Missy Franklin
United States (USA)
2:04.06 WR
Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe in the world record time of 2:05.24.
Natalie Coughlin of the USA in just under 59 seconds. You can go to: http://www.nbcolympics.com/swimming/resultsandschedules/index.html for all results from 2008 thus far.
1912
swimming has appeared at every modern Olympics, which started in 1896. Womens swimming was introduced to the Olympics in 1912.
Women's Boxing
Zhang Yining
womens boxing
Tennis
Beach Volleyball.
AnswerYes swimming is an olympic summer sport, there are different water activities like diving, length swimming etc. and the mens and womens are separate as always! Swimming has many different events in the olympics.AnswerYes, swimming has been competed in the Modern Olympics since the first Modern Games in 1896.
Finals were on August 10 2012 after the heats on August 9 2012
The team from the Netherlands (Inge Dekker, Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Femke Heemskerk, Marleen Veldhuis, Hinkelien Schreuder, and Manon van Rooijen) won the gold medal in the women's 4 x 100 meter freestyle relay swimming event in the 2008 Summer Olympics.