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

Event:	Women's 100 metre breaststroke
Competition:	2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Dates:	5 December (heats and semifinals) 6 December (final)
Competitors:	57
Nations:	46
Win Value:	1:02.36
Gold:	Alia Atkinson
Goldnoc:	JAM
Silver:	Rūta Meilutytė
Silvernoc:	LTU
Bronze:	Moniek Nijhuis
Bronzenoc:	NED
Prev:	2012
Next:	2016

The Women's 100 metre breaststroke competition of the 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 5 December with the heats and the semifinals and 6 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	Rūta Meilutytė		1:02.36	Moscow	12 October 2013
Championship record	Rūta Meilutytė		1:03.52	Istanbul	15 December 2012

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nation	Time	Record
5 December	Semifinals			1:02.43	CR
6 December	Final			1:02.36	CR, =WR

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 10:55.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	5			1:04.32	Q
2	5	4			1:04.47	Q
3	3	2			1:04.88	Q
4	4	4			1:04.91	Q
5	6	4			1:04.98	Q
6	5	3			1:05.04	Q
7	6	8			1:05.17	Q
8	4	6			1:05.21	Q
9	4	3			1:05.24	Q
10	4	7			1:05.31	Q
11	4	5			1:05.39
12	5	6			1:05.53
13	6	3			1:05.62	Q
14	4	8			1:05.64	Q
15	6	5			1:05.92	Q
16	3	7			1:06.13
16	6	1			1:06.13
16	6	2			1:06.13
19	4	0			1:06.14
19	6	7			1:06.14
21	4	1			1:06.22
22	5	8			1:06.26
23	6	0			1:06.43
24	5	7			1:06.49
25	5	2			1:06.50
26	5	0			1:06.60
27	4	2			1:06.61
28	6	6			1:06.80
29	5	1			1:07.24
30	4	9			1:07.36
31	6	9			1:07.82
32	3	8			1:07.86
33	3	5			1:07.97
34	3	4			1:08.45
35	3	3			1:08.62
36	5	9			1:09.04
37	2	2			1:09.27
38	3	1			1:09.32
39	3	9			1:09.33
40	3	0			1:09.63
41	2	3			1:10.01
42	2	4			1:10.38
43	3	6			1:10.77
44	2	6			1:10.79
45	2	1			1:11.19
46	2	7			1:12.41
47	2	0			1:13.55
48	1	4			1:14.88
49	1	3			1:14.98
50	1	6			1:17.95
51	2	9			1:18.51
52	1	5			1:18.63
53	1	2			1:20.10
54	2	5			1:27.12
55	1	7			1:29.81
56	1	8			1:41.42
—	2	8				DNS
—	1	1				DSQ

Swim-off

The swim-off was held at 12:27.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4			1:05.65	Q
2	5			1:06.35

Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 19:09.^[4]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4			1:02.43	Q, CR
2	5			1:04.71	Q
3	6			1:04.87	Q
4	3			1:05.21
5	8			1:05.57
6	2			1:05.67
7	1			1:05.70
8	7			1:05.72

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3			1:03.59	Q
2	4			1:03.96	Q
3	2			1:04.23	Q
4	5			1:04.54	Q
5	7			1:05.04	Q
6	6			1:05.50
7	1			1:05.60
8	8			1:05.90

Final

The final were held at 18:06.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5			1:02.36	CR, =WR
	4			1:02.46
	3			1:04.03
4	2			1:04.52
5	6			1:04.82
6	7			1:04.84
7	8			1:05.08
8	1			1:05.58

Notes and References

1. http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010E010D01021E00FFFFFFFFFFFF01 Start list
2. http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010E010D01021E00FFFFFFFFFFFF02 Heats Results
3. http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010E010D01021E03FFFFFFFFFFFF02 Swim-off Results
4. Web site: Semifinals Results . 2014-12-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924140854/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010E010D01021E01FFFFFFFFFFFF02 . 2015-09-24 . dead .
5. http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010E010D01021E02FFFFFFFFFFFF02 Final Results