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

Event:	Women's 100 metre backstroke
Competition:	2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Dates:	3 December (heats and semifinals) 4 December (final)
Competitors:	73
Nations:	55
Win Value:	55.03
Gold:	Katinka Hosszú
Goldnoc:	HUN
Silver:	Emily Seebohm
Silvernoc:	AUS
Bronze:	Daryna Zevina
Bronzenoc:	UKR
Prev:	2012
Next:	2016

The women's 100 metre backstroke competition of the 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 3 December with the heats and the semifinals and 4 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	Shiho Sakai		55.23	Berlin	15 November 2009
Championship record	Natalie Coughlin		56.08	Dubai	16 December 2010

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nation	Time	Record
3 December	Heats			55.70	CR
4 December	Final			55.03	WR, CR

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 11:28.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	8	4	55.70	Q, CR
2	7	4	56.59	Q
3	6	4	57.05	Q
4	8	5	57.07	Q
5	6	3	57.11	Q
6	8	3	57.36	Q, SA
7	7	5	57.48	Q
8	8	2	57.61	Q
9	6	5	57.67	Q
10	7	3	57.70	Q
11	5	0	57.82	Q
12	7	6	57.90	Q
13	6	8	58.15	Q
13	7	8	58.15	Q
15	6	6	58.16	Q
16	6	1	58.26	Q
17	8	8	58.44
18	8	7	58.46
19	7	9	58.56
20	5	5	58.60
21	6	7	58.75
22	5	8	58.87
23	7	7	59.06
24	8	1	59.08
25	8	6	59.21
26	5	4	59.42
27	7	2	59.44
28	6	0	59.46
29	6	9	59.54
30	8	0	59.55
31	7	0	59.63
31	8	9	59.63
33	4	5	59.73
34	7	1	59.77
35	6	2	59.95
36	5	3	1:00.04
37	5	7	1:00.27
38	5	2	1:00.40
39	4	3	1:00.83
40	4	8	1:00.90
41	4	4	1:00.94
42	4	7	1:00.98
43	3	2	1:01.02
44	3	4	1:01.17
45	5	9	1:01.22
46	4	6	1:01.40
47	4	9	1:02.01
48	4	2	1:02.19
49	5	1	1:02.20
50	2	7	1:02.22
51	5	6	1:02.53
52	3	3	1:03.07
53	3	5	1:03.09
53	4	1	1:03.09
55	3	8	1:03.77
56	3	9	1:03.93
57	3	6	1:04.37
58	3	7	1:04.47
59	4	0	1:05.32
60	2	6	1:06.00
61	2	3	1:06.27
62	2	5	1:06.46
63	3	0	1:07.20
64	3	1	1:07.36
65	2	2	1:07.98
66	2	8	1:08.45
67	2	1	1:09.72
68	2	4	1:09.99
69	2	0	1:10.70
70	2	9	1:14.49
71	1	4	1:16.35
72	1	5	1:16.86
73	1	6	1:19.18
—	1	3		DNS

Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 18:44.^[3]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	5	56.23	Q
2	4	56.32	Q
3	7	56.82	Q
4	3	57.13	Q, SA
5	6	57.37
6	2	57.51
7	1	57.88
8	8	58.50

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	56.65	Q
2	5	56.87	Q
3	6	56.91	Q
4	3	57.25	Q
5	2	57.52
6	7	57.65
7	1	57.80
8	8	58.07

Final

The final was held at 19:00.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
	3	55.03	WR
	5	55.31	OC
	4	55.54
4	7	56.37
5	2	56.62
6	8	57.07
7	1	57.72
8	6	57.77

Notes and References

http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010E010D01011B00FFFFFFFFFFFF01 Start list
Web site: Heats Results . 2014-12-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924140837/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010E010D01011B00FFFFFFFFFFFF02 . 2015-09-24 . dead .
Web site: Semifinals Results . 2014-12-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170803215910/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010E010D01011B01FFFFFFFFFFFF02 . 2017-08-03 . dead .
http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010E010D01011B02FFFFFFFFFFFF02 Final Results