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

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Women's 200 metre breaststroke
at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Venue Athens Olympic Aquatic Centre
DateAugust 18, 2004 (heats & semifinals)
August 19, 2004 (final)
Competitors33 from 28 nations
Winning time2:23.37 OR
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Amanda Beard Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Silver medal icon.svg Leisel Jones Flag of Australia.svg  Australia
Bronze medal icon.svg Anne Poleska Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
  2000
2008  

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 recordFlag of the United States.svg  Amanda Beard  (USA)2:22.44 Long Beach, United States 12 July 2004 [5]
Olympic recordFlag of Hungary.svg  Ágnes Kovács  (HUN)2:24.03 Sydney, Australia 20 September 2000 [5]

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

DateEventNameNationalityTimeRecord
19 AugustFinal Amanda Beard Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2:23.37 OR

Results

Heats

RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
144 Leisel Jones Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 2:26.02Q
233 Anne Poleska Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 2:26.48Q
354 Amanda Beard Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2:26.61Q
452 Ágnes Kovács Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 2:26.90Q
543 Masami Tanaka Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 2:26.91Q
645 Brooke Hanson Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 2:27.38Q
735 Birte Steven Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 2:27.42Q
856 Caroline Bruce Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2:27.82Q
934 Mirna Jukić Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 2:28.28Q
1055 Qi Hui Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 2:28.66Q
1146 Kirsty Balfour Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 2:29.78Q
1232 Chiara Boggiatto Flag of Italy (2003-2006).svg  Italy 2:30.32Q
1323 Marina Kuč Flag of Serbia and Montenegro.svg  Serbia and Montenegro 2:30.39Q
1442 Lauren van Oosten Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 2:30.44Q
1548 Inna Kapishina Flag of Belarus (1995-2012).svg  Belarus 2:31.26Q
1657 Elena Bogomazova Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 2:31.49Q
1741 Smiljana Marinović Flag of Croatia.svg  Croatia 2:32.52
1847 Alenka Kejžar Flag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia 2:32.64
1925 Ilkay Dikmen Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey 2:32.69
2013 Jaclyn Pangilinan Flag of the Philippines.svg  Philippines 2:33.38 NR
2158 Siow Yi Ting Flag of Malaysia.svg  Malaysia 2:33.79
2215 Eeva Saarinen Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 2:34.17
2337 Diana Gomes Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 2:34.23
2451 Lee Ji-young Flag of South Korea (1997-2011).svg  South Korea 2:34.55
2527 Majken Thorup Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark 2:35.29
2626 Agustina de Giovanni Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 2:35.94
2724 Adriana Marmolejo Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 2:36.10
2822 Imaday Nuñez Gonzalez Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba 2:36.40
2938 Iryna Maystruk Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 2:37.42
3014 Nicolette Teo Flag of Singapore.svg  Singapore 2:38.17
3131 Athina Tzavella Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 2:40.18
36 Diana Remenyi Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary DNS
53 Luo Xuejuan Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China DNS

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
13 Brooke Hanson Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 2:26.43Q
24 Anne Poleska Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 2:26.59Q
35 Ágnes Kovács Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 2:26.63Q
42 Qi Hui Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 2:26.75Q
56 Caroline Bruce Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2:27.60
68 Elena Bogomazova Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 2:30.35
71 Lauren van Oosten Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 2:30.39
87 Chiara Boggiatto Flag of Italy (2003-2006).svg  Italy 2:30.76

Semifinal 2

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
15 Amanda Beard Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2:25.62Q
23 Masami Tanaka Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 2:26.38Q
34 Leisel Jones Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 2:26.71Q
42 Mirna Jukić Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 2:26.95Q
57 Kirsty Balfour Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 2:28.92
66 Birte Steven Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 2:29.22
71 Marina Kuč Flag of Serbia and Montenegro.svg  Serbia and Montenegro 2:31.77
8 Inna Kapishina Flag of Belarus (1995-2012).svg  Belarus DSQ

Final

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg4 Amanda Beard Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2:23.37 OR
Silver medal icon.svg7 Leisel Jones Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 2:23.60
Bronze medal icon.svg6 Anne Poleska Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 2:25.82
45 Masami Tanaka Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 2:25.87
52 Ágnes Kovács Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 2:26.12
61 Qi Hui Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 2:26.35
78 Mirna Jukić Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 2:26.36
83 Brooke Hanson Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 2:26.39

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