Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 800 metre freestyle
Women's 800 metre freestyle at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Beijing National Aquatics Center | ||||||||||||
Date | August 14, 2008 (heats) August 16, 2008 (final) | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 36 from 29 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 8:14.10 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 800 metre freestyle event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on 14 and 16 August at the
Great Britain's Rebecca Adlington broke one of the oldest world records in the book to claim a second Olympic gold, following her first triumph in the 400 m freestyle. She touched the wall first in 8:14.10, slashing 2.12-second deficit off Janet Evans' world record which had stood for nearly 19 years.[2][3]
Coming from sixth place in the 350-metre lap, Italy's
Earlier in the prelims, Adlington established a new Olympic standard in a top-seeded time of 8:18.06 to cut down Brooke Bennett's 2000 record by a 1.59-second deficit.[4]
Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
World record | ![]() |
8:16.22 | Tokyo, Japan | 20 August 1989 | [5] |
Olympic record | ![]() |
8:19.67 | Sydney, Australia | 22 September 2000 | - |
The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.
Date | Event | Name | Nationality | Time | Record |
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August 14 | Heat 4 | Rebecca Adlington | ![]() |
8:18.06 | OR |
August 16 | Final | Rebecca Adlington | ![]() |
8:14.10 | WR |
Results
Heats
Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | 4 | 4 | Rebecca Adlington | ![]() |
8:18.06 | Q, OR |
2 | 3 | 5 | Camelia Potec | ![]() |
8:19.70 | Q |
3 | 4 | 2 | Lotte Friis | ![]() |
8:21.74 | Q |
4 | 5 | 5 | Alessia Filippi | ![]() |
8:21.95 | Q |
5 | 4 | 3 | Kylie Palmer | ![]() |
8:22.81 | Q, OC |
6 | 5 | 1 | Yelena Sokolova |
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8:23.07 | Q, NR |
7 | 3 | 6 | Li Xuanxu | ![]() |
8:24.37 | Q |
8 | 5 | 7 | Cassandra Patten |
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8:25.91 | Q |
9 | 4 | 1 | Wendy Trott | ![]() |
8:26.21 | AF |
10 | 5 | 4 | Kate Ziegler | ![]() |
8:26.98 | |
11 | 3 | 4 | Katie Hoff | ![]() |
8:27.78 | |
12 | 5 | 6 | Coralie Balmy | ![]() |
8:28.34 | |
13 | 3 | 3 | Flavia Rigamonti | ![]() |
8:28.67 | |
14 | 3 | 8 | Andreina Pinto | ![]() |
8:30.30 | NR |
15 | 4 | 7 | You Meihong | ![]() |
8:31.11 | |
16 | 5 | 3 | Erika Villaécija | ![]() |
8:32.27 | |
17 | 5 | 8 | Melissa Gorman | ![]() |
8:32.34 | |
18 | 2 | 4 | Susana Escobar | ![]() |
8:33.51 | NR |
19 | 5 | 2 | Sophie Huber | ![]() |
8:33.76 | |
20 | 2 | 5 | Kristel Köbrich | ![]() |
8:34.25 | |
21 | 3 | 1 | Maiko Fujino | ![]() |
8:35.60 | |
22 | 2 | 1 | Jördis Steinegger | ![]() |
8:36.40 | NR |
23 | 3 | 7 | Tanya Hunks | ![]() |
8:38.05 | |
24 | 2 | 3 | Gabriella Fagundez | ![]() |
8:39.06 | NR |
25 | 4 | 6 | Jaana Ehmcke | ![]() |
8:39.51 | |
26 | 2 | 6 | Réka Nagy |
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8:40.38 | |
27 | 4 | 5 | Ai Shibata | ![]() |
8:41.63 | |
28 | 4 | 8 | Eleftheria Evgenia Efstathiou |
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8:41.65 | |
29 | 1 | 4 | Au Hoishun Stephanie |
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8:41.66 | |
30 | 2 | 8 | Lynette Lim | ![]() |
8:45.56 | |
31 | 2 | 2 | Cecilia Biagioli | ![]() |
8:50.18 | |
32 | 1 | 5 | Golda Marcus | ![]() |
8:51.21 | |
33 | 1 | 3 | Eva Lehtonen | ![]() |
8:53.50 | |
34 | 2 | 7 | Khoo Cai Lin | ![]() |
9:04.86 | |
35 | 1 | 6 | Karolina Szczepaniak | ![]() |
9:08.87 | |
3 | 2 | Federica Pellegrini | ![]() |
DNS |
Final
Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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4 | Rebecca Adlington | ![]() |
8:14.10 | WR |
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6 | Alessia Filippi | ![]() |
8:20.23 | |
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3 | Lotte Friis | ![]() |
8:23.03 | |
4 | 5 | Camelia Potec | ![]() |
8:23.11 | |
5 | 1 | Li Xuanxu | ![]() |
8:26.34 | |
6 | 2 | Kylie Palmer | ![]() |
8:26.39 | |
7 | 7 | Yelena Sokolova |
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8:29.79 | |
8 | 8 | Cassandra Patten |
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8:32.35 |
References
- ^ "Olympic Swimming Schedule". USA Today. 9 August 2008. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
- ^ Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the originalon 2 May 2012. Retrieved 19 May 2013.
- ^ "Adlington storms to second gold". BBC Sport. 16 August 2008. Retrieved 19 May 2013.
- ^ Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the originalon 2 May 2012. Retrieved 19 May 2013.
- Swimming World and Junior Swimmer. 30 (10): 41–44. Retrieved 8 June 2008.[permanent dead link]