Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre freestyle

The women's 100 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 18 and 19.<ref name="Swimming schedule">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Australia's Jodie Henry edged out defending Olympic champion Inge de Bruijn to take the gold medal in this event, by thirty-two hundredths of a second (0.32), outside the record time of 53.84 seconds.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> U.S. swimmer Natalie Coughlin, who previously claimed the title in the 100 m backstroke, earned the bronze at 54.40 seconds. In the semifinals, Henry captured fourteen hundredths of a second (0.14) off her teammate Lisbeth Lenton's world record (set five months earlier in Sydney), with a time of 53.52.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> This was also the final appearance for de Bruijn at the Olympics, before she retired from her swimming career in 2007.<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	Semifinal 2	Jodie Henry	Template:FlagIOC	53.52	Template:WR

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Inge de Bruijn	Template:FlagIOC	54.43	Q
2	5	5	Kara Lynn Joyce	Template:FlagIOC	54.53	Q
3	7	5	Natalie Coughlin	Template:FlagIOC	54.82	Q
4	7	4	Lisbeth Lenton	Template:FlagIOC	54.89	Q
5	6	3	Malia Metella	Template:FlagIOC	55.08	Q
6	7	2	Nery Mantey Niangkouara	Template:FlagIOC	55.12	Q
7	6	4	Jodie Henry	Template:FlagIOC	55.13	Q
8	7	6	Martina Moravcová	Template:FlagIOC	55.17	Q
9	7	3	Federica Pellegrini	Template:FlagIOC	55.41	Q
10	6	6	Alena Popchanka	Template:FlagIOC	55.49	Q
11	6	2	Franziska van Almsick	Template:FlagIOC	55.57	Q, Template:Abbr
12	5	1	Tomoko Nagai	Template:FlagIOC	55.76	Q
13	5	6	Marleen Veldhuis	Template:FlagIOC	55.81	Q
14	5	7	Josefin Lillhage	Template:FlagIOC	55.87	Q
15	4	6	Hanna Shcherba	Template:FlagIOC	56.01	Q
	6	5	Hanna-Maria Seppälä	Template:FlagIOC		Q
17	6	1	Ryu Yoon-ji	Template:FlagIOC	56.02	Q
18	4	3	Jeanette Ottesen	Template:FlagIOC	56.17
19	7	1	Paulina Barzycka	Template:FlagIOC	56.20
20	6	8	Rebeca Gusmão	Template:FlagIOC	56.25
21	4	1	Alison Fitch	Template:FlagIOC	56.29
22	6	7	Cheng Jiaru	Template:FlagIOC	56.39
23	7	8	Jana Myšková	Template:FlagIOC	56.59
24	7	7	Xu Yanwei	Template:FlagIOC	56.66
	5	2	Johanna Sjöberg	Template:FlagIOC
26	4	2	Sara Isaković	Template:FlagIOC	56.67
	3	7	Dominique Diezi	Template:FlagIOC
28	5	8	Florencia Szigeti	Template:FlagIOC	56.71
29	3	5	Arlene Semeco	Template:FlagIOC	57.04
30	4	8	Eileen Coparropa	Template:FlagIOC	57.09
31	4	7	Olga Mukomol	Template:FlagIOC	57.12
32	4	5	Anna Gostomelsky	Template:FlagIOC	57.15
33	3	6	Judith Draxler	Template:FlagIOC	57.29
34	3	8	Hannah Wilson	Template:FlagIOC	57.33
35	2	2	Vanessa García	Template:FlagIOC	57.38
36	3	3	Lara Heinz	Template:FlagIOC	57.40
37	4	4	Jana Kolukanova	Template:FlagIOC	57.45
38	3	2	Ágnes Mutina	Template:FlagIOC	58.10
39	3	1	Angela Chuck	Template:FlagIOC	58.33
40	3	4	Ragnheidur Ragnarsdóttir	Template:FlagIOC	58.47
41	2	5	Yelena Skalinskaya	Template:FlagIOC	58.56
42	2	4	Linda McEachrane	Template:FlagIOC	58.92
43	2	3	Agnese Ozoliņa	Template:FlagIOC	59.03
44	2	6	Sung Yi-chieh	Template:FlagIOC	59.18
45	2	7	Irina Shlemova	Template:FlagIOC	59.21
46	2	8	Shikha Tandon	Template:FlagIOC	59.70
47	2	1	Nicoleta Coica	Template:FlagIOC	59.85
48	1	4	Carolina Cerqueda	Template:FlagIOC	1:00.38
49	1	5	Larissa Inangorore	Template:FlagIOC	1:23.90
50	1	3	Gloria Koussihouede	Template:FlagIOC	1:30.90
Template:Hs	5	3	Melanie Marshall	Template:FlagIOC	Template:Abbr

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Kara Lynn Joyce	Template:FlagIOC	54.81	Q
2	2	Alena Popchanka	Template:FlagIOC	54.97	Q
3	3	Nery Mantey Niangkouara	Template:FlagIOC	55.02	Q
4	6	Martina Moravcová	Template:FlagIOC	55.08	Q
5	5	Lisbeth Lenton	Template:FlagIOC	55.17
6	7	Marleen Veldhuis	Template:FlagIOC	55.32
7	1	Hanna Shcherba	Template:FlagIOC	55.67
8	8	Ryu Yoon-Ji	Template:FlagIOC	55.85

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	Jodie Henry	Template:FlagIOC	53.52	Q, Template:WR
2	4	Inge de Bruijn	Template:FlagIOC	54.06	Q
3	5	Natalie Coughlin	Template:FlagIOC	54.37	Q
4	3	Malia Metella	Template:FlagIOC	54.57	Q
5	2	Federica Pellegrini	Template:FlagIOC	55.30
6	8	Hanna-Maria Seppälä	Template:FlagIOC	55.59
7	1	Josefin Lillhage	Template:FlagIOC	55.76
8	7	Tomoko Nagai	Template:FlagIOC	56.03

Final

Rank	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
Template:Gold01	4	Jodie Henry	Template:FlagIOC	53.84
Template:Silver02	5	Inge de Bruijn	Template:FlagIOC	54.16
Template:Bronze03	3	Natalie Coughlin	Template:FlagIOC	54.40
4	6	Malia Metella	Template:FlagIOC	54.50
5	2	Kara Lynn Joyce	Template:FlagIOC	54.54
6	1	Nery Mantey Niangkouara	Template:FlagIOC	54.81
7	8	Martina Moravcová	Template:FlagIOC	55.12
8	7	Alena Popchanka	Template:FlagIOC	55.24

External links

• Official Olympic Report