# 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 100 metre freestyle

The Women's 100 metre freestyle competition of the 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 4 December with the heats and the semifinals and 5 December with the final.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
| | Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date |
| World record | Lisbeth Trickett | Australia | 51.01 | Hobart | 10 August 2009 |
| Championship record | Ranomi Kromowidjojo | Netherlands | 51.45 | Dubai | 17 December 2010 |
The following records were established during the competition:
| Date | Event | Name | Nation | Time | Record |
| 5 December | Final | Femke Heemskerk | Netherlands | 51.37 | CR |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held at 09:38.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 10 | 4 | Sarah Sjöström | Sweden | 52.44 | Q |
| 1 | 12 | 4 | Femke Heemskerk | Netherlands | 52.44 | Q |
| 3 | 11 | 4 | Ranomi Kromowidjojo | Netherlands | 52.66 | Q |
| 4 | 12 | 5 | Bronte Campbell | Australia | 52.67 | Q |
| 5 | 10 | 5 | Shannon Vreeland | United States | 52.80 | Q |
| 6 | 11 | 5 | Michelle Coleman | Sweden | 52.81 | Q |
| 7 | 12 | 2 | Erika Ferraioli | Italy | 52.87 | Q |
| 8 | 11 | 3 | Veronika Popova | Russia | 53.01 | Q |
| 9 | 11 | 0 | Abbey Weitzeil | United States | 53.08 | Q |
| 10 | 12 | 6 | Charlotte Bonnet | France | 53.09 | Q |
| 11 | 10 | 3 | Larissa Oliveira | Brazil | 53.19 | Q |
| 12 | 10 | 2 | Shen Duo | China | 53.22 | Q |
| 13 | 11 | 6 | Pernille Blume | Denmark | 53.28 | Q |
| 14 | 12 | 3 | Miki Uchida | Japan | 53.35 | Q |
| 15 | 10 | 6 | Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace | Bahamas | 53.41 | Q |
| 16 | 10 | 7 | Hanna-Maria Seppälä | Finland | 53.57 | Q |
| 17 | 11 | 2 | Julie Levisen | Denmark | 53.83 | |
| 18 | 9 | 0 | Nina Rangelova | Bulgaria | 53.85 | |
| 19 | 10 | 8 | Cecilie Johannessen | Norway | 53.88 | |
| 20 | 11 | 1 | Lena Kreundl | Austria | 53.94 | |
| 21 | 12 | 0 | Alessandra Marchioro | Brazil | 54.00 | |
| 22 | 10 | 1 | Nastja Govejšek | Slovenia | 54.11 | |
| 23 | 11 | 7 | Daniela Schreiber | Germany | 54.12 | |
| 24 | 12 | 8 | Susann Bjørnsen | Norway | 54.25 | |
| 25 | 12 | 7 | Birgit Koschischek | Austria | 54.26 | |
| 26 | 8 | 3 | Isabella Arcila | Colombia | 54.31 | |
| 26 | 11 | 9 | Giada Galizi | Italy | 54.31 | |
| 28 | 9 | 3 | Julie Meynen | Luxembourg | 54.35 | |
| 29 | 11 | 8 | Tomomi Aoki | Japan | 54.38 | |
| 30 | 10 | 0 | Anna Santamans | France | 54.45 | |
| 31 | 9 | 5 | Erin Gallagher | South Africa | 54.51 | |
| 32 | 10 | 9 | Anna Kolářová | Czech Republic | 54.59 | |
| 33 | 9 | 1 | Jessica Camposano | Colombia | 54.63 | |
| 34 | 12 | 1 | Margarita Nesterova | Russia | 54.77 | |
| 34 | 12 | 9 | Miroslava Najdanovski | Serbia | 54.77 | |
| 36 | 9 | 8 | Fanni Gyurinovics | Hungary | 55.20 | |
| 37 | 8 | 0 | Karen Torrez | Bolivia | 55.48 | |
| 38 | 9 | 2 | Chinyere Pigot | Suriname | 55.55 | |
| 39 | 9 | 9 | Zhang Jiaqi | China | 55.58 | |
| 40 | 8 | 2 | Ajna Késely | Hungary | 55.75 | |
| 41 | 9 | 4 | Trudi Maree | South Africa | 55.81 | |
| 42 | 9 | 6 | Ariel Weech | Bahamas | 55.86 | |
| 43 | 9 | 7 | İlknur Çakıcı | Turkey | 56.10 | |
| 44 | 8 | 9 | Esra Kaçmaz | Turkey | 56.17 | |
| 45 | 8 | 6 | Tess Grossmann | Estonia | 56.41 | |
| 46 | 8 | 5 | Yamilé Bahamonde | Ecuador | 56.56 | |
| 47 | 8 | 7 | Elisbet Gámez | Cuba | 56.61 | |
| 48 | 8 | 4 | Tracy Keith-Matchitt | Cook Islands | 56.64 | |
| 49 | 7 | 4 | Hannah Dato | Philippines | 56.80 | |
| 50 | 4 | 5 | Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên | Vietnam | 56.81 | |
| 51 | 6 | 1 | Felicity Passon | Seychelles | 56.85 | |
| 52 | 8 | 8 | Julia Hassler | Liechtenstein | 57.23 | |
| 53 | 4 | 4 | Alexus Laird | Seychelles | 57.32 | |
| 54 | 7 | 6 | Olivia de Maroussem | Mauritius | 57.41 | |
| 55 | 7 | 7 | Jessica Cattaneo | Peru | 57.43 | |
| 56 | 6 | 8 | Sonja Adelaar | Namibia | 57.58 | |
| 56 | 6 | 5 | Aditi Dhumatkar | India | 57.58 | |
| 58 | 5 | 7 | Mónica Ramírez | Andorra | 57.67 | |
| 59 | 6 | 4 | Matelita Buadromo | Fiji | 57.96 | |
| 60 | 7 | 0 | Nikki Muscat | Malta | 57.99 | |
| 61 | 6 | 3 | Monika Vasilyan | Armenia | 58.00 | |
| 62 | 7 | 2 | Rebecca Maduro | Aruba | 58.02 | |
| 63 | 8 | 1 | Talita Baqlah | Jordan | 58.31 | |
| 64 | 4 | 6 | Kimiko Raheem | Sri Lanka | 58.38 | |
| 65 | 7 | 3 | Lei On Kei | Macau | 58.47 | |
| 66 | 7 | 8 | Sofía López | Paraguay | 58.54 | |
| 67 | 7 | 1 | Tan Chi Yan | Macau | 58.56 | |
| 68 | 5 | 2 | Beatrice Felici | San Marino | 58.58 | |
| 69 | 5 | 0 | Anna-Liza Mopio-Jane | Papua New Guinea | 58.79 | |
| 70 | 6 | 6 | Elena Giovannini | San Marino | 58.84 | |
| 71 | 4 | 2 | Nguyễn Diệu Linh | Vietnam | 59.01 | |
| 72 | 6 | 0 | Ana Nobrega | Angola | 59.24 | |
| 73 | 4 | 8 | Nadia Tudo | Andorra | 59.25 | |
| 74 | 5 | 6 | Emily Muteti | Kenya | 59.28 | |
| 75 | 5 | 3 | Elinah Phillip | British Virgin Islands | 59.30 | |
| 76 | 5 | 5 | Antonia Roth | Namibia | 59.38 | |
| 77 | 6 | 7 | Zabrina Holder | Barbados | 59.43 | |
| 78 | 5 | 4 | Maeform Borriello | Honduras | 59.87 | |
| 78 | 6 | 2 | Thalasha Prabhu | India | 59.87 | |
| 80 | 4 | 0 | Yara Lima | Angola | 59.92 | |
| 81 | 5 | 8 | Anna Manchekova | Azerbaijan | 1:00.14 | |
| 82 | 4 | 9 | Christina Linares | Gibraltar | 1:00.41 | |
| 83 | 7 | 9 | Rebeca Quinteros | El Salvador | 1:00.51 | |
| 84 | 4 | 3 | Tiara Anwar | Brunei | 1:00.54 | NR |
| 85 | 6 | 9 | Elisa Bernardi | San Marino | 1:00.95 | |
| 86 | 3 | 4 | Savannah Tkatchenko | Papua New Guinea | 1:00.99 | |
| 87 | 4 | 1 | Fabiola Espinoza | Nicaragua | 1:01.01 | |
| 88 | 3 | 0 | Jamaris Washshah | United States Virgin Islands | 1:01.26 | |
| 89 | 5 | 9 | Nikol Merizaj | Albania | 1:01.35 | |
| 90 | 3 | 5 | Debbie Chew | Guatemala | 1:01.47 | |
| 91 | 3 | 3 | Samantha Roberts | Antigua and Barbuda | 1:01.85 | |
| 92 | 3 | 6 | Amarah Phillip | British Virgin Islands | 1:02.16 | |
| 93 | 2 | 1 | Jennet Sariyeva | Turkmenistan | 1:02.78 | |
| 94 | 2 | 3 | San Khant Khant Su | Myanmar | 1:02.85 | |
| 95 | 5 | 1 | Estellah Fils | Madagascar | 1:03.33 | |
| 96 | 3 | 8 | Irene Prescott | Tonga | 1:03.49 | |
| 97 | 3 | 1 | Chamodi de Fonseka | Sri Lanka | 1:03.51 | |
| 98 | 3 | 2 | Annie Hepler | Marshall Islands | 1:03.55 | |
| 99 | 2 | 4 | Sofia Shah | Nepal | 1:03.88 | |
| 100 | 2 | 0 | Jamila Sanmoogan | Guyana | 1:04.46 | |
| 101 | 2 | 8 | Areeba Shaikh | Pakistan | 1:04.74 | |
| 102 | 2 | 6 | Tsogtgerel Mungunsor | Mongolia | 1:05.89 | |
| 103 | 2 | 5 | Sonia Tumiotto | Tanzania | 1:05.81 | |
| 104 | 3 | 7 | Diana Basho | Albania | 1:05.96 | |
| 105 | 2 | 2 | Aminath Shajan | Maldives | 1:06.01 | |
| 106 | 1 | 5 | Seabe Ebineng | Botswana | 1:07.24 | |
| 107 | 2 | 7 | Salie Alatrash | Palestine | 1:07.30 | |
| 108 | 4 | 7 | Chade Nersicio | Curaçao | 1:07.39 | |
| 109 | 3 | 9 | Angela Kendrick | Marshall Islands | 1:08.85 | |
| 110 | 2 | 9 | Karina Klimyk | Tajikistan | 1:09.34 | |
| 111 | 1 | 4 | Roylin Akiwo | Palau | 1:11.05 | |
| 112 | 1 | 3 | Elsie Uwamahoro | Burundi | 1:13.64 | |
| — | 1 | 6 | Christelle Moboutou | Republic of the Congo | | DNS |
| — | 7 | 5 | Theodora Giareni | Greece | | DNS |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 18:06.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Femke Heemskerk | Netherlands | 51.51 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Bronte Campbell | Australia | 52.02 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Michelle Coleman | Sweden | 52.26 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | Miki Uchida | Japan | 52.49 | Q |
| 5 | 6 | Veronika Popova | Russia | 52.56 | Q |
| 6 | 2 | Charlotte Bonnet | France | 52.77 | |
| 7 | 7 | Shen Duo | China | 52.82 | |
| 8 | 8 | Hanna-Maria Seppälä | Finland | 53.49 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Sarah Sjöström | Sweden | 51.46 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Ranomi Kromowidjojo | Netherlands | 51.57 | Q |
| 3 | 8 | Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace | Bahamas | 52.56 | Q |
| 4 | 3 | Shannon Vreeland | United States | 52.69 | |
| 5 | 7 | Larissa Oliveira | Brazil | 52.75 | SA |
| 6 | 6 | Erika Ferraioli | Italy | 52.87 | |
| 7 | 1 | Pernille Blume | Denmark | 52.90 | |
| 8 | 2 | Abbey Weitzeil | United States | 53.14 | |

### Final

The final was held at 18:12.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 5 | Femke Heemskerk | Netherlands | 51.37 | CR |
| | 4 | Sarah Sjöström | Sweden | 51.39 | |
| | 3 | Ranomi Kromowidjojo | Netherlands | 51.47 | |
| 4 | 6 | Bronte Campbell | Australia | 51.65 | |
| 5 | 2 | Michelle Coleman | Sweden | 51.92 | |
| 6 | 8 | Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace | Bahamas | 52.34 | |
| 7 | 7 | Miki Uchida | Japan | 52.35 | |
| 8 | 1 | Veronika Popova | Russia | 52.45 | |