2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 100 metre breaststroke

Women's 100 metre breaststroke at the 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Dates	5 December (heats and semifinals) 6 December (final)
Competitors	57 from 46 nations
Winning time	1:02.36
Medalists
Alia Atkinson    Jamaica   Rūta Meilutytė    Lithuania   Moniek Nijhuis    Netherlands

The Women's 100 metre breaststroke competition of the 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 5 December with the heats and the semifinals and 6 December with the final.^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Rūta Meilutytė	Lithuania	1:02.36	Moscow	12 October 2013
Championship record	Rūta Meilutytė	Lithuania	1:03.52	Istanbul	15 December 2012

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nation	Time	Record
5 December	Semifinals	Rūta Meilutytė	Lithuania	1:02.43	CR
6 December	Final	Alia Atkinson	Jamaica	1:02.36	CR, =WR

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 10:55.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	5	Moniek Nijhuis	Netherlands	1:04.32	Q
2	5	4	Rūta Meilutytė	Lithuania	1:04.47	Q
3	3	2	Shi Jinglin	China	1:04.88	Q
4	4	4	Rikke Møller Pedersen	Denmark	1:04.91	Q
5	6	4	Alia Atkinson	Jamaica	1:04.98	Q
6	5	3	Kanako Watanabe	Japan	1:05.04	Q
7	6	8	Emma Reaney	United States	1:05.17	Q
8	4	6	Fanny Lecluyse	Belgium	1:05.21	Q
9	4	3	Sally Hunter	Australia	1:05.24	Q
10	4	7	Viktoria Güneş	Turkey	1:05.31	Q
11	4	5	Jennie Johansson	Sweden	1:05.39
12	5	6	Mariia Astashkina	Russia	1:05.53
13	6	3	Leiston Pickett	Australia	1:05.62	Q
14	4	8	Jenna Laukkanen	Finland	1:05.64	Q
15	6	5	Satomi Suzuki	Japan	1:05.92	Q
16	3	7	Kierra Smith	Canada	1:06.13
16	6	1	Tjaša Vozel	Slovenia	1:06.13
16	6	2	Melanie Margalis	United States	1:06.13
19	4	0	Sophie Taylor	Great Britain	1:06.14
19	6	7	Vanessa Grimberg	Germany	1:06.14
21	4	1	Jèssica Vall Montero	Spain	1:06.22
22	5	8	Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir	Iceland	1:06.26
23	6	0	Petra Chocová	Czech Republic	1:06.43
24	5	7	Arianna Castiglioni	Italy	1:06.49
25	5	2	Ganna Dzerkal	Ukraine	1:06.50
26	5	0	Mariya Liver	Ukraine	1:06.60
27	4	2	Tera van Beilen	Canada	1:06.61
28	6	6	Valentina Artemeva	Russia	1:06.80
29	5	1	Amit Ivry	Israel	1:07.24
30	4	9	Zhang Xinyu	China	1:07.36
31	6	9	Ana Carla Carvalho	Brazil	1:07.82
32	3	8	Hannah Miley	Great Britain	1:07.86
33	3	5	Lisa Zaiser	Austria	1:07.97
34	3	4	Julia Sebastian	Argentina	1:08.45
35	3	3	Tatjana Schoenmaker	South Africa	1:08.62
36	5	9	Ana Radić	Croatia	1:09.04
37	2	2	Fanni Gyurinovics	Hungary	1:09.27
38	3	1	Gulsen Samancı	Turkey	1:09.32
39	3	9	Emily Visagie	South Africa	1:09.33
40	3	0	Tatiana Chişca	Moldova	1:09.63
41	2	3	Amira Kouza	Algeria	1:10.01
42	2	4	Karleen Kersa	Estonia	1:10.38
43	3	6	Dariya Talanova	Kyrgyzstan	1:10.77
44	2	6	Daniela Lindemeier	Namibia	1:10.79
45	2	1	Lin Pei-wun	Chinese Taipei	1:11.19
46	2	7	Sofía López	Paraguay	1:12.41
47	2	0	María Burgos	Puerto Rico	1:13.55
48	1	4	Savannah Tkatchenko	Papua New Guinea	1:14.88
49	1	3	Oreoluwa Cherebin	Grenada	1:14.98
50	1	6	Rachael Tonjor	Nigeria	1:17.95
51	2	9	Tegan McCarthy	Papua New Guinea	1:18.51
52	1	5	San Su Moe Theint	Myanmar	1:18.63
53	1	2	Bonita Imsirovic	Botswana	1:20.10
54	2	5	Maria Marzocchi	Seychelles	1:27.12
55	1	7	Angela Kendrick	Marshall Islands	1:29.81
56	1	8	Sogbadji Charmel	Benin	1:41.42
—	2	8	Chade Nersicio	Curaçao		DNS
—	1	1	Niharika Tuladhar	Nepal		DSQ

Swim-off

The swim-off was held at 12:27.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Kierra Smith	Canada	1:05.65	Q
2	5	Tjaša Vozel	Slovenia	1:06.35

Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 19:09.^[4]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Rūta Meilutytė	Lithuania	1:02.43	Q, CR
2	5	Rikke Møller Pedersen	Denmark	1:04.71	Q
3	6	Fanny Lecluyse	Belgium	1:04.87	Q
4	3	Kanako Watanabe	Japan	1:05.21
5	8	Kierra Smith	Canada	1:05.57
6	2	Viktoria Güneş	Turkey	1:05.67
7	1	Jenna Laukkanen	Finland	1:05.70
8	7	Mariia Astashkina	Russia	1:05.72

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Alia Atkinson	Jamaica	1:03.59	Q
2	4	Moniek Nijhuis	Netherlands	1:03.96	Q
3	2	Sally Hunter	Australia	1:04.23	Q
4	5	Shi Jinglin	China	1:04.54	Q
5	7	Jennie Johansson	Sweden	1:05.04	Q
6	6	Emma Reaney	United States	1:05.50
7	1	Leiston Pickett	Australia	1:05.60
8	8	Satomi Suzuki	Japan	1:05.90

Final

The final were held at 18:06.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	5	Alia Atkinson	Jamaica	1:02.36	CR, =WR
02 !	4	Rūta Meilutytė	Lithuania	1:02.46
03 !	3	Moniek Nijhuis	Netherlands	1:04.03
4	2	Shi Jinglin	China	1:04.52
5	6	Sally Hunter	Australia	1:04.82
6	7	Rikke Møller Pedersen	Denmark	1:04.84
7	8	Jennie Johansson	Sweden	1:05.08
8	1	Fanny Lecluyse	Belgium	1:05.58

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