Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 50 metre butterfly
Introduction The '''Women's 50m Butterfly''' at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships took place on 30 March (prelims & semifinals) and the evening of 31 March (finals) at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia. 99 swimmers were entered in the event, of whom 93 swam.Existing '''records''' at the start of the event were:*World Record (WR):  25.57, Anna-Karin Kammerling (Sweden), 30 July 2002 in Berlin, Germany. *Championship Record (CR): 25.84, Inge de Bruijn (Netherlands), Barcelona 2003 (26 July 2003)
Results ===Finals=== Place  Name  Nationality  Time  Note 1st  Therese Alshammar    25.91  2nd  Danni Miatke    26.05  3rd  Inge Dekker    26.11  4th  Anna-Karin Kammerling    26.32  5th  Rachel Komisarz    26.41  6th  Fabienne Nadarajah    26.77  7th  Tao Li    26.80  8th  Zhou Yafei    27.06 ===Semifinals=== Rank  Swimmer  Nation  Time  Note 1  Therese Alshammar    25.82  '''Q''', CR 2  Inge Dekker    26.20  '''Q''' 3  Rachel Komisarz    26.48  '''Q''' 4  Danni Miatke    26.57  '''Q''' 5  Zhou Yafei    26.69  '''Q''' 6  Anna-Karin Kammerling    26.81  '''Q''' 7  Tao Li    26.82  '''Q''' 8  Fabienne Nadarajah    26.86  '''Q''' 9  Antje Buschschulte    26.89  10  Yuka Kato    26.91  11  Jeanette Ottesen    26.95  12  Kim Vandenberg    26.99  13  Chantal Groot    27.10  14  Ayako Doi    27.12  15  Irina Bespalova    27.17  16  Kimberly Buys    27.27 ===Preliminaries=== Rank  Swimmer  Nation  Time  Note 1  Danni Miatke    26.34  '''Q''' 2  Rachel Komisarz    26.58  '''Q''' 3  Inge Dekker    26.60  '''Q''' 4  Zhou Yafei    26.67  '''Q''' 5  Anna-Karin Kammerling    26.81  '''Q''' Jeanette Ottesen    '''Q''' 7  Fabienne Nadarajah    26.99  '''Q''' 8  Chantal Groot    27.13  '''Q''' 9  Ayako Doi    27.15  '''Q''' 10  Tao Li    27.17  '''Q''' Yuka Kato    '''Q''' Kimberly Buys    '''Q''' 13  Therese Alshammar    27.26  '''Q''' 14  Irina Bespalova    27.27  '''Q''' 15  Kim Vandenberg    27.30  '''Q''' 16  Antje Buschschulte    27.31  '''Q''' 17  Elena Gemo    27.35  18  Lisbeth Lenton    27.36   19  Keri-Leigh Shaw    27.46   Daniela Samulski    21  Triin Aljand    27.60   22  Audrey Lacroix    27.73   23  Natalya Sutyagina    27.77   24  Marilies Demal    27.83   Aleksandra Urbanczyk     26  Aurore Mongel    27.87   Martina Moravcová     28  Camille Muffat    27.92   29  Zoë Baker    27.95   30  Rosalind Brett    28.02   31  Amit Ivry    28.10   32  Sara Oliveira    28.12   33  Hang Yu Sze    28.15   34  Carolina Colorado Henao    28.20   35  Heather Brand    28.23   36  Denisa Smolenova    28.25   37  Liz Coster    28.30   38  Micha Jensen    28.40   39  Hannah Wilson    28.46   40  Hae In Shin    28.50   41  Sharntelle McLean    28.64   42  Iris Rosenberger    28.65   43  Geneviève Saumur    28.81   44  Loren Bahamonde    28.98   45  Caroline Pickering    29.11   46  Chin Kuel Yang    29.11   47  You Ri Kown    29.16   Ellen Hight     49  Cheok Mei Ma    29.45   50  Maria Rodriguez    29.53   51  Irina Shlemova    29.63   52  Mylene Ong    29.64   53  Galina Dukhanova    30.02   54  Emma Hunter    30.19   Tojohanitra    Andriamanjatoprimamama     56  Marianella Quesada Barrantes    30.33   57  Binta Zahra Diop    30.37   58  Ileana Murillo Argueta    30.50   59  Sharon Paola Fajardo Sierra    30.52   60  Monika Spasova    30.61   61  Natasha Moodie    30.74   62  Davina Mangion    30.77  63  Rachel Ah Koy    30.79  Razan Taha    65  Elena Popovska    30.82  66  Jonay Briedenhann    30.91  67  Marie Laura Meza Peraza    30.96  68  Dalia Massiel Torrez Zamora    31.07  69  Thi Hanh Phan    31.12  Jessica Teixeira Vieira    71  Karen Torrez    31.14  72  Sara Elbekri    31.52  Miriam Hatamleh    74  Kiran Khan    31.56  75  Prisca Rose    31.63  76  Parita Parekh    32.07  77  Nicole Ellsworth    32.20  78  Ximene Vaz Gomez    32.54  79  Mercedes Milner    32.55  80  Kathryn Millin    32.57  81  Kelly How Tam Fat    33.42  82  Judith Meauri    33.61  83  Hussain Aminath Rouya    33.78  84  Virginia Farmer    33.80  85  Shannon Austin    33.98  86  Debra Daniel   FS Micronesia  34.00  87  Saintsetseg Dashtseren    34.04  88  Chinyere Pigot    35.02  89  Samantha La Qua    35.13  90  Zakia Nassar    35.88  91  Senele Dlamini    36.14  92  Julianne Kirchner    37.71  93  Teran Matthews   Saint Vincent          and the Grenadines  41.83  --  Katerina Izmailova    DNS  --  Ngozi Monu    DNS  --  Ana Roxiero    DNS  --  Chantal Van Wyk    DNS  --  XU Yanwei    DNS  --  Ira Kurniawan    DQ
See also * Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 50 metre butterfly* Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 50 metre butterfly
References * Women's 50m Butterfly '''Preliminary''' results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); Retrieved 2009-07-11. * Women's 50m Butterfly '''Semifinals''' results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); Retrieved 2009-07-11. * Women's 50m Butterfly '''Final''' results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); Retrieved 2009-07-11.