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Beijing Olympics 2008 Swimming Events Schedules

Beijing Olympics

Medalists

Gold	Britta Steffen Germany (GER)
Silver	Lisbeth Trickett Australia (AUS)
Bronze	Natalie Coughlin United States (USA)

Records

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

World Record	Libby Trickett (AUS)	52.88	Sydney, Australia	27 March 2008
Olympic Record	Jodie Henry (AUS)	53.52	Athens, Greece	18 August 2004

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	3	Hanna-Maria Seppala	Finland	53.60	Q
2	6	4	Britta Steffen	Germany	53.67	Q
3	6	5	Marleen Veldhuis	Netherlands	53.76	Q
4	7	5	Natalie Coughlin	United States	53.82	Q
5	5	6	Francesca Halsall	Great Britain	53.93	Q
6	7	4	Lisbeth Trickett	Australia	53.99	Q
7	6	6	Pang Jiaying	China	54.01	Q
8	7	7	Zhu Yingwen	China	54.01	Q
9	4	5	Jeanette Ottesen	Denmark	54.04	Q
10	6	2	Josefin Lillhage	Sweden	54.07	Q
11	7	3	Malia Metella	France	54.12	Q
12	5	7	Aleksandra Gerasimenya	Belarus	54.52	Q
13	5	4	Cate Campbell	Australia	54.55	Q
14	5	3	Lacey Nymeyer	United States	54.62	Q
15	7	6	Erica Morningstar	Canada	54.66	Q
16	6	7	Petra Dallmann	Germany	54.70	Q
17	7	1	Julia Wilkinson	Canada	54.70
18	5	2	Alena Popchanka	France	54.86
19	7	8	Tatiana Barbosa	Brazil	55.01
20	6	1	Agata Ewa Korc	Poland	55.14
21	6	8	Lize-Mari Retief	South Africa	55.17
22	4	3	Anna Gostomelsky	Israel	55.18
23	5	1	Martina Moravcova	Slovakia	55.20
24	5	5	Inge Dekker	Netherlands	55.23
25	4	4	Anastasia Aksenova	Russia	55.29
26	3	3	Hannah Wilson	Hong Kong, China	55.32
27	4	8	Darya Stepanyuk	Ukraine	55.51
28	3	4	Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace	Bahamas	55.61
29	3	2	Birgit Koschischek	Austria	55.62
30	4	8	Arlene Semeco	Venezuela	55.70
31	5	8	Jana Klusackova	Czech Republic	55.92
32	3	1	Chang Heejin	South Korea	55.96
33	4	7	Triin Aljand	Estonia	56.10
34	2	5	Quah Ting Wen	Singapore	56.14
35	3	5	Ragnheidur Ragnarsdottir	Iceland	56.35
36	3	8	Anna Stylianou	Cyprus	56.38
37	3	7	Eleni Kosti	Greece	56.44
38	4	1	Miroslava Najdanovski	Serbia	56.50
39	2	6	Natthanan Junkrajang	Thailand	56.56
40	2	4	Orsolya Tompa	Hungary	56.57
41	2	7	Christel Simms	Philippines	56.67
42	4	6	Maria Laura Simonetto	Italy	56.72
43	2	3	Nieh Pin-Chieh	Chinese Taipei	57.28
44	3	6	Nina Sovinek	Slovenia	57.30
45	1	4	Madeleine Scerri	Malta	57.97
46	2	2	Irina Shlemova	Uzbekistan	58.77
47	1	5	Elena Poppovska	FYR Macedonia	59.93
48	1	6	Olga Hachatryan	Turkmenistan	1:14.77
NC	7	2	Caitlin McClatchey	Great Britain	DNS

Semifinals

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Time	Notes
1	1	5	Natalie Coughlin (USA)	53.70	Q
2	2	5	Marleen Veldhuis (NED)	53.81	Q
3	1	6	Yingwen Zhu (CHN)	53.84	Q, AS
4	2	4	Hanna-Maria Seppala (FIN)	53.84	Q
5	2	3	Francesca Halsall (GBR)	53.94	Q
6	1	4	Britta Steffen (GER)	53.96	Q
7	2	2	Jeanette Ottesen (DEN)	54.05	Q
8	1	3	Lisbeth Trickett (AUS)	54.10	Q
9	2	7	Malia Metella (FRA)	54.20
10	2	1	Cate Campbell (AUS)	54.54
11	1	2	Josefin Lillhage (SWE)	54.59
12	1	1	Lacey Nymeyer (USA)	54.74
13	1	8	Petra Dallmann (GER)	55.05
14	1	7	Aleksandra Gerasimenya (BLR)	55.31
15	2	8	Erica Morningstar (CAN)	55.36
16	2	6	Jiaying Pang (CHN)	DSQ

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	7	Britta Steffen	Germany	53.12	OR
2	8	Lisbeth Trickett	Australia	53.16
3	4	Natalie Coughlin	United States	53.39	AM
4	6	Hanna-Maria Seppala	Finland	53.97
5	1	Jeanette Ottesen	Denmark	54.06
6	3	Yingwen Zhu	China	54.21
6	5	Marleen Veldhuis	Netherlands	54.21
8	2	Francesca Halsall	Great Britain	54.29