Women's 100 metre butterfly at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships | ||||||||||
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Dates | 2 August (heats and semifinals) 3 August (final) | |||||||||
Competitors | 69 from 57 nations | |||||||||
Winning time | 55.64 WR | |||||||||
Medalists | ||||||||||
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2015 FINA World Championships | ||
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Diving | ||
Individual | ||
1 m | men | women |
3 m | men | women |
10 m | men | women |
3 m & 10 m | mixed team | |
Synchronised | ||
3 m | men | women |
3 m | mixed | |
10 m | men | women |
10 m | mixed | |
High diving | ||
20 m | women | |
27 m | men | |
Open water swimming | ||
Single | ||
5 km | men | women |
10 km | men | women |
25 km | men | women |
Team | ||
5 km | mixed | |
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 |
4×100 m | mixed | |
4×200 m | men | women |
Medley relay | ||
4×100 m | men | women |
4×100 m | mixed | |
Synchronised swimming | ||
Solo | ||
Technical | women | |
Free | women | |
Duet | ||
Technical | women | |
Technical | mixed | |
Free | women | |
Free | mixed | |
Team | ||
Technical | women | |
Free | women | |
Combination | women | |
Water polo | ||
Tournament | men | women |
The Women's 100 metre butterfly competition of the swimming events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held on 2 August with the heats and the semifinals and 3 August with the final. [1]
Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
World record | Dana Vollmer (USA) | 55.98 | London, Great Britain | 29 July 2012 |
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Competition record | Sarah Sjöström (SWE) | 56.06 | Rome, Italy | 27 July 2009 |
The following new records were set during this competition.
Date | Event | Name | Nationality | Time | Record |
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2 August | Semifinal 2 | Sarah Sjöström | Sweden | 55.74 | WR , CR |
3 August | Final | Sarah Sjöström | Sweden | 55.64 | WR , CR |
The heats were held on 2 August at 09:30. [2]
The swim-off was held at 11:56. [3]
Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | 4 | Rachael Kelly | Great Britain | 58.17 | Q |
2 | 5 | Farida Osman | Egypt | 58.22 | NR |
The semifinals were held on 2 August at 17:32. [4]
Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | 4 | Jeanette Ottesen | Denmark | 57.04 | Q |
2 | 5 | Lu Ying | China | 57.36 | Q |
3 | 6 | Emma McKeon | Australia | 57.59 | Q |
4 | 3 | Alexandra Wenk | Germany | 57.77 | Q, NR |
5 | 7 | Noemie Thomas | Canada | 58.05 | QSO |
6 | 2 | Madeline Groves | Australia | 58.17 | |
7 | 8 | Rachael Kelly | Great Britain | 58.27 | |
8 | 1 | Ilaria Bianchi | Italy | 58.49 |
Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | 4 | Sarah Sjöström | Sweden | 55.74 | Q, WR |
2 | 3 | Katerine Savard | Canada | 57.52 | Q |
3 | 7 | Chen Xinyi | China | 57.63 | Q, WJ |
4 | 5 | Inge Dekker | Netherlands | 58.05 | QSO |
5 | 6 | Kendyl Stewart | United States | 58.14 | |
6 | 2 | An Se-hyeon | South Korea | 58.44 | |
7 | 8 | Natsumi Hoshi | Japan | 58.45 | |
8 | 1 | Kimberly Buys | Belgium | 59.08 |
The final was held on 3 August at 17:40. [5]
Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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4 | Sarah Sjöström | Sweden | 55.64 | WR | |
5 | Jeanette Ottesen | Denmark | 57.05 | ||
3 | Lu Ying | China | 57.48 | ||
4 | 2 | Emma McKeon | Australia | 57.67 | |
5 | 6 | Katerine Savard | Canada | 57.69 | |
6 | 7 | Chen Xinyi | China | 57.85 | |
7 | 8 | Noemie Thomas | Canada | 57.94 | |
8 | 1 | Alexandra Wenk | Germany | 58.22 |
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