Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay
Women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad | ||||||||||
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Venue | Beijing National Aquatics Center | |||||||||
Date | August 15, 2008 (heats) August 17, 2008 (final) | |||||||||
Competitors | 74 from 16 nations | |||||||||
Winning time | 3:52.69 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 4 × 100 metre medley relay event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on 15 and 17 August at the
Dominating the race from the start, the Aussie women's relay team solidified their triumph to destroy the world record and to defend the Olympic title over their American rivals for the second straight time. The foursome of
Team USA's Natalie Coughlin (58.94), Rebecca Soni (1:05.95), Christine Magnuson (56.14), and legend Dara Torres (52.27) trailed behind their greatest rivals in the pool by six-tenths of a second (0.60), but finished under a world-record time to take home a magnificent silver in a new American standard of 3:53.30.[4][5] Competing in her fifth Olympics since 1984, at age 41, Torres also picked up her twelfth career medal to match Jenny Thompson's record as the most successful American woman in Olympic history.[6] Delighted by a raucous home crowd inside the Water Cube, the Chinese quartet of Zhao Jing (59.56), Sun Ye (1:06.75), Zhou Yafei (57.40), and Pang Jiaying (52.40) ended on a spectacular fashion with a bronze medal in an Asian record of 3:56.11.[7][8][9]
Great Britain's
Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
World record | ![]() Lisbeth Lenton (52.83) |
3:55.74 | Melbourne, Australia | 31 March 2007 | [12] |
Olympic record | ![]() Giaan Rooney (1:01.18) Leisel Jones (1:06.50) Petria Thomas (56.67) Jodie Henry (52.97) |
3:57.32 | Athens, Greece | 21 August 2004 | - |
The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.
Date | Event | Name | Nationality | Time | Record |
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August 17 | Final | Lisbeth Trickett (52.53) |
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3:52.69 | WR |
Results
Heats
Rank | Heat | Lane | Nationality | Name | Time | Notes |
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1 | 2 | 4 | ![]() |
Emily Seebohm (59.95) Tarnee White (1:06.81) Felicity Galvez (56.82) Shayne Reese (54.36) |
3:57.94 | Q |
2 | 2 | 5 | ![]() |
Francesca Halsall (53.47) |
3:59.14 | Q, EU |
3 | 1 | 4 | ![]() |
Margaret Hoelzer (59.29) Megan Jendrick (1:07.17) Elaine Breeden (58.59) Kara Lynn Joyce (54.10) |
3:59.15 | Q |
4 | 1 | 5 | ![]() |
Xu Tianlongzi (1:01.13) Sun Ye (1:06.85) Zhou Yafei (56.94) Pang Jiaying (54.29) |
3:59.21 | Q, AS |
5 | 2 | 3 | ![]() |
Kseniya Moskvina (1:01.05) Yuliya Yefimova (1:06.45) Natalya Sutyagina (58.31) Anastasia Aksenova (53.85) |
3:59.66 | Q |
6 | 1 | 3 | ![]() |
Hanae Ito (1:00.34) Asami Kitagawa (1:07.33) Yuka Kato (57.69) Haruka Ueda (54.55) |
3:59.91 | Q, NR |
7 | 2 | 7 | ![]() |
Sarah Sjöström (1:02.48) Joline Höstman (1:08.48) Anna-Karin Kammerling (57.57) Josefin Lillhage (53.59) |
4:02.12 | Q |
8 | 2 | 2 | ![]() |
Julia Wilkinson (1:00.90) Annamay Pierse (1:07.22) Audrey Lacroix (59.84) Erica Morningstar (54.17) |
4:02.13 | Q |
9 | 1 | 8 | ![]() |
Antje Buschschulte (1:00.51) Sarah Poewe (1:08.95) Daniela Samulski (59.78) Britta Steffen (53.29) |
4:02.53 | |
10 | 1 | 2 | ![]() |
Tatiana Barbosa (54.51) |
4:02.61 | |
11 | 1 | 1 | ![]() |
Alexianne Castel (1:01.28) Sophie de Ronchi (1:08.75) Aurore Mongel (58.64) Alena Popchanka (54.28) |
4:02.95 | |
12 | 2 | 6 | ![]() |
Melissa Corfe (1:02.62) Suzaan van Biljon (1:07.90) Mandy Loots (58.76) Lize-Mari Retief (54.92) |
4:04.20 | |
13 | 1 | 6 | ![]() |
Femke Heemskerk (1:02.97) Jolijn van Valkengoed (1:10.85) Inge Dekker (57.41) Ranomi Kromowidjojo (53.51) |
4:04.74 | |
14 | 2 | 8 | ![]() |
Romina Armellini (1:02.49) Roberta Panara (1:08.36) Ilaria Bianchi (58.09) Federica Pellegrini (55.99) |
4:04.93 | |
15 | 1 | 7 | ![]() |
Angela San Juan (1:00.08) (55.09)María Fuster |
4:06.40 | |
16 | 2 | 1 | ![]() |
Iryna Amshennikova (1:03.63) Yuliya Pidlisna (1:09.53) Kateryna Zubkova (59.65) Darya Stepanyuk (55.81) |
4:08.62 |
Final
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/2008_Australian_Olympic_team_Leisel_Jones_-_Sarah_Ewart.jpg/220px-2008_Australian_Olympic_team_Leisel_Jones_-_Sarah_Ewart.jpg)
Rank | Lane | Nationality | Name | Time | Time behind | Notes |
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4 | ![]() |
Lisbeth Trickett (52.53) |
3:52.69 | WR | |
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3 | ![]() |
Natalie Coughlin (58.94) Rebecca Soni (1:05.95) Christine Magnuson (56.14) Dara Torres (52.27) |
3:53.30 | 0.61 | AM |
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6 | ![]() |
Zhao Jing (59.56) Sun Ye (1:06.75) Zhou Yafei (57.40) Pang Jiaying (52.40) |
3:56.11 | 3.42 | AS |
4 | 5 | ![]() |
Francesca Halsall (52.81) |
3:57.50 | 4.81 | EU |
5 | 2 | ![]() |
(54.13) | 3:57.84 | 5.15 | |
6 | 7 | ![]() |
Reiko Nakamura (59.74) Asami Kitagawa (1:07.04) Yuka Kato (58.17) Haruka Ueda (54.59) |
3:59.54 | 6.85 | NR |
7 | 8 | ![]() |
Julia Wilkinson (1:01.35) Annamay Pierse (1:06.91) Audrey Lacroix (59.01) Erica Morningstar (54.08) |
4:01.35 | 8.66 | |
1 | ![]() |
Sarah Sjöström (1:02.63) Joline Höstman (1:08.11) Anna-Karin Kammerling (58.51) Josefin Lillhage |
DSQ |
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