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

Men's 200 metre breaststroke
at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
VenueOlympic Aquatic Centre
DateAugust 17, 2004 (heats and semifinals)
August 18, 2004 (final)
Competitors47 from 39 nations
Winning time2:09.44 OR
Medalists
 Kosuke Kitajima  Japan
 Dániel Gyurta  Hungary
 Brendan Hansen  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 men'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 17 and 18.[1]

After missing out the semifinals in Sydney four years earlier, Japan's Kosuke Kitajima blasted one of the longest Olympic swimming records in the book, when he clocked at 2:09.44 to erase a 0.77-second mark by American swimmer Mike Barrowman in 1992, and to strike a breaststroke double for the second straight time.[2] 15-year-old Dániel Gyurta of Hungary made a surprise packet with a silver medal in 2:10.80, edging out U.S. swimmer Brendan Hansen in a close race by 0.07 of a second. Hansen, who broke Kitajima's world record at the U.S. Olympic trials one month ago, finished third in 2:10.87.[3]

Records

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

World record  Brendan Hansen (USA) 2:09.04 Long Beach, United States 11 July 2004
Olympic record  Mike Barrowman (USA) 2:10.16 Barcelona, Spain 29 July 1992

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

Date Event Name Nationality Time Record
August 18 Final Kosuke Kitajima  Japan 2:09.44 OR

Results

Heats

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 6 2 Dániel Gyurta  Hungary 2:11.29 Q
2 4 4 Kosuke Kitajima  Japan 2:11.97 Q
3 4 5 Paolo Bossini  Italy 2:12.09 Q
4 4 3 Mike Brown  Canada 2:12.69 Q
5 6 4 Brendan Hansen  United States 2:12.77 Q
6 5 8 Vladislav Polyakov  Kazakhstan 2:12.96 Q
7 6 3 Ian Edmond  Great Britain 2:13.08 Q
8 5 3 Grigory Falko  Russia 2:13.45 Q
9 5 5 Scott Usher  United States 2:13.59 Q
10 6 5 Jim Piper  Australia 2:13.79 Q
11 5 6 Genki Imamura  Japan 2:14.10 Q
12 4 1 Terence Parkin  South Africa 2:14.12 Q
13 5 2 Maxim Podoprigora  Austria 2:14.31 Q
14 6 7 Richárd Bodor  Hungary 2:14.36 Q
15 2 4 Lai Zhongjian  China 2:14.61 Q
16 4 6 Chris Cook  Great Britain 2:14.68 Q
17 5 4 Dmitry Komornikov  Russia 2:14.92
18 4 8 Jens Kruppa  Germany 2:15.29
19 3 2 Ratapong Sirisanont  Thailand 2:15.39
20 3 3 Valeriy Dymo  Ukraine 2:15.52
21 3 4 Jakob Jóhann Sveinsson  Iceland 2:15.60
22 6 8 Michael Williamson  Ireland 2:15.75
23 4 2 Regan Harrison  Australia 2:15.86
24 2 1 Eduardo Fischer  Brazil 2:16.04
25 5 1 Hugues Duboscq  France 2:16.56
26 5 7 Thijs van Valkengoed  Netherlands 2:16.80
27 6 1 Martin Gustavsson  Sweden 2:17.12
28 2 5 Mihail Alexandrov  Bulgaria 2:17.19
29 6 6 Morgan Knabe  Canada 2:17.20
30 3 6 Daniel Málek  Czech Republic 2:17.47
31 2 6 Sofiane Daid  Algeria 2:17.78
32 3 7 Aleksander Baldin  Estonia 2:17.90
33 3 8 Romanos Alyfantis  Greece 2:18.18
34 2 8 Andrey Morkovin  Uzbekistan 2:18.48
35 1 3 Bradley Ally  Barbados 2:18.64
36 2 2 Emil Tahirovič  Slovenia 2:18.65
37 3 1 Vanja Rogulj  Croatia 2:18.81
38 1 1 Miguel Molina  Philippines 2:19.19
39 2 3 Ben Labowitch  New Zealand 2:19.25
40 4 7 Loris Facci  Italy 2:19.38
41 2 7 Tam Chi Kin  Hong Kong 2:19.48
42 1 4 Wang Wei-wen  Chinese Taipei 2:20.65
43 1 5 Malick Fall  Senegal 2:22.31
44 1 2 Edvinas Dautartas  Lithuania 2:23.12
45 1 7 Sergiu Postica  Moldova 2:27.21
46 1 6 Anton Kramarenko  Kyrgyzstan 2:28.59
47 3 5 Jarno Pihlava  Finland DNS

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 Kosuke Kitajima  Japan 2:10.86 Q
2 5 Mike Brown  Canada 2:12.14 Q
3 3 Vladislav Polyakov  Kazakhstan 2:12.19 Q
4 2 Jim Piper  Australia 2:12.22 Q
5 6 Grigory Falko  Russia 2:12.42
6 1 Richárd Bodor  Hungary 2:12.76
7 7 Terence Parkin  South Africa 2:13.58
8 8 Chris Cook  Great Britain 2:15.91

Semifinal 2

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 Dániel Gyurta  Hungary 2:10.75 Q
2 3 Brendan Hansen  United States 2:10.81 Q
3 5 Paolo Bossini  Italy 2:11.76 Q
4 2 Scott Usher  United States 2:12.00 Q
5 7 Genki Imamura  Japan 2:12.86
6 1 Maxim Podoprigora  Austria 2:14.66
7 8 Lai Zhongjian  China 2:14.94
8 6 Ian Edmond  Great Britain DSQ

Final

Rank Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes
1st, gold medalist(s) 3 Kosuke Kitajima  Japan 2:09.44 OR
2nd, silver medalist(s) 4 Dániel Gyurta  Hungary 2:10.80
3rd, bronze medalist(s) 5 Brendan Hansen  United States 2:10.87
4 6 Paolo Bossini  Italy 2:11.20
5 1 Vladislav Polyakov  Kazakhstan 2:11.76
6 7 Mike Brown  Canada 2:11.94
7 2 Scott Usher  United States 2:11.95
8 8 Jim Piper  Australia DSQ

References

  1. ↑ "Swimming schedule". BBC Sport. 2004-08-05. Retrieved 2007-06-17.
  2. ↑ "Japan's Kitajima wins men's 200m breaststroke for 2nd gold". Xinhua. People's Daily. 18 August 2004. Retrieved 13 May 2013.
  3. ↑ Thomas, Stephen (18 August 2004). "Kitajima Takes the Breaststroke Double, Wins the 200 in an Olympic Record 2:09.44". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 10 May 2013.
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