# Swimming at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics – Girls' 100 metre backstroke

The girls' 100 metre backstroke event in swimming at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics took place on 17–18 August at the Nanjing Olympic Sports Centre in Nanjing, China.

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held at 10:42.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | 4 | Clara Smiddy | United States | 1:01.73 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | 4 | Natalia de Luccas | Brazil | 1:02.05 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | 5 | Danielle Hanus | Canada | 1:02.19 | Q |
| 4 | 5 | 2 | Irina Prikhodko | Russia | 1:02.25 | Q |
| 5 | 5 | 5 | Maaike de Waard | Netherlands | 1:02.33 | Q |
| 6 | 5 | 3 | Ambra Esposito | Italy | 1:02.37 | Q |
| 7 | 3 | 2 | Bobbi Gichard | New Zealand | 1:02.39 | Q |
| 8 | 5 | 7 | Gabrielle Fa'amausili | New Zealand | 1:02.41 | Q |
| 9 | 4 | 4 | Jessica Fullalove | Great Britain | 1:02.58 | Q |
| 10 | 4 | 6 | Laura Yus Fernandez | Spain | 1:03.01 | Q |
| 11 | 4 | 1 | Mackenzie Glover | Canada | 1:03.03 | Q |
| 12 | 5 | 6 | Iryna Hlavnyk | Ukraine | 1:03.10 | Q |
| 13 | 3 | 3 | Amy Forrester | Australia | 1:03.18 | Q |
| 14 | 3 | 7 | Karolina Hajkova | Slovakia | 1:03.29 | Q |
| 15 | 4 | 2 | Tereza Grusova | Czech Republic | 1:03.41 | Q |
| 16 | 4 | 3 | Mandy Feldbinder | Germany | 1:03.43 | Q |
| 17 | 2 | 3 | Eleni Koutsouveli | Greece | 1:03.48 | |
| 18 | 5 | 1 | Nathania van Niekerk | South Africa | 1:03.94 | |
| 19 | 4 | 8 | Tatiana Perstniova | Moldova | 1:04.05 | |
| 20 | 3 | 8 | Yekaterina Dymchenko | Kazakhstan | 1:04.23 | |
| 21 | 3 | 1 | Zanre Oberholzer | Namibia | 1:04.52 | |
| 22 | 2 | 5 | Robin Neumann | Netherlands | 1:04.84 | |
| 23 | 4 | 7 | Emma Terebo | France | 1:04.87 | |
| 24 | 3 | 6 | Miono Takeuchi | Japan | 1:05.11 | |
| 25 | 2 | 4 | Katsiaryna Afanasyeva | Belarus | 1:05.13 | |
| 26 | 2 | 1 | Roxanne Yu | Philippines | 1:05.16 | |
| 27 | 3 | 5 | Courtney Mykkanen | United States | 1:05.80 | |
| 28 | 5 | 8 | Carita Luukkanen | Finland | 1:05.85 | |
| 29 | 2 | 7 | Naomi Ruele | Botswana | 1:05.98 | |
| 30 | 1 | 4 | Laoise Fleming | Ireland | 1:06.21 | |
| 31 | 2 | 2 | Svenja Stoffel | Switzerland | 1:07.14 | |
| 32 | 1 | 5 | Robyn Lee | Zimbabwe | 1:07.27 | |
| 33 | 1 | 3 | Brienne Renfurm | Suriname | 1:09.70 | |
| - | 2 | 6 | Mariam Sakr | Egypt | DNS | |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 18:30.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 2 | 2 | Jessica Fullalove | Great Britain | 1:01.35 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | 4 | Clara Smiddy | United States | 1:01.38 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | 6 | Bobbi Gichard | New Zealand | 1:01.70 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | 4 | Natalia de Luccas | Brazil | 1:02.06 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | 5 | Danielle Hanus | Canada | 1:02.12 | Q |
| 6 | 1 | 3 | Ambra Esposito | Italy | 1:02.22 | Q |
| 7 | 1 | 5 | Irina Prikhodko | Russia | 1:02.24 | Q |
| 8 | 2 | 3 | Maaike de Waard | Netherlands | 1:02.34 | QSO |
| 8 | 2 | 8 | Tereza Grusova | Czech Republic | 1:02.34 | QSO |
| 10 | 1 | 7 | Iryna Hlavnyk | Ukraine | 1:02.98 | |
| 11 | 1 | 6 | Gabrielle Fa'amausili | New Zealand | 1:03.10 | |
| 12 | 2 | 1 | Amy Forrester | Australia | 1:03.12 | |
| 13 | 1 | 2 | Laura Yus Fernandez | Spain | 1:03.17 | |
| 14 | 2 | 7 | Mackenzie Glover | Canada | 1:03.20 | |
| 15 | 1 | 8 | Mandy Feldbinder | Germany | 1:03.40 | |
| 16 | 1 | 1 | Karolina Hajkova | Slovakia | 1:03.56 | |

#### Swim-off

The swim-off was held at 00:09.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Maaike de Waard | Netherlands | 1:01.66 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Tereza Grusova | Czech Republic | 1:03.08 | |

### Final

The final was held at 19:06.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 5 | Clara Smiddy | United States | 1:01.22 |
| | 4 | Jessica Fullalove | Great Britain | 1:01.23 |
| | 3 | Bobbi Gichard | New Zealand | 1:01.25 |
| 4 | 6 | Natalia de Luccas | Brazil | 1:01.39 |
| 5 | 8 | Maaike de Waard | Netherlands | 1:01.56 |
| 6 | 1 | Irina Prikhodko | Russia | 1:01.77 |
| 7 | 2 | Danielle Hanus | Canada | 1:01.81 |
| 8 | 7 | Ambra Esposito | Italy | 1:02.55 |