Swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's 50 metre freestyle

The women's 50 metre freestyle event at the 2000 Summer Olympics took place on 22–23 September at the Sydney International Aquatic Centre in Sydney, Australia.[1]

Women's 50 metre freestyle
at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
VenueSydney International Aquatic Centre
Date22 September 2000 (heats &
semifinals)
23 September 2000 (final)
Competitors74 from 66 nations
Winning time24.32
Medalists
Inge de Bruijn  Netherlands
Therese Alshammar  Sweden
Dara Torres  United States

Dutch rising star Inge de Bruijn added a third gold to her medal tally in swimming at these Games. She powered past the field to touch the wall first in 24.32, the second-fastest of all-time.[2][3] Earlier in the semifinals, she blasted her own world record of 24.13 to snatch a top seed for the final.[4] Sweden's Therese Alshammar captured the silver in 24.51, while U.S. legend Dara Torres powered home with the bronze in a new American record of 24.63, edging out defending Olympic champion Amy Van Dyken (25.04) by 41-hundredths of a second. The podium placements also replicated the results of the 100 m freestyle (with the exception of Jenny Thompson), held on the sixth night of the Games.[5][6]

Slovakia's Martina Moravcová finished off the podium in fifth place at 25.24, and was followed in the sixth spot by Germany's Sandra Völker in 25.27. Great Britain's Alison Sheppard (25.45) and Japan's Sumika Minamoto (25.65) closed out the field.[6]

Notable swimmers missed out the top 8 final, featuring Australia's overwhelming favorite Susie O'Neill; Völker's teammate Katrin Meissner, who shared bronze medals with Jill Sterkel in the event's inception in 1988 as a member of the former East German squad; and Estonia's Jana Kolukanova, who grabbed the final spot from the prelims after winning a three-person swimoff.[7]

One of the most popular highlights in the event took place in the first heat. Dubbed as the Crawler, Paula Barila Bolopa had finally completed a unique double for Equatorial Guinea, as she swam the slowest ever race by a female in Olympic history with a time of 1:03.97.[8]

Records

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

World record Inge de Bruijn (NED)24.39Rio de Janeiro, Brazil10 June 2000[9]
Olympic record Yang Wenyi (CHN)24.79Barcelona, Spain31 July 1992[9]

The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.

DateEventNameNationalityTimeRecord
22 SeptemberHeat 10Inge de Bruijn Netherlands24.46OR
22 SeptemberSemifinal 2Inge de Bruijn Netherlands24.13WR

Results

Heats

[9]

RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
1104Inge de Bruijn Netherlands24.46Q, OR
284Dara Torres United States24.96Q
3105Amy Van Dyken United States25.04Q
494Therese Alshammar Sweden25.24Q
5107Martina Moravcová Slovakia25.39Q, NR
695Sandra Völker Germany25.44Q
7103Sumika Minamoto Japan25.52Q
101Vivienne Rignall New ZealandQ, NR
985Alison Sheppard Great Britain25.53Q
10102Katrin Meissner Germany25.64Q
11106Olga Mukomol Ukraine25.67Q
1287Susie O'Neill Australia25.73Q
1386Anna-Karin Kammerling Sweden25.79Q
1493Wilma van Rijn Netherlands25.81Q
1566Rania Elwani Egypt25.87Q, NR
1667Mette Jacobsen Denmark25.96QSO
78Jana Kolukanova EstoniaQSO
97Ana Belén Palomo SpainQSO
1982Cristina Chiuso Italy25.99
2083Sue Rolph Great Britain26.00
2191Han Xue China26.01
2288Nadine Rolland Canada26.04
2381Sarah Ryan Australia26.05
61Leah Martindale Barbados
2598Helene Muller South Africa26.07
2676Alena Popchanka Belarus26.10
2792Eileen Coparropa Panama26.19
2874Liesbet Dreesen Belgium26.21
77Hanna-Maria Seppälä Finland
3075Ivana Walterová Slovakia26.23
3196Judith Draxler Austria26.26
3263Siobhan Cropper Trinidad and Tobago26.36
3373Yekaterina Kibalo Russia26.37
3465Lara Heinz Luxembourg26.55
3568Caroline Pickering Fiji26.57
3662Kirsty Coventry Zimbabwe26.58
3771Joscelin Yeo Singapore26.71
38108Jenna Gresdal Canada26.79
3914Moe Thu Aung Myanmar26.80
4052Chiang Tzu-ying Chinese Taipei26.84
4164Chang Hee-jin South Korea26.88
43Yekaterina Tochenaya Kyrgyzstan
4372Athina Bochori Greece26.90
4458Agnese Ozoliņa Latvia27.28
4553Pilin Tachakittiranan Thailand27.31
4654Marijana Šurković Croatia27.32
4757Hiu Wai Sherry Tsai Hong Kong27.38
4856Chantal Gibney Ireland27.46
4946Angela Chuck Jamaica27.48
5051Jūratė Ladavičiūtė Lithuania27.54
5155Elín Sigurðardóttir Iceland27.58
5245Marilyn Chua Malaysia27.66
5344Duška Radan Yugoslavia27.70
5441Maria Tregubova Moldova27.75
5547Saida Iskandarova Uzbekistan28.08
5642Talía Barrios Peru28.11
5735Ngozi Monu Nigeria28.20
5837Tanya Anacleto Mozambique28.78
5934Alisa Khaleyeva Azerbaijan28.79
6038Sherri Henry Saint Lucia28.81
6136Mbolatiana Ramanisa Madagascar29.20
6232Roshendra Vrolijk Aruba29.31
6333Yuliana Mikheeva Armenia29.79
6425Theekshana Ratnasekera Sri Lanka29.88
6523Samar Nassar Palestine30.05
6626Runa Pradhan Nepal31.28
6722Teran Matthews Saint Vincent and the Grenadines31.71
6831Francilla Agar Dominica32.22
6927Fariha Fathimath Maldives32.36
7021Hem Raksmey Cambodia33.11
7124Noor Haki Iraq35.51
7248Aissatou Barry Guinea35.79
7313Paula Barila Bolopa Equatorial Guinea1:03.97
15Fatema Hameed Gerashi BahrainDSQ

Swimoff

[10]

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
15Jana Kolukanova Estonia25.87Q, NR
24Mette Jacobsen Denmark26.00
3Ana Belén Palomo SpainDSQ

Semifinal 1

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
15Therese Alshammar Sweden24.80Q
24Dara Torres United States24.98Q
33Sandra Völker Germany25.22Q
46Sumika Minamoto Japan25.43Q
52Katrin Meissner Germany25.62
67Susie O'Neill Australia25.74
71Wilma van Rijn Netherlands25.87
88Jana Kolukanova Estonia26.03

Semifinal 2

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
14Inge de Bruijn Netherlands24.13Q, WR
25Amy Van Dyken United States25.00Q
32Alison Sheppard Great Britain25.32Q
43Martina Moravcová Slovakia25.49Q
51Anna-Karin Kammerling Sweden25.61
56Vivienne Rignall New Zealand25.61
77Olga Mukomol Ukraine25.88
88Rania Elwani Egypt25.95

Final

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
4Inge de Bruijn Netherlands24.32
5Therese Alshammar Sweden24.51
3Dara Torres United States24.63AM
46Amy Van Dyken United States25.04
58Martina Moravcová Slovakia25.24NR
62Sandra Völker Germany25.27
77Alison Sheppard Great Britain25.45
81Sumika Minamoto Japan25.65

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