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

Women's 100 metre breaststroke 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	28 July 2024 (Heats and Semis) 29 July 2024 (Final)
Competitors	37 from 32 nations
Winning time	1:05.28
Medalists
Tatjana Smith   South Africa Tang Qianting   China Mona McSharry   Ireland
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The women's 100 metre breaststroke event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held from 28 to 29 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	Lilly King  (USA)	1:04.13	Budapest, Hungary	25 July 2017	[2]
Olympic record	Tatjana Schoenmaker  (RSA) [a]	1:04.82	Tokyo, Japan	25 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). ^[3] For this event, the OQT was 1:06.79 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. ^{[3] [4]} Finally, the rest of the spaces were filled by athletes who had met the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT), which was 1:07.12 for this event. ^[3] In total, 23 athletes qualified through achieving the OQT, twelve athletes qualified through universality places and two athletes qualified through achieving the OCT. ^[4]

Top 10 fastest qualification times ^[4]

Swimmer	Country	Time	Competition
Tang Qianting	China	01:04:39	2024 Chinese Championships
Rūta Meilutytė	Lithuania	01:04:62	2023 World Aquatics Championships
Lilly King	United States	01:04:75	2023 United States National Championships
Benedetta Pilato	Italy	01:05:44	2024 Sette Colli Trophy
Tatjana Smith	South Africa	01:05:53	2023 World Aquatics Championships
Angharad Evans	Great Britain	01:05:54	2024 AP Race London International
Mona McSharry	Ireland	01:05:55	2023 World Aquatics Championships
Tes Schouten	Netherlands	01:05:71	2024 Eindhoven Qualification Meet
Reona Aoki	Japan	01:05:76	2024 Japanese Olympic Trials
Sophie Hansson	Sweden	01:05:83	2024 Stockholm Open

Competition format

The competition consists of three rounds: heats, semifinals, and a final. The swimmers with the best 16 times in the heats advance to the semifinals. The swimmers with the best 8 times in the semifinals advance to the final. Swim-offs are used as necessary to break ties for advancement to the next round.

Schedule

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00)^{[ citation needed ]}

Date	Time	Round
28 July 2024	10:00	Heats
	19:37	Semifinals
29 July 2024	17:30	Final

Results

Heats

Results ^[5]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	4	5	Tatjana Smith	South Africa	1:05.00	Q
2	5	4	Tang Qianting	China	1:05.63	Q
3	5	3	Mona McSharry	Ireland	1:05.74	Q
4	4	6	Satomi Suzuki	Japan	1:06.04	Q
5	3	4	Lilly King	United States	1:06.10	Q
6	5	5	Benedetta Pilato	Italy	1:06.19	Q
7	3	2	Anastasia Gorbenko	Israel	1:06.22	Q, WD
8	5	7	Eneli Jefimova	Estonia	1:06.24	Q
9	4	4	Rūta Meilutytė	Lithuania	1:06.34	Q
10	4	1	Alina Zmushka	Individual Neutral Athletes	1:06.37	Q
	3	6	Lisa Angiolini	Italy	1:06.37	Q
12	3	5	Angharad Evans	Great Britain	1:06.38	Q
13	5	6	Sophie Hansson	Sweden	1:06.66	Q
14	4	3	Tes Schouten	Netherlands	1:06.69	Q
15	5	2	Kotryna Teterevkova	Lithuania	1:06.76	Q
16	4	8	Macarena Ceballos	Argentina	1:06.89	Q
17	4	7	Yang Chang	China	1:06.91	q
18	5	8	Sophie Angus	Canada	1:06.93
19	3	3	Reona Aoki	Japan	1:06.98
20	3	1	Anna Elendt	Germany	1:07.00
21	5	1	Dominika Sztandera	Poland	1:07.22
22	2	4	Jenna Strauch	Australia	1:07.27
23	3	8	Lisa Mamié	Switzerland	1:07.65
	4	2	Emma Weber	United States	1:07.65
25	3	7	Letitia Sim	Singapore	1:07.75
26	2	3	Ida Hulkko	Finland	1:08.73
27	2	5	Jessica Vall	Spain	1:08.78
28	2	6	Kristýna Horská	Czech Republic	1:08.96
29	2	2	Stefanía Gómez	Colombia	1:09.16
30	2	7	Emily Santos	Panama	1:09.94
31	2	1	Lynn El Hajj	Lebanon	1:10.27
32	2	8	Lanihei Connolly	Cook Islands	1:10.45
33	1	4	Rouxin Tan	Malaysia	1:12.50
34	1	5	Imane El Barodi	Morocco	1:14.57
35	1	3	Ellie Shaw	Antigua and Barbuda	1:14.78
36	1	6	Aminata Barrow	The Gambia	1:15.12
37	1	2	Lara Dashti	Kuwait	1:15.67

Semifinals

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

Results ^[6]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Tatjana Smith	South Africa	1:05.00	Q
2	2	5	Mona McSharry	Ireland	1:05.51	Q, NR
3	2	3	Lilly King	United States	1:05.64	Q
4	1	4	Tang Qianting	China	1:05.83	Q
5	1	2	Alina Zmushka	Individual Neutral Athletes	1:05.93	Q, NR
6	2	7	Angharad Evans	Great Britain	1:05.99	Q
7	1	3	Benedetta Pilato	Italy	1:06.12	Q
8	2	6	Eneli Jefimova	Estonia	1:06.23	Q
9	1	6	Lisa Angiolini	Italy	1:06.39
10	2	1	Tes Schouten	Netherlands	1:06.56
11	2	2	Rūta Meilutytė	Lithuania	1:06.89
12	1	5	Satomi Suzuki	Japan	1:06.90
13	1	7	Sophie Hansson	Sweden	1:06.96
14	1	8	Yang Chang	China	1:07.20
15	2	8	Macarena Ceballos	Argentina	1:07.31
16	1	1	Kotryna Teterevkova	Lithuania	1:07.48

Final

External videos
Women's 100 metre breaststroke final

Results ^[7]

Rank	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
	4	Tatjana Smith	South Africa	1:05.28
	6	Tang Qianting	China	1:05.54
	5	Mona McSharry	Ireland	1:05.59
4	1	Benedetta Pilato	Italy	1:05.60
	3	Lilly King	United States	1:05.60
6	7	Angharad Evans	Great Britain	1:05.85
7	8	Eneli Jefimova	Estonia	1:06.50
8	2	Alina Zmushka	Individual Neutral Athletes	1:06.54

Statistics ^[8]

Name	15 metre split (s)	50 metre split (s)	50–65 metre split (s)	Time (s)	Stroke rate (strokes/min)
Tatjana Smith	7.18	30.62	9.98	1:05.28	47.1
Tang Qianting	6.95	29.94	10.03	1:05.54	52.5
Mona McSharry	7.50	30.56	9.84	1:05.59	50.3
Benedetta Pilato	7.07	30.62	9.84	1:05.60	45.7
Lilly King	7.13	31.00	9.79	1:05.60	49.1
Angharad Evans	7.53	30.61	10.13	1:05.85	44.9
Eneli Jefimova	7.47	30.69	10.08	1:06.50	53.0
Alina Zmushka	7.33	31.12	9.98	1:06.54	50.9

Notes

1. Tatjana Schoenmaker was the maiden name of Tatjana Smith.

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