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

Event:	Women's 100m Butterfly
Competition:	2012 Short Course Worlds
Dates:	15 December (heats and semifinals) 16 December (final)
Win Value:	56.13
Gold:	Ilaria Bianchi
Goldnoc:	ITA
Silver:	Liu Zige
Silvernoc:	CHN
Bronze:	Jemma Lowe
Bronzenoc:	GBR
Prev:	2010
Next:	2014

The women's 100 metre butterfly event at the 11th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) took place 15 - 16 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	Diane Bui Duyet		align=left	55.05		12 December 2009
Championship record			align=left	55.43		19 December 2010

No new records were set during this competition.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	7	8	57.31	Q
2	7	7	57.32	Q
3	5	4	57.53	Q
4	5	5	57.58	Q
5	6	5	57.81	Q
6	5	3	57.83	Q
7	7	6	57.87	Q
8	7	5	58.01	Q
9	6	7	58.10	Q
10	6	4	58.15	Q
11	6	9	58.22	Q
12	6	6	58.34	Q
13	5	2	58.36	Q
14	6	3	58.39	Q
15	4	6	58.50	Q
16	7	3	58.54	Q
17	6	2	58.71
18	2	0	58.85
19	5	8	58.87	NR
20	6	1	58.96
21	5	7	59.09
21	6	0	59.09
23	7	9	59.25
24	7	2	59.26
25	7	0	59.31
26	2	8	59.45
27	7	1	59.74
28	5	0	59.80
29	5	6	1:00.01
30	5	9	1:00.18
31	6	8	1:00.77
32	4	3	1:00.89
33	4	5	1:01.06
34	4	7	1:01.08
35	4	2	1:01.24
36	3	5	1:01.51
37	3	3	1:02.07	NR
38	4	1	1:03.14
39	3	2	1:03.30
40	4	4	1:03.31
41	4	9	1:03.38
42	4	8	1:03.45
43	4	0	1:04.33
44	3	6	1:04.41
45	3	8	1:05.28
46	3	4	1:05.61
47	3	0	1:05.76
48	3	1	1:06.32
49	1	5	1:06.71
50	2	4	1:06.87
51	3	9	1:09.11
52	3	7	1:09.60
53	2	5	1:10.32
54	2	2	1:10.79
55	2	7	1:11.94
56	2	3	1:12.37
57	2	1	1:13.40
58	2	6	1:14.00
	1	3
	1	4
	5	1
	7	4

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	1	2	Ilaria Bianchi	56.60	Q
2	1	4	Noemie It-Ting Thomas	56.64	Q, NR
3	2	5	Jemma Lowe	57.16	Q
4	2	4	Liu Zige	57.24	Q
5	1	5	Claire Donahue	57.51	Q
6	2	1	Silvia di Pietro	57.62	Q
7	1	3	Kathleen Hersey	57.65	Q
8	2	3	Louise Hansson	57.79
9	1	8	Veronika Popova	57.82
10	2	6	Daynara de Paula	57.87	Q
11	2	2	Nao Kobayashi	57.99
12	1	7	Emilia Pikkarainen	58.04	NR
13	1	6	Katerine Savard	58.13
14	1	1	Birgit Koschischek	58.40
15	2	8	Sze Hang Yu	58.66
16	2	7	Kona Fujita	58.71

The final was held at 19:49.^[3]

Web site: 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 100 metre butterfly (heats). Omega Timing. 2012-12-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20121218110529/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010C010D01032100FFFFFFFFFFFF02. 2012-12-18. dead.
Web site: 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 100 metre butterfly (semifinals). Omega Timing. 2012-12-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20121218100840/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010C010D01032101FFFFFFFFFFFF02. 2012-12-18. dead.
Web site: 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 100 metre butterfly (final). Omega Timing. 2012-12-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20121218233652/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010C010D01032102FFFFFFFFFFFF02. 2012-12-18. dead.