Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre backstroke
| Women's 200 metre backstroke at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad | |||||||||||||||||
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| Venue | Athens Olympic Aquatic Centre | ||||||||||||||||
| Date | August 19, 2004 (heats & semifinals) August 20, 2004 (final) | ||||||||||||||||
| Competitors | 35 from 27 nations | ||||||||||||||||
| Winning time | 2:09.19 AF | ||||||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||||||
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| Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics | ||
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| Freestyle | ||
| 50 m | men | women |
| 100 m | men | women |
| 200 m | men | women |
| 400 m | men | women |
| 800 m | women | |
| 1500 m | men | |
| Backstroke | ||
| 100 m | men | women |
| 200 m | men | women |
| Breaststroke | ||
| 100 m | men | women |
| 200 m | men | women |
| Butterfly | ||
| 100 m | men | women |
| 200 m | men | women |
| Individual medley | ||
| 200 m | men | women |
| 400 m | men | women |
| Freestyle relay | ||
| 4 × 100 m | men | women |
| 4 × 200 m | men | women |
| Medley relay | ||
| 4 × 100 m | men | women |
The women's 200 metre
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.[2] 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.[3]
Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
| World record |  Krisztina Egerszegi (HUN) |
2:06.62 | Athens, Greece | 25 August 1991 |
| Olympic record |  Krisztina Egerszegi (HUN) |
2:07.06 | Barcelona, Spain | 31 July 1992 |
Results
Heats
Semifinals
Semifinal 1
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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| 1 | 4 | Reiko Nakamura |  Japan |
2:10.14 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Margaret Hoelzer |  United States |
2:11.68 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Aya Terakawa | Japan |
2:12.21 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Katy Sexton |  Great Britain |
2:12.62 | Q |
| 5 | 3 | Jennifer Fratesi |  Canada |
2:12.64 | |
| 6 | 8 | Sanja Jovanović |  Croatia |
2:13.76 | |
| 7 | 7 | Evelyn Verrasztó | Hungary |
2:13.98 | |
| 8 | 1 | Iryna Amshennikova |  Ukraine |
2:14.83 |
Semifinal 2
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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| 1 | 4 | Stanislava Komarova |  Russia |
2:09.62 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Kirsty Coventry |  Zimbabwe |
2:10.04 | Q, AF |
| 3 | 3 | Antje Buschschulte |  Germany |
2:10.66 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Louise Ørnstedt |  Denmark |
2:11.77 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | Hannah McLean |  New Zealand |
2:12.87 | |
| 6 | 1 | Nicole Hetzer | Germany |
2:13.01 | |
| 7 | 7 | Melissa Morgan |  Australia |
2:13.34 | |
| 8 | 8 | Frances Adcock | Australia |
2:15.69 |
Final
| Rank | Lane | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
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5 | Kirsty Coventry | Zimbabwe |
2:09.19 | AF |
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4 | Stanislava Komarova | Russia |
2:09.72 | |
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3 | Reiko Nakamura | Japan |
2:09.88 | |
| 6 | Antje Buschschulte | Germany |
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| 5 | 2 | Margaret Hoelzer | United States |
2:10.70 | |
| 6 | 7 | Louise Ørnstedt | Denmark |
2:11.15 | |
| 7 | 8 | Katy Sexton | Great Britain |
2:12.11 | |
| 8 | 1 | Aya Terakawa | Japan |
2:12.90 |
References
- ^ "Swimming schedule". BBC Sport. 5 August 2004. Retrieved 17 June 2007.
- ^ "Coventry takes backstroke". BBC Sport. 20 August 2004. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
- ^ "Zimbabwe puts aside racial tensions to give hero's welcome to triple medal winner". USA Today. 25 August 2004. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
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