Swimming at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 100 metre backstroke

The Women's 100 metre backstroke competition at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships was held on 19 and 20 June 2022.

Women's 100 metre backstroke at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Danube Arena
Location	Budapest, Hungary
Dates	19 June (heats and semifinals) 20 June (final)
Competitors	43 from 37 nations
Winning time	58.22
Medalists
Regan Smith   United States   Kylie Masse   Canada   Claire Curzan   United States

Records

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

World record	Kaylee McKeown (AUS)	57.45	Adelaide, Australia	13 June 2021
Competition record	Regan Smith (USA)	57.57	Gwangju, South Korea	28 July 2019

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 19 June at 09:00.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4	Regan Smith	United States	58.31	Q
2	4	4	Kylie Masse	Canada	58.89	Q
3	5	5	Claire Curzan	United States	59.09	Q
4	5	6	Wan Letian	China	59.67	Q
5	4	5	Kira Toussaint	Netherlands	59.69	Q
6	4	6	Emma Terebo	France	59.87	Q
7	5	3	Peng Xuwei	China	59.93	Q
8	4	2	Medi Harris	Great Britain	1:00.03	Q
9	3	5	Margherita Panziera	Italy	1:00.40	Q
10	3	3	Maaike de Waard	Netherlands	1:00.46	Q
11	5	1	Silvia Scalia	Italy	1:00.77	Q
12	5	7	Lee Eun-ji	South Korea	1:00.78	Q
13	3	6	Paulina Peda	Poland	1:00.83	Q
14	4	0	Hanna Rosvall	Sweden	1:00.99	Q
15	3	7	Mimosa Jallow	Finland	1:01.01	Q
16	5	2	Analia Pigrée	France	1:01.13	Q
17	4	3	Taylor Ruck	Canada	1:01.14
18	4	7	Simona Kubová	Czech Republic	1:01.19
19	3	2	Katalin Burián	Hungary	1:01.26
20	5	8	Theodora Drakou	Greece	1:01.59
21	3	1	Stephanie Au	Hong Kong	1:01.62
22	4	8	Aviv Barzelay	Israel	1:01.65
23	3	8	Andrea Berrino	Argentina	1:02.13
24	4	1	Gabriela Georgieva	Bulgaria	1:02.86
25	5	9	Olivia Nel	South Africa	1:02.95
26	2	4	Jimena Leguizamón	Colombia	1:03.16
27	2	5	Danielle Titus	Barbados	1:03.79
28	3	0	Xenia Ignatova	Kazakhstan	1:03.92
29	5	0	Aleksa Gold	Estonia	1:03.95
30	2	1	Mia Blazhevska Eminova	North Macedonia	1:04.11	NR
31	2	3	Elizabeth Jiménez	Dominican Republic	1:04.15
32	2	8	Andrea Becali	Cuba	1:04.72
33	3	9	Donata Katai	Zimbabwe	1:04.80
34	2	2	Carolina Cermelli	Panama	1:05.16
35	2	6	Ridima Veerendrakumar	India	1:05.41
36	4	9	Hsu An	Chinese Taipei	1:05.50
37	2	7	Masniari Wolf	Indonesia	1:06.70
38	1	6	Noor Taha	Bahrain	1:09.28
39	1	4	Enkh-Amgalangiin Ariuntamir	Mongolia	1:10.31
40	2	0	Jamie Joachim	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1:12.76
41	1	3	Aynura Primova	Turkmenistan	1:13.05
42	2	9	Jennifer Harding-Marlin	Saint Kitts and Nevis	1:16.28
43	1	5	Aishath Sausan	Maldives	1:18.76
	5	4	Kaylee McKeown	Australia	Did not start

Semifinals

The semifinals were started on 19 June at 18:56.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Regan Smith	United States	57.65	Q
2	1	4	Kylie Masse	Canada	58.57	Q
3	2	5	Claire Curzan	United States	58.96	Q
4	2	3	Kira Toussaint	Netherlands	59.16	Q
5	1	6	Medi Harris	Great Britain	59.61	Q
6	1	5	Wan Letian	China	59.63	Q
7	2	6	Peng Xuwei	China	59.96	Q
8	1	3	Emma Terebo	France	1:00.06	Q
9	1	2	Maaike de Waard	Netherlands	1:00.15
10	2	2	Margherita Panziera	Italy	1:00.26
11	1	7	Lee Eun-ji	South Korea	1:00.58
11	2	7	Silvia Scalia	Italy	1:00.58
13	2	8	Mimosa Jallow	Finland	1:00.68
14	1	1	Hanna Rosvall	Sweden	1:00.76
15	2	1	Paulina Peda	Poland	1:00.88
16	1	8	Analia Pigrée	France	1:01.59

Final

The final was held on 20 June at 18:51.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Regan Smith	United States	58.22
	5	Kylie Masse	Canada	58.40
	3	Claire Curzan	United States	58.67
4	7	Wan Letian	China	59.77
5	8	Emma Terebo	France	59.98
6	6	Kira Toussaint	Netherlands	59.99
7	1	Peng Xuwei	China	1:00.01
7	2	Medi Harris	Great Britain	1:00.01