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

The Women's 50 metre butterfly competition of the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 8 and 9 December 2016.

## 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 | Sarah Sjöström | Sweden | 24.58 | Doha | 5 December 2014 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held at 09:51.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 8 | 3 | Kelsi Worrell | United States | 24.94 | Q, AM |
| 2 | 6 | 4 | Silvia Di Pietro | Italy | 25.37 | Q |
| 3 | 8 | 4 | Jeanette Ottesen | Denmark | 25.38 | Q |
| 4 | 8 | 6 | Rikako Ikee | Japan | 25.55 | Q, WJR |
| 5 | 8 | 5 | Maaike de Waard | Netherlands | 25.62 | Q |
| 6 | 7 | 4 | Mélanie Henique | France | 25.65 | Q |
| 7 | 6 | 8 | Emily Washer | Australia | 25.88 | Q |
| 7 | 8 | 2 | Emilie Beckmann | Denmark | 25.88 | Q |
| 9 | 6 | 6 | Katerine Savard | Canada | 25.96 | Q |
| 10 | 6 | 1 | Sarah Gibson | United States | 25.98 | Q |
| 11 | 7 | 7 | Sara Junevik | Sweden | 26.06 | Q |
| 12 | 6 | 2 | Svetlana Chimrova | Russia | 26.11 | Q |
| 12 | 7 | 6 | Kimberly Buys | Belgium | 26.11 | Q |
| 14 | 8 | 1 | Lucie Svěcená | Czech Republic | 26.18 | Q, NR |
| 15 | 7 | 3 | Bryndis Hansen | Iceland | 26.22 | Q, NR |
| 16 | 6 | 7 | Nastja Govejšek | Slovenia | 26.26 | Q |
| 17 | 8 | 8 | Tayla Lovemore | South Africa | 26.35 | |
| 18 | 7 | 1 | Marie Wattel | France | 26.38 | |
| 19 | 7 | 2 | Daiene Dias | Brazil | 26.43 | |
| 20 | 8 | 7 | Rozaliya Nasretdinova | Russia | 26.49 | |
| 21 | 8 | 0 | Asuka Kobayashi | Japan | 26.63 | |
| 22 | 5 | 4 | Zhou Yilin | China | 26.67 | |
| 23 | 8 | 9 | Sze Hang Yu | Hong Kong | 26.83 | |
| 24 | 6 | 0 | Amina Kajtaz | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 26.87 | |
| 25 | 6 | 9 | Jenjira Srisa-Ard | Thailand | 26.93 | NR |
| 25 | 7 | 8 | Barbora Mišendová | Slovakia | 26.93 | |
| 27 | 5 | 7 | Felicity Passon | Seychelles | 27.20 | NR |
| 28 | 7 | 9 | Gabriela Ņikitina | Latvia | 27.23 | |
| 29 | 7 | 0 | Fanny Teijonsalo | Finland | 27.35 | |
| 30 | 5 | 3 | Barbora Seemanová | Czech Republic | 27.36 | |
| 31 | 5 | 1 | Lin Pei-wun | Chinese Taipei | 27.38 | |
| 32 | 7 | 5 | Lu Ying | China | 27.47 | |
| 33 | 5 | 5 | Marina Chan | Singapore | 27.57 | |
| 34 | 4 | 1 | Hanna-Maria Seppälä | Finland | 27.58 | |
| 35 | 5 | 6 | María José Ribera | Bolivia | 27.86 | |
| 36 | 5 | 8 | Beatričė Kanapienytė | Lithuania | 27.89 | |
| 37 | 4 | 4 | Nicole Rautemberg | Paraguay | 28.03 | |
| 38 | 4 | 5 | Emily Muteti | Kenya | 28.04 | NR |
| 39 | 4 | 8 | Celina Marquez | El Salvador | 28.05 | NR |
| 40 | 5 | 9 | Hoong En Qi | Singapore | 28.06 | |
| 41 | 4 | 6 | Jasmine Alkhaldi | Philippines | 28.08 | |
| 42 | 5 | 0 | Chade Nersicio | Curaçao | 28.16 | NR |
| 43 | 5 | 2 | Nida Eliz Üstündağ | Turkey | 28.21 | |
| 44 | 4 | 3 | Kelsie Campbell | Jamaica | 28.27 | |
| 45 | 3 | 5 | Allyson Ponson | Aruba | 28.38 | NR |
| 46 | 4 | 2 | Bexx Heyliger | Bermuda | 28.43 | |
| 47 | 3 | 2 | Caylee Watson | United States Virgin Islands | 28.44 | NR |
| 48 | 2 | 4 | Matelita Buadromo | Fiji | 28.83 | |
| 49 | 3 | 4 | Katie Kyle | Saint Lucia | 29.05 | NR |
| 50 | 4 | 7 | Izzy Joachim | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 29.07 | NR |
| 51 | 3 | 3 | Jennifer Rizkallah | Lebanon | 29.36 | |
| 52 | 3 | 8 | Long Chi Wai | Macau | 29.47 | |
| 53 | 1 | 2 | Anastasia Bogdanovski | Macedonia | 29.48 | NR |
| 54 | 4 | 9 | Samantha Roberts | Antigua and Barbuda | 29.52 | NR |
| 55 | 3 | 0 | Annie Hepler | Marshall Islands | 29.58 | NR |
| 56 | 3 | 7 | Ana Sofia Nóbrega | Angola | 29.59 | |
| 57 | 4 | 0 | Kuan I Cheng | Macau | 29.71 | |
| 58 | 2 | 5 | Kim Sol-song | North Korea | 29.75 | |
| 59 | 3 | 1 | Annah Auckburaullee | Mauritius | 29.85 | |
| 60 | 3 | 6 | Gabriela Hernandez | Nicaragua | 29.87 | |
| 61 | 2 | 3 | Alma Castillo | Paraguay | 30.02 | |
| 62 | 2 | 0 | Sonia Tumiotto | Tanzania | 30.12 | NR |
| 63 | 3 | 9 | Mariel Mencia | Dominican Republic | 30.14 | |
| 64 | 2 | 6 | Jamila Sanmoogan | Guyana | 30.35 | NR |
| 65 | 2 | 2 | Christina Linares | Gibraltar | 30.90 | NR |
| 66 | 2 | 8 | Colleen Furgeson | Marshall Islands | 31.10 | |
| 67 | 2 | 1 | Flaka Pruthi | Kosovo | 31.56 | |
| 68 | 2 | 9 | Charissa Panuve | Tonga | 32.34 | |
| 69 | 1 | 4 | Angel de Jesus | Northern Mariana Islands | 32.65 | NR |
| 70 | 1 | 5 | Vitiny Hemthon | Cambodia | 32.77 | NR |
| 71 | 2 | 7 | Diana Basho | Albania | 32.97 | |
| 72 | 1 | 3 | Anthea Mudanye | Uganda | 34.97 | |
| 73 | 1 | 6 | Sompathana Chamberlain | Laos | 35.82 | |
| | 1 | 1 | Fatoumata Samassékou | Mali | | DNS |
| | 1 | 7 | Rahel Gebreselassie | Ethiopia | | DNS |
| | 6 | 3 | Emily Seebohm | Australia | | DNS |
| | 6 | 5 | Ranomi Kromowidjojo | Netherlands | | DNS |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 19:15.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Silvia Di Pietro | Italy | 25.50 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Rikako Ikee | Japan | 25.63 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Mélanie Henique | France | 25.66 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Emilie Beckmann | Denmark | 25.75 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | Sarah Gibson | United States | 25.83 | |
| 6 | 7 | Svetlana Chimrova | Russia | 26.05 | |
| 7 | 1 | Lucie Svěcená | Czech Republic | 26.09 | NR |
| 8 | 8 | Nastja Govejšek | Slovenia | 26.16 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Kelsi Worrell | United States | 25.18 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Jeanette Ottesen | Denmark | 25.29 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Maaike de Waard | Netherlands | 25.59 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | Katerine Savard | Canada | 25.76 | Q |
| 5 | 1 | Kimberly Buys | Belgium | 25.90 | |
| 6 | 6 | Emily Washer | Australia | 25.92 | |
| 7 | 7 | Sara Junevik | Sweden | 26.22 | |
| 8 | 8 | Bryndis Hansen | Iceland | 26.38 | |

### Final

The final was held at 18:37.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 5 | Jeanette Ottesen | Denmark | 24.92 | |
| | 4 | Kelsi Worrell | United States | 25.27 | |
| | 2 | Rikako Ikee | Japan | 25.32 | WJR, NR |
| 4 | 7 | Mélanie Henique | France | 25.33 | |
| 5 | 3 | Silvia Di Pietro | Italy | 25.35 | |
| 6 | 8 | Katerine Savard | Canada | 25.51 | NR |
| 7 | 1 | Emilie Beckmann | Denmark | 25.54 | |
| 8 | 6 | Maaike de Waard | Netherlands | 25.66 | |