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

The heats for the Women's 100m Breaststroke race at the 2009 World Championships took place on Monday, 27 July (prelims and semifinals) and Tuesday 28 July (final) at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy.

The existing records at the start of the swim were:

• World Record (WR): 1:05.09, Leisel Jones, Australia, 20 March 2006, Melbourne, Australia
• Championships Record (CR): 1:05.72, Leisel Jones, Australia, Melbourne 2007 (27 March 2007)

Medalists[]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Rebecca Soni  United States	Yuliya Yefimova  Russia	Kasey Carlson  United States

Records[]

World Record
1:05.09	Leisel Jones	Melbourne	20 March 2006
Competition Record
1:05.72	Leisel Jones	Melbourne	27 March 2007

Results[]

Heats[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Heat	Lane	Notes
1	Rebecca Soni	USA	1:05.66	10	4	CR
2	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia	1:06.42	8	4
3	Mirna Jukić	Austria	1:06.58	9	3	NR
4	Rikke Møller-Pedersen	Denmark	1:06.61	8	8	NR
5	Annamay Pierse	Canada	1:06.68	9	4
6	Tarnee White	Australia	1:06.91	10	3
7	Sarah Katsoulis	Australia	1:06.98	8	9
8	Ilaria Scarcella	Italy	1:07.23	8	5
9	Caroline Ruhnau	Germany	1:07.25	10	1
10	Kasey Carlson	USA	1:07.29	9	5
11	Sarah Poewe	Germany	1:07.32	8	2
12	Chiara Boggiatto	Italy	1:07.42	8	7
13		Japan	1:07.46	9	2
14	Chen Huijia	China	1:07.51	9	6
15	Nađa Higl	Serbia	1:07.80	5	1
15	Joline Höstman	Sweden	1:07.80	8	1
17		Norway	1:07.84	8	9	NR
18	Lia Dekker	Netherlands	1:07.92	8	6
19	Moniek Nijhuis	Netherlands	1:08.02	10	6
20	Lowri Tynan	Great Britain	1:08.30	7	9
21	Angeliki Exarchou	Greece	1:08.39	10	9	NR
22	Amanda Reason	Canada	1:08.41	10	5
23		Japan	1:08.43	10	7
24	Elise Matthysen	Belgium	1:08.45	10	8
25	Carolina Mussi	Brazil	1:08.66	9	8
26	Inna Kapishina	Belarus	1:08.69	6	5
27	Valentina Artemyeva	Russia	1:08.77	10	2
28		Sweden	1:08.96	7	8
29	Yekaterina Sadovnik	Kazakhstan	1:09.05	6	8
30		Spain	1:09.07	10	0
31		Israel	1:09.18	8	0
31	Wang Randi	China	1:09.18	9	1
33		Poland	1:09.30	7	3
34		Korea	1:09.35	6	6
35	Tatiane Sakemi	Brazil	1:09.58	9	7
36	Sara Nordenstam	Norway	1:09.69	9	9
37	Diana Gomes	Portugal	1:09.83	7	5
38		Finland	1:10.28	5	2
39		Israel	1:10.46	5	9
40	Anna Khlistunova	Ukraine	1:10.47	7	4
41	Sarra Lajnef	Tunisia	1:10.60	5	0	NR
41	Réka Pecz	Hungary	1:10.60	6	1
43	Jane Trepp	Estonia	1:10.61	6	0	NR
44	Raminta Dvariskyte	Lithuania	1:10.63	6	2	NR
45	Petra Chocova	Czech Republic	1:10.64	7	1
46	Nina Sovinek	Slovenia	1:10.66	7	2
47	Fiona Doyle	Ireland	1:10.93	4	3
48		Switzerland	1:10.99	7	6
49		Iceland	1:11.04	6	3
50		Portugal	1:11.06	6	4
51		Czech Republic	1:11.19	4	2
52		Great Britain	1:11.25	7	0
53	Tanja Šmid	Slovenia	1:11.53	5	4
54		Poland	1:11.54	6	7
55		Korea	1:11.58	7	7
56		Cyprus	1:11.68	5	8	NR
57		Venezuela	1:11.70	5	7	NR
58	Roanne Ho	Singapore	1:12.11	4	4
59	Urte Kazakeviciute	Lithuania	1:12.24	5	3
60		Bahamas	1:12.60	4	1
61		Zimbabwe	1:12.94	3	6
62		Aruba	1:13.24	3	2
63		Namibia	1:13.82	4	9	NR
64	Dilara Buse Gunaydin	Turkey	1:13.97	6	9
65	Danielle Beaubrun	Saint Lucia	1:14.38	4	3
66		Trinidad and Tobago	1:14.67	4	7
67	Chen I-Chuan	Chinese Taipei	1:14.75	5	6
68		Singapore	1:15.63	3	4
69		Guatemala	1:15.67	3	5
70	Nibal Yamout	Lebanon	1:16.55	4	6
71		Dominican Republic	1:16.66	3	0	NR
72		Macau	1:17.18	4	0
73		Bosnia and Herzegovina	1:17.39	3	3
74		Nigeria	1:18.22	2	3	NR
75		Malta	1:18.66	3	7
76		Nigeria	1:18.89	2	5
77		Albania	1:19.45	3	1	NR
78		Honduras	1:21.81	2	6
79		Madagascar	1:22.11	3	8
80		Brunei	1:22.89	3	9
81		Mongolia	1:23.25	2	7
82		India	1:24.85	2	2
83		Lebanon	1:25.15	2	4
84		Marshall Islands	1:25.47	2	8
85	Jamila Lunkuse	Uganda	1:25.49	1	2
86		Mozambique	1:26.04	1	3
87	Jade Ashleigh Howard	Zambia	1:26.25	2	0
88		Albania	1:30.13	1	5
89	Adele Rova	Fiji	1:30.24	2	9
90		Pakistan	1:30.75	1	4
91		Brunei	1:33.99	1	6
92		Pakistan	1:35.03	1	7
93		Maldives	1:39.11	1	8
94		Tajikistan	1:42.04	2	1
—		Greece	DNS	9	0
—	Siow Yi Ting	Malaysia	DSQ	5	5

Semifinals[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Heat	Lane	Notes
1	Rebecca Soni	United States	1:04.84	2	4	WR
2	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia	1:05.84	1	4
3	Sarah Katsoulis	Australia	1:06.23	2	6
4	Annamay Pierse	Canada	1:06.34	2	3
5	Rikke Møller-Pedersen	Denmark	1:06.50	1	5	NR
6	Mirna Jukić	Austria	1:06.83	2	5
7	Kasey Carlson	United States	1:06.95	1	2
8	Sarah Poewe	Germany	1:07.10	2	7	=NR
9	Chiara Boggiatto	Italy	1:07.16	1	7
10	Joline Höstman	Sweden	1:07.21	1	8	NR
11	Tarnee White	Australia	1:07.26	1	3
12	Chen Huijia	China	1:07.27	1	1
13	Ilaria Scarcella	Italy	1:07.42	1	6
14	Caroline Ruhnau	Germany	1:07.60	2	2
15		Japan	1:07.70	2	1
16	Nađa Higl	Serbia	1:08.13	2	8

Final[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Lane	Notes
	Rebecca Soni	United States	1:04.93	4
	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia	1:05.41	5	ER
	Kasey Carlson	United States	1:05.75	1
4	Sarah Katsoulis	Australia	1:05.86	3
5	Annamay Pierse	Canada	1:06.37	6
6	Rikke Møller-Pedersen	Denmark	1:06.38	2	NR
7	Mirna Jukić	Austria	1:06.75	7
8	Sarah Poewe	Germany	1:07.01	8	NR

See also[]

• Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 100 metre breaststroke
• Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre breaststroke

References[]

• Women's 100m Breaststroke Preliminary results from the 2009 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '09 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-28.
• Women's 100m Breaststroke Semifinals results from the 2009 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '09 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-28.
• Women's 100m Breaststroke Final results from the 2009 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '09 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-28.