2011 Best Performers (Long Course - Female)

100 METRES BACKSTROKE

#	Country		Time	Name	IPS	Meet
1		CHN	59.05	Zhao, Jing	993	WORLDJUL
2		RUS	59.06	Zueva, Anastasia	992	WORLDJUL
3		USA	59.12	Coughlin, Natalie	991	WORLDJUL
4		JPN	59.17	Terakawa, Aya	990	JPNLCAPR
5		USA	59.18	Franklin, Melissa	990	USALCAUG

Marleen Veldhuis (NED) cracked out a 25.28 world mark in the first semi of the 50m butterfly. Then Therese Alshammar (SWE) hits back with a 25.07 response, for the 33rd world record the championships.

Emerging from Melbourne 2007, just three women had even got past 26sec. Now there are 17, 11 of them from today.

Enough of that.