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

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Women's 100 metre freestyle
at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Venue Beijing National Aquatics Center
Date August 13, 2008 (heats)
August 14, 2008(semifinals)
August 15, 2008 (final)
Competitors 49 from 41 nations
Winning time 53.12 OR
Medalists
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1st Britta Steffen  Germany
2nd Lisbeth Trickett  Australia
3rd Natalie Coughlin  United States
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Swimming events at the
2008 Summer Olympics
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Freestyle
50 m   men   women
100 m men women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m women
1500 m men
Backstroke
100 m men women
200 m men women
Breaststroke
100 m men women
200 m men women
Butterfly
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
Marathon
10 km men women

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  Lisbeth Trickett (AUS) 52.88 Sydney, Australia 27 March 2008 [8]
Olympic record  Britta Steffen (GER) 53.38 Beijing, China 10 August 2008 -

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

Date Event Name Nationality Time Record
August 15 Final Britta Steffen  Germany 53.12 OR

Results

Heats

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 6 3 Hanna-Maria Seppälä  Finland 53.60 Q, NR
2 6 4 Britta Steffen  Germany 53.67 Q
3 6 5 Marleen Veldhuis  Netherlands 53.76 Q
4 7 5 Natalie Coughlin  United States 53.82 Q
5 5 6 Francesca Halsall  Great Britain 53.93 Q
6 7 4 Lisbeth Trickett  Australia 53.99 Q
7 6 6 Pang Jiaying  China 54.01 Q, =AS
7 7 7 Zhu Yingwen  China 54.01 Q, =AS
9 4 5 Jeanette Ottesen  Denmark 54.04 Q
10 6 2 Josefin Lillhage  Sweden 54.07 Q
11 7 3 Malia Metella  France 54.12 Q
12 5 7 Aliaksandra Herasimenia  Belarus 54.52 Q
13 5 4 Cate Campbell  Australia 54.55 Q
14 5 3 Lacey Nymeyer  United States 54.62 Q
15 7 6 Erica Morningstar  Canada 54.66 Q
16 6 7 Petra Dallmann  Germany 54.70 Q*
16 7 1 Julia Wilkinson  Canada 54.70
18 5 2 Alena Popchanka  France 54.86
19 7 8 Tatiana Barbosa  Brazil 55.01
20 6 1 Agata Ewa Korc  Poland 55.14 NR
21 6 8 Lize-Mari Retief  South Africa 55.17
22 4 3 Anna Gostomelsky  Israel 55.18
23 5 1 Martina Moravcová  Slovakia 55.20
24 5 5 Inge Dekker  Netherlands 55.23
25 4 4 Anastasia Aksenova  Russia 55.29
26 3 3 Hannah Wilson  Hong Kong 55.32
27 4 8 Darya Stepanyuk  Ukraine 55.51
28 3 4 Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace  Bahamas 55.61
29 3 2 Birgit Koschischek  Austria 55.62
30 4 2 Arlene Semeco  Venezuela 55.70
31 5 8 Jana Klusáčková  Czech Republic 55.92
32 3 1 Chang Hee-jin 23x15px South Korea 55.96
33 4 7 Triin Aljand  Estonia 56.10
34 2 5 Quah Ting Wen  Singapore 56.14
35 3 5 Ragnheidur Ragnarsdottir  Iceland 56.35
36 3 8 Anna Stylianou  Cyprus 56.38
37 3 7 Eleni Kosti  Greece 56.44
38 4 1 Miroslava Najdanovski  Serbia 56.50
39 2 6 Natthanan Junkrajang  Thailand 56.56
40 2 4 Orsolya Tompa  Hungary 56.57
41 2 7 Christel Simms  Philippines 56.67 NR
42 4 6 Maria Laura Simonetto  Italy 56.72
43 2 3 Nieh Pin-chieh  Chinese Taipei 57.28
44 3 6 Nina Sovinek  Slovenia 57.30
45 1 4 Madeleine Scerri  Malta 57.97 NR
46 2 2 Irina Shlemova  Uzbekistan 58.77
47 1 5 Elena Popovska  North Macedonia 59.93
48 1 6 Olga Hachatryan  Turkmenistan 1:14.77
7 2 Caitlin McClatchey  Great Britain DNS

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

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

Semifinal 2

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 5 Marleen Veldhuis  Netherlands 53.81 Q
2 4 Hanna-Maria Seppälä  Finland 53.84 Q
3 3 Francesca Halsall  Great Britain 53.94 Q
4 2 Jeanette Ottesen  Denmark 54.05 Q
5 7 Malia Metella  France 54.20
6 1 Cate Campbell  Australia 54.54
7 8 Erica Morningstar  Canada 55.36
6 Pang Jiaying  China 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
1st 7 Britta Steffen  Germany 53.12 OR
2nd 8 Lisbeth Trickett  Australia 53.16
3rd 4 Natalie Coughlin  United States 53.39 =AM
4 6 Hanna-Maria Seppälä  Finland 53.97
5 1 Jeanette Ottesen  Denmark 54.06
6 3 Zhu Yingwen  China 54.21
6 5 Marleen Veldhuis  Netherlands 54.21
8 2 Francesca Halsall  Great Britain 54.29

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