# 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 50 metre backstroke

The Women's 50 metre backstroke competition of the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 9 and 10 December 2016.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
| | Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date |
| World record Championship record | Etiene Medeiros | Brazil | 25.67 | Doha | 7 December 2014 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held at 09:44.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 9 | 0 | Ali DeLoof | United States | 26.25 | Q |
| 2 | 8 | 4 | Emily Seebohm | Australia | 26.43 | Q |
| 3 | 7 | 4 | Etiene Medeiros | Brazil | 26.48 | Q |
| 4 | 8 | 6 | Kylie Masse | Canada | 26.57 | Q, NR |
| 5 | 8 | 5 | Daryna Zevina | Ukraine | 26.63 | Q |
| 5 | 8 | 7 | Kira Toussaint | Netherlands | 26.63 | Q |
| 7 | 9 | 4 | Katinka Hosszú | Hungary | 26.70 | Q |
| 8 | 9 | 5 | Georgia Davies | Great Britain | 26.74 | Q |
| 9 | 7 | 3 | Mie Nielsen | Denmark | 26.75 | Q |
| 10 | 6 | 2 | Isabella Arcila | Colombia | 26.76 | Q, NR |
| 11 | 9 | 3 | Mariia Kameneva | Russia | 26.82 | Q |
| 12 | 8 | 2 | Kathleen Dawson | Great Britain | 26.84 | Q |
| 13 | 7 | 5 | Maaike de Waard | Netherlands | 26.87 | Q |
| 14 | 7 | 6 | Simona Baumrtová | Czech Republic | 26.93 | Q |
| 15 | 7 | 1 | Silvia Di Pietro | Italy | 26.95 | Q |
| 16 | 9 | 7 | Wang Xueer | China | 27.01 | Q |
| 17 | 7 | 7 | Andrea Berrino | Argentina | 27.03 | NR |
| 18 | 8 | 3 | Minna Atherton | Australia | 27.14 | |
| 19 | 9 | 2 | Liu Xiang | China | 27.20 | |
| 20 | 7 | 2 | Emi Moronuki | Japan | 27.22 | |
| 21 | 9 | 6 | Mélanie Henique | France | 27.37 | |
| 22 | 7 | 9 | Eygló Gústafsdóttir | Iceland | 27.44 | |
| 23 | 6 | 6 | Clara Smiddy | United States | 27.47 | |
| 23 | 9 | 1 | Silvia Scalia | Italy | 27.47 | |
| 25 | 9 | 8 | Julie Kepp Jensen | Denmark | 27.51 | |
| 26 | 8 | 1 | Mathilde Cini | France | 27.71 | |
| 27 | 8 | 0 | Ida Lindborg | Sweden | 27.77 | |
| 28 | 6 | 5 | Hilary Caldwell | Canada | 27.80 | |
| 28 | 8 | 8 | Caroline Pilhatsch | Austria | 27.80 | |
| 30 | 6 | 8 | Tayla Lovemore | South Africa | 27.82 | |
| 31 | 6 | 0 | Naomi Ruele | Botswana | 27.94 | NR |
| 32 | 6 | 4 | Mariella Venter | South Africa | 27.95 | |
| 33 | 7 | 0 | Miki Takahashi | Japan | 28.01 | |
| 34 | 6 | 7 | Wong Toto Kwan To | Hong Kong | 28.05 | |
| 34 | 7 | 8 | Hanna Rosvall | Sweden | 28.05 | |
| 36 | 6 | 3 | Karolína Hájková | Slovakia | 28.59 | |
| 36 | 6 | 9 | Lushavel Stickland | Samoa | 28.59 | NR |
| 38 | 5 | 2 | Amel Melih | Algeria | 28.62 | NR |
| 39 | 5 | 5 | Natthanan Junkrajang | Thailand | 28.76 | |
| 40 | 4 | 4 | Celina Marquez | El Salvador | 28.81 | NR |
| 40 | 5 | 0 | Ugne Mazutaityte | Lithuania | 28.81 | |
| 42 | 4 | 2 | Lauren Hew | Cayman Islands | 28.86 | NR |
| 43 | 5 | 9 | Kimiko Raheem | Sri Lanka | 28.89 | NR |
| 44 | 4 | 5 | Caylee Watson | United States Virgin Islands | 28.92 | NR |
| 45 | 5 | 4 | Hanna-Maria Seppälä | Finland | 29.07 | |
| 46 | 5 | 3 | Maana Patel | India | 29.19 | NR |
| 47 | 5 | 7 | Sylvia Brunlehner | Kenya | 29.20 | NR |
| 48 | 6 | 1 | Alexus Laird | Seychelles | 29.39 | |
| 49 | 4 | 3 | Hoong En Qi | Singapore | 29.72 | |
| 50 | 4 | 7 | Jade Howard | Zambia | 29.79 | NR |
| 51 | 5 | 1 | Karen Vilorio | Honduras | 29.81 | NR |
| 52 | 5 | 8 | Gabriela Ņikitina | Lithuania | 29.98 | |
| 53 | 4 | 6 | Mónica Ramírez | Andorra | 30.17 | |
| 54 | 1 | 7 | Anastasia Bogdanovski | Macedonia | 30.22 | NR |
| 55 | 4 | 9 | Maria Arrua | Paraguay | 30.50 | |
| 56 | 3 | 5 | Jennifer Rizkallah | Lebanon | 30.60 | |
| 57 | 3 | 6 | Izzy Joachim | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 30.73 | NR |
| 58 | 3 | 2 | Jamaris Washshah | United States Virgin Islands | 30.83 | |
| 59 | 4 | 0 | Danielle Titus | Barbados | 30.86 | |
| 60 | 4 | 1 | Estellah Fils Rabetsara | Madagascar | 30.96 | NR |
| 61 | 3 | 4 | Alma Castillo | Paraguay | 31.01 | |
| 62 | 2 | 1 | Colleen Furgeson | Marshall Islands | 31.13 | NR |
| 63 | 3 | 3 | Alison Jackson | Cayman Islands | 31.25 | |
| 64 | 2 | 6 | Lea Ricart Martinez | Andorra | 31.74 | |
| 65 | 3 | 0 | Bisma Khan | Pakistan | 31.91 | |
| 66 | 3 | 1 | Shanice Paraka | Papua New Guinea | 32.22 | |
| 67 | 2 | 5 | Gabriela Hernandez | Nicaragua | 32.28 | |
| 68 | 2 | 7 | Sonia Tumiotto | Tanzania | 32.44 | NR |
| 69 | 3 | 7 | Rahaf Baqleh | Jordan | 32.49 | |
| 70 | 2 | 3 | Tiareth Cijntje | Curaçao | 32.57 | NR |
| 71 | 3 | 9 | Flaka Pruthi | Kosovo | 32.66 | |
| 72 | 2 | 4 | Gabby Gittens | Antigua and Barbuda | 32.78 | NR |
| 73 | 2 | 8 | Annie Hepler | Marshall Islands | 32.92 | |
| 74 | 3 | 8 | Alesia Neziri | Albania | 33.37 | NR |
| 75 | 2 | 2 | Dara Al-Bakry | Jordan | 33.67 | |
| 76 | 1 | 6 | Robyn Young | Eswatini | 33.96 | NR |
| 77 | 2 | 0 | Ammara Pinto | Malawi | 34.03 | |
| 78 | 2 | 9 | Aishath Sausan | Maldives | 34.29 | NR |
| 79 | 1 | 4 | Tilali Scanlan | American Samoa | 34.70 | NR |
| 80 | 1 | 5 | Tayamika Chang'anamuno | Malawi | 38.34 | |
| 81 | 1 | 2 | Calina Panuve | Tonga | 40.06 | |
| | 1 | 3 | Kokoe Vanessa Ahyee | Ivory Coast | | DNS |
| | 4 | 8 | Cheyenne Rova | Fiji | | DNS |
| | 5 | 6 | Felicity Passon | Seychelles | | DNS |
| | 8 | 9 | Yekaterina Rudenko | Kazakhstan | | DNS |
| | 9 | 9 | Fanny Teijonsalo | Finland | | DNS |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 19:43.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Emily Seebohm | Australia | 26.33 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Kylie Masse | Canada | 26.34 | Q, NR |
| 3 | 7 | Kathleen Dawson | Great Britain | 26.44 | Q |
| 4 | 3 | Kira Toussaint | Netherlands | 26.52 | |
| 4 | 6 | Georgia Davies | Great Britain | 26.52 | |
| 6 | 2 | Isabella Arcila | Colombia | 26.72 | NR |
| 7 | 1 | Simona Baumrtová | Czech Republic | 26.90 | |
| 8 | 8 | Wang Xueer | China | 27.20 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | Etiene Medeiros | Brazil | 26.00 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Ali DeLoof | United States | 26.12 | Q |
| 3 | 7 | Mariia Kameneva | Russia | 26.29 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Katinka Hosszú | Hungary | 26.37 | Q |
| 5 | 3 | Daryna Zevina | Ukraine | 26.45 | Q |
| 6 | 2 | Mie Nielsen | Denmark | 26.65 | |
| 7 | 1 | Maaike de Waard | Netherlands | 26.70 | |
| 8 | 8 | Silvia Di Pietro | Italy | 27.21 | |

### Final

The final was held at 19:38.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 4 | Etiene Medeiros | Brazil | 25.82 | |
| | 7 | Katinka Hosszú | Hungary | 25.99 | |
| | 5 | Ali DeLoof | United States | 26.14 | |
| 4 | 3 | Mariia Kameneva | Russia | 26.15 | NR |
| 5 | 6 | Emily Seebohm | Australia | 26.16 | |
| 6 | 8 | Daryna Zevina | Ukraine | 26.40 | |
| 7 | 1 | Kathleen Dawson | Great Britain | 26.42 | |
| 8 | 2 | Kylie Masse | Canada | 26.46 | |