• World Record (WR): 56.61, Inge de Bruijn
  Inge de Bruijn
  Inge de Bruijn is a Dutch former swimmer. She was a four-time Olympic champion and a former world record holder.-Biography:De Bruijn was born in Barendrecht, South Holland, and tried several sports before settling with swimming....
  
   (Netherlands), 17 September 2000 in Sydney, Australia
  Swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics
  At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, 32 swimming events were contested, between September 15–23, 2000. There was a total of 954 participants from 150 countries competing.-Medal table:-Men:...
  
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• Championship Record (CR): 57.23, Jessicah Schipper
  Jessicah Schipper
  Jessicah Lee Schipper OAM is an Australian swimmer. She trained at the Redcliffe Leagues Lawnton club in Brisbane, under veteran coach Ken Wood up until the conclusion of the 2008 Summer Olympics. Schipper now trains under the guidance of Stephan Widmer with the Commercial Swimming Club...
  
   (Australia), Montreal 2005
  Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships
  The swimming events at the XI FINA World Championships took place in the Parc Jean-Drapeau in Montreal, Canada from July 24–31, 2005.The swimming portion consisted of 50 events – 25 for men and 25 for women – all of which were swum in a long-course pool...
  
   (25 July 2005)

Final

Place	Lane	Name	Country	50m Split	Time	Note
	5	Lisbeth Lenton	Australia	26.58	57.15	CR
	4	Jessicah Schipper Jessicah Schipper Jessicah Lee Schipper OAM is an Australian swimmer. She trained at the Redcliffe Leagues Lawnton club in Brisbane, under veteran coach Ken Wood up until the conclusion of the 2008 Summer Olympics. Schipper now trains under the guidance of Stephan Widmer with the Commercial Swimming Club...	Australia	26.74	57.24
	6	Natalie Coughlin Natalie Coughlin Natalie Anne Coughlin is an American swimmer and eleven-time Olympic medallist.At the 2008 Summer Olympics, Coughlin became the first American female athlete in modern Olympic history to win six medals in one Olympics and the first woman ever to win a 100 m backstroke gold in two consecutive...	United States	26.40	57.34
4	3	Inge Dekker Inge Dekker Inge Dekker is a butterfly and freestyle swimmer from Netherlands, who won the bronze medal with the Dutch women's 4×100 m freestyle relay team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. She did so alongside Inge de Bruijn, Marleen Veldhuis and Chantal Groot...	Netherlands	26.79	58.30
5	7	Rachel Komisarz Rachel Komisarz Rachel Komisarz is an American swimmer. She swam for the United States team at the 2004 Summer Olympics, where she won a gold medal in the women's 4x200 m freestyle relay and a silver medal in the women's 4x100 m medley relay.-External links:**...	United States	27.45	58.34
6	1	Alena Popchanka Alena Popchanka Alena Popchanka is a 4-time Olympic freestyle and butterfly swimmer originally from Belarus. She swam for Belarus at the 1996, 2000 and 2004 Olympics...	Early Modern France	26.97	58.73
7	2	Zhou Yafei Zhou Yafei Zhou Yafei is a female Chinese swimmer, who competed for Team China at the 2008 Summer Olympics.-Major achievements:*2002 Asian Games - 1st 100m fly/4x100m medley relay;...	Mainland China	26.90	58.76
8	8	Xu Yanwei	Mainland China	27.07	59.22

Semifinals

Rank	Heat/Lane	Name	Country	50m Split	Time	Note
1	H2-L5	Jessicah Schipper Jessicah Schipper Jessicah Lee Schipper OAM is an Australian swimmer. She trained at the Redcliffe Leagues Lawnton club in Brisbane, under veteran coach Ken Wood up until the conclusion of the 2008 Summer Olympics. Schipper now trains under the guidance of Stephan Widmer with the Commercial Swimming Club...	Australia	26.82	57.57	Q
2	H2-L6	Lisbeth Lenton	Australia	26.71	57.78	Q
3	H1-L5	Inge Dekker Inge Dekker Inge Dekker is a butterfly and freestyle swimmer from Netherlands, who won the bronze medal with the Dutch women's 4×100 m freestyle relay team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. She did so alongside Inge de Bruijn, Marleen Veldhuis and Chantal Groot...	Netherlands	26.32	57.82	Q
4	H1-L4	Natalie Coughlin Natalie Coughlin Natalie Anne Coughlin is an American swimmer and eleven-time Olympic medallist.At the 2008 Summer Olympics, Coughlin became the first American female athlete in modern Olympic history to win six medals in one Olympics and the first woman ever to win a 100 m backstroke gold in two consecutive...	United States	26.64	58.11	Q
5	H1-L2	Zhou Yafei Zhou Yafei Zhou Yafei is a female Chinese swimmer, who competed for Team China at the 2008 Summer Olympics.-Major achievements:*2002 Asian Games - 1st 100m fly/4x100m medley relay;...	Mainland China	26.69	58.20	Q
6	H2-L4	Rachel Komisarz Rachel Komisarz Rachel Komisarz is an American swimmer. She swam for the United States team at the 2004 Summer Olympics, where she won a gold medal in the women's 4x200 m freestyle relay and a silver medal in the women's 4x100 m medley relay.-External links:**...	United States	27.07	58.39	Q
7	H1-L6	Alena Popchanka Alena Popchanka Alena Popchanka is a 4-time Olympic freestyle and butterfly swimmer originally from Belarus. She swam for Belarus at the 1996, 2000 and 2004 Olympics...	Early Modern France	27.24	58.49	Q
8	H2-L2	Xu Yanwei	Mainland China	27.20	58.82	Q
9	H1-L8	Tao Li Tao Li Tao Li is a China-born Singaporean competitive swimmer specializing in the backstroke and butterfly stroke.A Singapore Sports School student, Tao has represented Singapore at the Southeast Asian Games and Asian Games and holds several national records...	Singapore	27.63	59.07
10	H2-L3	Irina Bespalova Irina Bespalova Irina Nikolayevna Bespalova is a female butterfly swimmer from Russia, who represented her native country at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, PR China.-References:*...	Russia	27.43	59.10
11	H1-L7	Antje Buschschulte Antje Buschschulte Antje Buschschulte is a German swimmer. Her best disciplines are the short distance freestyle and backstroke races. Buschschulte swims for the sporting club SC Magdeburg. Up to now, she has won 24 German championships....	Germany	26.91	59.12
12	H2-L1	Sara Isakovič Sara Isakovic Sara Isakovič is a freestyle swimmer from Slovenia. She spent much of her childhood in Dubai. Isakovič was a member of the Žito Gorenjka Radovljica Swimming Club from Radovljica, Slovenia and trained under the supervision of coach Miha Potočnik.Isakovič competed for Slovenia at the 2004 Summer...	Slovenia	27.35	59.16
13	H1-L3	Natalya Sutyagina	Russia	27.35	59.17
14	H1-L1	Daniela Samulski Daniela Samulski Daniela Samulski is a German swimmer who has competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.-External links:*...	Germany	27.26	59.35
15	H2-L7	Mackenzie Downing	Canada	28.06	59.61
16	H2-L8	Keri-Leigh Shaw	South Africa	27.71	1:00.50

Preliminaries

Heat	Lane	Name	Country	50m Split	Time	Overall Rank	Note
1	5	Nicole Ellsworth		32.93	1:10.55	71
1	4	Emma Hunter Emma Hunter Emma Hunter is a Samoan New Zealander swimmer. Born in Samoa, she now lives in Auckland, New Zealand.-Biography:In 2008, she was to become Samoa's first-ever female Olympic swimmer, by representing Samoa in freestyle and butterfly events at the Beijing...		31.65	1:10.76	72
1	3	Ana Roxiero			DNS	999
1.5	1.5					16.5	O
2	6	Layla Alghul		31.18	1:07.00	59
2	3	Karen Torrez		32.22	1:08.47	62
2	5	Razan Taha		31.84	1:09.25	65
2	4	Mandhavi Giri Govind		32.02	1:09.41	66
2	8	Marie Laura Meza Peraza		32.60	1:09.93	67
2	7	Fiorella Gomez-Sanchez		32.75	1:10.00	68
2	1	Prisca Rose		31.98	1:10.38	70
2	2	Dalia Massiel Torrez Zamora		32.15	1:11.72	73
2.5	2.5					16.5	O
3	4	Cheok Mei Ma		30.50	1:05.00	51
3	6	Angela Galea		31.38	1:05.75	54
3	7	Davina Mangion		31.12	1:06.39	57
3	1	Galina Dukhanova		31.12	1:06.98	58
3	2	Binta Zahra Diop		31.19	1:07.01	60
3	5	Ana Guadalupe Hernandez Duarte		31.85	1:08.59	64
3	8	Maria Alejandra Torres		32.26	1:10.14	69
3	3	Mirjana Stojanova		32.61	1:13.01	74
3.5	3.5					20.5
4	5	Ellen Hight		29.60	1:03.76	48
4	4	Maria Rodriguez		29.95	1:03.93	49
4	3	Ting Ting Koh		30.29	1:05.00	51
4	7	Ira Kurniawan		30.69	1:05.68	53
4	1	Sharon Paola Fajardo Sierra		30.79	1:05.88	55
4	2	Monika Spasova	Republic of Macedonia	31.26	1:05.89	56
4	6	Thi Hanh Phan		31.38	1:07.01	60
4	8	Cai Lin Khoo		32.09	1:08.50	63
4.5	4.5					30.5
5	7	Anna Gostomelsky Anna Gostomelsky Anna Gostomelsky is an Israeli swimmer who represented Israel at the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics.-Biography:She is Jewish. She holds the most Israeli swimming records of any female swimmer....		28.08	1:00.37	25
5	4	Fabíola Molina Fabíola Molina Fabíola Pulga Molina is a butterfly and backstroke swimmer from Brazil, who competed at the 2000 and 2008 Olympics....		28.86	1:01.18	35
5	5	Amit Ivry		28.54	1:01.22	36
5	6	Heather Brand		28.43	1:01.64	40
5	2	Hang Yu Sze		28.74	1:01.92	43
5	3	Iris Rosenberger		29.12	1:02.26	45
5	8	Loren Bahamonde		29.54	1:03.65	47
5	1	Chanelle van Wyk		29.39	1:04.55	50
5.5	5.5					40.5
6	1	Gabriella Fagundez Gabriella Fagundez Gabriella Fagundez is a Swedish swimmer. She currently holds 400 m freestyle , 800 m and 1500 m freestyle national records.-Long course :...		28.26	1:00.64	30
6	5	Sara Oliveira		28.49	1:00.81	31
6	6	Petra Granlund Petra Granlund Petra Granlund is a swimmer from Valla, representing Väsby SS. Granlund participated in the 2008 Summer Olympics for Sweden in the 200 m butterfly and in the 4×200 m freestyle relay race...		28.38	1:00.95	32
6	4	Jessica Dickons Jessica Dickons Jessica Dickons is an English swimmer.-References:...	United Kingdom	28.94	1:01.11	34
6	8	Sara Madeira		28.48	1:01.39	38
6	2	You Ri Kown	South Korea	28.99	1:01.85	41
6	3	Micha Jensen		28.31	1:02.15	44
6	7	Denisa Smolenova		29.38	1:03.54	46
6.5	6.5					50.5
7	7	Keri-Leigh Shaw		27.76	59.79	15	Q
7	4	Jeanette Ottesen Jeanette Ottesen Jeanette Ottesen is a Danish swimmer who participated at the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics in swimming. She currently holds the Danish record in 100 m freestyle...		27.89	1:00.04	19
7	6	Birgit Koschischek		27.92	1:00.19	22
7	1	Kimberly Buys		27.98	1:00.37	25
7	5	Audrey Lacroix Audrey Lacroix Audrey Lacroix is a Canadian swimmer from Montreal, Quebec. She is the Canadian record holder in the 100 metre butterfly , 200 metre butterfly . She is also the world record holder in the short-course 4x100 medley relay event with her fellow teammates, Katy Murdoch, Annamay Pierse, and Victoria Poon...		28.44	1:00.40	27
7	2	Aleksandra Urbanczyk		28.19	1:01.22	36
7	8	Hannah Wilson Hannah Wilson Hannah Wilson is a Hong Kong amateur swimmer. She is a two-time Olympic swimmer for Hong Kong, having swam at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens and the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in the Water Cube in Beijing. She has won two career Universiade gold medals...		28.74	1:01.49	39
7	3	Hae In Shin	South Korea	28.64	1:01.85	41
7.5	7.5					60.5
8	4	Natalie Coughlin Natalie Coughlin Natalie Anne Coughlin is an American swimmer and eleven-time Olympic medallist.At the 2008 Summer Olympics, Coughlin became the first American female athlete in modern Olympic history to win six medals in one Olympics and the first woman ever to win a 100 m backstroke gold in two consecutive...	United States	26.97	58.34	2	Q
8	5	Zhou Yafei Zhou Yafei Zhou Yafei is a female Chinese swimmer, who competed for Team China at the 2008 Summer Olympics.-Major achievements:*2002 Asian Games - 1st 100m fly/4x100m medley relay;...		27.45	59.36	10	Q
8	8	Sara Isakovič Sara Isakovic Sara Isakovič is a freestyle swimmer from Slovenia. She spent much of her childhood in Dubai. Isakovič was a member of the Žito Gorenjka Radovljica Swimming Club from Radovljica, Slovenia and trained under the supervision of coach Miha Potočnik.Isakovič competed for Slovenia at the 2004 Summer...		27.48	59.40	13	Q
8	3	Daniela Samulski Daniela Samulski Daniela Samulski is a German swimmer who has competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.-External links:*...		27.40	59.70	14	Q
8	2	Terri Dunning Terri Dunning Terri Dunning is a former British swimmer. She specialised in butterfly and won medals at the 2005 Summer Universiade, 2006 European Aquatics Championships and 2006 Commonwealth Games.-External links:*...	United Kingdom	28.14	59.87	17
8	1	Aurore Mongel Aurore Mongel Aurore Mongel is an Olympic and national record holding butterfly swimmer from France. She swam for France at the 2008 Olympics, where she set the French record in the 200 m butterfly ....		27.99	1:00.13	21
8	6	Yuko Nakanishi Yuko Nakanishi is a Japanese butterfly swimmer.- Major achievements :2000 Sydney Olympics*200m butterfly 7th 2004 Athens Olympics*100m butterfly 14th...		28.61	1:00.31	23
8	7	Francesca Segat Francesca Segat Francesca Segat is a butterfly swimmer from Italy, who won the silver medal in the 200 m butterfly at the European Short Course Swimming Championships 2003....		28.80	1:00.53	29
8.5	8.5					70.5
9	5	Inge Dekker Inge Dekker Inge Dekker is a butterfly and freestyle swimmer from Netherlands, who won the bronze medal with the Dutch women's 4×100 m freestyle relay team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. She did so alongside Inge de Bruijn, Marleen Veldhuis and Chantal Groot...		26.97	58.66	4	Q
9	7	Irina Bespalova Irina Bespalova Irina Nikolayevna Bespalova is a female butterfly swimmer from Russia, who represented her native country at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, PR China.-References:*...		27.70	58.71	5	Q
9	6	Natalya Sutyagina		27.52	58.72	6	Q
9	4	Lisbeth Lenton		27.35	58.93	7	Q
9	3	Xu Yanwei		27.54	59.23	9	Q
9	8	Mackenzie Downing		27.90	59.36	10	Q
9	2	Martina Moravcová Martina Moravcová Martina Moravcová is a medley, butterfly and freestyle swimmer from Slovakia. She made her international swimming debut in 1991 for Czechoslovakia, and has gone on to compete in five consecutive Summer Olympics...		28.17	1:00.02	18
9	1	Chantal Groot Chantal Groot Chantal Groot is a butterfly and freestyle swimmer from the Netherlands, who has represented her country in many international championships since 1999...		28.02	1:00.09	20
9.5	0					80
10	5	Rachel Komisarz Rachel Komisarz Rachel Komisarz is an American swimmer. She swam for the United States team at the 2004 Summer Olympics, where she won a gold medal in the women's 4x200 m freestyle relay and a silver medal in the women's 4x100 m medley relay.-External links:**...	United States	27.51	57.98	1	Q
10	4	Jessicah Schipper Jessicah Schipper Jessicah Lee Schipper OAM is an Australian swimmer. She trained at the Redcliffe Leagues Lawnton club in Brisbane, under veteran coach Ken Wood up until the conclusion of the 2008 Summer Olympics. Schipper now trains under the guidance of Stephan Widmer with the Commercial Swimming Club...		27.46	58.52	3	Q
10	3	Alena Popchanka Alena Popchanka Alena Popchanka is a 4-time Olympic freestyle and butterfly swimmer originally from Belarus. She swam for Belarus at the 1996, 2000 and 2004 Olympics...		27.58	59.14	8	Q
10	6	Antje Buschschulte Antje Buschschulte Antje Buschschulte is a German swimmer. Her best disciplines are the short distance freestyle and backstroke races. Buschschulte swims for the sporting club SC Magdeburg. Up to now, she has won 24 German championships....		27.12	59.39	12	Q
10	2	Tao Li Tao Li Tao Li is a China-born Singaporean competitive swimmer specializing in the backstroke and butterfly stroke.A Singapore Sports School student, Tao has represented Singapore at the Southeast Asian Games and Asian Games and holds several national records...		28.31	59.79	15	Q
10	1	Ayako Doi		27.76	1:00.31	23
10	8	Elena Gemo		27.94	1:00.46	28
10	7	Beatrix Boulsevicz Beatrix Boulsevicz Beatrix Boulsevicz is a butterfly swimmer from Hungary, who won the gold medal in the 200 m butterfly at the European SC Championships 2005. She is trained by Attila Selmeczi.-References:*...		28.44	1:01.04	33

See also

• Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 100 m butterfly
• Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre butterfly
  Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre butterfly
  -Heats:Q = Qualified to Semifinal AS = Asian RecordAF = African Record...
  
  
• Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 100m butterfly
  Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 100m butterfly
  The first heats of the Women's 100 m Butterfly took place on the morning of Sunday, 26 July. The semi-final took place in the evening session of 26 July and the final took place on the evening of the 27 July at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy...