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

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

Section Title: Heats
Table Section Text: None

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes

1	6	3	Hanna-Maria Seppälä	Finland	53.60	Q, NR

2	6	4	Britta Steffen	Germany	53.67	Q

3	6	5	Marleen Veldhuis	Netherlands	53.76	Q

4	7	5	Natalie Coughlin	United States	53.82	Q

5	5	6	Francesca Halsall	Great Britain	53.93	Q

6	7	4	Lisbeth Trickett	Australia	53.99	Q

7	6	6	Pang Jiaying	China	54.01	Q, =AS

Zhu Yingwen	China	Q, =AS

9	4	5	Jeanette Ottesen	Denmark	54.04	Q

10	6	2	Josefin Lillhage	Sweden	54.07	Q

11	7	3	Malia Metella	France	54.12	Q

12	5	7	Aliaksandra Herasimenia	Belarus	54.52	Q

13	5	4	Cate Campbell	Australia	54.55	Q

14	5	3	Lacey Nymeyer	United States	54.62	Q

15	7	6	Erica Morningstar	Canada	54.66	Q

16	6	7	Petra Dallmann	Germany	54.70	Q*

7	1	Julia Wilkinson	Canada

18	5	2	Alena Popchanka	France	54.86

19	7	8	Tatiana Barbosa	Brazil	55.01

20	6	1	Agata Ewa Korc	Poland	55.14	NR

21	6	8	Lize-Mari Retief	South Africa	55.17

22	4	3	Anna Gostomelsky	Israel	55.18

23	5	1	Martina Moravcová	Slovakia	55.20

24	5	5	Inge Dekker	Netherlands	55.23

25	4	4	Anastasia Aksenova	Russia	55.29

26	3	3	Hannah Wilson	Hong Kong	55.32

27	4	8	Darya Stepanyuk	Ukraine	55.51

28	3	4	Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace	Bahamas	55.61

29	3	2	Birgit Koschischek	Austria	55.62

30	4	2	Arlene Semeco	Venezuela	55.70

31	5	8	Jana Klusáčková	Czech Republic	55.92

32	3	1	Chang Hee-jin	South Korea	55.96

33	4	7	Triin Aljand	Estonia	56.10

34	2	5	Quah Ting Wen	Singapore	56.14

35	3	5	Ragnheidur Ragnarsdottir	Iceland	56.35

36	3	8	Anna Stylianou	Cyprus	56.38

37	3	7	Eleni Kosti	Greece	56.44

38	4	1	Miroslava Najdanovski	Serbia	56.50

39	2	6	Natthanan Junkrajang	Thailand	56.56

40	2	4	Orsolya Tompa	Hungary	56.57

41	2	7	Christel Simms	Philippines	56.67	NR

42	4	6	Maria Laura Simonetto	Italy	56.72

43	2	3	Nieh Pin-chieh	Chinese Taipei	57.28

44	3	6	Nina Sovinek	Slovenia	57.30

45	1	4	Madeleine Scerri	Malta	57.97	NR

46	2	2	Irina Shlemova	Uzbekistan	58.77

47	1	5	Elena Popovska	Macedonia	59.93

48	1	6	Olga Hachatryan	Turkmenistan	1:14.77

7	2	Caitlin McClatchey	Great Britain	DNS

Sentence(s)

Hanna-Maria Seppälä posted a top-seeded time of 53.60, from the sixth heat to lead the Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

final_sentence: Hanna-Maria Seppälä posted a top-seeded time of 53.60, from the sixth heat to lead the Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics.