2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 100 metre freestyle explained

Event:	Women's 100m Freestyle
Competition:	2010 Short Course Worlds
Dates:	16 December 2010 (heats and semifinals) 17 December 2010 (final)
Win Value:	51.45
Gold:	Ranomi Kromowidjojo
Goldnoc:	NED
Silver:	Femke Heemskerk
Silvernoc:	NED
Bronze:	Natalie Coughlin
Bronzenoc:	USA
Prev:	2008
Next:	2012

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The Women's 100 metre Freestyle at the 10th Short Course World Swimming Championships took place 16–17 December 2010 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The heats and semifinals were 16 December; the final was 17 December.

89 swimmers participated in the event^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Libby Trickett		align=left	51.01	Hobart	10 August 2009
Championship record	Marleen Veldhuis Therese Alshammar		align=left	52.17		11 April 2008 16 April 2000

The following records were established during the competition:

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	11	2	52.27	Q
2	12	4	52.39	Q
3	11	5	52.58	Q
4	10	4	52.62	Q
5	12	6	52.85	Q
6	12	2	53.14	Q
7	10	6	53.23	Q
8	11	4	53.31	Q*
9	12	3	53.32	Q
10	11	6	53.33	Q
11	10	5	53.50	Q
12	12	5	53.53	Q
13	11	3	53.59	Q
14	12	7	53.85	Q
15	9	6	53.89	Q
16	10	1	53.94	Q
17	11	4	53.97
18	8	4	54.17
19	10	2	54.24
20	9	3	54.26
21	9	4	54.44
22	11	8	54.62
23	8	3	54.65
24	11	1	54.84
25	11	7	54.90
26	9	5	54.95
27	10	8	55.03
28	9	7	55.08
29	9	8	55.15
30	12	1	55.20
31	9	2	55.32
32	10	7	55.41
33	8	5	55.51
34	8	1	55.56
35	12	8	55.64
36	9	1	56.31
37	8	2	56.43
38	8	7	56.70
39	7	4	57.23
39	7	5	57.23
41	7	2	57.34
42	8	8	57.52
43	8	6	57.62
44	6	7	57.77
45	6	2	58.47	NR
46	7	8	58.85
47	7	3	58.88
48	7	7	59.09
49	5	5	59.12
50	6	8	59.31
51	6	5	59.39
52	6	3	59.60
52	6	6	59.60
54	6	4	59.62
55	5	4	59.94
56	7	6	1:00.18
57	4	5	1:00.35
58	7	1	1:00.39
59	5	3	1:00.43
60	5	6	1:00.58
61	6	1	1:00.72
62	4	6	1:01.10
63	5	8	1:01.18
64	5	2	1:01.19
65	5	7	1:01.24
66	4	2	1:02.01
67	4	4	1:02.37
68	4	3	1:02.56
69	1	5	1:02.60
70	5	1	1:03.42
71	3	5	1:04.21
72	4	8	1:04.50
73	4	7	1:05.44
74	3	8	1:05.77
75	3	2	1:06.15
76	3	7	1:06.72
77	2	7	1:06.85
78	4	1	1:07.01
79	3	6	1:07.02
80	3	3	1:07.11
81	3	1	1:07.69
82	2	4	1:08.00
83	3	4	1:08.11
84	1	4	1:09.75
85	2	3	1:11.39
86	1	3	1:11.81
87	2	6	1:13.11
88	2	5	1:14.62
89	2	2	1:39.24

* Ottesen and Seppälä scratched semifinals; therefore Pang advanced on.

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	5	52.27	Q
2	4	52.34	Q
3	3	52.76	Q NR
4	6	52.90	Q
5	7	53.03	Q
6	2	53.33
7	8	53.68
8	1	53.76

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	52.51	Q
2	5	52.67	Q
3	6	52.95	Q
4	3	53.09
5	2	53.30
6	1	53.49
7	7	53.60
7	8	53.60

^[2]

Final

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
	5	51.45	CR
	4	52.18
	3	52.25
4	7	52.41
5	2	52.51	NR
6	1	52.81
7	6	52.95
8	8	53.10

^[3]

External links

2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m): Women's 100 m freestyle entry list, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2010-12-14.

Notes and References

Web site: 2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 100 metre freestyle (heats) . https://web.archive.org/web/20110125030257/http://www.omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2010/WSC_DUBAI/C74A_ResSummary_11_Heats_Women_100_Free.pdf . dead . 2011-01-25 . Omega Timing . 2010-12-16 .
Web site: 2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 100 metre freestyle (semifinals). Omega Timing. 2010-12-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20120316142939/http://omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2010/WSC_DUBAI/C74A_ResSummary_211_Semifinals_Women_100_Free.pdf. 16 March 2012. dead.
Web site: 2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 100 metre freestyle (final). Omega Timing. 2010-12-17. https://web.archive.org/web/20110124172416/http://www.omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2010/WSC_DUBAI/C73A1_Res1Heat_111_Finals_1_Women_100_Free.pdf. 24 January 2011. dead.