Swimming 2020/Women's 100 metre backstroke

Women's 100 metre backstroke
General information
Sport	Swimming 2020
Date	25-27 July 2021
Competitors	43 athletes
Venue	Tokyo Aquatics Centre
Previous medalists
Gold	Katinka Hosszu
Silver	Kathleen Baker
Bronze	Kylie Masse Fu Yuanhui
Conditions
Length	100 metres
Medalists
	Kaylee McKeown
	Kylie Masse
	Regan Smith

The women's 100 metre backstroke of Swimming 2020 during the 2020 Summer Olympics was held on 25-27 July 2021 in the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. With 43 athletes competing, the event was won by Kaylee McKeown from Australia, with Kylie Masse from Canada taking the silver medal and Regan Smith from United States taking bronze.

Format

The competition exists out of three rounds, each with races of up to nine athletes. In the first round, the sixteen fastest athletes qualify for the semifinals. In the semifinals, the two fastest athletes of each race, as well as the four fastest non-qualifiers advance to the final. The fastest competitor in the final is the winner of the event.

Preview

Forty-three athletes qualified for the event with a battle to be expected between world champion Kylie Masse, new world record holder Kaylee McKeown, and the reigning world champion on the double distance Regan Smith. The second swimmers representing these nations Rhyan Elizabeth White, Taylor Ruck, and Emily Seebohm also had realistic chances on medals, with Kathleen Dawson, Kira Toussaint, and Margherita Panziera keeping the European hopes alive.

Current Records

Record	Date	Nat.	Name	Time
WR	13 June 2021		Kaylee McKeown	57.45
OR	29 July 2021		Emily Seebohm	58.23

Summary

Round 1

Heat 1 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Donata Katai	1:02.73	PR
2		Maana Patel Patel	1:05.20
3		Kimberly Ince	1:10.24

Heat 2 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Tatiana Salcutan	1:01.59
2		McKenna de Bever Elliot	1:02.09	NR
3		Ali Galyer	1:02.65
4		Krystal Lara	1:03.07
5		Celina Marquez	1:03.75
6		Danielle Titus	1:04.53
7		Felicity Passon	1:04.66
8		Diana Nazarova	1:06.99

Heat 3 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Mimosa Jallow	1:00.06	NR
2		Beryl Gastaldello	1:00.69
3		Danielle Hill	1:00.86
4		Hoi Shun Stephanie Au	1:01.07
5		Lena Grabowski	1:01.80
6		Daryna Zevina	1:01.97
7		Isabella Arcila Hurtado	1:02.28
-		Louise Hansson	DNS

Heat 4 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Kylie Masse	58.17	Q, OR
2		Margherita Panziera	59.74	Q
3		Taylor Ruck	59.89	Q
4		Anastasia Gorbenko	59.90	Q
5		Anastasiia Fesikova	59.92	Q
6		Anna Konishi	1:00.04	Q
7		Lee Eun-ji	1:00.14
8		Simona Kubova	1:01.35

Heat 5 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Regan Smith	57.96	Q, OR
2		Rhyan Elizabeth White	59.02	Q
3		Kira Toussaint	59.21	Q
4		Peng Xuwei	59.78	Q, PR
5		Mariia Kameneva	59.88	Q
6		Maaike de Waard	1:00.03	Q
7		Katalin Burian	1:00.07
8		Michelle Coleman	1:00.54

Heat 6 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Kaylee McKeown	57.88	Q, OR
2		Kathleen Dawson	58.69	Q
3		Emily Seebohm	58.86	Q
4		Cassie Wild	59.99	Q
5		Ingeborg Loeyning	1:00.07
6		Chen Jie	1:00.63
7		Laura Riedemann	1:00.81
-		Anastasiya Shkurdai	DNS

Semifinals

Semifinal 1 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Regan Smith	57.86	Q, OR
2		Rhyan Elizabeth White	58.46	Q
3		Kathleen Dawson	58.56	Q
4		Anastasia Gorbenko	59.30	Q, NR
5		Mariia Kameneva	59.49
6		Margherita Panziera	59.75
7		Anna Konishi	1:00.07
8		Cassie Wild	1:00.20

Semifinal 2 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Kylie Masse	58.09	Q
2		Kaylee McKeown	58.11	Q
3		Emily Seebohm	58.59	Q
4		Kira Toussaint	59.09	Q
5		Taylor Ruck	59.45
6		Peng Xuwei	59.98
7		Anastasiia Fesikova	1:00.20
8		Maaike de Waard	1:00.49

Final

Final Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Kaylee McKeown	57.47	OR
2		Kylie Masse	57.72
3		Regan Smith	58.05
4		Rhyan Elizabeth White	58.43
5		Emily Seebohm	58.45
6		Kathleen Dawson	58.70
7		Kira Toussaint	59.11
8		Anastasia Gorbenko	59.53

Results

Result	Athlete	Nationality
	Kaylee McKeown	Australia
	Kylie Masse	Canada
	Regan Smith	United States
4	Rhyan Elizabeth White	United States
5	Emily Seebohm	Australia
6	Kathleen Dawson	Great Britain
7	Kira Toussaint	Netherlands
8	Anastasia Gorbenko	Israel
9	Taylor Ruck	Canada
10	Mariia Kameneva	ROC
11	Margherita Panziera	Italy
12	Peng Xuwei	China
13	Anna Konishi	Japan
14	Cassie Wild	Great Britain
15	Anastasiia Fesikova	ROC
16	Maaike de Waard	Netherlands
17	Mimosa Jallow	Finland
18	Katalin Burian	Hungary
18	Ingeborg Loeyning	Norway
20	Lee Eun-ji	South Korea
21	Michelle Coleman	Sweden
22	Chen Jie	China
23	Beryl Gastaldello	France
24	Laura Riedemann	Germany
25	Danielle Hill	Ireland
26	Hoi Shun Stephanie Au	Hong Kong
27	Simona Kubova	Czech Republic
28	Tatiana Salcutan	Moldova
29	Lena Grabowski	Austria
30	Daryna Zevina	Ukraine
31	McKenna de Bever Elliot	Peru
32	Isabella Arcila Hurtado	Colombia
33	Ali Galyer	New Zealand
34	Donata Katai	Zimbabwe
35	Krystal Lara	Dominican Republic
36	Celina Marquez	El Salvador
37	Danielle Titus	Barbados
38	Felicity Passon	Seychelles
39	Maana Patel Patel	India
40	Diana Nazarova	Kazakhstan
41	Kimberly Ince	Grenada
-	Louise Hansson	Sweden
-	Anastasiya Shkurdai	Belarus

2020 Summer Olympic Games
Swimming 2020
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Men
Freestyle	Backstroke
50 m	100 m
100 m	200 m
200 m	Breaststroke
400 m	100 m
800 m	200 m
1500 m
Butterfly	Individual Medley
100 m	200 m
200 m	400 m
Freestyle Relay
4x100 m	4x100 m medley
4x200 m	10 km open water
Women
Freestyle	Backstroke
50 m	100 m
100 m	200 m
200 m	Breaststroke
400 m	100 m
800 m	200 m
1500 m
Butterfly	Individual Medley
100 m	200 m
200 m	400 m
Freestyle Relay
4x100 m	4x100 m medley
4x200 m	10 km open water
Mixed
4x100 m medley