# Swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 50 metre freestyle

The women's 50 metre freestyle event in swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships took place on 3–4 August at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, Spain.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and championship records were:
| World record | Britta Steffen (GER) | 23.73 | Rome, Italy | 2 August 2009 |
| Competition record | Britta Steffen (GER) | 23.73 | Rome, Italy | 2 August 2009 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held at 10:00.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 8 | 4 | Cate Campbell | Australia | 24.27 | Q |
| 2 | 7 | 4 | Francesca Halsall | Great Britain | 24.60 | Q |
| 3 | 8 | 5 | Bronte Campbell | Australia | 24.65 | Q |
| 4 | 9 | 4 | Ranomi Kromowidjojo | Netherlands | 24.68 | Q |
| 5 | 9 | 5 | Dorothea Brandt | Germany | 24.78 | Q |
| 6 | 7 | 7 | Chantal van Landeghem | Canada | 24.89 | Q |
| 7 | 7 | 6 | Simone Manuel | United States | 24.93 | Q |
| 8 | 9 | 3 | Sarah Sjöström | Sweden | 24.99 | Q |
| 9 | 9 | 6 | Natalie Coughlin | United States | 25.00 | Q |
| 10 | 9 | 7 | Victoria Poon | Canada | 25.01 | Q |
| 10 | 9 | 8 | Aleksandra Urbańczyk | Poland | 25.01 | Q, NR |
| 12 | 8 | 3 | Jeanette Ottesen | Denmark | 25.04 | Q |
| 13 | 7 | 5 | Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace | Bahamas | 25.15 | Q |
| 14 | 8 | 6 | Femke Heemskerk | Netherlands | 25.19 | Q |
| 15 | 9 | 9 | Hanna-Maria Seppälä | Finland | 25.20 | Q |
| 16 | 8 | 8 | Pernille Blume | Denmark | 25.23 | Q |
| 17 | 7 | 8 | Silvia di Pietro | Italy | 25.24 | |
| 18 | 9 | 2 | Graciele Herrmann | Brazil | 25.32 | |
| 19 | 7 | 3 | Amy Smith | Great Britain | 25.37 | |
| 20 | 6 | 5 | Liliana Ibáñez | Mexico | 25.51 | NR |
| 21 | 8 | 9 | Yuliya Khitraya | Belarus | 25.56 | |
| 22 | 7 | 2 | Svetlana Kniaginina | Russia | 25.59 | |
| 23 | 6 | 7 | Miroslava Najdanovski | Serbia | 25.63 | |
| 24 | 9 | 1 | Alessandra Marchioro | Brazil | 25.68 | |
| 25 | 9 | 0 | Yayoi Matsumoto | Japan | 25.69 | |
| 26 | 8 | 7 | Tang Yi | China | 25.72 | |
| 27 | 7 | 9 | Julie Meynen | Luxembourg | 25.74 | |
| 28 | 5 | 5 | Chinyere Pigot | Suriname | 25.83 | NR |
| 29 | 6 | 6 | Amanda Lim | Singapore | 25.86 | |
| 30 | 7 | 1 | Yin Fan | China | 25.87 | |
| 30 | 8 | 2 | Theodora Drakou | Greece | 25.87 | |
| 32 | 6 | 8 | Ingibjörg Jónsdóttir | Iceland | 25.88 | |
| 33 | 8 | 0 | Trudi Maree | South Africa | 26.02 | |
| 34 | 6 | 2 | Susann Bjørnsen | Norway | 26.09 | |
| 35 | 6 | 0 | Carolina Colorado Henao | Colombia | 26.18 | |
| 36 | 6 | 1 | Elmira Aigaliyeva | Kazakhstan | 26.22 | |
| 37 | 8 | 1 | Daniela Schreiber | Germany | 26.24 | |
| 38 | 5 | 7 | Allyson Ponson | Aruba | 26.27 | |
| 39 | 5 | 4 | Gabriela Ņikitina | Latvia | 26.31 | |
| 40 | 5 | 6 | Lei On Kei | Macau | 26.33 | |
| 41 | 5 | 3 | Yamilé Bahamonde | Ecuador | 26.46 | |
| 42 | 6 | 3 | Sabina Dostálová | Czech Republic | 26.57 | |
| 43 | 5 | 9 | Karen Torrez | Bolivia | 26.69 | |
| 44 | 4 | 5 | Sylvia Brunlehner | Kenya | 26.73 | NR |
| 45 | 5 | 8 | Rebecca Heyliger | Bermuda | 26.86 | |
| 46 | 5 | 2 | Anastasia Bogdanovski | North Macedonia | 26.93 | |
| 47 | 4 | 4 | Bayan Jumah | Syria | 26.94 | NR |
| 48 | 4 | 7 | Faye Sultan | Kuwait | 27.25 | NR |
| 49 | 5 | 1 | Karen Riveros | Paraguay | 27.36 | |
| 50 | 4 | 3 | Monika Vasilyan | Armenia | 27.50 | |
| 51 | 4 | 6 | Kimiko Raheem | Sri Lanka | 27.87 | |
| 52 | 3 | 8 | Ophelia Swayne | Ghana | 28.10 | |
| 53 | 4 | 9 | Pilar Shimizu | Guam | 28.14 | |
| 54 | 4 | 8 | Irene Prescott | Tonga | 28.19 | |
| 55 | 6 | 9 | Sabine Hazboun | Palestine | 28.29 | |
| 56 | 4 | 2 | Mónica Ramírez | Andorra | 28.35 | |
| 57 | 3 | 4 | Brittany van Lange | Guyana | 28.46 | |
| 58 | 4 | 1 | Anxhela Kashari | Albania | 28.48 | |
| 59 | 3 | 1 | Felicity Passon | Seychelles | 28.62 | |
| 60 | 3 | 9 | Yara Lima | Angola | 28.69 | |
| 61 | 3 | 6 | Tiara Shahril | Brunei | 28.74 | |
| 62 | 4 | 0 | Tilka Paljk | Zambia | 29.05 | |
| 63 | 2 | 1 | Colleen Furgeson | Marshall Islands | 29.09 | |
| 64 | 3 | 7 | Deandra van der Colff | Botswana | 29.27 | |
| 65 | 1 | 9 | Merjen Saryyeva | Turkmenistan | 29.63 | NR |
| 66 | 3 | 3 | Mariam Foum | Tanzania | 29.86 | |
| 67 | 3 | 0 | Sameera Al-Bitar | Bahrain | 29.88 | |
| 68 | 3 | 2 | Khadidiatou Dieng | Senegal | 29.89 | |
| 69 | 2 | 7 | Rachel Wall | Antigua and Barbuda | 30.14 | |
| 70 | 2 | 8 | Sofia Shah | Nepal | 30.16 | |
| 71 | 2 | 5 | Dirngulbai Misech | Palau | 30.22 | |
| 72 | 2 | 2 | Alphonsine Agahozo | Rwanda | 30.66 | |
| 73 | 2 | 6 | Angel de Jesus | Northern Mariana Islands | 31.01 | |
| 74 | 2 | 3 | Hemthon Vitiny | Cambodia | 31.05 | |
| 75 | 2 | 4 | Aminath Shajan | Maldives | 31.52 | |
| 76 | 2 | 0 | Angelika Ouedraogo | Burkina Faso | 31.68 | |
| 77 | 1 | 4 | Karina Klimyk | Tajikistan | 32.42 | |
| 78 | 2 | 9 | Danisha Paul | Micronesia | 34.29 | |
| 79 | 1 | 7 | Haoua Sangare | Mali | 34.49 | |
| 80 | 1 | 3 | Elsie Uwamahoro | Burundi | 34.80 | |
| 81 | 1 | 6 | Mhasin El Nour Fadlalla | Sudan | 36.20 | |
| 82 | 1 | 2 | Nazlati Mohamed Andhumdine | Comoros | 38.45 | |
| 83 | 1 | 0 | Charmel Sogbadji | Benin | 42.13 | |
| | 1 | 8 | Alexandra Wilman | Central African Republic | | DNS |
| | 1 | 5 | Stephane Sangala | Congo | | DNS |
| | 1 | 1 | Adzo Kpossi | Togo | | DNS |
| | 3 | 5 | Khahliso Mpeta | Lesotho | | DNS |
| | 5 | 0 | Miriam Corsini | Mozambique | | DNS |
| | 6 | 4 | Farida Osman | Egypt | | DNS |
| | 7 | 0 | Rūta Meilutytė | Lithuania | | DNS |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 18:58.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | Ranomi Kromowidjojo | Netherlands | 24.33 | Q |
| 2 | 7 | Jeanette Ottesen | Denmark | 24.54 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | Francesca Halsall | Great Britain | 24.61 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Sarah Sjöström | Sweden | 24.65 | Q |
| 5 | 3 | Chantal van Landeghem | Canada | 24.96 | |
| 6 | 8 | Pernille Blume | Denmark | 25.01 | |
| 7 | 1 | Femke Heemskerk | Netherlands | 25.10 | |
| 8 | 2 | Victoria Poon | Canada | 25.42 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Cate Campbell | Australia | 24.19 | Q, WL |
| 2 | 5 | Bronte Campbell | Australia | 24.62 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Dorothea Brandt | Germany | 24.85 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Simone Manuel | United States | 24.91 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | Natalie Coughlin | United States | 25.02 | |
| 6 | 7 | Aleksandra Urbańczyk | Poland | 25.03 | |
| 7 | 8 | Hanna-Maria Seppälä | Finland | 25.06 | =NR |
| 8 | 1 | Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace | Bahamas | 25.24 | |

### Final

The final was held at 18:32.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 5 | Ranomi Kromowidjojo | Netherlands | 24.05 | WL |
| | 4 | Cate Campbell | Australia | 24.14 | |
| | 6 | Francesca Halsall | Great Britain | 24.30 | |
| 4 | 7 | Sarah Sjöström | Sweden | 24.45 | |
| 5 | 2 | Bronte Campbell | Australia | 24.66 | |
| 5 | 3 | Jeanette Ottesen | Denmark | 24.66 | |
| 7 | 8 | Simone Manuel | United States | 24.80 | |
| 8 | 1 | Dorothea Brandt | Germany | 24.81 | |