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

The women's 200 metre backstroke event at the 2004 Olympic Games was contested at the Olympic Aquatic Centre of the Athens Olympic Sports Complex in Athens, Greece on August 19 and 20.<ref name="Swimming schedule">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry added gold to her silver and bronze medals by a storming victory in this event, breaking an African record time of 2:09.19. Russia's Stanislava Komarova took home the silver at 2:09.72, while Japan's Reiko Nakamura and Germany's Antje Buschschulte shared their triumph for the bronze medal, in a joint time of 2:09.88.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> British swimmer and world champion Katy Sexton, on the other hand, finished outside the medals in seventh place, with a time of 2:12.11. Since Zimbabwe made its official debut in 1980, Coventry also became the nation's first athlete in its history to claim an individual Olympic medal.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Records

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

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Stanislava Komarova	Template:FlagIOC	2:10.71	Q
2	3	4	Reiko Nakamura	Template:FlagIOC	2:11.14	Q
3	3	1	Kirsty Coventry	Template:FlagIOC	2:12.49	Q
4	5	4	Margaret Hoelzer	Template:FlagIOC	2:12.55	Q
5	4	6	Antje Buschschulte	Template:FlagIOC	2:12.96	Q
6	5	2	Jennifer Fratesi	Template:FlagIOC	2:13.00	Q
7	5	3	Louise Ørnstedt	Template:FlagIOC	2:13.05	Q
8	3	5	Katy Sexton	Template:FlagIOC	2:13.25	Q
9	4	1	Hannah McLean	Template:FlagIOC	2:13.33	Q
10	4	5	Aya Terakawa	Template:FlagIOC	2:13.55	Q
11	3	2	Melissa Morgan	Template:FlagIOC	2:14.06	Q
12	2	2	Evelyn Verrasztó	Template:FlagIOC	2:14.07	Q
13	5	6	Nicole Hetzer	Template:FlagIOC	2:14.42	Q
14	5	5	Iryna Amshennikova	Template:FlagIOC	2:14.49	Q
15	5	1	Frances Adcock	Template:FlagIOC	2:14.85	Q
16	4	8	Sanja Jovanović	Template:FlagIOC	2:15.01	Q
17	4	2	Kristen Caverly	Template:FlagIOC	2:15.34
18	3	7	Elizabeth Warden	Template:FlagIOC	2:15.77
19	2	6	Kateřina Pivoňková	Template:FlagIOC	2:16.08
20	4	3	Karen Lee	Template:FlagIOC	2:16.10
21	3	8	Alessia Filippi	Template:FlagIOC	2:17.29
	2	7	Şadan Derya Erke	Template:FlagIOC
23	5	7	Anja Čarman	Template:FlagIOC	2:17.62
24	2	1	Lin Man-hsu	Template:FlagIOC	2:17.68
25	2	5	Lee Da-hye	Template:FlagIOC	2:17.73
26	2	3	Gisela Morales	Template:FlagIOC	2:18.23
27	5	8	Alexandra Putra	Template:FlagIOC	2:19.75
28	1	4	Hiu Wai Sherry Tsai	Template:FlagIOC	2:19.83
29	2	8	Chonlathorn Vorathamrong	Template:FlagIOC	2:21.11
30	2	4	Eirini Karastergiou	Template:FlagIOC	2:21.93
31	1	5	Gretchen Gotay Cordero	Template:FlagIOC	2:23.39
32	1	3	Saida Iskandarova	Template:FlagIOC	2:26.17
33	3	3	Zhan Shu	Template:FlagIOC	2:31.56
Template:Hs	3	6	Chen Xiujun	Template:FlagIOC	Template:Abbr
Template:Hs	4	7	Alenka Kejžar	Template:FlagIOC	Template:Abbr

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Reiko Nakamura	Template:FlagIOC	2:10.14	Q
2	5	Margaret Hoelzer	Template:FlagIOC	2:11.68	Q
3	2	Aya Terakawa	Template:FlagIOC	2:12.21	Q
4	6	Katy Sexton	Template:FlagIOC	2:12.62	Q
5	3	Jennifer Fratesi	Template:FlagIOC	2:12.64
6	8	Sanja Jovanović	Template:FlagIOC	2:13.76
7	7	Evelyn Verrasztó	Template:FlagIOC	2:13.98
8	1	Iryna Amshennikova	Template:FlagIOC	2:14.83

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Stanislava Komarova	Template:FlagIOC	2:09.62	Q
2	5	Kirsty Coventry	Template:FlagIOC	2:10.04	Q, AF
3	3	Antje Buschschulte	Template:FlagIOC	2:10.66	Q
4	6	Louise Ørnstedt	Template:FlagIOC	2:11.77	Q
5	2	Hannah McLean	Template:FlagIOC	2:12.87
6	1	Nicole Hetzer	Template:FlagIOC	2:13.01
7	7	Melissa Morgan	Template:FlagIOC	2:13.34
8	8	Frances Adcock	Template:FlagIOC	2:15.69

Final

Rank	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
Template:Gold01	5	Kirsty Coventry	Template:FlagIOC	2:09.19	AF
Template:Silver02	4	Stanislava Komarova	Template:FlagIOC	2:09.72
Template:Bronze03	3	Reiko Nakamura	Template:FlagIOC	2:09.88
	6	Antje Buschschulte	Template:FlagIOC
5	2	Margaret Hoelzer	Template:FlagIOC	2:10.70
6	7	Louise Ørnstedt	Template:FlagIOC	2:11.15
7	8	Katy Sexton	Template:FlagIOC	2:12.11
8	1	Aya Terakawa	Template:FlagIOC	2:12.90

External links

• Official Olympic Report