Swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 100 metre butterfly
# Swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 100 metre butterfly

The women's 100 metre butterfly event in swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships took place on 28–29 July at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, Spain.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and championship records were:

| World record | Dana Vollmer (USA) | 55.98 | London, Great Britain | 29 July 2012 |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Competition record | Sarah Sjöström (SWE) | 56.06 | Rome, Italy | 27 July 2009 |

## Results

### Heats

The heats were held at 10:00.

| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 6 | 4 | Dana Vollmer | United States | 57.22 | Q |
| 2 | 6 | 5 | Sarah Sjöström | Sweden | 57.28 | Q |
| 3 | 6 | 3 | Katerine Savard | Canada | 57.31 | Q, NR |
| 4 | 5 | 4 | Alicia Coutts | Australia | 57.56 | Q |
| 5 | 5 | 5 | Jeanette Ottesen Gray | Denmark | 57.79 | Q |
| 6 | 6 | 6 | Noemie Thomas | Canada | 58.11 | Q |
| 7 | 4 | 5 | Ilaria Bianchi | Italy | 58.22 | Q |
| 8 | 5 | 6 | Brittany Elmslie | Australia | 58.27 | Q |
| 9 | 4 | 6 | Jemma Lowe | Great Britain | 58.38 | Q |
| 10 | 5 | 3 | Claire Donahue | United States | 58.58 | Q |
| 11 | 4 | 8 | Ingvild Snildal | Norway | 58.83 | Q |
| 12 | 4 | 4 | Lu Ying | China | 58.93 | Q |
| 13 | 6 | 2 | Tao Li | Singapore | 58.94 | Q |
| 14 | 5 | 8 | Evelyn Verrasztó | Hungary | 58.95 | Q |
| 15 | 5 | 0 | Daynara de Paula | Brazil | 59.16 | Q |
| 16 | 6 | 0 | Judit Ignacio Sorribes | Spain | 59.18 | QSO |
| 16 | 6 | 7 | Natsumi Hoshi | Japan | 59.18 | QSO |
| 18 | 4 | 3 | Jiao Liuyang | China | 59.21 | |
| 19 | 5 | 1 | Kimberly Buys | Belgium | 59.28 | |
| 19 | 5 | 2 | Svetlana Chimrova | Russia | 59.28 | |
| 21 | 6 | 8 | Katarína Listopadová | Slovakia | 59.34 | |
| 22 | 6 | 1 | Amit Ivry | Israel | 59.45 | |
| 23 | 4 | 1 | Sophia Batchelor | New Zealand | 59.46 | |
| 24 | 3 | 4 | Farida Osman | Egypt | 59.85 | |
| 25 | 4 | 0 | Elmira Aigaliyeva | Kazakhstan | 1:00.00 | |
| 26 | 5 | 7 | Louise Hansson | Sweden | 1:00.11 | |
| 27 | 4 | 2 | Kristel Vourna | Greece | 1:00.33 | |
| 28 | 4 | 7 | Emilia Pikkarainen | Finland | 1:00.47 | |
| 29 | 3 | 5 | Jessica Maria Camposano Rios | Colombia | 1:00.65 | |
| 30 | 4 | 9 | Marne Erasmus | South Africa | 1:00.73 | |
| 31 | 6 | 9 | Park Jin-Young | South Korea | 1:00.78 | |
| 32 | 5 | 9 | Sze Hang Yu | Hong Kong | 1:01.01 | |
| 33 | 3 | 6 | İris Rosenberger | Turkey | 1:01.35 | |
| 34 | 3 | 3 | Cheng Wan-jung | Chinese Taipei | 1:01.61 | |
| 35 | 3 | 2 | Jasmine Alkhaldi | Philippines | 1:01.71 | |
| 36 | 3 | 1 | Loreen Whitfield | American Samoa | 1:02.50 | |
| 37 | 2 | 7 | Dorian McMenemy | Dominican Republic | 1:03.53 | |
| 38 | 2 | 4 | Marie Laura Meza | Costa Rica | 1:03.63 | |
| 39 | 3 | 8 | Monalisa Arieswati | Indonesia | 1:03.93 | |
| 40 | 2 | 6 | Dalia Tórrez Zamora | Nicaragua | 1:04.43 | |
| 41 | 2 | 2 | Poula Øssursdóttir Mohr | Faroe Islands | 1:04.58 | |
| 42 | 3 | 7 | Barbara Caraballo | Puerto Rico | 1:04.65 | |
| 43 | 3 | 0 | Caroline Puamau | Fiji | 1:04.72 | |
| 44 | 1 | 3 | Pooja Alva | India | 1:05.70 | |
| 45 | 2 | 1 | Ana Nobrega | Angola | 1:06.55 | |
| 46 | 2 | 3 | Noel Borshi | Albania | 1:06.77 | |
| 47 | 2 | 8 | María José Ribera Pinto | Bolivia | 1:07.02 | |
| 48 | 2 | 0 | Emily Mueti | Kenya | 1:07.37 | |
| 49 | 2 | 5 | Amboaratiana Domoinannava | Madagascar | 1:09.30 | |
| 50 | 3 | 9 | Johanna Umurungi | Rwanda | 1:10.41 | |
| 51 | 2 | 9 | Su Moe Theint San | Myanmar | 1:10.62 | |
| 52 | 1 | 4 | Afsana Ismayilova | Azerbaijan | 1:16.58 | |
| 53 | 1 | 5 | Charissa Panuve | Tonga | 1:21.78 | |

**Swim-off**

The swim-off was held at 12:09.

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 4 | Natsumi Hoshi | Japan | 58.83 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Judit Ignacio Sorribes | Spain | 58.87 | |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 18:02.

**Semifinal 1**

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 4 | Sarah Sjöström | Sweden | 57.10 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Alicia Coutts | Australia | 57.49 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Noemie Thomas | Canada | 57.99 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | Claire Donahue | United States | 58.44 | Q |
| 5 | 6 | Brittany Elmslie | Australia | 58.56 | |
| 6 | 7 | Lu Ying | China | 58.67 | |
| 7 | 1 | Evelyn Verrasztó | Hungary | 58.74 | |
| 8 | 8 | Natsumi Hoshi | Japan | 59.42 | |

**Semifinal 2**

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 3 | Jeanette Ottesen Gray | Denmark | 57.19 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Dana Vollmer | United States | 57.84 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | Katerine Savard | Canada | 58.00 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Ilaria Bianchi | Italy | 58.29 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | Jemma Lowe | Great Britain | 58.46 | |
| 6 | 7 | Ingvild Snildal | Norway | 58.84 | |
| 7 | 1 | Tao Li | Singapore | 59.02 | |
| 8 | 8 | Daynara de Paula | Brazil | 59.04 | |

### Final

The final was held at 18:10.

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| | 4 | Sarah Sjöström | Sweden | 56.53 |
| | 3 | Alicia Coutts | Australia | 56.97 |
| | 6 | Dana Vollmer | United States | 57.24 |
| 4 | 5 | Jeanette Ottesen Gray | Denmark | 57.27 |
| 5 | 7 | Katerine Savard | Canada | 57.97 |
| 6 | 1 | Ilaria Bianchi | Italy | 58.11 |
| 7 | 2 | Noemie Thomas | Canada | 58.13 |
| 8 | 8 | Claire Donahue | United States | 58.30 |
