# 2021 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 50 metre freestyle

The Women's 50 metre freestyle competition of the 2021 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 20 and 21 December 2021.

## 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 | Ranomi Kromowidjojo (NED) | 23.19 | Hangzhou, China | 16 December 2018 |
The following new records were set during this competition:
| Date | Event | Name | Nation | Time | Record |
| 21 December | Final | Sarah Sjöström | Sweden | 23.08 | CR |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were started on 20 December at 10:58.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 11 | 4 | Sarah Sjöström | Sweden | 23.31 | Q |
| 2 | 10 | 4 | Katarzyna Wasick | Poland | 23.63 | Q |
| 3 | 11 | 5 | Abbey Weitzeil | United States | 23.69 | Q |
| 4 | 9 | 4 | Ranomi Kromowidjojo | Netherlands | 23.86 | Q |
| 5 | 10 | 5 | Maria Kameneva | Russian Swimming Federation | 23.89 | Q |
| 6 | 9 | 3 | Holly Barratt | Australia | 24.04 | Q |
| 7 | 10 | 3 | Arina Surkova | Russian Swimming Federation | 24.08 | Q |
| 8 | 11 | 9 | Claire Curzan | United States | 24.11 | Q |
| 9 | 10 | 6 | Julie Kepp Jensen | Denmark | 24.15 | Q |
| 9 | 11 | 3 | Michelle Coleman | Sweden | 24.15 | Q |
| 9 | 11 | 6 | Silvia Di Pietro | Italy | 24.15 | Q |
| 12 | 9 | 5 | Béryl Gastaldello | France | 24.23 | Q |
| 13 | 11 | 1 | Cheng Yujie | China | 24.34 | Q |
| 14 | 11 | 2 | Kim Busch | Netherlands | 24.40 | Q |
| 15 | 8 | 3 | Farida Osman | Egypt | 24.43 | Q |
| 16 | 10 | 7 | Wu Qingfeng | China | 24.44 | Q |
| 17 | 9 | 1 | Costanza Cocconcelli | Italy | 24.56 | |
| 18 | 9 | 7 | Nastassia Karakouskaya | Belarus | 24.60 | |
| 19 | 7 | 5 | Kalia Antoniou | Cyprus | 24.67 | NR |
| 20 | 8 | 7 | Jenjira Srisaard | Thailand | 24.78 | |
| 20 | 8 | 8 | Bianca Costea | Romania | 24.78 | |
| 22 | 10 | 1 | Danielle Hill | Ireland | 24.83 | |
| 23 | 8 | 6 | Diana Petkova | Bulgaria | 24.86 | |
| 24 | 9 | 9 | Laura Littlejohn | New Zealand | 24.89 | |
| 25 | 8 | 4 | Nina Stanisavljević | Serbia | 24.94 | |
| 26 | 10 | 8 | Tam Hoi Lam | Hong Kong | 24.99 | |
| 27 | 11 | 8 | Jeong So-eun | South Korea | 25.04 | |
| 28 | 8 | 9 | Jana Pavalić | Croatia | 25.09 | |
| 29 | 9 | 0 | Julie Meynen | Luxembourg | 25.12 | |
| 29 | 11 | 0 | Nina Kost | Switzerland | 25.12 | |
| 31 | 7 | 7 | Maddy Moore | Bermuda | 25.15 | NR |
| 32 | 7 | 2 | Maria Drasidou | Greece | 25.19 | |
| 33 | 10 | 9 | Nina Gangl | Austria | 25.21 | |
| 34 | 8 | 2 | Jóhanna Elín Guðmundsdóttir | Iceland | 25.25 | |
| 35 | 7 | 3 | Amel Melih | Algeria | 25.35 | NR |
| 36 | 7 | 8 | Nikol Merizaj | Albania | 25.40 | NR |
| 37 | 8 | 0 | Cherelle Thompson | Trinidad and Tobago | 25.42 | |
| 38 | 7 | 6 | Jasmine Alkhaldi | Philippines | 25.64 | |
| 39 | 7 | 4 | Gabriela Ņikitina | Latvia | 25.72 | |
| 40 | 10 | 0 | Selen Özbilen | Turkey | 25.91 | |
| 41 | 1 | 0 | María José Ribera | Bolivia | 26.00 | |
| 42 | 6 | 4 | Chloe Farro | Aruba | 26.13 | |
| 42 | 7 | 1 | Kirabo Namutebi | Uganda | 26.13 | |
| 44 | 6 | 5 | Zaneta Alvaranga | Jamaica | 26.18 | |
| 45 | 6 | 2 | Imane El Barodi | Morocco | 26.32 | NR |
| 46 | 7 | 0 | Marie Khoury | Lebanon | 26.57 | |
| 47 | 6 | 3 | Varsenik Manucharyan | Armenia | 26.59 | |
| 48 | 6 | 1 | Mikaili Charlemagne | Saint Lucia | 26.60 | |
| 49 | 1 | 2 | Alisa Bech Vestergård | Faroe Islands | 26.61 | |
| 50 | 6 | 7 | Lauren Hew | Cayman Islands | 26.79 | |
| 51 | 5 | 2 | Aleka Persaud | Guyana | 26.86 | |
| 52 | 6 | 0 | Samantha Roberts | Antigua and Barbuda | 26.87 | |
| 53 | 7 | 9 | Norah Milanesi | Cameroon | 26.96 | |
| 54 | 6 | 6 | Mònica Ramírez | Andorra | 26.97 | |
| 55 | 2 | 0 | Khuyagbaataryn Enkhzul | Mongolia | 27.11 | |
| 56 | 5 | 4 | Unilez Takyi | Ghana | 27.21 | |
| 57 | 5 | 3 | Mona Kilani | Jordan | 27.25 | |
| 58 | 6 | 8 | Jeanne Boutbien | Senegal | 27.27 | |
| 59 | 6 | 9 | Jovana Kuljača | Montenegro | 27.29 | |
| 60 | 5 | 5 | Gabriela Santis | Guatemala | 27.30 | |
| 61 | 5 | 7 | Mariam Imnadze | Georgia | 27.50 | |
| 62 | 4 | 3 | Marina Abu Shamaleh | Palestine | 27.57 | NR |
| 63 | 5 | 6 | Bhakthi Karunasena | Sri Lanka | 27.61 | |
| 64 | 2 | 2 | Arleigha Hall | Turks and Caicos Islands | 27.76 | |
| 65 | 2 | 7 | Kimberly Ince | Grenada | 27.84 | |
| 66 | 5 | 9 | Mya de Freitas | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 28.03 | |
| 67 | 4 | 5 | Noelani Day | Tonga | 28.14 | |
| 68 | 5 | 8 | Ayah Binrajab | Bahrain | 28.16 | |
| 69 | 2 | 5 | Viktoriia Kutuzova | Kyrgyzstan | 28.38 | |
| 70 | 1 | 5 | Muynin Kaing | Cambodia | 28.42 | NR |
| 71 | 3 | 6 | Ekaterina Bordachyova | Tajikistan | 28.71 | |
| 72 | 5 | 0 | Fjorda Shabani | Kosovo | 28.75 | |
| 73 | 4 | 6 | Jessica Makwenda | Malawi | 28.98 | |
| 74 | 4 | 1 | Taffi Illis | Sint Maarten | 29.11 | |
| 75 | 4 | 2 | Nafissath Radji | Benin | 29.23 | |
| 76 | 4 | 8 | Iman Kouraogo | Burkina Faso | 29.71 | |
| 77 | 2 | 8 | Asaka Litulumar | Northern Mariana Islands | 29.96 | |
| 78 | 1 | 6 | Kayla Hepler | Marshall Islands | 30.03 | |
| 79 | 4 | 0 | Tity Dumbuya | Sierra Leone | 30.50 | |
| 80 | 1 | 8 | Yuri Hosei | Palau | 31.54 | |
| 81 | 3 | 5 | Aya Mpali | Gabon | 32.00 | |
| 82 | 4 | 9 | Alyse Maniriho | Burundi | 32.75 | |
| 83 | 3 | 2 | Imelda Ximenes Belo | Timor-Leste | 32.84 | |
| 84 | 3 | 3 | Rahel Gebresilassie | Ethiopia | 33.47 | |
| 85 | 3 | 4 | Chloe Sauvourel | Central African Republic | 33.78 | |
| 86 | 2 | 1 | Claudette Ishimwe | Rwanda | 36.59 | |
| 87 | 3 | 8 | Mariama Toure | Guinea | 37.20 | |
| 88 | 3 | 9 | Aicha Ali Adabo | Djibouti | 42.80 | |
| 89 | 1 | 7 | Toussanti Hassani | Comoros | 50.31 | |
| | 3 | 1 | Leena Mohamedahmed | Sudan | DSQ | |
| | 1 | 1 | Juanita Ndong Eyenga | Equatorial Guinea | DNS | |
| | 1 | 3 | Sainabou Sam | Gambia | DNS | |
| | 1 | 4 | Anaikah Thélémaque | Haiti | DNS | |
| | 2 | 3 | Sonia Aktar | Bangladesh | DNS | |
| | 2 | 4 | Lucie Kouadio-Patinier | Ivory Coast | DNS | |
| | 2 | 6 | Marie Amenou | Togo | DNS | |
| | 2 | 9 | Eunike Mathayo | Tanzania | DNS | |
| | 3 | 0 | Aminata Sangafe | Mali | DNS | |
| | 3 | 7 | Bellore Sangala | Republic of the Congo | DNS | |
| | 4 | 4 | Abiola Ogunbanwo | Nigeria | DNS | |
| | 4 | 7 | Anushiya Tandukar | Nepal | DNS | |
| | 5 | 1 | Jayla Pina | Cape Verde | DNS | |
| | 8 | 1 | Lucy Hope | Great Britain | DNS | |
| | 8 | 5 | Lillian Slušná | Slovakia | DNS | |
| | 9 | 2 | Kayla Sanchez | Canada | DNS | |
| | 9 | 6 | Fanny Teijonsalo | Finland | DNS | |
| | 9 | 8 | Amanda Lim | Singapore | DNS | |
| | 10 | 2 | Marie Wattel | France | DNS | |
| | 11 | 7 | Barbora Seemanová | Czech Republic | DNS | |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were started on 20 December at 18:47.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 2 | 4 | Sarah Sjöström | Sweden | 23.30 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | 4 | Katarzyna Wasick | Poland | 23.41 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | 5 | Ranomi Kromowidjojo | Netherlands | 23.54 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | 5 | Abbey Weitzeil | United States | 23.63 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | 3 | Maria Kameneva | Russian Swimming Federation | 23.74 | Q |
| 6 | 1 | 6 | Claire Curzan | United States | 23.80 | Q |
| 7 | 1 | 3 | Holly Barratt | Australia | 23.90 | Q |
| 8 | 2 | 7 | Silvia Di Pietro | Italy | 23.94 | Q |
| 9 | 1 | 2 | Michelle Coleman | Sweden | 23.96 | |
| 10 | 2 | 6 | Arina Surkova | Russian Swimming Federation | 24.00 | |
| 11 | 1 | 7 | Béryl Gastaldello | France | 24.02 | |
| 12 | 2 | 2 | Julie Kepp Jensen | Denmark | 24.03 | |
| 13 | 2 | 1 | Cheng Yujie | China | 24.05 | |
| 14 | 1 | 8 | Wu Qingfeng | China | 24.15 | |
| 15 | 1 | 1 | Kim Busch | Netherlands | 24.43 | |
| 16 | 2 | 8 | Farida Osman | Egypt | 24.49 | |

### Final

The final was held on 21 December at 19:37.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 4 | Sarah Sjöström | Sweden | 23.08 | CR |
| | 3 | Ranomi Kromowidjojo | Netherlands | 23.31 | |
| | 5 | Katarzyna Wasick | Poland | 23.40 | |
| 4 | 2 | Maria Kameneva | Russian Swimming Federation | 23.48 | NR |
| 5 | 6 | Abbey Weitzeil | United States | 23.58 | |
| 6 | 7 | Claire Curzan | United States | 23.91 | |
| 7 | 1 | Holly Barratt | Australia | 23.96 | |
| 8 | 8 | Silvia Di Pietro | Italy | 23.98 | |