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

Women's 100 metre butterfly at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Competitors	49
Medalists
Lisbeth Trickett   Australia   Christine Magnuson   United States   Jessicah Schipper   Australia
«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 butterfly event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on 9–11 August at the Beijing National Aquatics Center. This swimming event used the butterfly stroke. 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 59.35 seconds (A norm) and 1:01.43 (B norm). Nations 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 1 Records 2 Heats 3 Semifinals 4 Final 5 References

Records

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

World record	Inge de Bruijn (NED)	56.61	Sydney, Australia	17 September 2000	[1]
Olympic record	Inge de Bruijn (NED)	56.61	Sydney, Australia	17 September 2000	[1]

No new world or Olympic records were set for this event.

Heats

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Heat	Lane	Notes
1	Jessicah Schipper	Australia	0:57.58	6	4	Q
2	Christine Magnuson	United States	0:57.70	5	4	Q
2	Zhou Yafei	China	0:57.70	6	3	Q (AS*)
4	Tao Li	Singapore	0:57.77	4	5	Q, AS
5	Gabriella Silva	Brazil	0:58.00	5	8	Q
6	Elaine Breeden	United States	0:58.06	5	5	Q
7	Ilaria Bianchi	Italy	0:58.12	4	1	Q
8	Lize-Mari Retief	South Africa	0:58.20	5	1	Q, AF
9	Inge Dekker	Netherlands	0:58.22	6	5	Q
10	Aurore Mongel	France	0:58.30	7	7	Q
11	Natalya Sutyagina	Russia	0:58.32	5	6	Q
12	Lisbeth Trickett	Australia	0:58.37	7	4	Q
13	Eszter Dara	Hungary	0:58.39	6	2	Q
14	Alena Popchanka	France	0:58.40	7	2	Q
15	Jeanette Ottesen	Denmark	0:58.44	5	3	Q
16	Jemma Lowe	Great Britain	0:58.49	7	5	Q
17	Otylia Jędrzejczak	Poland	0:58.53	4	6
.18.	Mandy Loots	South Africa	0:58.61	4	2	AF
.18.	Yuko Nakanishi	Japan	0:58.61	5	2
20	Sara Isakovič	Slovenia	0:58.68	4	4
21	Francesca Halsall	Great Britain	0:58.70	7	3
22	Irina Bespalova	Russia	0:58.92	6	6
23	Yuka Kato	Japan	0:58.94	6	7
24	Kateryna Zubkova	Ukraine	0:58.99	4	3
25	Martina Moravcová	Slovakia	0:59.03	6	1
26	Birgit Koschischek	Austria	0:59.07	3	4	NR
27	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	0:59.08	7	6
28	Audrey Lacroix	Canada	0:59:10	4	8
28	Micha Kathrine Østergaard Jensen	Denmark	0:59.10	6	8
30	Hannah Jane Arnett Wilson	Hong Kong	0:59.35	3	1
30	Chantal Groot	Netherlands	0:59.35	5	7
32	Triin Aljand	Estonia	0:59.43	2	4	NR
32	Yanwei Xu	China	0:59.43	7	8
34	Daynara de Paula	Brazil	0:59.45	4	7
35	Sara Oliveira	Portugal	0:59.48	3	6
36	Anna Gostomelsky	Israel	0:59.50	3	5	PB
37	Ingvild Snildal	Norway	0:59.86	3	2
38	Carolina Colorado	Colombia	1:00.06	3	7
39	Daniela Samulski	Germany	1:00.37	7	1
40	Choi Hye-Ra	South Korea	1:00.65	2	5
41	Eirini Kavarnou	Greece	1:00.74	3	3
42	Heather Brand	Zimbabwe	1:01.39	3	8
43	Chin-Kuei Yang	Chinese Taipei	1:01.60	2	6
44	Iris Rosenberger	Turkey	1:01.67	2	3
45	Natallia Hadjiloizou	Cyprus	1:01.80	2	2
46	Emilia Pikkarainen	Finland	1:02.31	2	7
47	Binta Zahra Diop	Senegal	1:04.26	1	5
48	Antonella Scanavino	Uruguay	1:04.28	1	4
49	Simona Muccioli	San Marino	1:04.91	1	3

Q = Qualified to Semifinal (odd finishers to second heat; even finishers to first)

AS = Asian Record

AF = African Record (In parenthesis means new record at the time, but later on broken - With a *, that record were new but broken)

NR = National Record

PB = Personal Best

Semifinals

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Semifinal	Lane	Notes
1	Lisbeth Trickett	Australia	57.05	1	7	Q
2	Christine Magnuson	United States	57.08	1	4	Q, AM
3	Jessicah Schipper	Australia	57.43	2	4	Q
4	Tao Li	Singapore	57.54	1	5	Q, AS
5	Zhou Yafei	China	57.68	2	5	Q
6	Jemma Lowe	Great Britain	57.78	1	8	Q, NR
7	Inge Dekker	Netherlands	58.20	2	2	Q
8	Gabriella Silva	Brazil	58.39	2	3	Q
9	Aurore Mongel	France	58.46	1	2
10	Alena Popchanka	France	58.55	1	1
10	Elaine Breeden	United States	58.55	1	3
12	Lize-Mari Retief	South Africa	58.63	1	6
13	Eszter Dara	Hungary	58.84	2	1
14	Natalya Sutyagina	Russia	59.07	2	7
15	Jeanette Ottesen	Denmark	59.29	2	8
	Ilaria Bianchi	Italy	DSQ	2	6

AM = Americas Record | AS = Asian Record

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1 !	Lisbeth Trickett	Australia	56.73	OC
2 !	Christine Magnuson	United States	57.10
3 !	Jessicah Schipper	Australia	57.25
4	Zhou Yafei	China	57.84
5	Tao Li	Singapore	57.99
6	Jemma Lowe	Great Britain	58.06
7	Gabriella Silva	Brazil	58.10
8	Inge Dekker	Netherlands	58.54

OC = Oceania Record

References