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Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre backstroke

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Field	Value
event	Women's 100 metre backstroke
games	2004 Summer
venue	Athens Olympic Aquatic Centre
date	August 15, 2004 (heats &
semifinals)
August 16, 2004 (final)
competitors	41
nations	34
win_value	1:00.37
gold	Natalie Coughlin
goldNOC	USA
silver	Kirsty Coventry
silverNOC	ZIM
bronze	Laure Manaudou
bronzeNOC	FRA
prev	2000
next	2008

semifinals) August 16, 2004 (final)

The women's 100 metre backstroke event at the 2004 Olympic Games was contested at the Olympic Aquatic Centre of the Athens Olympic Sports Complex in Athens, Greece on August 15 and 16.

U.S. swimmer Natalie Coughlin won the gold medal in this event, outside the record time of 1:00.37. The silver medal was awarded to Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry, who finished behind Coughlin by 0.13 of a second, breaking an African record of 1:00.50. France's Laure Manaudou, who won the gold in the 400 m freestyle on the previous day, took home the bronze medal, with a time of 1:00.88. In the semifinals, Coughlin lowered an Olympic record time of 1:00.21, set by Romania's Diana Mocanu in Sydney (2000), to 1:00.17.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
August 15	Semifinal 2	Natalie Coughlin	USA	1:00.17

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Laure Manaudou	FRA	1:01.27	Q
2	4	5	Reiko Nakamura	JPN	1:01.39	Q
3	6	4	Natalie Coughlin	USA	1:01.45	Q
4	3	5	Kirsty Coventry	ZIM	1:01.60	Q, AF
5	4	6	Noriko Inada	JPN	1:01.67	Q
6	5	4	Antje Buschschulte	GER	1:01.68	Q
7	6	5	Nina Zhivanevskaya	ESP	1:01.75	Q
8	4	3	Stanislava Komarova	RUS	1:01.84	Q
9	4	7	Ilona Hlaváčková	CZE	1:01.95	Q
10	5	7	Giaan Rooney	AUS	1:01.96	Q
11	5	3	Haley Cope	USA	1:01.99	Q
12	6	3	Katy Sexton	GBR	1:02.01	Q
13	5	5	Louise Ørnstedt	DEN	1:02.17	Q
6	7	Sarah Price	GBR	Q
15	6	2	Gao Chang	CHN	1:02.19	Q
16	4	2	Zhan Shu	CHN	1:02.39	Q
17	4	1	Erin Gammel	CAN	1:02.47
3	4	Sanja Jovanović	CRO
19	5	6	Iryna Amshennikova	UKR	1:02.57
20	5	8	Marieke Guehrer	AUS	1:02.76
21	6	8	Nikolett Szepesi	HUN	1:02.78
22	5	2	Hannah McLean	NZL	1:03.09
23	6	6	Janine Pietsch	GER	1:03.13
24	4	8	Shim Min-ji	KOR	1:03.14
25	3	3	Sviatlana Khakhlova	BLR	1:03.25
26	6	1	Alessandra Cappa	ITA	1:03.50
27	3	2	Gisela Morales	GUA	1:03.72
28	3	6	Anna Gostomelsky	ISR	1:04.06
29	5	1	Alexandra Putra	FRA	1:04.13
30	3	8	Hiu Wai Sherry Tsai	HKG	1:04.25
31	2	5	Kiera Aitken	BER	1:04.37
32	2	1	Chonlathorn Vorathamrong	THA	1:05.15
33	3	1	Eirini Karastergiou	GRE	1:05.30
34	2	4	Şadan Derya Erke	TUR	1:05.38
35	2	3	Serrana Fernández	URU	1:05.51
36	3	7	Hanna-Maria Seppälä	FIN	1:05.55
37	2	2	Fu Hsiao-han	TPE	1:06.62
38	2	7	Anastassiya Prilepa	KAZ	1:07.55
39	1	4	Lenient Obia	NGR	1:09.95
40	1	5	Ana Galindo	HON	1:11.80
41	2	6	Olga Gnedovskaya	UZB	1:15.33
42	1	3	Yelena Rojkova	TKM	1:15.48

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Antje Buschschulte	GER	1:00.94	Q
2	5	Kirsty Coventry	ZIM	1:01.21	Q, AF
3	4	Reiko Nakamura	JPN	1:01.24	Q
4	2	Giaan Rooney	AUS	1:01.41	OC
5	6	Stanislava Komarova	RUS	1:01.63
6	7	Katy Sexton	GBR	1:01.96
7	8	Zhan Shu	CHN	1:02.10
8	1	Sarah Price	GBR	1:02.48

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Natalie Coughlin	USA	1:00.17	Q,
2	4	Laure Manaudou	FRA	1:00.88	Q
3	1	Louise Ørnstedt	DEN	1:01.12	Q
4	7	Haley Cope	USA	1:01.13	Q
5	6	Nina Zhivanevskaya	ESP	1:01.19	Q
6	3	Noriko Inada	JPN	1:01.74
7	2	Ilona Hlaváčková	CZE	1:01.81
8	8	Gao Chang	CHN	1:02.17

Final

Rank	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
	4	Natalie Coughlin	USA	1:00.37
	1	Kirsty Coventry	ZIM	1:00.50	AF
	5	Laure Manaudou	FRA	1:00.88
4	8	Reiko Nakamura	JPN	1:01.05
5	7	Nina Zhivanevskaya	ESP	1:01.12
6	3	Antje Buschschulte	GER	1:01.39
7	6	Louise Ørnstedt	DEN	1:01.51
8	2	Haley Cope	USA	1:01.76

References

(5 August 2004). "Swimming schedule". [[BBC Sport]].
(16 August 2004). "Coughlin takes gold in 100-meter backstroke". [[USA Today]].
(16 August 2004). "Natalie Coughlin Finally Gets her Reward for Patience – Olympic Gold". [[Swimming World Magazine]].

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