Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre freestyle

Women's 100 metre freestyle at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Aquatics Centre. Paris La Défense Arena
Dates	30 July 2024 (heats and semis) 31 July 2024 (final)
Competitors	29 from 24 nations
Winning time	52.16
Medalists
Sarah Sjöström  Sweden Torri Huske  United States Siobhán Haughey  Hong Kong
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Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Qualification
Freestyle
50 m	men		women
100 m	men		women
200 m	men		women
400 m	men		women
800 m	men		women
1500 m	men		women
Backstroke
100 m	men		women
200 m	men		women
Breaststroke
100 m	men		women
200 m	men		women
Butterfly
100 m	men		women
200 m	men		women
Individual medley
200 m	men		women
400 m	men		women
Freestyle relay
4 × 100 m	men		women
4 × 200 m	men		women
Medley relay
4 × 100 m	men	mixed	women
Marathon
10 km	men		women
v t e

The women's 100 metre freestyle event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held on 30 and 31 July 2024 at the Olympic Aquatics Centre at Paris La Défense Arena.^[1]

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:

World record	Sarah Sjöström (SWE)	51.71	Budapest, Hungary	23 July 2017
Olympic record	Emma McKeon (AUS)	51.96	Tokyo, Japan	30 July 2021

A National Olympic Committee (NOC) may enter a maximum of two qualified athletes in each individual event, but only if both of them have attained the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT). One athlete per event can potentially enter if they meet the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT), or if the total quota of 852 athletes has not been targeted. NOCs may also permit swimmers regardless of time (one per gender) under a Universality place since they have no swimmers attaining either of the standard entry times (OQT/OCT).^[2][3]

Following the end of the qualification window, World Aquatics will assess the number of swimmers who have achieved the OQT, the number of relay-only swimmers, and the number of Universality places, before inviting those with OCT to fulfill the total quota of 852. Additionally, OCT places will be distributed by event according to the position of the World Aquatics Rankings during the qualifying deadline.^[2]

The qualifying time standards must be obtained at the 2023 and 2024 World Championships, continental championships, continental swimming meets, national championships and selection trials, and various international meets approved by World Aquatics in the period between 1 March 2023 and 23 June 2024.^[4]

The following table outlines the qualifying time standards for Paris 2024 for this event:

* OQTs correspond to the time achieved by a fourteenth-place swimmer in his or her respective preliminary heat of each event at the previous Games.

ª Because the fourteenth-place swimmer achieved a standard slower than the OQT in Tokyo 2020, the OQT used at the previous Games will remain constant.

^ OCTs are derived by adding 0.5% of the OQT standard.

The competition consists of three rounds: heats, semifinals, and a final. The swimmers with the best 16 times in the heats advance to the semifinals. The swimmers with the best 8 times in the semifinals advance to the final. Swim-offs are used as necessary to break ties for advancement to the next round.

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

29 competitors enter the event. The top sixteen on time advance to the semi-final.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	52.99	Q
2	4	4	Siobhan Haughey	Hong Kong	53.02	Q
3	2	5	Yang Junxuan	China	53.05	Q
4	4	5	Marrit Steenbergen	Netherlands	53.22	Q
5	3	4	Mollie O'Callaghan	Australia	53.27	Q
6	3	5	Shayna Jack	Australia	53.40	Q
7	4	3	Torri Huske	United States	53.53	Q
8	2	3	Gretchen Walsh	United States	53.54	Q
9	3	2	Beryl Gastaldello	France	53.65	Q
10	3	3	Anna Hopkin	Great Britain	53.67	Q
	4	1	Kayla Sanchez	Philippines	53.67	Q, NR
12	4	2	Marie Wattel	France	53.70	Q
13	4	6	Wu Qingfeng	China	54.03	Q
14	3	6	Michelle Coleman	Sweden	54.10	Q
15	4	7	Neza Klancar	Slovenia	54.12	Q
16	2	2	Maggie Mac Neil	Canada	54.16	Q, WD
17	2	6	Barbora Seemanova	Czech Republic	54.66	Q
18	2	7	Kalia Antoniou	Cyprus	54.75	R
19	3	1	Snaefridur Sol Jorunnardottir	Iceland	54.85
20	3	7	Kornelia Fiedkiewicz	Poland	55.25
21	3	8	Jana Pavalic	Croatia	55.77
22	4	8	Gloria Anna Muzito	Uganda	55.95
23	2	1	Jillian Janis Geohagan Crooks	Cayman Islands	56.15
24	2	8	Nesrine Medjahed	Algeria	57.34
25	1	4	Paige van der Westhuizen	Zimbabwe	58.19
26	1	3	Tilly Collymore	Grenada	58.84
27	1	5	Maxine Egner	Botswana	58.98
28	1	6	Aleka Kylela Persaud	Guyana	1:01.29
29	1	2	Rana Saadeldin	Sudan	1:04.72

Sources:^[5][6]

The swimmers with the best 8 times, regardless of heat, advance to the final.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	1	4	Siobhán Haughey	Hong Kong	52.64	Q
2	1	3	Shayna Jack	Australia	52.72	Q
3	2	3	Mollie O'Callaghan	Australia	52.75	Q
4	2	5	Yang Junxuan	China	52.81	Q
5	1	5	Marrit Steenbergen	Netherlands	52.86	Q
6	2	4	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	52.87	Q
7	2	6	Torri Huske	United States	52.99	Q
8	1	6	Gretchen Walsh	United States	53.18	Q
9	2	1	Wu Qingfeng	China	53.34
10	1	7	Marie Wattel	France	53.38
11	1	2	Anna Hopkin	Great Britain	53.74
12	1	1	Michelle Coleman	Sweden	53.75
13	1	8	Barbora Seemanova	Czech Republic	53.94
14	2	8	Neza Klancar	Slovenia	53.96	=NR
15	2	7	Kayla Sanchez	Philippines	54.21
16	2	2	Beryl Gastaldello	France	54.29

Sources:^[7][8]

Rank	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
	7	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	52.16
	1	Torri Huske	United States	52.29
	4	Siobhán Haughey	Hong Kong	52.33
4	3	Mollie O'Callaghan	Australia	52.34
5	5	Shayna Jack	Australia	52.72
6	6	Yang Junxuan	China	52.82
7	2	Marrit Steenbergen	Netherlands	52.83
8	8	Gretchen Walsh	United States	53.04

Source:^[9]