Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre breaststroke

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Women's 100 metre breaststroke
at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Venue Athens Olympic Aquatic Centre
DateAugust 15, 2004 (heats &
semifinals)
August 16, 2004 (final)
Competitors48 from 43 nations
Winning time1:06.64 OR
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Luo Xuejuan Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China
Silver medal icon.svg Brooke Hanson Flag of Australia.svg  Australia
Bronze medal icon.svg Leisel Jones Flag of Australia.svg  Australia
  2000
2008  

The women's 100 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 15 and 16. [1] [2]

Chinese swimmer and triple world champion Luo Xuejuan won the gold medal in this event, with an Olympic record time of 1:06.64, missing the world record by 0.27 of a second. [3] Australia's Brooke Hanson took home the silver at 1:07.15, while her teammate and world record holder Leisel Jones, who won silver as a 15-year-old in Sydney (2000), finished behind Hanson for a bronze medal by a hundredth of a second (0.01), with a time of 1:07.16. [4] In 2007, Luo announced her official retirement from swimming, because of heart ailments that had plagued her and had caused fainting spells during her training. [5] [6]

Records

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

World recordFlag of Australia (converted).svg  Leisel Jones  (AUS)1:06.37 Barcelona, Spain 21 July 2003
Olympic recordFlag of South Africa.svg  Penny Heyns  (RSA)1:07.02 Atlanta, United States 21 July 1996

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

DateEventNameNationalityTimeRecord
August 15Semifinal 1 Leisel Jones Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 1:06.78 OR
August 16Final Luo Xuejuan Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 1:06.64 OR

Results

Heats

RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
144 Brooke Hanson Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 1:07.35Q
264 Leisel Jones Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 1:07.69Q
365 Tara Kirk Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:07.92Q
445 Sarah Poewe Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 1:07.97Q
555 Amanda Beard Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:08.04Q
654 Luo Xuejuan Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 1:09.07Q
753 Qi Hui Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 1:09.29Q
842 Svitlana Bondarenko Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 1:09.35Q
963 Rhiannon Leier Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 1:09.38Q
1056 Masami Tanaka Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 1:09.44Q
1167 Ágnes Kovács Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 1:09.51Q
1262 Vipa Bernhardt Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 1:09.60Q
1346 Lauren van Oosten Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 1:09.93Q
1443 Mirna Jukić Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 1:09.99Q
1566 Elena Bogomazova Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 1:10.24Q
1657 Chiara Boggiatto Flag of Italy (2003-2006).svg  Italy 1:10.33Q
1752 Maria Östling Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 1:10.45
1824 Inna Kapishina Flag of Belarus (1995-2012).svg  Belarus 1:10.66
1947 Majken Thorup Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark 1:10.97
2048 Smiljana Marinović Flag of Croatia.svg  Croatia 1:11.00
2151 Madelon Baans Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 1:11.10
2232 Marina Kuč Flag of Serbia and Montenegro.svg  Serbia and Montenegro 1:11.27
2368 Eeva Saarinen Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 1:11.39
2441 Diana Gomes Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 1:11.40
61 Emma Robinson Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland
2633 Ilkay Dikmen Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey 1:11.69
2721 Imaday Nuñez Gonzalez Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba 1:12.14
2835 Salama Ismail Flag of Egypt.svg  Egypt 1:12.20
2936 Javiera Salcedo Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 1:12.46
58 Aikaterini Sarakatsani Flag of Greece.svg  Greece
3138 Jaclyn Pangilinan Flag of the Philippines.svg  Philippines 1:12.47
3226 Alia Atkinson Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica 1:12.53
3337 Nicolette Teo Flag of Singapore.svg  Singapore 1:12.87
3434 Lee Ji-young Flag of South Korea (1997-2011).svg  South Korea 1:12.93
3531 Annabelle Carey Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 1:13.21
3622 Siow Yi Ting Flag of Malaysia.svg  Malaysia 1:13.30
3727 Valeria Silva Flag of Peru.svg  Peru 1:13.52
3823 Adriana Marmolejo Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 1:14.35
3925 Yip Tsz Wa Flag of Hong Kong.svg  Hong Kong 1:14.53
4028 Íris Edda Heimisdóttir Flag of Iceland.svg  Iceland 1:15.35
4113 Katerine Moreno Flag of Bolivia.svg  Bolivia 1:18.25
4214 Varduhi Avetisyan Flag of Armenia.svg  Armenia 1:18.87
4315 Shrone Austin Flag of Seychelles.svg  Seychelles 1:19.02
4416 Nataliya Filina Flag of Azerbaijan.svg  Azerbaijan 1:20.21
4512 Melissa Ashby Flag of Grenada.svg  Grenada 1:22.67
4618 Mariam Pauline Keita Flag of Mali.svg  Mali 1:30.40
4717 Nayana Shakya Flag of Nepal.svg  Nepal 1:32.92
4811 Pamela Girimbabazi Flag of Rwanda.svg  Rwanda 1:50.39

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
14 Leisel Jones Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 1:06.78Q, OR
25 Sarah Poewe Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 1:07.48Q
36 Svitlana Bondarenko Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 1:08.28Q
43 Luo Xuejuan Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 1:08.57Q
52 Masami Tanaka Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 1:09.11
67 Vipa Bernhardt Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 1:09.72
71 Mirna Jukić Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 1:10.06
88 Chiara Boggiatto Flag of Italy (2003-2006).svg  Italy 1:10.84

Semifinal 2

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
15 Tara Kirk Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:07.60Q
24 Brooke Hanson Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 1:07.75Q
33 Amanda Beard Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:07.92Q
46 Qi Hui Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 1:09.06Q
57 Ágnes Kovács Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 1:09.12
61 Lauren van Oosten Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 1:09.45
72 Rhiannon Leier Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 1:09.46
88 Elena Bogomazova Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 1:10.41

Final

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg1 Luo Xuejuan Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 1:06.64 OR
Silver medal icon.svg6 Brooke Hanson Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 1:07.15
Bronze medal icon.svg4 Leisel Jones Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 1:07.16
42 Amanda Beard Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:07.44
55 Sarah Poewe Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 1:07.53
63 Tara Kirk Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:07.59
77 Svitlana Bondarenko Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 1:08.19
8 Qi Hui Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China DSQ

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