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

Women's 400 metre freestyle
at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
VenueBeijing National Aquatics Center
DateAugust 10, 2008 (heats)
August 11, 2008 (final)
Competitors42 from 35 nations
Winning time4:03.22
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Rebecca Adlington  Great Britain
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Katie Hoff  United States
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Joanne Jackson  Great Britain
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Swimming at the
2008 Summer Olympics
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Qualification
Freestyle
50 mmenwomen
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
800 mwomen
1500 mmen
Backstroke
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Breaststroke
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Butterfly
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Individual medley
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
Freestyle relay
4 × 100 mmenwomen
4 × 200 mmenwomen
Medley relay
4 × 100 mmenwomen
Marathon
10 kmmenwomen

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] The winning margin was 0.07 seconds which as of 2024 is the narrowest winning margin for this event in the Olympics.

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 pip U.S. swimmer Katie Hoff in the final 5 metres after a 1.46-second deficit, with one length to go. 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 2 of the 3 medals won by 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) 4:01.53 Eindhoven, Netherlands 24 March 2008 [7]
Olympic record  Janet Evans (USA) 4:03.85 Seoul, South Korea 22 September 1988

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

Date Event Name Nationality Time Record
August 10 Heat 5 Katie Hoff  United States 4:03.71 OR
August 10 Heat 6 Federica Pellegrini  Italy 4:02.19 OR

Results

Heats

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 6 4 Federica Pellegrini  Italy 4:02.19 Q, OR
2 6 3 Rebecca Adlington  Great Britain 4:02.24 Q, NR
3 5 4 Katie Hoff  United States 4:03.71 Q
4 5 6 Joanne Jackson  Great Britain 4:03.80 Q
5 5 3 Bronte Barratt  Australia 4:04.16 Q, OC
6 5 5 Coralie Balmy  France 4:04.25 Q
7 4 6 Camelia Potec  Romania 4:04.55 Q
8 4 4 Laure Manaudou  France 4:04.93 Q
9 4 5 Otylia Jędrzejczak  Poland 4:05.50
10 4 3 Linda Mackenzie  Australia 4:05.91
11 6 1 Stephanie Horner  Canada 4:07.45
12 5 2 Wendy Trott  South Africa 4:08.38 AF
13 5 7 Lotte Friis  Denmark 4:08.47
14 6 5 Kate Ziegler  United States 4:09.59
6 7 Flavia Rigamonti  Switzerland
16 4 8 Jördis Steinegger  Austria 4:09.72 NR
17 6 2 Melissa Corfe  South Africa 4:10.54
18 5 1 Gabriella Fagundez  Sweden 4:11.40
19 4 1 Savannah King  Canada 4:11.49
20 3 3 Susana Escobar  Mexico 4:11.99 NR
21 3 5 Monique Ferreira  Brazil 4:12.21
22 4 7 Tan Miao  China 4:12.35
23 4 2 Erika Villaécija  Spain 4:14.25
24 3 6 Hoi Shun Stephanie Au  Hong Kong 4:14.82
25 6 8 Jaana Ehmcke  Germany 4:15.15
26 5 8 Li Mo  China 4:15.50
27 3 2 Eleftheria Evgenia Efstathiou  Greece 4:15.78
28 3 4 Daria Belyakina  Russia 4:16.21
29 1 4 Boglárka Kapás  Hungary 4:16.22
30 3 1 Lynette Lim  Singapore 4:17.67
31 6 6 Ai Shibata  Japan 4:17.96
32 2 2 Yanel Pinto  Venezuela 4:18.09
33 2 1 Nataliya Khudyakova  Ukraine 4:18.34
34 3 7 Cecilia Biagioli  Argentina 4:19.85
35 2 7 Eva Lehtonen  Finland 4:20.07
36 2 3 Kristina Lennox-Silva  Puerto Rico 4:20.17
37 2 6 Lee Ji-eun  South Korea 4:21.53
38 2 5 Khoo Cai Lin  Malaysia 4:23.37
39 2 4 Golda Marcus  El Salvador 4:23.50
40 3 8 Yang Chin-kuei  Chinese Taipei 4:24.78
41 1 3 Shrone Austin  Seychelles 4:35.86
1 5 Natthanan Junkrajang  Thailand DNS

Final

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) 5 Rebecca Adlington  Great Britain 4:03.22
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3 Katie Hoff  United States 4:03.29
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 6 Joanne Jackson  Great Britain 4:03.52
4 7 Coralie Balmy  France 4:03.60
5 4 Federica Pellegrini  Italy 4:04.56
6 1 Camelia Potec  Romania 4:04.66
7 2 Bronte Barratt  Australia 4:05.05
8 8 Laure Manaudou  France 4:11.26

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. ^ a b 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. ^ a b 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.
  7. ^ "Veldhuis and Pellegrini set world records at Euro swimming championships". International Herald Tribune. 24 March 2008. Retrieved 6 August 2008.
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