Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre butterfly

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Women's 200 metre butterfly
at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Venue Beijing National Aquatics Center
DateAugust 12, 2008 (heats)
August 13, 2008 (semifinals)
August 14, 2008 (final)
Competitors36 from 28 nations
Winning time2:04.18 WR
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Liu Zige Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China
Silver medal icon.svg Jiao Liuyang Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China
Bronze medal icon.svg Jessicah Schipper Flag of Australia.svg  Australia
  2004
2012  

The women's 200 metre butterfly event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on 12–14 August at the Beijing National Aquatics Center in Beijing, China. [1]

In front of a large home crowd inside the Water Cube, Liu Zige powered past the entire field to capture a first gold medal for the host nation in swimming. She set a new world record of 2:04.18 to cut off a 1.32-second standard set by Australia's Jessicah Schipper at the 2006 Pan Pacific Championships in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. She also enjoyed her teammate Jiao Liuyang handing an entire medal haul for China with a one–two finish. Jiao earned a silver medal as she overhauled Schipper on the final lap, and touched the wall in 2:04.72. [2] [3] Meanwhile, Schipper added a second bronze to her hardware from the 100 m butterfly, outside the record time of 2:06.26. [4]

Poland's Otylia Jędrzejczak, the defending Olympic champion, finished outside the medals in fourth place at 2:07.02. Having won a bronze medal from Athens four years earlier, Japan's Yuko Nakanishi earned a fifth spot in 2:07.32, holding off France's Aurore Mongel (2:07.36) to sixth by four hundredths of a second (0.04). Americans Elaine Breeden (2:07.57) and Kathleen Hersey (2:08.23) closed out the field. [4] [5]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World recordFlag of Australia (converted).svg  Jessicah Schipper  (AUS)2:05.40 Victoria, Canada 17 August 2006 [6]
Olympic recordFlag of the United States.svg  Misty Hyman  (USA)2:05.88 Sydney, Australia 20 September 2000-

The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.

DateEventNameNationalityTimeRecord
August 14Final Liu Zige Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 2:04.18 WR

Results

Heats

RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
132 Liu Zige Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 2:06.46Q
255 Aurore Mongel Flag of France.svg  France 2:06.49Q, NR
334 Yuko Nakanishi Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 2:06.62Q
456 Jiao Liuyang Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 2:06.89Q
554 Otylia Jędrzejczak Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 2:06.91Q
636 Natsumi Hoshi Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 2:07.02Q
746 Kathleen Hersey Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2:07.65Q
847 Micha Østergaard Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark 2:07.77Q, NR
953 Elaine Breeden Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2:07.92Q
1045 Jemma Lowe Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 2:08.07Q
1144 Jessicah Schipper Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 2:08.11Q
1243 Audrey Lacroix Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 2:08.54Q
1352 Samantha Hamill Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 2:08.83Q
1448 Petra Granlund Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 2:08.97Q
1542 Ellen Gandy Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 2:08.98Q
1626 Kathryn Meaklim Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 2:09.41Q, AF
1724 Nina Dittrich Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 2:09.85 NR
1857 Beatrix Boulsevicz Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 2:10.00
1925 Sara Oliveira Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 2:10.14 NR
2038 Stephanie Horner Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 2:10.33
2137 Paola Cavallino Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 2:10.46
2258 Joanna Melo Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 2:10.64
2351 Choi Hye-ra Flag of South Korea (1997-2011).svg  South Korea 2:11.42
2428 Tetyana Khala Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 2:12.16
2541 Yana Martynova Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 2:12.47
2627 Tao Li Flag of Singapore.svg  Singapore 2:12.63 NR
2735 Emese Kovács Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 2:12.73
2831 Magali Rousseau Flag of France.svg  France 2:13.12
2922 Yang Chin-Kuei Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg  Chinese Taipei 2:13.26
3015 Eleftheria Evgenia Efstathiou Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 2:13.27
3121 Denisa Smolenová Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia 2:13.81
3216 Gülşah Günenç Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey 2:14.44 NR
3314 Ingvild Snildal Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 2:14.53
3413 Kristina Lennox-Silva Flag of Puerto Rico.svg  Puerto Rico 2:17.27
23 Georgina Bardach Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina DNS
33 Sara Isakovič Flag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia DNS

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
15 Jiao Liuyang Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 2:06.42Q
24 Aurore Mongel Flag of France.svg  France 2:07.21Q
32 Jemma Lowe Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 2:07.87
43 Natsumi Hoshi Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 2:07.93
56 Micha Østergaard Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark 2:09.29
67 Audrey Lacroix Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 2:09.74
71 Petra Granlund Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 2:09.79
88 Kathryn Meaklim Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 2:11.74

Semifinal 2

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
14 Liu Zige Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 2:06.25Q, AS
27 Jessicah Schipper Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 2:06.34Q
33 Otylia Jędrzejczak Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 2:06.78Q
45 Yuko Nakanishi Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 2:06.96Q
6 Kathleen Hersey Flag of the United States.svg  United States Q
62 Elaine Breeden Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2:07.73Q
71 Samantha Hamill Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 2:09.58
88 Ellen Gandy Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 2:10.60

Final

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg4 Liu Zige Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 2:04.18 WR
Silver medal icon.svg3 Jiao Liuyang Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 2:04.72
Bronze medal icon.svg5 Jessicah Schipper Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 2:06.26
46 Otylia Jędrzejczak Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 2:07.02
52 Yuko Nakanishi Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 2:07.32
61 Aurore Mongel Flag of France.svg  France 2:07.36
78 Elaine Breeden Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2:07.57
87 Kathleen Hersey Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2:08.23

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