2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 100 metre breaststroke explained

Event:	Women's 100m Breaststroke
Competition:	2012 Short Course Worlds
Dates:	14 December (heats and semifinals) 15 December (final)
Win Value:	1:03.52
Gold:	Rūta Meilutytė
Goldnoc:	LTU
Silver:	Alia Atkinson
Silvernoc:	JAM
Bronze:	Rikke Møller Pedersen
Bronzenoc:	DEN
Prev:	2010
Next:	2014

The women's 100 metre breaststroke event at the 11th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) took place 14 - 15 December 2012 at the Sinan Erdem Dome.

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Rebecca Soni		align=left	1:02.70		19 December 2009
Championship record	Rebecca Soni		align=left	1:03.98		18 December 2010

The following records were established during the competition:

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	7	5	1:04.69	Q, NR
2	6	4	1:04.73	Q
3	6	5	1:04.76	Q
4	7	4	1:05.04	Q
5	5	4	1:05.26	Q
6	5	5	1:06.10	Q
7	6	3	1:06.16	Q
8	5	6	1:06.32	Q
9	6	6	1:06.45	Q
10	6	7	1:06.61	Q, NR
11	7	6	1:06.74	Q
12	7	3	1:06.75	Q
13	7	2	1:06.90	Q
14	2	1	1:06.92	Q
15	5	7	1:06.93	Q
16	6	0	1:06.98	Q
17	7	7	1:07.10
17	7	1	1:07.10
19	5	2	1:07.12
20	5	3	1:07.15
21	5	8	1:07.49
22	1	5	1:07.54
23	6	2	1:07.60
24	7	8	1:07.85
25	4	4	1:07.97
26	5	0	1:08.03
27	5	1	1:08.17
28	6	1	1:08.21
29	4	6	1:08.68
30	7	0	1:09.21
31	4	5	1:09.28	NR^[2]
32	6	9	1:09.29	NR
33	6	8	1:09.34
34	4	3	1:10.12
35	5	9	1:10.91
36	4	7	1:10.96
37	4	9	1:11.73
38	4	1	1:12.43
39	2	8	1:12.47
40	4	2	1:12.92
41	4	0	1:13.23	NR
42	3	3	1:13.73
43	3	2	1:15.70
44	3	1	1:16.02
45	1	4	1:17.24
46	3	7	1:17.40
47	3	6	1:18.62
48	3	8	1:18.74
49	3	9	1:19.04
50	3	5	1:20.10
51	2	4	1:20.66
52	4	8	1:20.76
53	3	0	1:20.97
54	2	7	1:21.78
55	2	6	1:24.79
56	2	3	1:24.86
57	2	5	1:24.94
58	2	2	1:33.26
59	2	0	1:35.71
	1	3
	3	4
	7	9

Rank	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	4		1:06.20
2	5		1:06.99

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	1	4	Rikke Møller Pedersen	1:04.11	Q, NR
2	2	4	Rūta Meilutytė	1:04.81	Q
3	2	3	Alia Atkinson	1:04.99	Q
4	2	5	Sarah Katsoulis	1:05.12	Q
5	1	5	Jessica Hardy	1:05.42	Q
6	1	3	Jennie Johansson	1:05.62	Q
7	2	6	Petra Chocová	1:05.68	Q
8	2	2	Rebecca Ejdervik	1:06.18	Q
9	2	7	Tera van Beilen	1:06.24
10	2	8	Sophie Allen	1:06.42
11	1	6	Samantha Marshall	1:06.48
12	2	1	Jenna Laukkanen	1:06.75
13	1	7	Valentina Artemyeva	1:06.94
14	1	1	Ji Liping	1:07.25
15	1	2	Dilara Buse Günaydın	1:07.27
	1	8	Zhao Jin

The final was held at 19:00.^[5]

Web site: 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 100 metre breaststroke (heats). Omega Timing. 2012-12-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20121218110517/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010C010D01021E00FFFFFFFFFFFF02. 2012-12-18. dead.
50 metre breaststroke record. List of Singaporean National Women's Short Course Swimming Records. 2. Singapore Swimming Association. 2 August 2014. 12 November 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141112120345/http://www.swimming.org.sg/Assets/Singapore+Swimming+Association+Digital+Assets/Swimming/Records/National+Women$!27s+Open+Records+(SCM).pdf. 2014-11-12. dead.
Web site: 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 100 metre breaststroke (swim-off). Omega Timing. 2012-12-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20121218110525/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010C010D01021E03FFFFFFFFFFFF02. 2012-12-18. dead.
Web site: 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 100 metre breaststroke (semifinals). Omega Timing. 2012-12-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20121218135645/http://www.omegatiming.com/file/download/?id=00010C010D01021E01FFFFFFFFFFFF02. 2012-12-18. dead.
Web site: 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 100 metre breaststroke (final). Omega Timing. 2012-12-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20150924132727/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010C010D01021E02FFFFFFFFFFFF02. 2015-09-24. dead.