Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Event Order

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The schedule of swimming events at the 2008 Summer Olympics occurred in two segments:

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For the pool events, prelims were held in the evening, with semifinals/final in the following morning session, with a day between semifinals and finals in those events with semifinals. The shift of the normal morning preliminary heats and evening finals (to evening prelims and morning finals) occurred for the 2008 Olympics due to a request made by USA's broadcaster NBC, so that the finals from the event could be shown "live" in the USA. (Live ended up being 11:00 p.m.-midnight on the East Coast; with a tape delay to the same time for the West Coast.)

Pool schedule

dateMorning session
Semifinals & Finals
(10:00 a.m. local time)
Evening session
Preliminary heats
(6:30 p.m. local time)
Saturday
August 9
no sessionmen's 400 I.M. (prelims)
women's 100 butterfly (prelims)
men's 400 freestyle (prelims)
women's 400 I.M. (prelims)
men's 100 breaststroke (prelims)
women's 4x100 Free Relay (prelims)
Sunday
August 10
men's 400 I.M. (final)
women's 100 butterfly (semifinals)
men's 400 freestyle (final)
women's 400 I.M. (final)
men's 100 breaststroke (semifinals)
women's 4x100 Free Relay (final)
women's 100 backstroke (prelims)
men's 200 freestyle (prelims)
women's 100 breaststroke (prelims)
men's 100 backstroke (prelims)
women's 400 freestyle (prelims)
men's 4x100 Free Relay (prelims)
Monday
August 11
women's 100 backstroke (semifinals)
men's 200 freestyle (semifinals)
women's 100 butterfly (final)
men's 100 breaststroke (final)
women's 100 breaststroke (semifinals)
men's 100 backstroke (semifinals)
women's 400 freestyle (final)
men's 4x100 Free Relay (final)
women's 200 freestyle (prelims)
men's 200 butterfly (prelims)
women's 200 I.M.(prelims)
Tuesday
August 12
women's 200 freestyle (semifinals)
men's 200 freestyle (final)
women's 100 backstroke (final)
men's 100 backstroke (final)
women's 100 breaststroke (final)
men's 200 butterfly (semifinals)
women's 200 I.M.(semifinals & swim-off)
men's 100 freestyle (prelims)
women's 200 butterfly (prelims)
men's 200 breaststroke (prelims)
men's 4x200 Free Relay (prelims)
Wednesday
August 13
men's 100 freestyle (semifinals)
women's 200 freestyle (final)
men's 200 butterfly (final)
women's 200 butterfly (semifinals)
men's 200 breaststroke (semifinals)
women's 200 I.M. (final)
men's 4x200 Free Relay (final)
women's 100 freestyle (prelims)
men's 200 backstroke (prelims)
women's 200 breaststroke (prelims)
men's 200 I.M. (prelims)
women's 4x200 Free Relay (prelims)
Thursday
August 14
men's 200 breaststroke (final)
women's 100 freestyle (semifinals)
men's 200 backstroke (semifinals)
women's 200 butterfly (final)
men's 100 freestyle (final)
women's 200 breaststroke (semifinals)
men's 200 I.M. (semifinals)
women's 4x200 Free Relay (final)
men's 50 freestyle (prelims)
women's 800 freestyle (prelims)
men's 100 butterfly (prelims)
women's 200 backstroke (prelims)
Friday
August 15
men's 50 freestyle (semifinals)
women's 200 breaststroke (final)
men's 200 backstroke (final)
women's 200 backstroke (semifinals)
men's 200 I.M. (final)
women's 100 freestyle (final)
men's 100 butterfly (semifinals)
women's 50 freestyle (prelims)
men's 1500 freestyle (prelims)
women's 4×100 medley relay (prelims)
men's 4×100 medley relay (prelims)
Saturday
August 16
women's 200 backstroke (final)
men's 100 butterfly (final)
women's 800 freestyle (final)
men's 50 freestyle (final)
women's 50 freestyle (semifinals)
no session
(all preliminary heats completed)
Sunday
August 17
women's 50 free (final)
men's 1500 freestyle (final)
women's 4×100 medley relay (final)
men's 4×100 medley relay (final)
no session
(all events concluded)

Open Water schedule

dateEvent
(9:00 a.m. local time)
Wednesday
August 20
Women's Marathon 10K
Thursday
August 21
Men's Marathon 10K

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