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

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Field	Value
event	Women's 100 metre backstroke
games	2008 Summer
venue	Beijing National Aquatics Center
date	August 10, 2008 (heats)
August 11, 2008(semifinals)
August 12, 2008 (final)
competitors	49
nations	38
win_value	58.96 AM
gold	Natalie Coughlin
goldNOC	USA
silver	Kirsty Coventry
silverNOC	ZIM
bronze	Margaret Hoelzer
bronzeNOC	USA
prev	2004
next	2012

August 11, 2008(semifinals) August 12, 2008 (final)

The women's 100 metre backstroke event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on 10–12 August at the Beijing National Aquatics Center in Beijing, China.

U.S. swimmer Natalie Coughlin set a lifetime best and an American record of 58.96 to defend her title in the event. Zimbabwe's new world record holder Kirsty Coventry added a second silver to her hardware from the 400 m individual medley two days earlier, in a time of 59.19. Coming from fifth place in the turn, Margaret Hoelzer continued her impressive form in the shorter backstroke to pick up a bronze in 59.34, handing the entire medal haul for Team USA in the pool.

Great Britain's Gemma Spofforth narrowly missed the podium by a twenty-fifth of a second (0.04), posting a European record of 59.38 for a fourth-place finish. Russia's Anastasia Zuyeva finished fifth in a close race at 59.40, and was followed in the sixth spot by Japan's Reiko Nakamura in 59.72. France's Laure Manaudou (1:00.10), bronze medalist in Athens four years earlier, and Japanese Hanae Ito (1:00.18) rounded out the finale.

Earlier in the prelims, Zuyeva, Nakamura, and Coventry scratched out Coughlin's existing Olympic record, as they went under a time of 59.68 to lead all seeded heats. The following morning, in the semifinals, Coventry blitzed the field on the final lap to set a new world record of 58.77, breaking Coughlin's mark by two-tenths of a second (0.20).

Records

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

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

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time
August 10	Heat 5	Anastasia Zuyeva	RUS	59.61
August 10	Heat 6	Reiko Nakamura	JPN	59.36
August 10	Heat 7	Kirsty Coventry	ZIM	59.00
August 11	Semifinal 2	Kirsty Coventry	ZIM	58.77

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	7	5	Kirsty Coventry	ZIM	59.00	Q, , AF
2	6	6	Reiko Nakamura	JPN	59.36	Q, AS
3	5	4	Anastasia Zuyeva	RUS	59.61	Q, NR
4	7	4	Natalie Coughlin	USA	59.69	Q
5	6	5	Laure Manaudou	FRA	1:00.09	Q
6	7	6	Gemma Spofforth	GBR	1:00.11	Q
7	6	4	Margaret Hoelzer	USA	1:00.13	Q
8	6	3	Hanae Ito	JPN	1:00.16	Q
9	5	5	Emily Seebohm	AUS	1:00.27	Q
10	4	3	Julia Wilkinson	CAN	1:00.38	Q
11	5	8	Antje Buschschulte	GER	1:00.48	Q
12	5	2	Elizabeth Simmonds	GBR	1:00.53	Q
13	5	6	Nina Zhivanevskaya	ESP	1:00.54	Q
14	5	3	Sophie Edington	AUS	1:00.65	Q
15	7	1	Elizabeth Coster	NZL	1:00.66	Q
16	6	1	Kseniya Moskvina	RUS	1:00.70	Q
17	5	1	Xu Tianlongzi	CHN	1:00.82
18	7	7	Fabíola Molina	BRA	1:01.00
19	3	3	Carolina Colorado Henao	COL	1:01.19	NR
20	4	4	Melissa Ingram	NZL	1:01.24
21	5	7	Kateryna Zubkova	UKR	1:01.25
22	6	2	Sanja Jovanović	CRO	1:01.30
23	7	2	Alexianne Castel	FRA	1:01.44
24	7	8	Nikolett Szepesi	HUN	1:01.77
25	3	2	Anna Gostomelsky	ISR	1:01.87	NR
26	4	6	Romina Armellini	ITA	1:02.21
4	8	Anja Čarman	SLO
28	4	5	Mercedes Peris	ESP	1:02.30
29	3	1	Sarah Sjöström	SWE	1:02.38
30	4	2	Hanna-Maria Seppälä	FIN	1:02.39
31	4	1	Aisling Cooney	IRL	1:02.50
32	3	7	Alana Dillette	BAH	1:02.56
33	1	4	Kiera Aitken	BER	1:02.62
34	3	4	Tsai Hiu Wai Sherry	HKG	1:02.68
35	3	5	Fernanda González	MEX	1:02.76
36	2	4	Zuzanna Mazurek	POL	1:02.77	NR
37	6	7	Iryna Amshennikova	UKR	1:02.85
38	2	5	Gisela Morales	GUA	1:02.92
39	3	6	Petra Klosová	CZE	1:03.36
40	2	3	Marica Strazmester	SRB	1:03.56
41	3	8	Sarah Blake Bateman	ISL	1:03.82
42	6	8	Christin Zenner	GER	1:03.87
43	2	7	Erin Volcán	VEN	1:03.90
44	2	6	Kim Yu-yeon	KOR	1:04.63
45	2	2	Yekaterina Rudenko	KAZ	1:04.85
46	1	5	Maria Virginia Baez	PAR	1:05.39
47	1	3	Christie Bodden	PAN	1:07.18
	7	3	Zhao Jing	CHN	DSQ
	4	7	Sviatlana Khakhlova	BLR	DNS

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Natalie Coughlin	USA	59.43	Q
2	4	Reiko Nakamura	JPN	59.64	Q
3	3	Gemma Spofforth	GBR	59.79	Q
4	6	Hanae Ito	JPN	1:00.13	Q
5	7	Elizabeth Simmonds	GBR	1:00.39
6	2	Julia Wilkinson	CAN	1:00.60
7	1	Sophie Edington	AUS	1:01.05
8	8	Kseniya Moskvina	RUS	1:01.06

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Kirsty Coventry	ZIM	58.77	Q,
2	5	Anastasia Zuyeva	RUS	59.77	Q
3	6	Margaret Hoelzer	USA	59.84	Q
4	3	Laure Manaudou	FRA	1:00.19	Q
5	2	Emily Seebohm	AUS	1:00.31
6	1	Nina Zhivanevskaya	ESP	1:00.50
7	7	Antje Buschschulte	GER	1:01.15
8	8	Elizabeth Coster	NZL	1:01.45

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Natalie Coughlin	USA	58.96	AM
	4	Kirsty Coventry	ZIM	59.19
	7	Margaret Hoelzer	USA	59.34
4	2	Gemma Spofforth	GBR	59.38	ER
5	6	Anastasia Zuyeva	RUS	59.40	NR
6	3	Reiko Nakamura	JPN	59.72
7	8	Laure Manaudou	FRA	1:00.10
8	1	Hanae Ito	JPN	1:00.18

References

(9 August 2008). "Olympic Swimming Schedule". [[USA Today]].
Lohn, John. (11 August 2008). "Olympics, Swimming: Natalie Coughlin Breaks 59, Wins 100 Back Gold in American Record". [[Swimming World]] Magazine.
(11 August 2008). "Natalie Coughlin wins gold, Margaret Hoelzer wins bronze in 100m backstroke". [[Los Angeles Times]].
Lohn, John. (10 August 2008). "Olympics, Swimming: Olympic Record Times Three, Kirsty Coventry Leads Women's 100 Back Prelims". [[Swimming World]] Magazine.
Lohn, John. (10 August 2008). "Olympics, Swimming: Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe Grabs 100 Back World Record in Semis". [[Swimming World]] Magazine.
(10 August 2008). "Coventry sets world record in women's 100 backstroke". [[Los Angeles Times]].
Borzi, Pat. (1 July 2008). "Natalie Coughlin again lowers backstroke record". [[The New York Times]].

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