Swimming at the 2018 Commonwealth Games – Women's 50 metre freestyle

Women's 50 metre freestyle at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
Venue	Gold Coast Aquatic Centre
Dates	6 April (heats, semifinals) 7 April (final)
Competitors	40 from 30 nations
Winning time	23.78
Medalists
Cate Campbell    Australia   Bronte Campbell    Australia   Taylor Ruck    Canada

The women's 50 metre freestyle event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games was held on 6 and 7 April at the Gold Coast Aquatic Centre.

Records

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

World record	Sarah Sjöström (SWE)	23.67	Budapest, Hungary	29 July 2017
Commonwealth record	Cate Campbell (AUS)	23.79	Gold Coast, Australia	3 March 2018
Games record	Francesca Halsall (ENG)	23.96	Glasgow, United Kingdom	26 July 2014

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
6 April	Semifinal	Cate Campbell	Australia	23.88	GR
7 April	Final	Cate Campbell	Australia	23.78	CR, GR

Results

Heats

The heats were held on 6 April at 10:47.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nation	Time	Notes
1	6	4	Cate Campbell	Australia	24.24	Q
2	4	4	Shayna Jack	Australia	24.50	Q
3	5	4	Bronte Campbell	Australia	24.87	Q
4	6	5	Taylor Ruck	Canada	25.13	Q
5	5	3	Erin Gallagher	South Africa	25.21	Q
6	5	5	Anna Hopkin	England	25.29	Q
7	6	3	Kayla Sanchez	Canada	25.47	Q
8	5	6	Emma Chelius	South Africa	25.62	Q
9	6	6	Lucy Hope	Scotland	25.85	Q
10	4	2	Laticia Transom	New Zealand	25.96	Q
11	4	6	Kalia Antoniou	Cyprus	25.97	Q
12	6	2	Jessica Jackson	England	26.01	Q
13	5	2	Danielle Hill	Northern Ireland	26.02	Q
14	4	5	Quah Ting Wen	Singapore	26.22	Q
15	5	7	Lauren Hew	Cayman Islands	26.59	Q
16	6	8	Maria Brunlehner	Kenya	26.70	Q
17	6	7	Lushavel Stickland	Samoa	26.84
18	5	1	Cheyenne Rova	Fiji	27.08
19	6	1	Emily Siobhan Muteti	Kenya	27.14
20	3	3	Matelita Buadromo	Fiji	27.19
21	4	7	Alison Jackson	Cayman Islands	27.34
22	5	8	Tilka Paljk	Zambia	27.47
23	3	7	Tatiana Tostevin	Guernsey	27.52
24	4	8	Elodie Poo Cheong	Mauritius	27.63
25	3	6	Dilrukshi Perera	Sri Lanka	27.75
26	1	5	Maayaa Ayawere	Ghana	28.38
26	3	2	Oreoluwa Cherebin	Grenada	28.38
28	2	5	Therese Soukup	Seychelles	28.45
29	3	4	Aaliyah Palestrini	Seychelles	28.52
30	3	8	Makaela Holowchak	Antigua and Barbuda	28.65
31	2	2	Christina Linares	Gibraltar	28.68
32	3	5	Bisma Khan	Pakistan	28.75
33	2	4	Vinoli Kaluarachchi	Sri Lanka	28.76
34	3	1	Jamila Sanmoogan	Guyana	28.86
35	2	6	Avice Meya	Uganda	29.09
36	1	3	Charissa Panuve	Tonga	30.34
37	2	3	Miss Khatun	Bangladesh	31.10
38	2	7	Aliah Maginley	Antigua and Barbuda	31.20
39	4	1	Angelia Charles	Solomon Islands	36.18
40	1	4	Bunturabie Jalloh	Sierra Leone	38.27
	4	3	Penny Oleksiak	Canada	DNS

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 6 April at 20:12.

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nation	Result	Notes
1	4	Shayna Jack	Australia	24.63	Q
2	5	Taylor Ruck	Canada	24.72	Q
3	3	Anna Hopkin	England	25.33	Q
4	6	Emma Chelius	South Africa	25.89
5	2	Laticia Transom	New Zealand	25.95
6	7	Jessica Jackson	England	26.08
7	1	Quah Ting Wen	Singapore	26.25
8	8	Maria Brunlehner	Kenya	26.63

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nation	Result	Notes
1	4	Cate Campbell	Australia	23.88	Q, GR
2	5	Bronte Campbell	Australia	24.38	Q
3	3	Erin Gallagher	South Africa	25.03	Q
4	6	Kayla Sanchez	Canada	25.20	Q
5	1	Danielle Hill	Northern Ireland	25.80	Q
6	2	Lucy Hope	Scotland	25.87
7	7	Kalia Antoniou	Cyprus	25.89
8	8	Lauren Hew	Cayman Islands	26.61

Final

The final was held on 7 April at 19:43.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nation	Result	Notes
	4	Cate Campbell	Australia	23.78	CR, GR
	5	Bronte Campbell	Australia	24.26
	6	Taylor Ruck	Canada	24.26	NR
4	3	Shayna Jack	Australia	24.57
5	2	Erin Gallagher	South Africa	25.03
6	7	Kayla Sanchez	Canada	25.12
7	1	Anna Hopkin	England	25.28
8	8	Danielle Hill	Northern Ireland	25.56