Swimming at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 100 metre breaststroke

Women's 100 metre breaststroke at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships
Medallists
Dates	3 August (heats and semifinals) 4 August (final)
Competitors	70 from 61 nations
Winning time	1:05.66
Medalists
Yuliya Yefimova    Russia   Rūta Meilutytė    Lithuania   Alia Atkinson    Jamaica

The Women's 100 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held on 3 August with the heats and the semifinals and 4 August with the final.^[1]

Records

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

World record	Rūta Meilutytė (LTU)	1:04.35	Barcelona, Spain	29 July 2013
Championship record	Rūta Meilutytė (LTU)	1:04.35	Barcelona, Spain	29 July 2013

Results

Heats

The heats were held on 3 August at 10:07.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	4	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia	1:06.31	Q
2	6	3	Shi Jinglin	China	1:06.45	Q
3	6	5	Jessica Hardy	United States	1:06.68	Q
4	7	4	Rūta Meilutytė	Lithuania	1:06.75	Q
5	7	5	Kanako Watanabe	Japan	1:06.81	Q
6	7	9	Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir	Iceland	1:06.87	Q, NR
7	7	6	Taylor McKeown	Australia	1:06.97	Q
8	5	3	Jennie Johansson	Sweden	1:07.09	Q
8	7	3	Alia Atkinson	Jamaica	1:07.09	Q
10	5	2	Jessica Vall	Spain	1:07.13	Q
11	6	8	Fanny Lecluyse	Belgium	1:07.29	Q, NR
12	6	2	Lorna Tonks	Australia	1:07.32	Q
13	5	4	Rikke Møller Pedersen	Denmark	1:07.39	Q
14	5	9	Rachel Nicol	Canada	1:07.52	Q
14	6	6	Arianna Castiglioni	Italy	1:07.52	Q
16	5	8	Jenna Laukkanen	Finland	1:07.58	Q, NR
17	6	7	Viktoriya Zeynep Gunes	Turkey	1:07.60
18	7	7	Rie Kaneto	Japan	1:07.71
19	5	5	Micah Lawrence	United States	1:07.73
20	5	6	Fiona Doyle	Ireland	1:07.81
21	4	5	Kierra Smith	Canada	1:07.88
22	5	1	Marina García Urzainqui	Spain	1:07.97
23	6	9	Vanessa Grimberg	Germany	1:08.04
24	7	1	Petra Chocová	Czech Republic	1:08.09
25	6	1	Ilaria Scarcella	Italy	1:08.13
26	5	7	Maria Astashkina	Russia	1:08.27
26	7	2	Moniek Nijhuis	Netherlands	1:08.27
28	7	8	Amit Ivry	Israel	1:09.08
29	7	0	Mariya Liver	Ukraine	1:09.10
30	5	0	He Yun	China	1:09.17
31	6	0	Tjaša Vozel	Slovenia	1:09.27
32	4	3	Anna Sztankovics	Hungary	1:09.34
33	4	8	Dominika Sztandera	Poland	1:09.38
34	3	9	Maria Romanjuk	Estonia	1:09.49	NR
35	4	2	Julia Sebastian	Argentina	1:09.71
36	4	6	Jhennifer Conceição	Brazil	1:10.14
37	4	7	Jung Seul-ki	South Korea	1:10.19
38	3	5	Aikaterini Sarakatsani	Greece	1:10.68
39	3	1	Mercedes Toledo	Venezuela	1:10.70
39	4	1	Fanny Deberghes	France	1:10.70
41	4	9	Ana Radić	Croatia	1:10.83
42	2	4	Daniela Carrillo	Mexico	1:11.22
43	4	0	Alina Zmushka	Belarus	1:11.39
44	3	4	Aļona Ribakova	Latvia	1:11.45
45	3	7	Yvette Kong	Hong Kong	1:11.46
46	3	2	Phee Jinq En	Malaysia	1:11.76
47	3	0	Daniela Lindemeier	Namibia	1:12.07
48	4	4	Anastasiya Malyavina	Ukraine	1:12.77
49	3	6	Dariya Talanova	Kyrgyzstan	1:13.68
50	3	8	Alexandra Vinicenco	Moldova	1:13.88
51	3	3	Sin Jin-hui	North Korea	1:14.52
52	2	5	Lei On Kei	Macau	1:15.17
53	2	7	Amy Micallef	Malta	1:16.02
54	2	0	Barbara Vali-Skelton	Papua New Guinea	1:16.85
55	2	8	Tilka Paljk	Zambia	1:17.13
56	2	3	Jamila Lunkuse	Uganda	1:17.23
57	2	2	Evita Leter	Suriname	1:17.97
58	2	1	Pilar Shimizu	Guam	1:18.11
59	2	6	Izzy Joachim	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1:18.28
60	2	9	Teona Bostashvili	Georgia	1:19.53
61	1	3	Claudia Verdino	Monaco	1:19.85
62	1	2	Bonita Imsirovic	Botswana	1:20.81
63	1	5	Oreoluwa Cherebin	Grenada	1:21.06
64	1	4	Rechael Tonjor	Nigeria	1:21.54
65	1	7	Darya Semyonova	Turkmenistan	1:23.19
66	1	6	Anum Bandey	Pakistan	1:25.11
67	1	1	Alphonsine Agahozo	Rwanda	1:27.80
68	1	0	Daniah Hagul	Libya	1:28.59
69	1	8	Sajina Aishath	Maldives	1:32.10
70	1	9	Alia Al-Shamsi	United Arab Emirates	9:99.99 !DSQ

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 3 August at 17:58.^[3]

Semifinal 1

Rūta Meilutytė after her semi

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Rūta Meilutytė	Lithuania	1:05.64	Q
2	4	Shi Jinglin	China	1:06.28	Q
3	6	Jennie Johansson	Sweden	1:06.76	Q
4	3	Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir	Iceland	1:07.11	Q
5	1	Rachel Nicol	Canada	1:07.24
6	7	Lorna Tonks	Australia	1:07.54
7	8	Jenna Laukkanen	Finland	1:07.60
8	2	Jessica Vall	Spain	1:08.02

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia	1:05.60	Q
2	2	Alia Atkinson	Jamaica	1:06.21	Q, NR
3	3	Kanako Watanabe	Japan	1:06.64	Q
4	8	Arianna Castiglioni	Italy	1:06.95	Q
5	6	Taylor McKeown	Australia	1:07.19
6	5	Jessica Hardy	United States	1:07.22
7	1	Rikke Møller Pedersen	Denmark	1:07.42
8	7	Fanny Lecluyse	Belgium	1:07.75

Final

Efimova before final heat

The final was held on 4 August at 19:17.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	4	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia	1:05.66
02 !	5	Rūta Meilutytė	Lithuania	1:06.36
03 !	3	Alia Atkinson	Jamaica	1:06.42
4	2	Kanako Watanabe	Japan	1:06.43
5	6	Shi Jinglin	China	1:06.55
6	8	Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir	Iceland	1:07.10
7	7	Jennie Johansson	Sweden	1:07.17
8	1	Arianna Castiglioni	Italy	1:07.60

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