Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre freestyle
Women's 200 metre freestyle at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Beijing National Aquatics Center | ||||||||||||
Date | August 11, 2008 (heats) August 12, 2008(semifinals) August 13, 2008 (final) | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 46 from 37 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 1:54.82 WR | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics | ||
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Qualification | ||
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 200 metre freestyle event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on 11–13 August at the
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Defending champion Camelia Potec finished outside the medals in fifth place, posting a Romanian record of 1:56.87. Great Britain's Caitlin McClatchey earned a sixth spot in 1:57.65, and was followed by a seventh-place tie between Australia's Bronte Barratt and France's Ophélie-Cyrielle Étienne in a matching time of 1:57.83. For the first time in Olympic history, all eight swimmers went faster than a winning time of 1:58.03, previously set by Potec in Athens four years earlier.[2]
Earlier in the prelims, Pang broke one of the oldest Olympic records in the book, when she clocked at 1:57.37 to lead the fourth heat, slashing 0.28 seconds off the old mark set by East Germany's Heike Friedrich from Seoul in 1988. Two heats later, Pellegrini posted a top-seeded time of 1:55.45 to erase Laure Manaudou's world record, set in 2007.[5]
Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
World record | Laure Manaudou (FRA) | 1:55.52 | Melbourne, Australia | 28 March 2007 | [6] |
Olympic record | Heike Friedrich (GDR) | 1:57.65 | Seoul, South Korea | 21 September 1988 | - |
The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.
Date | Event | Name | Nationality | Time | Record |
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August 11 | Heat 4 | Pang Jiaying | China | 1:57.37 | OR |
August 11 | Heat 5 | Sara Isakovič |
Slovenia | 1:55.86 | OR |
August 11 | Heat 6 | Federica Pellegrini | Italy | 1:55.45 | WR |
August 13 | Final | Federica Pellegrini | Italy | 1:54.82 | WR |
Results
Heats
Semifinals
Semifinal 1
Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | 4 | Sara Isakovič
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Slovenia | 1:56.50 | Q |
2 | 5 | Katie Hoff | United States | 1:57.01 | Q |
3 | 3 | Pang Jiaying | China | 1:57.34 | Q |
4 | 2 | Bronte Barratt | Australia | 1:57.55 | Q |
5 | 7 | Linda Mackenzie | Australia | 1:58.19 | |
6 | 6 | Haruka Ueda | Japan | 1:58.44 | |
7 | 1 | Joanne Jackson | Great Britain | 1:58.70 | |
8 | 8 | Ida Marko-Varga | Sweden | 1:59.41 |
Semifinal 2
Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | 4 | Federica Pellegrini | Italy | 1:57.23 | Q |
2 | 2 | Camelia Potec | Romania | 1:57.71 | Q |
3 | 5 | Caitlin McClatchey | Great Britain | 1:57.73 | Q |
4 | 7 | Ophélie-Cyrielle Étienne | France | 1:58.00 | Q |
5 | 6 | Allison Schmitt | United States | 1:58.01 | |
6 | 8 | Aurore Mongel | France | 1:58.08 | |
7 | 3 | Ágnes Mutina | Hungary | 1:58.15 | |
8 | 1 | Josefin Lillhage | Sweden | 1:59.29 |
Final
Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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3 | Federica Pellegrini | Italy | 1:54.82 | WR, OR | |
4 | Sara Isakovič |
Slovenia | 1:54.97 | NR | |
6 | Pang Jiaying | China | 1:55.05 | AS | |
4 | 5 | Katie Hoff | United States | 1:55.78 | AM |
5 | 7 | Camelia Potec | Romania | 1:56.87 | NR |
6 | 1 | Caitlin McClatchey | Great Britain | 1:57.65 | |
7 | 2 | Bronte Barratt | Australia | 1:57.83 | |
8 | Ophélie-Cyrielle Étienne | France |
References
- ^ "Olympic Swimming Schedule". USA Today. 9 August 2008. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
- ^ Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the originalon 2 May 2012. Retrieved 18 May 2013.
- ^ "Pellegrini takes 200m free gold". BBC Sport. 12 August 2008. Retrieved 18 May 2013.
- ^ "Katie Hoff falls short in 200 freestyle, 200 IM". NBC News. 12 August 2008. Retrieved 18 May 2013.
- Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the originalon 14 June 2013. Retrieved 18 May 2013.
- ^ "Phelps shines as records tumble". BBC News. 28 March 2007. Retrieved 16 April 2008.