# Swimming at the 2019 Pan American Games – Women's 50 metre freestyle

The women's 50 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2019 Pan American Games was held on 9 August 2019 at the Villa Deportiva Nacional Videna cluster.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan American Games records were as follows:
| World record | Sarah Sjöström (SWE) | 23.67 | Budapest, Hungary | July 29, 2017 |
| Pan American Games record | Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace (BAH) | 24.31 | Toronto, Canada | July 17, 2015 |

## Results

| KEY: | q | Fastest non-qualifiers | Q | Qualified | GR | Games record | NR | National record | PB | Personal best | SB | Seasonal best |

### Heats

The first round was held on August 9.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 2 | 4 | Madison Kennedy | United States | 25.46 | QA |
| 2 | 4 | 5 | Lorrane Ferreira | Brazil | 25.50 | QA |
| 3 | 3 | 4 | Margo Geer | United States | 25.51 | QA |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | Etiene Medeiros | Brazil | 25.53 | QA |
| 5 | 2 | 3 | Karen Torrez | Bolivia | 25.72 | QA |
| 6 | 2 | 5 | Kyla Leibel | Canada | 25.77 | QA |
| 7 | 2 | 6 | Alyson Ackman | Canada | 25.78 | QA |
| 8 | 3 | 5 | Isabella Arcila | Colombia | 25.83 | QA |
| 9 | 4 | 6 | Allyson Ponson | Aruba | 25.90 | QB |
| 10 | 3 | 3 | Jeserik Pinto | Venezuela | 26.12 | QB |
| 11 | 3 | 2 | Anicka Delgado | Ecuador | 26.36 | QB |
| 12 | 3 | 6 | Vanessa García | Puerto Rico | 26.54 | QB |
| 13 | 2 | 7 | Julimar Avila | Honduras | 26.69 | QB, NR |
| 14 | 4 | 3 | Sirena Rowe | Colombia | 26.72 | WD |
| 15 | 4 | 2 | Madelyn Moore | Bermuda | 26.79 | QB |
| 16 | 2 | 2 | Catharine Cooper | Panama | 26.81 | QB |
| 17 | 3 | 1 | Ariel Weech | Bahamas | 26.84 | QB |
| 18 | 4 | 8 | Inés Marín | Chile | 26.90 | QSO |
| 18 | 4 | 7 | Emily MacDonald | Jamaica | 26.90 | QSO |
| 20 | 2 | 1 | Rafaela Fernandini | Peru | 27.05 | |
| 21 | 3 | 7 | Lauren Hew | Cayman Islands | 27.13 | |
| 22 | 2 | 8 | Inés Remersaro | Uruguay | 27.55 | |
| 23 | 4 | 1 | María Mejia | Guatemala | 27.56 | |
| 23 | 1 | 4 | Alexia Sotomayor | Peru | 27.56 | |
| 25 | 3 | 8 | María Hernández | Nicaragua | 27.74 | |
| 26 | 1 | 5 | Kimberly Ince | Grenada | 28.72 | |
| 27 | 1 | 6 | Nikita Fiedtkou | Guyana | 29.24 | |
| 28 | 1 | 2 | Bianca Mitchell | Antigua and Barbuda | 29.30 | |
| 29 | 1 | 3 | Mya de Freitas | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 29.57 | |

### Swim-off

The swim-off was also held on August 9.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 18 | 5 | Emily MacDonald | Jamaica | 27.16 | |
| 19 | 4 | Inés Marín | Chile | 27.28 | |

### Final B

The B final was also held on August 9.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| 9 | 5 | Jeserik Pinto | Venezuela | 26.08 |
| 10 | 3 | Anicka Delgado | Ecuador | 26.14 |
| 11 | 4 | Allyson Ponson | Aruba | 26.19 |
| 12 | 6 | Vanessa García | Puerto Rico | 26.43 |
| 13 | 8 | Ariel Weech | Bahamas | 26.48 |
| 14 | 7 | Madelyn Moore | Bermuda | 26.52 |
| 15 | 2 | Julimar Avila | Honduras | 26.91 |
| 16 | 1 | Catherine Cooper | Panama | 27.01 |

### Final A

The A final was also held on August 9.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 6 | Etiene Medeiros | Brazil | 24.88 |
| | 3 | Margo Geer | United States | 25.03 |
| | 4 | Madison Kennedy | United States | 25.14 |
| 4 | 7 | Kyla Leibel | Canada | 25.52 |
| 4 | 5 | Lorrane Ferreira | Brazil | 25.52 |
| 6 | 2 | Karen Torrez | Bolivia | 25.56 |
| 7 | 8 | Isabella Arcila | Colombia | 25.61 |
| 8 | 1 | Alyson Ackman | Canada | 25.87 |