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

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.<ref name="Swimming schedule">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

After missing out the semifinals in Sydney four years earlier, Japan's Kosuke Kitajima shattered one of the longest-standing Olympic swimming records when he clocked 2:09.44, erasing a 0.77-second mark by American swimmer Mike Barrowman in 1992. This achievement secured a breaststroke double for the second consecutive time.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In a surprise turn of events, 15-year-old Dániel Gyurta of Hungary claimed the silver medal with a time of 2:10.80, narrowly 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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Records

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

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

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
August 18	Final	Kosuke Kitajima	Template:FlagIOC	2:09.44	Template:OlyR

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	2	Dániel Gyurta	Template:FlagIOC	2:11.29	Q
2	4	4	Kosuke Kitajima	Template:FlagIOC	2:11.97	Q
3	4	5	Paolo Bossini	Template:FlagIOC	2:12.09	Q
4	4	3	Mike Brown	Template:FlagIOC	2:12.69	Q
5	6	4	Brendan Hansen	Template:FlagIOC	2:12.77	Q
6	5	8	Vladislav Polyakov	Template:FlagIOC	2:12.96	Q
7	6	3	Ian Edmond	Template:FlagIOC	2:13.08	Q
8	5	3	Grigory Falko	Template:FlagIOC	2:13.45	Q
9	5	5	Scott Usher	Template:FlagIOC	2:13.59	Q
10	6	5	Jim Piper	Template:FlagIOC	2:13.79	Q
11	5	6	Genki Imamura	Template:FlagIOC	2:14.10	Q
12	4	1	Terence Parkin	Template:FlagIOC	2:14.12	Q
13	5	2	Maxim Podoprigora	Template:FlagIOC	2:14.31	Q
14	6	7	Richárd Bodor	Template:FlagIOC	2:14.36	Q
15	2	4	Lai Zhongjian	Template:FlagIOC	2:14.61	Q
16	4	6	Chris Cook	Template:FlagIOC	2:14.68	Q
17	5	4	Dmitry Komornikov	Template:FlagIOC	2:14.92
18	4	8	Jens Kruppa	Template:FlagIOC	2:15.29
19	3	2	Ratapong Sirisanont	Template:FlagIOC	2:15.39
20	3	3	Valeriy Dymo	Template:FlagIOC	2:15.52
21	3	4	Jakob Jóhann Sveinsson	Template:FlagIOC	2:15.60
22	6	8	Michael Williamson	Template:FlagIOC	2:15.75
23	4	2	Regan Harrison	Template:FlagIOC	2:15.86
24	2	1	Eduardo Fischer	Template:FlagIOC	2:16.04
25	5	1	Hugues Duboscq	Template:FlagIOC	2:16.56
26	5	7	Thijs van Valkengoed	Template:FlagIOC	2:16.80
27	6	1	Martin Gustavsson	Template:FlagIOC	2:17.12
28	2	5	Mihail Alexandrov	Template:FlagIOC	2:17.19
29	6	6	Morgan Knabe	Template:FlagIOC	2:17.20
30	3	6	Daniel Málek	Template:FlagIOC	2:17.47
31	2	6	Sofiane Daid	Template:FlagIOC	2:17.78
32	3	7	Aleksander Baldin	Template:FlagIOC	2:17.90
33	3	8	Romanos Alyfantis	Template:FlagIOC	2:18.18
34	2	8	Andrey Morkovin	Template:FlagIOC	2:18.48
35	1	3	Bradley Ally	Template:FlagIOC	2:18.64
36	2	2	Emil Tahirovič	Template:FlagIOC	2:18.65
37	3	1	Vanja Rogulj	Template:FlagIOC	2:18.81
38	1	1	Miguel Molina	Template:FlagIOC	2:19.19
39	2	3	Ben Labowitch	Template:FlagIOC	2:19.25
40	4	7	Loris Facci	Template:FlagIOC	2:19.38
41	2	7	Tam Chi Kin	Template:FlagIOC	2:19.48
42	1	4	Wang Wei-wen	Template:FlagIOC	2:20.65
43	1	5	Malick Fall	Template:FlagIOC	2:22.31
44	1	2	Edvinas Dautartas	Template:FlagIOC	2:23.12
45	1	7	Sergiu Postica	Template:FlagIOC	2:27.21
46	1	6	Anton Kramarenko	Template:FlagIOC	2:28.59
Template:Hs	3	5	Jarno Pihlava	Template:FlagIOC	Template:Abbr

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Kosuke Kitajima	Template:FlagIOC	2:10.86	Q
2	5	Mike Brown	Template:FlagIOC	2:12.14	Q
3	3	Vladislav Polyakov	Template:FlagIOC	2:12.19	Q
4	2	Jim Piper	Template:FlagIOC	2:12.22	Q
5	6	Grigory Falko	Template:FlagIOC	2:12.42
6	1	Richárd Bodor	Template:FlagIOC	2:12.76
7	7	Terence Parkin	Template:FlagIOC	2:13.58
8	8	Chris Cook	Template:FlagIOC	2:15.91

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Dániel Gyurta	Template:FlagIOC	2:10.75	Q
2	3	Brendan Hansen	Template:FlagIOC	2:10.81	Q
3	5	Paolo Bossini	Template:FlagIOC	2:11.76	Q
4	2	Scott Usher	Template:FlagIOC	2:12.00	Q
5	7	Genki Imamura	Template:FlagIOC	2:12.86
6	1	Maxim Podoprigora	Template:FlagIOC	2:14.66
7	8	Lai Zhongjian	Template:FlagIOC	2:14.94
Template:Hs	6	Ian Edmond	Template:FlagIOC	Template:Abbr

Final

Rank	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
Template:Gold01	3	Kosuke Kitajima	Template:FlagIOC	2:09.44	Template:OlyR
Template:Silver02	4	Dániel Gyurta	Template:FlagIOC	2:10.80
Template:Bronze03	5	Brendan Hansen	Template:FlagIOC	2:10.87
4	6	Paolo Bossini	Template:FlagIOC	2:11.20
5	1	Vladislav Polyakov	Template:FlagIOC	2:11.76
6	7	Mike Brown	Template:FlagIOC	2:11.94
7	2	Scott Usher	Template:FlagIOC	2:11.95
Template:Hs	8	Jim Piper	Template:FlagIOC	Template:Abbr

External links

• Official Olympic Report