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

The first heats of the Women's 100 m Butterfly took place on the morning of Sunday, 26 July. The semi-final took place in the evening session of 26 July and the final took place on the evening of 27 July at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy. In the final, 7 of the 8 swimmers finished within the same second, and 5 within the same 0.1 of a second.

Medalists[]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Sarah Sjöström  Sweden	Jessicah Schipper  Australia	Jiao Liuyang  China

Records[]

Record	Swimmer	Time	Location
WR	Inge de Bruijn (NED)	56.61	Sydney 2000
CR	Libby Trickett (AUS)	57.15	Melbourne 2007

Results[]

Heats[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Heat	Lane	Notes
1	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	56.76	9	6	CR, NR
2	Dana Vollmer	USA	57.15	10	5
3	Jessicah Schipper	Australia	57.17	10	4
4	Yafei Zhou	China	57.34	10	8
5	Christine Magnuson	USA	57.48	9	4
6	Jeanette Ottesen	Denmark	57.58	10	7	NR
7	Ingvild Snildal	Norway	57.67	10	9	NR
8	Aurore Mongel	France	57.75	11	6	NR
9	Felicity Galvez	Australia	57.76	9	3
10	Jiao Liuyang	China	57.90	11	5
11	Annika Mehlhorn	Germany	58.04	9	7	NR
12	Marleen Veldhuis	Netherlands	58.06	11	4
13	Ellen Gandy	Great Britain	58.07	9	5
14	Daynara de Paula	Brazil	58.26	9	8
15	Yuka Kato	Japan	58.31	10	6
16	Gabriella Silva	Brazil	58.35	10	2
17	Jemma Lowe	Great Britain	58.60	10	3
18	Eszter Dara	Hungary	58.61	11	7
19	Kimberly Buys	Belgium	58.62	9	1	NR
20	Audrey Lacroix	Canada	58.67	8	5	NR
21	Irina Bespalova	Russia	58.74	10	0
22	Ilaria Bianchi	Italy	58.81	9	2
23	Triin Aljand	Estonia	59.00	8	3	NR
23		Japan	59.00	11	8
25	Amit Ivry	Israel	59.02	11	9
26	Micha Kathrine Østergaard Jensen	Denmark	59.06	11	2
27	Sara Isakovič	Slovenia	59.10	11	1
28	Chantal Groot	Netherlands	59.24	11	0
29		Italy	59.60	8	4
30	Emilia Pikkarainen	Finland	59.69	8	6
31	Tao Li	Singapore	59.73	11	3
32	Kateryna Zubkova	Ukraine	59.77	9	0
33	Orsolya Tompa	Hungary	59.85	8	8
34	Martina Van Berkel	Switzerland	59.87	8	1	NR
35	Birgit Koschischek	Austria	59.93	9	9
36	Gabriella Fagundez	Sweden	59.95	10	1
37		Israel	1:00.32	8	0
38		Ukraine	1:00.37	7	6
39		Cyprus	1:00.42	7	5
40	Iryna Niafedava	Belarus	1:00.46	8	9
41	Rita Medrano	Mexico	1:00.47	7	1	NR
42	Carolina Colorado Henao	Colombia	1:00.50	8	7
43	Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace	Bahamas	1:00.56	6	7	NR
44		Switzerland	1:00.67	7	4
45	Sze Hang Yu	Hong Kong	1:00.83	6	5
46	Iris Rosenberger	Turkey	1:00.86	7	7
47		Poland	1:00.93	7	3
48		Hong Kong	1:01.05	7	0
49		Czech Republic	1:01.19	6	1
50		Algeria	1:01.22	6	3	NR
51	Katarina Listopadova	Slovakia	1:01.24	7	2
52		Finland	1:01.27	6	0
53		Bosnia and Herzegovina	1:01.31	8	2
54	Alana Dillette	Bahamas	1:01.51	6	4
55		Venezuela	1:01.95	7	8
56		Slovenia	1:02.09	7	9
57		Malaysia	1:02.14	6	2
58	Christine Mailliet	Luxembourg	1:02.22	5	3
59	Yasemin Rosenberger	Turkey	1:02.52	6	9
60		Puerto Rico	1:02.56	6	6
61		Lithuania	1:02.60	5	5	NR
62		Venezuela	1:02.92	5	4
63		Ecuador	1:03.05	6	8
64	Farida Osman	Egypt	1:03.21	5	6
65		Singapore	1:03.25	5	7
66		Cuba	1:03.33	5	9
67		Lithuania	1:03.38	5	2
68	Binta Zahra Diop	Senegal	1:03.47	5	1
69		Chinese Taipei	1:03.77	5	0
70	Marie Laura Meza	Costa Rica	1:04.18	4	3
71		El Salvador	1:04.21	4	6
72		Finland	1:04.34	4	2
72		Morocco	1:04.34	5	8
74		Honduras	1:04.45	4	0
75		Morocco	1:04.95	4	9
76	Chen Ting	Chinese Taipei	1:05.06	4	5
77		India	1:05.13	4	8
78		Malta	1:05.41	3	5
79	Simona Muccioli	San Marino	1:05.55	4	4
80		Bolivia	1:05.64	3	3
81	Vandita Dhariyal	India	1:05.80	2	2
82		Chile	1:05.83	3	8
83		Nicaragua	1:05.93	3	4
84		Zimbabwe	1:06.05	3	6
85		Macau	1:06.51	4	7
86	Sharon Paola Fajardo Sierra	Honduras	1:07.07	4	1
87		Netherlands Antilles	1:07.42	3	7
88		Mozambique	1:07.52	3	0
89		Faroe Islands	1:08.17	3	9
90	Razan Taha	Jordan	1:08.28	2	5
91		Lebanon	1:08.39	3	2
92		Kenya	1:08.89	2	9
93		Malta	1:09.10	2	4
94		Mauritius	1:09.51	2	6
95		Mozambique	1:09.67	2	1
96		Sri Lanka	1:09.99	2	8
97		Fiji	1:11.63	2	0
98		Aruba	1:13.51	2	3
99	Adele Rova	Fiji	1:14.04	1	5
100		Mauritius	1:14.08	2	7
101		Mongolia	1:14.99	1	4
102		Pakistan	1:25.88	1	3

Key: CR = Championship record, NR = National record

Semifinals[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Heat	Lane	Notes
1	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	56.44	2	4	WR
2	Jessicah Schipper	Australia	57.08	2	5
3	Dana Vollmer	United States	57.19	1	4
4	Ingvild Snildal	Norway	57.20	2	6	NR
5	Jiao Liuyang	China	57.25	1	2
6	Aurore Mongel	France	57.39	1	6	NR
7	Gabriella Silva	Brazil	57.42	1	8	SA
8	Marleen Veldhuis	Netherlands	57.56	1	7
8	Yafei Zhou	China	57.56	1	5
10	Christine Magnuson	United States	57.59	2	3
11	Jeanette Ottesen	Denmark	57.65	1	3
12	Daynara de Paula	Brazil	57.68	1	1
13	Felicity Galvez	Australia	57.71	2	2
14	Annika Mehlhorn	Germany	57.90	2	7	NR
15	Yuka Kato	Japan	57.95	2	8
16	Ellen Gandy	Great Britain	58.25	2	1

Swim-off[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Lane	Notes
1	Marleen Veldhuis	Netherlands	57.38	4
2	Yafei Zhou	China	57.62	5

Finals[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Lane	Notes
	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	56.06	4	WR
	Jessicah Schipper	Australia	56.23	5	OC
	Jiao Liuyang	China	56.86	2	AS
4	Aurore Mongel	France	56.89	7	NR
5	Gabriella Silva	Brazil	56.94	1	AM
5	Dana Vollmer	United States	56.94	3	AM
7	Ingvild Snildal	Norway	56.96	6	NR
8	Marleen Veldhuis	Netherlands	57.79	8

Note: The Dutch Record in this event is Inge de Bruijn's former World Record (56.61), which may help to explain why Veldhuis was the only finalist not to set a National Record (NR).

External links[]

• Heats Results
• Semifinals Results
• Swim-off Results
• Finals Results