Swimming at the 2025 Summer World University Games – Women's 100 metre backstroke

The women's 100 metre backstroke at the 2025 Summer World University Games in Rhine-Ruhr, Germany was held from 19 to 20 July 2025. Kennedy Noble from the United States won the gold medal, Leah Shackley from the United States took the silver medal and Lee Eun-ji from South Korea earned the bronze medal.

Schedule All times are Central European Time (UTC+1) Date Time Round19 July 09:22 Heats 19:14 Semifinals 20 July 19:09 Final

Records Prior to the competition, the world and Universiade records were as follows. Category Swimmer Record Date Place Event World record Regan Smith 57.13 18 June 2024 Indianapolis, United States 2024 United States Olympic trials Universiade record Katharine Berkoff 59.29 7 July 2019 Naples, Italy 2019 Summer Universiade

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 5 4 59.74 2 4 4 1:00.23 3 3 5 Lee Eun-ji 1:01.14 4 5 7 1:01.15 5 5 6 1:01.50 6 4 2 1:01.59 6 5 3 1:01.59 8 4 5 1:01.63 9 5 2 1:01.64 10 4 6 1:01.65 11 4 8 1:01.76 12 4 3 1:01.78 13 3 3 1:01.80 14 5 5 1:02.03 15 3 1 1:02.04 16 3 7 1:02.06 17 3 4 1:02.08 18 4 7 1:02.28 19 3 6 1:02.37 20 4 1 Kim Ye-eun 1:02.55 21 5 1 1:02.58 22 3 2 1:03.23 23 2 5 Liao Yu-fei 1:03.77 24 3 8 1:04.14 25 2 4 1:04.53 26 2 6 Wang Wan-chen 1:04.68 27 5 8 1:05.72 28 2 7 1:06.35 29 2 2 1:06.69 30 2 3 1:07.06 31 1 7 1:07.53 32 2 1 1:08.67 33 2 8 1:09.33 34 1 4 1:10.21 35 1 1 1:10.69 36 1 5 Cheong I Weng 1:14.05 37 1 3 1:16.58 38 1 2 1:40.81 39 1 6 1:47.46

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.

Rank Heat Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 2 4 58.97 2 1 4 59.19 3 2 3 1:00.72 4 2 5 Lee Eun-ji 1:00.73 5 1 5 1:00.81 6 1 6 1:00.87 7 1 7 1:00.89 8 1 3 1:01.08 9 1 2 1:01.46 10 2 1 1:01.53 11 1 8 1:01.83 12 1 1 1:01.90 13 2 6 1:01.91 14 2 2 1:01.92 15 2 7 1:02.01 16 2 8 1:02.34

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

Rank Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 5 58.78 4 59.13 6 Lee Eun-ji 1:00.23 4 3 1:00.34 5 1 1:00.81 6 7 1:00.88 7 2 1:01.03 8 8 1:01.52

External links Swimming Rhine Ruhr 2025

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