Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 100 metre backstroke

Women's 100m Backstroke at the 2005 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates	25 July (prelims and semifinals) 26 July (final)
Competitors	70
Winning time	1 minute .24 seconds
Medalists
Kirsty Coventry    Zimbabwe   Antje Buschschulte    Germany   Natalie Coughlin    United States
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The Women's 100 Backstroke at the 11th FINA World Aquatics Championships was swum 25 – 26 July 2005 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Preliminary and Semifinal heats were 25 July;^[1][2] the Final heat on 26 July.^[3]

At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championships (CR) records were:

• WR: 59.58, Natalie Coughlin (USA), swum 13 August 2002 in Fort Lauderdale, USA;
• CR: 1:00.16, Cihong He (China), swum 10 September 1994 in Rome, Italy

Results[]

Preliminaries[]

Rank	Heat + Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	H9 L4	Natalie Coughlin		1:01.25	q
2	H7 L3	Reiko Nakamura		1:01.40	q
3	H8 L5	Antje Buschschulte		1:01.41	q
4	H9 L2	Hannah McLean		1:01.46	q
5	H7 L4	Kirsty Coventry		1:01.51	q
6	H8 L3	Hanae Ito		1:01.95	q
7	H8 L4	Louise Ørnstedt		1:02.07	q
8	H9 L3	Giaan Rooney		1:02.25	q
9	H7 L8	Janine Pietsch		1:02.37	q
10	H9 L6	Stanislava Komarova		1:02.46	q
11	H7 L5	Sophie Edington		1:02.48	q
12	H9 L7	Chen Yanyan		1:02.49	q
13	H8 L1	Alessia Filippi		1:02.50	q
13	H9 L1			1:02.50	q
15	H8 L6	GAO Chang		1:02.62	q
16	H8 L7	Kateryna Zubkova		1:02.92	q
17	H7 L2	Erin Gammel		1:02.96
18	H8 L2	Iryna Amshennikova		1:03.12
19	H6 L2	Fabíola Molina		1:03.14
20	H7 L1	Kelly Stefanyshyn		1:03.19
21	H6 L7			1:03.27
22	H8 L8			1:03.39
23	H5 L5	Melissa Ingram		1:03.41
24	H9 L8	Sanja Jovanović		1:03.46
25	H6 L1	Anna Gostomelsky		1:03.56
26	H6 L3			1:03.67
27	H6 L4	Gisela Morales		1:03.81
28	H7 L6	Alexandra Putra		1:03.88
29	H6 L5			1:03.98
30	H6 L6	Therese Svendsen		1:04.19
31	H5 L3	Hanna-Maria Seppälä		1:04.61
32	H4 L3	Petra Klosova		1:04.86
33	H7 L7	Gemma Spofforth		1:04.88
34	H5 L8	Sadan Derya Erke		1:05.06
35	H5 L4	Kiera Aitken		1:05.18
36	H5 L1			1:05.48
37	H4 L6			1:05.67
38	H5 L7	Anja Čarman		1:05.83
39	H4 L2			1:05.90
40	H4 L5	Hannah Wilson		1:06.03
41	H5 L6	Chonlathorn Vorathamrong		1:06.31
42	H6 L8			1:06.37
43	H5 L2			1:06.85
44	H3 L5	Shikha Tandon		1:07.32
45	H3 L4	Carolina Colorado		1:07.38
46	H3 L2			1:07.60
47	H4 L8			1:07.80
48	H3 L6	Khadija Ciss		1:08.49
49	H4 L4			1:09.02
50	H4 L1			1:09.07
51	H3 L8			1:09.34
52	H4 L7	Saida Iskandarova		1:09.42
53	H2 L4			1:09.79
54	H2 L5			1:10.08
55	H3 L3			1:10.45
56	H2 L2			1:10.71
57	H3 L7	Lacken Malateste		1:11.13
58	H3 L1			1:12.45
59	H2 L6	Kiran Khan		1:12.94
60	H2 L3			1:13.71
61	H2 L1			1:14.15
62	H1 L5	Jessica Vieira		1:15.01
63	H1 L7	Rubab Raza		1:15.05
64	H2 L7			1:15.94
65	H1 L4	Yelena Rojkova		1:16.77
66	H2 L8	Mbolatiana Ramanisa		1:18.66
67	H1 L3			1:22.09
68	H1 L6			1:26.75
-	H1 L2			DNS
-	H9 L5	Laure Manaudou		DNS

Semifinals[]

Rank	Heat + Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	S2 L4	Natalie Coughlin	USA	1:00.59
2	S2 L5	Antje Buschschulte	Germany	1:00.67
3	S1 L5	Hannah McLean	New Zealand	1:01.14
4	S1 L4	Reiko Nakamura	Japan	1:01.22
5	S1 L3	Hanae Ito	Japan	1:01.25
6	S2 L6	Louise Ørnstedt	Denmark	1:01.45
6	S2 L3	Kirsty Coventry	Zimbabwe	1:01.45
8	S2 L7	Sophie Edington	Australia	1:01.64
9	S1 L1	Stanislava Komarova	Russia	1:02.09
10	S2 L1	Alessia Filippi	Italy	1:02.11
11	S1 L7	Chen Yanyan	China	1:02.34
12	S1 L6	Giaan Rooney	Australia	1:02.47
13	S2 L2	Janine Pietsch	Germany	1:02.49
14	S1 L8	Kateryna Zubkova	Ukraine	1:02.60
15	S1 L1		USA	1:02.68
16	S2 L8	GAO Chang	China	1:02.86

Final[]

Place	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
	Kirsty Coventry	Zimbabwe	1:00.24
	Antje Buschschulte	Germany	1:00.84
	Natalie Coughlin	USA	1:00.88
4	Reiko Nakamura	Japan	1:01.00
5	Hannah McLean	New Zealand	1:01.16
6	Hanae Ito	Japan	1:01.25
7	Louise Ørnstedt	Denmark	1:01.36
8	Sophie Edington	Australia	1:01.97

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