2023 World Para Swimming Championships – Women's 50 metre freestyle

12 swimmers took part in this event, with both the heats and final on 4 August.[1] Swimmers in S1 and S2 classes were eligible in this event.

The applicable records going into this event were as follows:[2]

S1
World record	Ingrid Thunem		51.33
Championship record	Danielle Watts		1:21.27
S2
World record	Ingrid Thunem		53.94
Championship record	Yip Pin Xiu		1:03.77
S3
World record	Leanne Smith		40.32
Championship record

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nation	Result	Notes
1	1	4	Marta Fernandez Infante	Spain	43.54	Q
2	2	5	Ellie Challis	Great Britain	49.36	Q
3	1	5	Susana Schnarndorf	Brazil	54.56	Q
4	2	3	Patricia Valle Benitez	Mexico	1:01.94	Q
5	2	4	Leanne Smith	United States	1:04.79	Q
6	1	3	M Pereira Barreto	Brazil	1:05.59	Q
7	2	6	Sonja Sigurdardottir	Iceland	1:07.82	Q
8	1	6	Nikita Ens	Canada	1:14.94	Q
9	2	2	Elif Ildem	Turkey	1:35.44
10	1	2	Konul Suleymanova	Azerbaijan	1:57.72
11	1	7	Lova Johansson	Sweden	2:01.41
12	2	7	Eva Hazizi	Greece	2:01.80

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nation	Result	Notes
	4	Marta Fernandez Infante	Spain	42.51
	5	Ellie Challis	Great Britain	47.83
	3	Susana Schnarndorf	Brazil	55.52
4	6	Patricia Valle Benitez	Mexico	58.64
5	7	M Pereira Barreto	Brazil	1:02.11
6	2	Leanne Smith	United States	1:02.37
7	1	Sonja Sigurdardottir	Iceland	1:07.75
8	8	Nikita Ens	Canada	1:17.08

8 swimmers took part in the event, which progressed straight to final. The event took place on 4 August.[3]

Record	Swimmer	Nation	Time
World record	Tanja Scholz	Germany	36.92
Championship record			38.09

Final

Rank	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time
	4	Tanja Scholz	Germany	38.90
	6	Pereira Dos Santos	Brazil	40.34
	5	Rachael Watson	Australia	40.59
4	3	Lidia Vieira Da Cruz	Brazil	40.61
5	7	Gina Boettcher	Germany	42.95
6	2	Nely Edith Miranda Herrera	Mexico	44.01
7	1	Kat Swanepoel	South Africa	44.65
8	8	Alexandra Stamatopoulou	Greece	48.34

15 swimmers took part in this event, with both the heats and final on Monday 31 July.[4]

WR : Tully Kearney : 34.07

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nation	Result	Notes
1	1	6	Iryna Poida	Ukraine	36.78	Q
2	2	4	Suzanna Hext	Great Britain	37.68	Q
3	2	5	Martinez Guerrero	Colombia	38.05	Q
4	2	1	Dong Lu	China	38.66	Q
5	1	4	Monica Boggioni	Italy	38.82	Q
6	1	7	Shenggao He	China	40.52	Q
7	2	6	Cuan Yao	China	40.77	Q
8	1	2	Agata Koupilova	Czech Republic	41.45	Q
9	1	5	Sumeyye Boyaci	Turkey	43.48
10	1	3	Angel Mae Otom	Philippines	44.52
11	2	2	Elizabeth Noriega	Argentina	44.67
12	2	7	Esthefany Rodrigues	Brazil	45.07
13	2	8	Maria Fanouria Tziveleki	Greece	45.55
14	1	1	Jessica Tinney	Canada	47.68
-	2	3	Sevilay Ozturk	Turkey	DSQ

Final[3]

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Result	Notes
	5	Suzanna Hext	Great Britain	36.71
	4	Iryna Poida	Ukraine	36.73
	6	Dong Lu	China	37.36
4	2	Monica Boggioni	Italy	39.57
5	7	Shenggao He	China	39.75
6	3	Martinez Guerrero	Colombia	39.77
7	1	Cuan Yao	China	41.32
8	8	Agata Koupilova	Czech Republic	41.48

Heats

Ten swimmers entered this event, although one did not start. The event took place on 5 August.

The applicable records at the start of the event where as follows

Record	Swimmer	Nation	Time
World Record	Anna Hontar	Ukraine	32.75
Championship Record

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nation	Result	Notes
1	2	4	Anna Hontar	Ukraine	33.23	Q
2	2	5	Yuyan Jiang	China	33.84	Q
3	1	5	Ellie Marks	United States	34.08	Q
4	1	3	Nicole Turner	Ireland	35.01	Q
5	1	4	Shelby Newkirk	Canada	35.3	Q
6	2	6	Nora Meister	Switzerland	35.53	Q
7	2	2	Sofiia Fedorenko	Ukraine	37.98	Q
8	1	2	Nomuun Khurel	Mongolia	45.37	Q
9	1	6	Ayaallah Tewfick	Egypt	51.27
-	2	3	Tully Kearney	Great Britain	DNS

Final

Rank	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
	4	Anna Hontar	Ukraine	32.55	WR
	5	Yuyan Jiang	China	32.90	AS
	2	Shelby Newkirk	Canada	34.04
4	3	Ellie Marks	United States	34.34
5	6	Nicole Turner	Ireland	34.71
6	7	Nora Meister	Switzerland	35.46
7	1	Sofiia Fedorenko	Ukraine	37.88
8	8	Nomuun Khurel	Mongolia	51.65

8 swimmers entered this race, which proceeded directly to final.

The applicable records on entry were as follows:

Record	Swimmer	Nation	Time
World record	Mallory Weggemann	United States	31.64
Championship record

Final

Rank	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Times
	4	Sara Vargas Blanco	Colombia	33.01
	5	Danielle Dorris	Canada	33.99
	6	Sabine Weber-Treiber	Austria	34.91
4	2	Leyre Orti Campos	Spain	35.48
5	1	Mandujan Somellera	Mexico	35.94
6	3	An Nishida	Japan	36.44
7	7	Nicola St Clair Maitland	Sweden	36.71
8	8	Agnes Kramer	Sweden	36.79

11 swimmers entered the event.

The applicable records entering the event were as follows:

Record	Swimmer	Nation	Time
World record	Alice Tai	Great Britain	28.97
Championship record			29.55

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nation	Result	Notes
1	2	4	Cecília Jerônimo de Araújo	Brazil	30.63	Q
2	2	5	Alice Tai	Great Britain	31.5	Q
3	1	4	Xenia Francesca Palazzo	Italy	31.72	Q
4	1	5	Shengnan Jiang	China	31.92	Q
5	1	6	Zhu Hui	China	32.48	Q
6	2	3	Abi Tripp	Canada	32.85	Q
7	2	6	Paula Novina	Croatia	33.08	Q
8	1	3	Tupou Neiufi	New Zealand	33.37	Q
9	2	7	Carmen Lim	Malaysia	35.79
10	2	2	P Ruvalcaba Nunez	Mexico	36.26
11	1	2	Eunyeong Lim	South Korea	36.63

Final

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Result	Notes
	4	Cecília Jerônimo de Araújo	Brazil	30.03
	5	Alice Tai	Great Britain	30.97
	6	Shengnan Jiang	China	31.07
4	3	Xenia Francesca Palazzo	Italy	31.25
5	7	Abi Tripp	Canada	32.74
5	2	Hui Zhu	China	32.74
7	8	Tupou Neiufi	New Zealand	32.77
8	1	Paula Novina	Croatia	33.24

8 swimmers entered this event, which progressed straight to final. The final took place on 6 August.[2]

Final

The applicable records entering the event were as follows:

Record	Swimmer	Nation	Time
World record	Sophie Pascoe	New Zealand	27.32
Championship record			27.77

Rank	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Result	Notes
	4	Mariana Ribeiro	Brazil	27.70	CR
	5	Alexa Leary	Australia	28.03
	3	Florianne Bultje	Netherlands	29.36
4	6	Emily Beecroft	Australia	29.37
5	7	Sarai Gascon	Spain	29.56
6	2	Elizabeth Smith	United States	29.67
7	8	Xu Jialing	China	30.09
8	1	Susana Veiga	Portugal	30.42

12 swimmers entered this event. The heats were held on Monday 31 July. The top eight, regardless of heat, progressed to the final.[5]

WR: Aurelie Rivard  : 27.37

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nation	Result	Notes
1	2	4	Aurelie Rivard	Canada	27.71	Q
2	2	5	Maria Barrera	Colombia	28.19	Q
3	1	5	Alessia Scortechini	Italy	28.32	Q
4	2	6	Emeline Pierre	France	28.36	Q
5	1	4	Chantalle Zijderveld	Netherlands	28.46	Q
6	2	3	Jasmine Greenwood	Australia	28.69	Q
7	1	7	Bianka Pap	Hungary	28.82	Q
8	2	2	Zhang Meng	China	28.87	Q
9	1	3	Arianna Hunsicker	Canada	28.99
10	1	6	Susannah Kaul	Estonia	29.12
11	2	7	Audrey Kim	United States	29.48
12	1	2	Katie Cosgriffe	Canada	29.86

Final

The Final took place at 20:38 on 31 July.[6]

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Result	Notes
	4	Aurelie Rivard	Canada	27.64
	3	Alessia Scortechini	Italy	28.06
	6	Emeline Pierre	France	28.39
4	5	Maria Barrera	Colombia	28.41
5	7	Jasmine Greenwood	Australia	28.43
6	2	Chantalle Zijderveld	Netherlands	28.46
7	1	Bianka Pap	Hungary	28.85
8	8	Meng Zhang	China	30.93

WR: Ma Jia 29.20

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nation	Result	Notes
1	1	4	Ma Jia	China	29.32	Q
2	2	5	Liesette Bruinsma	Netherlands	30.02	Q
3	2	4	Karolina Pelendritou	Cyprus	30.04	Q
4	2	3	Li Guizhi	China	30.39	Q
5	1	3	Ishiura Tomomi	Japan	31.28	Q
6	1	6	Kateryna Tkachuk	Ukraine	31.47	Q
7	2	6	Cai Liwen	China	31.72	Q
8	2	2	Scarlett Humphrey	Great Britain	31.74	Q
9	1	5	Analuz Pellitero	Argentina	32.06
10	1	2	Tatiana Blattnerova	Slovakia	33.44
11	1	7	Ono Chikako	Japan	33.85
12	2	7	Nadia Baez	Argentina	34.03
13	2	1	Fernandez S Yunque	Colombia	34.57
14	1	1	Mcclain Hermes	United States	35.98

Final

The final was held at 19:38 on 31 July.[7]

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Result	Notes
	4	Ma Jia	China	29.74
	5	Liesette Bruinsma	Netherlands	30.07
	3	Karolina Pelendritou	Cyprus	30.28
4	6	Li Guizhi	China	30.6
5	2	Tomomi Ishiura	Japan	30.89
6	1	Cai Liwen	China	31.31
7	8	Scarlett Humphrey	Great Britain	31.91
8	7	Kateryna Tkachuk	Ukraine	32.26

10 Swimmers representing eight national teams entered the race. Heats were held in the morning of 2 August. The top eight swimmers, regardless of heat, qualify for the final.[8][9]

The applicable records entering the event were as follows:[8]

Record	Swimmer	Time
World record	Maria Gomes Santiago (BRA)	26.68
Championship record	Maria Gomes Santiago (BRA)	26.86

Heats[8]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Result	Notes
1	2	4	Maria Gomes Santiago	Brazil	26.65	Q WR CR
2	2	5	Anna Stetsenko	Ukraine	28.42	Q
3	1	4	Lucilene da Silva Sousa	Brazil	28.69	Q
4	1	5	Alessia Berra	Italy	28.72	Q
5	2	3	Jenna Jones	Australia	28.73	Q
6	2	6	Karina Petrikovicova	Slovakia	30.83	Q
7	1	3	Cornelle Leach	South Africa	31.22	Q
8	1	6	Yaryna Matlo	Ukraine	31.43	Q
9	1	2	Belkis Mota Echarry	Venezuela	31.45
10	2	2	Neele Labudda	Germany	32.19

Final[8]

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Result	Notes
	4	Maria Carolina Gomes Santiago	Brazil	26.71
	5	Anna Stetsenko	Ukraine	28.01
	6	Alessia Berra	Italy	28.38
4	3	Lucilene da Silva Sousa	Brazil	28.56
5	2	Jenna Jones	Australia	29.09
6	7	Karina Petrikovicova	Slovakia	30.16
7	1	Cornelle Leach	South Africa	31.35
8	8	Yaryna Matlo	Ukraine	31.37

Nine swimmers took part in this event. It was held on 6 August.[4]

Record	Swimmer	Nation	Time
World record	Katja Dedekind	Australia	26.56
Championship record			26.98

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nation	Result	Notes
1	2	4	Katja Dedekind	Australia	27.88	Q
2	2	5	Carlotta Gilli	Italy	28.01	Q
3	1	4	Ayano Tsujiuchi	Japan	28.03	Q
4	1	3	Emma Feliu Martin	Spain	28.5	Q
4	2	3	Olivia Chambers	United States	28.5	Q
6	1	5	Marian Polo Lopez	Spain	28.52	Q
7	1	6	Joanna Mendak	Poland	28.98	Q
8	1	2	Muslima Odilova	Uzbekistan	29.37	Q
9	2	2	Rebecca Redfern	Great Britain	29.41

Final

Rank	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time
	4	Katja Dedekind	Australia	27.17
	5	Carlotta Gilli	Italy	27.49
	2	Olivia Chambers	United States	27.69
4	3	Ayano Tsujiuchi	Japan	27.74
5	6	Emma Feliu	Spain	28.02
6	7	Marian Polo	Spain	28.43
7	1	Joanna Mendak	Poland	29.01
8	8	Muslima Odilova	Uzbekistan	29.36