2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 100 metre butterfly explained

Event:	Women's 100 metre butterfly
Competition:	2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Dates:	6 December (heats and semifinals) 7 December (final)
Competitors:	67
Nations:	52
Win Value:	54.61
Gold:	Sarah Sjöström
Goldnoc:	SWE
Silver:	Lu Ying
Silvernoc:	CHN
Bronze:	Jeanette Ottesen
Bronzenoc:	DEN
Prev:	2012
Next:	2016

The Women's 100 metre butterfly competition of the 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 6 December with the heats and the semifinals and 7 December with the final.^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Diane Bui Duyet		55.05	Istanbul	12 December 2009
Championship record	Felicity Galvez		55.43	Dubai	19 December 2010

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nation	Time	Record
6 December	Semifinals			55.13	CR
7 December	Final			54.61	WR, CR

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 11:31.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4			56.54	Q
2	6	4			56.56	Q
3	7	4			56.83	Q
4	5	5			56.87	Q
4	5	2			56.87	Q
6	7	5			56.88	Q
7	7	6			56.94	Q
8	7	7			57.18	Q
9	6	5			57.22	Q
9	6	3			57.22	Q
11	6	6			57.26	Q
12	5	8			57.34	Q
13	7	2			57.51	Q
14	6	2			57.61	Q
15	7	3			57.64	Q
16	6	1			57.80	Q
17	5	6			57.82
18	5	3			57.87
19	7	1			58.29
20	5	0			58.47
21	6	0			58.48
22	4	7			58.58	NR
22	6	8			58.58
24	5	1			58.68
25	6	7			58.69
26	4	4			58.80
27	4	3			58.84
28	4	2			58.85
29	4	6			59.42
30	7	8			59.62
31	6	9			59.70
32	5	9			59.85
33	7	9			1:00.32
34	4	5			1:00.50
35	3	4			1:00.53
36	3	2			1:00.66
37	5	7			1:01.36
38	4	8			1:01.85
39	2	2			1:02.48
40	4	1			1:02.97
41	3	3			1:03.17
42	2	3			1:03.25
43	3	5			1:03.33
44	3	1			1:03.38
45	3	8			1:03.54
46	4	9			1:04.52
47	4	0			1:04.55
48	3	6			1:04.70
49	2	4			1:05.24
50	1	6			1:05.97
51	2	6			1:06.01
52	2	7			1:06.45
53	3	7			1:06.61
54	2	5			1:06.77
55	3	9			1:06.96
56	3	0			1:07.21
57	2	8			1:08.00
58	2	0			1:08.83
59	1	5			1:08.90
60	2	9			1:09.19
61	1	7			1:09.20
62	1	4			1:09.60
63	2	1			1:11.47
64	1	3			1:11.79
65	1	2			1:12.47
66	1	8			1:14.46
67	1	1			1:15.12
—	7	0				DNS

Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 19:02.^[3]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4			55.13	CR
2	3			56.34	Q
3	5			56.65	Q
4	6			56.74	Q
5	2			57.02
6	1			57.21
7	7			57.45
8	8			59.24

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4			56.05	Q
2	5			56.17	Q
3	7			56.74	Q
4	3			56.93	Q
5	6			57.12
6	2			57.25
7	8			57.46
8	1			57.95

Final

The final was held at 18:52.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4			54.61	WR, CR
	6			55.25	AS
	5			55.32
4	3			56.40
5	1			56.49
6	2			56.67
7	7			56.82
8	7			57.26

Notes and References

1. http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010E010D01032100FFFFFFFFFFFF01 Start list
2. Web site: Heats Results . 2014-12-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170510122254/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010E010D01032100FFFFFFFFFFFF02 . 2017-05-10 . dead .
3. http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010E010D01032101FFFFFFFFFFFF02 Semifinals Results
4. http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010E010D01032102FFFFFFFFFFFF02 Final Results