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

Event:	Women's 100 metre freestyle
Competition:	2011 World Aquatics Championships
Dates:	28 July 2011 (heats and semifinals) 29 July 2011 (final)
Competitors:	79
Nations:	66
Win Value:	53.45
Gold:	Jeanette Ottesen
Goldnoc:	DEN
Goldnoc2:	BLR
Bronze:	Ranomi Kromowidjojo
Bronzenoc:	NED
Prev:	2009
Next:	2013

The women's 100 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships was held in July 2011; the heats and the semifinals were held on 28 July and the final on 29 July.

Records

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

Results

Heats

77 swimmers participated in 10 heats.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	8	4				Q
2	8	6				Q
3	9	3				Q
4	8	5				Q
5	10	3				Q
6	8	3				Q
6	10	5				Q
6	10	6				Q
9	10	4				Q
10	9	5				Q
11	8	8				Q NR
12	9	4				Q
13	8	2				Q
14	8	7				Q
15	9	1				Q
16	9	6				Q
17	10	2
18	10	7
19	9	7
20	7	6
21	7	4
22	10	1
23	8	1
24	7	1
25	9	8
26	6	5
27	7	3
28	7	5
29	6	4
30	9	2
31	6	3
32	7	8
33	6	2
34	6	6
35	7	7
36	7	2
37	6	8
38	5	5
39	6	1
40	6	7
41	5	2
42	5	6
43	5	3
44	5	4
45	4	5
46	4	4
47	5	8
48	5	7
49	5	1
50	4	3
51	4	2
52	4	6
53	4	8
54	4	7
55	3	6
56	3	3
57	3	5
58	3	2
59	3	1
60	4	1
61	3	4
62	2	4
63	3	7
64	2	3
65	2	6
66	2	2
67	2	1
68	3	8
69	2	8
70	1	5
71	1	7
72	2	7
73	1	2
74	1	4
75	1	3
76	1	1
77	1	6
–	2	5				DNS
–	10	8				DNS

Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 18:02.^[2]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6			53.48	Q
2	4			53.88	Q
3	5			54.05	Q
4	2			54.46	NR
5	7			54.82
6	3			54.87
7	1			54.92
8	8			55.33

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4			53.67	Q
2	6			53.78	Q
3	5			53.94	Q
4	7			54.05	Q
5	2			54.26	Q
6	3			54.28
7	1			54.78
8	8			54.82

Final

The final was held at 18:02.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	6			53.45
	8			53.45
	2			53.66
4	4			53.72
4	5			53.72
6	3			53.81
7	7			54.19
8	1			54.22

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 100 metre freestyle (heats). Omega Timing. 2011-07-28.
2. Web site: 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 100 metre freestyle (semifinals). Omega Timing. 2011-07-28.
3. Web site: 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 100 metre freestyle (final). Omega Timing. 2011-07-29.