Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 100 metre freestyle explained

Event:	Women's 100m freestyle
Competition:	2005 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates:	28 July (prelims and semifinals) 29 July (final)
Competitors:	86
Nations:	64
Win Value:	54.18 seconds
Gold:	Jodie Henry
Goldnoc:	AUS
Silver:	Malia Metella
Silvernoc:	FRA
Silver2:	Natalie Coughlin
Silvernoc2:	USA
Prev:	2003
Next:	2007

See main article: Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships.

The Women's 100m Freestyle event at the 11th FINA World Aquatics Championships was swum 28 – 29 July 2005 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Preliminary heats and Semifinal heats were 28 July; the final was 29 July.

Records

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

World record		53.52	Athens, Greece	align=right	18 August 2004
Championship record		54.01	Rome, Italy	align=right	5 September 1994

Results

Preliminaries

Rank	Heat + Lane	Time	Notes
1	H9 L5	54.49	q
2	H9 L4	54.82	q
3	H11 L4	55.04	q
4	H10 L5	55.11	q
5	H10 L6	55.25	q
6	H10 L3	55.36	q
7	H11 L3	55.40	q
8	H11 L5	55.45	q
9	H10 L4	55.55	q
10	H10 L7	55.64	q
11	H10 L2	55.82	q
12	H9 L3	55.88	q
13	H11 L6	55.91	q
14	H9 L1	55.95	q
15	H9 L2	56.22	q
15	H9 L8	56.22	q

17	H8 L4	56.23
18	H11 L7	56.24
19	H11 L2	56.30
20	H11 L1	56.31
21	H11 L8	56.41
22	H8 L3	56.42
23	H7 L4	56.43
24	H7 L2	56.96
25	H8 L6	57.11
26	H8 L8	57.22
27	H9 L7	57.23
28	H8 L1	57.24
29	H10 L8	57.28
30	H8 L5	57.53
31	H7 L3	57.66
32	H6 L4	57.69
33	H7 L7	57.73
34	H6 L5	58.01
34	H7 L6	58.01
36	H7 L1	58.12
37	H8 L7	58.13
38	H7 L8	58.15
39	H5 L4	58.44
40	H4 L8	58.85
41	H6 L6	58.92
42	H6 L2	59.14
43	H4 L3	59.27
44	H4 L6	59.40
45	H6 L8	59.48
46	H5 L3	59.61
47	H5 L1	59.70
48	H6 L1	59.75
49	H6 L7	59.84
50	H6 L3	59.89
51	H5 L2	1:00.01
52	H5 L8	1:00.19
53	H3 L4	1:00.26
54	H5 L7	1:00.34
55	H4 L4	1:00.56
56	H3 L1	1:00.71
57	H3 L5	1:00.72
58	H5 L6	1:00.85
59	H5 L5	1:01.07
60	H4 L1	1:01.12
61	H4 L7	1:01.21
62	H4 L5	1:01.66
63	H3 L3	1:01.76
64	H3 L2	1:02.67
65	H3 L7	1:03.66
66	H3 L8	1:04.21
67	H2 L6	1:04.67
68	H3 L6	1:05.03
69	H2 L4	1:05.38
70	H2 L2	1:05.75
71	H2 L3	1:06.10
72	H1 L7	1:06.52
73	H2 L5	1:06.53
74	H4 L2	1:06.97
75	H2 L8	1:07.76
76	H2 L7	1:08.05
77	H2 L1	1:08.58
78	H1 L5	1:11.03
79	H1 L4	1:14.40
-	H1 L2	DNS
-	H1 L3	DNS
-	H1 L6	DNS
-	H7 L5	DNS
-	H8 L2	DNS
-	H9 L6	DNS
-	H10 L1	DNS

Semifinals

Rank	Heat + Lane	Nation	Time	Notes
1	S2 L5	Australia	54.52	q
2	S1 L4	Netherlands	54.54	q
3	S2 L4	USA	54.61	q
4	S1 L6	USA	54.65	q
5	S1 L5	France	54.93	q
6	S2 L7	Germany	54.98	q
7	S1 L3	Greece	55.07	q
8	S2 L2	Australia	55.13	q

9	S2 L3	Finland	55.32
10	S2 L6	Italy	55.37
11	S1 L7	Sweden	55.61
12	S1 L2	Sweden	55.64
13	S1 L8	Netherlands	55.78
14	S2 L1	Estonia	55.81	NR
15	S1 L1	New Zealand	56.22
16	S2 L8	Japan	56.53

Final

Rank	Nationality	Time
	Australia	54.18
	France	54.74
	USA	54.74
4	USA	54.77
5	Netherlands	54.90
6	Australia	54.92
7	Greece	54.93
8	Germany	55.27

References

Women's 100m Freestyle results (Prelims), from the 2005 FINA World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); Retrieved 2010-02-07.
Women's 100m Freestyle results (Semifinals), from the 2005 FINA World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); Retrieved 2010-02-07.
Women's 100m Freestyle results (Final), from the 2005 FINA World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); Retrieved 2010-02-07.