Olympic Summer Games 2012 / Swimming - 100m Freestyle (Women)

sport	swim
discipline	100 meters freestyle
gender	Women
place	London Aquatics Center
Attendees	50 athletes from 44 countries
Competition phase	1./2. August 2012

The competition over 100m freestyle women at the 2012 Olympics in London was on 1 and 2 August 2012 at London Aquatics Center held. 50 athletes took part.

There were seven preliminary runs. The 16 fastest swimmers of all heats qualified for the two semi-finals that were held on the same day. The eight fastest swimmers in both semi-finals qualified for the final.

Abbreviations: WR = world record, OR = Olympic record, NR = national record, PB = personal best, JWB = annual world record

Existing records

World record	Britta Steffen ( Germany )	52.07 s	Rome , Italy	July 31, 2009
Olympic record		53.12 s	Beijing , People's Republic of China	August 15, 2008

Title holder

Olympic champion	Britta Steffen ( Germany )	53.12 s	Beijing 2008
World Champion	Jeanette Ottesen Gray ( Denmark ) Aljaksandra Herassimenja ( Belarus )	53.45 s	Shanghai 2011
European champion	Sarah Sjöström ( Sweden )	53.61 s	Debrecen 2012
German champions	Britta Steffen	53.68 s	Berlin 2012

leader

Forward 1

August 1, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Mareme Faye	Senegal	1: 06.42 min
2	Shreya Dhital	Nepal	1: 10.80 min
3	Ayouba Ali Sihame	Comoros	1: 14.40 min

Forward 2

August 1, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Jade Howard	Zambia	59.35 s
2	Bayan Jumah	Syria	59.78 s
3	Karen Riveros	Paraguay	59.86 s
4th	Britany van Lange	Guyana	1: 01.62 min
5	Aina Fils Rabetsara	Madagascar	1: 02.39 min
6th	Reshika Udugampola	Sri Lanka	1: 04.93 min
7th	Magdalena Moshi	Tanzania	1: 05.80 min

Forward 3

August 1, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Eszter Dara	Hungary	55.37 s
2	Liliana Ibáñez	Mexico	55.71 s	NO
3	Nastja Govejšek	Slovenia	56.21 s
4th	Mylene Ong	Singapore	56.33 s
5	Jasmine Al-Khaldi	Philippines	57.13 s
6th	Megan Fonteno	American Samoa	57.45 s
7th	Karen Torrez	Bolivia	57.78 s	NO
8th	Cielia Tini	San Marino	58.29 s

Forward 4

August 1, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Burcu Dolunay	Turkey	55.35 s
2	Nina Rangelova	Bulgaria	55.52 s	NO
3	Daynara de Paula	Brazil	55.94 s
4th	Katarzyna Wilk	Poland	56.13 s
5	Rūta Meilutytė	Lithuania	56.33s
6th	Katarína Filová	Slovakia	56.58 s
7th	Arlene Semeco	Venezuela	56.90 s
8th	Miroslava Najdanovski	Serbia	57.45 s

Forward 5

August 1, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Tang Yi	People's Republic of China	53.28 s
2	Jeanette Ottesen Gray	Denmark	53.51 s
3	Jessica Hardy	United States	54.09 s
4th	Femke Heemskerk	Netherlands	54.43 s
4th	Daniela Schreiber	Germany	54.43 s
6th	Pernille flower	Denmark	55.04 s
7th	Hannah Wilson	Hong Kong	55.33 s
8th	Nery Mantey Niangkouara	Greece	56.63 s

Forward 6

August 1, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace	Bahamas	53.73 s	NO
2	Francesca Halsall	United Kingdom	54.02 s
3	Julia Wilkinson	Canada	54.16 s
4th	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	54.26 s
5	Amy Smith	United Kingdom	54.37 s
6th	Britta Steffen	Germany	54.42 s
7th	Hanna-Maria Seppälä	Finland	54.93 s

The Australian Cate Campbell did not start because of a gastrointestinal inflammation .

Forward 7

August 1, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Melanie Schlanger	Australia	53.50 s
2	Aljaksandra Herassimenja	Belarus	53.63 s	NO
3	Ranomi Kromowidjojo	Netherlands	53.66 s
4th	Missy Franklin	United States	54.26 s
5	Haruka Ueda	Japan	54.35 s
6th	Veronika Popova	Russia	54.66 s
7th	Charlotte Bonnet	France	55.12 s

Therese Alshammar from Sweden did not start because of a nerve irritation in her neck.

Semifinals

Run 1

August 1, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Melanie Schlanger	Australia	53.38 s
2	Aljaksandra Herassimenja	Belarus	53.78 s
3	Jessica Hardy	United States	53.86 s
4th	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	53.93 s
5	Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace	Bahamas	54.12 s
6th	Britta Steffen	Germany	54.18 s
7th	Daniela Schreiber	Germany	54.39 s
8th	Haruka Ueda	Japan	54.59 s

Run 2

August 1, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Ranomi Kromowidjojo	Netherlands	53.05 s	OR
2	Missy Franklin	United States	53.59 s
3	Tang Yi	People's Republic of China	53.60 s
4th	Jeanette Ottesen Gray	Denmark	53.77 s
4th	Francesca Halsall	United Kingdom	53.77 s
6th	Femke Heemskerk	Netherlands	54.13 s
7th	Julia Wilkinson	Canada	54.25 s
8th	Amy Smith	United Kingdom	54.28 s

final

August 2, 2012, 8:37 p.m. CET

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Ranomi Kromowidjojo	Netherlands	53.00 s	OR
2	Aljaksandra Herassimenja	Belarus	53.38 s	NO
3	Tang Yi	People's Republic of China	53.44 s
4th	Melanie Schlanger	Australia	53.47 s
5	Missy Franklin	United States	53.64 s
6th	Francesca Halsall	United Kingdom	53.66 s
7th	Jeanette Ottesen Gray	Denmark	53.75 s
8th	Jessica Hardy	United States	54.02 s

Winner Kromowidjojo improved the Olympic record twice (semifinals and finals).
The second-placed Herassimenja improved the Belarusian national record twice and swam the first Belarusian medal in this discipline.

Web links

• Olympic Summer Games 2012 / Swimming - 100 m freestyle in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ ABC Australia report from August 1, 2012
2. ↑ (Engl.) Report in Swimming World Magazine from August 1, 2012 ( Memento of the original September 27, 2013 Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.