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

This article relies excessively on references to primary sources. Please improve this article by adding secondary or tertiary sources.
Find sources: "Swimming at the 2010 Commonwealth Games – Women's 100 metre freestyle" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (July 2022) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Swimming at the 2010 Commonwealth Games

Freestyle
50 m	men	women
50 m S9	men	women
100 m	men	women
100 m S8	men
100 m S9		women
100 m S10	men
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
100 m S9		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	women
v t e

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