# Swimming at the 2010 Commonwealth Games – Women's 50 metre butterfly

The Women's 50 metre butterfly event at the 2010 Commonwealth Games took place on 4 and 5 October 2010, at the SPM Swimming Pool Complex.
Four heats were held, with most containing the maximum number of swimmers (eight). The top sixteen times qualified for the semi-finals and, the top eight from there qualified for the finals.

## Heats
### Heat 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 7 | Monica Bernardo | Mozambique | 29.58 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Shubha Chittaranjan | India | 29.96 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Ajaykumar Hanka | Kenya | 33.62 | |
| 4 | 5 | Mariam Foum | Tanzania | 34.29 | |
| 5 | 6 | Anham Salyani | Kenya | 34.48 | |
| 6 | 4 | Aishath Abdulla | Maldives | 36.43 | |
| 7 | 8 | Karin O´Reilly | Antigua and Barbuda | 37.86 | |
| 8 | 2 | Aminath Shahid | Maldives | 38.19 | |

### Heat 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Emily Seebohm | Australia | 26.52 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Katerine Savard | Canada | 27.10 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Louise Pate | Scotland | 27.45 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | Bethany Carson | Northern Ireland | 28.90 | Q |
| 5 | 7 | Sylvia Brunlehner | Kenya | 31.61 | |
| 6 | 8 | Mercedes Milner | Zambia | 31.93 | |
| 7 | 1 | Shannon Austin | Seychelles | 32.76 | |
| | 6 | Anna Schegoleva | Cyprus | | DNS |

### Heat 3

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Marieke Guehrer | Australia | 26.64 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Hayley Palmer | New Zealand | 27.16 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | Amy Smith | England | 27.25 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Audrey Lacroix | Canada | 27.49 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | Alys Thomas | Wales | 28.41 | Q |
| 6 | 7 | Pooja Alva | India | 30.30 | |
| 7 | 1 | Alexia Royal-Eatmon | Jamaica | 31.09 | |
| 8 | 8 | Elaine Reyes | Gibraltar | 31.31 | |

### Heat 4

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | Francesca Halsall | England | 26.69 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Yolane Kukla | Australia | 27.06 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Ellen Gandy | England | 27.07 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Jemma Lowe | Wales | 27.45 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | MacKenzie Downing | Canada | 27.54 | Q |
| 6 | 7 | Siona Huxley | Saint Lucia | 31.01 | |
| 7 | 1 | Kathryn Millin | Swaziland | 31.14 | |
| 8 | 8 | Judith Meauri | Papua New Guinea | 31.91 | |

## Semifinals
### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Marieke Guehrer | Australia | 26.07 | Q, CGR |
| 2 | 5 | Yolane Kukla | Australia | 26.22 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Katerine Savard | Canada | 26.96 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | Jemma Lowe | Wales | 27.02 | Q |
| 5 | 7 | MacKenzie Downing | Canada | 27.12 | Q |
| 6 | 6 | Amy Smith | England | 27.23 | |
| 7 | 1 | Bethany Carson | Northern Ireland | 28.94 | |
| 8 | 8 | Shubha Chittaranjan | India | 30.00 | |

### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | Francesca Halsall | England | 26.33 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Emily Seebohm | Australia | 26.62 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Ellen Gandy | England | 27.14 | Q |
| 3 | 6 | Hayley Palmer | New Zealand | 27.14 | |
| 5 | 2 | Louise Pate | Scotland | 27.49 | |
| 6 | 7 | Audrey Lacroix | Canada | 27.68 | |
| 7 | 1 | Alys Thomas | Wales | 28.20 | |
| 8 | 8 | Monica Bernardo | Mozambique | 29.75 | |

## Final

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 3 | Francesca Halsall | England | 26.24 |
| | 4 | Marieke Guehrer | Australia | 26.27 |
| | 6 | Emily Seebohm | Australia | 26.29 |
| 4 | 5 | Yolane Kukla | Australia | 26.41 |
| 5 | 8 | Ellen Gandy | England | 26.80 |
| 6 | 7 | Jemma Lowe | Wales | 27.15 |
| 7 | 2 | Katerine Savard | Canada | 27.21 |
| 8 | 1 | MacKenzie Downing | Canada | 27.42 |