2004 Summer Olympics / Swimming

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Swimming at the
2004 Olympics
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information
venue GreeceGreece Athens
Competition venue Olympic Aquatic Center
Nations 152
Athletes 937 (544 Mars symbol (male), 393 Venus symbol (female))
date August 14-21, 2004
decisions 32
Sydney 2000

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in the Greek capital Athens , the swimming competitions took place in the Olympic Aquatic Center of the Athens Olympic Sports Complex . For a long time now, international championships have been held in the open air again. The roof was not built because it would not have been finished by the start of the competitions.

Balance sheet

Medal table

space country gold silver bronze total
1 United StatesUnited States United States 12 9 7th 28
2 AustraliaAustralia Australia 7th 5 3 15th
3 JapanJapan Japan 3 1 4th 8th
4th NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands 2 3 2 7th
5 UkraineUkraine Ukraine 2 - 1 3
6th FranceFrance France 1 2 3 6th
7th PolandPoland Poland 1 2 - 3
8th South AfricaSouth Africa South Africa 1 1 1 3
ZimbabweZimbabwe Zimbabwe 1 1 1 3
10 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China China 1 1 - 2
11 RomaniaRomania Romania 1 - 1 2
12 AustriaAustria Austria - 2 - 2
13 GermanyGermany Germany - 1 4th 5
14th HungaryHungary Hungary - 1 1 2
ItalyItaly Italy - 1 1 2
16 CroatiaCroatia Croatia - 1 - 1
RussiaRussia Russia - 1 - 1
18th United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain - - 2 2
19th ArgentinaArgentina Argentina - - 1 1
Trinidad and TobagoTrinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago - - 1 1
total 32 32 33 97

Medalist

Men
discipline gold silver bronze
50 m freestyle United StatesUnited States Gary Hall Junior CroatiaCroatia Duje Draganja South AfricaSouth Africa Roland Schoeman
100 m freestyle NetherlandsNetherlands Pieter van den Hoogenband South AfricaSouth Africa Roland Schoeman AustraliaAustralia Ian Thorpe
200 m freestyle AustraliaAustralia Ian Thorpe NetherlandsNetherlands Pieter van den Hoogenband United StatesUnited States Michael Phelps
400 m freestyle AustraliaAustralia Ian Thorpe AustraliaAustralia Grant Hackett United StatesUnited States Klete cellar
1500 m freestyle AustraliaAustralia Grant Hackett United StatesUnited States Larsen Jensen United KingdomUnited Kingdom David Davies
100 m back United StatesUnited States Aaron Peirsol AustriaAustria Markus Rogan JapanJapan Tomomi Morita
200 m back United StatesUnited States Aaron Peirsol AustriaAustria Markus Rogan RomaniaRomania Răzvan Florea
100 m chest JapanJapan Kosuke Kitajima United StatesUnited States Brendan Hansen FranceFrance Hugues Duboscq
200 m chest JapanJapan Kosuke Kitajima HungaryHungary Daniel Gyurta United StatesUnited States Brendan Hansen
100 m butterfly United StatesUnited States Michael Phelps United StatesUnited States Ian Crocker UkraineUkraine Andriy Serdinov
200 m butterfly United StatesUnited States Michael Phelps JapanJapan Takashi Yamamoto United KingdomUnited Kingdom Stephen Parry
200 m layers United StatesUnited States Michael Phelps United StatesUnited States Ryan Lochte Trinidad and TobagoTrinidad and Tobago George Bovell
400 m layers United StatesUnited States Michael Phelps United StatesUnited States Erik Vendt HungaryHungary László Cseh
4 × 100 m freestyle South AfricaSouth Africa South Africa
Roland Schoeman
Lyndon Ferns
Darian Townsend
Ryk Neethling
NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands
Johan Kenkhuis
Mitja Zastrow
Klaas-Erik Zwering
Pieter van den Hoogenband
Mark Veens (in advance)
United StatesUnited States United States
Ian Crocker
Michael Phelps
Neil Walker Jason Lezak
Gabe Woodward (advance)
Nate Dusing (advance)
Neil Walker (advance)
Gary Hall junior (advance)
4 × 200 m freestyle United StatesUnited States United States
Michael Phelps
Ryan Lochte
Peter Vanderkaay
Klete Keller
Scott Goldblatt (in the lead)
Daniel Ketchum (in the lead)
AustraliaAustralia Australia
Grant Hackett
Michael Klim
Nicholas Sprenger
Ian Thorpe
Todd Pearson (in the lead)
Antony Matkovich (in the lead)
Craig Stevens (in the lead)
ItalyItaly Italy
Emiliano Brembilla
Massimiliano Rosolino
Simone Cercato
Filippo Magnini
Matteo Pelliciari (in the lead)
Federico Cappellazzo (in the lead)
4 × 100 m layers United StatesUnited States United States
Aaron Peirsol
Brendan Hansen
Ian Crocker
Jason Lezak
Lenny Krayzelburg (advance)
Mark Gangloff (advance)
Michael Phelps (advance)
Neil Walker (advance)
GermanyGermany Germany
Steffen Driesen
Jens Kruppa
Thomas Rupprath
Lars Conrad
Helge Meeuw (in advance)
JapanJapan Japan
Tomomi Morita
Kōsuke Kitajima
Takashi Yamamoto
Yoshihiro Okumura
Women
discipline gold silver bronze
50 m freestyle NetherlandsNetherlands Inge de Bruijn FranceFrance Malia Metella AustraliaAustralia Lisbeth Lenton
100 m freestyle AustraliaAustralia Jodie Henry NetherlandsNetherlands Inge de Bruijn United StatesUnited States Natalie Coughlin
200 m freestyle RomaniaRomania Camelia Potec ItalyItaly Federica Pellegrini FranceFrance Solenne Figuès
400 m freestyle FranceFrance Laure Manaudou PolandPoland Otylia Jędrzejczak United StatesUnited States Kaitlin Sandeno
800 m freestyle JapanJapan Ai Shibata FranceFrance Laure Manaudou United StatesUnited States Diana Munz
100 m back United StatesUnited States Natalie Coughlin ZimbabweZimbabwe Kirsty Coventry FranceFrance Laure Manaudou
200 m back ZimbabweZimbabwe Kirsty Coventry RussiaRussia Stanislawa Komarova GermanyGermany Antje Buschschulte Reiko Nakamura
JapanJapan 
100 m chest China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Luo Xuejuan AustraliaAustralia Brooke Hanson AustraliaAustralia Leisel Jones
200 m chest United StatesUnited States Amanda Beard AustraliaAustralia Leisel Jones GermanyGermany Anne Poleska
100 m butterfly AustraliaAustralia Petria Thomas PolandPoland Otylia Jędrzejczak NetherlandsNetherlands Inge de Bruijn
200 m butterfly PolandPoland Otylia Jędrzejczak AustraliaAustralia Petria Thomas JapanJapan Yūko Nakanishi
200 m layers UkraineUkraine Jana Klotschkowa United StatesUnited States Amanda Beard ZimbabweZimbabwe Kirsty Coventry
400 m layers UkraineUkraine Jana Klotschkowa United StatesUnited States Kaitlin Sandeno ArgentinaArgentina Georgina Bardach
4 × 100 m freestyle AustraliaAustralia Australia
Alice Mills
Lisbeth Lenton
Petria Thomas
Jodie Henry
Sarah Ryan (in advance)
United StatesUnited States United States
Lynn Joyce
Natalie Coughlin
Amanda Weir
Jenny Thompson
Colleen Lanne (advance)
Lindsay Benko (advance)
Maritza Correira (advance)
NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands
Chantal Groot
Inge Dekker
Marleen Veldhuis
Inge de Bruijn
Annabel costs (in advance)
4 × 200 m freestyle United StatesUnited States United States
Natalie Coughlin
Carly Piper
Dana Vollmer
Kaitlin Sandeno
Lindsay Benko (in the lead)
Rhi Jeffrey (in the lead)
Rachel Komisarz (in the lead)
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China China
Zhu Yingwen
Xu Yanwei
Yang Yu
Pang Jiaying
Li Ji (in advance)
GermanyGermany Germany
Franziska van Almsick
Petra Dallmann
Antje Buschschulte
Hannah Stockbauer
Janina-Kristin Götz (in the lead)
Sara Harstick (in the lead)
4 × 100 m layers AustraliaAustralia Australia
Giaan Rooney
Leisel Jones
Petria Thomas Jodie Henry
Brooke Hanson (in advance)
Jessicah Schipper (in advance)
Alice Mills (in advance)
United StatesUnited States United States
Natalie Coughlin
Amanda Beard
Jenny Thompson
Kara Lynn Joyce
Haley Cope (in the lead)
Tara Kirk (in the lead)
Rachel Komisarz (in the lead)
Amanda Weir (in the lead)
GermanyGermany Germany
Antje Buschschulte
Sarah Poewe
Franziska van Almsick
Daniela Götz

Results men

50 m freestyle

rank country athlete time
1 United StatesUnited States United States Gary Hall Junior 21.93 s
2 CroatiaCroatia CRO Duje Draganja 21.94 s
3 South AfricaSouth Africa RSA Roland Schoeman 22.02 s
4th SwedenSweden SWE Stefan Nystrand 22.08 s
5 United StatesUnited States United States Jason Lezak 22.11 s
6th AustraliaAustralia OUT Brett Hawke 22.18 s
7th UkraineUkraine UKR Olexandr Wolynez 22.26 s
8th AlgeriaAlgeria ALG Salim Iles 22.37 s

Final: August 20, 2004, 8:09 p.m.

The Australian Brett Hawke set a new Oceania record with 22.07 s in the first semi-final.

100 m freestyle

rank country athlete time
1 NetherlandsNetherlands NED Pieter van den Hoogenband 48.17 s
2 South AfricaSouth Africa RSA Roland Schoeman 48.23 s
3 AustraliaAustralia OUT Ian Thorpe 48.56 s
4th South AfricaSouth Africa RSA Ryk Neethling 48.63 s
5 ItalyItaly ITA Filippo Magnini 48.99 s
6th CroatiaCroatia CRO Duje Draganja 49.23 s
7th AlgeriaAlgeria ALG Salim Iles 49.30 s
8th RussiaRussia RUS Andrei Kapralov 49.30 s

Final: August 18, 2004, 8:20 pm

200 m freestyle

rank country athlete time
1 AustraliaAustralia OUT Ian Thorpe 1: 44.27 min ( OR )
2 NetherlandsNetherlands NED Pieter van den Hoogenband 1: 45.23 min
3 United StatesUnited States United States Michael Phelps 1: 45.32 min ( CR )
4th United StatesUnited States United States Klete cellar 1: 46.13 min
5 AustraliaAustralia OUT Grant Hackett 1: 46.56 min
6th CanadaCanada CAN Rick Say 1: 47.55 min
7th United KingdomUnited Kingdom GBR Simon Burnett 1: 48.02 min
8th ItalyItaly ITA Emiliano Brembilla 1: 48.40 min

Final: August 16, 2004, 7:45 p.m.

This race was also known as the " Race of the Century " due to its extremely high-profile cast .

400 m freestyle

rank country athlete time
1 AustraliaAustralia OUT Ian Thorpe 3: 43.10 min
2 AustraliaAustralia OUT Grant Hackett 3: 43.36 min
3 United StatesUnited States United States Klete cellar 3: 44.11 min ( CR )
4th United StatesUnited States United States Larsen Jensen 3: 46.08 min
5 ItalyItaly ITA Massimiliano Rosolino 3: 46.25 min
6th RussiaRussia RUS Yuri Prilukov 3: 46.69 min
7th GreeceGreece GRE Spyros Gianniotis 3: 48.77 min
8th JapanJapan JPN Takeshi Matsuda 3: 48.96 min ( CR )

Final: August 14, 2004, 7:54 p.m.

1500 m freestyle

rank country athlete time
1 AustraliaAustralia OUT Grant Hackett 14: 43.40 min ( OR )
2 United StatesUnited States United States Larsen Jensen 14: 45.29 min ( CR )
3 United KingdomUnited Kingdom GBR David Davies 14: 45.95 min ( CR )
4th RussiaRussia RUS Yuri Prilukov 14: 52.48 min
5 GreeceGreece GRE Spyros Gianniotis 15: 03.69 min
6th United KingdomUnited Kingdom GBR Graeme Smith 15:09.71 min
7th RomaniaRomania ROME Dragoș Coman 15: 10.21 min
8th AustraliaAustralia OUT Craig Stevens 15: 13.66 min

Final: August 21, 2004, 7:39 pm

100 m back

rank country athlete time
1 United StatesUnited States United States Aaron Peirsol 54.06 s
2 AustriaAustria AUT Markus Rogan 54.35 s ( NR )
3 JapanJapan JPN Tomomi Morita 54.36 s ( CR )
4th United StatesUnited States United States Lenny Krayzelburg 54.38 s
5 AustraliaAustralia OUT Matt Welsh 54.52 s
6th HungaryHungary HUN László Cseh 54.61 s
7th GermanyGermany GER Steffen Driesen 54.63 s
8th GermanyGermany GER Marco di Carli 55.27 s

Final: August 16, 7:59 p.m.

Markus Rogan's silver medal was Austria's first medal at these Olympic Games.

200 m back

rank country athlete time
1 United StatesUnited States United States Aaron Peirsol 1: 54.95 min ( OR )
2 AustriaAustria AUT Markus Rogan 1: 57.35 min ( NR )
3 RomaniaRomania ROME Răzvan Florea 1: 57.56 min
4th United KingdomUnited Kingdom GBR James Goddard 1: 57.76 min
5 JapanJapan JPN Tomomi Morita 1: 58.40 min ( CR )
6th FranceFrance FRA Simon Dufour 1: 58.49 min
7th United KingdomUnited Kingdom GBR Gregor Tait 1: 59.28 min
8th SloveniaSlovenia SVN Blaž Medvešek 2:00:06 min

Final: August 19, 2004, 7:49 p.m.

Shortly after the race, Aaron Peirsol (USA) was disqualified because of a leg fault after the third turn and Markus Rogan (AUT) was declared the winner. After a protest by the Americans, the decision was corrected after 20 minutes because the disqualification was not formulated in the official language of the event. For Austria this was the 100th medal at the Summer Olympics.

100 m chest

rank country athlete time
1 JapanJapan JPN Kosuke Kitajima 1: 00.08 min
2 United StatesUnited States United States Brendan Hansen 1: 00.25 min
3 FranceFrance FRA Hugues Duboscq 1: 00.88 min
4th United StatesUnited States United States Mark Gangloff 1: 01.17 min
5 KazakhstanKazakhstan KAZ Vladislav Polyakov 1: 01.34 min
6th United KingdomUnited Kingdom GBR James Gibson 1: 01.36 min
7th United KingdomUnited Kingdom GBR Darren Mew 1: 01.66 min
8th UkraineUkraine UKR Oleh Lissohor 1: 02.42 min

Final: August 15, 2004, 8:04 p.m.

In the run-up, Jens Kruppa (GER) was able to set a new German record with 1: 01.19 minutes. In the semifinals, however, both he and René Kolonko were eliminated. The second in the final, Brendan Hansen (USA), swam a new Olympic record in the semifinals with 1: 00.01 min.

200 m chest

rank country athlete time
1 JapanJapan JPN Kosuke Kitajima 2: 09.44 min ( OR )
2 HungaryHungary HUN Daniel Gyurta 2: 10.80 min
3 United StatesUnited States United States Brendan Hansen 2: 10.87 min
4th ItalyItaly ITA Paolo Bossini 2: 11.20 min
5 KazakhstanKazakhstan KAZ Vladislav Polyakov 2: 11.76 min
6th CanadaCanada CAN Michael Brown 2: 11.94 min
7th United StatesUnited States United States Scott Usher 2: 11.95 min
AustraliaAustralia OUT Jim Piper DSQ

Final: August 18, 2004, 7:30 p.m.

100 m butterfly

rank country athlete time
1 United StatesUnited States United States Michael Phelps 51.25 s ( OR )
2 United StatesUnited States United States Ian Crocker 51.29 s
3 UkraineUkraine UKR Andriy Serdinov 51.36 s ( CR )
4th GermanyGermany GER Thomas Rupprath 52.27 s
5 RussiaRussia RUS Igor Marchenko 52.32 s
6th BrazilBrazil BRA Gabriel Mangabeira 52.34 s
7th CroatiaCroatia CRO Duje Draganja 52.46 s
8th AustraliaAustralia OUT Geoff Huegill 52.56 s

Final: August 20, 2004, 7:40 p.m.

Andrij Serdinow (UKR) set a new Olympic record in the 1st semifinals with 51.74 seconds. In the subsequent 2nd semifinals, Michael Phelps (USA) improved this to 51.61 s.

200 m butterfly

rank country athlete time
1 United StatesUnited States United States Michael Phelps 1: 54.04 min ( OR )
2 JapanJapan JPN Takashi Yamamoto 1: 54.56 min ( CR )
3 United KingdomUnited Kingdom GBR Stephen Parry 1: 55.52 min
4th PolandPoland POLE Paweł Korzeniowski 1: 56.00 min
5 RomaniaRomania ROME Ioan Gherghel 1: 56.10 min
6th China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China CHN Wu Peng 1: 56.28 min
7th RussiaRussia RUS Nikolai Skvortsov 1: 57.14 min
8th United StatesUnited States United States Tom Malchow 1: 57.48 min

Final: August 17, 2004, 7:50 p.m.

200 m layers

rank country athlete time
1 United StatesUnited States United States Michael Phelps 1: 57.14 min ( OR )
2 United StatesUnited States United States Ryan Lochte 1: 58.78 min
3 Trinidad and TobagoTrinidad and Tobago TRI George Bovell 1: 58.80 min
4th HungaryHungary HUN László Cseh 1: 58.84 min
5 BrazilBrazil BRA Thiago Pereira 2:00, 11 min
6th JapanJapan JPN Takahiro Mori 2: 00.60 min
7th LithuaniaLithuania LTU Vytautas Janušaitis 2: 01.20 min
8th JapanJapan JPN Jiro Miki 2: 02.16 min

Final: August 19, 2004, 8:19 p.m.

Michael Phelps (USA) set a new Olympic record in 1: 58.52 min in the 1st semifinals.

400 m layers

rank country athlete time
1 United StatesUnited States United States Michael Phelps 4: 08.26 min ( WR )
2 United StatesUnited States United States Erik Vendt 4: 11.81 min
3 HungaryHungary HUN László Cseh 4: 12.15 min
4th ItalyItaly ITA Alessio Boggiatto 4: 12.28 min
5 TunisiaTunisia TO DO Oussama Mellouli 4: 14.49 min ( CR )
6th GreeceGreece GRE Ioannis Kokkodis 4: 18.60 min
7th JapanJapan JPN Jiro Miki 4: 19.97 min
8th AustraliaAustralia OUT Travis Nederpelt 4: 20.08 min

Final: August 14, 2004, 7:30 p.m.

4 × 100 m freestyle

rank country Athletes time
1 South AfricaSouth Africa RSA Roland Schoeman
Lyndon Ferns
Darian Townsend
Ryk Neethling
3: 13.17 min ( WR )
2 NetherlandsNetherlands NED Johan Kenkhuis
Mitja Zastrow
Klaas-Erik Zwering
Pieter van den Hoogenband
Prelude *:
- Mark Veens
3: 14.36 min
3 United StatesUnited States United States Ian Crocker
Michael Phelps
Neil Walker
Jason Lezak Forerun
:
- Gabe Woodward
- Nate Dusing
- Neil Walker
- Gary Hall junior
3: 14.62 min
4th RussiaRussia RUS Andrei Kapralow
Yevgeny Lagunow
Denis Pimankow
Alexander Popow Prelude
:
- Iwan Ussow
3: 15.75 min
5 ItalyItaly ITA Lorenzo Vismara
Filippo Magnini
Michele Scarica
Christian Galenda Prelude
:
- Alessandro Calvi
3: 15.75 min
6th AustraliaAustralia OUT Michael Klim
Todd Pearson
Eamon Sullivan
Ian Thorpe
Prelude:
- Ashley Callus
- Jono van Hazel
3: 15.77 min
7th FranceFrance FRA Romain Barnier
Julien Sicot
Fabien Gilot
Frédérick Bousquet
Forerunner:
- Amaury Leveaux
3: 16.23 min
8th GermanyGermany GER Jens Schreiber
Lars Conrad
Torsten Spanneberg
Stefan Herbst
Prelude:
- Stephan Kunzelmann
- Christian Keller
3: 17.18 min

Final: August 15, 2004, 9:00 p.m.

* According to the Olympic Charter (rule 70, 2.4) , the athletes used in the preliminary run also receive a corresponding medal or a certificate (places 1 to 8)

4 × 200 m freestyle

rank country Athletes time
1 United StatesUnited States United States Michael Phelps
Ryan Lochte
Peter Vanderkaay
Klete Keller
Forerun:
- Scott Goldblatt
- Daniel Ketchum
7: 07.33 min ( CR )
2 AustraliaAustralia OUT Grant Hackett
Michael Klim
Nicholas Sprenger
Ian Thorpe
Forerun:
- Todd Pearson
- Antony Matkovich
- Craig Stevens
7: 07.46 min
3 ItalyItaly ITA Emiliano Brembilla
Massimiliano Rosolino
Simone Cercato
Filippo Magnini Prelude
:
- Matteo Pelliciari
- Federico Cappellazzo
7: 11.83 min
4th United KingdomUnited Kingdom GBR Simon Burnett
Gavin Meadows
David O'Brien
Ross Davenport
Forward:
- Gavin Meadows
- David Carry
7: 12.60 min
5 CanadaCanada CAN Brent Hayden
Brian Johns
Andrew Hurd
Rick Say
Forerun:
- Mark Johnstone
7: 13.33 min
6th GermanyGermany GER Jens Schreiber
Heiko Hell
Lars Conrad
Christian Keller
Prelude:
- Johannes Österling
- Stefan Herbst
7: 16.51 min
7th FranceFrance FRA Amaury Leveaux
Fabien Horth
Nicolas Kintz
Nicolas Rostoucher
7: 17.43 min
8th GreeceGreece GRE Apostolos Antonopoulos
Dimitrios Manganas
Andreas Zisimos
Nikolaos Kylouris
7: 23.02 min

Final: August 17, 2004, 8:51 p.m.

4 × 100 m layers

rank country Athletes time
1 United StatesUnited States United States Aaron Peirsol
Brendan Hansen
Ian Crocker
Jason Lezak Prelude
:
- Lenny Krayzelburg
- Mark Gangloff
- Michael Phelps
- Neil Walker
3: 30.68 min ( WR )
2 GermanyGermany GER Steffen Driesen
Jens Kruppa
Thomas Rupprath
Lars Conrad
Vorlauf:
- Helge Meeuw
3: 33.62 min ( CR )
3 JapanJapan JPN Tomomi Morita
Kōsuke Kitajima
Takashi Yamamoto
Yoshihiro Okumura
3: 35.22 min ( CR )
4th RussiaRussia RUS Arkady Vyatchanin
Roman Sludnow
Igor Martschenko
Alexander Popov
Prelude:
- Andrei Kapralow
3: 35.91 min
5 FranceFrance FRA Simon Dufour
Hugues Duboscq
Franck Esposito
Frédérick Bousquet
3: 36.57 min
6th UkraineUkraine UKR Pavlo Illitschow
Oleh Lissohor
Andrij Serdinow
Jurij Jegoschin Prelude
:
- Valerij Dymo
- Denis Sylanzew
3: 36.87 min
7th HungaryHungary HUN László Cseh
Richárd Bodor
Zsolt Gáspár
Attila Zubor
3: 37.46 min
8th United KingdomUnited Kingdom GBR Gregor Tait
James Gibson
James Hickman
Matthew Kidd
3: 37.77 min

Final: August 21, 2004, 9:30 p.m.

The US start swimmer Aaron Peirsol set a new world record over 100 meters back with 53.45 s.

Results women

50 m freestyle

rank country Athlete time
1 NetherlandsNetherlands NED Inge de Bruijn 24.58 s
2 FranceFrance FRA Malia Metella 24.89 s
3 AustraliaAustralia OUT Lisbeth Lenton 24.91 s
4th SwedenSweden SWE Therese Alshammar 24.93 s
5 United StatesUnited States United States Kara Lynn Joyce 25.00 s
6th AustraliaAustralia OUT Michelle Engelsman 25.06 s
7th United StatesUnited States United States Jenny Thompson 25.11 s
8th ItalyItaly ITA Flavia Cazziolato 25.20 s

Final: August 21, 2004, 9:30 p.m.

Sandra Völker (GER) was eliminated from the preliminary races with a time of 25.74 s (18th place).

100 m freestyle

rank country Athlete time
1 AustraliaAustralia OUT Jodie Henry 53.84 s
2 NetherlandsNetherlands NED Inge de Bruijn 54.16 s
3 United StatesUnited States United States Natalie Coughlin 54.40 s
4th FranceFrance FRA Malia Metella 54.50 s
5 United StatesUnited States United States Kara Lynn Joyce 54.54 s
6th GreeceGreece GRE Nery Mantey Niangkouara 54.81 s
7th SlovakiaSlovakia SVK Martina Moravcová 55.12 s
8th BelarusBelarus BLR Alena Popchanka 55.24 s

Final: August 19, 2004, 8:35 p.m.

Jodie Henry (AUS) swam a new world record in the 1st semifinals with 53.52 seconds.

200 m freestyle

rank country Athlete time
1 RomaniaRomania ROME Camelia Potec 1: 58.03 min
2 ItalyItaly ITA Federica Pellegrini 1: 58.22 min
3 FranceFrance FRA Solenne Figuès 1: 58.45 min
4th PolandPoland POLE Paulina Barzycka 1: 58.62 min
5 GermanyGermany GER Franziska van Almsick 1: 58.88 min
6th United StatesUnited States United States Dana Vollmer 1: 58.98 min
7th China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China CHN Pang Jiaying 1: 59.16 min
8th SwedenSweden SWE Josefin Lillhage 1: 59.20 min

Final: August 17, 2004, 7:43 pm

400 m freestyle

rank country Athlete time
1 FranceFrance FRA Laure Manaudou 4: 05.34 min ( CR )
2 PolandPoland POLE Otylia Jędrzejczak 4: 05.84 min
3 United StatesUnited States United States Kaitlin Sandeno 4: 06.19 min
4th RomaniaRomania ROME Camelia Potec 4: 06.34 min
5 JapanJapan JPN Ai Shibata 4: 07.51 min
6th JapanJapan JPN Sachiko Yamada 4: 10.91 min
7th AustraliaAustralia OUT Linda Mackenzie 4: 10.92 min
8th United KingdomUnited Kingdom GBR Rebecca Cooke 4: 11.35 min

Final: August 15, 2004, 8:51 p.m.

The German world champion Hannah Stockbauer did not make it into the final with a lead time of 4: 10.46 minutes (12th place).

800 m freestyle

rank country Athlete time
1 JapanJapan JPN Ai Shibata 8: 24.54 min
2 FranceFrance FRA Laure Manaudou 8: 24.96 min
3 United StatesUnited States United States Diana Munz 8: 26.61 min
4th United StatesUnited States United States Kalyn Keller 8: 26.97 min
5 SpainSpain ESP Erika Villaécija 8: 29.04 min
6th United KingdomUnited Kingdom GBR Rebecca Cooke 8: 29.37 min
7th GermanyGermany GER Jana Henke 8: 33.95 min
8th RomaniaRomania ROME Simona Păduraru 8: 37.02 min

Final: August 20, 2004, 7:46 p.m.

The German world champion Hannah Stockbauer did not make it into the final with a lead time of 8: 38.17 minutes (16th place).

100 m back

rank country Athlete time
1 United StatesUnited States United States Natalie Coughlin 1: 00.37 min
2 ZimbabweZimbabwe ZIM Kirsty Coventry 1: 00.50 min ( CR )
3 FranceFrance FRA Laure Manaudou 1: 00.88 min
4th JapanJapan JPN Reiko Nakamura 1: 01.05 min
5 SpainSpain ESP Nina Zhivanevskaya 1: 01.12 min
6th GermanyGermany GER Antje Buschschulte 1: 01.39 min
7th DenmarkDenmark THE Louise Ørnstedt 1: 01.51 min
8th United StatesUnited States United States Haley Cope 1: 01.76 min

Final: August 16, 7:52 p.m.

200 m back

rank country Athlete time
1 ZimbabweZimbabwe ZIM Kirsty Coventry 2: 09.19 min ( CR )
2 RussiaRussia RUS Stanislawa Komarova 2: 09.72 min
3 GermanyGermany GER Antje Buschschulte 2: 09.88 min
JapanJapan JPN Reiko Nakamura 2: 09.88 min
5 United StatesUnited States United States Margaret Hoelzer 2: 10.70 min
6th DenmarkDenmark THE Louise Ørnstedt 2: 11.15 min
7th United KingdomUnited Kingdom GBR Katy Sexton 2: 12.11 min
8th JapanJapan JPN Aya Terakawa 2: 12.90 min

Final: August 20, 2004, 7:30 p.m.

Kirsty Coventry is the first female swimming gold medalist from Zimbabwe.

100 m chest

rank country Athlete time
1 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China CHN Luo Xuejuan 1: 06.64 min ( OR )
2 AustraliaAustralia OUT Brooke Hanson 1: 07.15 min
3 AustraliaAustralia OUT Leisel Jones 1: 07.16 min
4th United StatesUnited States United States Amanda Beard 1: 07.44 min
5 GermanyGermany GER Sarah Poewe 1: 07.53 min
6th United StatesUnited States United States Tara Kirk 1: 07.59 min
7th UkraineUkraine UKR Svitlana Bondarenko 1: 08.19 min
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China CHN Qi Hui DSQ

Final: August 16, 2004, 8:15 p.m.

Leisel Jones (AUS) swam a new Olympic record with 1: 06.78 min in the 1st semifinals. Sarah Poewe swam a new German record with 1: 07.48 min in the 1st semifinals.

200 m chest

rank country Athlete time
1 United StatesUnited States United States Amanda Beard 2: 23.37 min ( OR )
2 AustraliaAustralia OUT Leisel Jones 2: 23.60 min
3 GermanyGermany GER Anne Poleska 2: 25.82 min ( NR )
4th JapanJapan JPN Masami Tanaka 2: 25.87 min
5 HungaryHungary HUN Ágnes Kovács 2: 26.12 min
6th China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China CHN Qi Hui 2: 26.35 min
7th AustriaAustria AUT Mirna Jukić 2: 26.36 min
8th AustraliaAustralia OUT Brooke Hanson 2: 26.39 min

Final: August 19, 2004, 7:41 pm

100 m butterfly

rank country Athlete time
1 AustraliaAustralia OUT Petria Thomas 57.72 s
2 PolandPoland POLE Otylia Jędrzejczak 57.84 s
3 NetherlandsNetherlands NED Inge de Bruijn 57.99 s
4th AustraliaAustralia OUT Jess Schipper 58.22 s
5 United StatesUnited States United States Jenny Thompson 58.72 s
6th SlovakiaSlovakia SVK Martina Moravcová 58.96 s
7th BelarusBelarus BLR Alena Popchanka 59.06 s
8th JapanJapan JPN Junko Ōnishi 59.83 s

Final: August 15, 2004, 7:57 p.m.

200 m butterfly

rank country Athlete time
1 PolandPoland POLE Otylia Jędrzejczak 2: 06.05 min
2 AustraliaAustralia OUT Petria Thomas 2: 06.36 min
3 JapanJapan JPN Yūko Nakanishi 2: 08.04 min
4th United StatesUnited States United States Kaitlin Sandeno 2: 08.18 min
5 AustraliaAustralia OUT Felicity Galvez 2: 09.28 min
6th DenmarkDenmark THE Mette Jacobsen 2: 10.01 min
7th ItalyItaly ITA Paola Cavallino 2: 10.14 min
8th HungaryHungary HUN Éva Risztov 2: 10.58 min

Final: August 18, 2004, 8:13 p.m.

200 m layers

rank country Athlete time
1 UkraineUkraine UKR Jana Klotschkowa 2: 11.14 min
2 United StatesUnited States United States Amanda Beard 2: 11.70 min ( CR )
3 ZimbabweZimbabwe ZIM Kirsty Coventry 2: 12.72 min ( CR )
4th HungaryHungary HUN Ágnes Kovács 2: 13.58 min
5 GermanyGermany GER Teresa Rohmann 2: 13.70 min
6th AustraliaAustralia OUT Lara Carroll 2: 13.74 min
7th United StatesUnited States United States Katie Hoff 2: 13.97 min
8th RomaniaRomania ROME Beatrice Câşlaru 2: 15.40 min

Final: August 17, 2004, 8:43 pm

400 m layers

rank country Athlete time
1 UkraineUkraine UKR Jana Klotschkowa 4: 34.83 min
2 United StatesUnited States United States Kaitlin Sandeno 4: 34.95 min ( CR )
3 ArgentinaArgentina ARG Georgina Bardach 4: 37.51 min
4th HungaryHungary HUN Éva Risztov 4: 39.29 min
5 BrazilBrazil BRA Joanna Melo 4: 40.00 min
6th GermanyGermany GER Nicole Hetzer 4: 40.20 min
7th Korea SouthSouth Korea COR Nam Yoo-Sun 4: 50.35 min
8th GreeceGreece GRE Vasiliki Angelopoulou 4: 50.85 min

Final: August 14, 2004, 8:13 p.m.

4 × 100 m freestyle

rank country Athletes time
1 AustraliaAustralia OUT Alice Mills
Lisbeth Lenton
Petria Thomas
Jodie Henry
Prelude:
- Sarah Ryan
3: 35.94 min ( WR )
2 United StatesUnited States United States Lynn Joyce
Natalie Coughlin
Amanda Weir
Jenny Thompson
Prelude:
- Colleen Lanne
- Lindsay Benko
- Maritza Correira
3: 36.39 min ( CR )
3 NetherlandsNetherlands NED Chantal Groot
Inge Dekker
Marleen Veldhuis
Inge de Bruijn
Prelude:
- Annabel costs
3: 37.59 min
4th GermanyGermany GER Antje Buschschulte
Petra Dallmann
Daniela Götz
Franziska van Almsick
Preliminary:
- Britta Steffen
3: 37.94 min
5 FranceFrance FRA Solenne Figuès Celine
Couderc
Aurore Mongel
Malia Metella
3: 40.23 min
6th United KingdomUnited Kingdom GBR Melanie Marshall
Kathryn Evans
Karen Pickering
Lisa Chapman
Prelude:
- Alison Sheppard
3: 40.82 min
7th SwedenSweden SWE Josefin Lilhage
Johanna Sjöberg
Therese Alshammar
Anna-Karin Kammerling Prelude
:
- Cathrin Carlzon
3: 41.22 min
8th China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China CHN Cheng Jiaru
Xu Yanwei
Yang Yu
Zhu Yingwen
3: 42.90 min

Final: August 14, 2004, 8:53 p.m.

4 × 200 m freestyle

rank country Athletes time
1 United StatesUnited States United States Natalie Coughlin
Carly Piper
Dana Vollmer
Kaitlin Sandeno Prelude
:
- Lindsay Benko
- Rhi Jeffrey
- Rachel Komisarz
7: 53.42 min ( WR )
2 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China CHN Zhu Yingwen
Xu Yanwei
Yang Yu
Pang Jiaying Prelude
:
- Li Ji
7: 55.97 min ( CR )
3 GermanyGermany GER Franziska van Almsick
Petra Dallmann
Antje Buschschulte
Hannah Stockbauer
Prelude:
- Janina-Kristin Götz
- Sara Harstick
7: 57.35 min
4th AustraliaAustralia OUT Alice Mills
Elka Graham
Shayne Reese
Petria Thomas
Forerun:
- Linda Mackenzie
- Giaan Rooney
7: 57.40 min ( CR )
5 United KingdomUnited Kingdom GBR Melanie Marshall
Georgina Lee
Caitlin McClatchey
Karin Pickering
Prelude:
- Joanne Jackson
7: 59.11 min
6th SpainSpain ESP Tatiana Rouba
Melissa Caballero
Arantxa Ramos
Erika Villaécija
8: 02.11 min
7th BrazilBrazil BRA Joanna Melo
Monique Perreira
Mariana Brochado
Paula Ribeiro
8: 05.29 min
8th SwedenSweden SWE Josefin Lilhage
Ida Mattsson
Malin Svahnström
Lotta Wanberg Prelude
:
- Johanna Sjöberg
8: 08.34 min

Final: August 18, 2004, 9:01 p.m.

4 × 100 m layers

rank country Athletes time
1 AustraliaAustralia OUT Giaan Rooney
Leisel Jones
Petria Thomas
Jodie Henry
Forerun:
- Brooke Hanson
- Jessicah Schipper
- Alice Mills
3: 57.32 min ( WR )
2 United StatesUnited States United States Natalie Coughlin
Amanda Beard
Jenny Thompson
Kara Lynn Joyce Prelude
:
- Haley Cope
- Tara Kirk
- Rachel Komisarz
- Amanda Weir
3: 59.12 min
3 GermanyGermany GER Antje Buschschulte
Sarah Poewe
Franziska van Almsick
Daniela Götz
4: 00.72 min ( CR )
4th China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China CHN Chen Xiujun
Luo Xuejuan
Zhou Yafei
Zhu Yingwen Prelude
:
- Zhan Shu
- Qi Hui
4: 03.35 min
5 JapanJapan JPN Reiko Nakamura
Masami Tanaka
Junko Ōnishi
Tomoko Nagai
Prelude:
- Noriko Inada
4: 04.83 min
6th NetherlandsNetherlands NED Stefanie Luiken
Madelon Baans
Inge de Bruijn
Marleen Veldhuis Prelude
:
- Chantal Groot
4: 07.36 min
7th SpainSpain ESP Nina Schiwanewskaja
Sara Pérez
María Peláez
Tatiana Rouba
4: 07.61 min
United KingdomUnited Kingdom GBR Katy Sexton
Kirsty Balfour
Georgina Lee
Kathryn Evans
Prelude:
- Melanie Marshall
- Sarah Price
DSQ

Final: August 21, 2004, 8:10 p.m.