Event: | Women's 400 metre individual medley |
Games: | 2008 Summer |
Venue: | Beijing National Aquatics Center |
Date: | August 9, 2008 (heats) August 10, 2008 (final) |
Competitors: | 38 |
Nations: | 28 |
Win Value: | 4:29.45 |
Gold: | Stephanie Rice |
Goldnoc: | AUS |
Silver: | Kirsty Coventry |
Silvernoc: | ZIM |
Bronze: | Katie Hoff |
Bronzenoc: | USA |
Prev: | 2004 |
Next: | 2012 |
The women's 400 metre individual medley event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on 9–10 August at the Beijing National Aquatics Center in Beijing, China.[1]
Australia's Stephanie Rice pulled away to a strong finish on the freestyle leg, as she claimed an Olympic gold medal in the event. She established a sterling time of 4:29.45 to slash 1.67 seconds off the world record, set by Katie Hoff from the U.S. Olympic Trials.[2] [3] Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry also went under a world record, but earned her first silver at these Games, in an African record of 4:29.89. Meanwhile, Hoff did not match her stellar performance from the trials, as she settled only for the bronze in 4:31.71.[4] [5]
Rising American teenager Elizabeth Beisel finished outside the medals in fourth place at 4:34.24, holding off Italy's Alessia Filippi (4:34.34) to fifth by exactly a tenth of a second (0.10). Great Britain's Hannah Miley (4:39.44), Russia's Yana Martynova (4:40.04), and China's Li Xuanxu (4:42.13) rounded out the finale.[4]
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.
Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 3 | 4 | 4:34.55 | Q | |||
2 | 5 | 4 | 4:34.63 | Q | |||
3 | 3 | 5 | 4:35.11 | Q | |||
4 | 4 | Q | |||||
5 | 3 | 3 | 4:36.25 | Q, NR | |||
6 | 4 | 3 | 4:36.35 | Q | |||
7 | 4 | 5 | 4:36.43 | Q | |||
8 | 5 | 5 | 4:36.56 | Q | |||
9 | 4 | 7 | 4:36.95 | NR | |||
10 | 4 | 1 | 4:37.11 | NR | |||
11 | 3 | 7 | 4:37.35 | ||||
12 | 5 | 3 | 4:37.55 | ||||
13 | 5 | 2 | 4:37.86 | ||||
14 | 5 | 7 | 4:37.91 | ||||
15 | 3 | 6 | 4:38.69 | ||||
16 | 5 | 8 | 4:38.90 | ||||
17 | 2 | 3 | 4:40.18 | ||||
18 | 2 | 7 | 4:40.28 | NR | |||
19 | 4 | 6 | 4:40.29 | ||||
20 | 3 | 8 | 4:40.63 | ||||
21 | 5 | 1 | 4:41.04 | ||||
22 | 3 | 1 | 4:41.89 | ||||
23 | 5 | 6 | 4:43.88 | ||||
24 | 3 | 2 | 4:44.22 | ||||
25 | 2 | 5 | 4:44.96 | ||||
26 | 2 | 1 | 4:45.15 | ||||
27 | 4 | 2 | 4:45.22 | ||||
28 | 1 | 3 | 4:46.74 | ||||
29 | 4 | 8 | 4:46.98 | ||||
30 | 2 | 8 | 4:47.32 | NR | |||
31 | 2 | 6 | 4:50.22 | ||||
32 | 1 | 6 | 4:51.25 | NR | |||
33 | 2 | 2 | 4:51.52 | ||||
34 | 1 | 4 | 4:55.83 | ||||
35 | 1 | 5 | 4:58.21 | ||||
36 | 2 | 4 | 5:00.87 | ||||
37 | 1 | 7 | 5:02.18 | ||||
1 | 2 |
Rank | Lane | width=200 | Name ! | width=150 | Nationality ! | Time | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
6 | 4:29.45 | ||||||
1 | 4:29.89 | AF | |||||
5 | 4:31.71 | ||||||
4 | 4 | 4:34.24 | |||||
5 | 3 | 4:34.34 | NR | ||||
6 | 8 | 4:39.44 | |||||
7 | 2 | 4:40.04 | |||||
8 | 7 | 4:42.13 | |||||