# 2024 World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 50 metre freestyle

The Women's 50 metre freestyle competition of the 2024 World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 14 and 15 December 2024.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
| World record | Ranomi Kromowidjojo (NED) | 22.93 | Berlin, Germany | 7 August 2017 |
| Competition record | Emma McKeon (AUS) | 23.04 | Melbourne, Australia | 17 December 2022 |
The following record was established during the competition:
| Date | Event | Name | Nationality | Time | Record |
| 14 December | Heat 8 | Gretchen Walsh | United States | 23.02 | CR |
| 14 December | Semifinal 2 | Gretchen Walsh | United States | 22.87 | WR |
| 15 December | Final | Gretchen Walsh | United States | 22.83 | WR |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were started on 14 December at 9:53.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 8 | 3 | Gretchen Walsh | United States | 23.02 | Q, CR, AM |
| 2 | 9 | 5 | Kate Douglass | United States | 23.20 | Q |
| 3 | 10 | 4 | Katarzyna Wasick | Poland | 23.64 | Q |
| 4 | 10 | 5 | Arina Surkova | Neutral Athletes B | 23.86 | Q |
| 5 | 9 | 2 | Silvia Di Pietro | Italy | 23.88 | Q |
| 5 | 10 | 2 | Mélanie Henique | France | 23.88 | Q |
| 7 | 9 | 4 | Sara Curtis | Italy | 23.93 | Q |
| 8 | 8 | 5 | Meg Harris | Australia | 23.98 | Q |
| 8 | 9 | 3 | Liu Shuhan | China | 23.98 | Q |
| 10 | 7 | 4 | Eva Okaro | Great Britain | 24.02 | Q |
| 11 | 8 | 4 | Alexandria Perkins | Australia | 24.11 | Q |
| 12 | 7 | 3 | Caitlin de Lange | South Africa | 24.14 | Q, AF |
| 13 | 9 | 1 | Maaike de Waard | Netherlands | 24.20 | Q |
| 14 | 8 | 6 | Barbora Janíčková | Czech Republic | 24.27 | Q |
| 15 | 9 | 6 | Daria Trofimova | Neutral Athletes B | 24.31 | Q |
| 16 | 10 | 7 | Milou van Wijk | Netherlands | 24.33 | Q |
| 17 | 9 | 0 | Jana Pavalić | Croatia | 24.34 | R |
| 18 | 10 | 3 | Danielle Hill | Ireland | 24.35 | R |
| 19 | 9 | 7 | Sara Junevik | Sweden | 24.39 | |
| 19 | 9 | 9 | Jenjira Srisa-Ard | Thailand | 24.39 | NR |
| 21 | 10 | 6 | Analia Pigrée | France | 24.42 | |
| 22 | 8 | 7 | Kalia Antoniou | Cyprus | 24.50 | |
| 23 | 8 | 2 | Yume Jinno | Japan | 24.51 | |
| 24 | 7 | 7 | Nele Schulze | Germany | 24.53 | |
| 25 | 8 | 1 | Petra Senanszky | Hungary | 24.55 | |
| 26 | 8 | 0 | Kornelia Fiedkiewicz | Poland | 24.57 | |
| 27 | 8 | 8 | Theodora Drakou | Greece | 24.58 | NR |
| 28 | 8 | 9 | Nina Jazy | Germany | 24.61 | |
| 29 | 9 | 8 | Lillian Slušná | Slovakia | 24.64 | |
| 30 | 6 | 3 | Jillian Crooks | Cayman Islands | 24.70 | NR |
| 31 | 7 | 2 | Li Sum Yiu | Hong Kong | 24.80 | |
| 31 | 7 | 5 | Smiltė Plytnykaitė | Lithuania | 24.80 | |
| 31 | 7 | 9 | Zoe Pedersen | New Zealand | 24.80 | |
| 34 | 6 | 4 | Mari Moen | Norway | 24.85 | |
| 35 | 6 | 2 | Marina Spadoni | El Salvador | 24.86 | NR |
| 35 | 10 | 1 | Hur Yeon-kyung | South Korea | 24.86 | |
| 37 | 7 | 1 | Penny Oleksiak | Canada | 24.90 | |
| 37 | 10 | 9 | María Daza | Spain | 24.90 | |
| 39 | 6 | 7 | Kirabo Namutebi | Uganda | 24.93 | NR |
| 40 | 6 | 6 | Yeo Chiok Sze | Singapore | 25.00 | |
| 41 | 10 | 8 | Xie Ziqi | China | 25.07 | |
| 42 | 6 | 5 | Amel Melih | Algeria | 25.09 | =NR |
| 43 | 7 | 6 | Lena Kreundl | Austria | 25.25 | |
| 44 | 7 | 8 | Jóhanna Elín Guðmundsdóttir | Iceland | 25.28 | |
| 45 | 7 | 0 | Rafaela Fernandini | Peru | 25.41 | |
| 46 | 5 | 5 | Elisabeth Timmer | Aruba | 25.45 | NR |
| 47 | 6 | 9 | Sara Mose | Kenya | 25.62 | NR |
| 48 | 6 | 1 | Nguyễn Thúy Hiền | Vietnam | 25.79 | |
| 49 | 6 | 0 | Elizaveta Pecherskikh | Kyrgyzstan | 25.83 | NR |
| 50 | 5 | 6 | Pak Mi-song | North Korea | 26.11 | |
| 51 | 5 | 1 | Jovana Kuljača | Montenegro | 26.22 | |
| 52 | 5 | 4 | Adaku Nkem Nwandu | Nigeria | 26.24 | |
| 53 | 4 | 5 | Varsenik Manucharyan | Armenia | 26.26 | NR |
| 54 | 5 | 3 | Hana Beiqi | Kosovo | 26.35 | |
| 55 | 5 | 2 | Oumy Diop | Senegal | 26.45 | NR |
| 56 | 5 | 7 | Antsa Rabejaona | Madagascar | 26.46 | NR |
| 57 | 4 | 4 | Aunjelique Liddie | Netherlands Antilles | 26.47 | |
| 58 | 6 | 8 | Rhanishka Gibbs | Bahamas | 26.54 | |
| 59 | 3 | 0 | Davia Richardson | Belize | 26.60 | |
| 60 | 5 | 8 | Christina Rach | Eritrea | 26.76 | |
| 61 | 5 | 0 | Darielys Ortiz | Dominican Republic | 26.93 | |
| 62 | 4 | 7 | Jhnayali Tokome-Garap | Papua New Guinea | 26.96 | |
| 63 | 4 | 1 | Naekeisha Louis | Saint Lucia | 26.97 | |
| 64 | 4 | 2 | Noelie Annette Lacour | Gabon | 27.01 | |
| 65 | 5 | 9 | Riley Sofia Miller | United States Virgin Islands | 27.14 | NR |
| 66 | 4 | 6 | Aleka Persaud | Guyana | 27.15 | |
| 67 | 4 | 3 | Ionnah Eliane Douillet | Benin | 27.29 | NR |
| 68 | 4 | 8 | Batsanalyn Maral | Mongolia | 27.37 | |
| 69 | 3 | 3 | Maria Lopes Freitas | Angola | 27.62 | |
| 70 | 3 | 4 | Anastasiya Morginshtern | Turkmenistan | 27.63 | NR |
| 71 | 3 | 8 | Sharmeen Mohd Mharvin | Brunei | 27.82 | |
| 72 | 1 | 6 | Liana Planz | American Samoa | 27.84 | |
| 73 | 3 | 6 | Kyra Dalilah De Cuba | Curaçao | 27.87 | |
| 74 | 4 | 9 | Marina Abu Shamaleh | Palestine | 28.01 | |
| 75 | 3 | 5 | Carolann Faeamani | Tonga | 28.18 | |
| 76 | 4 | 0 | Kaiya Brown | Samoa | 28.37 | |
| 77 | 2 | 6 | Mayah Chouloute | Haiti | 28.43 | |
| 78 | 3 | 2 | Southada Daviau | Laos | 28.55 | |
| 79 | 2 | 3 | Jasmine Schofield | Dominica | 28.61 | |
| 80 | 2 | 4 | Maesha Saadi | Comoros | 28.76 | NR |
| 81 | 3 | 1 | Siwakhile Dlamini | Eswatini | 28.80 | |
| 82 | 1 | 4 | Chanchakriya Kheun | Cambodia | 29.14 | |
| 83 | 3 | 7 | Tayamika Changanamuno | Malawi | 29.58 | |
| 84 | 2 | 2 | Saba Sultan | Kuwait | 29.65 | |
| 85 | 3 | 9 | Anushiya Tandukar | Nepal | 29.81 | |
| 86 | 1 | 1 | Aragsan Mugabo | Rwanda | 30.05 | |
| 87 | 2 | 7 | Grace Manuela Nguelo'O | Cameroon | 30.72 | |
| 88 | 2 | 1 | Leena Mohamedahmed | Sudan | 30.78 | |
| 89 | 2 | 8 | Lina Alemayehu Selo | Ethiopia | 31.31 | |
| 90 | 1 | 3 | Aliyana Kachra | Tanzania | 31.75 | |
| 91 | 2 | 9 | Emiliya Khalikova | Tajikistan | 32.49 | |
| 92 | 1 | 7 | Hazel Alamy | Sierra Leone | 36.36 | |
| 93 | 1 | 2 | Xiang Kombate | Togo | 41.69 | |
| 94 | 1 | 5 | Salena Marlin | Timor-Leste | 42.76 | |
| | 1 | 0 | Ibrahim Miandabu Anyatu | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Did not start | Did not start |
| | 1 | 8 | Mimarcia Ie | Guinea-Bissau | Did not start | Did not start |
| | 2 | 0 | Mariama Touré | Guinea | Did not start | Did not start |
| | 2 | 5 | Angelina Smythe | Seychelles | Did not start | Did not start |
| | 10 | 0 | Fanny Teijonsalo | Finland | Did not start | Did not start |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were started on 14 December at 17:48.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 2 | 4 | Gretchen Walsh | United States | 22.87 | Q, WR |
| 2 | 1 | 4 | Kate Douglass | United States | 23.35 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | 5 | Katarzyna Wasick | Poland | 23.46 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | 3 | Silvia Di Pietro | Italy | 23.68 | Q, NR |
| 5 | 1 | 5 | Arina Surkova | Neutral Athletes B | 23.69 | Q |
| 6 | 1 | 2 | Eva Okaro | Great Britain | 23.71 | Q |
| 7 | 1 | 6 | Meg Harris | Australia | 23.74 | Q |
| 8 | 2 | 6 | Sara Curtis | Italy | 23.76 | Q |
| 9 | 1 | 3 | Mélanie Henique | France | 23.89 | |
| 10 | 1 | 1 | Barbora Janíčková | Czech Republic | 23.99 | NR |
| 11 | 2 | 7 | Alexandria Perkins | Australia | 24.01 | |
| 12 | 2 | 2 | Liu Shuhan | China | 24.03 | |
| 13 | 1 | 8 | Milou van Wijk | Netherlands | 24.08 | |
| 14 | 2 | 8 | Daria Trofimova | Neutral Athletes B | 24.11 | |
| 15 | 1 | 7 | Caitlin de Lange | South Africa | 24.21 | |
| 16 | 2 | 1 | Maaike de Waard | Netherlands | 24.22 | |

### Final

The final was held on 15 December at 17:32.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 4 | Gretchen Walsh | United States | 22.83 | WR |
| | 5 | Kate Douglass | United States | 23.05 | |
| | 3 | Katarzyna Wasick | Poland | 23.37 | |
| 4 | 7 | Eva Okaro | Great Britain | 23.66 | WJ |
| 5 | 1 | Meg Harris | Australia | 23.73 | |
| 6 | 6 | Silvia Di Pietro | Italy | 23.85 | |
| 7 | 8 | Sara Curtis | Italy | 23.87 | |
| 8 | 2 | Arina Surkova | Neutral Athletes B | 23.95 | |