Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre freestyle

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The women's 100 metre freestyle event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on 13–15 August at the Beijing National Aquatics Center in Beijing, China.[1]

Germany's Britta Steffen blasted a new Olympic record to claim a gold medal in the event. Coming from eighth place in the turn, she posted a time of 53.12 to edge out Australia's world record holder and top favorite Lisbeth Trickett by 0.04 of a second. Swimming in lane eight, Trickett earned a silver with an outside record time of 53.16.[2][3][4] She narrowly reached the final as the eighth seed, when China's Pang Jiaying was disqualified for a false start in the semifinals.[5] Meanwhile, U.S. swimmer Natalie Coughlin powered home with a bronze in a matching American record of 53.39 for the second consecutive Olympics. It was Coughlin's fifth medal of these Games, matching her total from Athens four years earlier.[6]

Competing at her third straight Olympics with Steffen, Finland's Hanna-Maria Seppälä finished outside the medals in fourth place at 53.97. Earlier, she posted a top-seeded time of 53.60 from the sixth heat to lead the prelims.[7] She was followed in fifth place by Denmark's Jeanette Ottesen (54.06), and host nation China's Zhu Yingwen, who shared a sixth-place tie with the Netherlands' Marleen Veldhuis in 54.21. Great Britain's Francesca Halsall (54.29) closed out the field.[2]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World record Template:Flagathlete 52.88 Sydney, Australia 27 March 2008 [8]
Olympic record Template:FlagIOCathlete 53.52 Athens, Greece 18 August 2004 -

The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.

Date Event Name Nationality Time Record
August 10 Final* Britta Steffen Template:FlagIOC 53.38 Template:OlyR
August 15 Final Britta Steffen Template:FlagIOC 53.12 Template:OlyR

* Split from the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay

Results

Heats

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 6 3 Hanna-Maria Seppälä Template:FlagIOC 53.60 Q, NR
2 6 4 Britta Steffen Template:FlagIOC 53.67 Q
3 6 5 Marleen Veldhuis Template:FlagIOC 53.76 Q
4 7 5 Natalie Coughlin Template:FlagIOC 53.82 Q
5 5 6 Francesca Halsall Template:FlagIOC 53.93 Q
6 7 4 Lisbeth Trickett Template:FlagIOC 53.99 Q
7 6 6 Pang Jiaying Template:FlagIOC 54.01 Q, =AS
7 7 Zhu Yingwen Template:FlagIOC Q, =AS
9 4 5 Jeanette Ottesen Template:FlagIOC 54.04 Q
10 6 2 Josefin Lillhage Template:FlagIOC 54.07 Q
11 7 3 Malia Metella Template:FlagIOC 54.12 Q
12 5 7 Aliaksandra Herasimenia Template:FlagIOC 54.52 Q
13 5 4 Cate Campbell Template:FlagIOC 54.55 Q
14 5 3 Lacey Nymeyer Template:FlagIOC 54.62 Q
15 7 6 Erica Morningstar Template:FlagIOC 54.66 Q
16 6 7 Petra Dallmann Template:FlagIOC 54.70 Q*
7 1 Julia Wilkinson Template:FlagIOC
18 5 2 Alena Popchanka Template:FlagIOC 54.86
19 7 8 Tatiana Barbosa Template:FlagIOC 55.01
20 6 1 Agata Ewa Korc Template:FlagIOC 55.14 NR
21 6 8 Lize-Mari Retief Template:FlagIOC 55.17
22 4 3 Anna Gostomelsky Template:FlagIOC 55.18
23 5 1 Martina Moravcová Template:FlagIOC 55.20
24 5 5 Inge Dekker Template:FlagIOC 55.23
25 4 4 Anastasia Aksenova Template:FlagIOC 55.29
26 3 3 Hannah Wilson Template:FlagIOC 55.32
27 4 8 Darya Stepanyuk Template:FlagIOC 55.51
28 3 4 Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace Template:FlagIOC 55.61
29 3 2 Birgit Koschischek Template:FlagIOC 55.62
30 4 2 Arlene Semeco Template:FlagIOC 55.70
31 5 8 Jana Klusáčková Template:FlagIOC 55.92
32 3 1 Chang Hee-jin Template:FlagIOC 55.96
33 4 7 Triin Aljand Template:FlagIOC 56.10
34 2 5 Quah Ting Wen Template:FlagIOC 56.14
35 3 5 Ragnheidur Ragnarsdottir Template:FlagIOC 56.35
36 3 8 Anna Stylianou Template:FlagIOC 56.38
37 3 7 Eleni Kosti Template:FlagIOC 56.44
38 4 1 Miroslava Najdanovski Template:FlagIOC 56.50
39 2 6 Natthanan Junkrajang Template:FlagIOC 56.56
40 2 4 Orsolya Tompa Template:FlagIOC 56.57
41 2 7 Christel Simms Template:FlagIOC 56.67 NR
42 4 6 Maria Laura Simonetto Template:FlagIOC 56.72
43 2 3 Nieh Pin-chieh Template:FlagIOC 57.28
44 3 6 Nina Sovinek Template:FlagIOC 57.30
45 1 4 Madeleine Scerri Template:FlagIOC 57.97 NR
46 2 2 Irina Shlemova Template:FlagIOC 58.77
47 1 5 Elena Popovska Template:FlagIOC 59.93
48 1 6 Olga Hachatryan Template:FlagIOC Script error: No such module "sort".
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Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 5 Natalie Coughlin Template:FlagIOC 53.70 Q
2 6 Zhu Yingwen Template:FlagIOC 53.84 Q, AS
3 4 Britta Steffen Template:FlagIOC 53.96 Q
4 3 Lisbeth Trickett Template:FlagIOC 54.10 Q
5 2 Josefin Lillhage Template:FlagIOC 54.59
6 1 Lacey Nymeyer Template:FlagIOC 54.74
7 8 Petra Dallmann Template:FlagIOC 55.05
8 7 Aliaksandra Herasimenia Template:FlagIOC 55.31

Semifinal 2

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 5 Marleen Veldhuis Template:FlagIOC 53.81 Q
2 4 Hanna-Maria Seppälä Template:FlagIOC 53.84 Q
3 3 Francesca Halsall Template:FlagIOC 53.94 Q
4 2 Jeanette Ottesen Template:FlagIOC 54.05 Q
5 7 Malia Metella Template:FlagIOC 54.20
6 1 Cate Campbell Template:FlagIOC 54.54
7 8 Erica Morningstar Template:FlagIOC 55.36
Template:Hs 6 Pang Jiaying Template:FlagIOC DSQ

Note: Lisbeth Trickett advanced to the final only when Chinese swimmer Pang Jiaying, who had finished first in the semifinals, was disqualified for a false start.

Final

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
Script error: No such module "sort". 7 Britta Steffen Template:FlagIOC 53.12 Template:OlyR
Script error: No such module "sort". 8 Lisbeth Trickett Template:FlagIOC 53.16
Script error: No such module "sort". 4 Natalie Coughlin Template:FlagIOC 53.39 =AM
4 6 Hanna-Maria Seppälä Template:FlagIOC 53.97
5 1 Jeanette Ottesen Template:FlagIOC 54.06
6 3 Zhu Yingwen Template:FlagIOC 54.21
5 Marleen Veldhuis Template:FlagIOC
8 2 Francesca Halsall Template:FlagIOC 54.29

References

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