# Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 100 metre freestyle

The Women's 100m Freestyle event at the 11th FINA World Aquatics Championships was swum 28 – 29 July 2005 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Preliminary heats and Semifinal heats were 28 July; the final was 29 July.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and competition records were as follows:
| World record | Jodie Henry (AUS) | 53.52 | Athens, Greece | 18 August 2004 |
| Championship record | Le Jingyi (CHN) | 54.01 | Rome, Italy | 5 September 1994 |

## Results
### Preliminaries

| Rank | Heat + Lane | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
| 1 | H9 L5 | Amanda Weir | United States | 54.49 | q |
| 2 | H9 L4 | Marleen Veldhuis | Netherlands | 54.82 | q |
| 3 | H11 L4 | Jodie Henry | Australia | 55.04 | q |
| 4 | H10 L5 | Malia Metella | France | 55.11 | q |
| 5 | H10 L6 | Hanna-Maria Seppälä | Finland | 55.25 | q |
| 6 | H10 L3 | Nery-Mantey Niangkouara | Greece | 55.36 | q |
| 7 | H11 L3 | Federica Pellegrini | Italy | 55.40 | q |
| 8 | H11 L5 | Natalie Coughlin | United States | 55.45 | q |
| 9 | H10 L4 | Alice Mills | Australia | 55.55 | q |
| 10 | H10 L7 | Therese Alshammar | Sweden | 55.64 | q |
| 11 | H10 L2 | Solenne Figuès | France | 55.82 | q |
| 12 | H9 L3 | Daniela Götz | Germany | 55.88 | q |
| 13 | H11 L6 | Josefin Lillhage | Sweden | 55.91 | q |
| 14 | H9 L1 | Jana Kolukanova | Estonia | 55.95 | q |
| 15 | H9 L2 | YANG Yu | China | 56.22 | q |
| 15 | H9 L8 | Alison Fitch | New Zealand | 56.22 | q |
| 17 | H8 L4 | Norie Urabe | Japan | 56.23 | |
| 18 | H11 L7 | Chantal Groot | Netherlands | 56.24 | |
| 19 | H11 L2 | PANG Jiaying | China | 56.30 | |
| 20 | H11 L1 | Sara Isakovič | Slovenia | 56.31 | |
| 21 | H11 L8 | Jana Myskova | Czech Republic | 56.41 | |
| 22 | H8 L3 | Petra Klosova | Czech Republic | 56.42 | |
| 23 | H7 L4 | Anna Gostomelsky | Israel | 56.43 | |
| 24 | H7 L2 | Vanessa García | Puerto Rico | 56.96 | |
| 25 | H8 L6 | Hannah Wilson | Hong Kong | 57.11 | |
| 26 | H8 L8 | Atsumi Yamada | Japan | 57.22 | |
| 27 | H9 L7 | Jeanette Ottesen | Denmark | 57.23 | |
| 28 | H8 L1 | Georgina Toomey | New Zealand | 57.24 | |
| 29 | H10 L8 | Ionela Cozma | Romania | 57.28 | |
| 30 | H8 L5 | Maryia Hanchar | Belarus | 57.53 | |
| 31 | H7 L3 | Keo Ra Lee | South Korea | 57.66 | |
| 32 | H6 L4 | Ragnheidur Ragnarsdottir | Iceland | 57.69 | |
| 33 | H7 L7 | Annette Hansen | Denmark | 57.73 | |
| 34 | H6 L5 | Na-Ri Park | South Korea | 58.01 | |
| 34 | H7 L6 | Chin-Kuei Yang | Chinese Taipei | 58.01 | |
| 36 | H7 L1 | Jiratida Phinyosophon | Thailand | 58.12 | |
| 37 | H8 L7 | Pin-Chieh Nieh | Chinese Taipei | 58.13 | |
| 38 | H7 L8 | Joscelin Yeo | Singapore | 58.15 | |
| 39 | H5 L4 | Irina Shlemova | Uzbekistan | 58.44 | |
| 40 | H4 L8 | Heather Brand | Zimbabwe | 58.85 | |
| 41 | H6 L6 | Sarah Chahed | Tunisia | 58.92 | |
| 42 | H6 L2 | Christine Mailliet | Luxembourg | 59.14 | |
| 43 | H4 L3 | Pamela Benítez | El Salvador | 59.27 | |
| 44 | H4 L6 | Anna Liza Mopio Jane | Papua New Guinea | 59.40 | |
| 45 | H6 L8 | Shu Yong Ho | Singapore | 59.48 | |
| 46 | H5 L3 | Alia Atkinson | Jamaica | 59.61 | |
| 47 | H5 L1 | Yamile Bahamonde | Ecuador | 59.70 | |
| 48 | H6 L1 | Khadija Ciss | Senegal | 59.75 | |
| 49 | H6 L7 | Wing Yan Fung | Hong Kong | 59.84 | |
| 50 | H6 L3 | Shikha Tandon | India | 59.89 | |
| 51 | H5 L2 | Jasna Ovsenik | Slovenia | 1:00.01 | |
| 52 | H5 L8 | Gisela Morales | Guatemala | 1:00.19 | |
| 53 | H3 L4 | Jakie Wellman | Zambia | 1:00.26 | |
| 54 | H5 L7 | Melissa Vincent | Mauritius | 1:00.34 | |
| 55 | H4 L4 | Carolina Cerqueda | Andorra | 1:00.56 | |
| 56 | H3 L1 | Samantha Fajardo | Ecuador | 1:00.71 | |
| 57 | H3 L5 | Man Wai Fong | Macau | 1:00.72 | |
| 58 | H5 L6 | Carolina Colorado Henao | Colombia | 1:00.85 | |
| 59 | H5 L5 | Chonlathorn Vorathamrong | Thailand | 1:01.07 | |
| 60 | H4 L1 | Alexis Jordan | Barbados | 1:01.12 | |
| 61 | H4 L7 | Sharon Fajardo | Honduras | 1:01.21 | |
| 62 | H4 L5 | Kiera Aitken | Bermuda | 1:01.66 | |
| 63 | H3 L3 | Ashley Aitken | Bermuda | 1:01.76 | |
| 64 | H3 L2 | Davina Mangion | Malta | 1:02.67 | |
| 65 | H3 L7 | Jonay Briedenhann | Namibia | 1:03.66 | |
| 66 | H3 L8 | Katerine Moreno | Bolivia | 1:04.21 | |
| 67 | H2 L6 | Mbolatiana Ramanisa | Madagascar | 1:04.67 | |
| 68 | H3 L6 | Mireille Hakimeh | Syria | 1:05.03 | |
| 69 | H2 L4 | Heba Bashouti | Jordan | 1:05.38 | |
| 70 | H2 L2 | Jessica Vieira | Mozambique | 1:05.75 | |
| 71 | H2 L3 | Sussie Pineda | Honduras | 1:06.10 | |
| 72 | H1 L7 | Rubab Raza | Pakistan | 1:06.52 | |
| 73 | H2 L5 | Kiran Khan | Pakistan | 1:06.53 | |
| 74 | H4 L2 | Phan Thi Hanh | Vietnam | 1:06.97 | |
| 75 | H2 L8 | Aya Nakitanda | Uganda | 1:07.76 | |
| 76 | H2 L7 | Sameera Al Bitar | Bahrain | 1:08.05 | |
| 77 | H2 L1 | Aminath Rouya | Maldives | 1:08.58 | |
| 78 | H1 L5 | Debra Daniel | Federated States of Micronesia | 1:11.03 | |
| 79 | H1 L4 | Oshin Bharati | Nepal | 1:14.40 | |
| - | H1 L2 | Lasm Quissoh Genevieve Meledje | Ivory Coast | DNS | |
| - | H1 L3 | Anifath F. M. Okanla | Benin | DNS | |
| - | H1 L6 | Eliane Droubry Dohi | Ivory Coast | DNS | |
| - | H7 L5 | Audrey Lacroix | Canada | DNS | |
| - | H8 L2 | Sophie Simard | Canada | DNS | |
| - | H9 L6 | Martina Moravcová | Slovakia | DNS | |
| - | H10 L1 | Paulina Barzycka | Poland | DNS | |

### Semifinals

| Rank | Heat + Lane | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
| 1 | S2 L5 | Jodie Henry | Australia | 54.52 | q |
| 2 | S1 L4 | Marleen Veldhuis | Netherlands | 54.54 | q |
| 3 | S2 L4 | Amanda Weir | USA | 54.61 | q |
| 4 | S1 L6 | Natalie Coughlin | USA | 54.65 | q |
| 5 | S1 L5 | Malia Metella | France | 54.93 | q |
| 6 | S2 L7 | Daniela Götz | Germany | 54.98 | q |
| 7 | S1 L3 | Nery-Mantey Niangkouara | Greece | 55.07 | q |
| 8 | S2 L2 | Alice Mills | Australia | 55.13 | q |
| 9 | S2 L3 | Hanna-Maria Seppälä | Finland | 55.32 | |
| 10 | S2 L6 | Federica Pellegrini | Italy | 55.37 | |
| 11 | S1 L7 | Josefin Lillhage | Sweden | 55.61 | |
| 12 | S1 L2 | Therese Alshammar | Sweden | 55.64 | |
| 13 | S1 L8 | Chantal Groot | Netherlands | 55.78 | |
| 14 | S2 L1 | Jana Kolukanova | Estonia | 55.81 | NR |
| 15 | S1 L1 | Alison Fitch | New Zealand | 56.22 | |
| 16 | S2 L8 | Norie Urabe | Japan | 56.53 | |

### Final

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | Jodie Henry | Australia | 54.18 |
| | Malia Metella | France | 54.74 |
| | Natalie Coughlin | USA | 54.74 |
| 4 | Amanda Weir | USA | 54.77 |
| 5 | Marleen Veldhuis | Netherlands | 54.90 |
| 6 | Alice Mills | Australia | 54.92 |
| 7 | Nery-Mantey Niangkouara | Greece | 54.93 |
| 8 | Daniela Gotz | Germany | 55.27 |