Swimming at the 2009 Maccabiah Games – Women's 100 metre freestyle

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The Women's 100 metre freestyle event at the 2009 Maccabiah Games took place on 19 July at the Wingate Institute. This swimming event used freestyle swimming, which means that the method of the stroke is not regulated (unlike backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly events). Nearly all swimmers use the front crawl or a variant of that stroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of two lengths of the pool.

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Three heats were held. The heat in which a swimmer competed did not formally matter for advancement, as the swimmers with the top eight times from the entire field qualified for the finals.

Nations with three or more swimmers meeting the standard could enter only three such swimmers in the final.

Medalists

GamesGoldSilverBronze
100 m freestyle Flag of the United States.svg Andrea Murez
United States (USA)
Flag of the United States.svg Naomi Javanifard
United States (USA)
Flag of Israel.svg Efrat Rotsztein
Israel (ISR)

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing Maccabiah record was as follows.

National recordFlag of Israel.svg  Anna Gostomelsky  (ISR)55.16 Netanya, Israel 24 July 2008 [1]
Maccabiah recordFlag of Israel.svg  Anna Gostomelsky  (ISR)57.62 Netanya, Israel 10 July 2005-

The following new Maccabiah records were set during this competition.

DateEventNameNationalityTimeMRNR
July 19Women's 100 m freestyle heat 3 Andrea Murez Flag of the United States.svg  United States 56.64MR
July 19Final Andrea Murez Flag of the United States.svg  United States 56.44MR

Heats

RankNameNationalityTimeHeatLaneNotes
1 Andrea Murez Flag of the United States.svg United States 56.6434Q
2 Naomi Javanifard Flag of the United States.svg United States 58.4314Q
3 Efrat Rotsztein Flag of Israel.svg Israel 59.5425Q
3 Danielle Arad Flag of the United States.svg United States 59.7215Q
5 Keren Siebner Flag of Israel.svg Israel 59.9424Q
6 Christina Hughes Flag of the United States.svg United States 1:00.1935
7 Amit Walter Flag of Israel.svg Israel 1:00.5733
8 Janine Zaltsman Flag of the United States.svg United States 1:01.8913
9 Ekaterina Kruglov Flag of Israel.svg Israel 1:02.9023
10 Stacie Lazarus Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa 1:03.2116Q
11 Dana Samuel Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa 1:05.3116Q
12 Emma Tripoli Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada 1:06.0326
13 Batya Bejar Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico 1:09.4832
14 Shireen Sapiro Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa 1:09.6512
15 Eva Asch Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico 1:12.5327
16 Jacqueline Herman Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico 1:12.9422
17 Rinat Cohen Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico 1:16.2837

Final

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg4 Andrea Murez Flag of the United States.svg United States 56.44
Silver medal icon.svg5 Naomi Javanifard Flag of the United States.svg United States 58.23
Bronze medal icon.svg3 Efrat Rotsztein Flag of Israel.svg Israel 58.38
42 Keren Siebner Flag of Israel.svg Israel 58.69
56 Danielle Arad Flag of the United States.svg United States 59.27
67 Amit Walter Flag of Israel.svg Israel 1:00.54
71 Stacie Lazarus Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa 1:04.83
88 Dana Samuel Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa 1:05.69

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References

  1. "Maccabiah 2009 Swimming Results" (PDF). Israel Swim Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 30 July 2009.