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

Event:	Women's 100 metre freestyle
Competition:	2001 FINA World Championships
Dates:	24 July 2001 (heats, semifinals) 25 July 2001 (final)
Competitors:	61
Win Value:	54.18 seconds
Gold:	Inge de Bruijn
Goldnoc:	NED
Silver:	Katrin Meissner
Silvernoc:	GER
Bronze:	Sandra Völker
Bronzenoc:	GER
Prev:	1998
Next:	2003

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

The women's 100 metre freestyle event at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships took place 25 July.^[1] The heats^[2] and semifinals^[3] were held on 24 July.

Records

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

World record		53.77	Sydney, Australia	align=right	20 September 2000
Championship record		54.01	Rome, Italy	align=right	5 September 1994

Results

Heats

Rank	Time	Notes
1	55.44	Q
1	55.44	Q
3	55.51	Q
4	55.55	Q
5	55.63	Q
6	55.65	Q
7	55.72	Q
8	55.80	Q
9	55.89	Q
10	56.03	Q
11	56.08	Q
12	56.13	Q
13	56.17	Q
14	56.24	Q
15	56.36	Q
16	56.38	Q
17	56.39
17	56.39
19	56.44
20	56.47
21	56.55
22	56.56
23	56.65
24	56.73
25	56.75
26	56.91
27	56.93
28	57.07
29	57.11
30	57.31
31	57.33
32	57.50
32	57.50
34	57.53
35	57.59
36	57.65
37	57.77
38	57.83
39	58.02
40	58.44
41	58.65
42	59.17
43	59.36
44	59.62
45	59.84
46	59.96
47	1:00.33
48	1:00.40
49	1:00.65
50	1:01.42
51	1:01.57
52	1:01.69
53	1:02.54
54	1:05.64
55	1:06.75
56	1:07.21
57	1:08.43
58	1:10.38
59	1:11.86
–	DNS
–	DSQ

Semifinals

Rank	Time	Notes
1	54.47	Q
2	55.15	Q
3	55.19	Q
3	55.19	Q
5	55.28	Q
6	55.33	Q
7	55.37	Q
8	55.43	Q
9	55.60
10	55.80
11	55.90
12	55.97
13	55.98
14	56.23
15	56.30
16	56.33

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
			54.18
			55.07
			55.11
4			55.12
5			55.19
6			55.38
7			55.42
8			55.53

Notes and References

Web site: Final Results . 2023-08-07 . FINA.
Web site: Heats Results . 2023-08-07 . FINA.
Web site: Semifinals Results . 2023-08-07 . FINA.