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
Date August 12, 2008 (heats)
August 13, 2008 (semifinals)
August 14, 2008 (final)
Competitors 36 from 28 nations
Winning time 2:04.18 WR
Medalists
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1st Liu Zige  China
2nd Jiao Liuyang  China
3rd Jessicah Schipper  Australia
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Swimming events at the
2008 Summer Olympics
Sample picture of the event (unofficial)
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 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 record  Jessicah Schipper (AUS) 2:05.40 Victoria, Canada 17 August 2006 [6]
Olympic record  Misty Hyman (USA) 2:05.88 Sydney, Australia 20 September 2000 -

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

Date Event Name Nationality Time Record
August 14 Final Liu Zige  China 2:04.18 WR

Results

Heats

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 3 2 Liu Zige  China 2:06.46 Q
2 5 5 Aurore Mongel  France 2:06.49 Q, NR
3 3 4 Yuko Nakanishi  Japan 2:06.62 Q
4 5 6 Jiao Liuyang  China 2:06.89 Q
5 5 4 Otylia Jędrzejczak  Poland 2:06.91 Q
6 3 6 Natsumi Hoshi  Japan 2:07.02 Q
7 4 6 Kathleen Hersey  United States 2:07.65 Q
8 4 7 Micha Kathrine Østergaard Jensen  Denmark 2:07.77 Q, NR
9 5 3 Elaine Breeden  United States 2:07.92 Q
10 4 5 Jemma Lowe  Great Britain 2:08.07 Q
11 4 4 Jessicah Schipper  Australia 2:08.11 Q
12 4 3 Audrey Lacroix  Canada 2:08.54 Q
13 5 2 Samantha Hamill  Australia 2:08.83 Q
14 4 8 Petra Granlund  Sweden 2:08.97 Q
15 4 2 Ellen Gandy  Great Britain 2:08.98 Q
16 2 6 Kathryn Meaklim  South Africa 2:09.41 Q, AF
17 2 4 Nina Dittrich  Austria 2:09.85 NR
18 5 7 Beatrix Boulsevicz  Hungary 2:10.00
19 2 5 Sara Oliveira  Portugal 2:10.14 NR
20 3 8 Stephanie Horner  Canada 2:10.33
21 3 7 Paola Cavallino  Italy 2:10.46
22 5 8 Joanna Melo  Brazil 2:10.64
23 5 1 Choi Hye-Ra 23x15px South Korea 2:11.42
24 2 8 Tetyana Khala  Ukraine 2:12.16
25 4 1 Yana Martynova  Russia 2:12.47
26 2 7 Tao Li  Singapore 2:12.63 NR
27 3 5 Emese Kovács  Hungary 2:12.73
28 3 1 Magali Rousseau  France 2:13.12
29 2 2 Yang Chin-Kuei  Chinese Taipei 2:13.26
30 1 5 Eleftheria Evgenia Efstathiou  Greece 2:13.27
31 2 1 Denisa Smolenová  Slovakia 2:13.81
32 1 6 Gülşah Günenç  Turkey 2:14.44 NR
33 1 4 Ingvild Snildal  Norway 2:14.53
34 1 3 Kristina Lennox-Silva  Puerto Rico 2:17.27
2 3 Georgina Bardach  Argentina DNS
3 3 Sara Isakovič  Slovenia DNS

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 5 Jiao Liuyang  China 2:06.42 Q
2 4 Aurore Mongel  France 2:07.21 Q
3 2 Jemma Lowe  Great Britain 2:07.87
4 3 Natsumi Hoshi  Japan 2:07.93
5 6 Micha Kathrine Østergaard Jensen  Denmark 2:09.29
6 7 Audrey Lacroix  Canada 2:09.74
7 1 Petra Granlund  Sweden 2:09.79
8 8 Kathryn Meaklim  South Africa 2:11.74

Semifinal 2

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 Liu Zige  China 2:06.25 Q, AS
2 7 Jessicah Schipper  Australia 2:06.34 Q
3 3 Otylia Jędrzejczak  Poland 2:06.78 Q
4 5 Yuko Nakanishi  Japan 2:06.96 Q
4 6 Kathleen Hersey  United States 2:06.96 Q
6 2 Elaine Breeden  United States 2:07.73 Q
7 1 Samantha Hamill  Australia 2:09.58
8 8 Ellen Gandy  Great Britain 2:10.60

Final

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1st 4 Liu Zige  China 2:04.18 WR
2nd 3 Jiao Liuyang  China 2:04.72
3rd 5 Jessicah Schipper  Australia 2:06.26
4 6 Otylia Jędrzejczak  Poland 2:07.02
5 2 Yuko Nakanishi  Japan 2:07.32
6 1 Aurore Mongel  France 2:07.36
7 8 Elaine Breeden  United States 2:07.57
8 7 Kathleen Hersey  United States 2:08.23

References

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