Swimming at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 50 metre breaststroke

The heats were started on 24 June at 09:38.[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Lara van Niekerk	South Africa	29.77	Q
2	6	4	Benedetta Pilato	Italy	29.80	Q
3	6	2	Eneli Jefimova	Estonia	30.08	Q, NR
4	5	1	Anna Elendt	Germany	30.12	Q
5	6	7	Tang Qianting	China	30.36	Q
6	5	3	Jhennifer Conceição	Brazil	30.53	Q
7	6	3	Sophie Hansson	Sweden	30.64	Q
8	5	2	Veera Kivirinta	Finland	30.66	Q
9	4	4	Lilly King	United States	30.70	Q
9	6	8	Fleur Vermeiren	Belgium	30.70	Q
11	5	6	Rosey Metz	Netherlands	30.71	Q
12	4	5	Reona Aoki	Japan	30.80	Q
13	4	3	Anastasia Gorbenko	Israel	30.82	Q
14	5	7	Jenna Strauch	Australia	30.93	Q
15	4	2	Annie Lazor	United States	30.99	Q
16	5	5	Rūta Meilutytė	Lithuania	31.02	Q
17	6	6	Florine Gaspard	Belgium	31.10
18	4	0	Rachel Nicol	Canada	31.24
19	4	1	Anna Sztankovics	Hungary	31.31
20	5	8	Macarena Ceballos	Argentina	31.35
21	6	0	Anne Palmans	Netherlands	31.37
22	4	7	Kotryna Teterevkova	Lithuania	31.40
23	4	8	Tara Vovk	Slovenia	31.61
24	3	3	Byanca Rodríguez	Mexico	31.71
25	3	5	Adelaida Pchelintseva	Kazakhstan	31.75
26	6	1	Maria Drasidou	Greece	31.83
27	5	0	Jessica Vall	Spain	31.92
27	6	9	Sim En Yi Letitia	Singapore	31.92
29	4	6	Emelie Fast	Sweden	31.94
30	3	8	Karina Vivas	Colombia	32.07
31	3	6	Helena Gasson	New Zealand	32.08
32	3	2	Lena Kreundl	Austria	32.17
33	3	4	Diana Petkova	Bulgaria	32.32
34	4	9	Meri Mataja	Croatia	32.34
35	5	9	Jenjira Srisa-Ard	Thailand	32.58
36	3	7	Lin Pei-wun	Chinese Taipei	32.80
37	3	1	Lillian Higgs	Bahamas	32.98
38	2	3	Imane El Barodi	Morocco	32.99
39	2	7	Polyxeni Toumazou	Cyprus	33.31
40	2	4	Tilka Paljk	Zambia	33.64
41	2	0	Vorleak Sok	Cambodia	33.84
42	2	5	Kirsten Fisher-Marsters	Cook Islands	34.17
43	2	6	Micaela Sierra	Uruguay	34.25
44	2	2	Claudia Verdino	Monaco	34.49
45	2	1	Jayla Pina	Cape Verde	34.97
46	2	8	Tessa Ip Hen Cheung	Mauritius	35.04
47	3	9	Kirabo Namutebi	Uganda	35.12
48	2	9	Maria Freitas	Angola	35.80
49	1	0	Duana Lima	Nepal	36.30
50	1	4	Lara Dashti	Kuwait	37.77
50	1	6	Maria Batallones	Northern Mariana Islands	37.77
52	1	9	Kestra Kihleng	Federated States of Micronesia	38.97
53	1	3	Eunike Fugo	Tanzania	42.26
54	1	5	Brhane Amare	Ethiopia	44.30
	1	7	Rita Ekomba	Equatorial Guinea	Disqualified
	6	5	Arianna Castiglioni	Italy
	1	1	Iman Kouraogo	Burkina Faso	Did not start
	1	2	Sainabou Sam	Gambia
	1	8	Stefan Sangala	Republic of the Congo
	3	0	Phee Jinq En	Malaysia

The semifinals were started on 24 June at 18:27.[4]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	4	Benedetta Pilato	Italy	29.83	Q
2	1	8	Rūta Meilutytė	Lithuania	29.97	Q
3	2	4	Lara van Niekerk	South Africa	29.99	Q
4	2	3	Tang Qianting	China	30.10	Q
5	2	5	Eneli Jefimova	Estonia	30.24	Q
6	1	3	Jhennifer Conceição	Brazil	30.28	Q, SA
7	1	5	Anna Elendt	Germany	30.30	Q
8	2	2	Lilly King	United States	30.35	Q
9	2	1	Anastasia Gorbenko	Israel	30.54
10	2	6	Sophie Hansson	Sweden	30.56
11	1	7	Reona Aoki	Japan	30.71
12	1	6	Veera Kivirinta	Finland	30.76
13	2	8	Annie Lazor	United States	30.89
14	2	7	Rosey Metz	Netherlands	30.94
15	1	2	Fleur Vermeiren	Belgium	30.98
16	1	1	Jenna Strauch	Australia	30.99

The final was held on 25 June at 18:09.[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Rūta Meilutytė	Lithuania	29.70
	4	Benedetta Pilato	Italy	29.80
	3	Lara van Niekerk	South Africa	29.90
4	6	Tang Qianting	China	30.21
5	1	Anna Elendt	Germany	30.22
6	2	Eneli Jefimova	Estonia	30.25
7	8	Lilly King	United States	30.40
8	7	Jhennifer Conceição	Brazil	30.45