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

The Women's 50m Freestyle competition of the 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 6 December with the heats and the semifinals and 7 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 | Ranomi Kromowidjojo | Netherlands | 23.24 | Eindhoven | 7 August 2013 |
| Championship record | Marleen Veldhuis | Netherlands | 23.25 | Manchester | 13 April 2008 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held at 10:37.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 11 | 4 | Bronte Campbell | Australia | 23.81 | Q |
| 1 | 13 | 4 | Ranomi Kromowidjojo | Netherlands | 23.81 | Q |
| 3 | 11 | 7 | Madison Kennedy | United States | 24.07 | Q |
| 4 | 11 | 5 | Dorothea Brandt | Germany | 24.08 | Q |
| 5 | 12 | 4 | Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace | Bahamas | 24.11 | Q |
| 6 | 12 | 6 | Erika Ferraioli | Italy | 24.12 | Q |
| 7 | 13 | 5 | Inge Dekker | Netherlands | 24.24 | Q |
| 8 | 13 | 1 | Abbey Weitzeil | United States | 24.27 | Q |
| 9 | 13 | 6 | Anna Santamans | France | 24.29 | Q |
| 10 | 11 | 3 | Miki Uchida | Japan | 24.35 | Q |
| 11 | 11 | 6 | Pernille Blume | Denmark | 24.40 | Q |
| 12 | 13 | 3 | Rozaliya Nasretdinova | Russia | 24.52 | Q |
| 13 | 12 | 3 | Etiene Medeiros | Brazil | 24.56 | Q |
| 14 | 12 | 7 | Hanna-Maria Seppälä | Finland | 24.57 | Q |
| 15 | 12 | 2 | Silvia Di Pietro | Italy | 24.61 | Q |
| 16 | 13 | 2 | Larissa Oliveira | Brazil | 24.67 | Q |
| 17 | 9 | 1 | Zsuzsanna Jakabos | Hungary | 24.79 | |
| 18 | 11 | 2 | Liu Xiang | China | 24.87 | |
| 19 | 10 | 5 | Isabella Arcila | Colombia | 24.88 | |
| 20 | 13 | 7 | Birgit Koschischek | Austria | 24.93 | |
| 21 | 9 | 5 | Nina Rangelova | Bulgaria | 24.93 | |
| 22 | 12 | 8 | Sviatlana Khakhlova | Belarus | 24.96 | |
| 23 | 11 | 0 | Susann Bjørnsen | Norway | 24.99 | |
| 24 | 13 | 0 | Anna Kolářová | Czech Republic | 25.06 | |
| 25 | 11 | 1 | Tang Yi | China | 25.07 | |
| 25 | 13 | 9 | Cecilie Johannessen | Norway | 25.07 | |
| 27 | 12 | 0 | Mélanie Henique | France | 25.10 | |
| 28 | 10 | 1 | Chinyere Pigot | Suriname | 25.11 | |
| 29 | 12 | 1 | Julie Levisen | Denmark | 25.12 | |
| 30 | 9 | 2 | Karen Torrez | Bolivia | 25.13 | |
| 31 | 12 | 9 | Nastja Govejšek | Slovenia | 25.20 | |
| 32 | 13 | 8 | Julie Meynen | Luxembourg | 25.37 | |
| 33 | 10 | 0 | Trudi Maree | South Africa | 25.40 | |
| 34 | 10 | 7 | Miroslava Najdanovski | Serbia | 25.41 | |
| 35 | 10 | 4 | Lehesta Kemp | South Africa | 25.43 | |
| 36 | 10 | 8 | Margarita Nesterova | Russia | 25.49 | |
| 37 | 9 | 0 | Theodora Giareni | Greece | 25.50 | |
| 38 | 9 | 3 | Jenjira Srisa-Ard | Thailand | 25.63 | |
| 39 | 9 | 4 | Carolina Colorado Henao | Colombia | 25.66 | |
| 40 | 10 | 9 | Tess Grossmann | Estonia | 25.69 | |
| 41 | 8 | 8 | Fanni Gyurinovics | Hungary | 25.70 | |
| 42 | 11 | 8 | İlknur Çakıcı | Turkey | 25.85 | |
| 43 | 11 | 9 | Brianna Throssell | Australia | 25.91 | |
| 44 | 8 | 7 | Esra Kaçmaz | Turkey | 25.97 | |
| 45 | 4 | 2 | Felicity Passon | Seychelles | 26.00 | |
| 46 | 9 | 6 | Yamile Bahamonde | Ecuador | 26.03 | |
| 47 | 8 | 4 | Elisbet Gámez | Cuba | 26.06 | |
| 48 | 8 | 9 | Machiko Raheem | Sri Lanka | 26.13 | |
| 49 | 9 | 7 | Talita Baqlah | Jordan | 26.14 | |
| 50 | 4 | 1 | Alexus Laird | Seychelles | 26.23 | |
| 50 | 9 | 9 | Tracy Keith-Matchitt | Cook Islands | 26.23 | |
| 52 | 7 | 2 | Hannah Miley | Great Britain | 26.30 | |
| 53 | 9 | 8 | Nikki Muscat | Malta | 26.34 | |
| 54 | 8 | 2 | Olivia de Maroussem | Mauritius | 26.39 | |
| 55 | 7 | 6 | Aditi Dhumatkar | India | 26.55 | |
| 56 | 8 | 0 | Monika Vasilyan | Armenia | 26.57 | |
| 57 | 8 | 1 | Beatrice Felici | San Marino | 26.59 | |
| 58 | 8 | 5 | Rebecca Maduro | Aruba | 26.64 | |
| 59 | 7 | 5 | Elinah Phillip | British Virgin Islands | 26.74 | |
| 60 | 6 | 7 | Anna-Liza Mopio-Jane | Papua New Guinea | 26.76 | |
| 61 | 6 | 5 | Maria Ribera | Bolivia | 26.93 | |
| 62 | 6 | 9 | Monica Ramírez | Andorra | 26.96 | |
| 63 | 7 | 4 | Anna Manchenkova | Azerbaijan | 26.98 | |
| 64 | 5 | 5 | Oreoluwa Cherebin | Grenada | 27.05 | |
| 65 | 6 | 0 | Lauren Hew | Cayman Islands | 27.19 | |
| 66 | 7 | 0 | Ana Nobrega | Angola | 27.21 | |
| 67 | 6 | 4 | Zabrina Holder | Barbados | 27.27 | |
| 67 | 7 | 3 | Thalasha Prabhu | India | 27.27 | |
| 69 | 7 | 1 | Kimiko Raheem | Sri Lanka | 27.32 | |
| 70 | 6 | 3 | Long Chi Wai | Macau | 27.34 | |
| 71 | 7 | 8 | Joyce Tafatatha | Malawi | 27.37 | |
| 72 | 8 | 6 | Chade Nersicio | Curaçao | 27.38 | |
| 73 | 7 | 9 | Emily Muteti | Kenya | 27.43 | |
| 74 | 3 | 4 | Jamaris Washshah | United States Virgin Islands | 27.46 | |
| 75 | 6 | 6 | Fabiola Espinoza | Nicaragua | 27.47 | |
| 76 | 4 | 7 | Tiara Anwar | Brunei | 27.54 | NR |
| 77 | 5 | 8 | Nadia Tudo | Andorra | 27.63 | |
| 78 | 6 | 8 | Samantha Roberts | Antigua and Barbuda | 27.666 | |
| 79 | 4 | 0 | Nguyễn Diệu Linh | Vietnam | 27.67 | |
| 80 | 6 | 2 | Maeform Borriello | Honduras | 27.69 | |
| 81 | 5 | 2 | Nikol Merizaj | Albania | 27.87 | |
| 82 | 7 | 7 | Choi Weng Tong | Macau | 27.88 | |
| 83 | 4 | 5 | Annie Hepler | Marshall Islands | 28.04 | |
| 84 | 8 | 3 | Rebeca Quinteros | El Salvador | 28.05 | |
| 85 | 5 | 3 | Talisa Lanoe | Kenya | 28.07 | |
| 86 | 5 | 1 | San Su Moe Theint | Myanmar | 28.10 | |
| 87 | 4 | 4 | Savannah Tkatchenko | Papua New Guinea | 28.17 | |
| 87 | 5 | 7 | Christina Linares | Gibraltar | 28.17 | |
| 89 | 4 | 6 | Evelina Afoa | Samoa | 28.22 | |
| 90 | 5 | 6 | Yara Lima | Angola | 28.28 | |
| 91 | 5 | 9 | Saryyeva Prescott | Tonga | 28.35 | |
| 92 | 4 | 9 | Merjen Saryyeva | Turkmenistan | 28.56 | |
| 93 | 5 | 4 | Ophelia Swayne | Ghana | 28.60 | |
| 94 | 4 | 3 | Amarah Phillip | British Virgin Islands | 28.62 | |
| 95 | 3 | 3 | Jamila Sanmoogan | Guyana | 28.65 | |
| 96 | 3 | 6 | Jennet Saryyeva | Turkmenistan | 28.89 | |
| 97 | 3 | 5 | Areeba Shaikh | Pakistan | 29.02 | |
| 98 | 6 | 1 | Estellah Fils | Madagascar | 29.06 | |
| 99 | 2 | 5 | Deandra van der Colff | Botswana | 29.40 | |
| 100 | 2 | 6 | Dirngulbai Misech | Palau | 29.49 | |
| 101 | 3 | 7 | Sofia Shah | Nepal | 29.75 | |
| 102 | 2 | 2 | Tsogtgerel Mungunsor | Mongolia | 29.79 | |
| 103 | 2 | 8 | Seabe Ebineng | Botswana | 30.01 | |
| 104 | 4 | 8 | Catherine Mason | Tanzania | 30.20 | |
| 105 | 3 | 8 | Angela Kendrick | Marshall Islands | 30.23 | |
| 106 | 1 | 5 | Angelika Ouedraogo | Burkina Faso | 30.54 | |
| 107 | 2 | 3 | Aminath Shajan | Maldives | 30.56 | |
| 108 | 5 | 0 | Nada Arkaji | Qatar | 30.59 | |
| 109 | 3 | 9 | Fatou Diagne | Senegal | 30.60 | |
| 110 | 3 | 0 | Diana Basho | Albania | 30.66 | |
| 111 | 3 | 2 | Sonia Tumiotto | Tanzania | 30.78 | |
| 112 | 1 | 4 | Karina Klimyk | Tajikistan | 30.91 | |
| 113 | 2 | 1 | Roylin Akiwo | Palau | 30.94 | |
| 114 | 3 | 1 | Adora Lawrence | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 31.04 | |
| 115 | 2 | 7 | Hem Thon Vitiny | Cambodia | 31.32 | |
| 116 | 1 | 6 | Mayra-Linda Paul | Federated States of Micronesia | 32.16 | |
| 117 | 1 | 3 | Elsie Uwamahoro | Burundi | 33.55 | |
| 118 | 1 | 7 | Nazlati Mohamed | Comoros | 35.63 | |
| 119 | 1 | 8 | Joyce Rudaseswa | Rwanda | 37.98 | |
| 120 | 1 | 1 | Ramata Coulibaly | Mali | 40.14 | |
| — | 1 | 2 | Christelle Moboutou | Republic of the Congo | | DNS |
| — | 2 | 0 | Kokoe Ahyee | Ivory Coast | | DNS |
| — | 2 | 4 | Shamira Zoumande | Central African Republic | | DNS |
| — | 10 | 2 | Ariel Weech | Bahamas | | DNS |
| — | 10 | 6 | Rūta Meilutytė | Lithuania | | DNS |
| — | 12 | 5 | Fran Halsall | Great Britain | | DNS |
| — | 2 | 9 | Salie Al-Atrash | Palestine | | DSQ |
| — | 10 | 3 | Yayoi Matsumoto | Japan | | DSQ |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 18:44.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Ranomi Kromowidjojo | Netherlands | 23.43 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Dorothea Brandt | Germany | 24.03 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Erika Ferraioli | Italy | 24.10 | Q |
| 4 | 7 | Rozaliya Nasretdinova | Russia | 24.12 | Q |
| 5 | 6 | Abbey Weitzeil | United States | 24.23 | |
| 6 | 2 | Miki Uchida | Japan | 24.24 | |
| 7 | 1 | Silvia Di Pietro | Italy | 24.37 | |
| 8 | 8 | Zsuzsanna Jakabos | Hungary | 25.02 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | Madison Kennedy | United States | 23.96 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Bronte Campbell | Australia | 24.01 | Q |
| 3 | 6 | Inge Dekker | Netherlands | 24.08 | Q |
| 4 | 3 | Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace | Bahamas | 24.13 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | Anna Santamans | France | 24.22 | |
| 6 | 7 | Pernille Blume | Denmark | 24.35 | |
| 7 | 8 | Larissa Oliveira | Brazil | 24.70 | |
| 8 | 1 | Hanna-Maria Seppälä | Finland | 24.78 | |

### Final

The final was held at 19:13.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 4 | Ranomi Kromowidjojo | Netherlands | 23.32 |
| | 6 | Bronte Campbell | Australia | 23.62 |
| | 5 | Dorothea Brandt | Germany | 23.77 |
| 4 | 2 | Madison Kennedy | United States | 23.86 |
| 5 | 1 | Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace | Bahamas | 23.93 |
| 6 | 3 | Inge Dekker | Netherlands | 24.02 |
| 7 | 8 | Erika Ferraioli | Italy | 24.09 |
| 8 | 7 | Rozaliya Nasretdinova | Russia | 24.19 |