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

Event:	Women's 100m Individual Medley
Competition:	2012 Short Course Worlds
Dates:	13 December (heats and semifinals) 14 December (final)
Win Value:	58.49
Gold:	Katinka Hosszú
Goldnoc:	Hungary
Silver:	Ruta Meilutyte
Silvernoc:	Lithuania
Bronze:	Jing Zhao
Bronzenoc:	China
Prev:	2010
Next:	2014

The women's 100 metre individual medley event at the 11th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) took place 13 - 14 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	Hinkelien Schreuder		align=left	57.74		15 November 2009
Championship record			align=left	58.65		16 December 2010

The following records were established during the competition:

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	5	4		Q
2	5	3		Q, NR
3	7	4		Q
4	7	3		Q, NR
5	6	4		Q
6	1	5	1:00.03	Q
6	7	5	1:00.03	Q
8	2	8	1:00.32	Q
9	1	8	1:00.37	Q
10	7	7	1:00.45	Q
11	5	5	1:00.79	Q
12	6	3	1:00.85	Q
13	6	5	1:00.99	Q
13	7	6	1:00.99	Q
15	1	3	1:01.19	WD
16	7	8	1:01.37	Q
17	2	7	1:01.55	Q
18	7	2	1:01.56
19	5	9	1:01.62
20	5	6	1:01.74
21	6	6	1:01.77
22	1	4	1:01.85
23	6	1	1:02.03
24	7	1	1:02.14
25	6	2	1:02.55
26	5	0	1:02.63
27	6	0	1:02.76
28	5	8	1:02.85	NR
29	6	8	1:02.90
29	7	0	1:02.90
31	5	1	1:03.10
32	6	9	1:03.58	NR
33	1	1	1:03.93
34	5	7	1:04.14
35	4	5	1:04.29
36	6	7	1:04.30
37	7	9	1:04.46
38	4	4	1:04.58
39	4	0	1:05.47
40	4	6	1:05.49
41	4	3	1:05.80
42	4	7	1:06.71
43	1	7	1:06.76	NR
44	3	5	1:07.09
45	4	2	1:07.63
46	4	1	1:07.69
47	3	4	1:07.85
48	4	9	1:08.08
49	4	8	1:08.39
50	3	8	1:09.22
51	3	3	1:09.48
52	3	1	1:09.69
53	3	2	1:09.89
54	3	0	1:11.26
55	3	9	1:11.75
56	2	2	1:11.93
57	3	7	1:12.00
58	3	6	1:13.23
59	2	1	1:16.70
60	2	4	1:17.75
61	2	0	1:18.18
62	2	5	1:20.52
63	2	6	1:21.68
64	2	3	1:21.98
	2	9
	1	2
	1	6
	5	2

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	2	1	Alia Atkinson	58.94	Q, NR
2	2	2	Zhao Jing	59.12	Q
3	1	4	Rūta Meilutytė	59.15	Q, NR
4	2	5	Katinka Hosszú	59.17	Q
5	1	6	Aleksandra Gerasimenya	59.29	Q, NR
6	2	4	Sophie Allen	59.58	Q
7	2	3	Zsuzsanna Jakabos	59.68	Q
8	2	6	Theresa Michalak	59.81	Q
9	1	3	Melanie Margalis
10	1	5	Kanako Watanabe
11	1	2	Chen Xinyi
12	1	7	Emu Higuchi
13	1	1	Emilia Pikkarainen
14	2	8	Alicja Tchórz
15	1	8	Madeline Dirado
16	2	7	Hanna-Maria Seppälä

The final was held at 20:52.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
	6	Katinka Hosszú	58.49	CR
	3	Rūta Meilutytė	58.79	NR
	5	Zhao Jing	58.80
4	4	Alia Atkinson	58.85	NR
5	2	Aleksandra Gerasimenya	58.94	NR
6	7	Sophie Allen	59.03
7	1	Zsuzsanna Jakabos	59.41
8	8	Theresa Michalak	59.68

Web site: 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 100 metre medley (heats). Omega Timing. 2012-12-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20121218100850/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010C010D01042300FFFFFFFFFFFF02. 2012-12-18. dead.
Web site: 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 100 metre medley (semifinals). Omega Timing. 2012-12-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20121218100855/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010C010D01042301FFFFFFFFFFFF02. 2012-12-18. dead.
Web site: 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 100 metre medley (final). Omega Timing. 2012-12-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20121218100901/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010C010D01042302FFFFFFFFFFFF02. 2012-12-18. dead.