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.

Women's 100 metre breastroke at the 2009 FINA World Championships
Venue	Foro Italico
Dates	27 July 2009 (heats, semifinals) 28 July 2009 (final)
Competitors	96
Winning time	1:04.93
Medalists
Rebecca Soni   United States   Yuliya Yefimova   Russia   Kasey Carlson   United States

Main article: Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and competition records were as follows:

World record	Leisel Jones (AUS)	1:05.09	Melbourne, Australia	20 March 2006
Championship record	Leisel Jones (AUS)	1:05.72	Melbourne, Australia	27 March 2007

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
27 July	Heat 10	Rebecca Soni	United States	1:05.66	CR
27 July	Semifinal 2	Rebecca Soni	United States	1:04.84	WR

Results

Heats

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Heat	Lane	Notes
1	Rebecca Soni	United States	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	United States	1:07.29	9	5
11	Sarah Poewe	Germany	1:07.32	8	2
12	Chiara Boggiatto	Italy	1:07.42	8	7
13	Nanaka Tamura	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	Katharina Stiberg	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	Hitomi Nose	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	Rebecca Ejdervik	Sweden	1:08.96	7	8
29	Yekaterina Sadovnik	Kazakhstan	1:09.05	6	8
30	Marina Garcia	Spain	1:09.07	10	0
31	Yuliya Banach	Israel	1:09.18	8	0
31	Wang Randi	China	1:09.18	9	1
33	Ewa Scieszko	Poland	1:09.30	7	3
34	Jung Ha-eun	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	Katja Lehtonen	Finland	1:10.28	5	2
39	Anastasia Korotkov	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	Patrizia Humplik	Switzerland	1:10.99	7	6
49	Hrafnhildur Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir	Iceland	1:11.04	6	3
50	Ana Marisa Brito	Portugal	1:11.06	6	4
51	Martina Dankova	Czech Republic	1:11.19	4	2
52	Louise Henley	Great Britain	1:11.25	7	0
53	Tanja Šmid	Slovenia	1:11.53	5	4
54	Agnieszka Ostrowska	Poland	1:11.54	6	7
55	Back Su Yeon	Korea	1:11.58	7	7
56	Anastasia Christoforou	Cyprus	1:11.68	5	8	NR
57	Daniela Victoria	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	Alicia Lightbourne	Bahamas	1:12.60	4	1
61	Maxine Heard	Zimbabwe	1:12.94	3	6
62	Ashley Bransford	Aruba	1:13.24	3	2
63	Daniela Lindemeier	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	Kimba Collymore	Trinidad and Tobago	1:14.67	4	7
67	Chen I-Chuan	Chinese Taipei	1:14.75	5	6
68	Cheryl Lim	Singapore	1:15.63	3	4
69	Maria Coy	Guatemala	1:15.67	3	5
70	Nibal Yamout	Lebanon	1:16.55	4	6
71	Maria Zenoni	Dominican Republic	1:16.66	3	0	NR
72	Lei On Kei	Macau	1:17.18	4	0
73	Selma Atic	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1:17.39	3	3
74	Rachel Tonjor	Nigeria	1:18.22	2	3	NR
75	Melinda Sue Micallef	Malta	1:18.66	3	7
76	Labake Anthonia Oriretan	Nigeria	1:18.89	2	5
77	Sara Abdullahu	Albania	1:19.45	3	1	NR
78	Ana Euceda Gutierrez	Honduras	1:21.81	2	6
79	Stephanie Rasoamanana	Madagascar	1:22.11	3	8
80	Amanda Jia Xin Liew	Brunei	1:22.89	3	9
81	Gantumur Oyungerel	Mongolia	1:23.25	2	7
82	Murugaperumal Venpa	India	1:24.85	2	2
83	Mirella Alam	Lebanon	1:25.15	2	4
84	Clarissa Brady	Marshall Islands	1:25.47	2	8
85	Jamila Lunkuse	Uganda	1:25.49	1	2
86	Jessika Cossa	Mozambique	1:26.04	1	3
87	Jade Ashleigh Howard	Zambia	1:26.25	2	0
88	Tea Pikuli	Albania	1:30.13	1	5
89	Adele Rova	Fiji	1:30.24	2	9
90	Aqsa Tariq	Pakistan	1:30.75	1	4
91	Amnahliyani Mohamad Husain	Brunei	1:33.99	1	6
92	Aelia Mehdi	Pakistan	1:35.03	1	7
93	Ismail Aminath Inas	Maldives	1:39.11	1	8
94	Svetlana Dogadkina	Tajikistan	1:42.04	2	1
—	Maria Georgia Michalaka	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	Nanaka Tamura	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.