Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 100 metre backstroke

The heats for the Women's 100 m Backstroke race at the 2009 World Championships took place in the morning and evening of 27 July and the final took place in the evening session of 28 July at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy.

Records[]

World Record (WR)
58.77	Kirsty Coventry	Beijing, China	11 August 2008
Championships Record (CR)
59.44	Natalie Coughlin	Melbourne, Australia	27 March 2007

Medalists[]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Gemma Spofforth  Great Britain	Anastasia Zuyeva  Russia	Emily Seebohm  Australia

Heats[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Heat	Lane	Notes
1	Gemma Spofforth	Great Britain	58.78	11	4	CR, ER
2	Anastasia Zuyeva	Russia	59.01	12	5	NR
3	Kirsty Coventry	Zimbabwe	59.51	12	4
4	Emily Seebohm	Australia	59.64	11	5
5	Shiho Sakai	Japan	59.80	10	5
6	Gao Chang	China	59.84	11	7
7	Hayley McGregory	United States	59.91	10	4
8	Elizabeth Simmonds	Great Britain	1:00.04	10	6
9	Aya Terakawa	Japan	1:00.18	11	3
10	Maria Gromova	Russia	1:00.32	11	8
11	Daniela Samulski	Germany	1:00.34	12	2
12	Elizabeth Pelton	United States	1:00.47	12	7
13	Fabíola Molina	Brazil	1:00.53	10	2	SA
14		Denmark	1:00.67	12	8
15	Zhao Jing	China	1:00.79	12	3
16	Alexianne Castel	France	1:00.80	11	6
17	Belinda Hocking	Australia	1:00.90	10	3
18	Fernanda González	Mexico	1:00.94	9	5	NR
19	Eszter Dara	Hungary	1:01.10	11	2
19	Elena Gemo	Italy	1:01.10	11	1
21		Italy	1:01.46	10	0
22	Esther Baron	France	1:01.48	12	6
23	Sanja Jovanović	Croatia	1:01.53	10	7
24	Sinead Russell	Canada	1:01.63	12	1
25	Alicja Tchorz	Poland	1:01.75	12	0
26	Simona Baumrtova	Czech Republic	1:01.79	12	9
27	Petra Klosova	Czech Republic	1:01.83	8	4
28	Carolina Colorado Henao	Colombia	1:01.85	10	1
29	Iryna Amshennikova	Ukraine	1:02.00	11	0
30		Canada	1:02.14	10	8
31		Ukraine	1:02.36	9	4
32	Kimberly Buys	Belgium	1:02.46	9	1	NR
33	Aisling Cooney	Ireland	1:02.55	9	8
34		Kazakhstan	1:02.72	7	7
35	Klaudia Nazieblo	Poland	1:02.74	11	9
36	Melanie Nocher	Ireland	1:02.76	8	7
37	Marica Strazmester	Serbia	1:02.90	9	0
38		Luxembourg	1:02.97	8	1
39	Kiera Aitken	Bermuda	1:02.99	9	7
40		Egypt	1:03.03	8	3	NR
41		Belarus	1:03.17	8	2
42	Yekaterina Rudenko	Kazakhstan	1:03.29	8	5
43	Martina van Berkel	Switzerland	1:03.44	8	6
44	Ekaterina Avramova	Bulgaria	1:03.47	9	2
45		Venezuela	1:03.48	7	5	NR
46	Lau Yin Yan Claudia	Hong Kong	1:03.51	7	3
47		Slovakia	1:03.57	6	3
48		Slovenia	1:03.66	7	6
49	Tsai Hiu Wai Sherry	Hong Kong	1:03.69	10	9
50		Singapore	1:03.72	8	8
51		Andorra	1:03.79	5	4
52		Belgium	1:04.01	9	9
53	Alana Dillette	Bahamas	1:04.09	9	6
54		Luxembourg	1:04.12	8	0
55	Anna-Liisa Põld	Estonia	1:04.14	6	7
56		Mexico	1:04.22	6	5
57		Colombia	1:04.55	7	9
58	Kätlin Sepp	Estonia	1:04.79	7	1
59		Finland	1:04.89	7	8
60	Kang Yeong-Seo	South Korea	1:05.19	8	9
61		Ecuador	1:05.33	6	9
62	Yulduz Kuchkarova	Uzbekistan	1:05.34	7	0
63		Singapore	1:05.65	6	1
63	Chen Ting	Chinese Taipei	1:05.65	7	4
65		Ecuador	1:05.77	6	4
66	Maria Virginia Baez Franco	Paraguay	1:05.81	7	2
67		Venezuela	1:06.14	6	2
68		Lebanon	1:06.80	6	8	NR
69		Suriname	1:07.34	4	3
70		Saint Lucia	1:07.55	4	1	NR
71	Gizem Çam	Turkey	1:07.62	1	6
72		Guatemala	1:07.76	5	3
73		Bolivia	1:07.90	5	5	NR
74		Zimbabwe	1:07.95	5	8
75		Netherlands Antilles	1:08.09	5	2
76	Rebecca Sharpe	Bermuda	1:08.31	6	0
77		Jamaica	1:08.37	5	7
78	Karen Vilorio	Honduras	1:08.84	4	2
79		Namibia	1:08.88	5	6
80		Malta	1:09.10	5	1
81		Kenya	1:09.32	3	1
82		Macau	1:09.53	4	5
83		India	1:10.12	5	0
84		Macau	1:10.20	5	9
85		Honduras	1:10.25	4	8
86		Faroe Islands	1:10.30	3	5
87	Angelique Trinquier	Monaco	1:10.58	3	6
88		Bolivia	1:11.10	4	0
89		Grenada	1:11.40	4	9
90	Sylvia Brunlehner	Kenya	1:11.60	3	2
91	Jade Ashleigh Howard	Zambia	1:11.86	2	5
92		Nicaragua	1:12.99	4	6
93		Mozambique	1:13.10	2	3
94	Mareme Faye	Senegal	1:13.23	3	7
95	Kiran Khan	Pakistan	1:13.37	4	4
96		Angola	1:13.52	3	4
97	Cheyenne Rova	Fiji	1:13.53	3	9
98		American Samoa	1:13.74	3	0
99		Mozambique	1:14.77	2	7
100	Estellah Fils Rabetsara	Madagascar	1:14.81	3	3
101	Khadidiatou Dieng	Senegal	1:14.91	3	8
102		Monaco	1:16.10	2	2
103		Brunei	1:17.73	2	4
104		Papua New Guinea	1:18.09	2	6
105		Brunei	1:19.60	2	9
106		Albania	1:19.95	1	4
107	Sausan Aishath	Maldives	1:20.65	1	5
108		Pakistan	1:21.22	2	8
109		Tanzania	1:23.64	1	3
110		Nepal	1:23.81	2	0
111		Nigeria	1:24.96	2	1
112		Laos	1:30.02	1	7
113		Laos	1:42.58	1	2
—	Magdalena Kuras	Sweden	DNS	1	1
—	Anahit Barseghyan	Armenia	DNS	4	7
—	Ingvild Snildal	Norway	DNS	9	3
—		Israel	DSQ	6	6

Semifinals[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Heat	Lane	Notes
1	Anastasia Zuyeva	Russia	58.48	1	4	WR
2	Gemma Spofforth	Great Britain	58.74	2	4	NR
3	Emily Seebohm	Australia	59.15	1	5	OC
4	Kirsty Coventry	Zimbabwe	59.21	2	5
5	Shiho Sakai	Japan	59.25	2	3	AS
6	Zhao Jing	China	59.39	2	8	NR
7	Elizabeth Simmonds	Great Britain	59.55	1	6
7	Hayley McGregory	United States	59.55	2	6
9	Daniela Samulski	Germany	59.77	2	7	NR
10	Gao Chang	China	1:00.21	1	3
11	Aya Terakawa	Japan	1:00.31	2	2
12	Maria Gromova	Russia	1:00.49	1	2
13	Elizabeth Pelton	United States	1:00.51	1	7
14	Fabíola Molina	Brazil	1:00.55	2	1
15	Alexianne Castel	France	1:00.63	1	8
16		Denmark	1:00.67	1	1

Final[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Lane	Notes
	Gemma Spofforth	Great Britain	58.12	5	WR
	Anastasia Zuyeva	Russia	58.18	4	NR
	Emily Seebohm	Australia	58.88	3	OC
4	Shiho Sakai	Japan	59.14	2	AS
5	Zhao Jing	China	59.28	7	NR
6	Hayley McGregory	United States	59.42	8
7	Elizabeth Simmonds	Great Britain	59.71	1
8	Kirsty Coventry	Zimbabwe	59.74	6

External links[]

• Heats Results
• Semifinals Results
• Finals Results