Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 100 metre freestyle

The women's 100 metre freestyle competition at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships was held on 29 and 30 March 2007 at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia. 135 swimmers were entered in the event. Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

The following records were established during the competition: DateRoundNameNationalityTimeRecord 25 March Final* Libby Lenton Australia 53.42 CR 29 March Semifinal 2 Natalie Coughlin United States 53.40 CR 30 March Final Libby Lenton Australia 53.40 =CR * Split from the women's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay Finals Place Lane Name Nationality Split (50m) Time Note 5 Lisbeth Lenton 25.38 53.40 CR 2 Marleen Veldhuis 25.15 53.70 3 Britta Steffen 25.76 53.74 4 4 Natalie Coughlin 25.56 53.87 5 6 Erica Morningstar 25.84 54.10 6 7 Jodie Henry 26.07 54.21 7 8 Josefin Lillhage 26.25 54.67 8 1 Malia Metella 25.84 54.77

Semifinals Rank Heat (Lane) Name Nationality 50m Time Notes 1 2 (4) Natalie Coughlin 25.67 53.40 Q CR, AM 2 2 (5) Lisbeth Lenton 25.55 53.85 Q 3 1 (5) Britta Steffen 25.77 54.05 Q 4 1 (4) Erica Morningstar 25.98 54.08 Q 5 1 (6) Marleen Veldhuis 25.81 54.17 Q 6 1 (3) Jodie Henry 26.32 54.23 Q 7 1 (1) Malia Metella 26.26 54.61 Q 7 2 (3) Josefin Lillhage 26.25 54.61 Q 9 2 (6) Francesca Halsall 25.98 54.85 10 1 (2) Alena Popchanka 26.61 54.99 11 2 (7) Xu Yanwei 26.20 55.10 12 1 (7) Hanna-Maria Seppälä 26.16 55.31 13 2 (1) Ranomi Kromowidjojo 26.68 55.33 14 2 (8) Aleksandra Gerasimenya 26.10 55.39 15 2 (2) Amanda Weir 26.39 55.47 16 1 (8) Vanessa García 26.25 56.27

Preliminaries Rank Heat (Lane) Name Nationality 50m Time Q 1 16 (5) Natalie Coughlin 25.91 00:54.04 Q 2 16 (7) Erica Morningstar 26.24 00:54.30 Q 3 16 (4) Lisbeth Lenton 25.96 00:54.32 Q 4 17 (4) Britta Steffen 26.37 00:54.60 Q 5 15 (2) Josefin Lillhage 26.44 00:54.74 Q 6 17 (5) Jodie Henry 26.60 00:54.76 Q 7 17 (6) Fran Halsall 26.29 00:54.80 Q 8 15 (5) Marleen Veldhuis 25.84 00:54.89 Q 9 15 (4) Amanda Weir 26.37 00:55.03 Q 10 16 (3) Alena Popchanka 26.52 00:55.11 Q 11 15 (6) Xu Yanwei 26.47 00:55.24 Q 12 17 (2) Hanna-Maria Seppälä 26.56 00:55.33 Q 13 14 (7) Ranomi Kromowidjojo 26.47 00:55.38 Q 14 16 (2) Malia Metella 26.71 00:55.57 Q 15 15 (7) Aleksandra Gerasimenya 26.43 00:55.59 Q 16 17 (1) Vanessa García 26.31 00:55.69 Q 17 12 (4) Jeanette Ottesen 26.78 00:55.99 18 16 (6) Pang Jiaying 26.83 00:56.03 18 17 (8) Lauren Boyle 27.19 00:56.03 20 12 (6) Ragnheidur Ragnarsdottir 26.80 00:56.06 21 13 (1) Jana Myskova 27.36 00:56.24 22 16 (8) Victoria Poon 26.61 00:56.30 23 13 (3) Arlene Semeco 26.75 00:56.35 24 14 (6) Keo Ra Lee 27.66 00:56.44 25 13 (4) Sviatlana Khakhlova 26.49 00:56.52 25 15 (3) Martina Moravcová 27.10 00:56.52 27 11 (3) Ganna Dzerkal 26.95 00:56.53 28 17 (7) Cristina Chiuso 26.84 00:56.56 29 15 (8) Magdalena Kuras 26.81 00:56.58 30 13 (5) Jana Kolukanova 26.94 00:56.67 31 12 (3) Birgit Koschischek 27.23 00:56.75 32 12 (1) Elina Partõka 27.60 00:56.90 32 14 (5) Flávia Delaroli 26.63 00:56.90 34 10 (8) Karin Prinsloo 27.54 00:57.06 35 14 (8) Hannah Wilson 27.44 00:57.08 36 12 (7) Miroslava Najdanovski 26.83 00:57.11 36 16 (1) Ionela Cozma 27.23 00:57.11 38 14 (2) Jorina Aerents 27.48 00:57.18 39 13 (7) Haruka Ueda 27.97 00:57.21 40 14 (3) Petra Klosova 27.55 00:57.28 41 12 (2) Oxana Serikova 27.04 00:57.29 42 13 (2) Chin Kuei Yang 27.51 00:57.30 43 12 (5) Olga Shulgina 27.62 00:57.48 44 10 (5) Melanie Nocher 27.90 00:57.72 45 11 (6) Caroline Pickering Puamau 27.83 00:57.85 45 14 (4) Emily Vavourakis 27.69 00:57.85 47 13 (8) Pin Chieh Nieh 28.23 00:57.93 48 8 (1) Heather Brand 27.84 00:57.95 49 12 (8) Jiratida Phinyosophon 28.10 00:58.03 50 11 (5) Sarah Yasmine Chahed 27.74 00:58.07 51 11 (8) Loren Bahamonde 28.32 00:58.21 52 11 (4) Hang Yu Sze 27.67 00:58.25 53 9 (4) Madeleine Scerri 28.77 00:58.47 54 9 (3) Carolina Colorado Henao 27.92 00:58.60 55 14 (1) Heysi Villarreal Navarro 28.04 00:58.61 56 9 (6) Natasha Moodie 28.38 00:58.65 57 11 (7) Anna Stylianou 28.05 00:58.78 58 10 (6) Alexia Pamela Benitez Quijada 28.48 00:58.84 59 10 (2) Charlotte Johannsen 28.30 00:58.85 60 10 (7) Mylene Ong 28.50 00:59.01 61 10 (3) Ximena Vilar 27.98 00:59.10 62 10 (4) Nicole Marmol Gilbert 28.08 00:59.25 63 11 (1) Pannika Prachgosin 28.72 00:59.48 64 7 (1) Sharntelle McLean 28.43 00:59.51 65 11 (2) Cecilia Elizabeth Biagioli 28.52 00:59.52 66 10 (1) Shu Yong Ho 28.57 00:59.55 67 8 (3) Anna-Liza Mopio-Jane 28.15 00:59.84 68 9 (7) Irina Shlemova 28.55 00:59.90 69 9 (1) Raffaella Rodoni Palma 29.17 1:00.08 70 8 (5) Kimberly Eeson 28.71 1:00.09 70 8 (8) Ellen Hight 28.79 1:00.09 72 7 (5) Marianella Quesada Barrantes 28.87 1:00.10 73 6 (5) Felicia Leksono 28.37 1:00.49 74 8 (4) Cheok Mei Ma 28.73 1:00.52 75 7 (8) Marie Laura Meza Peraza 29.23 1:00.69 76 7 (6) Elena Popovska 29.36 1:00.73 77 8 (6) Nancy Suryaatmadja 28.87 1:00.80 78 9 (5) Khadija Ciss 29.15 1:01.05 79 3 (6) Kshipra Mahajan 29.37 1:01.51 80 6 (1) Ximene Vaz Gomez 29.63 1:01.55 80 6 (8) Davina Mangion 30.16 1:01.55 82 6 (2) Tuesday Watts 29.22 1:01.60 83 4 (8) Jessica Teixeira Vieira 29.44 1:01.78 84 7 (4) Ngozi Monu 29.14 1:01.88 85 5 (3) Emma Hunter 29.42 1:01.89 86 6 (7) Jonay Briedenhann 29.77 1:02.04 87 6 (4) Maria Alejandra Torres 29.74 1:02.17 88 6 (6) Nilshaira Isenia 29.33 1:02.18 89 5 (2) Parita Parekh 29.33 1:02.27 90 8 (2) Miriam Hatamleh 29.99 1:02.29 91 8 (7) Rachel Ah Koy 29.87 1:02.41 92 7 (2) Fiorella Gomez−Sanchez 30.20 1:02.52 93 5 (5) Tojohanitra     Andriamanjatoprimamama 29.45 1:02.60 94 5 (4) Nicole Ellsworth 30.14 1:02.89 95 6 (3) Matana Wellman 29.31 1:02.99 96 4 (1) Mona Simonsen 30.56 1:03.01 97 3 (5) Dashtserengiin Saintsetseg 30.15 1:03.04 98 4 (4) Shannon Austin 30.51 1:03.09 99 5 (6) Marike Meyer 30.58 1:03.46 100 7 (3) Sook Fun Chai 30.50 1:03.69 101 5 (1) Rovena Marku 30.36 1:03.72 102 4 (2) Dalia Massiel Torrez Zamora 30.31 1:03.84 103 4 (7) Karen Torrez 30.72 1:04.04 104 7 (7) Razan Taha 30.20 1:04.06 105 3 (4) Binta Zahra Diop 30.88 1:04.09 106 4 (5) Ekaterina Mamatkulova 30.21 1:04.17 107 4 (6) Dohi Eliane Droubry 30.19 1:04.47 108 2 (4) Kiran Khan 30.39 1:04.69 109 2 (5) Rachel Lannen 30.67 1:05.23 110 5 (8) Uche Monu 31.47 1:05.34 111 4 (3) Anouchka Diane Etiennette 31.01 1:05.65 112 5 (7) Prisca Rose 31.38 1:05.70 113 3 (1) Stephanie Anne Maitland 30.59 1:06.12 114 3 (8) Batjargalyn Telmen 31.83 1:06.28 115 2 (7) Sarah Elizabeth Johnson 31.91 1:06.56 116 2 (2) Pina Ercolano 31.80 1:06.58 117 3 (3) Herinantenaina    Ravoajanahary 31.79 1:06.90 118 2 (6) Hussain Aminath Rouya 31.73 1:07.11 119 2 (8) April Chang 31.97 1:07.61 120 3 (2) Sameera Albitar 31.67 1:09.07 121 1 (4) Olivia Aya Nakitanda 33.19 1:09.76 122 2 (1) Julianne Kirchner 32.98 1:10.62 123 1 (3) Amber Sikosang Yobech 33.53 1:10.65 124 1 (2) Maria Gibbons 34.80 1:14.76 125 1 (1) Ruth Magdalena Moshi 35.01 1:15.87 126 1 (5) Olga Hachatryan 34.01 1:16.91 127 1 (7) Aminath Inas Ismail 38.33 1:22.74 128 2 (3) Nahed Akhlif 37.48 1:25.88 999 1 (6) Katerina Izmailova DNS 999 999 3 (7) Ana Roxiero DNS 999 999 9 (2) Chanelle van Wyk DNS 999 999 13 (6) Maria Fuster Martinez DNS 999 999 15 (1) Soraya Abdourahmane DNS 999 999 17 (3) Petra Dallmann DNS 999 999 9 (8) Sharon Paola Fajardo Sierra DSQ 999

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