Women's 100 metre butterfly at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Beijing National Aquatics Center | ||||||||||||
Date | August 9, 2008 (heats) August 10, 2008 (semifinals) August 11, 2008 (final) | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 49 from 38 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 56.73 OC | ||||||||||||
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 100 metre butterfly event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on 9–11 August at the Beijing National Aquatics Center in Beijing, China. [1]
Top favorite Lisbeth Trickett powered past the entire field to earn Australia's second straight gold in the event. She posted a lifetime best of 56.73, just 0.12 of a second outside the world record set by Dutch swimmer Inge de Bruijn at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. [2] [3] U.S. swimmer Christine Magnuson took home the silver in 57.10, while Trickett's teammate Jessicah Schipper picked up the bronze in 57.25, handing an entire medal haul for the Aussies in the pool. [4]
China's Zhou Yafei finished fourth with a time of 57.84, while Tao Li made a historic milestone for Singapore as she became the nation's first ever swimmer to reach an Olympic final, earning a fifth spot in 57.99. [5] Meanwhile, Great Britain's Jemma Lowe (58.06), Brazil's Gabriella Silva (58.10), and Netherlands' Inge Dekker (58.54) closed out the field. [4]
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
World record | Inge de Bruijn (NED) | 56.61 | Sydney, Australia | 17 September 2000 | [6] |
Olympic record | Inge de Bruijn (NED) | 56.61 | Sydney, Australia | 17 September 2000 | [6] |
Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | 7 | Lisbeth Trickett | Australia | 57.05 | Q |
2 | 4 | Christine Magnuson | United States | 57.08 | Q, AM |
3 | 5 | Tao Li | Singapore | 57.54 | Q, AS |
4 | 8 | Jemma Lowe | Great Britain | 57.78 | Q, NR |
5 | 2 | Aurore Mongel | France | 58.46 | |
6 | 1 | Alena Popchanka | France | 58.55 | |
3 | Elaine Breeden | United States | |||
8 | 6 | Lize-Mari Retief | South Africa | 58.63 |
Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | 4 | Jessicah Schipper | Australia | 57.43 | Q |
2 | 5 | Zhou Yafei | China | 57.68 | Q |
3 | 2 | Inge Dekker | Netherlands | 58.20 | Q |
4 | 3 | Gabriella Silva | Brazil | 58.39 | Q |
5 | 1 | Eszter Dara | Hungary | 58.84 | |
6 | 7 | Natalya Sutyagina | Russia | 59.07 | |
7 | 8 | Jeanette Ottesen | Denmark | 59.29 | |
6 | Ilaria Bianchi | Italy | DSQ |
Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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4 | Lisbeth Trickett | Australia | 56.73 | OC | |
5 | Christine Magnuson | United States | 57.10 | ||
3 | Jessicah Schipper | Australia | 57.25 | ||
4 | 2 | Zhou Yafei | China | 57.84 | |
5 | 6 | Tao Li | Singapore | 57.99 | |
6 | 7 | Jemma Lowe | Great Britain | 58.06 | |
7 | 8 | Gabriella Silva | Brazil | 58.10 | |
8 | 1 | Inge Dekker | Netherlands | 58.54 |
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