# Swimming at the 2010 Commonwealth Games – Women's 100 metre freestyle

The Women's 100 metre freestyle event at the 2010 Commonwealth Games took place on 5 and 6 October 2010, at the SPM Swimming Pool Complex.
Six heats were held, with most containing the maximum number of swimmers (eight). The heat in which a swimmer competed did not formally matter for advancement, as the swimmers with the top sixteen times advanced to the semifinals and the top eight times from the semi-finals qualified for the finals.

## Heats

The Heats started on 9:00 local time.

### Heat 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| 1 | 4 | Monica Bernardo | Mozambique | 01:02.89 |
| 2 | 5 | Kathryn Millin | Swaziland | 01:03.45 |
| 3 | 3 | Jessica Stagno | Mozambique | 01:05.46 |

### Heat 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Jade Howard | Zambia | 01:01.05 | |
| 2 | 6 | Mercedes Milner | Zambia | 01:05.86 | |
| 3 | 3 | Ajaykumar Hanika | Kenya | 01:07.32 | |
| 4 | 7 | Olivia Nakingi | Uganda | 01:09.57 | |
| 5 | 2 | Anham Salyani | Kenya | 01:09.89 | |
| 6 | 1 | Aminath Shahid | Maldives | 01:13.62 | |
| – | 5 | Magdalena Moshi | Tanzania | | DNS |

### Heat 3

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| 1 | 6 | Shannon Austin | Seychelles | 01:00.27 |
| 2 | 4 | Talasha Prabhu | India | 01:00.41 |
| 3 | 3 | Cherelle Thompson | Trinidad and Tobago | 01:00.46 |
| 4 | 5 | Jyotsna Pansare | India | 01:01.42 |
| 5 | 1 | Judith Meauri | Papua New Guinea | 01:02.50 |
| 6 | 2 | Olivia de Maroussem | Mauritius | 01:03.10 |
| 7 | 7 | Elaine Reyes | Gibraltar | 01:03.18 |
| 8 | 8 | Madhawee Kaluarachchilage | Sri Lanka | 01:04.84 |

### Heat 4

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | Alicia Coutts | Australia | 55.06 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Yolane Kukla | Australia | 55.92 | Q |
| 3 | 6 | Caitlin McClatchey | Scotland | 56.45 | Q |
| 4 | 3 | Erica Morningstar | Canada | 56.51 | Q |
| 5 | 7 | Georgia Holderness | Wales | 57.51 | Q |
| 6 | 2 | Clare Dawson | Northern Ireland | 58.81 | |
| 7 | 1 | Chii Leung | Malaysia | 59.01 | |
| 8 | 8 | Anna-Liza Mopio-Jane | Papua New Guinea | 59.15 | |

### Heat 5

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Emily Seebohm | Australia | 55.30 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Amy Smith | England | 55.50 | Q |
| 3 | 6 | Geneviève Saumur | Canada | 56.00 | Q |
| 4 | 3 | Natasha Hind | New Zealand | 56.26 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | Penelope Marshall | New Zealand | 56.44 | Q |
| 6 | 7 | Anna Stylianou | Cyprus | 57.61 | Q |
| 7 | 1 | Kah Chan | Malaysia | 58.36 | |
| 8 | 8 | Sian Morgan | Wales | 58.63 | |

### Heat 6

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | Hayley Palmer | New Zealand | 55.09 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Francesca Halsall | England | 55.58 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | Victoria Poon | Canada | 55.61 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | Emma Saunders | England | 56.13 | Q |
| 5 | 7 | Sara Hamilton | Scotland | 57.62 | Q |
| 6 | 6 | Lucy Ellis | Scotland | 57.64 | |
| 7 | 1 | Lai Chui | Malaysia | 57.84 | |
| 8 | 8 | Bethany Carson | Northern Ireland | 58.98 | |

## Semifinals
### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | Victoria Poon | Canada | 54.80 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Hayley Palmer | New Zealand | 55.15 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | Amy Smith | England | 55.18 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | Natasha Hind | New Zealand | 55.24 | Q |
| 5 | 6 | Geneviève Saumur | Canada | 55.86 | |
| 6 | 7 | Caitlin McClatchey | Scotland | 56.36 | |
| 7 | 1 | Georgia Holderness | Wales | 57.19 | |
| 8 | 8 | Sara Hamilton | Scotland | 58.12 | |

### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Alicia Coutts | Australia | 54.62 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Francesca Halsall | England | 55.10 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | Emily Seebohm | Australia | 55.39 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | Emma Saunders | England | 55.85 | Q |
| 5 | 6 | Yolane Kukla | Australia | 55.96 | |
| 6 | 7 | Penelope Marshall | New Zealand | 56.26 | |
| 7 | 1 | Erica Morningstar | Canada | 56.44 | |
| 8 | 8 | Anna Stylianou | Cyprus | 57.06 | |

## Final

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 4 | Alicia Coutts | Australia | 54.09 |
| | 1 | Emily Seebohm | Australia | 54.30 |
| | 3 | Francesca Halsall | England | 54.57 |
| 4 | 6 | Hayley Palmer | New Zealand | 54.68 |
| 5 | 2 | Amy Smith | England | 54.91 |
| 6 | 5 | Victoria Poon | Canada | 55.04 |
| 7 | 7 | Natasha Hind | New Zealand | 55.44 |
| 8 | 8 | Emma Saunders | England | 56.17 |