Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 400 metre individual medley

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Women's 400 metre individual medley
at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Venue Athens Olympic Aquatic Centre
DateAugust 14, 2004 (heats & final)
Competitors25 from 21 nations
Winning time4:34.83
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Yana Klochkova Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine
Silver medal icon.svg Kaitlin Sandeno Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Bronze medal icon.svg Georgina Bardach Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina
  2000
2008  

The women's 400 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 14. [1]

World record holder Yana Klochkova of Ukraine successfully defended her Olympic title in this event, outside the record time of 4:34.83. U.S. swimmer Kaitlin Sandeno, who finished behind Klochkova by 0.12 of a second, earned a silver medal, in an American record time of 4:34.95. Georgina Bardach, on the other hand, won Argentina's first Olympic bronze medal in swimming, breaking a South American record of 4:37.51. [2] South Korea's Nam Yoo-sun and Greece's Vasiliki Angelopoulou became the first female swimmers for their respective nation to reach an Olympic final, finishing outside the medals in seventh and eighth place, respectively. Romania's Beatrice Câșlaru, who won a bronze medal in Sydney, finished only in fourteenth place on the morning's preliminary heats. [3]

Records

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

World recordFlag of Ukraine.svg  Yana Klochkova  (UKR)4:33.59 Sydney, Australia16 September 2000
Olympic recordFlag of Ukraine.svg  Yana Klochkova  (UKR)4:33.59 Sydney, Australia16 September 2000

Results

Heats

RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
144 Yana Klochkova Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 4:38.36Q
245 Kaitlin Sandeno Flag of the United States.svg  United States 4:40.21Q
325 Georgina Bardach Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 4:41.20Q
334 Éva Risztov Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 4:41.20Q
526 Nicole Hetzer Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 4:41.74Q
646 Joanna Melo Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 4:42.01Q
741 Vasiliki Angelopoulou Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 4:44.90Q, NR
821 Nam Yoo-sun Flag of South Korea (1997-2011).svg  South Korea 4:45.16Q
922 Helen Norfolk Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 4:45.21
1042 Misa Amano Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 4:45.61
1136 Elizabeth Warden Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 4:46.27
1223 Lara Carroll Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 4:46.32
1333 Anja Klinar Flag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia 4:46.66
1443 Beatrice Câșlaru Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 4:46.94
1547 Zsuzsanna Jakabos Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 4:47.21
1631 Alessia Filippi Flag of Italy (2003-2006).svg  Italy 4:47.26
1724 Katie Hoff Flag of the United States.svg  United States 4:47.49
1837 Teresa Rohmann Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 4:48.51
1935 Jennifer Reilly Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 4:49.04
2048 Lin Man-hsu Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg  Chinese Taipei 4:52.22
2127 Yana Martynova Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 4:52.96
2214 Nimitta Thaveesupsoonthorn Flag of Thailand.svg  Thailand 5:00.06
2315 Ana Dangalakova Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria 5:01.00
2413 Sabria Dahane Flag of Algeria.svg  Algeria 5:10.20
32 Zhang Tianyi Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China DSQ

Final

RankLaneSwimmerNationTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg4 Yana Klochkova Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 4:34.83
Silver medal icon.svg5 Kaitlin Sandeno Flag of the United States.svg  United States 4:34.95 AM
Bronze medal icon.svg3 Georgina Bardach Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 4:37.51 SA
46 Éva Risztov Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 4:39.29
57 Joanna Melo Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 4:40.00 NR
62 Nicole Hetzer Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 4:40.20
78 Nam Yoo-sun Flag of South Korea (1997-2011).svg  South Korea 4:50.35
81 Vasiliki Angelopoulou Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 4:50.85

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