The Women's 100 metre backstroke competition of the 2021 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 16 and 17 December 2021.

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

Results Heats The heats were started on 16 December at 11:51.Heats results

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 7 Katharine Berkoff 55.92 Q 2 5 4 Kira Toussaint 55.95 Q 3 4 4 Kylie Masse 56.12 Q 4 5 5 Louise Hansson 56.41 Q 5 5 7 Rhyan White 56.76 Q 6 4 3 Simona Kubová 57.06 Q 7 3 3 Anastasiya Shkurdai 57.07 Q 8 3 4 Maaike de Waard 57.09 Q 9 3 1 Wan Letian 57.36 Q 10 4 5 Maggie Mac Neil 57.42 Q 11 5 0 Holly Barratt 57.72 Q 12 3 7 Peng Xuwei 57.82 Q 13 4 6 Silvia Scalia 58.05 Q 14 3 6 Hanna Rosvall 58.33 Q 15 4 1 Anastasia Gorbenko 58.39 Q 16 1 7 Caroline Pilhatsch 58.43 Q, NR 17 5 3 Margherita Panziera 58.46 18 4 2 Ekaterina Avramova 58.54 19 3 5 Analia Pigrée 58.63 20 5 2 Daria Ustinova Russian Swimming Federation 59.15 21 5 6 Daryna Zevina 59.36 22 3 8 Stephanie Au 59.58 23 5 8 Laura Riedemann 59.64 24 4 0 Nina Kost 59.76 25 3 2 Danielle Hill 59.87 26 4 8 Gabriela Georgieva 59.94 27 5 9 Eszter Szabó-Feltóthy 28 5 1 Janja Šegel 29 3 9 Chloe Isleta NR 30 2 4 Andrea Becali NR 31 2 5 Sarah Szklaruk NR 32 2 6 Mia Blaževska Eminova 33 3 0 Elisabeth Erlendsdóttir 34 2 3 Ridhima Veerendrakumar 35 2 8 Catarina Sousa NR 36 1 8 Leiya Istanbouli 37 2 1 Ganga Senavirathne 38 1 1 Arianis Martínez 39 2 0 Salome Nikolaishvili 40 1 3 Leilaa Al-Khatib 41 1 2 Erina Idrizaj 42 1 4 Bisma Khan 43 2 7 Noor Yussuf Abdulla 44 2 9 Lindsay Barr 45 1 9 Kevern da Silva 46 1 5 Jennifer Harding-Marlin 47 1 0 Patrice Mahaica 48 1 6 Aishath Sausan NR 2 2 Elizabeth Jiménez 4 9 McKenna DeBever

Semifinals The semifinals were started on 16 December at 19:16.Semifinals results Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 5 Louise Hansson 55.85 Q, NR 2 1 4 Kira Toussaint 56.05 Q 2 2 3 Rhyan White 56.05 Q 4 2 5 Kylie Masse 56.07 Q 5 2 4 Katharine Berkoff 56.10 Q 6 2 6 Anastasiya Shkurdai 56.65 Q, NR 7 1 6 Maaike de Waard 56.72 Q 8 1 3 Simona Kubová 57.26 Q 9 2 7 Peng Xuwei 57.36 10 1 1 Anastasia Gorbenko 57.45 NR 10 2 2 Wan Letian 57.45 12 1 2 Holly Barratt 57.59 13 1 7 Silvia Scalia 57.62 14 2 1 Hanna Rosvall 57.91 15 1 8 Maggie Mac Neil 58.13 16 2 8 Caroline Pilhatsch 59.46

Final The final was held on 17 December at 19:35.Final results

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Louise Hansson 55.20 NR 6 Kylie Masse 55.22 NR 2 Katharine Berkoff 55.40 4 5 Kira Toussaint 55.53 5 3 Rhyan White 55.87 6 1 Maaike de Waard 56.11 7 8 Simona Kubová 56.68 8 7 Anastasiya Shkurdai 56.99

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