Swimming at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 100 metre freestyle explained

Event:	Women's 100 metre freestyle
Championship:	2017 World Aquatics Championships
Dates:	27 July (heats and semifinals) 28 July (final)
Venue:	Danube Arena
Location:	Budapest, Hungary
Competitors:	78
Nations:	71
Win Value:	52.27
Gold:	Simone Manuel
Gold Nation:	USA
Silver:	Sarah Sjöström
Silver Nation:	SWE
Bronze:	Pernille Blume
Bronze Nation:	DEN
Prev:	2015

The Women's 100 metre freestyle competition at the 2017 World Championships was held on 27 and 28 July 2017.^{[1] [2]}

Records

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

During the competition, prior to this 100 metre event, on 23 July 2017, Sarah Sjöström set a new world record in the 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay final; her mark was at 51.71.

Results

Heats

The heats were held on 27 July at 09:30.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	8	4			53.01	Q
2	7	6			53.13	Q, NR
3	6	4			53.17	Q
4	8	5			53.18	Q
5	6	5			53.42	Q
6	8	3			53.45	Q
7	7	5			53.47	Q
8	7	4			53.56	Q
9	7	3			53.92	Q
10	6	6			54.00	Q
	8	6				Q
12	7	2			54.22	Q
13	6	3			54.23	Q
14	8	7			54.25	Q
15	6	1			54.45	Q
16	6	7			54.49
	8	1
18	7	7			54.54
19	6	2			54.74
20	7	1			54.81
21	8	2			54.91
22	8	8			55.32
23	6	8			55.40
24	5	5			55.46
25	8	9			55.52
26	7	9			55.73
27	7	0			55.77
28	6	9			55.86
29	8	0			55.99
30	5	7			56.11
31	5	6			56.31
32	7	8			56.34
33	6	0			56.56
	4	4
35	5	3			56.60
36	5	2			56.70
37	5	8			56.77
38	5	1			56.95
39	4	5			57.28
40	5	4			57.40
41	4	6			57.82
42	5	9			57.99
43	4	2			58.27
44	4	3			58.35
45	4	1			58.53
46	1	3			58.76
47	5	0			58.81
48	3	4			58.85	=NR
49	4	9			59.03
50	3	2			59.08
	4	7
52	1	2			59.27
53	3	3			59.33
54	4	8			59.37
55	3	1			59.38
56	4	0			59.54
57	3	5			59.86
58	3	8			1:00.04
59	3	9			1:00.75
60	2	1			1:09.00
61	3	6			1:00.92
	1	6
63	1	4			1:01.15
64	3	0			1:01.30
65	1	8	Park Mi-song		1:02.24
66	2	5			1:02.59
67	2	4			1:03.81
68	2	3			1:04.01
69	2	8			1:04.83
70	2	6			1:05.06
71	2	2			1:05.09
72	2	7			1:05.47
73	2	0			1:09.14
74	1	1			1:10.17
75	2	9			1:10.84
76	1	5			1:12.07
77	1	7			1:16.00
78	1	0			1:19.52
—	1	9

Swim-off

The swim-off was held on 27 July at 10:58.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5			54.20	Q, NR
2	4			54.49

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 27 July at 17:41.^[5]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4			52.99	Q, NR
2	6			53.04	Q
3	5			53.05	Q
4	3			53.09	Q
5	2			53.77
6	1			53.91
7	7			54.01
8	8			54.62

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4			52.44	Q
2	5			52.69	Q
3	3			52.85	Q
4	6			53.20	Q
5	1			53.51
6	7			53.85
7	8			54.05
8	2			54.26

Final

The final was held on 28 July at 17:32.^[6]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5			52.27	AM
	4			52.31
	6			52.69	NR
4	3			52.77
5	1			52.78
6	7			52.94
7	2			53.18
8	8			53.21

Notes and References

1. https://www.fina-budapest2017.com/downloads/BP2017_WC_schedule_5.pdf Schedule
2. http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000111010A0201EC01FFFFFFFFFFFF00 Start list
3. http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000111010A0201EC01FFFFFFFFFFFF01 Heats results
4. http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000111010A0201EC06FFFFFFFFFFFF01 Swim-off results
5. http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000111010A0201EC02FFFFFFFFFFFF01 Semifinals results
6. http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000111010A0201EC04FFFFFFFFFFFF01 Final results