2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 100 metre freestyle explained

Event:	Women's 100 metre freestyle
Competition:	2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue:	WFCU Centre
Dates:	7 December (heats and semifinals) 8 December (final)
Competitors:	127
Nations:	90
Win Value:	51.81
Gold:	Brittany Elmslie
Goldnoc:	AUS
Silver:	Ranomi Kromowidjojo
Silvernoc:	NED
Bronze:	Penny Oleksiak
Bronzenoc:	CAN
Prev:	2014
Next:	2018

The Women's 100 metre freestyle competition of the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 7 and 8 December 2016.^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Cate Campbell		50.91	Sydney	28 November 2015
Championship record	Femke Heemskerk		51.37	Doha	5 December 2014

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 10:17.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	14	2			52.36	Q, NR
2	13	5			52.72	Q
3	14	4			52.75	Q
4	13	6			52.97	Q
5	14	5			53.05	Q
6	14	3			53.06	Q
7	13	4			53.14	Q
8	12	5			53.17	Q
9	14	1			53.28	Q
10	12	3			53.43	Q
11	12	4			53.50	Q
12	13	3			53.67	Q
13	14	9			53.70	Q, NR
14	12	6			53.73	Q
15	14	6			53.77	Q
16	13	1			53.78	Q
17	13	2			53.90
18	14	7			53.96
19	11	2			53.97
20	11	3			53.99
21	14	0			54.08
22	12	2			54.12
23	10	4			54.59
	12	1
25	11	4			54.60
26	12	7			54.62
27	11	7			54.64
	13	7
29	9	4			54.67
30	11	6			54.68
31	12	8			54.75
32	13	8			54.87
33	12	0			54.92
34	11	5			54.99
35	13	0			55.06
36	8	5			55.25
37	10	5			55.38
38	11	1			55.46
39	11	8			55.49
40	13	9			55.50
41	10	3			55.59
42	14	8			55.63
43	10	2			55.75
44	11	0			55.76
45	8	6			55.98
46	9	2			56.15
	9	7
48	11	9			56.25
49	10	8			56.34
50	10	0			56.38
51	10	7			56.39
52	10	9			56.52
53	12	9			56.62
54	10	6			56.64
55	10	1			56.67
56	9	3			56.88
57	7	5			56.99
58	8	3			57.11
59	7	8			57.18	NR
	8	4
61	8	7			57.42
62	7	6			57.43
63	9	5			57.50
64	8	1			57.61
65	8	2			57.68
66	4	6			57.79
	6	5
68	9	8			57.84
69	5	4			57.89
70	5	1			57.91
71	6	4			58.05
72	8	9			58.13
73	8	8			58.20
74	6	1			58.21
75	7	4			58.26
76	9	0			58.36
77	8	0			58.48
78	6	0			58.55
79	6	2			58.63
80	5	9			58.67
81	9	9			58.86
82	6	8			59.05
83	6	6			59.24
	7	0
85	4	1			59.28
86	5	8			59.40
87	5	7			59.43
	6	3
89	7	1			59.64
90	7	7			59.66
91	7	3			59.67
92	6	7			59.73
93	5	6			59.92
94	4	4			59.97
95	4	8
96	5	5
97	5	2
98	4	2
99	3	5
100	1	4
101	5	3
102	4	3
103	3	1
104	4	5
105	3	4
106	4	7
107	3	8
108	5	0
109	7	9	Dara Al-Bakry
110	3	2
111	3	7
112	4	0
113	4	9
114	2	6
115	2	3
116	3	3
117	2	7
118	2	4
119	2	2	Pak Mi-song
120	3	6
121	2	5
122	3	0
123	3	9
124	2	1
125	2	0
126	2	8
127	1	3
	1	5
	6	9
	7	2
	9	1
	9	6

Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 19:36.^[3]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4			52.19	Q
2	6			52.47	Q
3	5			52.58	Q
4	3			52.90	Q
5	2			53.10
6	1			53.24
7	7			53.60
8	8			53.66

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4			52.19	Q, NR
2	5			52.76	Q
3	3			52.77	Q
4	7			52.94	Q
5	6			53.08
6	2			53.23
7	8			53.67
8	1			53.98

Final

The final was held at 18:37.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4			51.81
	2			51.92
	5			52.01	WJR, NR
4	3			52.12
5	7			52.43
6	6			52.52
7	8			52.53
8	1			52.74

Notes and References

1. Web site: Schedule . 2016-12-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161206122713/http://www.finawindsor2016.com/content/competition-schedule . 2016-12-06 . dead .
2. Web site: Heats results. 2017-06-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20170404155939/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000110000D01001500FFFFFFFFFFFF02. 2017-04-04. dead.
3. Web site: Semifinals results. 2017-06-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20170703203522/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000110000D01001501FFFFFFFFFFFF02. 2017-07-03. dead.
4. Web site: Final results. 2017-06-13. 2017-03-29. https://web.archive.org/web/20170329113108/http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000110000D01001502FFFFFFFFFFFF02. dead.