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

Women's 100 metre breaststroke
at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Women's 100 metre breaststroke; at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Venue	Beijing National Aquatics Center
Date	August 10, 2008 (heats); August 11, 2008 (semifinals); August 12, 2008 (final)
Competitors	49 from 39 nations
Winning time	1:05.17 OR
Medalists
	← 2004 2012 →

The women's 100 metre breaststroke event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on 10–12 August at the Beijing National Aquatics Center in Beijing, China.^[1]^[2]

After winning a silver medal in Sydney and a bronze in Athens, Australia's Leisel Jones stormed home on the final lap to claim an elusive gold in the event. She established an Olympic record of 1:05.17, just eight-hundredths of a second (0.08) off her global standard.^[3]^[4] Coming from fifth place in the turn, U.S. swimmer Rebecca Soni earned a silver medal in 1:06.73.^[5] Finishing fourth from the Olympic trials, she inherited a place in the event after Jessica Hardy's sudden withdrawal from the Games because of a doping irregularity.^[6] Meanwhile, Mirna Jukić posted a time of 1:07.34 to settle for the bronze, holding off Russia's Yuliya Yefimova (1:07.43) to fourth place by almost a tenth of a second (0.10).^[3]

Megan Jendrick, former Olympic champion from Sydney in 2000, finished fifth with a time of 1:07.62, edging out Aussie Tarnee White (1:07.63) in a close race by a hundredth of a second (0.01).^[7] China's Sun Ye (1:08.08) and Japan's Asami Kitagawa (1:08.43) rounded out the finale.^[3]

Earlier in the prelims, Jones opened up her meet by breaking a new Olympic record of 1:05.64, exactly a full second faster than a winning time set by Luo Xuejuan in Athens four years earlier.^[8]

Records

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

World record	Leisel Jones (AUS)	1:05.09	Melbourne, Australia	20 March 2006	^[9]
Olympic record	Luo Xuejuan (CHN)	1:06.64	Athens, Greece	16 August 2004	-

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

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
August 10	Heat 7	Leisel Jones	Australia	1:05.64	OR
August 12	Final	Leisel Jones	Australia	1:05.17	OR

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	7	4	Leisel Jones	Australia	1:05.64	Q, OR
2	7	3	Yuliya Efimova	Russia	1:06.08	Q, EU
3	5	6	Mirna Jukić	Austria	1:07.06	Q
4	5	4	Rebecca Soni	United States	1:07.44	Q
5	7	1	Suzaan van Biljon	South Africa	1:07.55	Q
6	6	1	Sun Ye	China	1:07.81	Q
7	6	4	Tarnee White	Australia	1:07.83	Q
8	7	6	Joline Höstman	Sweden	1:07.91	Q
9	7	5	Megan Jendrick	United States	1:08.07	Q
10	5	7	Jillian Tyler	Canada	1:08.13	Q
11	6	3	Kate Haywood	Great Britain	1:08.18	Q
12	5	2	Chen Huijia	China	1:08.24	Q
13	5	3	Annamay Pierse	Canada	1:08.25	Q
14	6	2	Kirsty Balfour	Great Britain	1:08.30	Q
15	5	1	Asami Kitagawa	Japan	1:08.36	Q
16	7	8	Elise Matthysen	Belgium	1:08.37	Q, NR
17	6	6	Megumi Taneda	Japan	1:08.45
18	7	2	Elena Bogomazova	Russia	1:08.63
19	3	2	Sara El Bekri	Morocco	1:08.66
20	6	5	Sarah Poewe	Germany	1:08.69
21	6	7	Hanna Westrin	Sweden	1:08.80
22	4	4	Roberta Panara	Italy	1:08.90
23	4	5	Jung Seul-ki	South Korea	1:09.26
24	6	8	Yuliya Pidlisna	Ukraine	1:09.72
25	5	5	Anna Khlistunova	Ukraine	1:09.95
26	4	2	Diana Gomes	Portugal	1:10.02
27	4	3	Inna Kapishina	Belarus	1:10.15
28	4	1	Dilara Buse Günaydin	Turkey	1:10.45
29	5	8	Sophie de Ronchi	France	1:10.46
30	4	6	Angeliki Exarchou	Greece	1:10.47
31	3	6	Adriana Marmolejo	Mexico	1:10.73	NR
32	4	7	Nicolette Teo	Singapore	1:10.76
33	3	3	Smiljana Marinović	Croatia	1:10.94
34	2	4	Yekaterina Sadovnik	Kazakhstan	1:11.14
35	4	8	Jolijn van Valkengoed	Netherlands	1:11.26
36	7	7	Sonja Schöber	Germany	1:11.36
37	3	4	Liliana Guiscardo	Argentina	1:11.43
38	2	5	Valeria Silva	Peru	1:11.64	NR
39	3	8	Tatiane Sakemi	Brazil	1:11.75
40	3	5	Erla Dogg Haraldsdóttir	Iceland	1:11.78
41	3	1	Réka Pecz	Hungary	1:12.17
42	2	6	Danielle Beaubrun	Saint Lucia	1:12.85
43	3	7	Nađa Higl	Serbia	1:13.19
44	2	3	Mayumi Raheem	Sri Lanka	1:15.33
45	2	2	Nibal Yamout	Lebanon	1:16.17	NR
46	2	7	Oksana Hatamkhanova	Azerbaijan	1:20.22
47	1	5	Asmahan Farhat	Libya	1:21.68
48	1	4	Anna Salnikova	Georgia	1:21.70
49	1	3	Mariam Pauline Keita	Mali	1:24.26

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Rebecca Soni	United States	1:07.07	Q
2	4	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia	1:07.50	Q
3	3	Sun Ye	China	1:07.72	Q
4	6	Joline Höstman	Sweden	1:08.26
5	7	Chen Huijia	China	1:08.60
6	2	Jillian Tyler	Canada	1:09.00
6	8	Elise Matthysen	Belgium	1:09.00
8	1	Kirsty Balfour	Great Britain	1:09.23

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Leisel Jones	Australia	1:05.80	Q
2	5	Mirna Jukić	Austria	1:07.27	Q
3	6	Tarnee White	Australia	1:07.48	Q
4	2	Megan Jendrick	United States	1:08.07	Q
5	8	Asami Kitagawa	Japan	1:08.23	Q
6	1	Annamay Pierse	Canada	1:08.27
7	7	Kate Haywood	Great Britain	1:08.36
8	3	Suzaan van Biljon	South Africa	1:09.56

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Leisel Jones	Australia	1:05.17	OR
	5	Rebecca Soni	United States	1:06.73
	3	Mirna Jukić	Austria	1:07.34
4	2	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia	1:07.43
5	1	Megan Jendrick	United States	1:07.62
6	6	Tarnee White	Australia	1:07.63
7	7	Sun Ye	China	1:08.08
8	8	Asami Kitagawa	Japan	1:08.43

References

^ "Olympic Swimming Schedule". USA Today. 9 August 2008. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
^ "100 meters Breaststroke, Women". Olympedia. Archived from the original on 25 November 2023. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c Lohn, John (12 August 2008). "Olympics, Swimming: Leisel Jones Scares World Record, Gets Olympic Standard in Women's 100 Breast Victory". Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the original on 18 May 2013. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
^ "Leisel's Olympic redemption with elusive gold". ABC News. 12 August 2008. Retrieved 19 May 2013.
^ "Soni wins silver in women's 100 breast". NBC News. 12 August 2008. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
^ Crouse, Karen (2 August 2008). "Swimmer Pulls Out, Upsetting Her Rivals". NBC News. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
^ Staff (12 August 2008). "A red-white-and-blue day for U.S. swimmers". The Seattle Times. Retrieved 19 May 2013.
^ Lohn, John (12 August 2008). "Olympics, Swimming: Lethal Leisel Jones Crushes Olympic Record in Women's 100 Breast". Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the original on 2 May 2012. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
^ Wilson, Caroline (21 March 2006). "Lethal Leisel". The Age. Retrieved 6 August 2008.

External links

Official Olympic Report

[Swimming_schedule-1] "Olympic Swimming Schedule". USA Today. 9 August 2008. Retrieved 14 May 2013.

[Olympedia-2] "100 meters Breaststroke, Women". Olympedia. Archived from the original on 25 November 2023. Retrieved 25 November 2023.

[100breast-3] Lohn, John (12 August 2008). "Olympics, Swimming: Leisel Jones Scares World Record, Gets Olympic Standard in Women's 100 Breast Victory". Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the original on 18 May 2013. Retrieved 20 May 2013.

[4] "Leisel's Olympic redemption with elusive gold". ABC News. 12 August 2008. Retrieved 19 May 2013.

[5] "Soni wins silver in women's 100 breast". NBC News. 12 August 2008. Retrieved 20 May 2013.

[6] Crouse, Karen (2 August 2008). "Swimmer Pulls Out, Upsetting Her Rivals". NBC News. Retrieved 20 May 2013.

[7] Staff (12 August 2008). "A red-white-and-blue day for U.S. swimmers". The Seattle Times. Retrieved 19 May 2013.

[8] Lohn, John (12 August 2008). "Olympics, Swimming: Lethal Leisel Jones Crushes Olympic Record in Women's 100 Breast". Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the original on 2 May 2012. Retrieved 20 May 2013.

[9] Wilson, Caroline (21 March 2006). "Lethal Leisel". The Age. Retrieved 6 August 2008.

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