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

Event:	Women's 100m Freestyle
Competition:	2012 Short Course Worlds
Dates:	13 December (heats and semifinals) 14 December (final)
Win Value:	52.31
Gold:	Britta Steffen
Goldnoc:	GER
Silver:	Megan Romano
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Tang Yi
Bronzenoc:	CHN
Prev:	2010
Next:	2014

The women's 100 metre freestyle event at the 11th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) took place December 13-14, 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	Libby Trickett		align=left	51.01		10 August 2009
Championship record			align=left	51.44		17 December 2010

No new records were set during this competition.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	11	5	53.26	Q
2	9	3	53.32	Q
3	9	4	53.42	Q
3	10	4	53.42	Q
5	9	0	53.54	NR
6	11	1	53.57	Q
7	11	3	53.59	Q
8	10	5	53.82	Q
9	10	1	53.95	Q
10	9	5	53.96	Q
11	1	3	54.01	Q, NR
12	11	8	54.04	Q
13	10	6	54.10	Q
14	9	8	54.15	Q, NR
15	11	2	54.25
16	9	1	54.27	Q
17	9	6	54.42	Q
18	10	2	54.56	Q
18	11	9	54.56
20	10	3	54.57
21	10	9	54.58
22	10	7	54.60
23	10	8	54.69
24	11	6	54.74
25	11	7	54.97
26	9	2	54.98
27	11	0	55.21
28	1	5	55.34
29	2	7	55.53
30	8	7	55.60	NR
31	8	1	55.68
31	9	9	55.68
31	10	0	55.68
34	8	0	55.71
35	8	2	55.76
36	8	9	55.85
37	8	8	55.97
38	7	4	56.06
39	8	5	56.13
40	8	3	56.16
41	7	5	56.19
42	8	4	56.24
43	8	6	56.31
44	6	6	56.75	NR
45	6	7	57.13
46	7	7	57.22
47	5	6	57.31	NR
48	6	5	57.95	NR
49	7	3	58.05	NR
50	7	9	58.23
51	5	2	58.33
52	6	8	58.37
53	6	4	58.40
54	6	9	58.53
55	6	2	58.57
56	7	2	58.63
57	5	0	58.68
58	6	3	58.89
59	6	1	58.93
60	7	0	59.00
61	6	0	59.03
62	7	1	59.18
63	5	8	59.28
64	5	4	59.42
65	5	7	59.60
66	7	8	59.96
67	5	1	1:00.02
68	5	5	1:00.16
69	4	0	1:00.24
70	4	7	1:00.44
71	3	4	1:00.51
72	2	9	1:00.71
73	4	1	1:01.09
74	2	0	1:01.73
75	5	3	1:01.81
76	4	6	1:01.93
77	5	9	1:01.95
78	4	5	1:02.15
79	4	9	1:02.19
80	4	2	1:02.21
81	2	8	1:02.56
82	4	8	1:03.38
83	4	4	1:04.04
84	3	5	1:04.36
85	3	1	1:05.23
86	3	6	1:05.29
87	4	3	1:05.54
88	3	2	1:06.61
89	1	4	1:07.24
90	3	0	1:07.92
91	3	8	1:08.75
92	3	3	1:08.85
93	2	4	1:09.83
94	3	9	1:11.22
95	3	7	1:11.84
96	2	5	1:11.85
97	2	3	1:12.33
98	1	2	1:13.64
99	2	1	1:13.74
100	2	6	1:15.13
	1	6
	2	2
	7	6
	9	7
	11	4

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	2	3	Megan Romano	52.86	Q
2	1	5	Britta Steffen	53.09	Q
3	1	4	Tang Yi	53.13	Q
4	1	7	Angie Bainbridge	53.30	Q
5	1	3	Daniela Schreiber	53.41	Q
5	2	5	Jessica Hardy	53.41	Q
7	2	2	Michelle Coleman	53.42	Q
8	2	8	Louise Hansson	53.52	Q
9	2	4	Marieke Guehrer	53.59
10	2	7	Haruka Ueda	53.76
11	2	6	Veronika Popova	53.86
12	1	1	Larissa Oliveira	53.93
13	1	6	Alessandra Marchioro	54.05
14	1	8	Chantal Van Landeghem	54.16
15	2	1	Sze Hang Yu	54.51
16	1	2	Nina Rangelova	54.53

The final was held at 19:09.^[4]

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