Swimming at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 100 metre freestyle explained

The Women's 100 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held on 6 August with the heats and the semifinals and 7 August with the final.^[1]

Records

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

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 09:30.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	9	4			53.22	Q
	10	4				Q
3	10	5			53.50	Q
4	10	3			53.85	Q
5	8	4			53.89	Q
6	8	3			53.93	Q
7	9	5			53.99	Q
8	10	6			54.01	Q
9	9	3			54.10	Q
10	8	5			54.22	Q
	8	2				Q
12	9	8			54.41	Q
13	10	1			54.54	Q
14	9	2			54.68	Q
15	10	2			54.72	Q
16	9	7			54.90	Q
	9	6
18	8	8			54.95
19	10	0			55.02
20	10	7			55.08
21	8	6			55.11
22	8	7			55.12
23	10	9			55.22
24	9	9			55.24
25	6	5			55.26
26	7	7			55.46
27	7	6			55.51
28	7	4			55.54
29	7	0			55.60
30	7	3			55.65
31	7	2			55.66
32	9	1			55.71
33	8	0			55.75
34	9	0			55.80
35	6	2			56.12
36	7	1			56.19
37	7	8			56.20
38	8	9			56.24
39	6	6			56.40
	7	5
41	7	9			56.41
42	6	8			56.51
43	5	4			56.84
	6	4
45	6	3			56.87
46	6	1			56.95
47	6	7			57.34
48	5	3			57.36
49	6	0			57.52
50	5	9			57.81
51	5	1			57.85
52	6	9			57.91
53	5	5			57.93
54	5	6			58.07
55	4	4			58.53
56	5	2			58.65
57	5	0			58.71
58	3	6			58.74
59	4	5			58.76
	5	7
61	4	0			58.85
62	4	1			58.95
63	4	2			59.37
64	4	6		<		59.50
65	3	4			59.51
66	4	9			59.62
67	4	3			59.66
68	4	8			59.78
69	4	7
70	3	0
71	3	5
72	3	2
73	3	3
74	5	8
75	3	8
76	3	1
77	3	9
78	2	4
	3	7
80	2	3
81	2	6
82	2	5
83	2	7
84	2	8
85	2	2
86	1	5
87	2	9
88	2	1
89	2	0
90	1	4
	1	3				DNS
	8	1				DNS
	10	8				DNS

Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 17:32.^[3]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4			52.84	Q
2	5			53.78	Q
3	3			53.91	Q
4	2			53.92	Q
5	6			54.15
6	1			54.44
7	8			54.68
8	7			54.77

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4			52.78	Q
2	5			53.00	Q
3	3			53.38	Q
4	6			53.81	Q
5	1			53.93
6	2			54.22
7	7			54.30
8	8			54.60

Final

The final was held on 7 August at 17:32.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3			52.52
	4			52.70
	5			52.82
4	2			53.17
5	6			53.58
6	7			53.93
7	8			54.00
8	1			54.76

Notes and References

1. http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010F020001001500FFFFFFFFFFFF01 Start list
2. http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010F020001001500FFFFFFFFFFFF02 Heats results
3. http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010F020001001501FFFFFFFFFFFF02 Semifinal results
4. http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010F020001001502FFFFFFFFFFFF02 Final results