11 August Morning Session - 2008 Olympic Swimming Results

Mon 11 August 2008 10:00 Morning Session

• Women's 100m Backstroke Semifinal
  1. 58.77 WR Kirsty Coventry, ZIM
  2. 59.43 Natalie Coughlin, USA
  3. 59.64 Reiko Nakamura, JPN
  4. 59.77 Anastasia Zueva, RUS
  5. 59.79 Gemma Nakamura, GBR
  6. 59.84 Margaret Hoelzer, USA
  7. 1:00.13 Hanae Ito, JPN
  8. 1:00.19 Laure Manaudou, FRA
  
  
• Men's 200m Freestyle Semifinal
  1. 1:45.75 Peter Vanderkaay, USA
  2. 1:45.99 Tae Hwan Park, KOR
  3. 1:46.13 Jean Basson, RSA
  4. 1:46.28 Michael Phelps, USA
  5. 1:46.41 Paul Biedermann, GER
  6. 1:46.44 Yoshihiro Okumura, JPN
  7. 1:46.54 Dominik Meichtry, SUI
  8. 1:47.07 Robbie Renwick, GBR
  
  
• Women's 100m Butterfly Final
  GOLD 56.73 Libby Trickett, AUS
  SILVER 57.10 Christsine Magnuson, USA
  BRONZE 57.25 Jessicah Schipper, AUS
  
  
• Men's 100m Breaststroke Final
  GOLD 58.91 WR Kosuke Kitajima, JPN
  SILVER 59.20 Alexander Dale Oen, NOR
  BRONZE 59.37 Huques Duboscq, FRA
  4. 59.57 Brendan Hansen, USA
  8. 1:00.24 Mark Gangloff, USA
  
  
• Women's 100m Breaststroke Semifinal
  1. 1:05.80 Leisel Jones, AUS
  2. 1:07.07 Rebecca Soni, USA
  3. 1:07.27 Mirna Jukic, AUT
  4. 1:07.48 Tarnee White, AUS
  5. 1:07.50 Yuliya Efimova, RUS
  6. 1:07.72 Ye Sun, CHN
  7. 1:08.07 Megan Jendrick, USA
  8. 1:08.23 Asami Kitagawa, JPN
  
  
• Men's 100m Backstroke Semifinal
  1. 52.97 OR Hayden Stoeckel, AUS
  2. 52.99 Matt Grevers, USA
  3. 53.06 Arkady Vyatchanin, RUS
  4. 53.51 Aschwin Wildeboer, ESP
  5. 53.56 Aaron Peirsol, USA
  6. 53.61 Liam Tancock, GBR
  7. 53.69 Junichi Miyashita, JPN
  8. 53.76 Ashley Delaney, AUS
  
  
• Women's 400m Freestyle Final
  GOLD 4:03.22 Rebecca Adlington, GBR
  SILVER 4:03.29 Katie Hoff, USA
  BRONZE 4:03.52 Joanne Jackson, GBR
  
  
• Men's 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay Final
  GOLD USA 3:08.24 WR (Phelps 47.51, Weber-Gale 47.02, Jones 47.65, Lezak 46.06)
  SILVER FRA 3:08.32 (Leveaux 47.91, Gilot 47.05, Bousquet 46.63, Bernard 46.73)
  BRONZE AUS 3:09.91 (Sullivan 47.24 (WR), Lauterstein 47.87, Callus 47.55, Targett 47.25)
  Relay splits under 47.5:
  46.06 Lezak, USA
  46.63 Bousquet, FRA
  46.73 Bernard, FRA
  46.84 Magnini, ITA (prelims)
  47.02 Weber-Gale, USA
  47.05 Gilot, FRA
  47.17 vanden Hoogenband, NED (prelims)
  47.22 Targett, AUS (prelims)
  47.24 WR Sullivan, AUS - Lead off split
  47.25 Nystrand, SWE
  47.48 Persson, SWE
  47.49 Galenda, ITA
  

OR = Olympic Record
WR = World Record
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USA Swimming Report: USA Men Set World Record in 400m Free Relay at Beijing Olympics

Michael Phelps, Garrett Weber-Gale, Cullen Jones and Jason Lezak destroyed the world record in the men’s 400m freestyle relay by four seconds Monday, on the second day of finals at the 2008 Olympic Games. Their gold medal-winning time of 3:08.24 edged runner up France by eight-hundredths of a second. In addition, Australia’s Eamon Sullivan set the world record in the men’s 100m free in the relay with a leadoff time of 47.24, while Phelps broke the American record in the 100m free with a lead-off time of 47.51. The gold was one of three medals won by American swimmers Monday and accounted for one of four world records in the session. Read More...