Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 100 metre breaststroke

The Women's 100m Breaststroke at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships took place on 26 March (prelims & semifinals) and the evening of 27 March (finals) at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia. 72 swimmers were entered in the event, of which 70 swam.

Existing records at the start of the event were:

• World Record (WR): 1:05.09, Leisel Jones (Australia), 20 March 2006 in Melbourne, Australia.
• Championship Record (CR): 1:06.20, Jessica Hardy (USA), Montreal 2005 (25 July 2005)

Results[]

Finals[]

Place	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
1st	Leisel Jones	Australia	1:05.72	CR
2nd	Tara Kirk	USA	1:06.34
3rd	Anna Khlistunova	Ukraine	1:07.27	ER =
4th	Jessica Hardy	USA	1:07.38
5th	Kirsty Balfour	Great Britain	1:08.05
6th	Tarnee White	Australia	1:08.55
7th	Kate Haywood	Great Britain	1:08.72
8th	Elena Bogomazova	Russia	1:08.96

Semifinals[]

Rank	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Note
1	Tara Kirk	USA	1:06.72	Q
2	Leisel Jones	Australia	1:07.13	Q
3	Anna Khlistunova	Ukraine	1:07.49	Q
4	Kirsty Balfour	Great Britain	1:07.67	Q
5	Jessica Hardy	USA	1:07.92	Q
6	Elena Bogomazova	Russia	1:08.04	Q
7	Tarnee White	Australia	1:08.37	Q
8	Kate Haywood	Great Britain	1:08.49	Q
9	Anne-Sophie Le Paranthoën	France	1:08.68	NR
10	Hanna Westrin	Sweden	1:09.07
11	Asami Kitagawa	Japan	1:09.11
12		Sweden	1:09.39
13	Ina Kapishina	Belarus	1:09.41
14	Birte Steven	Germany	1:09.46
15		Norway	1:09.50
16	Janne Schafer	Germany	1:10.32

Preliminaries[]

Rank	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Note
1	Tara Kirk	USA	1:07.23	Q
2	Leisel Jones	Australia	1:07.53	Q
3	Anna Khlistunova	Ukraine	1:07.66	Q
4	Hanna Westrin	Sweden	1:08.30	Q
5	Jessica Hardy	USA	1:08.68	Q
6	Anne-Sophie Le Paranthoën	France	1:08.78	Q
7	Tarnee White	Australia	1:08.97	Q
8	Elena Bogomazova	Russia	1:09.11	Q
	Kate Haywood	Great Britain		Q
10	Kirsty Balfour	Great Britain	1:09.13	Q
11	Ina Kapishina	Belarus	1:09.16	Q
12		Sweden	1:09.69	Q
13		Norway	1:09.70	Q
14	Birte Steven	Germany	1:09.77	Q
15	Janne Schafer	Germany	1:09.80	Q
16	Asami Kitagawa	Japan	1:09.87	Q
17	Mirna Jukić	Austria	1:09.92
18		Poland	1:10.05
19	Roberta Panara	Italy	1:10.18
20		Japan	1:10.24
21	Annabelle Carey	New Zealand	1:10.30
22	CHEN Huijia	China	1:10.39
23	Chiara Boggiatto	Italy	1:10.41
24	Yuliya Pidlisna	Ukraine	1:10.63
25	Suzaan van Biljon	South Africa	1:10.77
26	Seul Ki Jung	South Korea	1:10.95
27	JI Liping	China	1:11.08
28	Diana Gomes	Portugal	1:11.18
29		Ireland	1:11.49
30	Camille Muffat	France	1:12.24
31		South Korea	1:12.42
32	Adriana Marmolejo	Mexico	1:12.45
33		Philippines	1:12.67
34	Louise Mai Jansen	Denmark	1:12.83
35	Marina Kuc	Montenegro	1:12.85
36	Sara Elbekri	Morocco	1:13.28
37	Man Yi Yvette Kong	Hong Kong	1:13.77
38		Venezuela	1:14.21
39	Valeria Silva	Peru	1:14.26
40		Cyprus	1:15.06
41		Chinese Taipei	1:16.32
42		Indonesia	1:16.43
43		Indonesia	1:16.60
44	Roanne Ho	Singapore	1:16.86
45		Netherlands Antilles	1:18.12
46		Singapore	1:18.39
47	Danielle Beaubrun	Saint Lucia	1:18.42
48		Macao	1:18.73
49		Vietnam	1:18.80
50	Katerine Moreno	Bolivia	1:18.85
51	Natasha Moodie	Jamaica	1:19.02
52	Dohi Eliane Droubry	Côte d'Ivoire	1:19.62
53	Rachel Ah Koy	Fiji	1:19.72
54	Chinyere Pigot	Suriname	1:19.93
55		Nigeria	1:19.95
56		Honduras	1:20.38
57		Madagascar	1:20.40
58		Vietnam	1:20.78
59	Cai Lin Khoo	Malaysia	1:20.82
60		Guam	1:20.82
61	Nibal Yamout	Lebanon	1:20.98
62		Macao	1:21.08
63		Georgia	1:22.69
64	Oksana Hatamkhanova	Azerbaijan	1:23.07
65		Swaziland	1:23.47
66		Mauritius	1:24.04
67		Mozambique	1:24.22
68		Grenada	1:25.10
69	Rovena Marku	Albania	1:26.04
70		Maldives	1:45.03
--	Mahfuza Khatun	Bangladesh	DNS
--	Doli Akhter	Bangladesh	DNS

See also[]

• Swimming at the 2006 Commonwealth Games - Women's 100 metres breaststroke
• Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre breaststroke

References[]

• Women's 100m Breaststroke Preliminary results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); Retrieved 2009-07-11.
• Women's 100m Breaststroke Semifinals results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); Retrieved 2009-07-11.
• Women's 100m Breaststroke Final results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); Retrieved 2009-07-11.