# Swimming at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 50 metre freestyle

The Women's 50 metre freestyle competition at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships was held on 17 and 18 February 2024.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
| World record | Sarah Sjöström (SWE) | 23.61 | Fukuoka, Japan | 29 July 2023 |
| Competition record | Sarah Sjöström (SWE) | 23.61 | Fukuoka, Japan | 29 July 2023 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held on 17 February at 09:32.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 12 | 4 | Sarah Sjöström | Sweden | 23.91 | Q |
| 2 | 12 | 5 | Kate Douglass | United States | 24.19 | Q |
| 3 | 11 | 4 | Shayna Jack | Australia | 24.30 | Q |
| 4 | 10 | 4 | Katarzyna Wasick | Poland | 24.36 | Q |
| 5 | 12 | 3 | Anna Hopkin | Great Britain | 24.70 | Q |
| 6 | 10 | 5 | Michelle Coleman | Sweden | 24.75 | Q |
| 7 | 12 | 8 | Taylor Ruck | Canada | 24.84 | Q |
| 8 | 10 | 2 | Kornelia Fiedkiewicz | Poland | 24.85 | Q |
| 8 | 12 | 6 | Melanie Henique | France | 24.85 | Q |
| 10 | 11 | 5 | Marrit Steenbergen | Netherlands | 24.86 | Q |
| 11 | 10 | 3 | Julie Kepp Jensen | Denmark | 24.97 | Q |
| 12 | 12 | 2 | Farida Osman | Egypt | 25.01 | Q |
| 13 | 11 | 6 | Neža Klančar | Slovenia | 25.05 | Q |
| 14 | 11 | 3 | Kim Busch | Netherlands | 25.08 | Q |
| 15 | 11 | 9 | Lyu Yue | China | 25.10 | Q |
| 16 | 11 | 1 | Kalia Antoniou | Cyprus | 25.21 | Q |
| 17 | 11 | 2 | Erin Gallagher | South Africa | 25.37 | |
| 18 | 10 | 1 | Teresa Ivan | Slovakia | 25.40 | |
| 19 | 11 | 8 | Jenjira Srisaard | Thailand | 25.41 | |
| 20 | 9 | 5 | Barbora Janíčková | Czech Republic | 25.47 | |
| 20 | 11 | 7 | Quah Ting Wen | Singapore | 25.47 | |
| 20 | 12 | 7 | Angelina Köhler | Germany | 25.47 | |
| 23 | 9 | 8 | Lismar Lyon | Venezuela | 25.50 | |
| 23 | 10 | 6 | Emma Chelius | South Africa | 25.50 | |
| 25 | 9 | 7 | Maria Daza Garcia | Spain | 25.55 | |
| 25 | 10 | 0 | Nina Stanisavljević | Serbia | 25.55 | |
| 27 | 10 | 8 | Hoi Lam Tam | Hong Kong | 25.64 | |
| 28 | 12 | 0 | Nagisa Ikemoto | Japan | 25.65 | |
| 29 | 9 | 3 | Andrea Berrino | Argentina | 25.66 | |
| 30 | 11 | 0 | Huang Mei-chien | Chinese Taipei | 25.68 | |
| 31 | 12 | 9 | Sofia Revilak Fonseca | Mexico | 25.73 | |
| 32 | 9 | 9 | Jillian Crooks | Cayman Islands | 25.79 | |
| 33 | 9 | 1 | Fanny Teijonsalo | Finland | 25.82 | |
| 34 | 9 | 0 | Amel Melih | Algeria | 25.90 | |
| 35 | 9 | 4 | Sirena Rowe | Colombia | 25.91 | |
| 36 | 8 | 5 | Emma Harvey | Bermuda | 25.93 | |
| 37 | 8 | 2 | Gloria Muzito | Uganda | 26.01 | |
| 38 | 8 | 3 | Cherelle Thompson | Trinidad and Tobago | 26.03 | |
| 39 | 10 | 7 | Chiara Tarantino | Italy | 26.09 | |
| 40 | 8 | 0 | Maria Brunlehner | Kenya | 26.12 | |
| 41 | 9 | 6 | Jasmine Alkhaldi | Philippines | 26.14 | |
| 42 | 8 | 6 | Jóhanna Elín Guðmundsdóttir | Iceland | 26.20 | |
| 43 | 9 | 2 | Erin Riordan | Ireland | 26.26 | |
| 44 | 8 | 4 | Marina Spadoni | El Salvador | 26.30 | |
| 45 | 10 | 9 | Smilte Plytnykaite | Lithuania | 26.31 | |
| 46 | 8 | 1 | Emily Macdonald | Jamaica | 26.55 | |
| 47 | 7 | 3 | Maxine Egner | Botswana | 26.58 | |
| 48 | 6 | 0 | Adriana Giles | Bolivia | 26.60 | |
| 49 | 7 | 5 | Mia Phiri | Zambia | 26.61 | |
| 50 | 8 | 7 | Gabriela Ņikitina | Latvia | 26.85 | |
| 51 | 8 | 9 | Paige van der Westhuizen | Zimbabwe | 26.86 | |
| 52 | 7 | 4 | Amani Alobaidli | Bahrain | 26.87 | |
| 53 | 8 | 8 | Rhanishka Gibbs | Bahamas | 26.87 | |
| 54 | 5 | 5 | Elizaveta Pecherskikh | Kyrgyzstan | 27.00 | |
| 55 | 1 | 5 | Alicia Kimberley Kok Shun | Mauritius | 27.04 | |
| 56 | 7 | 6 | Mikaili Charlemagne | Saint Lucia | 27.05 | |
| 57 | 6 | 6 | Aunjelique Liddie | Antigua and Barbuda | 27.38 | |
| 58 | 5 | 8 | Arla Dermishi | Albania | 27.46 | |
| 59 | 7 | 1 | Tilly Collymore | Grenada | 27.48 | |
| 60 | 7 | 7 | Varsenik Manucharyan | Armenia | 27.58 | |
| 61 | 6 | 5 | Alejandra Santana | Dominican Republic | 27.60 | |
| 62 | 2 | 1 | Zariel Nelson | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 27.62 | |
| 63 | 7 | 2 | Imane Houda El Barodi | Morocco | 27.70 | |
| 64 | 6 | 8 | Jovana Kuljaca | Montenegro | 27.71 | |
| 65 | 6 | 7 | Unilez Takyi | Ghana | 27.75 | |
| 66 | 6 | 3 | Christina Rach | Eritrea | 28.08 | |
| 67 | 6 | 4 | Sara Pastrana | Honduras | 28.11 | |
| 68 | 7 | 0 | Georgia-Leigh Vele | Papua New Guinea | 28.15 | |
| 69 | 6 | 1 | Kaiya Brown | Samoa | 28.30 | |
| 70 | 5 | 4 | Marina Abu Shamaleh | Palestine | 28.51 | |
| 71 | 6 | 2 | Aleka Kylela Persaud | Guyana | 28.62 | |
| 72 | 2 | 7 | Aaliyah Palestrini | Seychelles | 28.69 | |
| 73 | 5 | 6 | Carolann Faeamani | Tonga | 28.71 | |
| 74 | 5 | 7 | Kestra Kihleng | Micronesia | 28.94 | |
| 75 | 6 | 9 | Anastasiya Morginshtern | Turkmenistan | 28.98 | |
| 76 | 7 | 9 | N'Hara Fernandes | Angola | 29.13 | |
| 77 | 4 | 3 | Taffi Illis | Sint Maarten | 29.24 | |
| 78 | 5 | 3 | Lara Dashti | Kuwait | 29.27 | |
| 79 | 4 | 4 | Loane Russet | Vanuatu | 29.33 | |
| 80 | 5 | 2 | Ekaterina Bordachyova | Tajikistan | 29.35 | |
| 81 | 1 | 3 | Aishath Ulya Shaig | Maldives | 29.47 | |
| 82 | 4 | 2 | Siwakhile Dlamini | Eswatini | 29.66 | |
| 83 | 5 | 1 | Arleigha Hall | Turks and Caicos Islands | 29.70 | |
| 84 | 5 | 0 | Makelyta Singsombath | Laos | 29.77 | |
| 85 | 1 | 4 | Alicia Mateus | Mozambique | 30.02 | |
| 86 | 3 | 4 | Jasmine Schofield | Dominica | 30.60 | |
| 87 | 4 | 6 | La Troya Lesa Pina | Cape Verde | 30.61 | |
| 88 | 4 | 7 | Iman Kouraogo | Burkina Faso | 30.89 | |
| 89 | 2 | 8 | Lois Eliora Irishura | Burundi | 30.92 | |
| 90 | 4 | 5 | Mst Sonia Khatun | Bangladesh | 30.95 | |
| 91 | 5 | 9 | Jessica Makwenda | Malawi | 31.07 | |
| 92 | 4 | 1 | Kayla Hepler | Marshall Islands | 31.13 | |
| 93 | 4 | 8 | Natalia Ladha | Tanzania | 31.37 | |
| 94 | 4 | 0 | Aya Mpali | Gabon | 31.40 | |
| 95 | 3 | 5 | Yuri Hosei | Palau | 31.41 | |
| 96 | 4 | 9 | Nada Arkaji | Qatar | 31.78 | |
| 97 | 3 | 6 | Leena Mohamedahmed | Sudan | 31.83 | |
| 98 | 2 | 4 | Djenabou Jolie Bah | Guinea | 31.93 | |
| 99 | 2 | 2 | Grace Manuela Nguelo'o | Cameroon | 32.20 | |
| 100 | 3 | 7 | Lina Alemayehu Selo | Ethiopia | 32.62 | |
| 101 | 2 | 0 | Kamila Ibrahim | Comoros | 33.36 | |
| 102 | 2 | 5 | Nina Amison | Djibouti | 33.99 | |
| 103 | 2 | 9 | Nyirabyenda | Rwanda | 34.22 | |
| 104 | 3 | 1 | Salima Ahmadou Youssoufou | Niger | 34.88 | |
| 105 | 2 | 6 | Tracy Marine Andet | Central African Republic | 41.14 | |
| 106 | 3 | 9 | Assita Diarra | Ivory Coast | 41.35 | |
| 107 | 3 | 0 | Olamide Sam | Sierra Leone | 45.51 | |
| | 2 | 3 | Rita Acaba Ocomo | Equatorial Guinea | | DNS |
| | 3 | 3 | Imelda Ximenes Belo | Timor-Leste | | DNS |
| | 3 | 8 | Vanessa Bobimbo | Congo | | DNS |
| | 12 | 1 | Theodora Drakou | Greece | | DNS |
| | 3 | 2 | Adele Sodalo Agnes Gaitou | Togo | | DSQ |
| | 7 | 8 | Ionnah Eliane Douillet | Benin | | DSQ |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 17 February at 19:50.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 2 | 4 | Sarah Sjöström | Sweden | 23.90 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | 5 | Katarzyna Wasick | Poland | 24.01 | Q, NR |
| 3 | 1 | 4 | Kate Douglass | United States | 24.24 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | 5 | Shayna Jack | Australia | 24.44 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | 3 | Anna Hopkin | Great Britain | 24.51 | Q |
| 6 | 1 | 3 | Michelle Coleman | Sweden | 24.65 | Q |
| 7 | 1 | 6 | Kornelia Fiedkiewicz | Poland | 24.71 | Q |
| 8 | 2 | 6 | Taylor Ruck | Canada | 24.72 | Q |
| 9 | 1 | 2 | Marrit Steenbergen | Netherlands | 24.74 | |
| 9 | 2 | 2 | Melanie Henique | France | 24.74 | |
| 11 | 2 | 7 | Julie Kepp Jensen | Denmark | 24.80 | |
| 12 | 1 | 1 | Kim Busch | Netherlands | 24.86 | |
| 13 | 2 | 1 | Neža Klančar | Slovenia | 24.87 | |
| 14 | 1 | 8 | Kalia Antoniou | Cyprus | 24.96 | |
| 15 | 2 | 8 | Lyu Yue | China | 25.04 | |
| 16 | 1 | 7 | Farida Osman | Egypt | 25.07 | |

### Final

The final was held on 18 February at 19:46.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 4 | Sarah Sjöström | Sweden | 23.69 | |
| | 3 | Kate Douglass | United States | 23.91 | AM |
| | 5 | Katarzyna Wasick | Poland | 23.95 | NR |
| 4 | 6 | Shayna Jack | Australia | 24.27 | |
| 5 | 8 | Taylor Ruck | Canada | 24.50 | |
| 6 | 2 | Anna Hopkin | Great Britain | 24.51 | |
| 7 | 1 | Kornelia Fiedkiewicz | Poland | 24.69 | |
| 8 | 7 | Michelle Coleman | Sweden | 24.79 | |