2023 World Para Swimming Championships – Women's 100 metre backstroke

The women's 100m backstroke events at the 2023 World Para Swimming Championships were held at the Manchester Aquatics Centre between 31 July and 6 August.

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
S2	Yip Pin Xiu   Singapore	Angela Procida   Italy	Fabiola Ramírez Martínez   Mexico
S6	Shelby Newkirk   Canada	Jiang Yuyan   China	Anna Hontar   Ukraine
S7	Danielle Dorris   Canada	Julia Gaffney   United States	Veronika Korzhova   Ukraine
S8	Alice Tai   Great Britain	Xenia Palazzo   Italy	Tupou Neiufi   New Zealand
S9	Christie Raleigh-Crossley   United States	Nuria Marques Soto   Spain	Mariana Ribeiro   Brazil
S10	Bianka Pap   Hungary	Lisa Kruger   Netherlands	Anaëlle Roulet   France
S11	Wang Xinyi   China	Cai Liwen   China	Analuz Pellitero   Argentina
S12	Maria Carolina Gomes Santiago   Brazil	Jenna Jones   Australia	María Delgado   Spain
S13 [1]	Róisín Ní Ríain   Ireland	Carlotta Gilli   Italy	Katja Dedekind   Australia
S14	Bethany Firth   Great Britain	Poppy Maskill   Great Britain	Georgia Sheffield   Great Britain

Results

S6

Final

Eight swimmers from eight nations took part. ^[2]

Rank	Name	Nation	Result	Notes
	Shelby Newkirk	Canada	1:20.62	CR
	Anna Hontar	China	1:21.18
	Jiang Yuyan	Ukraine	1:22.34
4	Verena Schott	Germany	1:22.51
5	Elizabeth Marks	United States	1:22.72
6	Grace Harvey	United Kingdom	1:29.36
7	Natalya Zvyagintseva	Kazakhstan	1:34.01
8	Ng Cheuk Yin	Hong Kong	1:35.39

S12

Final

Eight swimmers from eight nations took part. ^[3]

Rank	Name	Nation	Result	Notes
	Maria Carolina Gomes Santiago	Brazil	1:08.89
	Jenna Jones	Australia	1:12.27	OC
	Maria Delgado Nadal	Spain	1:12.65
4	Karina Petrikovičová	Slovakia	1:15.18
5	Léane Morceau	France	1:15.74
6	Yaryna Matlo	Ukraine	1:20.72
7	Neele Labudda	Germany	1:22.13
8	Sophie Jin Wen Soon	Singapore	1:29.23

S13

Final

Six swimmers from six nations took part. The event progressed straight to final on 3 August. ^[1]

The applicable records entering the event where as follows:

Caption

Records	Swimmer	Time
World record	Gia Pergolini	1:04.64
Championships record		1:04.80

Rank	Name	Nation	Result	Notes
	Róisín Ní Ríain	Ireland	1:06.62
	Carlotta Gilli	Italy	1:06.71
	Katja Dedekind	Australia	1:06.98
4	Emma Feliu	Spain	1:14.09
5	Danika Vyncke	South Africa	1:24.34
	Colleen Young	United States	DSQ

References

1. https://www.paralympic.org/static/info/resSW7G23/pdf/SW7G23/SW/SW7G23_SW_C74A_SWW433100.pdf ^{[ bare URL PDF ]}
2. "Women's 100m backstroke S6 Finals" (PDF). paralympic.org. 31 July 2023. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
3. "Women's 100m backstroke S12 Finals" (PDF). paralympic.org. 31 July 2023. Retrieved 1 August 2023.