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The women’s 200 metre butterfly event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on 12–14 August at the Beijing National Aquatics Center in Beijing China.In front of a large home crowd inside the Water Cube Liu Zige powered past the entire field to capture a first gold medal for the host nation in swimming. She set a new world record of 2:04.18 to cut off a 1.32-second standard set by Australia’s Jessicah Schipper at the 2006 Pan Pacific Championships in Victoria British Columbia Canada.

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