Swimming — 50 metres Freestyle, Women

Times held	9
Total participants	462
Total countries	167

Participants

Year	Event	Status	Participants	NOCs
1988	50 metres Freestyle, Women	Olympic	50	33
1992	50 metres Freestyle, Women	Olympic	50	35
1996	50 metres Freestyle, Women	Olympic	55	47
2000	50 metres Freestyle, Women	Olympic	74	66
2004	50 metres Freestyle, Women	Olympic	73	66
2008	50 metres Freestyle, Women	Olympic	90	82
2012	50 metres Freestyle, Women	Olympic	73	65
2016	50 metres Freestyle, Women	Olympic	89	75
2020	50 metres Freestyle, Women	Olympic	81	73

Medal winners

Year	Gold		Silver		Bronze
1988	Kristin Otto	GDR	Yang Wenyi	CHN	Katrin Meißner Jill Sterkel	GDR USA
1992	Yang Wenyi	CHN	Zhuang Yong	CHN	Angel Martino	USA
1996	Amy Van Dyken	USA	Le Jingyi	CHN	Sandra Völker	GER
2000	Inge de Bruijn	NED	Therèse Alshammar	SWE	Dara Torres	USA
2004	Inge de Bruijn	NED	Malia Metella	FRA	Libby Lenton	AUS
2008	Britta Steffen	GER	Dara Torres	USA	Cate Campbell	AUS
2012	Ranomi Kromowidjojo	NED	Aliaksandra Herasimenia	BLR	Marleen Veldhuis	NED
2016	Pernille Blume	DEN	Simone Manuel	USA	Aliaksandra Herasimenia	BLR
2020	Emma McKeon	AUS	Sarah Sjöström	SWE	Pernille Blume	DEN

Medals by country

NOC		Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Netherlands	NED	3	0	1	4
People's Republic of China	CHN	1	3	0	4
United States	USA	1	2	3	6
Australia	AUS	1	0	2	3
Denmark	DEN	1	0	1	2
East Germany	GDR	1	0	1	2
Germany	GER	1	0	1	2
Sweden	SWE	0	2	0	2
Belarus	BLR	0	1	1	2
France	FRA	0	1	0	1

Top medallists

Athlete	Nat	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Inge de Bruijn	NED	2	0	0	2
Yang Wenyi	CHN	1	1	0	2
Pernille Blume	DEN	1	0	1	2
Kristin Otto	GDR	1	0	0	1
Amy Van Dyken	USA	1	0	0	1
Britta Steffen	GER	1	0	0	1
Ranomi Kromowidjojo	NED	1	0	0	1
Emma McKeon	AUS	1	0	0	1