Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre freestyle

Women's 100 metre freestyle at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Paris La Défense Arena after it was converted to a swimming pool for the swimming events
Venue	Paris La Défense Arena
Dates	30 July 2024 (heats and semis) 31 July 2024 (final)
Competitors	29 from 24 nations
Winning time	52.16
Medalists
Sarah Sjöström   Sweden Torri Huske   United States Siobhán Haughey   Hong Kong
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The women's 100 metre freestyle event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held on 30 and 31 July 2024 at Paris La Défense Arena, which was converted to a swimming pool for the swimming events. ^[1] Since an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of two lengths of the pool.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:

World record	Sarah Sjöström  (SWE)	51.71	Budapest, Hungary	23 July 2017
Olympic record	Emma McKeon  (AUS)	51.96	Tokyo, Japan	30 July 2021

Qualification

Further information: Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was permitted to enter a maximum of two qualified athletes in each individual event, but only if both of them had attained the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT). ^[2] For this event, the OQT was 53.61 seconds. World Aquatics then considered athletes qualifying through universality; NOCs were given one event entry for each gender, which could be used by any athlete regardless of qualification time, providing the spaces had not already been taken by athletes from that nation who had achieved the OQT. ^{[2] [3]} Finally, the rest of the spaces were filled by athletes who had met the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT), which was 53.88 for this event. ^[2] In total, 14 athletes qualified through achieving the OQT, 14 athletes qualified through universality places and one athlete qualified through achieving the OCT. ^[3]

Top 10 fastest qualification times ^[3]

Swimmer	Country	Time	Competition
Siobhan Haughey	Hong Kong	00:52:02	2023 World Aquatics World Cup
Mollie O'Callaghan	Australia	00:52:08	2023 World Aquatics Championships
Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	00:52:24	2023 World Aquatics Championships
Marrit Steenbergen	Netherlands	00:52:26	2024 World Aquatics Championships
Shayna Jack	Australia	00:52:28	2023 World Aquatics Championships
Yang Junxuan	China	00:52:68	2024 Chinese Championships
Torri Huske	United States	00:52:90	2024 United States Olympic Trials
Anna Hopkin	Great Britain	00:53:09	2024 World Aquatics Championships
Gretchen Walsh	United States	00:53:13	2024 United States Olympic Trials
Wu Qingfeng	China	00:53:25	2024 Chinese Championships

Results

Heats

29 competitors enter the event. The top sixteen on time advance to the semi-final.

Results ^[4]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	52.99	Q
2	4	4	Siobhan Haughey	Hong Kong	53.02	Q
3	2	5	Yang Junxuan	China	53.05	Q
4	4	5	Marrit Steenbergen	Netherlands	53.22	Q
5	3	4	Mollie O'Callaghan	Australia	53.27	Q
6	3	5	Shayna Jack	Australia	53.40	Q
7	4	3	Torri Huske	United States	53.53	Q
8	2	3	Gretchen Walsh	United States	53.54	Q
9	3	2	Beryl Gastaldello	France	53.65	Q
10	3	3	Anna Hopkin	Great Britain	53.67	Q
	4	1	Kayla Sanchez	Philippines	53.67	Q, NR
12	4	2	Marie Wattel	France	53.70	Q
13	4	6	Wu Qingfeng	China	54.03	Q
14	3	6	Michelle Coleman	Sweden	54.10	Q
15	4	7	Neza Klancar	Slovenia	54.12	Q
16	2	2	Maggie Mac Neil	Canada	54.16	Q, WD
17	2	6	Barbora Seemanova	Czech Republic	54.66	Q
18	2	7	Kalia Antoniou	Cyprus	54.75	R
19	3	1	Snaefridur Sol Jorunnardottir	Iceland	54.85
20	3	7	Kornelia Fiedkiewicz	Poland	55.25
21	3	8	Jana Pavalic	Croatia	55.77
22	4	8	Gloria Anna Muzito	Uganda	55.95
23	2	1	Jillian Janis Geohagan Crooks	Cayman Islands	56.15
24	2	8	Nesrine Medjahed	Algeria	57.34
25	1	4	Paige van der Westhuizen	Zimbabwe	58.19
26	1	3	Tilly Collymore	Grenada	58.84
27	1	5	Maxine Egner	Botswana	58.98
28	1	6	Aleka Kylela Persaud	Guyana	1:01.29
29	1	2	Rana Saadeldin	Sudan	1:04.72

Semifinals

The swimmers with the best 8 times, regardless of heat, advance to the final.

Results ^[5]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	1	4	Siobhán Haughey	Hong Kong	52.64	Q
2	1	3	Shayna Jack	Australia	52.72	Q
3	2	3	Mollie O'Callaghan	Australia	52.75	Q
4	2	5	Yang Junxuan	China	52.81	Q
5	1	5	Marrit Steenbergen	Netherlands	52.86	Q
6	2	4	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	52.87	Q
7	2	6	Torri Huske	United States	52.99	Q
8	1	6	Gretchen Walsh	United States	53.18	Q
9	2	1	Wu Qingfeng	China	53.34
10	1	7	Marie Wattel	France	53.38
11	1	2	Anna Hopkin	Great Britain	53.74
12	1	1	Michelle Coleman	Sweden	53.75
13	1	8	Barbora Seemanova	Czech Republic	53.94
14	2	8	Neza Klancar	Slovenia	53.96	NR
15	2	7	Kayla Sanchez	Philippines	54.21
16	2	2	Beryl Gastaldello	France	54.29

Final

External videos
Women's 100 metre freestyle final

Results ^[6]

Rank	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
	7	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	52.16
	1	Torri Huske	United States	52.29
	4	Siobhán Haughey	Hong Kong	52.33
4	3	Mollie O'Callaghan	Australia	52.34
5	5	Shayna Jack	Australia	52.72
6	6	Yang Junxuan	China	52.82
7	2	Marrit Steenbergen	Netherlands	52.83
8	8	Gretchen Walsh	United States	53.04

Statistics ^[7]

Name	15 metre split (s)	50 metre split (s)	50–65 metre split (s)	Time (s)	Stroke rate (strokes/min)
Sarah Sjöström	6.18	25.26	7.56	52.16	51.6
Torri Huske	6.01	25.06	7.22	52.29	50.4
Siobhán Haughey	6.28	25.09	7.48	52.33	53.8
Mollie O'Callaghan	6.17	25.51	7.23	52.34	50.6
Shayna Jack	6.35	25.29	7.69	52.72	51.8
Yang Junxuan	6.36	25.51	7.85	52.82	54.0
Marrit Steenbergen	6.31	25.38	7.41	52.83	51.8
Gretchen Walsh	5.96	25.22	7.40	53.04	47.5

References

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