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

France's Laure Manaudou won the gold medal in this event, with a European record time of 4:05.34. The silver medal was awarded to Poland's Otylia Jędrzejczak, who finished behind Manaudou by half a second (0.50), in an outstanding time of 4:05.84. U.S. swimmer Kaitlin Sandeno, who earned a silver in the 400 m individual medley on the previous day, fought off a challenge from Romania's Camelia Potec in the final lap to take a bronze by two tenths of a second (0.20), clocking at 4:06.19.^[2][3]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.^{[citation needed]}

World record	Janet Evans (USA)	4:03.85	Seoul, South Korea	22 September 1988
Olympic record	Janet Evans (USA)	4:03.85	Seoul, South Korea	22 September 1988

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	3	Laure Manaudou	France	4:06.76	Q
2	4	5	Otylia Jędrzejczak	Poland	4:07.11	Q
3	3	4	Camelia Potec	Romania	4:07.39	Q
4	3	5	Ai Shibata	Japan	4:07.63	Q
5	4	1	Rebecca Cooke	Great Britain	4:08.18	Q
6	4	3	Kaitlin Sandeno	United States	4:08.22	Q
7	3	6	Linda Mackenzie	Australia	4:08.46	Q
8	5	5	Sachiko Yamada	Japan	4:09.10	Q
9	3	2	Claudia Poll	Costa Rica	4:09.75
10	4	2	Kalyn Keller	United States	4:09.83
11	5	7	Simona Păduraru	Romania	4:10.39
12	5	4	Hannah Stockbauer	Germany	4:10.46
13	5	6	Elka Graham	Australia	4:11.67
14	5	1	Pang Jiaying	China	4:11.81
15	4	4	Éva Risztov	Hungary	4:12.08
16	5	2	Brittany Reimer	Canada	4:12.33
17	4	6	Chen Hua	China	4:12.67
18	4	7	Erika Villaécija	Spain	4:13.03
19	5	8	Monique Ferreira	Brazil	4:13.75
20	3	1	Zoi Dimoschaki	Greece	4:13.96
21	3	3	Joanne Jackson	Great Britain	4:14.89
22	2	6	Cecilia Biagioli	Argentina	4:16.42
23	3	7	Arantxa Ramos	Spain	4:16.52
24	2	3	Anja Čarman	Slovenia	4:17.79
25	4	8	Daria Parshina	Russia	4:18.24
26	2	7	Kristel Köbrich	Chile	4:18.68
27	2	2	Vesna Stojanovska	Macedonia	4:19.39
28	2	5	Janelle Atkinson	Jamaica	4:20.00
29	1	6	Paola Duguet	Colombia	4:20.69
30	3	8	Kristýna Kyněrová	Czech Republic	4:21.12
31	2	1	Rebecca Linton	New Zealand	4:21.58
32	2	8	Ha Eun-ju	South Korea	4:21.65
33	1	4	Golda Marcus	El Salvador	4:22.27
34	1	5	Pilin Tachakittiranan	Thailand	4:23.62
35	1	7	Özlem Yasemin Taşkın	Turkey	4:24.08
36	1	3	Ivanka Moralieva	Bulgaria	4:25.92
37	1	2	Anita Galić	Croatia	4:26.09
38	2	4	Olga Beresnyeva	Ukraine	4:26.30

Final

Rank	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
	4	Laure Manaudou	France	4:05.34	EU
	5	Otylia Jędrzejczak	Poland	4:05.84
	7	Kaitlin Sandeno	United States	4:06.19
4	3	Camelia Potec	Romania	4:06.34
5	6	Ai Shibata	Japan	4:07.51
6	8	Sachiko Yamada	Japan	4:10.91
7	1	Linda Mackenzie	Australia	4:10.92
8	2	Rebecca Cooke	Great Britain	4:11.35

References