Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre breaststroke

Women's 200 metre breaststroke
at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
VenueAthens Olympic Aquatic Centre
DateAugust 18, 2004 (heats & semifinals)
August 19, 2004 (final)
Competitors33 from 28 nations
Winning time2:23.37 OR
Medalists
   United States
   Australia
   Germany
Swimming events at the
2004 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
50 m   men   women
100 m men women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m women
1500 m men
Backstroke
100 m men women
200 m men women
Breaststroke
100 m men women
200 m men women
Butterfly
100 m men women
200 m men women
Individual medley
200 m men women
400 m men women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m men women
4×200 m men women
Medley relay
4×100 m men women

The women's 200 metre breaststroke event at the 2004 Olympic Games was contested at the Olympic Aquatic Centre of the Athens Olympic Sports Complex in Athens, Greece on August 18 and 19.[1]

U.S. swimmer and world-record holder Amanda Beard completed a full set of medals in the event, adding a gold to her silver from Atlanta (1996) and bronze from Sydney (2000). She posted an Olympic record of 2:23.37, holding off Australia's Leisel Jones by 0.23 of a second for a silver medal in 2:23.60.[2][3][4] Anne Poleska, who had been seventh at the halfway mark, moved quickly into the field and finished strongly with a bronze in a personal best of 2:25.82, earning Germany's first individual medal of the meet since its reunification in 1990.[4]

Hungary's Ágnes Kovács, the gold medalist from Sydney, finished outside the medals in fifth place behind Japan's Masami Tanaka with a time of 2:26.12.[4]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were:

World record  Amanda Beard (USA) 2:22.44 Long Beach, United States 12 July 2004 [5]
Olympic record  Ágnes Kovács (HUN) 2:24.03 Atlanta, United States 20 September 2000 [5]

The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.

Date Event Name Nationality Time Record
19 August Final Amanda Beard United States 2:23.37 OR

Results

Heats

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 4 Leisel Jones Australia 2:26.02 Q
2 3 3 Anne Poleska Germany 2:26.48 Q
3 5 4 Amanda Beard United States 2:26.61 Q
4 5 2 Ágnes Kovács Hungary 2:26.90 Q
5 4 3 Masami Tanaka Japan 2:26.91 Q
6 4 5 Brooke Hanson Australia 2:27.38 Q
7 3 5 Birte Steven Germany 2:27.42 Q
8 5 6 Caroline Bruce United States 2:27.82 Q
9 3 4 Mirna Jukić Austria 2:28.28 Q
10 5 5 Qi Hui China 2:28.66 Q
11 4 6 Kirsty Balfour Great Britain 2:29.78 Q
12 3 2 Chiara Boggiatto Italy 2:30.32 Q
13 2 3 Marina Kuč Serbia and Montenegro 2:30.39 Q
14 4 2 Lauren van Oosten Canada 2:30.44 Q
15 4 8 Inna Kapishina Belarus 2:31.26 Q
16 5 7 Elena Bogomazova Russia 2:31.49 Q
17 4 1 Smiljana Marinović Croatia 2:32.52
18 4 7 Alenka Kejžar Slovenia 2:32.64
19 2 5 Ilkay Dikmen Turkey 2:32.69
20 1 3 Jaclyn Pangilinan Philippines 2:33.38
21 5 8 Siow Yi Ting Malaysia 2:33.79
22 1 5 Eeva Saarinen Finland 2:34.17
23 3 7 Diana Gomes Portugal 2:34.23
24 5 1 Lee Ji-Young South Korea 2:34.55
25 2 7 Majken Thorup Denmark 2:35.29
26 2 6 Agustina de Giovanni Argentina 2:35.94
27 2 4 Adriana Marmolejo Mexico 2:36.10
28 2 2 Imaday Nuñez Gonzalez Cuba 2:36.40
29 3 8 Iryna Maystruk Ukraine 2:37.42
30 1 4 Nicolette Teo Singapore 2:38.17
31 3 1 Athina Tzavella Greece 2:40.18
33 3 6 Diana Remenyi Hungary DNS
33 5 3 Luo Xuejuan China DNS

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 3 Brooke Hanson Australia 2:26.43 Q
2 4 Anne Poleska Germany 2:26.59 Q
3 5 Ágnes Kovács Hungary 2:26.63 Q
4 2 Qi Hui China 2:26.75 Q
5 6 Caroline Bruce United States 2:27.60
6 8 Elena Bogomazova Russia 2:30.35
7 1 Lauren van Oosten Canada 2:30.39
8 7 Chiara Boggiatto Italy 2:30.76

Semifinal 2

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 5 Amanda Beard United States 2:25.62 Q
2 3 Masami Tanaka Japan 2:26.38 Q
3 4 Leisel Jones Australia 2:26.71 Q
4 2 Mirna Jukić Austria 2:26.95 Q
5 7 Kirsty Balfour Great Britain 2:28.92
6 6 Birte Steven Germany 2:29.22
7 1 Marina Kuč Serbia and Montenegro 2:31.77
8 8 Inna Kapishina Belarus DSQ

Final

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1st 4 Amanda Beard United States 2:23.37 OR
2nd 7 Leisel Jones Australia 2:23.60
3rd 6 Anne Poleska Germany 2:25.82
4 5 Masami Tanaka Japan 2:25.87
5 2 Ágnes Kovács Hungary 2:26.12
6 1 Qi Hui China 2:26.35
7 8 Mirna Jukić Austria 2:26.36
8 3 Brooke Hanson Australia 2:26.39

References

  1. ↑ "Swimming schedule". BBC Sport. 5 August 2004. Retrieved 17 June 2007.
  2. ↑ "Beard rolls to win in 200 breaststroke". Associated Press (ESPN). 19 August 2004. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
  3. ↑ "Beard wins first gold in 200 breaststroke". NBC Sports. 19 August 2004. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Thomas, Stephen (19 August 2004). "Amanda Beard Edges out Leisel Jones for the Gold in the 200 Breaststroke". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 13 May 2013.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Startlist Women's 200m Breaststroke Heats". www.omegatiming.com. 18 August 2004. Retrieved 9 July 2012.

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