The current women's world record is held by Marita Koch, with a time of 47.60 seconds.
The world record for the women's 100m breaststroke is 1:04.13, set by Lilly King (USA) on July 24, 2021 at the Tokyo Olympics.
There is no such event! (unless you swim the five hundred freestyle breaststroke)
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Breeja Larson holds the American (and world) record for the short course 100 yard breaststroke.
Russia won the silver medal in the women's 100 m breaststroke at the Rio 2016 Olympics.
Yulia Efimova of Russia won the silver medal in the women's 100 m breaststroke at the Rio 2016 Olympics.
United States won the gold medal in the women's 100 m breaststroke at the Rio 2016 Olympics.
Lillia King of the United States won the gold medal in the women's 100 m breaststroke at the Rio 2016 Olympics. Yulia Efimova of Russia won the silver medal in the women's 100 m breaststroke at the Rio 2016 Olympics. Catherine Meili of the United States won the bronze medal in the women's 100 m breaststroke at the Rio 2016 Olympics.
58,12 sec. is the current world record, held by Gemma Spofforth from Great Britain, at the World championship in Rome, Italy, 29 July 2009
The United States won the bronze medal in the women's 100 m breaststroke at the Rio 2016 Olympics.
Gold medalist Kosuke Kitajima of Japan won the gold medal in men's 100 meter breaststroke at the 2008 Games in Beijing in a time of 58.91 seconds, a new world record.
Through the 2008 Games in Beijing, South Africans have won four Olympic gold medals in swimming. Three of those have been won by women. Penny Heyns won two gold at the 1996 Games in Atlanta in women's 100 meter breaststroke and women's 200 meter breaststroke and Joan Harrison won gold in women's 100 meter backstroke at the 1952 Games in Helsinki. Penny Heyns is the only woman in Olympic history to have won gold in the 100 meter breaststroke and 200 meter breaststroke at the same Games. She also won a bronze medal in women's 100 meter breaststroke at the 2000 Games in Sydney. At one time in the late 1990s she held five of the six breaststroke world records (50 meter, 100 meter, 200 meter).
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The women's 100 meter hurdles record is 12.21 seconds set by Yordanka Donkova of Bulgaria in 1988.
Florence Griffith-Joyner holds the women's world record in the 100 meter dash at 10.49 set in 1988. ---- The Olympic record for the women's 100 meter dash was set by Florence Griffith-Joyner at the 1988 Games in Seoul at a time of 10.54 seconds.