Swimming at the 2002 Commonwealth Games – Women's 100 metre freestyle

Women's 100 metres freestyle at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
Venue	Manchester Aquatics Centre
Dates	1–2 August 2002
Competitors	34 from 25 nations
Winning time	55.45
Medalists
Jodie Henry    Australia   Helene Muller    South Africa   Karen Legg    England
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Swimming at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
50 m EAD	men	women
100 m	men	women
100 m EAD	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men
800 m		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men
200 m	men
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m		women
100 m
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m		women
400 m
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men
4×200 m		women
Medley relay
4×100 m
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The Women's 100 metres freestyle event at the 2002 Commonwealth Games took place 31 July-1 August. The heats and the semi were held on 31 July, the final on 1 August.

Records[]

Prior to this competition, the existing world record was as follows;

World record	Inge de Bruijn (NED)	53.77	Sydney, Australia	20 September 2000
Commonwealth record		'
Games record	Sue Rolph (ENG)	55.17	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	12 September 1998

Results[]

Heats[]

The 16 fastest swimmers in the heats qualified for the semifinals.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Jodie Henry	Australia	55.79	Q
2	4	5	Alison Sheppard	Scotland	56.04	Q
3	5	3	Karen Legg	England	56.22	Q
4	5	4	Sarah Ryan	Australia	56.36	Q
5	4	3	Helene Muller		56.43	Q
6	3	5	Petria Thomas	Australia	56.64	Q
7	3	4	Melanie Marshall	England	56.65	Q
8	5	5	Karen Pickering	England	56.74	Q
9	3	3	Laura Nicholls	Canada	56.86	Q
10	3	7	Caroline Pickering		56.94	Q
11	3	2	Joscelin Yeo		57.30	Q
12	5	6	Mandy Leach	Zimbabwe	57.36	Q
13	4	6		Wales	57.49	Q
14	5	7	Laura Pomeroy	Canada	57.51	Q
15	4	7	Toni Jeffs	New Zealand	57.72	Q
16	5	2			57.84	Q
17	3	6	Leah Martindale		57.88
18	4	2	Jenna Gresdal	Canada	57.97
19	3	1	Angela Chuck	Jamaica	58.44
20	4	1		Wales	58.62
21	5	1		Wales	59.10
22	2	4	Anna-Liza Mopio-Jane		59.58
23	2	5	Linda McEachrane		59.60
24	4	8	Nikia Deveaux	Bahamas	1:00.79
25	5	8	Sharntelle McLean		1:00.99
26	2	6		Isle of Man	1:01.10
27	2	2			1:01.71
28	2	3			1:02.31
29	3	8	Kiera Aitken		1:03.50
30	2	7	Nathalie Lee Baw	Mauritius	1:04.23
31	2	1			1:05.14
32	1	4		Zambia	1:07.32
33	1	3		Pakistan	1:10.34
34	1	5	Olivia Aya Nakitanda	Uganda	1:11.03

Semifinals[]

The eight fastest swimmers from the semifinals progressed to the final.^[2]

Rank	Semi-final	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Jodie Henry	Australia	55.43	Q
2	2	5	Karen Legg	England	55.94	Q
3	2	3	Helene Muller		56.05	Q
4	1	5	Sarah Ryan	Australia	56.07	Q
5	1	6	Karen Pickering	England	56.10	Q
5	1	4	Alison Sheppard	Scotland	56.10	Q
7	2	6	Melanie Marshall	England	56.27	Q
8	1	3	Petria Thomas	Australia	56.45	Q
9	2	2	Laura Nicholls	Canada	56.46
10	1	7	Mandy Leach	Zimbabwe	56.89
11	2	7	Joscelin Yeo		57.13
12	1	1	Laura Pomeroy	Canada	57.48
13	2	1		Wales	57.59
14	1	8			57.96
15	1	2	Caroline Pickering		58.11
16	2	8	Toni Jeffs	New Zealand	58.27

Final[]

The final was held on 1 August at 19:06.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Jodie Henry	Australia	55.45
	3	Helene Muller		55.60
	5	Karen Legg	England	55.86
4	2	Karen Pickering	England	55.95
5	8	Petria Thomas	Australia	55.99
6	7	Alison Sheppard	Scotland	56.05
7	1	Melanie Marshall	England	56.19
8	6	Sarah Ryan	Australia	56.20

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