Women's 100 metre breaststroke at the 2025 World Aquatics Championships | ||||||||||
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Venue | World Aquatics Championships Arena | |||||||||
Location | Singapore Sports Hub, Kallang | |||||||||
Dates | 28 July (heats and semifinals) 29 July (final) | |||||||||
Competitors | 56 from 50 nations | |||||||||
Winning time | 1:05.19 | |||||||||
Medalists | ||||||||||
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2025 World Aquatics Championships | |||
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Artistic swimming | |||
Solo | |||
Technical | men | women | |
Free | men | women | |
Duet | |||
Technical | women | mixed | |
Free | women | mixed | |
Team | |||
Technical | mixed | ||
Free | mixed | ||
Acrobatic | mixed | ||
Diving | |||
Individual | |||
1 m | men | women | |
3 m | men | women | |
10 m | men | women | |
Synchronised | |||
3 m | men | women | mixed |
10 m | men | women | mixed |
Individual & Synchronised | |||
Team | mixed | ||
High diving | |||
20 m | women | ||
27 m | men | ||
Open water swimming | |||
Individual | |||
3 km knockout sprints | men | women | |
5 km | men | women | |
10 km | men | women | |
Relay | |||
4 × 1.5 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 | mixed |
4 × 200 m | men | women | |
Medley relay | |||
4 × 100 m | men | women | mixed |
Water polo | |||
Tournament | men | women | |
Rosters | men | women | |
The women's 100 metre breaststroke event at the 2025 World Aquatics Championships WAS held from 28 to 29 July 2025 at the World Aquatics Championships Arena at the Singapore Sports Hub in Kallang, Singapore. [1] [2]
China’s Tang Qianting is the favourite for the event, as she won the event at the 2024 World Championships and finished second at the 2024 Olympics. She won the 2025 Chinese Championships in 1:05.57, the second-fastest time this year, and holds the fastest time of 1:04.39 from the past two years. In April, Great Britain’s Angharad Evans swam 1:05.37, which is the fastest time this year. She is aiming for her first major long course medal. Germany’s Anna Elendt ranks third in 2025 with 1:05.72, her fastest since earning silver in 2022. [3]
The USA’s Kate Douglass, Estonia’s Eneli Jefimova, and Italy’s Anita Bottazzo have all swum under 1:06 in 2025 and are close in rankings. Lithuania’s Rūta Meilutytė and the USA’s Lilly King, both former world champions, are in contention but must return to their past form to reach the podium. Other finalists could include Ireland’s Mona McSharry, Russia’s Evgeniia Chikunova, Japan’s Satomi Suzuki, Italy’s Lisa Angiolini, and Belarus’s Alina Zmushka. [3]
Each National Federation was permitted to enter a maximum of two qualified athletes in each individual event, but they could do so only if both of them had attained the "A" standard qualification time. For this event, the "A" standard qualification time was 1:06.87 seconds. Federations could enter one athlete into the event if they met the "B" standard qualification time. For this event, the "B" standard qualification time was 1:09.21 seconds. Athletes could also enter the event if they had met an "A" or "B" standard in a different event and their Federation had not entered anyone else. Additional considerations applied to Federations who had few swimmers enter through the standard qualification times. Federations in this category could at least enter two men and two women to the competition, all of whom could enter into up to two events. [4] [5]
Swimmer | Country | Time | Competition |
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Tang Qianting | ![]() | 1:04.39 | 2024 Chinese Championships |
Tatjana Smith | ![]() | 1:05.00 | 2024 Summer Olympics |
Angharad Evans | ![]() | 1:05.37 | 2025 Great British Championships |
Lilly King | ![]() | 1:05.43 | 2024 United States Olympic Trials |
Benedetta Pilato | ![]() | 1:05.44 | Sette Colli 2024 |
Mona McSharry | ![]() | 1:05.51 | 2024 Summer Olympics |
Anna Elendt | ![]() | 1:05.72 | 2025 German Championships |
Lydia Jacoby | ![]() | 1:05.74 | Texas stop of the 2024 TYR Pro Swim Series |
Reona Aoki | ![]() | 1:05.76 | 2024 Japanese Olympic Trials |
Kate Douglass | ![]() | 1:05.79 | 2025 United States Championships |
Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows. [7]
World record | ![]() | 1:04.13 | Budapest, Hungary | 25 July 2017 |
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Competition record | ![]() | 1:04.13 | Budapest, Hungary | 25 July 2017 |
The heats took place on 28 July 10:44. [8] [9]
The semifinals took place on 28 July at 19:29. [8] [11]
Rank | Heat | Lane | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | 1 | 3 | Kate Douglass | ![]() | 1:05.49 | Q |
2 | 1 | 2 | Anita Bottazzo | ![]() | 1:05.61 | Q |
3 | 2 | 6 | Tang Qianting | ![]() | 1:05.87 | Q |
4 | 1 | 5 | Evgeniia Chikunova | ![]() | 1:05.97 | Q |
5 | 1 | 8 | Alina Zmushka | ![]() | 1:06.09 | Q |
6 | 2 | 5 | Satomi Suzuki | ![]() | 1:06.12 | Q |
7 | 1 | 4 | Anna Elendt | ![]() | 1:06.13 | Q |
8 | 2 | 3 | Kotryna Teterevkova | ![]() | 1:06.17 | Q |
9 | 2 | 8 | Lilly King | ![]() | 1:06.26 | |
10 | 2 | 1 | Eneli Jefimova | ![]() | 1:06.28 | |
11 | 2 | 4 | Mona McSharry | ![]() | 1:06.33 | |
12 | 2 | 2 | Lisa Angiolini | ![]() | 1:06.40 | |
13 | 1 | 6 | Rūta Meilutytė | ![]() | 1:06.57 | |
14 | 2 | 7 | Yang Chang | ![]() | 1:06.84 | |
15 | 1 | 7 | Dominika Sztandera | ![]() | 1:07.34 | |
16 | 1 | 1 | Florine Gaspard | ![]() | 1:07.46 |
The final took place on 29 July at 20:44. [8] [12]
Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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![]() | 1 | Anna Elendt | ![]() | 1:05.19 | NR |
![]() | 4 | Kate Douglass | ![]() | 1:05.27 | |
![]() | 3 | Tang Qianting | ![]() | 1:05.64 | |
4 | 7 | Satomi Suzuki | ![]() | 1:05.78 | |
5 | 6 | Evgeniia Chikunova | ![]() | 1:06.04 | |
6 | 5 | Anita Bottazzo | ![]() | 1:06.06 | |
7 | 2 | Alina Zmushka | ![]() | 1:06.38 | |
8 | 8 | Kotryna Teterevkova | ![]() | 1:06.61 |