The women's 50 metre freestyle competition of the swimming

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 events at the 2011 Pan American Games

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took place on the 21st of October at the Scotiabank Aquatics Center

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. The defending

Swimming at the 2007 Pan American Games – Women's 50 metre freestyle

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 Pan American Games

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 champion is Arlene Semeco

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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:* *...

 of Venezuela.

This race consisted of one length of the pool in freestyle

Freestyle swimming

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.

Records

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

World record		23.73	Rome Rome Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half... , Italy Italy Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...	August 2, 2009
Pan American Games record		25.14	Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th... , Brazil Brazil Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...	July 18, 2007

Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee

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 (NOC) was able to enter up to two entrants providing they had met the A standard (26.4) in the qualifying period (January 1, 2010 to September 4, 2011). NOCs were also permitted to enter one athlete providing they had met the B standard (27.2) in the same qualifying period.

Results

All times shown are in seconds/minutes.

KEY:

q

Fastest non-qualifiers

Q

Qualified

GR

Games record

NR

National record

PB

Personal best

SB

Seasonal best

Heats

The first round were held on October 21.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	5	Graciele Herrmann		25.28	QA
2	3	4	Lara Jackson Lara Jackson Lara Marie Jackson is a member of USA Swimming's national team. She is a former American record holder in the 50 m freestyle, set at 2008 Olympic Trials, where she later narrowly missed a place on the Olympic team...		25.39	QA
3	2	4	Madison Kennedy		25.40	QA
4	3	5	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:* *...		25.58	QA
5	1	4	Vanessa Garcia 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....		25.64	QA
6	2	5	Flavia Delaroli-Cazziolato		25.77	QA
7	1	6	Nadia Colovini		26.04	QA, NR
8	3	3	Jennifer Beckberger		26.05	QA
9	3	2	Liliana Ibañez		26.34	QB
10	3	6	Carolina Colorado		26.64	QB
11	2	3	Caroline Lapierre		26.66	QB
12	1	2	Ariel Weech		26.76	QB
13	2	6	Ximena Vilar		26.84	QB
14	1	3	Chinyere Pigot		26.89	QB
15	3	7	Allyson Ponson		27.16	QB
16	2	7	Karen Torrez		27.24	QB
17	1	7	Kiera Aitken Kiera Aitken Kiera Aitken is an Olympic and national-record holding swimmer from Bermuda. She is one of Bermuda's most successful swimmers, and has twice been named Bermuda's Female Athlete of the Year...		27.27
18	2	2	Debra Rodriguez		27.28
19	3	1	Karin O'Reilly		31.41

Final A

The final was held on October 21.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Lara Jackson Lara Jackson Lara Marie Jackson is a member of USA Swimming's national team. She is a former American record holder in the 50 m freestyle, set at 2008 Olympic Trials, where she later narrowly missed a place on the Olympic team...		25.09	GR
	4	Graciele Herrmann		25.23
	3	Madison Kennedy		25.24
4	2	Vanessa Garcia 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....		25.39
5	6	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:* *...		25.57
6	7	Flavia Delaroli-Cazziolato		25.94
7	1	Nadia Colovini		26.08
8	8	Jennifer Beckberger		26.12