100m Butterfly (Women) at Beijing Summer Games is a popular swimming event in the Summer Games. Swimming is one of the events that attract numerous people from all over to the world to the Olympic arena. Initially women were not allowed to participate in any form of swimming events. But gradually things changed with time. There are also other events of swimming that are conducted during the Olympics. The 1956 Summer Olympics saw the first (Women) 100m Butterfly Event. From then on, the Olympics Swimming Events has been an integral part of the Summer Games.
Beijing Summer Games 2008 also has this swimming event in their schedule. The swimming events in the Beijing Summer Games 2008 are scheduled to begin from 9th August and continue till 21st August. Marathon swimming competitions cannot take place in a closed area, so apart from that all other swimming events will be hosted in the Beijing National Aquatics Center. Several female swimmers from various nations of the world have participated in the Butterfly 100m (Women) event.
The butterfly form of swimming requires simultaneous hand movements and the swimming stroke is based on the breast. This swimming technique requires lot of skills and efforts. This style was not swum in many competitions, but with time, they were included in small competitions and were later included in larger championships. Mostly swimmers from the European nations excel in this swimming event.
Some of the renowned 100m Butterfly (Women) swimmers are as follows:
Limin Liu
Kornelia Ender
Crissy Ahmann-Leighton
Petria Thomas
Angel Martino
Hong Qian
Inge de Bruijn
Catherine Plewinski
Wendy Boglioli
Andrea Pollack
Otylia Jedrzejczak
