Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 400 metre freestyle

Women's 400 metre freestyle
at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Venue Beijing National Aquatics Center
Date August 10, 2008 (heats)
August 11, 2008 (final)
Competitors 42 from 35 nations
Winning time 4:03.22
Medalists
1st, gold medalist(s) Rebecca Adlington  Great Britain
2nd, silver medalist(s) Katie Hoff  United States
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Joanne Jackson  Great Britain

The women's 400 metre freestyle event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on 10–11 August at the Beijing National Aquatics Center in Beijing, China.[1]

Rebecca Adlington became Great Britain's first female gold medalist in swimming in 48 years.[2] She posted an outside-record time of 4:03.22 to hold off U.S. swimmer Katie Hoff in the final 50 metres with a 1.46-second deficit. Hoff added a silver to her hardware from the 400 m individual medley just a day earlier, in 4:03.29. Adlington's teammate Joanne Jackson earned a bronze in 4:03.52, handing an entire medal haul for Team GB in the pool.[3][4][5]

France's Coralie Balmy narrowly missed the podium by eight hundredths of a second (0.08), finishing in fourth place at 4:03.60. Italy's world record holder and top favorite Federica Pellegrini earned a fifth spot in a time of 4:04.56, holding off Romania's Camelia Potec to sixth by 0.10 of a second (4:04.66). Australia's Bronte Barratt (4:05.05) and defending Olympic champion Laure Manaudou (4:11.26).[3]

Notable swimmers missed out the top 8 final, featuring Poland's Otylia Jędrzejczak, silver medalist in Athens four years earlier, Hoff's teammate Kate Ziegler, and South Africa's Wendy Trott, who broke a new African record (4:08.38) in the heats.[6]

Earlier in the prelims, Pellegrini, Hoff, Jackson, and Adlington broke one of the oldest Olympic records in the book as they each went under the time of 4:03.85, which had stood since Janet Evans won the gold medal in the event at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.[6]

Records

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

World record Federica Pellegrini (ITA)4:01.53Eindhoven, Netherlands24 March 2008
Olympic record Janet Evans (USA)4:03.85Seoul, South Korea22 September 1988

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

DateEventNameNationalityTimeRecord
August 10Heat 5Katie Hoff United States4:03.71OR
August 10Heat 6Federica Pellegrini Italy4:02.19OR

Results

Heats

RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
164Federica Pellegrini Italy4:02.19Q, OR
263Rebecca Adlington Great Britain4:02.24Q, NR
354Katie Hoff United States4:03.71Q, AM
456Joanne Jackson Great Britain4:03.80Q
553Bronte Barratt Australia4:04.16Q, OC
655Coralie Balmy France4:04.25Q
746Camelia Potec Romania4:04.55Q
844Laure Manaudou France4:04.93Q
945Otylia Jędrzejczak Poland4:05.50
1043Linda Mackenzie Australia4:05.91
1161Stephanie Horner Canada4:07.45
1252Wendy Trott South Africa4:08.38AF
1357Lotte Friis Denmark4:08.47
1465Kate Ziegler United States4:09.59
67Flavia Rigamonti Switzerland
1648Jördis Steinegger Austria4:09.72NR
1762Melissa Corfe South Africa4:10.54
1851Gabriella Fagundez Sweden4:11.40
1941Savannah King Canada4:11.49
2033Susana Escobar Mexico4:11.99NR
2135Monique Ferreira Brazil4:12.21
2247Tan Miao China4:12.35
2342Erika Villaécija García Spain4:14.25
2436Hoi Shun Stephanie Au Hong Kong4:14.82
2568Jaana Ehmcke Germany4:15.15
2658Li Mo China4:15.50
2732Eleftheria Evgenia Efstathiou Greece4:15.78
2834Daria Belyakina Russia4:16.21
2914Boglárka Kapás Hungary4:16.22
3031Lynette Lim Singapore4:17.67
3166Ai Shibata Japan4:17.96
3222Yanel Pinto Venezuela4:18.09
3321Nataliya Khudyakova Ukraine4:18.34
3437Cecilia Biagioli Argentina4:19.85
3527Eva Lehtonen Finland4:20.07
3623Kristina Lennox-Silva Puerto Rico4:20.17
3726Lee Ji-eun South Korea4:21.53
3825Khoo Cai Lin Malaysia4:23.37
3924Golda Marcus El Salvador4:23.50
4038Yang Chin-kuei Chinese Taipei4:24.78
4113Shrone Austin Seychelles4:35.86
15Natthanan Junkrajang ThailandDNS

Final

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
1st, gold medalist(s)5Rebecca Adlington Great Britain4:03.22
2nd, silver medalist(s)3Katie Hoff United States4:03.29AM
3rd, bronze medalist(s)6Joanne Jackson Great Britain4:03.52
47Coralie Balmy France4:03.60
54Federica Pellegrini Italy4:04.56
61Camelia Potec Romania4:04.66
72Bronte Barratt Australia4:05.05
88Laure Manaudou France4:11.26

References

  1. ↑ "Olympic Swimming Schedule". USA Today. 9 August 2008. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
  2. ↑ "Adlington snatches swimming gold". BBC Sport. 11 August 2008. Retrieved 19 May 2013.
  3. 1 2 Lohn, John (10 August 2008). "Olympics, Swimming: Rebecca Adlington Overtakes Katie Hoff for Gold in Women's 400 Free". Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the original on 6 May 2013. Retrieved 19 May 2013.
  4. ↑ Kitson, Robert (11 August 2008). "Olympics: Rebecca Adlington wins gold for Britain in 400m freestyle". Guardian.co.uk. Retrieved 19 May 2013.
  5. ↑ Lonsbrough, Anita (11 August 2008). "Rebecca Adlington wins gold on a rewarding day for Britain – Beijing Olympics 2008". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 19 May 2013.
  6. 1 2 Lohn, John (10 August 2008). "Olympics, Swimming: Olympic Record Falls Twice in Women's 400 Free, Federica Pellegrini Tops Qualifying". Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the original on 10 June 2013. Retrieved 19 May 2013.
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