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Beijing Olympics 2008 Swimming Events Schedules

Beijing Olympics

Medalists

Gold	Michael Phelps United States (USA)
Silver	Park Tae-Hwan South Korea (KOR)
Bronze	Peter Vanderkaay United States (USA)

Records

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

World Record	Michael Phelps (USA)	1:43.86	Melbourne, Australia	27 March 2007
Olympic Record	Ian Thorpe (AUS)	1:44.71	Athens, Greece	16 August 2004

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	8	2	Dominik Meichtry	Switzerland	1:45.80	Q
2	6	4	Jean Basson	South Africa	1:46.31	Q
3	6	2	Brent Hayden	Canada	1:46.40
4	8	4	Michael Phelps	United States	1:46.48	Q
5	6	3	Colin Russell	Canada	1:46.58	Q
6	8	5	Park Tae-Hwan	South Korea	1:46.73	Q
7	8	3	Danila Izotov	Russia	1:46.80	Q
8	8	7	Yoshihiro Okumura	Japan	1:46.89	Q
9	6	7	Emiliano Brembilla	Italy	1:47.04	Q
10	7	5	Paul Biedermann	Germany	1:47.09	Q
11	8	6	Ross Davenport	Great Britain	1:47.13	Q
12	7	4	Peter Vanderkaay	United States	1:47.39	Q
13	6	5	Amaury Leveaux	France	1:47.44
14	6	6	Nicholas Sprenger	Australia	1:47.64	Q
15	5	6	Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or	Israel	1:47.78	Q
16	8	1	Dominik Koll	Austria	1:47.81	Q
17	7	7	Robert Renwick	Great Britain	1:47.82	Q
18	6	1	Rodrigo Castro	Brazil	1:47.87	Q
19	6	8	Oussama Mellouli	Tunisia	1:47.97
20	7	3	Alexander Sukhorukov	Russia	1:47.97
21	5	5	Darian Townsend	South Africa	1:48.08
22	7	6	Kenrick Monk	Australia	1:48.17
23	5	1	Sergii Advena	Ukraine	1:48.18
24	5	4	Sho Uchida	Japan	1:48.34
25	7	8	Romans Miloslavskis	Latvia	1:48.41
26	5	2	Shaune Fraser	Cayman Islands	1:48.60
27	4	4	Gard Kvale	Norway	1:48.73
28	7	2	Massimiliano Rosolino	Italy	1:48.76
29	5	3	Andreas Zisimos	Greece	1:48.82
30	5	8	Glenn Surgeloose	Belgium	1:48.92
31	4	7	Jon Raahauge Rud	Denmark	1:48.96
32	3	5	Ryan Pini	Papua New Guinea	1:49.04
33	7	1	Enjian Zhang	China	1:49.15
34	8	8	Lukasz Gasior	Poland	1:49.25
35	4	5	Norbert Kovacs	Hungary	1:49.34
36	4	6	Martín Kutscher	Uruguay	1:49.61
37	3	1	Dominik Straga	Croatia	1:49.63
38	4	3	Christoffer Wikström	Sweden	1:49.84
39	5	7	Tiago Venancio	Portugal	1:50.24
40	3	7	Radovan Siljevski	Serbia	1:50.25
41	2	6	Bryan Tay	Singapore	1:50.41
42	3	3	Crox Ernesto Acuña Rodríguez	Venezuela	1:50.52
43	3	2	Julio César Galofre	Colombia	1:50.62
44	3	6	Daniel Bego	Malaysia	1:50.92
45	2	5	Vladimir Sidorkin	Estonia	1:51.27
46	4	2	Kvetoslav Svoboda	Czech Republic	1:51.67
47	3	8	Saulius Binevicius	Lithuania	1:51.80
48	4	8	Virdhawal Khade	India	1:51.86
49	4	1	Raphael Stacchiotti	Luxembourg	1:52.01
50	2	3	Mario Montoya	Costa Rica	1:52.19
51	2	4	Mahrez Mebarek	Algeria	1:52.66
52	1	4	Irakli Revishvili	Georgia	1:53.60
53	2	1	Ibrahim Nazarov	Uzbekistan	1:56.27
54	1	3	Mihajlo Ristovski	FYR Macedonia	1:57.45
55	2	7	Andrei Zaharov	Romania	1:58.62
56	1	5	Emanuele Nicolini	San Marino	1:59.47
57	3	4	Luka Turk	Slovenia	DNS

Semifinals

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	7	Peter Vanderkaay	United States	1:45.76	Q
2	2	3	Park Tae-Hwan	South Korea	1:45.99	Q, AS
3	1	4	Jean Basson	South Africa	1:46.13	Q
4	2	5	Michael Phelps	United States	1:46.28	Q
5	2	2	Paul Biedermann	Germany	1:46.41	Q
6	2	6	Yoshihiro Okumura	Japan	1:46.44	Q
7	2	4	Dominik Meichtry	Switzerland	1:46.54	Q
8	2	8	Robbie Renwick	Great Britain	1:47.07	Q
9	1	3	Danila Izotov	Russia	1:47.24
10	1	2	Ross Davenport	Great Britain	1:47.35
11	1	6	Emiliano Brembilla	Italy	1:47.70
12	1	7	Nicholas Sprenger	Australia	1:47.80
13	1	1	Dominik Koll	Austria	1:47.87
14	1	5	Colin Russell	Canada	1:48.13
15	2	1	Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or	Israel	1:48.16
16	1	8	Rodrigo Castro	Brazil	1:48.71

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction Time	Time				Notes
Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction Time	50m	100m	150m	200m	Notes
	6	Michael Phelps	United States	0.73(5)	24.31(1)	50.29(1) 25.98	1:16.84(1) 26.55	1:42.96 26.12	WR
	5	Park Tae-Hwan	South Korea					1:44.85	AS
	4	Peter Vanderkaay	United States					1:45.14
4	3	Jean Basson	South Africa					1:45.97
5	2	Paul Biedermann	Germany					1:46.00
6	1	Dominik Meichtry	Switzerland					1:46.95
7	7	Yoshihiro Okumura	Japan					1:47.14
8	8	Robbie Renwick	Great Britain					1:47.47