2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 100 metre freestyle explained

Event:	Women's 100 metre freestyle
Competition:	2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue:	Hangzhou Sports Park Stadium
Dates:	12–13 December (heats and final)
Competitors:	97
Win Value:	51.14
Gold:	Ranomi Kromowidjojo
Goldnoc:	NED
Silver:	Femke Heemskerk
Silvernoc:	NED
Bronze:	Mallory Comerford
Bronzenoc:	USA
Prev:	2016
Next:	2021

The women's 100 metre freestyle competition of the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 12 and 13 December 2018.^{[1] [2]}

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Cate Campbell		50.25	Adelaide	26 October 2017
Championship record	Femke Heemskerk		51.37	Doha	5 December 2014

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 12 December at 10:03.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	10	6			52.18	Q
2	9	4			52.27	Q
3	8	4			52.37	Q
4	10	5			52.87	Q
5	10	4			52.93	Q
6	8	8			52.94	Q
7	9	5			52.99	Q
8	8	3			53.00	Q
9	10	2			53.09	Q
10	8	5			53.17	Q
11	10	3			53.20	Q
12	9	3			53.21	Q
13	8	7			53.54	Q
14	10	7			53.61	Q
15	9	6			53.80	Q
16	9	2			53.82	Q
17	9	9			53.88	R
18	8	6			53.96	R
19	9	1			54.10
20	8	2			54.26
21	10	1			54.38
22	9	0			54.55
23	10	8			54.65
24	8	0			55.01
25	9	7			55.11
26	8	1			55.37
27	7	5			55.38	NR
28	7	3			55.44
29	7	4			55.50
30	8	9			55.52
31	10	0			55.62
32	7	2			55.64
33	10	9			55.81
34	9	8			55.85
35	7	6			55.90
36	7	1			56.19	NR
37	2	8			56.47
38	3	5	Pak Mi-song		56.89
39	7	7			56.97
40	7	0			57.05	NR
41	6	5			57.07
42	6	6			57.08	NR
43	6	4			57.14
44	6	2			57.16
45	7	9			57.35	=NR
46	6	8			57.66
47	6	3			57.75	NR
48	6	7			57.76
49	6	1			58.00
50	6	0			58.06
51	5	4			58.10	NR
52	3	2			58.13
53	5	5			58.14
54	7	8			58.22	NR
55	5	6			58.82
56	1	7			59.07
57	5	7			59.24
58	5	3			59.65
59	6	9			59.73
60	1	2
61	1	5
62	5	2
63	3	9				NR
64	3	4				NR
65	4	5
66	3	6				NR
67	5	0
68	5	1				NR
69	2	9
70	4	2
71	3	3
72	4	4
73	2	6
74	4	6
75	5	9
76	3	1
77	1	1
77	4	3
79	5	8
80	1	3
81	2	4
82	4	7
83	2	5
84	2	2
85	2	3
86	4	1
87	4	8
88	3	7
89	2	7
90	4	0
91	4	9
92	3	0
93	1	6
94	3	8
	1	4
	2	1
	2	0

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 12 December at 20:07.^[4]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4			51.84	Q
2	3			52.71	Q
3	6			52.85	R
4	2			52.86	R
5	5			52.98
6	7			53.14
7	8			53.68
8	1			53.75

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3			51.95	Q
2	7			52.04	Q
3	5			52.18	Q
4	4			52.36	Q
5	6			52.69	Q
6	2			52.70	Q, AF
7	1			53.27
8	8			53.35

Final

The final took place on 13 December at 19:09.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5			51.14	CR
	4			51.60
	2			51.63	AM
4	6			52.24
5	3			52.40
6	8			52.46	NR
7	7			52.50
8	1			53.14

Notes and References

1. Web site: Women 100m Freestyle, 14th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) 2018. FINA. 13 December 2018. 14 December 2018.
2. Web site: Omega Timing - Results - 14th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) Hangzhou China 12/11/2018 - 12/16/2018 . 2018-12-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181214214007/http://omegatiming.com/Competition?id=000112010cffffffffffffffffffffff . 2018-12-14 . dead .
3. http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000112010C0201EC01FFFFFFFFFFFF01 Heats results
4. Web site: Semifinals results. 2018-12-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20181214213933/http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000112010C0201EC02FFFFFFFFFFFF01. 2018-12-14. dead.
5. Web site: Final results . 2018-12-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181213114636/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000112010C0201EC04FFFFFFFFFFFF01 . 2018-12-13 . dead .