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In the Water (44 medal events in Swimming, Diving and Synchronised Swimming)
Full details, including all medal winners from Beijing are on the CD
Country abbreviations are explained on the medals table

FINAL

EVENT

Gold

Result

Record

Silver

Result

Bronze

Result

 

Swimming Men              

16 Aug 2008

50m Freestyle 

Cesar Cielo Filho (BRA)

21.30

OR

Amaury Leveaux (FRA)

21.45

Alain Bernard (FRA)

21.49

14 Aug 2008

100m Freestyle 

Alain Bernard (FRA)

47.21

 

Eamon Sullivan (AUS)

47.32

Cesar Cielo Filho (BRA)
Jason Lezak (USA)

47.67

12 Aug 2008

200m Freestyle 

*Michael Phelps (USA)

1:42.96

WR

Park Taehwan (KOR)

1:44.85

Peter Vanderkaay (USA)

1:45.14

10 Aug 2008

400m Freestyle 

Park Taehwan (KOR)

3:41.86

 

Zhang Lin (CHN)

3:42.44

Larsen Jensen (USA)

3:42.78

17 Aug 2008

1500m Freestyle 

Oussama Mellouli (TUN)

14:40.84

 

Grant Hackett (AUS)

14:41.53

Ryan Cochrane (CAN)

14:42.69

12 Aug 2008

100m Backstroke 

Aaron Peirsol (USA)

52.54

WR

Matt Grevers (USA)

53.11

Arkady Vyatchanin (RUS)
Hayden Stoeckel (AUS)

53.18

15 Aug 2008

200m Backstroke 

Ryan Lochte (USA)

1:53.94

WR

Aaron Peirsol (USA)

1:54.33

Arkady Vyatchanin (RUS)

1:54.93

11 Aug 2008

100m Breaststroke 

Kosuke Kitajima (JPN)

58.91

WR

Alexander Dale Oen (NOR)

59.20

Hugues Duboscq (FRA)

59.37

14 Aug 2008

200m Breaststroke 

Kosuke Kitajima (JPN)

2:07.64

OR

Brenton Rickard (AUS)

2:08.88

Hugues Duboscq (FRA)

2:08.94

16 Aug 2008

100m Butterfly 

*Michael Phelps (USA)

50.58

OR

Milorad Cavic (SRB)

50.59

Andrew Lauterstein (AUS)

51.12

13 Aug 2008

200m Butterfly 

*Michael Phelps (USA)

1:52.03

WR

Laszlo Cseh (HUN)

1:52.70

Takeshi Matsuda (JPN)

1:52.97

15 Aug 2008

200m Individual Medley 

*Michael Phelps (USA)

1:54.23

WR

Laszlo Cseh (HUN)

1:56.52

Ryan Lochte (USA)

1:56.53

10 Aug 2008

400m Individual Medley 

*Michael Phelps (USA)

4:03.84

WR

Laszlo Cseh (HUN)

4:06.16

Ryan Lochte (USA)

4:08.09

11 Aug 2008

4x100m Freestyle Relay 

*United States

3:08.24

WR

France

3:08.32

Australia

3:09.91

13 Aug 2008

4x200m Freestyle Relay 

*United States

6:58.56

WR

Russia

7:03.70

Australia

7:04.98

17 Aug 2008

4x100m Medley Relay 

*United States

3:29.34

WR

Australia

3:30.04

Japand

3:31.18

   

*Michael Phelps wins eight gold medals in a single Olympics, bettering the all-time record set in 1972 of compatriot Mark Spitz. Phelps swims all finals but one in world record time.

21 Aug 2008

NEW Marathon 10km

Maarten van der Weijden (NED) 1:51:51.6   David Davies (GBR) 1:51:53.1 Thomas Lurz (GER) 1:51:53.6
  Swimming Women              
17 Aug 2008

50m Freestyle 

Britta Steffen (GER)

24.06

OR

Dara Torres (USA)

24.07

Cate Campbell (AUS)

24.17

15 Aug 2008

100m Freestyle 

Britta Steffen (GER)

53.12

OR

Libby Trickett (AUS)

53.16

Natalie Coughlin (USA)

53.39

13 Aug 2008

200m Freestyle 

Federica Pellegrini (ITA)

1:54.82

WR

Sara Isakovic (SLO)

1:54.97

Pang Jiaying (CHN)

1:55.05

11 Aug 2008

400m Freestyle 

Rebecca Adlington (GBR)

4:03.22

 

Katie Hoff (USA)

4:03.29

Joanne Jackson (GBR)

4:03.52

16 Aug 2008

800m Freestyle 

Rebecca Adlington (GBR)

8:14.10

WR

Alessia Filippi (ITA)

8:20.23

Lotte Friis (DEN)

8:23.03

12 Aug 2008

100m Backstroke 

Natalie Coughlin (USA)

58.96

 

Kirsty Coventry (ZIM)

59.19

Margaret Hoelzer (USA)

59.34

16 Aug 2008

200m Backstroke 

Kirsty Coventry (ZIM)

2:05.24

WR

Margaret Hoelzer (USA)

2:06.23

Reiko Nakamura (JPN)

2:07.13

12 Aug 2008

100m Breaststroke 

Leisel Jones (AUS)

1:05.17

OR

Rebecca Soni (USA)

1:06.73

Mirna Jukic (AUT)

1:07.34

15 Aug 2008

200m Breaststroke 

Rebecca Soni (USA)

2:20.22

WR

Leisel Jones (AUS)

2:22.05

Sara Nordenstam (NOR)

2:32.02

11 Aug 2008

100m Butterfly 

Libby Trickett (AUS)

56.73

 

Christine Magnuson (USA)

57.10

Jessicah Schipper (AUS)

57.25

14 Aug 2008

200m Butterfly 

Liu Zige (CHN)

2:04.18

WR

Jiao Liuyang (CHN)

2:04.72

Jessicah Schipper (AUS)

2:06.26

13 Aug 2008

200m Individual Medley 

Stephanie Rice (AUS)

2:08.45

WR

Kirsty Coventry (ZIM)

2:08.59

Natalie Coughlin (USA)

2:10.34

10 Aug 2008

400m Individual Medley 

Stephanie Rice (AUS)

4:29.45

WR

Kirsty Coventry (ZIM)

4:29.89

Katie Hoff (USA)

4:31.71

10 Aug 2008

4x100m Freestyle Relay 

Netherlands

3:33.76

OR

United States

3:34.33

Australia

3:35.05

14 Aug 2008

4x200m Freestyle Relay 

Australia

7:44.31

WR

China

7:45.93

United States

7:46.33

17 Aug 2008

4x100m Medley Relay 

Australia

3:52.69

WR

United States

3:53.30

China

3:56.11

20 Aug 2008 NEW Marathon 10km Larisa Ilchenko (RUS) 1:59:27.7   Keri-Anne Payne (GBR) 1:59:29.2 Cassandra Patten (GBR) 1:59:31.0

FINAL

EVENT

Gold

Result

Silver

Result

Bronze

Result

  Diving Men            

19 Aug 2008

Springboard 

He Chong (CHN)

572.90

Alexandre Despatie (CAN)

536.65

Qin Kai (CHN)

530.10

23 Aug 2008

Platform 

Matthew Mitcham (AUS)

537.95

Zhou Luxin (CHN)

533.15

Gleb Galperin (RUS)

525.80

13 Aug 2008

Synchronised Springboard 

Qin Kai
Wang Feng (CHN)

469.08

Dmitry Sautin
Yuriy Kunakov (RUS)

421.98

Oleksiy Prygorov
Illya Kvasha (UKR)

415.05

11 Aug 2008

Synchronised Platform

Huo Liang
Lin Yue (CHN

468.18

Patrick Hausding
Sascha Klein (GER)

450.42

Dmitriy Dobroskok
Gleb Galperin (RUS)

445.26

  Diving Women            

17 Aug 2008

Springboard 

Guo Jingjing (CHN)

415.35

Ioulia Pakhalina (RUS)

398.60

Wu Minxia (CHN)

389.85

21 Aug 2008

Platform 

Chen Ruolin (CHN)

447.70

Emilie Heymans (CAN)

437.05

Wang Xin (CHN)

429.90

10 Aug 2008

Synchronised Springboard 

Guo Jingjing
Wu Minxia (CHN)

343.50

Ioulia Pakhalina
Anastasia Pozdnyakova (RUS)

323.61

Heike Fischer
Ditte Kotzian (GER)

318.90

12 Aug 2008

Synchronised Platform

Chen Ruolin
Wang Xin (CHN)

363.54

Briony Cole
Melissa Wu (AUS)

335.16

Paola Espinosa
Tatiana Ortiz (MEX)

330.06

  Synchronised Swimming            

20 Aug 2008

Duet

Anastasia Davydova
Anastasia Ermakova (RUS)

99.251

Andrea Fuentes
Gemma Mengual (ESP)

98.334

Saho Harada
Emiko Suzuki (JPN)

97.167

23 Aug 2008

Team 

Russia

49.500

Spain

48.917

China

48.584