Swimming at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 100 metre butterfly explained

Event:	Women's 100 metre butterfly
Competition:	2001 FINA World Championships
Dates:	27 July 2001 (heats, semifinals) 28 July 2001 (final)
Competitors:	37
Win Value:	58.27 seconds
Gold:	Petria Thomas
Goldnoc:	AUS
Silver:	Otylia Jędrzejczak
Silvernoc:	POL
Bronze:	Junko Onishi
Bronzenoc:	JPN
Previous:	1998
Next:	2003

See main article: Swimming at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships.

The women's 100 metre butterfly event at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships took place 28 July. The heats^[1] and semifinals^[2] took place 27 July, with the final^[3] being held on 28 July.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and competition records were as follows:

World record		56.61	Sydney, Australia	align=right	17 September 2000
Championship record		58.46	Perth, Australia	align=right	15 January 1998

The following record was established during the competition:

Results

Heats

Rank	Time	Notes
1	58.53	Q
2	59.24	Q
3	59.30	Q
4	59.73	Q
5	59.89	Q
6	59.94	Q
7	59.96	Q
8	1:00.12	Q
9	1:00.35	Q
10	1:00.53	Q
11	1:00.55	Q
12	1:00.81	Q
13	1:00.84	Q
14	1:01.00	Q
15	1:01.08	Q
16	1:01.14	Q
17	1:01.24
18	1:01.27
19	1:01.56
20	1:01.58
21	1:01.63
22	1:02.69
23	1:02.77
24	1:04.05
25	1:04.51
26	1:05.51
27	1:05.58
28	1:05.80
29	1:06.25
30	1:06.66
31	1:08.20
32	1:09.07
33	1:09.87
34	1:10.51
35	1:13.08
36	1:14.21
37	1:21.30
–	DNS
–	DNS
–	DNS

Semifinals

Rank	Time	Notes
1	58.59	Q
2	58.73	Q
3	59.21	Q
4	59.38	Q
5	59.63	Q
6	59.82	Q
7	59.89	Q
8	59.96	Q
9	1:00.15
10	1:00.20
11	1:00.37
12	1:00.46
13	1:00.62
14	1:00.67
15	1:00.80
16	1:01.02

Final

Rank	Time	Notes
	58.27	CR
	58.72
	58.88
4	59.30
5	59.43
6	59.67
7	59.75
8	1:00.00

Notes and References

Web site: Heats Results . 2023-08-06 . FINA. https://web.archive.org/web/20011218003242/http://www.fina.org/fukuoka_SwimmingResultsDay6.html#100FlyW . 18 December 2001 .
Web site: Semifinals Results . 2023-08-06 . FINA. https://web.archive.org/web/20041024130432/http://www.fina.org/fukuoka_SwimmingResultsDay6FINAL.html#100FlyW . 24 October 2004 .
Web site: Final Results . 2023-08-06 . FINA. https://web.archive.org/web/20041019212714/http://www.fina.org/fukuoka_SwimmingResultsW100fly.html . 19 October 2004 .