Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre individual medley

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Men's 200 metre individual medley
at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Venue Olympic Aquatic Centre
DateAugust 18, 2004 (heats &
semifinals)
August 19, 2004 (final)
Competitors50 from 42 nations
Winning time1:57.14 OR
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Michael Phelps Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Silver medal icon.svg Ryan Lochte Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Bronze medal icon.svg George Bovell Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg  Trinidad and Tobago
  2000
2008  

The men's 200 metre individual medley 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 Michael Phelps blasted his own Olympic record of 1:57.14 to claim his fourth career gold medal in swimming. Coming from fifth place in the final turn, Phelps' teammate Ryan Lochte powered home with a silver in 1:58.78. Meanwhile, George Bovell held off Hungary's László Cseh by four hundredths of a second (0.04) to give Trinidad and Tobago its first ever swimming medal, in a Commonwealth record of 1:58.80. [2] [3] [4]

Earlier in the semifinals, Phelps posted a new Olympic record of 1:58.52, previously set by Italian swimmer and defending Olympic champion Massimiliano Rosolino in Sydney four years earlier. Rosolino, along with his teammate Alessio Boggiatto, failed to reach the top 8 final with a tenth and eleventh-place effort. Tunisia's Oussama Mellouli, who placed fifth in the 400 m individual medley, also missed the cut, but set an African record of 2:01.11. [5]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World recordFlag of the United States.svg  Michael Phelps  (USA)1:55.94 College Park, United States 9 August 2003
Olympic recordFlag of Italy.svg  Massimiliano Rosolino  (ITA)1:58.98 Sydney, Australia 21 September 2000

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

DateEventNameNationalityTimeRecord
August 18Semifinal 1 Michael Phelps Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:58.52 OR
August 19Final Michael Phelps Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:57.14 OR

Results

Heats

RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
163 László Cseh Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 1:59.50Q
274 Michael Phelps Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2:00.01Q
354 George Bovell Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg  Trinidad and Tobago 2:00.65Q
473 Jiro Miki Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 2:00.93Q
575 Thiago Pereira Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 2:01.12Q
666 Alessio Boggiatto Flag of Italy (2003-2006).svg  Italy 2:01.30Q
768 Dean Kent Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 2:01.31Q
867 Vytautas Janušaitis Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 2:01.32Q
976 Takahiro Mori Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 2:01.33Q
1064 Ryan Lochte Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2:01.41Q
1165 Massimiliano Rosolino Flag of Italy (2003-2006).svg  Italy 2:01.56Q
1272 Robin Francis Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain 2:01.57Q
1362 Adrian Turner Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain 2:01.73Q
1477 Tamás Kerékjártó Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 2:01.75Q
1552 Oussama Mellouli Flag of Tunisia.svg  Tunisia 2:01.94Q, AF
1644 Ioannis Kokkodis Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 2:02.11Q
1771 Adam Lucas Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 2:02.12
1843 Mihail Alexandrov Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria 2:02.39
1961 Zhao Tao Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 2:02.41
2055 Jani Sievinen Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 2:02.79
2157 Christian Keller Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 2:02.93
2245 Sergiy Sergeyev Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 2:03.26
2348 Bradley Ally Flag of Barbados.svg  Barbados 2:03.29
2458 Wu Peng Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 2:03.60
2547 Guntars Deičmans Flag of Latvia (3-2).svg  Latvia 2:03.68
2651 Diogo Yabe Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 2:03.86
2753 Justin Norris Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 2:03.87
2856 Brian Johns Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 2:03.95
2978 Alexei Zatsepine Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 2:04.11
3046 Jeremy Knowles Flag of the Bahamas.svg  Bahamas 2:04.22
3136 Jacob Carstensen Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark 2:04.80
3233 Kim Bang-hyun Flag of South Korea (1997-2011).svg  South Korea 2:05.06
3332 Miguel Molina Flag of the Philippines.svg  Philippines 2:05.28
3434 Krešimir Čač Civil ensign of Croatia.svg  Croatia 2:05.33
3524 Raouf Benabid Flag of Algeria.svg  Algeria 2:06.34
3626 Hocine Haciane Flag of Andorra.svg  Andorra 2:06.48
3741 Darian Townsend Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 2:07.04
3823 Aleksandar Miladinovski Flag of Macedonia.svg  Macedonia 2:07.39
3935 Andrei Zaharov Flag of Moldova (3-2).svg  Moldova 2:07.40
4031 Albert Christiadi Sutanto Flag of Indonesia.svg  Indonesia 2:07.55
4121 Andrew Mackay Flag of the Cayman Islands (pre-1999).svg  Cayman Islands 2:07.65
4222 Oleg Pukhnatiy Flag of Uzbekistan (3-2).svg  Uzbekistan 2:08.24
4337 Gary Tan Flag of Singapore.svg  Singapore 2:08.44
4427 Wu Nien-pin Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg  Chinese Taipei 2:08.72
4514 Jorge Oliver Flag of Puerto Rico.svg  Puerto Rico 2:08.84
25 Orel Oral Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey
4738 Malick Fall Flag of Senegal.svg  Senegal 2:12.13
4813 Georgios Dimitriadis Flag of Cyprus (1960-2006).svg  Cyprus 2:12.27
15 Yevgeniy Ryzhkov Flag of Kazakhstan (3-2).svg  Kazakhstan DSQ
42 Peter Mankoč Civil Ensign of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia DNS

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
14 Michael Phelps Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:58.52Q, OR
22 Ryan Lochte Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:59.58Q
36 Vytautas Janušaitis Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 2:00.57Q, NR
45 Jiro Miki Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 2:01.09Q
53 Alessio Boggiatto Flag of Italy (2003-2006).svg  Italy 2:01.27
68 Ioannis Kokkodis Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 2:01.57
71 Tamás Kerékjártó Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 2:01.89
87 Robin Francis Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain 2:03.85

Semifinal 2

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
14 László Cseh Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 1:59.65Q
23 Thiago Pereira Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 2:00.07Q
35 George Bovell Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg  Trinidad and Tobago 2:00.31Q
42 Takahiro Mori Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 2:00.57Q
58 Oussama Mellouli Flag of Tunisia.svg  Tunisia 2:01.11 AF
67 Massimiliano Rosolino Flag of Italy (2003-2006).svg  Italy 2:01.29
76 Dean Kent Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 2:01.94
81 Adrian Turner Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain 2:02.86

Final

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg4 Michael Phelps Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:57.14 OR
Silver medal icon.svg5 Ryan Lochte Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:58.78
Bronze medal icon.svg2 George Bovell Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg  Trinidad and Tobago 1:58.80 NR
43 László Cseh Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 1:58.84
56 Thiago Pereira Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 2:00.11
61 Takahiro Mori Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 2:00.60
77 Vytautas Janušaitis Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 2:01.28
88 Jiro Miki Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 2:02.16

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