Swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 100 metre breaststroke explained

Event:	Women's 100 metre breaststroke
Competition:	2011 World Aquatics Championships
Dates:	July 25, 2011 (heats and semifinals) July 26, 2011 (final)
Competitors:	46
Nations:	39
Win Value:	1:05.05
Gold:	Rebecca Soni
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Leisel Jones
Silvernoc:	AUS
Bronze:	Ji Liping
Bronzenoc:	CHN
Prev:	2009
Next:	2013

The women's 100 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships was held on July 25 with the preliminary round and the semifinals and July 26 with the final.

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Jessica Hardy		align=left	1:04.45	Federal Way	August 7, 2009
Championship record	Rebecca Soni		align=left	1:04.84	Rome	July 27, 2009

Results

Heats

46 swimmers participated in 6 heats, qualified swimmers are listed:^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	4			1:05.54	Q
2	6	5			1:07.10	Q
3	6	7			1:07.38	Q
4	4	5			1:07.39	Q
5	5	6			1:07.67	Q
6	5	4			1:07.72	Q
7	5	3			1:07.80	Q
7	6	3			1:07.80	Q
9	4	4			1:07.81	Q
10	4	3			1:07.96	Q
11	5	5			1:08.06	Q
12	5	2			1:08.16	Q
13	4	2			1:08.42	Q
14	6	6			1:08.51	Q
15	4	1			1:08.58	Q
16	4	6			1:08.63	Q
17	6	1			1:08.96
18	3	4			1:09.08
19	5	7			1:09.12
20	4	8			1:09.25
21	6	2			1:09.29
22	3	2			1:09.39	NR
23	5	1			1:09.50
24	4	7			1:09.56
25	3	6			1:09.64
26	3	3			1:09.82	NR
27	3	8			1:09.91
28	5	8			1:10.00
29	2	3			1:11.03
30	3	5			1:11.13
31	6	8			1:11.33
32	2	4			1:11.34	NR
33	3	7			1:12.12
34	2	5			1:13.15
35	2	6			1:13.16	NR
36	3	1			1:13.66
37	2	1			1:14.32	NR
38	2	8			1:14.70
39	2	2			1:15.64
40	2	7			1:16.54
41	1	3			1:21.19
42	1	5			1:22.66
43	1	6			1:26.27
44	1	4			1:28.86
45	1	2			1:30.56
46	1	7			1:40.16

Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 18:20.^[2]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3			1:06.66	Q
2	4			1:07.09	Q
3	2			1:07.25	Q
4	7			1:07.60	Q
5	5			1:07.68
6	6			1:08.02
7	8			1:08.55
8	1			1:08.64

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4			1:04.91	Q
2	6			1:07.13	Q
3	3			1:07.28	Q
4	2			1:07.53	Q
5	7			1:07.87
6	5			1:08.38
7	8			1:08.40	NR
8	1			1:08.81

Final

The final was held at 19:48.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4			1:05.05
	5			1:06.25
	3			1:06.52
4	1			1:06.56
5	2			1:07.08
6	6			1:07.28
7	7			1:07.64
8	8			1:07.97

External links

• 2011 World Aquatics Championships: Women's 100 metre breaststroke start list, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2011-07-23.

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 100 metre breaststroke (heats). Omega Timing. 2011-07-25.
2. Web site: 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 100 metre breaststroke (semifinals). Omega Timing. 2011-07-25.
3. Web site: 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 100 metre breaststroke (final). Omega Timing. 2011-07-26.