2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 100 metre backstroke

Women's 100 metre backstroke
at the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)

Venue

WFCU Centre

Dates

6 December (heats and semifinals)
7 December (final)

Competitors

71 from 54 nations

Winning time

55.54

Medalists

	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary
	Kylie Masse	Canada
	Georgia Davies	Great Britain

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2016 FINA World Swimming Championships

Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×50 m	men	women
4×100 m	men	women
4×200 m	men	women
Medley relay
4×50 m	men	women
4×100 m	men	women
Mixed relay
4×50 m	freestyle	medley
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The Women's 100 metre backstroke competition of the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 6 and 7 December 2016.^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record Championship record	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	55.03	Doha	4 December 2014

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 12:37.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	7	5	Kylie Masse	Canada	56.02	Q, NR
2	8	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	56.16	Q
3	6	1	Ali DeLoof	United States	56.40	Q
4	8	5	Emily Seebohm	Australia	56.60	Q
5	6	5	Georgia Davies	Great Britain	56.99	Q
6	8	1	Kathleen Dawson	Great Britain	57.17	Q
7	7	4	Mie Nielsen	Denmark	57.36	Q
8	6	4	Daryna Zevina	Ukraine	57.41	Q
9	5	3	Hellen Moffitt	United States	57.43	Q
10	7	7	Kira Toussaint	Netherlands	57.50	Q
11	8	3	Minna Atherton	Australia	57.63	Q
12	6	3	Emi Moronuki	Japan	57.74	Q
13	7	3	Simona Baumrtová	Czech Republic	57.79	Q
14	6	7	Andrea Berrino	Argentina	57.88	Q, NR
15	6	6	Chen Jie	China	57.90	Q
16	8	6	Sayaka Akase	Japan	58.08	Q
17	8	7	Mariia Kameneva	Russia	58.09
18	7	0	Hilary Caldwell	Canada	58.16
19	5	4	Isabella Arcila	Colombia	58.30	NR
20	7	6	Eygló Gústafsdóttir	Iceland	58.49
21	6	2	Silvia Scalia	Italy	58.52
22	7	1	Wang Xueer	China	58.53
23	8	2	Daria Ustinova	Russia	58.67
24	7	2	Maaike de Waard	Netherlands	58.78
25	8	0	Mariella Venter	South Africa	59.66
26	6	8	Hanna Rosvall	Sweden	59.71
27	4	3	Ugnė Mažutaitytė	Lithuania	59.76	NR
27	8	9	Caroline Pilhatsch	Austria	59.76
29	7	8	Ida Lindborg	Sweden	59.77
30	6	0	Sarah Bro	Denmark	59.88
31	5	5	Matea Samardžić	Croatia	59.90
32	6	9	Karin Tomečková	Slovakia	1:00.25
33	8	8	Mathilde Cini	France	1:00.27
34	5	7	Wong Toto Kwan To	Hong Kong	1:00.36
35	5	2	Kristina Steina	Latvia	1:00.60	NR
35	5	6	Karolína Hájková	Slovakia	1:00.60
37	4	7	Tatiana Salcutan	Moldova	1:00.68	NR
38	5	8	Lushavel Stickland	Samoa	1:01.19	NR
39	7	9	Fanny Teijonsalo	Finland	1:01.27
40	5	1	Gabi Grobler	South Africa	1:01.96
41	5	9	Amel Melih	Algeria	1:02.03	NR
42	4	1	Inés Remersaro	Uruguay	1:02.50
43	4	5	Caylee Watson	United States Virgin Islands	1:02.53
44	4	6	Kimiko Raheem	Sri Lanka	1:02.70	NR
45	3	6	Celina Marquez	El Salvador	1:02.79
46	3	4	Lauren Hew	Cayman Islands	1:03.35	NR
47	5	0	Natthanan Junkrajang	Thailand	1:03.36
48	4	4	Alexus Laird	Seychelles	1:03.60
49	3	3	Anastasia Bogdanovski	Macedonia	1:03.94	NR
50	4	8	Maana Patel	India	1:04.33	NR
51	4	2	Jade Howard	Zambia	1:04.35	NR
52	3	5	Danielle Titus	Barbados	1:04.82	NR
53	4	0	Maria Arrua	Paraguay	1:05.13	NR
54	4	9	Mónica Ramírez	Andorra	1:05.33
55	3	0	Maeform Borriello	Honduras	1:05.71	NR
56	2	2	Alma Castillo	Paraguay	1:06.04
57	3	7	Lea Ricart Martinez	Andorra	1:06.58
58	3	2	Britheny Joassaint	Haiti	1:06.96
59	3	8	Alison Jackson	Cayman Islands	1:07.30
60	2	4	Enkhkhuslen Batbayar	Mongolia	1:08.24	NR
61	2	3	Tiareth Cijntje	Curaçao	1:08.50	NR
62	2	1	Colleen Furgeson	Marshall Islands	1:09.39	NR
63	3	1	Rahaf Baqleh	Jordan	1:10.03
64	2	6	Gabby Gittens	Antigua and Barbuda	1:12.02	NR
65	2	7	Shanice Paraka	Papua New Guinea	1:12.55
66	1	4	Osisang Chilton	Palau	1:13.67	NR
67	2	9	Ammara Pinto	Malawi	1:15.35	NR
68	2	8	Ruthie Long	Marshall Islands	1:15.47
69	1	5	Aishath Sausan	Maldives	1:15.76	NR
70	1	6	Robyn Young	Eswatini	1:16.25	NR
71	1	3	Angel de Jesus	Northern Mariana Islands	1:20.90
	2	5	Dara Al-Bakry	Jordan		DNS
	3	9	Jamaris Washshah	United States Virgin Islands		DNS

Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 19:44.^[3]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Emily Seebohm	Australia	56.44	Q
2	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	56.74	Q
3	3	Kathleen Dawson	Great Britain	57.03	Q
4	6	Daryna Zevina	Ukraine	57.07	Q
5	7	Emi Moronuki	Japan	57.23
6	2	Kira Toussaint	Netherlands	57.73
7	8	Sayaka Akase	Japan	57.85
8	1	Andrea Berrino	Argentina	58.48

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Kylie Masse	Canada	56.19	Q
2	3	Georgia Davies	Great Britain	56.69	Q
3	5	Ali DeLoof	United States	56.70	Q
4	6	Mie Nielsen	Denmark	56.96	Q
5	2	Hellen Moffitt	United States	57.22
6	1	Simona Baumrtová	Czech Republic	57.68
7	8	Chen Jie	China	57.86
8	7	Minna Atherton	Australia	57.99

Final

The final was held at 20:01.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	2	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	55.54
	4	Kylie Masse	Canada	56.24
	3	Georgia Davies	Great Britain	56.45
4	5	Emily Seebohm	Australia	56.46
5	1	Kathleen Dawson	Great Britain	56.73
6	6	Ali DeLoof	United States	56.80
7	7	Mie Nielsen	Denmark	56.93
8	8	Daryna Zevina	Ukraine	57.28