| Women's 4 x 100 metre freestyle relay at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad |
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| Competitors | TBD |
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| Medalists | |
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| Swimming events at the 2008 Summer Olympics |
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| 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 4×100 metre freestyle relay event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on 9th (qualification) and 10 August (final) at the Beijing National Aquatics Centre. This swimming event used freestyle as a relay, with swimmers typically using the front crawl. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, each of the four swimmers completed two lengths of the pool. The first swimmer had to touch the wall before the second could leave the starting block; timing of the starts was thus important.
Two heats were held, with each containing the maximum number of teams (eight). The heat in which a team competed did not formally matter for advancement, as the teams with the top eight times from the entire field qualified for the final; there, they all competed in a single final heat to earn final placements. A team could use different swimmers in the final than had swum in the heats.
There were 16 NOCs competing at this event. These 16 NOCs consisted on the 12 best placed teams at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships plus the 4 best times after the qualifying period.
* Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.
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Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
| World record | Netherlands (NED) Inge Dekker Ranomi Kromowidjojo Femke Heemskerk Marleen Veldhuis |
3:33.62 53.77 53.61 53.62 52.62 |
Eindhoven,Netherlands | 18 March 2008 | [1] |
| Olympic record | Australia (AUS) Alice Mills Libby Lenton Petria Thomas Jodie Henry |
3:35.94 54.75 53.57 54.67 52.95 |
Athens,Greece | 14 August 2004 | - |
The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.
| Date | Event | Name | Nationality | Time | OR | WR |
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| August 10 | Final | Inge Dekker Ranomi Kromowidjojo Femke Heemskerk Marleen Veldhuis |
Netherlands | 3:33.76 | OR |
Also, in the final race of this event, Britta Steffen of Germany set a new women's 100 metre freestyle Olympic record of 53.38 as the lead-off swimmer for Germany. Later, in the individual event, she lowered this record to 53.12 in winning the gold in the final.
| Rank | Lane | Names | Time | Notes |
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| 1 | 3 | China Zhu Yingwen | Tang Yi | Xu Yanwei | Pang Jiaying |
3:36.78 54.53 / 54.29 55.13 / 52.83 |
Q, AS |
| 2 | 5 | Germany Meike Freitag | Antje Buschschulte | Daniela Götz | Britta Steffen |
3:37.52 54.53 / 54.29 54.54 / 54.16 |
Q |
| 3 | 4 | Australia Cate Campbell | Alice Mills | Melanie Schlanger | Shayne Reese |
3:37.81 54.65 / 54.55 54.69 / 53.92 |
Q |
| 4 | 6 | Great Britain Francesca Halsall | Caitlin McClatchey | Julia Beckett | Melanie Marshall |
3:39.18 54.36 / 54.42 55.64 / 54.76 |
Q, NR |
| 5 | 1 | Japan Haruka Ueda | Misaki Yamaguchi | Asami Kitagawa | Maki Mita |
3:39.25 55.13 / 54.14 54.47 / 55.51 |
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| 6 | 8 | Italy Erika Ferraioli | Federica Pellegrini | Maria Laura Simonetto | Christina Chiuso |
3:40.42 56.10 / 53.42 55.97 / 54.93 |
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| 7 | 2 | Russia Anastasia Aksenova | Elena Sokolova | Daria Belyakina | Svetlana Karpeeva |
3:42.52 56.57 / 55.20 55.23 / 55.52 |
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| 8 | 7 | Brazil Tatiana Barbosa | Flavia Cazziolato | Michelle Lenhardt | Monique Ferreira |
3:42.85 55.08 / 56.13 55.90 / 55.74 |
AS = Asian Record
| Rank | Lane | Names | Time | Notes |
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| 1 | 5 | United States Kara Lynn Joyce | Julia Smit | Emily Silver | Lacey Nymeyer |
3:37.53 54.13 / 54.73 54.81 / 53.86 |
Q |
| 2 | 4 | Netherlands Ranomi Kromowidjojo | Hinkelien Schreuder | Femke Heemskerk | Manon van Rooijen |
3:37.61 54.41 / 55.31 53.58 / 54.31 |
Q |
| 3 | 6 | France Céline Couderc | Hanna Shcherba-Lorgeril | Ophelie-Cyrielle Etienne | Alena Popchanka |
3:37.76 53.97 / 54.95 54.72 / 54.12 |
Q |
| 4 | 2 | Canada Julia Wilkinson | Erica Morningstar | Geneviève Saumur | Audrey Lacroix |
3:38.82 54.48 / 54.38 55.11 / 54.85 |
Q |
| 5 | 3 | Sweden Ida Marko-Varga | Therese Alshammar | Anna-Karin Kammerling | Claire Hedenskog |
3:40.52 55.04 / 54.80 55.06 / 55.62 |
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| 6 | 1 | Ukraine Darya Stepanyuk | Kateryna Dikidzhi | Ganna Dzerkal | Nataliya Khudyakova |
3:44.72 55.79 / 55.44 56.95 / 56.54 |
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| 7 | 7 | South Africa Melissa Corfe | Wendy Trott | Mandy Loots | Katheryn Meaklim |
3:51.14 55.93 / 57.83 58.31 / 59.07 |
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| Rank | Lane | Names | Time | Notes |
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| 6 | Netherlands Inge Dekker | Ranomi Kromowidjojo | Femke Heemskerk | Marleen Veldhuis |
3:33.76 54.37/53.39 53.42/52.58 |
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| 3 | United States Natalie Coughlin | Lacey Nymeyer | Kara Lynn Joyce | Dara Torres |
3:34.33 54.00/53.91 53.98/52.44 |
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| 7 | Australia Cate Campbell | Alice Mills | Melanie Schlanger | Lisbeth Trickett |
3:35.05 54.43/54.43 53.85/52.34 |
CR | |
| 4 | 4 | China Zhu Yingwen | Tang Yi | Xu Yanwei | Pang Jiaying |
3:35.64 54.12/54.19 54.64/52.69 |
AR |
| 5 | 5 | Germany Britta Steffen | Meike Freitag | Daniela Götz | Antje Buschschulte |
3:36.85 53.38(OR)/54.30 55.34/53.83 |
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| 6 | 2 | France Céline Couderc | Alena Popchanka | Ophelie-Cyrielle Etienne | Malia Metella |
3:37.68 54.32/54.54 54.79/54.03 |
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| 7 | 8 | Great Britain Francesca Halsall | Caitlin McClatchey | Jessica Sylvester | Melanie Marshall |
3:38.18 53.81 (NR)/54.48 55.34/54.55 |
NR |
| 8 | 1 | Canada Julia Wilkinson | Erica Morningstar | Geneviève Saumur | Audrey Lacroix |
3:38.32 54.33/54.35 54.68/54.96 |
| Pos | NOC | Qualification | |
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| 1 | United States | FINA World Championships | |
| 2 | Netherlands | ||
| 3 | Australia | ||
| 4 | Sweden | ||
| 5 | Germany | ||
| 6 | China | ||
| 7 | France | ||
| 8 | Great Britain | ||
| 9 | Belarus | ||
| 10 | Canada | ||
| 11 | Ukraine | ||
| 12 | Japan | ||
| 13 | Italy | 3:41.06 | 4 best remaining teams |
| 14 | Russia | 3:42.52 | |
| 15 | Brazil | 3:43.16 | |
| 16 | South Africa | 3:46.55 | |