Swimming at the 2014 Commonwealth Games – Women's 50 metre butterfly

Women's 50 metre butterfly
at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
VenueTollcross International Swimming Centre
Dates26 July 2014 (2014-07-26) (heats & semis)
27 July 2014 (2014-07-27) (final)
Competitors47 from 29 nations
Winning time25.20 GR
Medalists
gold medal Francesca Halsall   England
silver medal Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace   Bahamas
bronze medal Brittany Elmslie   Australia
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Freestyle
50 mmenwomen
100 mmenwomen
100 m S8women
100 m S9men
200 mmenwomen
200 m S14men
400 mmenwomen
800 mwomen
1500 mmen
Backstroke
50 mmenwomen
100 mmenwomen
100 m SB9women
200 mmenwomen
Breaststroke
50 mmenwomen
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Butterfly
50 mmenwomen
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Individual medley
200 mmenwomen
200 m SM8men
200 m SM10women
400 mmenwomen
Freestyle relay
4×100 mmenwomen
4×200 mmenwomen
Medley relay
4×100 mmenwomen

The women's 50 metre butterfly event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games as part of the swimming programme took place on 26 and 27 July at the Tollcross International Swimming Centre in Glasgow, Scotland.

The medals were presented by Tony Ward, International Paralympics Committee Technical Delegate and the quaichs were presented by Mike Summers, Chairman of the Falkland Islands Overseas Games Association.

Records

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Prior to this competition, the existing world and Commonwealth Games records were as follows.

World record  Sarah Sjöström (SWE) 24.43 Borås, Sweden 5 July 2014 [1]
Commonwealth record  Marieke Guehrer (AUS) 25.48 Rome, Italy 1 August 2009
Games record  Marieke Guehrer (AUS) 26.07 Delhi, India 4 October 2010

The following records were established during the competition:

Date Event Name Nationality Time Record
26 July Heat Francesca Halsall  England 25.64 GR
26 July Semifinal Francesca Halsall  England 25.36 GR
27 July Final Francesca Halsall  England 25.20 GR

Results

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Heats

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Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 6 4 Francesca Halsall  England 25.64 Q, GR
2 5 4 Brittany Elmslie  Australia 26.18 Q
3 4 4 Katerine Savard  Canada 26.33 Q
4 6 5 Alicia Coutts  Australia 26.43 Q
=5 5 5 Amy Smith  England 26.44 Q
6 6 Tao Li  Singapore
6 2 Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace  Bahamas
8 4 5 Sandrine Mainville  Canada 26.46 Q
9 5 3 Madeline Groves  Australia 26.74 Q
=10 4 3 Laura Quilter  New Zealand 26.92 Q
6 3 Rachael Kelly  England
12 4 6 Michelle Williams  Canada 27.02 Q
13 5 6 Sian Harkin  Scotland 27.03 Q
14 5 2 Alys Thomas  Wales 27.14 Q
15 6 7 Marne Erasmus  South Africa 27.40 Q
16 5 7 Trudi Maree  South Africa 27.62 Q
17 4 2 Charlotte Atkinson  Isle of Man 27.63
18 4 7 Quah Ting Wen  Singapore 27.87
19 5 1 Marina Chan  Singapore 28.06
20 6 8 Gemma Kane  Northern Ireland 28.22
21 6 1 Yap Siew Hui  Malaysia 28.30
22 4 1 Bethany Firth  Northern Ireland 28.51
23 3 4 Trudiann Patrick  Jamaica 28.78
24 3 3 Sylvia Brunlehner  Kenya 28.79
25 3 5 Felicity Passon  Seychelles 28.95
26 5 8 Jannah Sonnenschein  Mozambique 29.13
27 3 2 Niamh Robinson  Isle of Man 29.30
28 3 6 Emily Chan Chee  Mauritius 29.34
29 4 8 Caroline Puamau  Fiji 29.46
30 2 6 Joyce Tafatatha  Malawi 29.59
31 3 7 Ophelia Swayne  Ghana 29.66
32 2 1 Izzy Joachim  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 30.10
33 2 3 Oreoluwa Cherebin  Grenada 30.20
34 2 2 Kimiko Raheem  Sri Lanka 30.44
35 2 4 Tegan McCarthy  Papua New Guinea 30.55
36 2 5 Kiran Khan  Pakistan 30.56
37 3 8 Cheyenne Rova  Fiji 30.67
38 1 2 Amarah Phillip  British Virgin Islands 30.94
39 1 4 Evelina Afoa  Samoa 31.23
40 1 1 Ger Ogot  Kenya 31.31
41 1 3 Tieri Erasito  Fiji 31.40
42 1 6 Savannah Tkatchenko  Papua New Guinea 31.79
43 2 8 Anita Field  Kenya 31.84
44 3 1 Irene Prescott  Tonga 31.98
45 1 5 Nadeera Jayasekera  Sri Lanka 32.05
46 2 7 Areeba Shaikh  Pakistan 32.12
47 1 7 Aminath Shajan  Maldives 35.00

Semifinals

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Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 2 4 Francesca Halsall  England 25.36 Q, GR
2 2 6 Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace  Bahamas 25.90 Q
3 1 4 Brittany Elmslie  Australia 25.91 Q
4 2 5 Katerine Savard  Canada 26.31 Q
5 1 3 Tao Li  Singapore 26.33 Q
6 2 3 Amy Smith  England 26.43 Q
7 1 6 Sandrine Mainville  Canada 26.48 Q
8 1 5 Alicia Coutts  Australia 26.49 Q
9 2 2 Madeline Groves  Australia 26.62
10 2 7 Rachael Kelly  England 26.68
11 1 2 Laura Quilter  New Zealand 27.00
12 1 1 Alys Thomas  Wales 27.03
13 1 7 Michelle Williams  Canada 27.04
14 2 8 Marne Erasmus  South Africa 27.45
15 2 1 Sian Harkin  Scotland 27.52
16 1 8 Trudi Maree  South Africa 27.64

Finals

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Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) 4 Francesca Halsall  England 25.20 GR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 5 Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace  Bahamas 25.53
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 3 Brittany Elmslie  Australia 25.91
4 7 Amy Smith  England 26.24
5 2 Tao Li  Singapore 26.26
6 6 Katerine Savard  Canada 26.27
7 8 Alicia Coutts  Australia 26.52
8 1 Sandrine Mainville  Canada 26.64

References

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  1. ^ "Sarah Sjostrom Smashes 25-Second Barrier With World Record in 50 Fly in Sweden". Swimming World Magazine. 5 July 2014. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 7 July 2014.
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