The Women's 100 metre butterfly competition of the swimming events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held on 2 August with the heats and the semifinals and 3 August with the final.Start list

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

The following new records were set during this competition. Date Event Name Nationality Time Record 2 August Semifinal 2 Sarah Sjöström 55.74 3 August Final Sarah Sjöström 55.64

Results

Heats The heats were held on 2 August at 09:30.Heats results

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 7 4 Sarah Sjöström Q 2 6 4 Jeanette Ottesen Q 3 5 5 Inge Dekker Q 4 7 2 Lu Ying Q 5 5 4 Katerine Savard Q 6 6 7 Alexandra Wenk Q 7 5 6 Kendyl Stewart Q 8 7 5 Emma McKeon Q 9 7 1 An Se-hyeon Q, NR 10 6 5 Madeline Groves Q 11 6 6 Chen Xinyi Q, =WJ 12 7 7 Noemie Thomas Q 13 7 8 Kimberly Buys Q, NR 14 6 3 Ilaria Bianchi Q 15 7 0 Natsumi Hoshi Q 16 5 3 Rachael Kelly 16 6 9 Farida Osman , NR 18 5 1 Daynara de Paula 19 5 2 Jemma Lowe 20 6 2 Claire Donahue 21 6 1 Marie Wattel 22 6 8 Katarína Listopadová 23 4 5 Anna Ntountounaki 24 7 9 Béryl Gastaldello 25 5 8 Evelyn Verrasztó 26 5 7 Nataliya Lovtsova 27 5 9 Danielle Villars NR 28 5 0 Anna Polyakova 29 4 8 Sze Hang Yu 30 4 4 Park Jin-young 31 6 0 Daiene Dias 32 7 6 Elena Di Liddo 33 4 3 Judit Ignacio Sorribes 34 4 7 Emilia Pikkarainen 1:00.16 34 4 1 Lucie Svěcená 1:00.16 36 4 9 Quah Ting Wen 1:00.30 37 3 4 Jessica Camposano 1:00.42 38 3 5 Isabella Páez 1:00.58 NR 39 4 0 Nastja Govejšek 1:01.15 40 3 7 Ana Monteiro 1:01.53 41 3 3 Marie Meza 1:01.59 42 3 2 Jasmine Al-Khaldi 1:02.37 43 3 6 Jóhanna Gústafsdóttir 1:02.43 44 3 8 Sotiria Neofytou 1:02.83 45 4 6 Sharo Rodríguez 1:02.97 46 4 2 Laura Arroyo 1:03.18 47 2 7 Felicity Passon 1:03.29 48 3 9 Amina Kajtaz 1:03.39 49 1 4 Noel Borshi 1:03.65 50 3 1 Monalisa Lorenza 1:03.85 51 3 0 Talita Baqlah 1:04.23 52 2 5 Jannah Sonnenschein 1:04.48 53 2 4 Estefania Urzua 1:04.64 54 2 2 Dalia Torrez Zamora 1:04.75 55 2 1 Emily Muteti 1:04.91 56 2 6 Caylee Watson 1:05.70 57 2 3 Ana Nobrega 1:05.84 58 2 8 Lara Butler 1:06.10 59 2 9 Alsu Bayramova 1:06.79 60 1 3 María Ribera 1:07.09 61 1 6 Amarah Phillip 1:08.60 62 1 5 Tegan McCarthy 1:08.82 63 2 0 Choe Su-rim 1:08.98 64 1 1 Bo-Anne Bos 1:12.43 65 1 2 Johanna Umurungi 1:13.14 66 1 0 Dirngulbai Misech 1:14.05 67 1 7 Nooran Ba Matraf 1:14.43 68 1 9 Charissa Panuve 1:16.48 69 1 8 Nada Arkaji 1:17.30 7 3 Liliána Szilágyi

Swim-off The swim-off was held at 11:56.Swim-off results

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Rachael Kelly 58.17 Q 2 5 Farida Osman 58.22 NR

Semifinals The semifinals were held on 2 August at 17:32.Semifinals results

Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Jeanette Ottesen 57.04 Q 2 5 Lu Ying 57.36 Q 3 6 Emma McKeon 57.59 Q 4 3 Alexandra Wenk 57.77 Q, NR 5 7 Noemie Thomas 58.05 6 2 Madeline Groves 58.17 7 8 Rachael Kelly 58.27 8 1 Ilaria Bianchi 58.49

Semifinal 2

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Sarah Sjöström 55.74 Q, 2 3 Katerine Savard 57.52 Q 3 7 Chen Xinyi 57.63 Q, WJ 4 5 Inge Dekker 58.05 5 6 Kendyl Stewart 58.14 6 2 An Se-hyeon 58.44 7 8 Natsumi Hoshi 58.45 8 1 Kimberly Buys 59.08

Final The final was held on 3 August at 17:40.Final results

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Sarah Sjöström 55.64 5 Jeanette Ottesen 57.05 3 Lu Ying 57.48 4 2 Emma McKeon 57.67 5 6 Katerine Savard 57.69 6 7 Chen Xinyi 57.85 7 8 Noemie Thomas 57.94 8 1 Alexandra Wenk 58.22

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