Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 100 metre butterfly
Appearance
Women's 100 metre butterfly at the 2009 FINA World Championships | ||||||||||
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Venue | Foro Italico | |||||||||
Dates | 26 July 2009 (heats, semifinals) 27 August 2009 (final) | |||||||||
Competitors | 102 | |||||||||
Winning time | 56.04 WR | |||||||||
Medalists | ||||||||||
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2009 FINA World Championships | ||
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Diving | ||
Individual | ||
1 m | men | women |
3 m | men | women |
10 m | men | women |
Synchronised | ||
3 m | men | women |
10 m | men | women |
Open water swimming | ||
5 km | men | women |
10 km | men | women |
25 km | men | women |
Swimming | ||
Freestyle | ||
50 m | men | women |
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
400 m | men | women |
800 m | men | women |
1500 m | men | women |
Backstroke | ||
50 m | men | women |
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
Breaststroke | ||
50 m | men | women |
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
Butterfly | ||
50 m | men | women |
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
Individual medley | ||
200 m | men | women |
400 m | men | women |
Freestyle relay | ||
4×100 m | men | women |
4×200 m | men | women |
Medley relay | ||
4×100 m | men | women |
Synchronised swimming | ||
Solo | ||
Technical | women | |
Free | women | |
Duet | ||
Technical | women | |
Free | women | |
Team | ||
Technical | women | |
Free | women | |
Combination | women | |
Water polo | ||
Tournament | men | women |
The first heats of the Women's 100 m Butterfly took place on the morning of Sunday, 26 July. The semi-final took place in the evening session of 26 July and the final took place on the evening of 27 July at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy. In the final, 7 of the 8 swimmers finished within the same second, and 5 within the same 0.1 of a second.
Records
[edit]Prior to this competition, the existing world and competition records were as follows:
World record | 56.61 | Sydney, Australia | 17 September 2000 | |
Championship record | 57.15 | Melbourne, Australia | 26 March 2007 |
The following records were established during the competition:
Date | Round | Name | Nationality | Time | Record |
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26 July | Heat 9 | Sarah Sjöström | 56.76 | CR | |
26 July | Semifinal 2 | Sarah Sjöström | 56.44 | WR | |
27 July | Final | Sarah Sjöström | 56.06 | WR |
Results
[edit]Heats
[edit]Key: CR = Championship record, NR = National record
Semifinals
[edit]Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Heat | Lane | Notes |
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1 | Sarah Sjöström | 56.44 | 2 | 4 | WR | |
2 | Jessicah Schipper | 57.08 | 2 | 5 | ||
3 | Dana Vollmer | 57.19 | 1 | 4 | ||
4 | Ingvild Snildal | 57.20 | 2 | 6 | NR | |
5 | Jiao Liuyang | 57.25 | 1 | 2 | ||
6 | Aurore Mongel | 57.39 | 1 | 6 | NR | |
7 | Gabriella Silva | 57.42 | 1 | 8 | SA | |
8 | Marleen Veldhuis | 57.56 | 1 | 7 | ||
8 | Yafei Zhou | 57.56 | 1 | 5 | ||
10 | Christine Magnuson | 57.59 | 2 | 3 | ||
11 | Jeanette Ottesen | 57.65 | 1 | 3 | ||
12 | Daynara de Paula | 57.68 | 1 | 1 | ||
13 | Felicity Galvez | 57.71 | 2 | 2 | ||
14 | Annika Mehlhorn | 57.90 | 2 | 7 | NR | |
15 | Yuka Kato | 57.95 | 2 | 8 | ||
16 | Ellen Gandy | 58.25 | 2 | 1 |
Swim-off
[edit]Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Lane | Notes |
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1 | Marleen Veldhuis | 57.38 | 4 | ||
2 | Yafei Zhou | 57.62 | 5 |
Finals
[edit]Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Lane | Notes |
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Sarah Sjöström | 56.06 | 4 | WR | ||
Jessicah Schipper | 56.23 | 5 | OC | ||
Jiao Liuyang | 56.86 | 2 | AS | ||
4 | Aurore Mongel | 56.89 | 7 | NR | |
5 | Gabriella Silva | 56.94 | 1 | =AM | |
5 | Dana Vollmer | 56.94 | 3 | =AM | |
7 | Ingvild Snildal | 56.96 | 6 | NR | |
8 | Marleen Veldhuis | 57.79 | 8 |
Note: The Dutch Record in this event is Inge de Bruijn's former World Record (56.61), which may help to explain why Veldhuis was the only finalist not to set a National Record (NR).