Swimming at the 2008 Summer Games: Previous Summer Games
Host City: Beijing, China
Location: National Aquatics Centre (Water Cube)
Date Started: August 11, 2008
Date Finished: August 11, 2008
Format: Fastest eight swimmers advanced to final
| Gold: | Aaron Peirsol |
| Silver: | Matt Grevers |
| Bronze: | Arkady Vyachanin Hayden Stoeckel |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T | RT | L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arkady Vyachanin | 24 | Russia | RUS | 53.06 | 0.78 | 4 | |
| 2 | Aschwin Wildeboer | 22 | Spain | ESP | 53.51 | 0.60 | 5 | QU |
| 3 | Liam Tancock | 23 | Great Britain | GBR | 53.61 | 0.56 | 3 | QU |
| 4 | Junichi Miyashita | 24 | Japan | JPN | 53.69 | 0.58 | 2 | QU |
| 5 | Tomomi Morita | 23 | Japan | JPN | 53.95 | 0.54 | 7 | |
| 6 | Gregor Tait | 29 | Great Britain | GBR | 54.37 | 0.64 | 8 | |
| 7 | Ľuboš Križko | 28 | Slovakia | SVK | 54.38 | 0.64 | 6 | |
| 8 | Mirco Di Tora | 22 | Italy | ITA | 54.92 | 0.57 | 1 |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T | RT | L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hayden Stoeckel | 23 | Australia | AUS | 52.97 | 0.59 | 6 | |
| 2 | Matt Grevers | 23 | United States | USA | 52.99 | 0.66 | 4 | QU |
| 3 | Aaron Peirsol | 25 | United States | USA | 53.56 | 0.72 | 5 | QU |
| 4 | Ash Delaney | 22 | Australia | AUS | 53.76 | 0.50 | 2 | QU |
| 5 | Markus Rogan | 26 | Austria | AUT | 53.80 | 0.70 | 1 | |
| 6 | Gerhard Zandberg | 25 | South Africa | RSA | 53.98 | 0.63 | 3 | |
| 7 | Stanislav Donets | 25 | Russia | RUS | 54.57 | 0.72 | 7 | |
| 8 | Guy Barnea | 20 | Israel | ISR | 54.93 | 0.64 | 8 |