Swimming at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships – Women's 50 metre butterfly

Women's 50 metre butterfly at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships
Venue	Tollcross International Swimming Centre
Dates	8 August (heats and semifinals) 9 August (final)
Competitors	43 from 28 nations
Winning time	25.16
Medalists
Sarah Sjöström   Sweden   Emilie Beckmann   Denmark   Kimberly Buys   Belgium

The Women's 50 metre butterfly competition of the 2018 European Aquatics Championships was held on 8 and 9 August 2018 in Tollcross International Swimming Centre, Glasgow, Scotland.

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record European record	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	24.43	Borås	5 July 2014
Championship record	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	24.87	Berlin	18 August 2014

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 8 August at 09:26.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	25.11	Q
2	3	5	Emilie Beckmann	Denmark	25.72	Q
3	4	5	Kimberly Buys	Belgium	25.80	Q
4	4	4	Ranomi Kromowidjojo	Netherlands	25.92	Q
5	3	4	Melanie Henique	France	25.94	Q
6	4	2	Anna Dowgiert	Poland	26.13	Q
7	3	3	Elena Di Liddo	Italy	26.28	Q
8	4	6	Kim Busch	Netherlands	26.38	Q
9	5	5	Aliena Schmidtke	Germany	26.41	Q
10	3	7	Ilaria Bianchi	Italy	26.47	Q
11	3	2	Mimosa Jallow	Finland	26.49	Q
12	3	6	Louise Hansson	Sweden	26.50	QSO
12	5	6	Sara Junevik	Sweden	26.50	QSO
14	5	2	Anna Ntountounaki	Greece	26.53	Q
15	2	7	Julie Kepp Jensen	Denmark	26.62	Q
16	5	9	Alexandra Touretski	Switzerland	26.77	Q
17	5	3	Maaike de Waard	Netherlands	26.82
18	4	9	Lucie Svěcená	Czech Republic	26.91	Q
19	4	7	Rozaliya Nasretdinova	Russia	26.92
20	3	1	Kinge Zandringa	Netherlands	27.02
21	3	8	Liliána Szilágyi	Hungary	27.09
22	4	1	Anastasiya Kuliashova	Belarus	27.15
23	2	5	Kertu Alnek	Estonia	27.17
24	4	8	Ida Lindborg	Sweden	27.20
25	5	1	Alys Thomas	Great Britain	27.24
26	5	7	Amit Ivry	Israel	27.30
27	5	8	Charlotte Atkinson	Great Britain	27.48
28	2	2	Emilie Løvberg	Norway	27.53
29	2	3	Amina Kajtaz	Bosnia and Herzegovina	27.56
30	2	8	Caroline Pilhatsch	Austria	27.72
31	3	0	Anna Kolářová	Czech Republic	27.83
32	4	0	Svenja Stoffel	Switzerland	27.84
33	5	0	Aleyna Özkan	Turkey	27.91
34	2	9	Ieva Maļuka	Latvia	27.98
35	3	9	Gabriela Ņikitina	Latvia	28.10
35	2	6	Alexandra Schegoleva	Cyprus	28.10
37	1	5	Beatrice Felici	San Marino	28.27
38	2	1	Sezin Eliguel	Turkey	28.46
39	2	0	Ana Catarina Monteiro	Portugal	28.52
40	1	4	Claudia Hufnagl	Austria	28.79
41	1	3	Nida Eliz Üstündağ	Turkey	28.96
42	1	6	Ani Poghosyan	Armenia	29.85
43	1	2	Tatiana Chișca	Moldova	29.96
	2	4	Jenna Laukkanen	Finland	Did not start
	4	3	Marie Wattel	France

Swim-off

The swim-off was held on 8 August at 10:14.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Louise Hansson	Sweden	26.11	Q
2	4	Sara Junevik	Sweden	26.36

Semifinals

The semifinals were started on 8 August at 17:10.

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Emilie Beckmann	Denmark	25.86	Q
2	5	Ranomi Kromowidjojo	Netherlands	25.95	Q
3	3	Anna Dowgiert	Poland	26.14	Q
4	6	Kim Busch	Netherlands	26.42
5	2	Ilaria Bianchi	Italy	26.43
6	7	Louise Hansson	Sweden	26.54
7	1	Julie Kepp Jensen	Denmark	26.86
8	8	Lucie Svěcená	Czech Republic	26.90

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	25.51	Q
2	3	Melanie Henique	France	25.68	Q
3	5	Kimberly Buys	Belgium	25.76	Q
4	2	Aliena Schmidtke	Germany	26.09	Q
5	1	Anna Ntountounaki	Greece	26.22	Q NR
6	7	Mimosa Jallow	Finland	26.24
7	6	Elena Di Liddo	Italy	26.36
8	8	Alexandra Touretski	Switzerland	26.66

Final

The final was started on 9 August at 16:45.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	25.16
	6	Emilie Beckmann	Denmark	25.72
	3	Kimberly Buys	Belgium	25.74
4	7	Aliena Schmidtke	Germany	25.77
5	5	Melanie Henique	France	25.84
6	2	Ranomi Kromowidjojo	Netherlands	25.88
7	1	Anna Dowgiert	Poland	26.18
8	8	Anna Ntountounaki	Greece	26.23