Swimming at the 2002 Commonwealth Games – Women's 100 metre freestyle

Women's 100 metres freestyle at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
Venue	Manchester Aquatics Centre
Dates	1–2 August 2002
Competitors	34 from 25 nations
Winning time	55.45
Medalists
Jodie Henry    Australia   Helene Muller    South Africa   Karen Legg    England

Swimming at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
50 m EAD	men	women
100 m	men
100 m EAD	men	women
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
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

The Women's 100 metres freestyle event at the 2002 Commonwealth Games took place 31 July-1 August. The heats and the semi were held on 31 July, the final on 1 August.

Prior to this competition, the existing world record was as follows;

World record	Inge de Bruijn (NED)	53.77	Sydney, Australia	20 September 2000
Commonwealth record
Games record	Sue Rolph (ENG)	55.17	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	12 September 1998

The 16 fastest swimmers in the heats qualified for the semifinals.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Jodie Henry	Australia	55.79	Q
2	4	5	Alison Sheppard	Scotland	56.04	Q
3	5	3	Karen Legg	England	56.22	Q
4	5	4	Sarah Ryan	Australia	56.36	Q
5	4	3	Helene Muller	South Africa	56.43	Q
6	3	5	Petria Thomas	Australia	56.64	Q
7	3	4	Melanie Marshall	England	56.65	Q
8	5	5	Karen Pickering	England	56.74	Q
9	3	3	Laura Nicholls	Canada	56.86	Q
10	3	7	Caroline Pickering	Fiji	56.94	Q
11	3	2	Joscelin Yeo	Singapore	57.30	Q
12	5	6	Mandy Leach	Zimbabwe	57.36	Q
13	4	6	Catrin Davies	Wales	57.49	Q
14	5	7	Laura Pomeroy	Canada	57.51	Q
15	4	7	Toni Jeffs	New Zealand	57.72	Q
16	5	2	Julie Douglas	Northern Ireland	57.84	Q
17	3	6	Leah Martindale	Barbados	57.88
18	4	2	Jenna Gresdal	Canada	57.97
19	3	1	Angela Chuck	Jamaica	58.44
20	4	1	Mackenzie Howe	Wales	58.62
21	5	1	Julia Martin	Wales	59.10
22	2	4	Anna-Liza Mopio-Jane	Papua New Guinea	59.58
23	2	5	Linda McEachrane	Trinidad and Tobago	59.60
24	4	8	Nikia Deveaux	Bahamas	1:00.79
25	5	8	Sharntelle McLean	Trinidad and Tobago	1:00.99
26	2	6	Emily Crookall-Nixon	Isle of Man	1:01.10
27	2	2	Gail Strobridge	Guernsey	1:01.71
28	2	3	Elaine Reyes	Gibraltar	1:02.31
29	3	8	Kiera Aitken	Bermuda	1:03.50
30	2	7	Nathalie Lee Baw	Mauritius	1:04.23
31	2	1	Keren Lee Visser	Malawi	1:05.14
32	1	4	Ursula Kuenzli	Zambia	1:07.32
33	1	3	Sana Abdul Wahid	Pakistan	1:10.34
34	1	5	Olivia Aya Nakitanda	Uganda	1:11.03

The eight fastest swimmers from the semifinals progressed to the final.^[2]

Rank	Semi-final	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Jodie Henry	Australia	55.43	Q
2	2	5	Karen Legg	England	55.94	Q
3	2	3	Helene Muller	South Africa	56.05	Q
4	1	5	Sarah Ryan	Australia	56.07	Q
5	1	6	Karen Pickering	England	56.10	Q
5	1	4	Alison Sheppard	Scotland	56.10	Q
7	2	6	Melanie Marshall	England	56.27	Q
8	1	3	Petria Thomas	Australia	56.45	Q
9	2	2	Laura Nicholls	Canada	56.46
10	1	7	Mandy Leach	Zimbabwe	56.89
11	2	7	Joscelin Yeo	Singapore	57.13
12	1	1	Laura Pomeroy	Canada	57.48
13	2	1	Catrin Davies	Wales	57.59
14	1	8	Julie Douglas	Northern Ireland	57.96
15	1	2	Caroline Pickering	Fiji	58.11
16	2	8	Toni Jeffs	New Zealand	58.27

The final was held on 1 August at 19:06.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Jodie Henry	Australia	55.45
	3	Helene Muller	South Africa	55.60
	5	Karen Legg	England	55.86
4	2	Karen Pickering	England	55.95
5	8	Petria Thomas	Australia	55.99
6	7	Alison Sheppard	Scotland	56.05
7	1	Melanie Marshall	England	56.19
8	6	Sarah Ryan	Australia	56.20