# Swimming at the 1994 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 100 metre freestyle

The women's 100 metre freestyle event at the 1994 World Aquatics Championships took place 5 September and 6 September .

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held on 5 September.
| Rank | Swimmer | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Le Jingyi | China | 55.38 |
| 2 | Lü Bin | China | 55.54 |
| 3 | Jenny Thompson | United States | 55.56 |
| 4 | Mette Jacobsen | Denmark | 55.82 |
| 5 | Franziska van Almsick | Germany | 55.96 |
| 6 | Angel Martino | United States | 56.15 |
| 7 | Suzu Chiba | Japan | 56.25 |
| 8 | Karen Pickering | United Kingdom | 56.27 |
| 9 | Natalya Meshcheryakova | Russia | 56.35 |
| 10 | Sumika Minamoto | Japan | 56.48 |
| 11 | Katrin Meissner | Germany | 56.73 |
| 12 | Claudia Poll | Costa Rica | 56.92 |
| 13 | Luminița Dobrescu | Romania | 57.06 |
| 14 | Louise Jöhncke | Sweden | 57.15 |
| 15 | Marianne Limpert | Canada | 57.2 |
| 16 | Susie O'Neill | Australia | 57.24 |
| 17 | Claudia Franco | Spain | 57.28 |
| 18 | Karin Brienesse | Netherlands | 57.29 |
| 19 | Martina Moravcová | Slovakia | 57.31 |
| 20 | Sue Rolph | United Kingdom | 57.47 |
| 21 | Rania Elwani | Egypt | 57.51 |
| 22 | Shannon Shakespeare | Canada | 57.51 |
| 23 | Karen Vanwirdum | Australia | 57.53 |
| 24 | Lorena Diaconescu | Romania | 57.72 |
| 25 | Judith Draxler | Austria | 57.8 |
| 26 | Ellenor Svensson | Sweden | 57.89 |
| 27 | Gyöngyvér Lakos | Hungary | 58.05 |
| 28 | Tatyana Litovchenko | Russia | 58.15 |
| 29 | Dominique Diezi | Switzerland | 58.24 |
| 30 | Pascale Verbauwen | Belgium | 58.35 |
| 31 | Julie Blaise | France | 58.43 |
| 32 | María Virginia Garrone | Argentina | 58.53 |
| 33 | Laura Petrutytė | Lithuania | 58.55 |
| 34 | Monica Dahl | Namibia | 58.64 |
| 35 | Marianne Kriel | South Africa | 58.67 |
| 36 | Fu-Jen Kuo | Chinese Taipei | 58.76 |
| 37 | Dita Želvienė | Lithuania | 58.77 |
| 38 | Ana Alegria | Portugal | 58.92 |
| 39 | Amanda Hunter-Beckinsall | South Africa | 59.45 |
| 40 | Andrea Quadri | Switzerland | 59.5 |
| 41 | Yevgeniya Yermakova | Kazakhstan | 59.68 |
| 42 | Eileen Coparropa | Panama | 59.83 |
| 43 | Joscelin Yeo | Singapore | 59.89 |
| 44 | Siobhan Cropper | Trinidad and Tobago | 1:00.39 |
| 45 | Teresa Moodie | Zimbabwe | 1:00.46 |
| 46 | Tsai Shu-min | Chinese Taipei | 1:00.77 |
| 47 | Romina Cannoni | Chile | 1:01.16 |
| 48 | Natalia Scapinello | Argentina | 1:01.59 |
| 49 | Jovanka Dimovska | North Macedonia | 1:01.75 |
| 50 | Duška Radan | Yugoslavia | 1:01.83 |
| 51 | Maritza Chiaway | Peru | 1:02.00 |
| 52 | Anita Kruger | Namibia | 1:02.60 |
| 53 | Wai Manlam | Macau | 1:02.91 |
| 54 | Ghislane Miraly | Morocco | 1:03.21 |
| 55 | Sara Casadei | San Marino | 1:04.68 |
| 56 | Weng Keikou | Macau | 1:07.35 |

### Finals
#### Final B

The final B was held on 6 September.
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
| 9 | Natalya Meshcheryakova | Russia | 55.64 |
| 10 | Sumika Minamoto | Japan | 56.52 |
| 11 | Claudia Franco | Spain | 56.78 |
| 12 | Luminița Dobrescu | Romania | 56.79 |
| 13 | Susie O'Neill | Australia | 56.82 |
| 14 | Katrin Meissner | Germany | 56.93 |
| 15 | Marianne Limpert | Canada | 57.17 |
| 16 | Louise Jöhncke | Sweden | 57.22 |

#### Final A

The final A was held on 6 September.
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | Le Jingyi | China | 54.01 | WR |
| | Lü Bin | China | 54.15 | |
| | Franziska van Almsick | Germany | 54.77 | |
| 4 | Jenny Thompson | United States | 55.16 | |
| 5 | Mette Jacobsen | Denmark | 55.57 | |
| 6 | Angel Martino | United States | 55.77 | |
| 7 | Suzu Chiba | Japan | 55.79 | |
| 7 | Karen Pickering | United Kingdom | 55.79 | |