2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 100 metre individual medley

Womenen's 100 metre individual medley
at the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Womenen's 100 metre individual medley ; at the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue	Hangzhou Sports Park Stadium
Dates	13 December (heats and semifinals); 14 December (final)
Competitors	39 from 34 nations
Winning time	57.26
Medalists
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The women's 100 metre individual medley competition of the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 13 and 14 December 2018.^[1]

Records edit

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	56.51	Berlin	7 August 2017
Championship record	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	56.70	Doha	5 December 2014

The heats were started on 13 December at 10:06.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	58.05	Q
2	4	3	Melanie Margalis	United States	58.87	Q
3	3	5	Runa Imai	Japan	58.99	Q
4	4	5	Emily Seebohm	Australia	59.11	Q
5	3	3	Ye Shiwen	China	59.24	Q
6	4	6	Jenna Laukkanen	Finland	59.39	Q
7	3	6	Rika Omoto	Japan	59.48	Q
8	3	4	Kathleen Baker	United States	59.52	Q
9	2	4	Alia Atkinson	Jamaica	59.69	Q
10	3	2	Ilaria Cusinato	Italy	59.76	Q
11	2	5	Maria Kameneva	Russia	59.78	Q
12	2	6	Lena Kreundl	Austria	59.94	Q
13	3	8	Rūta Meilutytė	Lithuania	1:00.11	Q
14	3	7	Lidón Muñoz del Campo	Spain	1:00.71	Q
15	2	3	Susann Bjørnsen	Norway	1:00.82	Q
16	2	2	Yang Chang	China	1:01.24	Q
17	3	0	Marie Pietruschka	Germany	1:01.34
18	4	2	Anastasiia Sorokina	Russia	1:01.47
19	2	7	Kan Cheuk Tung Natalie	Hong Kong	1:01.49
20	4	7	Kristýna Horská	Czech Republic	1:01.60
21	4	1	Viktoriya Zeynep Güneş	Turkey	1:01.66
22	4	0	Diana Petkova	Bulgaria	1:01.75
23	3	1	Jessica Vall	Spain	1:01.79
24	1	4	Neža Klančar	Slovenia	1:01.87
25	2	8	Rebecca Meder	South Africa	1:01.93
26	2	1	Ieva Maļuka	Latvia	1:01.94
27	3	9	Raquel Gomes Pereira	Portugal	1:02.07
28	4	8	Seraina Sturzenegger	Switzerland	1:02.10
29	2	9	Andrea Podmaníková	Slovakia	1:02.77
30	4	9	Margaret Markvardt	Estonia	1:02.99
31	2	0	Julia Sebastián	Argentina	1:03.16
32	1	5	Georgina McCarthy	New Zealand	1:04.50
33	1	3	Nicole Rautemberg	Paraguay	1:05.04
34	1	0	Sara Pastrana	Honduras	1:07.96
35	1	8	Nooran Ba-Matraf	Yemen	1:08.53
36	1	2	Latroya Pina	Cape Verde	1:09.99
37	1	6	Avice Meya	Uganda	1:13.51
38	1	7	Alex Maclaren	Turks and Caicos Islands	1:19.83
39	1	1	Aishath Sausan	Maldives	1:19.91

The semifinals were started on 13 December at 20:06.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Melanie Margalis	United States	58.33	Q
2	6	Kathleen Baker	United States	58.54	Q
3	3	Jenna Laukkanen	Finland	58.60	Q
4	5	Emily Seebohm	Australia	58.64	Q
5	7	Lena Kreundl	Austria	59.46
6	2	Ilaria Cusinato	Italy	59.85
7	1	Lidón Muñoz del Campo	Spain	1:00.69
8	8	Yang Chang	China	1:00.86

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	57.69	Q
2	5	Runa Imai	Japan	58.04	Q
3	2	Alia Atkinson	Jamaica	58.20	Q
4	6	Rika Omoto	Japan	58.60	Q
5	3	Ye Shiwen	China	58.94
6	7	Maria Kameneva	Russia	58.97
7	1	Rūta Meilutytė	Lithuania	59.81
7	1	Susann Bjørnsen	Norway	1:01.04

The final was held on 14 December at 19:20.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	4	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	57.26
	5	Runa Imai	Japan	57.85
	3	Alia Atkinson	Jamaica	58.11
4	6	Melanie Margalis	United States	58.32
5	2	Kathleen Baker	United States	58.47
6	8	Emily Seebohm	Australia	58.78
7	7	Jenna Laukkanen	Finland	59.11
8	1	Rika Omoto	Japan	59.18