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

The women's 200 metre individual medley event at the 2004 Olympic Games was contested at the Olympic Aquatic Centre of the Athens Olympic Sports Complex in Athens, Greece on August 16 and 17.<ref name="Swimming schedule">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Ukraine's Yana Klochkova became the first woman to claim two consecutive Olympic titles in the individual medley, finishing the final race with a time of 2:11.14. American swimmer and three-time Olympian Amanda Beard took home the silver, in an American record time of 2:11.70, while Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry, on the other hand, broke an African record of 2:12.72 to earn the bronze medal.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><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	2	Kirsty Coventry	Template:FlagIOC	2:13.33	Q
2	4	4	Yana Klochkova	Template:FlagIOC	2:13.40	Q
3	4	5	Katie Hoff	Template:FlagIOC	2:14.03	Q
4	3	4	Amanda Beard	Template:FlagIOC	2:14.49	Q
5	2	3	Hanna Shcherba	Template:FlagIOC	2:14.59	Q
6	2	6	Beatrice Câșlaru	Template:FlagIOC	2:14.70	Q
7	3	6	Ágnes Kovács	Template:FlagIOC	2:15.17	Q
8	2	5	Zhou Yafei	Template:FlagIOC	2:15.56	Q
9	3	5	Alice Mills	Template:FlagIOC	2:15.62	Q
10	2	4	Teresa Rohmann	Template:FlagIOC	2:16.06	Q
11	4	6	Lara Carroll	Template:FlagIOC	2:16.17	Q
12	3	1	Joanna Melo	Template:FlagIOC	2:16.21	Q
13	3	2	Oxana Verevka	Template:FlagIOC	2:16.63	Q
14	4	7	Georgina Bardach	Template:FlagIOC	2:16.68	Q
15	4	3	Elizabeth Warden	Template:FlagIOC	2:17.12	Q
16	4	8	Helen Norfolk	Template:FlagIOC	2:17.27	Q
17	2	7	Misa Amano	Template:FlagIOC	2:17.88
18	2	2	Alenka Kejžar	Template:FlagIOC	2:18.60
19	4	1	Joscelin Yeo	Template:FlagIOC	2:18.61
20	2	8	Lin Man-hsu	Template:FlagIOC	2:18.86
21	2	1	Alessia Filippi	Template:FlagIOC	2:19.21
22	3	8	Siow Yi Ting	Template:FlagIOC	2:19.52
23	3	7	Athina Tzavella	Template:FlagIOC	2:20.30
24	1	2	Vered Borochovski	Template:FlagIOC	2:20.62
25	1	4	Petra Banović	Template:FlagIOC	2:20.83
26	1	5	Park Na-ri	Template:FlagIOC	2:21.48
27	1	6	Lára Hrund Bjargardóttir	Template:FlagIOC	2:22.00
28	1	7	Marina Mulyayeva	Template:FlagIOC	2:24.25
29	3	3	Qi Hui	Template:FlagIOC	2:26.02
30	1	3	Louise Mai Jansen	Template:FlagIOC	2:27.08

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Yana Klochkova	Template:FlagIOC	2:13.30	Q
2	5	Amanda Beard	Template:FlagIOC	2:13.51	Q
3	3	Beatrice Câșlaru	Template:FlagIOC	2:14.25	Q
4	2	Teresa Rohmann	Template:FlagIOC	2:14.47	Q
5	7	Joanna Melo	Template:FlagIOC	2:15.43
6	1	Georgina Bardach	Template:FlagIOC	2:15.73
7	6	Zhou Yafei	Template:FlagIOC	2:15.93
8	8	Helen Norfolk	Template:FlagIOC	2:17.41

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Katie Hoff	Template:FlagIOC	2:13.60	Q
2	4	Kirsty Coventry	Template:FlagIOC	2:13.68	Q
3	7	Lara Carroll	Template:FlagIOC	2:13.80	Q
4	6	Ágnes Kovács	Template:FlagIOC	2:14.68	Q
5	3	Hanna Shcherba	Template:FlagIOC	2:14.92
6	2	Alice Mills	Template:FlagIOC	2:14.95
7	1	Oxana Verevka	Template:FlagIOC	2:15.93
8	8	Elizabeth Warden	Template:FlagIOC	2:17.32

Final

Rank	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
Template:Gold01	4	Yana Klochkova	Template:FlagIOC	2:11.14
Template:Silver02	5	Amanda Beard	Template:FlagIOC	2:11.70	AM
Template:Bronze03	6	Kirsty Coventry	Template:FlagIOC	2:12.72	AF
4	8	Ágnes Kovács	Template:FlagIOC	2:13.58
5	1	Teresa Rohmann	Template:FlagIOC	2:13.74
6	2	Lara Carroll	Template:FlagIOC	2:13.74
7	3	Katie Hoff	Template:FlagIOC	2:13.97
8	7	Beatrice Câșlaru	Template:FlagIOC	2:15.40

External links

• Official Olympic Report