Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 400 metre individual medley

The women's 400 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 14.<ref name="Swimming schedule">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

World record holder Yana Klochkova of Ukraine successfully defended her Olympic title in this event, outside the record time of 4:34.83. U.S. swimmer Kaitlin Sandeno, who finished behind Klochkova by 0.12 of a second, earned a silver medal, in an American record time of 4:34.95. Georgina Bardach, on the other hand, won Argentina's first Olympic bronze medal in swimming, breaking a South American record of 4:37.51.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> South Korea's Nam Yoo-sun and Greece's Vasiliki Angelopoulou became the first female swimmers for their respective nation to reach an Olympic final, finishing outside the medals in seventh and eighth place, respectively. Romania's Beatrice Câșlaru, who won a bronze medal in Sydney, finished only in fourteenth place on the morning's preliminary heats.<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	Yana Klochkova	Template:FlagIOC	4:38.36	Q
2	4	5	Kaitlin Sandeno	Template:FlagIOC	4:40.21	Q
3	2	5	Georgina Bardach	Template:FlagIOC	4:41.20	Q
3	3	4	Éva Risztov	Template:FlagIOC	4:41.20	Q
5	2	6	Nicole Hetzer	Template:FlagIOC	4:41.74	Q
6	4	6	Joanna Melo	Template:FlagIOC	4:42.01	Q
7	4	1	Vasiliki Angelopoulou	Template:FlagIOC	4:44.90	Q, NR
8	2	1	Nam Yoo-sun	Template:FlagIOC	4:45.16	Q
9	2	2	Helen Norfolk	Template:FlagIOC	4:45.21
10	4	2	Misa Amano	Template:FlagIOC	4:45.61
11	3	6	Elizabeth Warden	Template:FlagIOC	4:46.27
12	2	3	Lara Carroll	Template:FlagIOC	4:46.32
13	3	3	Anja Klinar	Template:FlagIOC	4:46.66
14	4	3	Beatrice Câșlaru	Template:FlagIOC	4:46.94
15	4	7	Zsuzsanna Jakabos	Template:FlagIOC	4:47.21
16	3	1	Alessia Filippi	Template:FlagIOC	4:47.26
17	2	4	Katie Hoff	Template:FlagIOC	4:47.49
18	3	7	Teresa Rohmann	Template:FlagIOC	4:48.51
19	3	5	Jennifer Reilly	Template:FlagIOC	4:49.04
20	4	8	Lin Man-hsu	Template:FlagIOC	4:52.22
21	2	7	Yana Martynova	Template:FlagIOC	4:52.96
22	1	4	Nimitta Thaveesupsoonthorn	Template:FlagIOC	5:00.06
23	1	5	Ana Dangalakova	Template:FlagIOC	5:01.00
24	1	3	Sabria Dahane	Template:FlagIOC	5:10.20
Template:Hs	3	2	Zhang Tianyi	Template:FlagIOC	Template:Abbr

Final

Rank	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
Template:Gold01	4	Yana Klochkova	Template:FlagIOC	4:34.83
Template:Silver02	5	Kaitlin Sandeno	Template:FlagIOC	4:34.95	AM
Template:Bronze03	3	Georgina Bardach	Template:FlagIOC	4:37.51	SA
4	6	Éva Risztov	Template:FlagIOC	4:39.29
5	7	Joanna Melo	Template:FlagIOC	4:40.00	NR
6	2	Nicole Hetzer	Template:FlagIOC	4:40.20
7	8	Nam Yoo-sun	Template:FlagIOC	4:50.35
8	1	Vasiliki Angelopoulou	Template:FlagIOC	4:50.85

External links

• Official Olympic Report