# Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 50 metre freestyle

The Women's 50m Freestyle event at the 11th FINA World Aquatics Championships was swum 30 – 31 July 2005 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Preliminary heats and Semifinal heats were 30 July; the final was 31 July.
At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championships (CR) records were:
* WR: 24.13, Inge de Bruijn (Netherlands) swum 22 September 2000 in Sydney, Australia
* CR: 24.45, Inge de Bruijn (Netherlands) swum 28 July 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan

## Results
### Final

| Rank | Swimmer | Nation | Time |
| | Libby Lenton | Australia | 24.59 |
| | Marleen Veldhuis | Netherlands | 24.83 |
| | Yingwen Zhu | China | 24.91 |
| 4 | Therese Alshammar | Sweden | 24.96 |
| 5 | Alice Mills | Australia | 25.02 |
| 6 | Svitlana Khakhlova | Belarus | 25.17 |
| 7 | Kara Lynn Joyce | USA | 25.36 |
| 8 | Jana Kolukanova | Estonia | 25.56 |

### Semifinals

| Rank | Heat + Lane | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
| 1 | S1 L5 | Marleen Veldhuis | Netherlands | 24.92 | q |
| 2 | S1 L4 | Therese Alshammar | Sweden | 24.99 | q |
| 3 | S2 L3 | Libby Lenton | Australia | 25.05 | q |
| 4 | S2 L4 | Alice Mills | Australia | 25.10 | q |
| 4 | S2 L5 | Yingwen Zhu | China | 25.10 | q |
| 6 | S1 L3 | Kara Lynn Joyce | USA | 25.14 | q |
| 6 | S2 L2 | Svitlana Khakhlova | Belarus | 25.14 | q |
| 8 | S1 L2 | Jana Kolukanova | Estonia | 25.28 | q |
| 9 | S2 L6 | Malia Metella | France | 25.35 | |
| 10 | S2 L1 | Amanda Weir | USA | 25.46 | |
| 11 | S1 L1 | Cristina Chiuso | Italy | 25.51 | |
| 12 | S1 L6 | Flavia Cazziolato | Brazil | 25.53 | |
| 13 | S2 L8 | Celine Couderc | France | 25.64 | |
| 14 | S2 L7 | Hanna-Maria Seppälä | Finland | 25.70 | |
| 15 | S1 L7 | Anna-Karin Kammerling | Sweden | 25.75 | |
| 16 | S1 L8 | Nery-Mantey Niangkouara | Greece | 25.78 | |

### Preliminaries

| Rank | Heat + Lane | Swimmer | Nation | Time |
| 1 | H11 L4 | Alice Mills | Australia | 25.15 |
| 2 | H11 L5 | Therese Alshammar | Sweden | 25.19 |
| 3 | H9 L7 | Yingwen Zhu | China | 25.22 |
| 4 | H9 L5 | Marleen Veldhuis | Netherlands | 25.27 |
| 5 | H10 L4 | Lisbeth Lenton | Australia | 25.29 |
| 5 | H10 L5 | Kara Lynn Joyce | United States | 25.29 |
| 7 | H9 L4 | Malia Metella | France | 25.42 |
| 8 | H10 L3 | Flavia Cazziolato | Brazil | 25.55 |
| 9 | H9 L3 | Svitlana Khakhlova | Belarus | 25.56 |
| 10 | H9 L8 | Jana Kolukanova | Estonia | 25.64 |
| 11 | H9 L2 | Hanna-Maria Seppälä | Finland | 25.65 |
| 12 | H11 L3 | Anna-Karin Kammerling | Sweden | 25.68 |
| 13 | H10 L2 | Amanda Weir | United States | 25.69 |
| 14 | H11 L2 | Cristina Chiuso | Italy | 25.71 |
| 15 | H10 L7 | Celine Couderc | France | 25.83 |
| 16 | H11 L6 | Nery-Mantey Niangkouara | Greece | 25.91 |
| 17 | H9 L6 | Chantal Groot | Netherlands | 25.94 |
| 18 | H11 L8 | Nichola Chellingworth | New Zealand | 25.95 |
| 19 | H11 L7 | Martina Moravcová | Slovakia | 26.19 |
| 20 | H10 L1 | Triin Aljand | Estonia | 26.23 |
| 21 | H8 L7 | Vanessa García | Puerto Rico | 26.24 |
| 22 | H8 L5 | Binan Wu | China | 26.26 |
| 23 | H8 L6 | Kaori Yamada | Japan | 26.39 |
| 24 | H7 L4 | Ragnheidur Ragnarsdottir | Iceland | 26.42 |
| 25 | H8 L1 | Petra Klosova | Czech Republic | 26.47 |
| 26 | H11 L1 | Maryia Hanchar | Belarus | 26.48 |
| 27 | H7 L3 | Ionela Cozma | Romania | 26.49 |
| 27 | H8 L8 | Atsumi Yamada | Japan | 26.49 |
| 29 | H10 L8 | Jeanette Ottesen | Denmark | 26.51 |
| 30 | H7 L5 | Hannah Wilson | Hong Kong | 26.53 |
| 31 | H8 L2 | Alison Fitch | New Zealand | 26.60 |
| 32 | H4 L6 | Heather Brand | Zimbabwe | 26.65 |
| 33 | H7 L1 | Keo Ra Lee | South Korea | 26.68 |
| 34 | H7 L8 | Jennifer Carroll | Canada | 26.69 |
| 35 | H8 L3 | Pin-Chieh Nieh | Chinese Taipei | 26.72 |
| 36 | H6 L6 | Hang Yu Sze | Hong Kong | 26.74 |
| 37 | H7 L6 | Joscelin Yeo | Singapore | 27.00 |
| 38 | H7 L7 | Shikha Tandon | India | 27.04 |
| 39 | H6 L3 | Chin-Kuei Yang | Chinese Taipei | 27.08 |
| 40 | H6 L4 | Shu Yong Ho | Singapore | 27.16 |
| 41 | H7 L2 | Annette Hansen | Denmark | 27.23 |
| 42 | H6 L7 | Yamilé Bahamonde | Ecuador | 27.28 |
| 43 | H6 L2 | Irina Shlemova | Uzbekistan | 27.43 |
| 44 | H6 L8 | Nikia Deveaux | Bahamas | 27.49 |
| 45 | H5 L5 | Carolina Colorado Henao | Colombia | 27.70 |
| 46 | H5 L3 | Anna Liza Mopio Jane | Papua New Guinea | 27.72 |
| 47 | H6 L1 | Sarah Chahed | Tunisia | 27.73 |
| 48 | H4 L3 | Alexis Jordan | Barbados | 27.77 |
| 49 | H5 L7 | Melissa Vincent | Mauritius | 27.80 |
| 50 | H5 L4 | Gisela Morales | Guatemala | 27.89 |
| 50 | H5 L8 | Kiera Aitken | Bermuda | 27.89 |
| 52 | H5 L6 | Samantha Fajardo | Ecuador | 27.90 |
| 53 | H4 L8 | Carolina Cerqueda | Andorra | 28.13 |
| 54 | H5 L2 | Ashley Aitken | Bermuda | 28.19 |
| 55 | H4 L1 | Jasna Ovsenik | Slovenia | 28.23 |
| 56 | H4 L7 | Jakie Wellman | Zambia | 28.27 |
| 56 | H5 L1 | Khadija Ciss | Senegal | 28.27 |
| 58 | H3 L4 | Cheok Mei Ma | Macau | 28.32 |
| 59 | H4 L5 | Sharon Fajardo | Honduras | 28.59 |
| 60 | H2 L4 | Mbolatiana Ramanisa | Madagascar | 28.99 |
| 61 | H4 L2 | Man Wai Fong | Macau | 29.06 |
| 62 | H3 L7 | Katerine Moreno | Bolivia | 29.08 |
| 63 | H3 L6 | Jonay Briedenhann | Namibia | 29.38 |
| 64 | H4 L4 | Mireille Hakimeh | Syria | 29.42 |
| 65 | H2 L5 | Rubab Raza | Pakistan | 29.57 |
| 66 | H3 L1 | Jessica Vieira | Mozambique | 29.61 |
| 67 | H3 L2 | Binta Zahra Diop | Senegal | 30.07 |
| 68 | H3 L8 | Heba Bashouti | Jordan | 30.34 |
| 69 | H2 L1 | Aya Nakitanda | Uganda | 30.51 |
| 70 | H2 L6 | Sussie Pineda | Honduras | 30.54 |
| 71 | H2 L7 | Aminath Rouya | Maldives | 30.62 |
| 72 | H2 L3 | Kiran Khan | Pakistan | 31.18 |
| 73 | H2 L2 | Sameera Al Bitar | Bahrain | 31.19 |
| 74 | H2 L8 | Christal Clashing | Antigua and Barbuda | 31.45 |
| 75 | H1 L5 | Oshin Bharati | Nepal | 34.14 |
| 76 | H1 L6 | Raksmey Hem | Cambodia | 35.29 |
| – | H1 L2 | Ayele Sika Ornella Pamela Dossavi | Togo | DNS |
| – | H1 L3 | Yelena Rojkova | Turkmenistan | DNS |
| – | H1 L4 | Anifath F.M. Okanla | Benin | DNS |
| – | H1 L7 | Lasm Quissoh Genevieve Meledje | Ivory Coast | DNS |
| – | H3 L3 | Eliane Droubry Dohi | Ivory Coast | DNS |
| – | H3 L5 | Lenient Obia | Nigeria | DNS |
| – | H6 L5 | Jiratida Phinyosophon | Thailand | DNS |
| – | H8 L4 | Fabienne Nadarajah | Austria | DNS |
| – | H9 L1 | Daniela Gotz | Germany | DNS |
| – | H10 L6 | Rebeca Gusmão | Brazil | DNS |