# 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 50 metre butterfly

The Women's 50 metre butterfly competition of the 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 4 December with the heats and the semifinals and 5 December with the final.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
| | Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date |
| World record | Therese Alshammar | Sweden | 24.38 | Singapore | 22 November 2009 |
| Championship record | Therese Alshammar | Sweden | 24.87 | Dubai | 17 December 2010 |
The following records were established during the competition:
| Date | Event | Name | Nation | Time | Record |
| 5 December | Final | Sarah Sjöström | Sweden | 24.58 | CR |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held at 10:40.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 9 | 4 | Sarah Sjöström | Sweden | 25.08 | Q |
| 2 | 7 | 4 | Jeanette Ottesen | Denmark | 25.39 | Q |
| 3 | 8 | 4 | Inge Dekker | Netherlands | 25.61 | Q |
| 4 | 7 | 5 | Lu Ying | China | 25.65 | Q |
| 5 | 7 | 3 | Silvia di Pietro | Italy | 25.66 | Q |
| 6 | 7 | 2 | Daynara de Paula | Brazil | 25.81 | Q |
| 7 | 8 | 5 | Qiu Yuhan | China | 25.83 | Q |
| 7 | 9 | 3 | Aleksandra Urbańczyk | Poland | 25.83 | Q |
| 7 | 9 | 2 | Felicia Lee | United States | 25.83 | Q |
| 10 | 8 | 7 | Kimberly Buys | Belgium | 25.87 | Q |
| 11 | 9 | 6 | Anastasiia Liazeva | Russia | 25.97 | Q |
| 12 | 9 | 8 | Marie Wattel | France | 25.99 | Q |
| 13 | 8 | 3 | Mélanie Henique | France | 26.04 | Q |
| 14 | 9 | 7 | Claire Donahue | United States | 26.05 | Q |
| 15 | 7 | 6 | Rozaliya Nasretdinova | Russia | 26.07 | Q |
| 16 | 7 | 1 | Daiene Dias | Brazil | 26.11 | Q |
| 17 | 8 | 6 | Katerine Savard | Canada | 26.16 | |
| 18 | 9 | 5 | Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace | Bahamas | 26.22 | |
| 19 | 8 | 2 | Rino Hosoda | Japan | 26.26 | |
| 20 | 8 | 1 | Sviatlana Khakhlova | Belarus | 26.31 | |
| 21 | 9 | 1 | Ilaria Bianchi | Italy | 26.37 | |
| 22 | 8 | 8 | Brianna Throssell | Australia | 26.46 | |
| 23 | 7 | 8 | Liliána Szilágyi | Hungary | 26.54 | |
| 24 | 8 | 0 | Lucie Svěcená | Czech Republic | 26.61 | |
| 25 | 7 | 0 | Nastja Govejšek | Slovenia | 26.84 | |
| 26 | 7 | 7 | Elise Olsen | Norway | 26.92 | |
| 27 | 6 | 0 | Jenjira Srisa-Ard | Thailand | 27.04 | |
| 28 | 8 | 9 | Carolina Colorado Henao | Colombia | 27.10 | |
| 29 | 9 | 9 | Danielle Villars | Switzerland | 27.37 | |
| 30 | 6 | 4 | Sezin Eligül | Turkey | 27.45 | |
| 30 | 6 | 3 | Lehesta Kemp | South Africa | 27.45 | |
| 32 | 5 | 3 | Anna Schegoleva | Cyprus | 27.52 | |
| 33 | 6 | 2 | Miyu Nakano | Japan | 27.67 | |
| 34 | 5 | 2 | Karen Torrez | Bolivia | 27.69 | |
| 35 | 6 | 8 | Trudi Maree | South Africa | 27.70 | |
| 36 | 5 | 4 | Hannah Dato | Philippines | 27.80 | |
| 37 | 6 | 1 | Mary Meza | Costa Rica | 27.99 | |
| 38 | 6 | 5 | Esra Kaçmaz | Turkey | 28.09 | |
| 39 | 5 | 5 | Hannah Miley | Great Britain | 28.13 | |
| 40 | 7 | 9 | Yamilé Bahamonde | Ecuador | 28.23 | |
| 41 | 5 | 6 | Felicity Passon | Seychelles | 28.49 | |
| 42 | 6 | 9 | Nina Žarković | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 28.53 | |
| 43 | 4 | 4 | Maria Ribera | Bolivia | 28.89 | |
| 44 | 5 | 9 | Aditi Dhumatkar | India | 28.91 | |
| 45 | 5 | 8 | Joyce Tafatatha | Malawi | 29.09 | |
| 46 | 6 | 7 | Talita Baqlah | Jordan | 29.21 | |
| 47 | 4 | 5 | Ana Nóbrega | Angola | 29.31 | |
| 48 | 5 | 0 | San Su Moe Theint | Myanmar | 29.45 | |
| 49 | 4 | 1 | Emily Muteti | Kenya | 29.52 | |
| 50 | 4 | 2 | Lara Butler | Cayman Islands | 29.72 | |
| 51 | 5 | 1 | Zabrina Holder | Barbados | 29.81 | |
| 52 | 3 | 7 | Gessica Stagno | Mozambique | 29.96 | |
| 53 | 4 | 0 | Samantha Roberts | Antigua and Barbuda | 29.97 | |
| 54 | 3 | 1 | Oreoluwa Cherebin | Grenada | 30.09 | |
| 55 | 4 | 3 | Ophelia Swayne | Ghana | 30.13 | |
| 55 | 5 | 7 | Amboaratiana Domoinanavalona | Madagascar | 30.13 | |
| 57 | 4 | 9 | Annie Hepler | Marshall Islands | 30.41 | |
| 58 | 4 | 8 | Kimiko Raheem | Sri Lanka | 30.43 | |
| 59 | 3 | 5 | Tegan McCarthy | Papua New Guinea | 30.71 | |
| 59 | 3 | 0 | Merjen Saryyeva | Turkmenistan | 30.71 | |
| 61 | 3 | 2 | Amarah Phillip | British Virgin Islands | 30.81 | |
| 62 | 3 | 3 | Evelina Afoa | Samoa | 30.98 | |
| 63 | 2 | 3 | Tsogtgerel Mungunsor | Mongolia | 31.39 | |
| 64 | 2 | 9 | Irene Prescott | Tonga | 31.57 | |
| 65 | 3 | 4 | Choi Weng Tong | Macau | 31.82 | |
| 66 | 2 | 4 | Areeba Shaikh | Pakistan | 31.86 | |
| 67 | 2 | 1 | Sonia Aktar | Bangladesh | 32.10 | |
| 68 | 2 | 2 | Deandra van der Cloff | Botswana | 32.14 | |
| 69 | 3 | 8 | Catherine Mason | Tanzania | 32.18 | |
| 70 | 2 | 7 | Dirngulbai Misech | Palau | 32.42 | |
| 71 | 3 | 6 | Johanna Umurungi | Rwanda | 32.54 | |
| 72 | 2 | 8 | Anisha Payet | Seychelles | 32.64 | |
| 73 | 2 | 5 | Diana Basho | Albania | 32.89 | |
| 74 | 2 | 6 | Angela Kendrick | Marshall Islands | 33.04 | |
| 76 | 2 | 0 | Adora Lawrence | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 33.09 | |
| 75 | 3 | 9 | Nada Arkaji | Qatar | 33.64 | |
| 77 | 1 | 5 | Seabe Ebineng | Botswana | 33.77 | |
| 78 | 1 | 4 | Veomany Siriphone | Laos | 33.98 | |
| 79 | 1 | 2 | Mayra-Linda Paul | Federated States of Micronesia | 34.31 | |
| 80 | 1 | 3 | Fatou Diagne | Senegal | 36.15 | |
| 81 | 1 | 7 | Elsie Uwamahoro | Burundi | 38.97 | |
| — | 1 | 1 | Nazlati Mohamed | Comoros | | DNS |
| — | 1 | 6 | Kokoe Ahyee | Ivory Coast | | DNS |
| — | 4 | 6 | Elinah Phillip | British Virgin Islands | | DNS |
| — | 4 | 7 | Anna Manchenkova | Azerbaijan | | DNS |
| — | 6 | 6 | Anni Alitalo | Finland | | DNS |
| — | 9 | 0 | Katarína Listopadová | Slovakia | | DNS |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 18:39.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Jeanette Ottesen | Denmark | 24.91 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Lu Ying | China | 25.50 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Daynara de Paula | Brazil | 25.54 | Q, SA |
| 4 | 6 | Aleksandra Urbańczyk | Poland | 25.61 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | Kimberly Buys | Belgium | 25.72 | |
| 6 | 1 | Claire Donahue | United States | 25.84 | |
| 7 | 8 | Katerine Savard | Canada | 26.08 | |
| 8 | 7 | Marie Wattel | France | 26.15 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Sarah Sjöström | Sweden | 25.02 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Inge Dekker | Netherlands | 25.31 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Silvia di Pietro | Italy | 25.43 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | Mélanie Henique | France | 25.68 | Q |
| 5 | 6 | Qiu Yuhan | China | 25.86 | |
| 6 | 8 | Daiene Dias | Brazil | 25.92 | |
| 7 | 2 | Felicia Lee | United States | 25.95 | |
| 8 | 7 | Anastasiia Liazeva | Russia | 26.01 | |

### Final

The final was held at 18:44.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 5 | Sarah Sjöström | Sweden | 24.58 | CR |
| | 4 | Jeanette Ottesen | Denmark | 24.71 | |
| | 3 | Inge Dekker | Netherlands | 24.73 | |
| 4 | 2 | Lu Ying | China | 25.21 | |
| 5 | 6 | Silvia di Pietro | Italy | 25.38 | |
| 6 | 1 | Aleksandra Urbańczyk | Poland | 25.65 | |
| 7 | 8 | Mélanie Henique | France | 25.75 | |
| 8 | 7 | Daynara de Paula | Brazil | 25.94 | |