Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre breaststroke
Heats

Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre breaststroke

Section Title: Heats
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Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes

1	5	4	Rebecca Soni	United States	2:22.17	Q, OR

2	6	4	Leisel Jones	Australia	2:23.81	Q

3	6	5	Mirna Jukić	Austria	2:24.39	Q

4	6	1	Sara Nordenstam	Norway	2:24.47	Q

5	4	6	Rie Kaneto	Japan	2:24.62	Q

6	5	5	Megumi Taneda	Japan	2:24.75	Q

7	4	5	Annamay Pierse	Canada	2:25.01	Q

8	4	4	Yuliya Yefimova	Russia	2:25.07	Q

9	5	7	Suzaan van Biljon	South Africa	2:25.51	Q

10	5	3	Sally Foster	Australia	2:25.54	Q

11	6	3	Jung Seul-ki	South Korea	2:25.95	Q

12	6	6	Joline Höstman	Sweden	2:26.00	Q

13	6	2	Qi Hui	China	2:26.16	Q

14	5	2	Anne Poleska	Germany	2:26.74	Q

15	4	8	Elise Matthysen	Belgium	2:27.04	Q

16	4	1	Jeong Da-rae	South Korea	2:27.28	Q

17	3	7	Inna Kapishina	Belarus	2:27.34	NR

18	4	3	Amanda Beard	United States	2:27.70

19	2	2	Siow Yi Ting	Malaysia	2:27.80

20	4	2	Olga Detenyuk	Russia	2:27.87

5	1	Kirsty Balfour	Great Britain

22	3	4	Adriana Marmolejo	Mexico	2:28.10	NR

23	6	8	Yuliya Pidlisna	Ukraine	2:28.84

24	4	7	Mireia Belmonte García	Spain	2:29.46

25	2	4	Alia Atkinson	Jamaica	2:29.53

26	6	7	Luo Nan	China	2:29.67

27	3	1	Katalin Bor	Hungary	2:29.95

28	3	2	Sara El Bekri	Morocco	2:30.04

29	3	3	Diana Gomes	Portugal	2:30.18

30	5	8	Sophie de Ronchi	France	2:30.93

31	2	7	Marina Kuč	Montenegro	2:31.24

32	2	3	Dilara Buse Günaydin	Turkey	2:31.86

33	3	6	Nađa Higl	Serbia	2:32.78

34	2	6	Smiljana Marinović	Croatia	2:32.80

35	1	5	Raminta Dvariškytė	Lithuania	2:33.32

36	2	5	Nicolette Teo	Singapore	2:34.60

37	3	8	Agustina de Giovanni	Argentina	2:34.94

38	3	5	Angeliki Exarchou	Greece	2:36.83

39	1	3	Noora Laukkanen	Finland	2:38.97

40	1	4	Tatiane Sakemi	Brazil	2:39.13

5	6	Sarah Poewe	Germany	DNS

Sentence(s)

Amanda Beard placed eighteenth with 2:27.70.

final_sentence: Amanda Beard placed eighteenth with 2:27.70.