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

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Field	Value
event	Women's 200 metre backstroke
games	2004 Summer
venue	Athens Olympic Aquatic Centre
date	August 19, 2004 (heats &
semifinals)
August 20, 2004 (final)
competitors	35
nations	27
win_value	2:09.19 AF
gold	Kirsty Coventry
goldNOC	ZIM
silver	Stanislava Komarova
silverNOC	RUS
bronze	Reiko Nakamura
bronzeNOC	JPN
bronze2	Antje Buschschulte
bronzeNOC2	GER
prev	2000
next	2008

semifinals) August 20, 2004 (final)

The women's 200 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 19 and 20.

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. 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.

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	Stanislava Komarova	RUS	2:10.71	Q
2	3	4	Reiko Nakamura	JPN	2:11.14	Q
3	3	1	Kirsty Coventry	ZIM	2:12.49	Q
4	5	4	Margaret Hoelzer	USA	2:12.55	Q
5	4	6	Antje Buschschulte	GER	2:12.96	Q
6	5	2	Jennifer Fratesi	CAN	2:13.00	Q
7	5	3	Louise Ørnstedt	DEN	2:13.05	Q
8	3	5	Katy Sexton	GBR	2:13.25	Q
9	4	1	Hannah McLean	NZL	2:13.33	Q
10	4	5	Aya Terakawa	JPN	2:13.55	Q
11	3	2	Melissa Morgan	AUS	2:14.06	Q
12	2	2	Evelyn Verrasztó	HUN	2:14.07	Q
13	5	6	Nicole Hetzer	GER	2:14.42	Q
14	5	5	Iryna Amshennikova	UKR	2:14.49	Q
15	5	1	Frances Adcock	AUS	2:14.85	Q
16	4	8	Sanja Jovanović	CRO	2:15.01	Q
17	4	2	Kristen Caverly	USA	2:15.34
18	3	7	Elizabeth Warden	CAN	2:15.77
19	2	6	Kateřina Pivoňková	CZE	2:16.08
20	4	3	Karen Lee	GBR	2:16.10
21	3	8	Alessia Filippi	ITA	2:17.29
2	7	Şadan Derya Erke	TUR
23	5	7	Anja Čarman	SLO	2:17.62
24	2	1	Lin Man-hsu	TPE	2:17.68
25	2	5	Lee Da-hye	KOR	2:17.73
26	2	3	Gisela Morales	GUA	2:18.23
27	5	8	Alexandra Putra	FRA	2:19.75
28	1	4	Hiu Wai Sherry Tsai	HKG	2:19.83
29	2	8	Chonlathorn Vorathamrong	THA	2:21.11
30	2	4	Eirini Karastergiou	GRE	2:21.93
31	1	5	Gretchen Gotay Cordero	PUR	2:23.39
32	1	3	Saida Iskandarova	UZB	2:26.17
33	3	3	Zhan Shu	CHN	2:31.56
	3	6	Chen Xiujun	CHN	DSQ
	4	7	Alenka Kejžar	SLO	DNS

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Reiko Nakamura	JPN	2:10.14	Q
2	5	Margaret Hoelzer	USA	2:11.68	Q
3	2	Aya Terakawa	JPN	2:12.21	Q
4	6	Katy Sexton	GBR	2:12.62	Q
5	3	Jennifer Fratesi	CAN	2:12.64
6	8	Sanja Jovanović	CRO	2:13.76
7	7	Evelyn Verrasztó	HUN	2:13.98
8	1	Iryna Amshennikova	UKR	2:14.83

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Stanislava Komarova	RUS	2:09.62	Q
2	5	Kirsty Coventry	ZIM	2:10.04	Q, AF
3	3	Antje Buschschulte	GER	2:10.66	Q
4	6	Louise Ørnstedt	DEN	2:11.77	Q
5	2	Hannah McLean	NZL	2:12.87
6	1	Nicole Hetzer	GER	2:13.01
7	7	Melissa Morgan	AUS	2:13.34
8	8	Frances Adcock	AUS	2:15.69

Final

Rank	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
	5	Kirsty Coventry	ZIM	2:09.19	AF
	4	Stanislava Komarova	RUS	2:09.72
	3	Reiko Nakamura	JPN	2:09.88
6	Antje Buschschulte	GER
5	2	Margaret Hoelzer	USA	2:10.70
6	7	Louise Ørnstedt	DEN	2:11.15
7	8	Katy Sexton	GBR	2:12.11
8	1	Aya Terakawa	JPN	2:12.90

References

(5 August 2004). "Swimming schedule". [[BBC Sport]].
(20 August 2004). "Coventry takes backstroke". [[BBC Sport]].
(25 August 2004). "Zimbabwe puts aside racial tensions to give hero's welcome to triple medal winner". [[USA Today]].

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