Swimming at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 100 metre freestyle explained

Event:	Women's 100 metre freestyle
Championship:	2024 World Aquatics Championships
Dates:	15 February (heats and semifinals) 16 February (final)
Venue:	Aspire Dome
Location:	Doha, Qatar
Competitors:	85
Nations:	85
Win Value:	52.26
Gold:	Marrit Steenbergen
Gold Nation:	NED
Silver:	Siobhán Haughey
Silver Nation:	HKG
Bronze:	Shayna Jack
Bronze Nation:	AUS
Prev:	2023
Next:	2025

The women's 100 metre freestyle competition at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships was held on 15 and 16 February 2024.^[1] ^[2]

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.^[3]

The heats were started on 15 February at 09:32.^[4]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	7	4	53.50	Q
2	8	5	53.66	Q
3	9	4	53.70	Q
4	9	1	53.97	Q
5	9	5	54.12	Q
6	8	3	54.25	Q
7	7	7	54.49	Q
7	9	3	54.49	Q
9	9	6	54.58	Q
10	8	6	54.70	Q
11	7	5	54.72	Q
12	9	2	54.87	Q
13	7	2	54.88	Q
14	8	7	55.12	Q
15	7	3	55.19	Q-->WD
16	8	1	55.21	Q-->WD
17	8	8	55.34	Q
18	7	6	55.36	Q
19	8	0	55.44
20	9	8	55.61
21	7	1	55.71
22	7	8	55.82
23	8	9	56.01
24	9	0	56.20
25	9	7	56.34
26	8	2	56.39
27	6	4	56.55
28	6	3	56.68
29	6	5	56.88
30	6	6	56.93
31	9	9	57.00
32	6	2	57.56
33	6	7	57.57
34	5	4	57.84
35	5	5	58.53
36	6	8	58.66
37	5	2	58.90
38	5	6	59.16
39	5	7	59.19
40	2	0	59.36
41	6	1	59.41
42	6	9	59.43
43	5	0	59.78	NR
44	5	1	59.83
45	5	8	59.85
46	5	3	59.94
47	1	2	1:00.05
48	4	0	1:01.03
49	4	6	1:01.08
50	4	5	1:01.22
51	3	3	1:01.23
52	4	8	1:01.36
53	1	6	1:01.60
54	4	1	1:01.64
55	2	8	1:01.68
56	4	2	1:01.76
57	4	3	1:01.88
57	5	9	1:01.88
59	4	4	1:02.20
60	7	9	1:02.55
61	2	1	1:02.56
62	4	9	1:02.63
63	4	7	1:02.84
64	1	3	1:03.22
65	3	4	1:03.49
66	3	5	1:03.60
67	1	4	1:03.63
68	1	7	1:04.17
69	3	6	1:04.93
70	1	1	1:05.53
71	1	8	1:05.78
72	3	8	1:05.94
73	2	4	1:05.97
74	2	9	1:06.27
75	3	7	1:06.32
76	3	2	1:07.53
77	3	1	1:07.66
78	3	9	1:09.06
79	3	0	1:09.67
80	2	5	1:12.41
81	2	3	1:15.56
82	2	2	1:17.09
83	2	7	1:18.69
84	1	5	1:30.74
–	6	0	Did not start
	7	0
	8	4
	2	6	Disqualified

The semifinals were held on 15 February at 19:11.^[5]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	1	4	52.53	Q, NR
2	2	5	52.92	Q
3	1	6	53.12	Q
4	2	4	53.16	Q
5	2	3	53.31	Q
6	1	5	53.76	Q
7	2	2	54.01	Q, NR
8	1	3	54.07	Q
9	2	7	54.25
10	1	7	54.51
11	1	8	54.53
12	1	1	54.72
13	1	2	54.76
14	2	6	55.04
15	2	1	55.07
16	2	8	55.49

The final was held on 16 February at 19:02.^[6]

Web site: Schedule. 1 November 2023. 1 November 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20231101033353/https://resources.fina.org/fina/document/2023/10/02/ad5051df-a960-47a9-8eef-0beccae7c822/DOHA_2024_SCHEDULES_06.pdf. live.
Web site: Start list. 10 February 2024. 13 February 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240213070550/https://www.omegatiming.com/File/00011800000201EC0101FFFFFFFFFF00.pdf. live.
Web site: Records book. omegatiming.com. 9 February 2024. 10 February 2024. 3 February 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240203115839/https://www.omegatiming.com/File/0001180000FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF1F.pdf. live.
Web site: Heats results. omegatiming.com. 15 February 2024. 15 February 2024. 15 February 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240215071302/https://www.omegatiming.com/File/00011800000201EC0101FFFFFFFFFF01.pdf. live.
Web site: Semifinals results. omegatiming.com. 15 February 2024. 15 February 2024. 15 February 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240215162247/https://www.omegatiming.com/File/00011800000201EC0102FFFFFFFFFF01.pdf. live.
Web site: Final results. omegatiming.com. 16 February 2024. 16 February 2024. 16 February 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240216160837/https://www.omegatiming.com/File/00011800000201EC0104FFFFFFFFFF01.pdf. live.