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

Event:	Women's 100 metre backstroke
Competition:	2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue:	WFCU Centre
Dates:	6 December (heats and semifinals) 7 December (final)
Competitors:	71
Nations:	54
Win Value:	55.54
Gold:	Katinka Hosszú
Goldnoc:	HUN
Silver:	Kylie Masse
Silvernoc:	CAN
Bronze:	Georgia Davies
Bronzenoc:	GBR
Prev:	2014
Next:	2018

The Women's 100 metre backstroke competition of the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 6 and 7 December 2016.^[1]

Records

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

The heats were held at 12:37.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	7	5			Q, NR
2	8	4			Q
3	6	1			Q
4	8	5			Q
5	6	5			Q
6	8	1			Q
7	7	4			Q
8	6	4			Q
9	5	3			Q
10	7	7			Q
11	8	3			Q
12	6	3			Q
13	7	3			Q
14	6	7			Q, NR
15	6	6			Q
16	8	6			Q
17	8	7
18	7	0
19	5	4			NR
20	7	6
21	6	2
22	7	1
23	8	2
24	7	2
25	8	0
26	6	8
27	4	3			NR
27	8	9
29	7	8
30	6	0
31	5	5
32	6	9		1:00.25
33	8	8		1:00.27
34	5	7		1:00.36
35	5	2		1:00.60	NR
35	5	6		1:00.60
37	4	7		1:00.68	NR
38	5	8		1:01.19	NR
39	7	9		1:01.27
40	5	1		1:01.96
41	5	9		1:02.03	NR
42	4	1		1:02.50
43	4	5		1:02.53
44	4	6		1:02.70	NR
45	3	6		1:02.79
46	3	4		1:03.35	NR
47	5	0		1:03.36
48	4	4		1:03.60
49	3	3		1:03.94	NR
50	4	8		1:04.33	NR
51	4	2		1:04.35	NR
52	3	5		1:04.82	NR
53	4	0		1:05.13	NR
54	4	9		1:05.33
55	3	0		1:05.71	NR
56	2	2		1:06.04
57	3	7		1:06.58
58	3	2		1:06.96
59	3	8		1:07.30
60	2	4		1:08.24	NR
61	2	3		1:08.50	NR
62	2	1		1:09.39	NR
63	3	1		1:10.03
64	2	6		1:12.02	NR
65	2	7		1:12.55
66	1	4		1:13.67	NR
67	2	9		1:15.35	NR
68	2	8		1:15.47
69	1	5		1:15.76	NR
70	1	6		1:16.25	NR
71	1	3		1:20.90
	2	5	Dara Al-Bakry
	3	9

The semifinals were held at 19:44.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	5	56.44	Q
2	4	56.74	Q
3	3	57.03	Q
4	6	57.07	Q
5	7	57.23
6	2	57.73
7	8	57.85
8	1	58.48

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	56.19	Q
2	3	56.69	Q
3	5	56.70	Q
4	6	56.96	Q
5	2	57.22
6	1	57.68
7	8	57.86
8	7	57.99

The final was held at 20:01.^[4]

Web site: Schedule . 2016-12-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161206122713/http://www.finawindsor2016.com/content/competition-schedule . 2016-12-06 . dead .
http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000110000D01011B00FFFFFFFFFFFF02 Heats results
http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000110000D01011B01FFFFFFFFFFFF02 Semifinals results
Web site: Final results . 2017-06-15 . 2017-03-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170329113037/http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000110000D01011B02FFFFFFFFFFFF02 . dead .