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

The women's 200 metre butterfly 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>

Polish swimmer and world record holder Otylia Jędrzejczak added gold to her two silver medals by a storming victory in this event, and by becoming the nation's first ever swimming champion, in an outstanding time of 2:06.05.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=swimresults>Template:Cite news</ref> Three-time Olympian Petria Thomas of Australia managed to repeat her silver from Atlanta, lowering her time to 2:06.36. Japan's Yuko Nakanishi, on the other hand, took home the bronze at 2:08.04.<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	Otylia Jędrzejczak	Template:FlagIOC	2:09.64	Q
2	4	5	Yuko Nakanishi	Template:FlagIOC	2:10.04	Q
3	2	4	Éva Risztov	Template:FlagIOC	2:10.49	Q
4	4	3	Kaitlin Sandeno	Template:FlagIOC	2:10.50	Q
5	3	4	Petria Thomas	Template:FlagIOC	2:10.87	Q
6	2	3	Georgina Lee	Template:FlagIOC	2:10.99	Q
7	3	5	Felicity Galvez	Template:FlagIOC	2:11.17	Q
8	4	2	Yukiko Osada	Template:FlagIOC	2:11.20	Q
9	3	6	Francesca Segat	Template:FlagIOC	2:11.40	Q
10	4	1	María Peláez	Template:FlagIOC	2:11.66	Q
11	3	1	Li Jie	Template:FlagIOC	2:11.77	Q
12	2	5	Dana Kirk	Template:FlagIOC	2:11.96	Q
13	4	6	Mette Jacobsen	Template:FlagIOC	2:11.99	Q
14	2	6	Annika Mehlhorn	Template:FlagIOC	2:12.25	Q
15	3	7	Aurore Mongel	Template:FlagIOC	2:12.26	Q
16	3	3	Paola Cavallino	Template:FlagIOC	2:12.34	Q
17	2	7	Beatrix Boulsevicz	Template:FlagIOC	2:12.54
18	1	5	Maria Bulakhova	Template:FlagIOC	2:12.99
19	3	2	Roser Vives	Template:FlagIOC	2:13.02
20	2	8	Raquel Felgueiras	Template:FlagIOC	2:13.08
21	4	8	Georgina Bardach	Template:FlagIOC	2:13.68
22	4	7	Vasiliki Angelopoulou	Template:FlagIOC	2:13.88
23	2	2	Petra Zahrl	Template:FlagIOC	2:13.92
24	2	1	Kwon You-ri	Template:FlagIOC	2:14.30
25	1	3	Cheng Wan-jung	Template:FlagIOC	2:16.25
26	3	8	Vesna Stojanovska	Template:FlagIOC	2:16.51
27	1	2	Nataliya Samorodina	Template:FlagIOC	2:17.15
28	1	4	Anja Klinar	Template:FlagIOC	2:18.15
29	1	6	Chan Wing Suet	Template:FlagIOC	2:18.45
30	1	1	Heather Roffey	Template:FlagIOC	2:19.34
31	1	7	Gülşah Günenç	Template:FlagIOC	2:20.17
32	1	8	Christel Bouvron	Template:FlagIOC	2:26.21

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Kaitlin Sandeno	Template:FlagIOC	2:08.77	Q
2	4	Yuko Nakanishi	Template:FlagIOC	2:08.83	Q
3	8	Paola Cavallino	Template:FlagIOC	2:10.23	Q
4	7	Dana Kirk	Template:FlagIOC	2:10.69
5	3	Georgina Lee	Template:FlagIOC	2:10.93
6	6	Yukiko Osada	Template:FlagIOC	2:11.35
7	1	Annika Mehlhorn	Template:FlagIOC	2:11.37
8	2	María Peláez	Template:FlagIOC	2:12.54

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Otylia Jędrzejczak	Template:FlagIOC	2:08.84	Q
2	3	Petria Thomas	Template:FlagIOC	2:09.24	Q
3	6	Felicity Galvez	Template:FlagIOC	2:09.54	Q
4	5	Éva Risztov	Template:FlagIOC	2:09.83	Q
5	1	Mette Jacobsen	Template:FlagIOC	2:10.47	Q
6	8	Aurore Mongel	Template:FlagIOC	2:11.13
7	2	Francesca Segat	Template:FlagIOC	2:11.18
8	7	Li Jie	Template:FlagIOC	2:13.41

Final

Rank	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
Template:Gold01	3	Otylia Jędrzejczak	Template:FlagIOC	2:06.05
Template:Silver02	6	Petria Thomas	Template:FlagIOC	2:06.36
Template:Bronze03	5	Yuko Nakanishi	Template:FlagIOC	2:08.04
4	4	Kaitlin Sandeno	Template:FlagIOC	2:08.18
5	2	Felicity Galvez	Template:FlagIOC	2:09.28
6	8	Mette Jacobsen	Template:FlagIOC	2:10.01
7	1	Paola Cavallino	Template:FlagIOC	2:10.14
8	7	Éva Risztov	Template:FlagIOC	2:10.58

External links

• Official Olympic Report