finland | | DNS |
| — | 2 | 9 | Shauna Lee | Great Britain | | DNS |
| — | 4 | 3 | Femke Heemskerk | Netherlands | | DNS |
| — | 5 | 8 | Mie Nielsen | Denmark | | DNS |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 17.35.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | Francesca Halsall | Great Britain | 24.45 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Jeanette Ottesen | Denmark | 24.55 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Inge Dekker | Netherlands | 24.86 | Q |
| 4 | 3 | Therese Alshammar | Sweden | 24.99 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | Aleksandra Gerasimenya | Belarus | 25.20 | |
| 6 | 6 | Maud van der Meer | Netherlands | 25.26 | |
| 7 | 7 | Erika Ferraioli | Italy | 25.38 | |
| 8 | 8 | Hanna-Maria Seppälä | Finland | 25.55 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Sarah Sjöström | Sweden | 24.39 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Dorothea Brandt | Germany | 24.60 | |
| 3 | 2 | Elizaveta Bazarova | Russia | 24.94 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Anna Santamans | France | 25.03 | Q |
| 5 | 7 | Silvia di Pietro | Italy | 25.04 | Q |
| 6 | 3 | Pernille Blume | Denmark | 25.12 | |
| 7 | 1 | Aleksandra Urbanczyk | Poland | 25.31 | |
| 8 | 8 | Darya Stepanyuk | Ukraine | 25.44 | |

### Final

The final was held at 16:02.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 5 | Francesca Halsall | Great Britain | 24.32 |
| | 4 | Sarah Sjöström | Sweden | 24.37 |
| | 3 | Jeanette Ottesen | Denmark | 24.53 |
| 4 | 1 | Anna Santamans | France | 24.81 |
| 5 | 8 | Silvia di Pietro | Italy | 24.84 |
| 6 | 2 | Elizaveta Bazarova | Russia | 24.91 |
| 7 | 6 | Inge Dekker | Netherlands | 25.01 |
| 8 | 7 | Therese Alshammar | Sweden | 25.20 |