Swimming at the 2018 Commonwealth Games – Women's 100 metre backstroke

Women's 100 metre backstroke at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
Venue	Gold Coast Aquatic Centre
Dates	6 April (heats, semifinals) 7 April (final)
Competitors	26 from 17 nations
Winning time	58.63
Medalists
Kylie Masse    Canada   Emily Seebohm    Australia   Taylor Ruck    Canada

Swimming at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
50 m S7/S8	men	women
100 m	men	women
100 m S9	men	women
200 m	men	women
200 m S14	men
400 m	men	women
800 m		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men
100 m S9	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
100 m SB8/SB9	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m	men	women
50 m S7		women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m	men	women
200 m SM8	men
200 m SM10		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 metre backstroke event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games was held on 6 and 7 April at the Gold Coast Aquatic Centre.

The schedule is as follows:^[1]

All times are Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10)

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

World record	Kylie Masse (CAN)	58.10	Budapest, Hungary	25 July 2017
Commonwealth record	Kylie Masse (CAN)	58.10	Budapest, Hungary	25 July 2017
Games record	Belinda Hocking (AUS)	59.37	Glasgow, Great Britain	26 July 2014

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
6 April	Heat 3	Emily Seebohm	Australia	58.91	GR
6 April	Heat 4	Kylie Masse	Canada	58.70	GR
6 April	Semifinals	Kylie Masse	Canada	58.66	GR
7 April	Final	Kylie Masse	Canada	58.63	GR

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nation	Result	Notes
1	4	4	Kylie Masse	Canada	58.70	Q, GR
2	3	4	Emily Seebohm	Australia	58.91	Q, GR
3	4	3	Elizabeth Simmonds	England	1:00.49	Q
4	4	5	Georgia Davies	Wales	1:00.57	Q
5	2	5	Kaylee McKeown	Australia	1:00.65	Q
6	2	4	Taylor Ruck	Canada	1:00.72	Q
7	2	3	Hayley Baker	Australia	1:00.82	Q
8	4	6	Jessica Fullalove	England	1:01.04	Q
9	4	2	Bobbi Gichard	New Zealand	1:01.33	Q
10	3	3	Kathleen Dawson	Scotland	1:01.38	Q
11	3	5	Jade Hannah	Canada	1:01.51	Q
12	3	6	Cassie Wild	Scotland	1:02.29	Q
13	3	7	Naomi Ruele	Botswana	1:02.58	Q
14	2	6	Anna Maine	England	1:02.63	Q
15	4	7	Nathania van Niekerk	South Africa	1:02.81	Q
16	2	7	Danielle Hill	Northern Ireland	1:03.08	Q
17	3	2	Mariella Venter	South Africa	1:03.39
18	3	1	Gemma Atherley	Jersey	1:04.75
19	4	8	Tatiana Tostevin	Guernsey	1:04.90
20	2	8	Caroline Zi Xin Chan	Malaysia	1:05.94
21	4	1	Lushavel Stickland	Samoa	1:06.02
22	3	8	Lauren Hew	Cayman Islands	1:06.41
23	2	1	Sylvia Tanya Atieno Brunlehner	Kenya	1:06.64
24	1	4	Aaliyah Palestrini	Seychelles	1:07.26
25	1	5	Vinoli Kaluarachchi	Sri Lanka	1:07.64
26	1	3	Therese Soukup	Seychelles	1:10.57
27	2	2	Harriet West	Wales	DNS

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nation	Result	Notes
1	2	4	Kylie Masse	Canada	58.66	Q, GR
2	1	4	Emily Seebohm	Australia	58.95	Q
3	1	3	Taylor Ruck	Canada	1:00.06	Q
4	2	3	Kaylee McKeown	Australia	1:00.11	Q
5	1	5	Georgia Davies	Wales	1:00.33	Q
6	2	7	Jade Hannah	Canada	1:00.37	Q
7	2	6	Hayley Baker	Australia	1:00.63	Q
8	1	2	Kathleen Dawson	Scotland	1:00.67	QSO
9	2	5	Elizabeth Simmonds	England	1:00.67	QSO
10	1	7	Cassie Wild	Scotland	1:00.93
11	1	6	Jessica Fullalove	England	1:01.39
12	2	2	Bobbi Gichard	New Zealand	1:01.75
13	1	1	Anna Maine	England	1:02.29
14	1	8	Danielle Hill	Northern Ireland	1:02.62
15	2	1	Naomi Ruele	Botswana	1:03.01
16	2	8	Nathania van Niekerk	South Africa	1:03.06

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Kathleen Dawson	Scotland	1:01.06	Q
2	5	Elizabeth Simmonds	England	1:01.13

Rank	Lane	Name	Nation	Result	Notes
	4	Kylie Masse	Canada	58.63	GR
	5	Emily Seebohm	Australia	58.66
	3	Taylor Ruck	Canada	58.97
4	6	Kaylee McKeown	Australia	1:00.08
5	2	Georgia Davies	Wales	1:00.17
6	8	Kathleen Dawson	Scotland	1:00.74
6	1	Hayley Baker	Australia	1:00.74
8	7	Jade Hannah	Canada	1:00.83