Swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 100 metre breaststroke

Women's 100 metre breaststroke at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships
Dates	July 25, 2011 (heats and semifinals) July 26, 2011 (final)
Competitors	46 from 39 nations
Winning time	1:05.05
Medalists
Rebecca Soni    United States   Leisel Jones    Australia   Ji Liping    China
← 2009 2013 →

The women's 100 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships was held on July 25 with the preliminary round and the semifinals and July 26 with the final.

Records[]

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Jessica Hardy	United States	1:04.45	Federal Way	August 7, 2009
Championship record	Rebecca Soni	United States	1:04.84	Rome	July 27, 2009

Results[]

Heats[]

46 swimmers participated in 6 heats, qualified swimmers are listed:^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	4	Rebecca Soni	United States	1:05.54	Q
2	6	5	Ji Liping	China	1:07.10	Q
3	6	7	Sarah Poewe	Germany	1:07.38	Q
4	4	5	Satomi Suzuki	Japan	1:07.39	Q
5	5	6	Jillian Tyler	Canada	1:07.67	Q
6	5	4	Leisel Jones	Australia	1:07.72	Q
7	5	3	Rikke Pedersen	Denmark	1:07.80	Q
7	6	3	Jennie Johansson	Sweden	1:07.80	Q
9	4	4	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia	1:07.81	Q
10	4	3	Sun Ye	China	1:07.96	Q
11	5	5	Leiston Pickett	Australia	1:08.06	Q
12	5	2	Moniek Nijhuis	Netherlands	1:08.16	Q
13	4	2		Spain	1:08.42	Q
14	6	6	Amanda Beard	United States	1:08.51	Q
15	4	1	Petra Chocova	Czech Republic	1:08.58	Q
16	4	6	Joline Höstman	Sweden	1:08.63	Q
17	6	1	Sara El Bekri	Morocco	1:08.96
18	3	4	Stacey Tadd	Great Britain	1:09.08
19	5	7	Daria Deeva	Russia	1:09.12
20	4	8		Belgium	1:09.25
21	6	2		Canada	1:09.29
22	3	2	Jenna Laukkanen	Finland	1:09.39	NR
23	5	1	Chiara Boggiatto	Italy	1:09.50
24	4	7	Rie Kaneto	Japan	1:09.56
25	3	6	Suzaan van Biljon	South Africa	1:09.64
26	3	3	Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir	Iceland	1:09.82	NR
27	3	8	Sycerika McMahon	Ireland	1:09.91
28	5	8	Back Su-Yeon	South Korea	1:10.00
29	2	3		Moldova	1:11.03
30	3	5		Switzerland	1:11.13
31	6	8	Sara Nordenstam	Norway	1:11.33
32	2	4	Danielle Beaubrun	Saint Lucia	1:11.34	NR
33	3	7	Tanja Smid	Slovenia	1:12.12
34	2	5		Cyprus	1:13.15
35	2	6		Puerto Rico	1:13.16	NR
36	3	1	Carolina Mussi	Brazil	1:13.66
37	2	1	Ivana Ninkovic	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1:14.32	NR
38	2	8	Matelita Buadromo	Fiji	1:14.70
39	2	2		Namibia	1:15.64
40	2	7		Guyana	1:16.54
41	1	3	Pilar Shimizu	Guam	1:21.19
42	1	5	Oksana Hatamkhanova	Azerbaijan	1:22.66
43	1	6	Mariana Henriques	Angola	1:26.27
44	1	4		Mongolia	1:28.86
45	1	2	Antoinette Guedia Mouafo	Cameroon	1:30.56
46	1	7	Dede Camara	Guinea	1:40.16

Semifinals[]

The semifinals were held at 18:20.^[2]

Semifinal 1[]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Leisel Jones	Australia	1:06.66	Q
2	4	Ji Liping	China	1:07.09	Q
3	2	Sun Ye	China	1:07.25	Q
4	7	Moniek Nijhuis	Netherlands	1:07.60	Q
5	5	Satomi Suzuki	Japan	1:07.68
6	6	Jennie Johansson	Sweden	1:08.02
7	8	Joline Höstman	Sweden	1:08.55
8	1	Amanda Beard	United States	1:08.64

Semifinal 2[]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Rebecca Soni	United States	1:04.91	Q
2	6	Rikke Pedersen	Denmark	1:07.13	Q
3	3	Jillian Tyler	Canada	1:07.28	Q
4	2	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia	1:07.53	Q
5	7	Leiston Pickett	Australia	1:07.87
6	5	Sarah Poewe	Germany	1:08.38
7	8	Petra Chocova	Czech Republic	1:08.40	NR
8	1		Spain	1:08.81

Final[]

The final was held at 19:48.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Rebecca Soni	United States	1:05.05
	5	Leisel Jones	Australia	1:06.25
	3	Ji Liping	China	1:06.52
4	1	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia	1:06.56
5	2	Sun Ye	China	1:07.08
6	6	Rikke Pedersen	Denmark	1:07.28
7	7	Jillian Tyler	Canada	1:07.64
8	8	Moniek Nijhuis	Netherlands	1:07.97

References[]

External links[]

• 2011 World Aquatics Championships: Women's 100 metre breaststroke start list^{[permanent dead link]}, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2011-07-23.