The women's 100 metre freestyle at the 2025 Summer World University Games in Rhine-Ruhr, Germany was held from 18 to 19 July 2025. Ai Yanhan from China won the gold medal, Lison Nowaczyk from France took the silver medal and Maxine Parker from the United States earned the bronze medal.

Schedule All times are Central European Time (UTC+1) Date Time Round18 July 09:59 Heats 19:11 Semifinals 19 July 19:00 Final

Records Prior to the competition, the world and Universiade records were as follows. Category Swimmer Record Date Place Event World record Sarah Sjöström 51.71 23 July 2017 Budapest, Hungary 2017 World Championships Universiade record Zhang Yufei 53.34 3 August 2023 Chengdu, China 2021 Summer World University Games

Results Heats All entered athletes competed across multiple seeded heats in the morning session. Swimmers with the top 16 fastest times advanced, regardless of which individual heat they swam.

Rank Heat Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 8 4 54.99 2 7 5 55.03 2 8 7 55.03 4 7 8 Han An-chi 55.34 5 8 3 Liu Shuhan 55.54 6 6 8 55.58 7 8 5 55.65 8 8 6 55.66 9 6 5 Ai Yanhan 55.75 10 6 4 55.76 11 7 4 55.79 12 7 2 55.98 13 6 1 56.03 13 7 3 56.03 15 4 4 56.05 16 8 8 56.10 17 8 2 56.13 18 7 1 56.20 19 7 7 56.39 20 5 4 56.43 21 6 6 56.51 22 8 1 56.64 23 6 2 56.79 24 5 1 56.85 25 5 3 Liu Pei-yin 56.98 26 5 6 57.17 27 5 2 57.19 28 4 2 Yeo Chiok Sze 57.29 29 5 7 Hong Jin-yeong 57.31 29 6 3 57.31 31 3 4 57.37 32 4 6 57.40 33 6 7 57.54 34 4 3 Ju U-yeong 57.56 35 4 7 57.71 36 4 5 57.84 37 5 8 57.87 38 3 5 58.19 39 4 1 58.22 40 3 3 58.24 41 2 4 59.58 42 1 3 59.77 43 3 7 59.91 44 3 6 1:00.25 45 4 8 1:00.44 46 3 1 Kuok Hei Cheng 1:00.49 47 2 5 1:00.54 48 1 6 1:00.56 49 3 2 1:00.95 50 2 3 1:01.83 51 3 8 1:02.36 52 2 6 1:02.99 53 2 2 1:03.94 54 1 7 1:04.13 55 2 7 1:04.89 56 2 1 1:05.41 57 1 2 1:07.55 58 2 8 1:18.26 59 1 4 1:24.29 60 1 5 1:32.92

Semifinals The 16 advancing swimmers were split into two semifinal heats of 8 during the evening session. The swimmers recording the top 8 fastest times advanced to the final round. Delia Lloyd withdrew from the semifinals and Rio Suzuki took her place.

Rank Heat Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 2 5 54.42 2 2 4 54.53 3 2 7 54.69 4 1 4 54.74 5 2 3 Liu Shuhan 54.75 6 2 6 54.80 7 2 2 Ai Yanhan 54.91 8 1 2 55.06 9 1 3 55.07 10 1 5 Han An-chi 55.26 11 1 1 55.50 12 1 7 55.53 13 1 6 55.71 14 1 8 55.91 15 2 8 56.00 16 2 1 56.13

Final The fastest 8 swimmers competed in a single race to determine the gold, silver and bronze medalists.

Rank Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 Ai Yanhan 54.00 4 54.23 5 54.30 4 6 54.32 5 7 54.36 6 3 54.83 7 2 Liu Shuhan 54.86 8 8 54.92

External links Swimming Rhine Ruhr 2025

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