Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre breaststroke

Women's 100 metre breaststroke
at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad

Leisel Jones
Competitors 49
Medalists
  Leisel Jones   Australia
  Rebecca Soni   United States
  Mirna Jukić   Austria
«2004 2012»
Swimming events at the
2008 Summer Olympics
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 breaststroke event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on 10-12 August at the Beijing National Aquatics Center. This swimming event used the breaststroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of two lengths of the pool.

Seven heats were held, with most containing the maximum number of swimmers (eight). The heat in which a swimmer competed did not formally matter for advancement, as the swimmers with the top sixteen times from the entire field qualified for the semifinals. Two semifinal heats of eight swimmers each were held. The swimmers with the eight fastest times again advanced to the finals; there, they all competed in a single final heat to earn final placements.

The qualifying standards were for the 2008 event were 1:09.00 (A norm) and 1:11.43 (B norm). NOCs with two or more swimmers meeting the A standard could enter any two such swimmers; otherwise, they could enter a single swimmer meeting the B standard.

Contents

Records

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

World record  Leisel Jones (AUS) 1:05.09 Melbourne, Australia 20 March 2006 [1]
Olympic record  Luo Xuejuan (CHN) 1:06.64 Athens, Greece 16 August 2004 -

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

Date Event Name Nationality Time OR WR
August 10 Heat 7 Leisel Jones Australia 1:05.64 OR
August 12 Final Leisel Jones Australia 1:05.17 OR

Schedule

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+8)

Date Time Round
Sunday, August 10, 2008 19:25-19:45 Heats
Monday, August 11, 2008 10:35-10:45 Semifinals
Tuesday, August 12, 2008 10:23 Final

Heats

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 7 4 Leisel Jones Australia 1:05.64 Q, OR
2 7 3 Yuliya Yefimova Russia 1:06.08 Q, ER
3 5 6 Mirna Jukić Austria 1:07.06 Q
4 5 4 Rebecca Soni United States 1:07.44 Q
5 7 1 Suzaan van Biljon South Africa 1:07.55 Q
6 6 1 Sun Ye China 1:07.81 Q
7 6 4 Tarnee White Australia 1:07.83 Q
8 7 6 Joline Höstman‎ Sweden 1:07.91 Q
9 7 5 Megan Jendrick United States 1:08.07 Q
10 5 7 Jillian Tyler Canada 1:08.13 Q
11 6 3 Kate Haywood Great Britain 1:08.18 Q
12 5 2 Chen Huijia China 1:08.24 Q
13 5 3 Annamay Pierse Canada 1:08.25 Q
14 6 2 Kirsty Balfour Great Britain 1:08.30 Q
15 5 1 Asami Kitagawa Japan 1:08.36 Q
16 7 8 Elise Matthysen Belgium 1:08.37 Q, NR
17 6 6 Mequmi Taneda Japan 1:08.45
18 7 2 Elena Bogomazova Russia 1:08.63
19 3 2 Sara Elbekri Morocco 1:08.66
20 6 5 Sarah Poewe Germany 1:08.69
21 6 7 Hanna Westrin Sweden 1:08.80
22 4 4 Roberta Panara Italy 1:08.90
23 4 5 Jung Seulki South Korea 1:09.26
24 6 8 Yuliya Pidlisna Ukraine 1:09.72
25 5 5 Anna Khlistunova Ukraine 1:09.95
26 4 2 Diana Gomes Portugal 1:10.02
27 4 3 Inna Kapishina Belarus 1:10.15
28 4 1 Dilara Buse Gunaydin Turkey 1:10.45
29 5 8 Sophie de Ronchi France 1:10.46
30 4 6 Angeliki Exarchou Greece 1:10.47
31 3 6 Adriana Marmolejo Mexico 1:10.73
32 4 7 Nicolette Teo Singapore 1:10.76
33 3 3 Smiljana Marinović Croatia 1:10.94
34 2 4 Yekaterina Sadovnik Kazakhstan 1:11.14
35 4 8 Jolijn van Valkengoed Netherlands 1:11.26
36 7 7 Sonja Schober Germany 1:11.36
37 3 4 Liliana Eugenia Guiscardo Argentina 1:11.43
38 2 5 Valeria Silva Peru 1:11.64 NR
39 3 8 Tatiane Sakemi Brazil 1:11.75
40 3 5 Erla Dogg Haraldsdottir Iceland 1:11.78
41 3 1 Reka Pecz Hungary 1:12.17
42 2 6 Danielle Beaubrun Saint Lucia 1:12.85
43 3 7 Nadja Higl Serbia 1:13.19
44 2 3 Mayumi Raheem Sri Lanka 1:15.33
45 2 2 Nibal Yamout Lebanon 1:16.17
46 2 7 Oksana Hatamkhanova Azerbaijan 1:20.22
47 1 5 Asmahan Farhat Libya 1:21.68
48 1 4 Ann Salnikova Georgia 1:21.70
49 1 3 Mariam Pauline Keita Mali 1:24.26

Semifinals

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 2 4 Leisel Jones Australia 0:1:05.80 Q
2 1 5 Rebecca Soni United States 0:1:07.07 Q
3 2 5 Mirna Jukić Austria 0:1:07.27 Q
4 2 6 Tarnee White Australia 0:1:07.48 Q
5 1 4 Yuliya Yefimova Russia 1:07.50 Q
6 1 3 Sun Ye China 1:07.72 Q
7 2 2 Megan Jendrick United States 1:08.07 Q
8 2 8 Asami Kitagawa Japan 1:08.23 Q
9 1 6 Joline Höstman‎ Sweden 1:08.26
10 2 1 Annamay Pierse Canada 1:08.27
11 2 7 Kate Haywood Great Britain 1:08.36
12 1 7 Chen Huijia China 1:08.60
13 1 2 Jillian Tyler Canada 1:09.00
13 1 8 Elise Matthysen Belgium 1:09.00
15 1 1 Kirsty Balfour Great Britain 1:09.23
16 2 3 Suzaan van Biljon South Africa 1:09.56

Final

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
4 Leisel Jones Australia 1:05.17 OR
5 Rebecca Soni United States 1:06.73
3 Mirna Jukić Austria 1:07.34
4 2 Yuliya Yefimova Russia 1:07.43
5 1 Megan Jendrick United States 1:07.62
6 6 Tarnee White Australia 1:07.63
7 7 Sun Ye China 1:08.08
8 8 Asami Kitagawa Japan 1:08.43

References

  1. ^ Wilson, Caroline (2006-03-21). "Lethal Leisel". The Age. http://www.theage.com.au/news/swimming/lethal-leisel/2006/03/20/1142703290137.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1. Retrieved 2008-08-06.