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

Women's 200 metre breaststroke
at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Venue Athens Olympic Aquatic Centre
Date August 18, 2004 (heats & semifinals)
August 19, 2004 (final)
Competitors 33 from 28 nations
Winning time 2:23.37 OR
Medalists
1st, gold medalist(s) Amanda Beard  United States
2nd, silver medalist(s) Leisel Jones  Australia
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Anne Poleska  Germany

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)2:22.44Long Beach, United States12 July 2004
Olympic record Ágnes Kovács (HUN)2:24.03Sydney, Australia20 September 2000

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

DateEventNameNationalityTimeRecord
19 AugustFinalAmanda Beard United States2:23.37OR

Results

Heats

RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
144Leisel Jones Australia2:26.02Q
233Anne Poleska Germany2:26.48Q
354Amanda Beard United States2:26.61Q
452Ágnes Kovács Hungary2:26.90Q
543Masami Tanaka Japan2:26.91Q
645Brooke Hanson Australia2:27.38Q
735Birte Steven Germany2:27.42Q
856Caroline Bruce United States2:27.82Q
934Mirna Jukić Austria2:28.28Q
1055Qi Hui China2:28.66Q
1146Kirsty Balfour Great Britain2:29.78Q
1232Chiara Boggiatto Italy2:30.32Q
1323Marina Kuč Serbia and Montenegro2:30.39Q
1442Lauren van Oosten Canada2:30.44Q
1548Inna Kapishina Belarus2:31.26Q
1657Elena Bogomazova Russia2:31.49Q
1741Smiljana Marinović Croatia2:32.52
1847Alenka Kejžar Slovenia2:32.64
1925Ilkay Dikmen Turkey2:32.69
2013Jaclyn Pangilinan Philippines2:33.38NR
2158Siow Yi Ting Malaysia2:33.79
2215Eeva Saarinen Finland2:34.17
2337Diana Gomes Portugal2:34.23
2451Lee Ji-young South Korea2:34.55
2527Majken Thorup Denmark2:35.29
2626Agustina de Giovanni Argentina2:35.94
2724Adriana Marmolejo Mexico2:36.10
2822Imaday Nuñez Gonzalez Cuba2:36.40
2938Iryna Maystruk Ukraine2:37.42
3014Nicolette Teo Singapore2:38.17
3131Athina Tzavella Greece2:40.18
36Diana Remenyi HungaryDNS
53Luo Xuejuan ChinaDNS

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
13Brooke Hanson Australia2:26.43Q
24Anne Poleska Germany2:26.59Q
35Ágnes Kovács Hungary2:26.63Q
42Qi Hui China2:26.75Q
56Caroline Bruce United States2:27.60
68Elena Bogomazova Russia2:30.35
71Lauren van Oosten Canada2:30.39
87Chiara Boggiatto Italy2:30.76

Semifinal 2

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
15Amanda Beard United States2:25.62Q
23Masami Tanaka Japan2:26.38Q
34Leisel Jones Australia2:26.71Q
42Mirna Jukić Austria2:26.95Q
57Kirsty Balfour Great Britain2:28.92
66Birte Steven Germany2:29.22
71Marina Kuč Serbia and Montenegro2:31.77
8Inna Kapishina BelarusDSQ

Final

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
1st, gold medalist(s)4Amanda Beard United States2:23.37OR
2nd, silver medalist(s)7Leisel Jones Australia2:23.60
3rd, bronze medalist(s)6Anne Poleska Germany2:25.82
45Masami Tanaka Japan2:25.87
52Ágnes Kovács Hungary2:26.12
61Qi Hui China2:26.35
78Mirna Jukić Austria2:26.36
83Brooke Hanson Australia2:26.39

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. 1 2 3 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.
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