Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 100 metre breaststroke explained

Event:	Women's 100 metre breastroke
Competition:	2009 FINA World Championships
Venue:	Foro Italico
Dates:	27 July 2009 (heats, semifinals) 28 July 2009 (final)
Competitors:	96
Win Value:	1:04.93
Gold:	Rebecca Soni
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Yuliya Yefimova
Silvernoc:	RUS
Bronze:	Kasey Carlson
Bronzenoc:	USA
Prev:	2007
Next:	2011

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The heats for the Women's 100m Breaststroke race at the 2009 World Championships took place on Monday, 27 July (prelims and semifinals) and Tuesday 28 July (final) at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy.

Records

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

World record		1:05.09		align=right	20 March 2006
Championship record		1:05.72		align=right	27 March 2007

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
27 July	Heat 10			1:05.66	CR
27 July	Semifinal 2			1:04.84	WR

Results

Heats

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Heat	Lane	Notes
1			1:05.66	10	4	CR
2			1:06.42	8	4
3			1:06.58	9	3	NR
4			1:06.61	8	8	NR
5			1:06.68	9	4
6			1:06.91	10	3
7			1:06.98	8	9
8			1:07.23	8	5
9			1:07.25	10	1
10			1:07.29	9	5
11			1:07.32	8	2
12			1:07.42	8	7
13			1:07.46	9	2
14			1:07.51	9	6
15			1:07.80	5	1
15			1:07.80	8	1
17			1:07.84	8	9	NR
18			1:07.92	8	6
19			1:08.02	10	6
20			1:08.30	7	9
21			1:08.39	10	9	NR
22			1:08.41	10	5
23			1:08.43	10	7
24			1:08.45	10	8
25			1:08.66	9	8
26			1:08.69	6	5
27			1:08.77	10	2
28			1:08.96	7	8
29			1:09.05	6	8
30			1:09.07	10	0
31			1:09.18	8	0
31			1:09.18	9	1
33			1:09.30	7	3
34			1:09.35	6	6
35			1:09.58	9	7
36			1:09.69	9	9
37			1:09.83	7	5
38			1:10.28	5	2
39			1:10.46	5	9
40			1:10.47	7	4
41			1:10.60	5	0	NR
41			1:10.60	6	1
43			1:10.61	6	0	NR
44			1:10.63	6	2	NR
45			1:10.64	7	1
46			1:10.66	7	2
47			1:10.93	4	3
48			1:10.99	7	6
49			1:11.04	6	3
50			1:11.06	6	4
51			1:11.19	4	2
52			1:11.25	7	0
53			1:11.53	5	4
54			1:11.54	6	7
55			1:11.58	7	7
56			1:11.68	5	8	NR
57			1:11.70	5	7	NR
58			1:12.11	4	4
59			1:12.24	5	3
60			1:12.60	4	1
61			1:12.94	3	6
62			1:13.24	3	2
63			1:13.82	4	9	NR
64			1:13.97	6	9
65			1:14.38	4	3
66			1:14.67	4	7
67			1:14.75	5	6
68			1:15.63	3	4
69			1:15.67	3	5
70			1:16.55	4	6
71			1:16.66	3	0	NR
72			1:17.18	4	0
73			1:17.39	3	3
74			1:18.22	2	3	NR
75			1:18.66	3	7
76			1:18.89	2	5
77			1:19.45	3	1	NR
78			1:21.81	2	6
79			1:22.11	3	8
80			1:22.89	3	9
81			1:23.25	2	7
82			1:24.85	2	2
83			1:25.15	2	4
84			1:25.47	2	8
85			1:25.49	1	2
86			1:26.04	1	3
87			1:26.25	2	0
88			1:30.13	1	5
89			1:30.24	2	9
90			1:30.75	1	4
91			1:33.99	1	6
92			1:35.03	1	7
93			1:39.11	1	8
94			1:42.04	2	1
—			DNS	9	0
—			DSQ	5	5

Semifinals

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Heat	Lane	Notes
1			1:04.84	2	4	WR
2			1:05.84	1	4
3			1:06.23	2	6
4			1:06.34	2	3
5			1:06.50	1	5	NR
6			1:06.83	2	5
7			1:06.95	1	2		-bgcolor=ccffcc	8			1:07.10	2	7	=NR
9			1:07.16	1	7
10			1:07.21	1	8	NR
11			1:07.26	1	3
12			1:07.27	1	1
13			1:07.42	1	6
14			1:07.60	2	2
15			1:07.70	2	1
16			1:08.13	2	8

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Lane	Notes
			1:04.93	4
			1:05.41	5	ER
			1:05.75	1
4			1:05.86	3
5			1:06.37	6
6			1:06.38	2	NR
7			1:06.75	7
8			1:07.01	8	NR

See also

• Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 100 metre breaststroke
• Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre breaststroke

References

• Women's 100m Breaststroke Preliminary results from the 2009 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '09 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-28.
• Women's 100m Breaststroke Semifinals results from the 2009 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '09 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-28.
• Women's 100m Breaststroke Final results from the 2009 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '09 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-28.