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

Women's 200 metre butterfly at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Venue	Athens Olympic Aquatic Centre
Date	August 17, 2004 (heats & semifinals) August 18, 2004 (final)
Competitors	32 from 26 nations
Winning time	2:06.05
Medalists
Otylia Jędrzejczak   Poland   Petria Thomas   Australia   Yuko Nakanishi   Japan

Swimming events at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
50 m		men		women
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m				women
1500 m		men
Backstroke
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
Breaststroke
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
Butterfly
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
Individual medley
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m		men		women
4×200 m		men		women
Medley relay
4×100 m		men		women

The women's 200 metre butterfly event at the 2004 Olympic Games was contested at the Olympic Aquatic Centre of the Athens Olympic Sports Complex in Athens, Greece on August 17 and 18.^[1]

Polish swimmer and world record holder Otylia Jędrzejczak added gold to her two silver medals by a storming victory in this event, and by becoming the nation's first ever swimming champion, in an outstanding time of 2:06.05.^[2][3] Three-time Olympian Petria Thomas of Australia managed to repeat her silver from Atlanta, lowering her time to 2:06.36. Japan's Yuko Nakanishi, on the other hand, took home the bronze at 2:08.04.^[4]

Records

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

World record	Otylia Jędrzejczak (POL)	2:05.78	Berlin, Germany	4 August 2002
Olympic record	Misty Hyman (USA)	2:05.88	Sydney, Australia	20 September 2000

No new records were set during this competition.

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Otylia Jędrzejczak	Poland	2:09.64	Q
2	4	5	Yuko Nakanishi	Japan	2:10.04	Q
3	2	4	Éva Risztov	Hungary	2:10.49	Q
4	4	3	Kaitlin Sandeno	United States	2:10.50	Q
5	3	4	Petria Thomas	Australia	2:10.87	Q
6	2	3	Georgina Lee	Great Britain	2:10.99	Q
7	3	5	Felicity Galvez	Australia	2:11.17	Q
8	4	2	Yukiko Osada	Japan	2:11.20	Q
9	3	6	Francesca Segat	Italy	2:11.40	Q
10	4	1	María Peláez	Spain	2:11.66	Q
11	3	1	Li Jie	China	2:11.77	Q
12	2	5	Dana Kirk	United States	2:11.96	Q
13	4	6	Mette Jacobsen	Denmark	2:11.99	Q
14	2	6	Annika Mehlhorn	Germany	2:12.25	Q
15	3	7	Aurore Mongel	France	2:12.26	Q
16	3	3	Paola Cavallino	Italy	2:12.34	Q
17	2	7	Beatrix Boulsevicz	Hungary	2:12.54
18	1	5	Maria Bulakhova	Russia	2:12.99
19	3	2	Roser Vives	Spain	2:13.02
20	2	8	Raquel Felgueiras	Portugal	2:13.08
21	4	8	Georgina Bardach	Argentina	2:13.68
22	4	7	Vasiliki Angelopoulou	Greece	2:13.88
23	2	2	Petra Zahrl	Austria	2:13.92
24	2	1	Kwon You-ri	South Korea	2:14.30
25	1	3	Cheng Wan-jung	Chinese Taipei	2:16.25
26	3	8	Vesna Stojanovska	Macedonia	2:16.51
27	1	2	Nataliya Samorodina	Ukraine	2:17.15
28	1	4	Anja Klinar	Slovenia	2:18.15
29	1	6	Chan Wing Suet	Hong Kong	2:18.45
30	1	1	Heather Roffey	Cayman Islands	2:19.34
31	1	7	Gülşah Günenç	Turkey	2:20.17
32	1	8	Christel Bouvron	Singapore	2:26.21

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Kaitlin Sandeno	United States	2:08.77	Q
2	4	Yuko Nakanishi	Japan	2:08.83	Q
3	8	Paola Cavallino	Italy	2:10.23	Q
4	7	Dana Kirk	United States	2:10.69
5	3	Georgina Lee	Great Britain	2:10.93
6	6	Yukiko Osada	Japan	2:11.35
7	1	Annika Mehlhorn	Germany	2:11.37
8	2	María Peláez	Spain	2:12.54

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Otylia Jędrzejczak	Poland	2:08.84	Q
2	3	Petria Thomas	Australia	2:09.24	Q
3	6	Felicity Galvez	Australia	2:09.54	Q
4	5	Éva Risztov	Hungary	2:09.83	Q
5	1	Mette Jacobsen	Denmark	2:10.47	Q
6	8	Aurore Mongel	France	2:11.13
7	2	Francesca Segat	Italy	2:11.18
8	7	Li Jie	China	2:13.41

Final

Rank	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
	3	Otylia Jędrzejczak	Poland	2:06.05
	6	Petria Thomas	Australia	2:06.36
	5	Yuko Nakanishi	Japan	2:08.04
4	4	Kaitlin Sandeno	United States	2:08.18
5	2	Felicity Galvez	Australia	2:09.28
6	8	Mette Jacobsen	Denmark	2:10.01
7	1	Paola Cavallino	Italy	2:10.14
8	7	Éva Risztov	Hungary	2:10.58

References

1. "Swimming schedule". BBC Sport. 5 August 2004. Retrieved 17 June 2007.
2. Andersson, Astrid (21 December 2004). "Olympic champion's heart of gold". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
3. Thomas, Stephen (18 August 2004). "Jedrzejczak Powers to Great Win in 200 Fly and Poland’s First-Ever Olympic Gold Medal in the Pool". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
4. "Otylia Jedrzejczak of Poland wins women's 200m butterfly gold". Xinhua News Agency (People's Daily). 19 August 2004. Retrieved 24 March 2013.

External links

• Official Olympic Report