Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre breaststroke
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| Men's 200 metre breaststroke at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad | ||||||||||
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| Swimming events at the 2008 Summer Olympics | ||||
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| Freestyle | ||||
| 50 m | men | women | ||
| 100 m | men | women | ||
| 200 m | men | women | ||
| 400 m | men | women | ||
| 800 m | women | |||
| 1500 m | men | |||
| Backstroke | ||||
| 100 m | men | women | ||
| 200 m | men | women | ||
| Breaststroke | ||||
| 100 m | men | women | ||
| 200 m | men | women | ||
| Butterfly | ||||
| 100 m | men | women | ||
| 200 m | men | women | ||
| Individual medley | ||||
| 200 m | men | women | ||
| 400 m | men | women | ||
| Freestyle relay | ||||
| 4×100 m | men | women | ||
| 4×200 m | men | women | ||
| Medley relay | ||||
| 4×100 m | men | women | ||
| Marathon | ||||
| 10 km | men | women | ||
The men's 200 metre breaststroke event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place between August 12 and 14 at the Beijing National Aquatics Center. This swimming event used the breaststroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of four lengths of the pool.
Seven heats were held, with most containing the maximum number of swimmers (eight). The heat in which a swimmer competed did not formally matter for advancement, as the swimmers with the top sixteen times from the entire field qualified for the semifinals. Two semifinal heats of eight swimmers each were held. The swimmers with the eight fastest times again advanced to the finals; there, they all competed in a single final heat to earn final placements.
The qualifying standards were for the 2008 event were 2:13.70 (A norm) and 2:18.37 (B norm). Nations with two or more swimmers meeting the A standard could enter any two such swimmers; otherwise, they could enter a single swimmer meeting the B standard.
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Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
| World record | Kosuke Kitajima (JPN) | 2:07.51 | Tokyo, Japan | 8 June 2008 | [1] |
| Olympic record | Kosuke Kitajima (JPN) | 2:09.44 | Athens, Greece | 18 August 2004 | - |
The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.
| Date | Event | Name | Nationality | Time | OR | WR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 12 | Heat 5 | Paolo Bossini | Italy | 2:08.98 | OR | |
| August 12 | Heat 7 | Dániel Gyurta | Hungary | 2:08.68 | OR | |
| August 13 | Semifinal 1 | Kosuke Kitajima | Japan | 2:08.61 | OR | |
| August 14 | Final | Kosuke Kitajima | Japan | 2:07.64 | OR |
Heats
Heat 1
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | Edvinas Dautartas | Lithuania | 2:13.11 | |
| 2 | 6 | Sandeep Sejwal | India | 2:15.24 | |
| 3 | 2 | Leopoldo José Andara González | Venezuela | 2:17.77 | |
| 4 | 5 | Omer Aslanoglu | Turkey | 2:17.93 | |
| 5 | 3 | Sergio Andres Ferreyra | Argentina | 2:20.10 |
Heat 2
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | Carlos Almeida | Portugal | 2:13.34 | |
| 2 | 3 | Jakob Johann Sveinsson | Iceland | 2:15.58 | |
| 3 | 8 | Laurent Carnol | Luxembourg | 2:15.87 | |
| 4 | 5 | Sujong Sin | South Korea | 2:16.21 | |
| 5 | 6 | Martti Aljand | Estonia | 2:16.52 | |
| 6 | 2 | Miguel Molina | Philippines | 2:16.94 | |
| 7 | 1 | Wei-Wen Wang | Chinese Taipei | 2:17.20 | |
| 8 | 7 | Valentin Preda | Romania | DNS |
Heat 3
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | Thiago Pereira | Brazil | 2:11.40 | |
| 2 | 5 | Tom Be'eri | Israel | 2:11.44 | |
| 3 | 4 | Melquiades Alvarez | Spain | 2:12.59 | |
| 4 | 2 | Jiří Jedlička | Czech Republic | 2:15.79 | |
| 5 | 8 | Romanos Iasonas Alyfantis | Greece | 2:16.04 | |
| 6 | 7 | Sofiane Daid | Algeria | 2:16.15 | |
| 7 | 6 | Zhongjian Lai | China | 2:16.28 | |
| 8 | 1 | Robin van Aggele | Netherlands | 2:17.14 |
Heat 4
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | Andrew Bree | Ireland | 2:10.91 | Q |
| 2 | 6 | Glenn Snyders | New Zealand | 2:11.19 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Istvan Hunor Mate | Austria | 2:11.56 | |
| 4 | 5 | Yevgeniy Ryzhkov | Kazakhstan | 2:12.44 | |
| 5 | 8 | Julien Nicolardot | France | 2:12.76 | |
| 6 | 3 | Sergio Garcia | Spain | 2:14.30 | |
| 7 | 2 | Maxim Podoprigora | Austria | 2:14.43 | |
| 8 | 4 | James Kirton | Great Britain | 2:15.25 |
Heat 5
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | Paolo Bossini | Italy | 2:08.98 | Q, OR, ER |
| 2 | 5 | Scott Spann | United States | 2:10.61 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Kristopher Gilchrist | Great Britain | 2:11.13 | Q |
| 4 | 4 | Grigory Falko | Russia | 2:11.88 | |
| 5 | 8 | Mihail Alexandrov | Bulgaria | 2:11.94 | |
| 6 | 6 | Christian Sprenger | Australia | 2:12.56 | |
| 7 | 1 | Mathieu Bois | Canada | 2:12.87 | |
| 8 | 7 | Alexey Zinovyev | Russia | 2:16.40 |
Heat 6
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | Mike Andrew Brown | Canada | 2:09.84 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Eric Shanteau | United States | 2:10.29 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | William Diering | South Africa | 2:10.39 | Q |
| 4 | 7 | Neil Versfeld | South Africa | 2:10.50 | Q |
| 5 | 4 | Brenton Rickard | Australia | 2:11.00 | Q |
| 6 | 5 | Alexander Dale Oen | Norway | 2:11.30 | |
| 7 | 1 | Henrique Barbosa | Brazil | 2:12.99 | |
| 8 | 8 | Chris Christensen | Denmark | 2:13.92 |
Heat 7
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | Daniel Gyurta | Hungary | 2:08.68 | Q, OR, ER |
| 2 | 2 | Loris Facci | Italy | 2:09.12 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | Hugues Duboscq | France | 2:09.42 | Q |
| 4 | 4 | Kosuke Kitajima | Japan | 2:09.89 | Q |
| 5 | 7 | Vladislav Polyakov | Kazakhstan | 2:10.83 | Q |
| 6 | 1 | Igor Borysik | Ukraine | 2:11.08 | Q |
| 7 | 3 | Yuta Suenaga | Japan | 2:11.30 | |
| 8 | 8 | Valerii Dymo | Ukraine | 2:11.65 |
Semifinals
Semifinal 1
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | Kosuke Kitajima | Japan | 2:08.61 | Q, OR |
| 3 | 2 | Scott Spann | United States | 2:09.08 | Q |
| 7 | 4 | Paolo Bossini | Italy | 2:09.95 | Q |
| 8 | 5 | Hugues Duboscq | France | 2:09.97 | Q |
| 11 | 7 | Andrew Bree | Ireland | 2:10.16 | |
| 12 | 6 | William Diering | South Africa | 2:10.21 | |
| 14 | 1 | Igor Borysik | Ukraine | 2:10.99 | |
| 16 | 8 | Glenn Snyders | New Zealand | 2:12.07 |
Semifinal 2
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 3 | Mike Brown | Canada | 2:08.88 | Q, OC |
| 4 | 1 | Brenton Rickard | Australia | 2:09.72 | Q |
| 5 | 4 | Dániel Gyurta | Hungary | 2:09.73 | Q |
| 6 | 5 | Loris Facci | Italy | 2:09.75 | Q |
| 9 | 3 | Neil Versfeld | South Africa | 2:10.06 | |
| 10 | 6 | Eric Shanteau | United States | 2:10.10 | |
| 13 | 8 | Kristopher Gilchrist | Great Britain | 2:10.27 | NR |
| 15 | 7 | Vladislav Polyakov | Kazakhstan | 2:11.87 |
Final
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Kosuke Kitajima | Japan | 2:07.64 | OR | |
| 6 | Brenton Rickard | Australia | 2:08.88 | OC | |
| 8 | Hugues Duboscq | France | 2:08.94 | ||
| 4 | 5 | Mike Brown | Canada | 2:09.03 | |
| 5 | 2 | Dániel Gyurta | Hungary | 2:09.22 | |
| 6 | 3 | Scott Spann | United States | 2:09.76 | |
| 7 | 7 | Loris Facci | Italy | 2:10.57 | |
| 8 | 1 | Paolo Bossini | Italy | 2:11.48 |
References
- ^ Lord, Craig (2008-06-08). "Kitajima Dons LZR For 2:07.51 WR 200m Breaststroke". swimnews.com. http://www.swimnews.com/News/displayStory.jhtml?action=get&id=6129. Retrieved 2008-06-09.
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