Overall Medal Standings as at 12.45pm on August 14, 2008
Japan's Kitajima wins Men's 200m Breaststroke(Thank you and credits to Clive Brunskill/Getty Images)
The Women's 200m Butterfly final at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games took place in the National Aquatics Center, also known as the Water Cube, in Beijing, China, on August 14, 2008. Liu Zige of China won the gold medal with a new world record of 2 minutes 04.18 seconds. Fellow Chinese Jiao Liuyang took silver in 2:04.72 and Australia's Jessicah Schipper grabbed the bronze in 2:06.26.
Kitajima Kosuke during the competition (Photo credit: Al Bello/Getty Images)
The Men's 200m Breaststroke final took place at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in the National Aquatics Center, also known as the Water Cube, in Beijing, China, on August 14, 2008. Kitajima Kosuke of Japan set a new Olympic record and won the gold medal in the event with 2 minutes 7.64 seconds. Australian Brenton Rickard got the silver in 2:08.88 and French Hugues Duboscq finished third in 2:08.94.
Women's 200m Butterfly: Liu wins China's first pool gold (Thank you and credits to Xinhua)
Beijing - August 14, 2008: Liu Zige of China thrilled the home crowd at the National Aquatics Center with China's first Swimming gold medal at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, winning the Women's 200m Butterfly in a world record 2:04.18.
Liu, who had qualified fastest for the final in an Asian record of 2:06.25, lowered the old world mark by 1.22 seconds.
It was a double celebration for the home crowd, who has seen plenty of Chinese success in Diving but little in the Swimming pool, as Jiao Liuyang finished behind her teammate to take the silver medal. Her time of 2:04.72 was also under the old world record mark.
Former world record holder Jessicah Schipper of Australia, who recovered from a poor heat swim to qualify second fastest for the final, took the Chinese pair out hard and early and was 1.12 seconds under her own world mark at the 100m.
But she tired in the second half of the race and was overtaken in the final 50m, having to make do with the bronze medal in a time of 2:06.26.
Defending Olympic champion Otylia Jedrzejczak of Poland finished fourth in 2:07.02.
Liu Zige of China wins Women's 200m Butterfly in world record time(Thank you and credits to Fei Maohua Xinhua)
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