Short Course World Championships 2008

Short Course World Championships 2008
Venue	Manchester
Participating Nations	117
Participating athletes	636 (248 F, 388 M)
decisions	40
opening	April 9, 2008
graduation	April 13, 2008

Medal table
space	country	G	S.	B.	total
1	United States	10	6th	1	17th
2	Australia	8th	9	2	19th
3	Netherlands	4th	4th	1	9
4th	Zimbabwe	4th	0	1	5
5	United Kingdom	3	10	11	24
6th	Russia	3	1	5	9
7th	Ukraine	2	3	2	7th
8th	Croatia	2	0	2	4th
9	South Africa	1	1	4th	6th
10	Slovenia	1	1	0	2
11	New Zealand Austria	1	0	1	2
13	Italy	0	2	2	4th
14th	Spain	0	1	2	3
15th	Finland	0	1	1	2
16	People's Republic of China Romania	0	1	0	1
18th	Poland	0	0	2	2
19th	Sweden	0	0	1	1

Manchester Evening News Arena

The Short Course World Championships 2008 in swimming were from 9 to 13 April 2008. Manchester held and were from the International Swimming Federation FINA organized. They were played right in the city center in the Manchester Evening News Arena , which is usually a concert venue. For the world championships, two temporary 25-meter swimming pools (one for the competitions and one for warming up) were set up on the floor of the hall and filled with two million liters of water. 636 athletes from 117 nations took part in the world championships.

The 29th Summer Olympics in Beijing taking place from August 8th to 24th were the reason that many top athletes from some nations did not make the trip to Manchester, because they wanted to prepare themselves ideally for Beijing. Alain Bernard ( FRA ), Arkadi Wjattschanin ( RUS ), László Cseh ( HUN ), Eamon Sullivan , Grant Hackett (both AUS ), Michael Phelps , Aaron Peirsol , Brendan Hansen , Ian Crocker (all USA ) were missing from the men and Laure Manaudou ( FRA ), Federica Pellegrini ( ITA ), Jana Klotschkowa ( UKR ), Anastassija Sujewa ( RUS ), Flavia Rigamonti ( SUI ), Lisbeth Trickett , Stephanie Rice , Sophie Edington , Emily Seebohm , Jessicah Schipper , Leisel Jones (all AUS ), Kate Ziegler , or Natalie Coughlin (both USA ) for women.             

The Chinese team also went to Manchester poorly in view of the Olympic Games in their own country.

Furthermore, almost all top German swimming athletes stayed away from these short course world championships, as they were preparing for the 120th German swimming championships from April 18th to 23rd. The time swum at the German Championships also decided on the Olympic qualification .

Despite all this, no fewer than 17 world , 20 European and 9 other world championship records fell at these world championships .

The main reason for this record flood is the new, first in February 2008 presented, swimsuit LZR Racer of the Australian swimming gear manufacturer Speedo . From the introduction of the swimsuit on February 13, 2008 to April 1, 2008, the new LZR Racer was used in the 28 of the 29 new world records set. The FINA also confirmed the admissibility of the new suit during these competitions and thus rejected the protesting, other swimwear manufacturers.

The big stars at these world championships were Ryan Lochte ( USA ), with 4 gold and 2 silver medals in the men and Kirsty Coventry ( ZIM ) with 4 gold and one bronze medal in the women. She single- handedly led Zimbabwe to 4th place in the medal table.   

In addition, the 38-year-old British swimming star Mark Foster , who had actually already announced his resignation after the European Short Course Championships in Helsinki in 2006 , received special attention. He won the silver medal in the 50m freestyle .

In addition, it was decided during these world championships that the 2010 World Short Course Championships should take place in Dubai and the 2012 World Short Course Championships in Istanbul .

Explanation of symbols

• WR - world record
• ER - European record
• CR - world championship record (championship record)

Swimming men

Freestyle

50 m freestyle

Final on April 11th

space	country	athlete	time
1	Croatia	Duje Draganja	00: 20.81 WR
2	Society. King	Mark Foster	00: 21.31
3	South Africa	Gerhard Zandberg	00: 21.33
4th	United States	Ryan Lochte	00: 21.44
5	Argentina	Jose Meolans	00: 21.48
6th	Australia	Grant Brits	00: 21.68
7th	Slovenia	Jernej Godec	00: 21.74
8th	United States	Bryan Lundquist	00: 21.77

100 m freestyle

Final on April 13th

space	country	athlete	time
1	United States	Nathan Adrian	00: 46.67 CR
2	Italy	Filippo Magnini	00: 46.70
3	Croatia	Duje Draganja	00: 46.83
4th	Argentina	Jose Meolans	00: 47.54
5	Algeria	Nabil kebbab	00: 47.60
6th	Netherlands	Mitja Zastrow	00: 47.98
7th	United States	Bryan Lundquist	00: 47.01
8th	Brazil	Silva Fernando	00: 47.19

200 m freestyle

Final on April 9th

space	country	athlete	time
1	Australia	Kenrick Monk	01: 43.46
2	Australia	Kirk Palmer	01: 43.50
3	Italy	Massimiliano Rosolino	01: 44.23
4th	Russia	Alexander Sukhorukov	01: 44.28
5	Italy	Filippo Magnini	01: 44.33
6th	Brazil	Rodrigo Castro	01: 45.33
7th	Society. King	David Carry	01: 46.29
8th	Latvia	Romans Miloslavskis	01: 46.65

400 m freestyle

Final on April 11th

space	country	athlete	time
1	Russia	Yuri Prilukov	03: 37.35 ER
2	Italy	Massimiliano Rosolino	03: 39.60
3	Society. King	Robert Renwick	03: 40.22
4th	Society. King	David Carry	03: 40.51
5	Russia	Nikita Lobintsev	03: 42.10
6th	Italy	Emiliano Brembilla	03: 42.10
7th	Australia	Nicholas Sprenger	03: 43.17
8th	United States	Robert Margalis	03: 45.31

1500 m freestyle

Final on April 13th

space	country	athlete	time
1	Russia	Yuri Prilukov	14: 22.98 CR
2	Society. King	David Davies	14: 36.30
3	Poland	Mateusz Sawrymowicz	14: 43.37
4th	United States	Larsen Jensen	14: 44.21
5	Russia	Nikita Lobintsev	14: 50.13
6th	Poland	Przemysław Stańczyk	14: 52.64
7th	United States	Robert Margalis	14: 56.45
8th	Society. King	Michael Unsworth	15: 12.03

butterfly

50 m butterfly

Final on April 12th

space	country	athlete	time
1	Australia	Adam Pine	00: 22.78
2	Ukraine	Serhiy Breus	00: 22.86 ER
3	Russia	Yevgeny Korotyshkin	00: 22.94
4th	Venezuela	Albert Subirats	00: 22.96
5	Society. King	Mark Foster	00: 23.04
6th	Germany	Johannes Dietrich	00: 23.05
7th	Croatia	Mario Todorovic	00: 23.23
8th	Australia	Christopher Wright	00: 23.28

100 m butterfly

Final on April 10th

space	country	athlete	time
1	Slovenia	Peter Mankoč	00: 50.04 CR
2	Australia	Adam Pine	00: 50.54
3	Russia	Nikolai Skvortsov	00: 50.78
4th	Venezuela	Albert Subirats	00: 50.88
5	New Zealand	Moss Burmester	00: 50.94
6th	New Zealand	Corney Swanepoel	00: 51.20
7th	Spain	Rafael Muñoz	00: 51.86
8th	Kenya	Jason Dunford	00: 52.18

200 m butterfly

Final on April 13th

space	country	athlete	time
1	New Zealand	Moss Burmester	01: 51.05
2	Russia	Nikolai Skvortsov	01: 51.83
3	Poland	Paweł Korzeniowski	01: 52.25
4th	Greece	Ioannis Drymonakos	01: 52.68
5	United States	Nicholas Valkots	01: 53.02
6th	Romania	Ioan Stefan Gherghel	01: 53.91
7th	Bahamas	Jeremy Knowels	01: 54.31
8th	Russia	Maxim Ganikhin	01: 55.45

move

50 m back

Final on April 12th

space	country	athlete	time
1	United States	Peter Marshall	00: 23.49
2	Society. King	Liam Tancock	00: 23.53
3	Australia	Ashley Delaney	00: 23.57
4th	Germany	Thomas Rupprath	00: 23.65
5	South Africa	Gerhard Zandberg	00: 23.70
6th	United States	Randall Bal	00: 23.73
7th	People's Republic of China	Xiaolei Sun	00: 23.82
8th	Venezuela	Albert Subirats	00: 23.94

100 m back

Final on April 10th

space	country	athlete	time
1	Society. King	Liam Tancock	00: 50.14
2	United States	Randall Bal	00: 50.42
3	Russia	Stanislaw Donets	00: 50.53
4th	Austria	Markus Rogan	00: 50.61
5	Australia	Ashley Delaney	00: 50.71
6th	Spain	Aschwin Wildeboer Faber	00: 50.96
7th	Brazil	Guilherme Guido	00: 51.04
8th	Australia	Robert Hurley	00: 51.19

200 m back

Final on April 13th

space	country	athlete	time
1	Austria	Markus Rogan	01: 47.84 WR
2	United States	Ryan Lochte	01: 47.91
3	Russia	Stanislaw Donets	01: 50.45
4th	Australia	Ashley Delaney	01: 50.49
5	Spain	Aschwin Wildeboer Faber	01: 51.36
6th	Society. King	Gregor Tait	01: 51.66
7th	United States	Rendall Bal	01: 52.05
8th	Brazil	Lucas Salatta	01: 53.41

chest

50 m chest

Final on April 11th

space	country	athlete	time
1	Ukraine	Oleh Lissohor	00: 26.46
2	United States	Mark Gangloff	00: 26.54
3	South Africa	Cameron van der Burgh	00: 26.67
4th	Italy	Alessandro Terrin	00: 26.79
5	Netherlands	Robin van Aggele	00: 26.88
6th	Slovenia	Damir Dugonjič	00: 27.08
7th	South Africa	Gerhard Zandberg	00: 27.19
8th	Norway	Alexander Dale Ön	00: 27.33

100 m chest

Final on April 10th

space	country	athlete	time
1	Ukraine	Ihor Boryssyk	00: 57.74 CR
2	South Africa	Cameron van der Burgh	00: 57.92
3	Ukraine	Oleh Lissohor	00: 58.75
4th	Norway	Alexander Dale Ön	00: 58.14
	United States	Mark Gangloff
6th	Netherlands	Robin Van Aggele	00: 58.70
7th	New Zealand	Glenn Snyders	00: 58.82
8th	Society. King	James Gibson	00: 59.38

200 m chest

Final on April 11th

space	country	athlete	time
1	Society. King	Kristopher Gilchrist	02: 06.18
2	Ukraine	Ihor Boryssyk	02: 06.21
3	South Africa	William Diering	02: 06.85
4th	Denmark	Chris Christensen	02: 07.20
5	Bulgaria	Mihail Alexandrov	02: 08.23
6th	Japan	Kyosuke Yonehara	02: 07.63
7th	United States	Ryan Hurley	02: 09.53
8th	Austria	Maxim Podoprigora	02: 10.82

Locations

100 m layers

Final on April 13th

space	country	athlete	time
1	United States	Ryan Lochte	51.15 WR
2	Slovenia	Peter Mankoč	52.21 ER
3	Society. King	Liam Tancock	52.22
4th	Australia	Leith Brodie	53.07
5	Italy	Christian Galenda	53.33
6th	Netherlands	Robin van Aggele	53.40
7th	South Africa	Gerhard Zandberg	53.54
8th	Trinidad and Tobago	George Bovell	54.03

200 m layers

Final on April 11th

space	country	athlete	time
1	United States	Ryan Lochte	01: 51.56 WR
2	Society. King	Liam Tancock	01: 53.10
3	Society. King	James Goddard	01: 55.15
4th	Australia	Leith Brodie	01: 55.91
5	Austria	Dinko Jukić	01: 56.06
6th	Bahamas	Jeremy Knowles	01: 56.78
7th	Portugal	Diogo Filipe Carvalho	01: 57.67
8th	New Zealand	Dean Kent	01: 57.90

400 m layers

Final on April 10th

space	country	athlete	time
1	United States	Ryan Lochte	04: 03.21
2	United States	Robert Margalis	04: 03.74
3	Austria	Dinko Jukić	04: 06.40
4th	Society. King	Euan Dale	04: 06.97
5	Poland	Łukasz Wójt	04: 08.88
6th	Society. King	Thomas Haffield	4: 09.83
7th	Russia	Alexander Tikhonov	04: 10.39

The third placed in the competition Ioannis Drymonakos (04: 05.11) was later disqualified due to the positive results of a training doping control from the beginning of March 2008, whereby Dinko Jukic was subsequently awarded the bronze medal.

Season

Relay 4 × 100 m freestyle

Final on April 9th

space	country	Athletes	time
1	United States	Ryan Lochte Bryan Lundquvist Nathan Adrian Doug van Wie	03: 08.44 WR
2	Netherlands	Robert Lijesen Bas van Velthoven Mitja Zastrow Robin van Aggele	03: 09.18 ER
3	Sweden	Petter stymne Stefan Nystrand Lars Frölander Marcus Piml	03: 10.04
4th	Italy	Alessandro Calvi Christian Galenda Michele Santucci Filippo Magnini	03: 10.32
5	Australia	Leith Brodie Grant Brits Kirk Palmer Kenrick Monk	03: 11.18
6th	Society. King	Ben Hockin Craig Gibbons Matthew Clay Ross Davenport	03: 11.04
7th	Russia	Yevgeny Lagunov Andrei Grechin Andrei Kapralov Alexander Sukhorukov	03: 12.18
8th	Brazil	Rodrigo Castro Fernando Silva Lucas Salatta Eduardo Deboni	03: 13.03

Relay 4 × 200 m freestyle

Final on April 9th

space	country	Athletes	time
1	Australia	Kirk Palmer Grant Brits Nicholas Sprenger Kenrick Monk	06: 55.65 CR
2	Society. King	Robert Renwick David Carry Andrew Hunter Ross Davenport	06: 56.52 ER
3	Italy	Emiliano Brembilla Massimiliano Rosolino Nicola Cassio Filippo Magnini	06: 58.39
4th	United States	Ryan Lochte Robert Margalis Larsen Jensen Doug van Wie	07:00, 19
5	Russia	Nikita Lobintsev Yevgeny Lagunov Mikhail Polishchuk Alexander Sukhorukov	07: 01.72
6th	Netherlands	Olaf Wildeboer Mitja Zastrow Bas van Velthoven Joost Reijns	07: 03.22
7th	Portugal	Diogo Filipe Carvalho Tiago Venancio Duarte Mourao Adriano Niz	07: 10.75
8th	Poland	Lukasz Gasior Michal Rokicki Lukasz Giminski Łukasz Wójt	07: 15.89

Relay 4 × 100 m layers

Final on April 13th

space	country	Athletes	time
1	Russia	Stanislaw Donets Sergei Geibel Yevgeny Korotyshkin Alexander Sukhorukov	03: 24.29 WR
2	United States	Randall Bal Mark Gangloff Ryan Lochte Nathan Adrian	03: 24.38
3	New Zealand	Daniel Bell Glenn Snyders Corney Swanepoel Cameron Gibson	03: 27.15
4th	Australia	Ashley Delaney Craig Calder Adam Pine Kenrick Monk	03: 27.51
5	Society. King	Liam Tancock James Gibson Michael Rock Ben Hockin	03: 28.38
6th	Brazil	Guilherme Guido Felipe Silva Lucas Salatta Fernando Silva	03: 28.88
7th	Spain	Aschwin Wildeboer Faber Borja Iradier Rafael Muñoz Pérez Eduard Lorente	03: 29.04
8th	Netherlands	Bastiaan Tamminga Robin Van Aggele Joeri Verlinden Robert Lljesen	03: 30.08

Swimming women

Freestyle

50 m freestyle

Final on April 13th

space	country	athlete	time
1	Netherlands	Marleen Veldhuis	00: 23.25 WR
2	Netherlands	Hinkelien Schreuder	00: 23.83
3	Society. King	Francesca Halsall	00: 24.11
4th	United States	Jessica Hardy	00: 24.28
5	Australia	Alice Mills	00: 24.46
6th	Poland	Agata Korc	00: 24.58
7th	Sweden	Claire Hedenskog	00: 24.66
8th	Finland	Hanna-Maria Seppälä	00: 24.68

100 m freestyle

Final on April 11th

space	country	athlete	time
1	Netherlands	Marleen Veldhuis	00: 52.17 CR
2	Society. King	Francesca Halsall	00: 52.76
3	Finland	Hanna-Maria Seppälä	00: 52.94
4th	Sweden	Josefin Lillhage	00: 52.98
5	United States	Kara Denby	00: 53.00
6th	Australia	Shayne Reese	00: 53.40
7th	Australia	Alice Mills	00: 53.60
8th	United States	Emily Silver	00: 53.64

200 m freestyle

Final on April 13th

space	country	athlete	time
1	Australia	Kylie Palmer	01: 54.41
2	Netherlands	Femke Heemskerk	01: 54.65
3	Society. King	Caitlin McClatchey	01: 55.15
4th	Sweden	Josefin Lillhage	01: 55.88
5	USA association. King	Erin Rerilly Melanie Marshall	01: 56.10
7th	People's Republic of China	Qianwei Zhu	01: 56.76
8th	United States	Mary Descenza	01: 57.78

400 m freestyle

Final on April 11th

space	country	athlete	time
1	Australia	Kylie Palmer	03: 59.23 CR
2	Romania	Camelia Potec	04: 01.06
3	Society. King	Joanne Jackson	04: 01.11
4th	Australia	Bronte Barratt	04: 01.26
5	Spain	Erika Villaécija	04: 02.89
6th	South Africa	Melissa Corfe	04: 03.50
7th	New Zealand	Helen Norfolk	04: 06.67
8th	United States	Katie Carroll	04: 06.80

800 m freestyle

Final on April 10th

space	country	athlete	time
1	Society. King	Rebecca Adlington	08: 08.25 ER
2	Australia	Kylie Palmer	08: 12.32
3	Spain	Erika Villaécija	08: 13.93
4th	Romania	Camelia Potec	08: 17.08
5	Italy	Alessia Filippi	08: 18.45
6th	Society. King	Joanne Jackson	08: 18.87
7th	United States	Katie Carroll	08: 22.94
8th	South Africa	Katheryn Meaklim	08: 25.53

butterfly

50 m butterfly

Final on April 11th

space	country	athlete	time
1	Australia	Felicity Galvez	00: 25.32 WR
2	Netherlands	Hinkelien Schreuder	00: 25.40
3	Netherlands	Inge Dekker	00: 25.60
4th	United States	Rachel Komisarz	00: 25.70
5	Israel	Anna Gostomelsky	00: 25.74
6th	France	Diane Bui Duyet	00: 26.04
7th	Poland	Agata Korc	00: 26.15
8th	Colombia	Carolina Colorado	00: 26.72

100 m butterfly

Final on April 13th

space	country	athlete	time
1	Australia	Felicity Galvez	00: 55.89 WR
2	United States	Rachel Komisarz	00: 56.32
3	Society. King	Jemma Lowe	00: 56.84
4th	South Africa	Mandy Loots	00: 56.95
5	South Africa	Lize Mari Retief	00: 57.32
6th	Netherlands	Chantal Groot	00: 57.73
7th	Israel	Anna Gostomelsky	00: 58.02
8th	Society. King	Ellen Gandy	00: 58.10

200 m butterfly

Final on April 9th

space	country	athlete	time
1	United States	Mary Descenza	02: 04.27
2	Australia	Felicity Galvez	02: 04.90
3	Society. King	Jessica Dickons	02: 05.09
4th	Society. King	Jemma Lowe	02: 05.89
5	Australia	Samantha Hamill	02: 06.43
6th	Sweden	Petra Granlund	02: 07.07
7th	People's Republic of China	Sinan Ha	02: 08.33
8th	United States	Erin Reilly	02: 09.12

move

50 m back

Final on April 13th

space	country	athlete	time
1	Croatia	Sanja Jovanović	00: 26.37 WR
2	People's Republic of China	Chang Gao	00: 26.70
3	Ukraine	Kateryna Zubkowa	00: 26.81
4th	Israel	Anna Gostomelsky	00: 26.84
5	Zimbabwe	Kirsty Coventry	00: 26.85
6th	Australia	Belinda Hocking	00: 26.94
7th	Canada	Jennifer Carroll	00: 27.37
8th	Society. King	Elizabeth Simmonds	00: 27.79

100 m back

Final on April 10th

space	country	athlete	time
1	Zimbabwe	Kirsty Coventry	00: 57.10 CR
2	Ukraine	Kateryna Zubkova	00: 57.15 ER
3	Croatia	Sanja Jovanović	00: 57.80
4th	Australia	Rachel Goh	00: 57.83
5	Australia	Belinda Hocking	00: 57.87
6th	United States	Margaret Hoelzer	00: 58.22
7th	Society. King	Elizabeth Simmonds	00: 58.28
8th	Israel	Anna Gostomelsky	00: 58.49

200 m back

Final on April 11th

space	country	athlete	time
1	Zimbabwe	Kirsty Coventry	02: 00.91 WR
2	Society. King	Elizabeth Simmonds	02: 02.60 ER
3	United States	Margaret Hoelzer	02: 03.85
4th	New Zealand	Melissa Ingram	02: 04.70
5	Australia	Meagen Nay	02: 05.47
6th	Australia	Frances Adcock	02: 05.75
7th	United States	Mary Descenza	02: 06.14
8th	Ukraine	Kateryna Zubkova	02: 07.66

chest

50 m chest

Final on April 10th

space	country	athlete	time
1	United States	Jessica Hardy	00: 29.58 WR
2	Society. King Australia	Kate Haywood Sarah Katsoulis	00: 30.35
4th	New Zealand	Zoe Baker	00: 30.38
5	Australia	Jade Edmistone	00: 30.39
6th	Austria	Mirna Jukić	00: 30.54
7th	Netherlands	Jolijn van Valkengoed	00: 31.10
DSQ	Russia	Yulia Efimova

100 m chest

Final on April 12th

space	country	athlete	time
1	United States	Jessica Hardy	01: 04.22
2	Australia	Jade Edmistone	01: 04.93
3	South Africa	Suzaan can Biljon	01: 05.38
4th	Australia	Sarah Katsoulis	01: 05.46
5	Russia	Yulia Efimova	01: 05.71
6th	Austria	Mirna Jukić	01: 06.09
7th	Society. King	Kate Haywood	01: 06.35
8th	People's Republic of China	Ye Sun	01: 06.99

200 m chest

Final on April 13th

space	country	athlete	time
1	South Africa	Suzaan va Biljon	02: 18.73 CR
2	Australia	Sally Foster	02: 20.11
3	Russia	Yulia Efimova	02: 20.48
4th	People's Republic of China	Ye Sun	02: 21.01
5	Austria	Mirna Jukić	02: 21.11
6th	Spain	Mireia Belmonte	02: 21.65
7th	Russia	Alena Alekseeva	02: 22.46
8th	United States	Elizabeth Tinnon	02: 24.35

Locations

100 m layers

Final on April 11th

space	country	athlete	time
1	Australia	Shayne Reese	00: 59.58
2	Finland	Hanna-Maria Seppälä	00: 59.62 ER
3	Zimbabwe	Kirsty Coventry	00: 59.77
4th	Belarus	Svitlana Khakhlova	01: 00.47
5	Netherlands	Femke Heemskerk	01: 00.64
6th	Australia	Kirsty Morrison	01: 01.03
7th	Russia	Daria Belyakina	01: 01.09
8th	People's Republic of China	Jiaxing Li	01: 01.12

200 m layers

Final on April 12th

space	country	athlete	time
1	Zimbabwe	Kirsty Coventry	02: 06.13 WR
2	Spain	Mireia Belmonte	02: 07.46 ER
3	Society. King	Hannah Miley	02: 08.79
4th	People's Republic of China	Jiaxing Li	02: 09.15
5	Society. King	Elizabeth Simmonds	02: 09.24
6th	New Zealand	Helen Norfolk	02: 10.17
7th	People's Republic of China	Jing Liu	02: 10.81
8th	United States	Emily Silver	02: 10.90

400 m layers

Final on April 9th

space	country	athlete	time
1	Zimbabwe	Kirsty Coventry	04: 26.52 WR
2	Society. King	Hannah Miley	04: 27.27 ER
3	Spain	Mireia Belmonte	04: 27.55
4th	South Africa	Jessica Pengelly	04: 31.79
5	Italy	Alessia Filippi	04: 33.56
6th	New Zealand	Helen Norfolk	04: 34.36
7th	United States	Julia Stupp	04: 37.34
8th	Australia	Jennifer Reilly	04: 41.69

Season

Relay 4 × 100 m freestyle

Final on April 12th

space	country	Athletes	time
1	Netherlands	Hinkelien Schreuder Femke Heemskerk Inge Dekker Marleen Veldhuis	03: 29.42 WR
2	Australia	Alice Mills Shayne Reese Kelly Stubbins Angie Bainbridge	03: 32.00
3	Society. King	Francesca Halsall Caitlin McClatchey Julia Beckett Melanie Marshall	03: 32.88
4th	Sweden	Ida Marko-Varga Josefin Lillhage Claire Hedenskog Petra Granlund	03: 34.64
5	United States	Jessica Hardy Rachel Komisarz Emily Silver Kara Denby	03: 34.96
6th	People's Republic of China	Dan Wang Mengjiao Mi Wenrui Zhu Qianwei Zhu	03: 41.92
7th	Germany	Lisa Vitting Franziska Jansen Lena Celina Hiller Christin Zenner	03: 43.67
8th	South Africa	Melissa Corfe Lize Mari Retief Jessica Pengelly Katheryn Meaklim	03: 45.27

Relay 4 × 200 m freestyle

Final on April 9th

space	country	Athletes	time
1	Netherlands	Inge Dekker Femke Heemskerk Marleen Veldhuis Ranomi Kromowidjojo	07: 38.90 WR
2	Society. King	Joanne Jackson Melanie Marshall Caitlin McClatchey Rebecca Adlington	07: 38.96
3	Australia	Bronte Barratt Angie Bainbridge Kelly Stubbins Kylie Palmer	07: 39.01
4th	United States	Mary Descenza Margaret Hoelzer Erin Reilly Rachel Komisarz	07: 45.58
5	People's Republic of China	Qianwei Zhu Sinan Ha Jing Liu Mengjiao Mi	07: 57.93
6th	Macau	Lok In Che On kei lei Man Wai Fong Cheok Mei Ma	08: 52.55

• Since many strong nations did not take part, or had withdrawn their start (such as: France , Sweden , Germany , Italy ), it was possible that Macau could swim in the final over 4 × 200 m freestyle, or that only 6 lanes were occupied!     

Relay 4 × 100 m layers

Final on April 11th

space	country	Athletes	time
1	United States	Margaret Hoelzer Jessica Hardy Rachel Komisarz Kara Denby	03: 51.36 WR
2	Australia	Rachel Goh Sarah Katsoulis Felicity Galvez Alice Mills	03: 52.01
3	Society. King	Elizabeth Simmonds Kate Haywood Jemma Lowe Francesca Halsall	03: 53.02 ER
4th	Netherlands	Hinkelien Schreuder Jolijn to Valkengoed Inge Dekker Marleen Veldhuis	03: 56.07
5	Russia	Kseniya Moskvina Yulia Efimova Daria Belyakina Kira Volodina	03: 58.38
6th	People's Republic of China	Chang Gao Ye Sun Wenwen Hong Dan Wang	04: 00.49
7th	South Africa	Melissa Corfe Suzaan van Biljon Mandy Loots Lize Mari Retief	04: 00.73
8th	Japan	Ryo Sawada Kahori Sato Yuki Miyatake Eriko Mashima	04: 07.99

See also

• Short course world championships
• Swimming world championships
• European short course championships
• European Swimming Championships

Web links

• Homepage of the short course world championships 2008
• Homepage of the Manchester Evening News Arena