Tags: Olympic Event, Olympics.
The women’s 400 metre freestyle event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on 10–11 August at the Beijing National Aquatics Center in Beijing China.Rebecca Adlington became Great Britain’s first ever female gold medalist in swimming after 48 years. She posted an outside-record time of 4:03.22 to hold off U.S. swimmer Katie Hoff in the final 50 metres with a 1.46-second deficit. Hoff added a silver to her hardware from the 400 m individual medley just a day earlier in 4:03.29.