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

Women's 400 metre freestyle at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Venue	Athens Olympic Aquatic Centre
Date	August 15, 2004 (heats & final)
Competitors	38 from 31 nations
Winning time	4:05.34 EU
Medalists
Laure Manaudou   France   Otylia Jędrzejczak   Poland   Kaitlin Sandeno   United States

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 400 metre freestyle 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.^[1]

France's Laure Manaudou won the gold medal in this event, with a European record time of 4:05.34. The silver medal was awarded to Poland's Otylia Jędrzejczak, who finished behind Manaudou by half a second (0.50), in an outstanding time of 4:05.84. U.S. swimmer Kaitlin Sandeno, who earned a silver in the 400 m individual medley on the previous day, fought off a challenge from Romania's Camelia Potec in the final lap to take a bronze by two tenths of a second (0.20), clocking at 4:06.19.^[2][3]

Records

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

World record	Janet Evans (USA)	4:03.85	Seoul, South Korea	22 September 1988
Olympic record	Janet Evans (USA)	4:03.85	Seoul, South Korea	22 September 1988

No new records were set during this competition.

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	3	Laure Manaudou	France	4:06.76	Q
2	4	5	Otylia Jędrzejczak	Poland	4:07.11	Q
3	3	4	Camelia Potec	Romania	4:07.39	Q
4	3	5	Ai Shibata	Japan	4:07.63	Q
5	4	1	Rebecca Cooke	Great Britain	4:08.18	Q
6	4	3	Kaitlin Sandeno	United States	4:08.22	Q
7	3	6	Linda Mackenzie	Australia	4:08.46	Q
8	5	5	Sachiko Yamada	Japan	4:09.10	Q
9	3	2	Claudia Poll	Costa Rica	4:09.75
10	4	2	Kalyn Keller	United States	4:09.83
11	5	7	Simona Păduraru	Romania	4:10.39
12	5	4	Hannah Stockbauer	Germany	4:10.46
13	5	6	Elka Graham	Australia	4:11.67
14	5	1	Pang Jiaying	China	4:11.81
15	4	4	Éva Risztov	Hungary	4:12.08
16	5	2	Brittany Reimer	Canada	4:12.33
17	4	6	Chen Hua	China	4:12.67
18	4	7	Erika Villaécija García	Spain	4:13.03
19	5	8	Monique Ferreira	Brazil	4:13.75
20	3	1	Zoi Dimoschaki	Greece	4:13.96
21	3	3	Joanne Jackson	Great Britain	4:14.89
22	2	6	Cecilia Biagioli	Argentina	4:16.42
23	3	7	Arantxa Ramos	Spain	4:16.52
24	2	3	Anja Čarman	Slovenia	4:17.79
25	4	8	Daria Parshina	Russia	4:18.24
26	2	7	Kristel Köbrich	Chile	4:18.68
27	2	2	Vesna Stojanovska	Macedonia	4:19.39
28	2	5	Janelle Atkinson	Jamaica	4:20.00
29	1	6	Paola Duguet	Colombia	4:20.69
30	3	8	Kristýna Kyněrová	Czech Republic	4:21.12
31	2	1	Rebecca Linton	New Zealand	4:21.58
32	2	8	Ha Eun-ju	South Korea	4:21.65
33	1	4	Golda Marcus	El Salvador	4:22.27
34	1	5	Pilin Tachakittiranan	Thailand	4:23.62
35	1	7	Özlem Yasemin Taşkın	Turkey	4:24.08
36	1	3	Ivanka Moralieva	Bulgaria	4:25.92
37	1	2	Anita Galić	Croatia	4:26.09
38	2	4	Olga Beresnyeva	Ukraine	4:26.30

Final

Rank	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
	4	Laure Manaudou	France	4:05.34	EU
	5	Otylia Jędrzejczak	Poland	4:05.84
	7	Kaitlin Sandeno	United States	4:06.19
4	3	Camelia Potec	Romania	4:06.34
5	6	Ai Shibata	Japan	4:07.51
6	8	Sachiko Yamada	Japan	4:10.91
7	1	Linda Mackenzie	Australia	4:10.92
8	2	Rebecca Cooke	Great Britain	4:11.35

References

1. "Swimming schedule". BBC Sport. 5 August 2004. Retrieved 17 June 2007.
2. Thomas, Stephen (15 August 2004). "French Star Laure Manaudou Wins 400 Free in a Stunning 4:05.34". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 20 March 2013.
3. "French swimmer Manaudou wins women's 400m freestyle". Xinhua News Agency (China Daily). 16 August 2004. Retrieved 20 March 2013.

External links

• Official Olympic Report