Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 50 metre freestyle

These are the results of the Women's 50 metre freestyle, one of sixteen events for female competitors in Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics

2004 Summer Olympics

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Records

World and Olympic Record

Inge de Bruijn (NED)

Sydney, Australia

0:24.13

22 September 2000

Heat 1

Doli Akhter
Doli Akhter
Doli Akhter, born January 15, 1986, is an Olympic swimmer from Bangladesh.She has swam for Bangladesh at the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Olympics. On all three occasions, she attended thanks to a wild card qualification....

, – 30.72
Monika Bakale
Monika Bakale
Clara Monika Bakale is a swimmer from the Republic of the Congo. Bakale represented the Republic of the Congo at the 1996, 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics.She is the sister of Rony Bakale.-External links:*...

, – 31.61
Amira Edrahi, – 34.67

Heat 2

Sameera Al Bitar, – 31.00
Ghazal El Jobeili, – 31.00
Tracy Ann Route, – 31.26
Christal Clashing, – 31.55
Han Choi, – 31.62
Evelyn Otto, – 33.04
Sivan Ket, – 34.62
Vilayphone Vongphachanh
Vilayphone Vongphachanh
Vilayphone Vongphachanh is a female Laotian Olympic freestyle swimmer.As a member of the Laos team she competed at the age of 15 in the 2004 Summer Olympics in the Women's 50m Freestyle...

, – 36.57

Heat 3

Ermelinda Zamba, – 29.34
Aina Andriamanjatoarimanana, – 29.35
Eva Donde, – 29.47
Diane Etiennette, – 30.00
Rubab Raza
Rubab Raza
Rubab Raza is an Olympic and national-record-holding swimmer from Pakistan. She became Pakistan's first female Olympic swimmer when she swam at the 2004 Olympics....

, – 30.10
Rovena Marku
Rovena Marku
Rovena Marku is an Olympic freestyle swimmer from Albania, who represented her native country at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics....

, – 30.51
Samar Nassar, – 30.83
Aminath Rouya, – 31.26

Heat 4

Melanie Slowing, – 27.44
Maria Tregubova, – 28.40
Roshendra Vrolijk, – 28.43
Jakie Wellman, – 28.56
Geraldine Arce, – 28.73
Menaka de Silva, – 28.93
Dohi Eliane Droubry, – 29.23
Sade Daal, – 29.27

Heat 5

Vanessa García
Vanessa García
Vanessa García Vega is an Olympic and National Record holding freestyle swimmer from Puerto Rico. She swam for her native country at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics....

, – 26.26
Alison Fitch
Alison Fitch
Alison Rachel Fitch is a New Zealand swimming competitor. She won a bronze medal with Lauren Boyle, Helen Norfolk and Melissa Ingram in the 4 x 200m freestyle relay at the 2006 Commonwealth Games....

, – 26.56
Sara Isakovič
Sara Isakovic
Sara Isakovič is a freestyle swimmer from Slovenia. She spent much of her childhood in Dubai. Isakovič was a member of the Žito Gorenjka Radovljica Swimming Club from Radovljica, Slovenia and trained under the supervision of coach Miha Potočnik.Isakovič competed for Slovenia at the 2004 Summer...

, – 26.81
Pin Chieh Nieh, – 27.09
Miroslava Najdanovski
Miroslava Najdanovski
Miroslava Najdanovski is a 2-time Serbian Olympic swimmer.Najdanovski represented Serbia and Montenegro at the 2004 Summer Olympics. At only 16 years of age, she was the youngest member of the Serbo-Montenegrin delegation and also one of the youngest athletes to compete at the 2004 Summer Olympics...

, – 27.18
Alia Atkinson
Alia Atkinson
Alia Shanee Atkinson is a Jamaican swimmer and Olympian.She competed at the 2004 Olympics, and four years later in the 2008 Olympics she finished 25th in the Women's 200 breaststroke....

, – 27.21
Nikia Deveaux
Nikia Deveaux
Nikia Hillarie Deveaux is a female freestyle swimmer from the Bahamas. She swam for the Bahamas at the 2004 Summer Olympics. At the 2007 Pan American Games she was part of the bronze medal winning women's 4x100 m medley relay alongside Alicia Lightbourne, Arianna Vanderpool and Alana...

, – 27.36
Dominique Diezi, – Did not swim

Heat 6

Lara Heinz, – 26.35
Ragnheidur Ragnarsdóttir, – 26.36
Anna Gostomelsky
Anna Gostomelsky
Anna Gostomelsky is an Israeli swimmer who represented Israel at the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics.-Biography:She is Jewish. She holds the most Israeli swimming records of any female swimmer....

, – 26.72
Florencia Szigeti
Florencia Szigeti
Florencia Szigeti is a female freestyle swimmer from Argentina. She twice competed for her native country at the Summer Olympics , and won a silver medal in the women's 100 m freestyle event at the 2003 Pan American Games.A 1999 graduate of Colegio Universitario Central Szigetei was a member...

, – 26.84
Yelena Skalinskaya, – 27.04
Shikha Tandon
Shikha Tandon
Shikha Tandon is a champion swimmer from Bangalore, India. Tandon has won 146 national medals, and 36 medals in international competitions, including five gold medals.- Career :...

, – 27.08
Zsuzsanna Csobánki
Zsuzsanna Csobánki
Zsuzsanna Csobánki is a female Hungarian swimmer, who competed for her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.-References:*...

, – 27.09
Yu Ning Chan, – 27.48

Heat 7

Jeanette Ottesen
Jeanette Ottesen
Jeanette Ottesen is a Danish swimmer who participated at the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics in swimming. She currently holds the Danish record in 100 m freestyle...

, – 25.95
Sandra Kazikova, – 26.18
Triin Aljand
Triin Aljand
Triin Aljand is an Estonian swimmer. She was a member of the Estonian national team that competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics and multiple FINA World Aquatics Championships. She competed again for the team in the 2008 Summer Olympics.She currently attends Texas A&M University, where she swims for...

, – 26.19
Arlene Semeco
Arlene Semeco
Arlene Iradie Semeco Arismendi is a female freestyle swimmer from Venezuela, who represented her native country in two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2004. She won two gold medals at the 2007 Pan American Games. She attended the University of Alabama.-References:* *...

, – 26.20
Yoon-Ji Ryu, – 26.26
Yingwen Zhu
Yingwen Zhu
Zhu Yingwen is a female Olympic medal-winning swimmer from the People's Republic of China, who competed at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.Along with Xu Yanwei, Yang Yu, and Pang Jiaying, she was part of China's 4 x 200 m freestyle relay team, which won the silver medal, beaten by the US relay...

, – 26.45
Martha Matsa, – 26.46
Sharntelle McLean
Sharntelle McLean
Sharntelle McLean is a 2-time Olympic swimmer from Trinidad and Tobago. She swam for Trinidad and Tobago at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics...

, – 26.86

Heat 8

Michelle Engelsman, – 25.28 -Q
Jenny Thompson
Jenny Thompson
Jennifer Beth Thompson is an American former competitive swimmer, and one of the most decorated Olympians in history, winning twelve medals, including eight gold medals , in the 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004 Summer Olympics.Thompson, a Massachusetts native who calls Dover, New Hampshire her...

, – 25.50 -Q
Eileen Coparropa
Eileen Coparropa
Eileen Mary Coparropa Alemán is a female freestyle swimmer from Panama, who won a silver and a bronze medal in the women's 50m freestyle event at the Pan American Games. Nicknamed "La Sirena de Oro" she represented her native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in...

, – 25.57 -Q
Nery Mantey Niangkouara
Nery Mantey Niangkouara
Nery Mantey Niangkouara is a Greek former swimmer. She began her career at Nereus Halandri. In 2001 she won 2 silver medals at the Mediterranean Games in the 100m and relay races..She was 5th in the European Championships in 2002 in Relay 4Ch100...

, – 25.62 -Q
Dorothea Brandt, – 25.67 -Q
Martina Moravcová
Martina Moravcová
Martina Moravcová is a medley, butterfly and freestyle swimmer from Slovakia. She made her international swimming debut in 1991 for Czechoslovakia, and has gone on to compete in five consecutive Summer Olympics...

, – 25.69
Anna-Karin Kammerling
Anna-Karin Kammerling
Anna-Karin Kammerling is a world-record breaking Swedish swimmer, who was born in Malmö, Sweden. Currently she resides in Sundsvall and trains with the Sundsvalls Swim Club under coach Hans Bergquist....

, – 25.85
Olga Mukomol, – 25.96

Heat 9

Kara Lynn Joyce
Kara Lynn Joyce
Kara Lynn Joyce is an American swimmer and four-time Olympic silver medalist.-High school career:...

, – 25.06 -Q
Libby Lenton
Libby Lenton
Lisbeth "Libby" Constance Trickett OAM is a world record holding and Olympic gold medalist swimmer from Australia. She was a gold medallist at both the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2008 Summer Olympics. She is the world record holder in the short-course 100 metres freestyle...

, – 25.31 -Q
Alison Sheppard
Alison Sheppard
Alison Sheppard MBE is a freestyle swimmer from Scotland, who competed in five consecutive Summer Olympics for Great Britain, starting in 1988.-Personal bests and records held:-External links:*...

, – 25.36 -Q
Therese Alshammar
Therese Alshammar
Malin Therese Alshammar is a Swedish swimmer who has won three Olympic medals, 25 World Championship medals, and 43 European Championship medals. Standing at 1.80 m, she is a specialist of short races in freestyle and butterfly...

, – 25.42 -Q
Rebeca Gusmão
Rebeca Gusmão
Rebeca Gusmão was a freestyle swimmer from Brazil. She won the bronze medal in the women's 4×100 m freestyle relay at the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic...

, – 25.64 -Q
Cristina Chiuso
Cristina Chiuso
Cristina Chiuso is a former Italian swimmer.Italian record holder of 50 freestyle and 4x100 freestyle relay in short and long course, was captain of Italian women swimming team....

, – 25.68 -Q
Judith Draxler
Judith Draxler
Judith Draxler is a retired freestyle swimmer from Austria, who competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics for her native country, starting in 1996.-References:...

, – 25.82
Hanna-Maria Seppälä, – 26.01

Heat 10

Inge de Bruijn
Inge de Bruijn
Inge de Bruijn is a Dutch former swimmer. She was a four-time Olympic champion and a former world record holder.-Biography:De Bruijn was born in Barendrecht, South Holland, and tried several sports before settling with swimming....

, – 24.66 -Q
Malia Metella
Malia Metella
Malia Metella is a French Olympic freestyle swimmer from French Guiana. She swam for France at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics, winning a silver medal in 2004 in the women's 50 free....

, – 25.21 -Q
Svitlana Khakhlova, – 25.24 -Q
Marleen Veldhuis
Marleen Veldhuis
Magdalena Johanna Maria Veldhuis is a professional swimmer from the Netherlands. She is world record holder in 4 events . Veldhuis has won 6 world championships gold medals and 20 European championships gold medals...

, – 25.28 -Q
Flávia Delaroli
Flávia Delaroli
Flávia Delaroli is an Olympic and National Record holding freestyle swimmer from Brazil, who won the silver medal in the women's 50 m freestyle at the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.A resident of São Paulo, she also represented her native country at the 2004 and 2008...

, – 25.40 -Q
Sandra Völker
Sandra Völker
Sandra Völker is a freestyle and backstroke swimmer from Germany, who won a total number of three medals at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. There she made her second Olympic appearance, after her debut four years earlier in Barcelona, Spain...

, – 25.74
Ana Belén Palomo
Ana Belén Palomo
Ana Belén Palomo Jiménez is a freestyle swimmer from Spain, who competed for her native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000 in Sydney, Australia. In both tournaments she was eliminated in the qualifying heats of the 50 m freestyle.-References:*...

, – 25.92
Federica Pellegrini
Federica Pellegrini
Federica Pellegrini is an Italian swimmer. A native of Mirano, in the province of Venice, she is currently the women's 200 m freestyle and 400 m freestyle world record holder...

, – Did not swim

Heats ranking

Netherlands Inge De Bruijn, Netherlands 24.66 -Q
United States Kara Lynn Joyce, United States 25.06 -Q
France Malia Metella, France 25.21 -Q
Belarus Svitlana Khakhlova, Belarus 25.24 -Q
Australia Michelle Engelsman, Australia 25.28 -Q
Netherlands Marleen Veldhuis, Netherlands 25.28 -Q
Australia Libby Lenton, Australia 25.31 -Q
United Kingdom Alison Sheppard, Great Britain 25.36 -Q
Brazil Flávia Delaroli, Brazil 25.40 -Q
Sweden Therese Alshammar, Sweden 25.42 -Q
United States Jenny Thompson, United States 25.50 -Q
Panama Eileen Coparropa, Panama 25.57 -Q
Greece Nery Mantey Niangkouara, Greece 25.62 -Q
Brazil Rebeca Gusmão, Brazil 25.64 -Q
Germany Dorothea Brandt, Germany 25.67 -Q
Italy Cristina Chiuso, Italy 25.68 -Q
Slovakia Martina Moravcová, Slovakia 25.69
Germany Sandra Voelker, Germany 25.74
Austria Judith Draxler, Austria 25.82
Sweden Anna-Karin Kammerling, Sweden 25.85
Spain Ana Belen Palomo, Spain 25.92
Denmark Jeanette Ottesen, Denmark 25.95
Ukraine Olga Mukomol, Ukraine 25.96
Finland Hanna-Maria Seppala, Finland 26.01
Czech Republic Sandra Kazikova, Czech Republic 26.18
Estonia Triin Aljand, Estonia 26.19
Venezuela Arlene Semeco, Venezuela 26.20
Puerto Rico Vanessa Garcia, Puerto Rico 26.26
South Korea Yoon-Ji Ryu, Korea 26.26
Luxembourg Lara Heinz, Luxembourg 26.35
Iceland Ragnheidur Ragnarsdottir, Iceland 26.36
People's Republic of China Yingwen Zhu, China 26.45
Greece Martha Matsa, Greece 26.46
New Zealand Alison Fitch, New Zealand 26.56
Israel Anna Gostomelsky, Israel 26.72
Slovenia Sara Isakovic, Slovenia 26.81
Argentina Florencia Szigeti, Argentina 26.84
Trinidad and Tobago Sharntelle McLean, Trinidad and Tobago 26.86
Kazakhstan Yelena Skalinskaya, Kazakhstan 27.04
India Shikha Tandon, India 27.08
Chinese Taipei Pin Chieh Nieh, Chinese Taipei 27.09
Hungary Zsuzsanna Csobanki, Hungary 27.09
Serbia and Montenegro Miroslava Najdanovski, Serbia and Montenegro 27.18
Jamaica Alia Atkinson, Jamaica 27.21
The Bahamas Nikia Deveaux, Bahamas 27.36
Guatemala Melanie Slowing, Guatemala 27.44
Hong Kong Yu Ning Chan, Hong Kong 27.48
Moldova Maria Tregubova, Republic of Moldova 28.40
Aruba Roshendra Vrolijk, Aruba 28.43
Zambia Jakie Wellman, Zambia 28.56
Nicaragua Geraldine Arce, Nicaragua 28.73
Sri Lanka Menaka de Silva, Sri Lanka 28.93
Côte d'Ivoire Dohi Eliane Droubry, Côte d'Ivoire 29.23
Suriname Sade Daal, Suriname 29.27
Mozambique Ermelinda Zamba, Mozambique 29.34
Madagascar Aina Andriamanjatoarimanana, Madagascar 29.35
Kenya Eva Donde, Kenya 29.47
Mauritius Diane Etiennette, Mauritius 30.00
Pakistan Rubab Raza, Pakistan 30.10
Albania Rovena Marku, Albania 30.51
Bangladesh Doli Akhter, Bangladesh 30.72
Jordan Samar Nassar, Jordan 30.83
Bahrain Sameera Al Bitar, Bahrain 31.00
Lebanon Ghazal El Jobeili, Lebanon 31.00
Federated States of Micronesia Tracy Ann Route, Federated States of Micronesia 31.26
Maldives Aminath Rouya, Maldives 31.26
Antigua and Barbuda Christal Clashing, Antigua and Barbuda 31.55
Republic of the Congo Monika Bakale, Congo 31.61
Malawi Han Choi, Malawi 31.62
Palau Evelyn Otto, Palau 33.04
Cambodia Sivan Ket, Cambodia 34.62
Libya Amira Edrahi, Libya 34.67
Laos Vilayphone Vongphachanh, Laos 36.57
Switzerland Dominique Diezi, Switzerland Did not start
Italy Federica Pellegrini, Italy Did not start