2021 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 100 metre breaststroke

The Women's 100 metre breaststroke competition of the 2021 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 19 and 20 December 2021.

Women's 100 metre breaststroke at the 2021 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue	Etihad Arena
Location	Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Dates	19 December (heats and semifinals) 20 December (final)
Competitors	50 from 46 nations
Winning time	1:03.47
Medalists
Tang Qianting   China   Sophie Hansson   Sweden   Mona McSharry   Ireland

Records

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

World record	Rūta Meilutytė (LTU) Alia Atkinson (JAM) Alia Atkinson (JAM)	1:02.36	Moscow, Russia Doha, Qatar Chartres, France	12 October 2013 6 December 2014 26 August 2016
Competition record	Alia Atkinson (JAM)	1:02.36	Doha, Qatar	6 December 2014

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 19 December at 10:45.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	6	Sophie Hansson	Sweden	1:04.50	Q
2	6	3	Mona McSharry	Ireland	1:04.59	Q
3	6	4	Alia Atkinson	Jamaica	1:04.88	Q
4	4	8	Tang Qianting	China	1:04.94	Q
5	4	6	Molly Renshaw	Great Britain	1:05.03	Q
6	6	2	Kotryna Teterevkova	Lithuania	1:05.15	Q
7	4	2	Emelie Fast	Sweden	1:05.36	Q
8	6	7	Jessica Vall	Spain	1:05.42	Q
9	4	3	Anastasia Gorbenko	Israel	1:05.47	Q
10	6	5	Eneli Jefimova	Estonia	1:05.57	Q
11	4	4	Martina Carraro	Italy	1:05.61	Q
12	4	5	Emily Escobedo	United States	1:05.69	Q
13	4	7	Lisa Mamie	Switzerland	1:05.83	Q
14	5	5	Evgeniia Chikunova	Russian Swimming Federation	1:05.90	Q
15	5	6	Nika Godun	Russian Swimming Federation	1:06.08	Q
16	6	0	Lena Kreundl	Austria	1:06.33	Q
17	5	7	Alina Zmushka	Belarus	1:06.41
18	5	0	Niamh Coyne	Ireland	1:06.44
19	6	1	Veera Kivirinta	Finland	1:06.52
20	4	0	Martina Barbeito	Argentina	1:06.86
21	4	9	Eszter Békési	Hungary	1:07.00
22	1	6	Pamela Alencar	Brazil	1:07.46
23	6	8	Tjaša Vozel	Slovenia	1:07.52
24	5	9	Back Su-yeon	South Korea	1:07.54
25	5	8	Cornelia Pammer	Austria	1:07.76
26	3	2	Lillian Higgs	Bahamas	1:07.87	NR
27	3	4	Ana Blažević	Croatia	1:07.89
28	6	9	Melissa Rodríguez	Mexico	1:07.98	NR
29	3	6	Anastasia Basisto	Moldova	1:08.22
30	3	3	Justine Delmas	France	1:08.89
31	3	5	Maria Drasidou	Greece	1:08.92
32	3	1	Emily Santos	Panama	1:10.26	NR
33	2	7	Kamonchanok Kwanmuang	Thailand	1:10.35
34	3	7	Nàdia Tudó	Andorra	1:11.11
35	3	8	Adelaida Pchelintseva	Kazakhstan	1:11.31
36	3	9	Elisa Funes	El Salvador	1:11.36	NR
37	2	4	Krista Jurado	Guatemala	1:12.51
38	3	0	Alicia Kok Shun	Mauritius	1:13.18	NR
39	2	1	Valentina Aloisio	Bolivia	1:14.01
40	2	2	Mariam Mithqal	Jordan	1:15.09	NR
41	2	3	Emilie Grand'Pierre	Haiti	1:15.13	NR
42	2	8	Anaika Charles	Grenada	1:16.24
43	2	6	Lara Dashti	Kuwait	1:16.56
44	2	9	Latroya Pina	Cape Verde	1:18.73
45	1	7	Ekaterina Smorkalova	Kyrgyzstan	1:19.65
46	1	2	Mei-Li Tan Minnich	Cambodia	1:19.87
47	1	4	Taeyanna Adams	Federated States of Micronesia	1:20.90
48	2	0	Upaasti Maharjan	Nepal	1:21.77
49	1	5	Mariama Touré	Guinea	1:36.59
50	1	8	Aichata Konate	Mali	1:51.78
	1	1	Unilez Takyi	Ghana	DSQ
	2	5	Claudia Verdino	Monaco
	5	3	Ida Hulkko	Finland
	5	4	Arianna Castiglioni	Italy
	1	3	Lucie Kouadio-Patinier	Ivory Coast	DNS
	4	1	Andrea Podmaníková	Slovakia
	5	1	Florine Gaspard	Belgium
	5	2	Lydia Jacoby	United States

Semifinals

The semifinals were started on 19 December at 19:48.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	5	Tang Qianting	China	1:03.99	Q, AS
2	2	4	Sophie Hansson	Sweden	1:04.17	Q, NR
3	1	4	Mona McSharry	Ireland	1:04.22	Q, NR
4	2	5	Alia Atkinson	Jamaica	1:04.26	Q
5	2	8	Nika Godun	Russian Swimming Federation	1:04.34	Q
6	2	3	Molly Renshaw	Great Britain	1:04.43	Q, NR
7	1	3	Kotryna Teterevkova	Lithuania	1:04.54	Q
8	1	7	Emily Escobedo	United States	1:04.81	Q
9	1	1	Evgeniia Chikunova	Russian Swimming Federation	1:04.85
10	2	7	Martina Carraro	Italy	1:04.89
11	2	2	Anastasia Gorbenko	Israel	1:04.95
12	2	6	Emelie Fast	Sweden	1:05.28
13	1	2	Eneli Jefimova	Estonia	1:05.44
14	2	1	Lisa Mamie	Switzerland	1:05.54
15	1	6	Jessica Vall	Spain	1:05.80
16	1	8	Lena Kreundl	Austria	1:05.83

Final

The final was held on 20 December at 19:42.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Tang Qianting	China	1:03.47	AS
	5	Sophie Hansson	Sweden	1:03.50	NR
	3	Mona McSharry	Ireland	1:03.92	NR
4	6	Alia Atkinson	Jamaica	1:04.03
5	7	Molly Renshaw	Great Britain	1:04.37	NR
6	2	Nika Godun	Russian Swimming Federation	1:04.43
7	1	Kotryna Teterevkova	Lithuania	1:04.64
8	8	Emily Escobedo	United States	1:05.14