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

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Field	Value
event	Women's 200 metre individual medley
games	2004 Summer
venue	Athens Olympic Aquatic Centre
date	August 16, 2004 (heats &
semifinals)
August 17, 2004 (final)
competitors	30
nations	27
win_value	2:11.14
gold	Yana Klochkova
goldNOC	UKR
silver	Amanda Beard
silverNOC	USA
bronze	Kirsty Coventry
bronzeNOC	ZIM
prev	2000
next	2008

semifinals) August 17, 2004 (final)

The women's 200 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 16 and 17.

Ukraine's Yana Klochkova became the first woman to claim two consecutive Olympic titles in the individual medley, finishing the final race with a time of 2:11.14. American swimmer and three-time Olympian Amanda Beard took home the silver, in an American record time of 2:11.70, while Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry, on the other hand, broke an African record of 2:12.72 to earn the bronze 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	2	Kirsty Coventry	ZIM	2:13.33	Q
2	4	4	Yana Klochkova	UKR	2:13.40	Q
3	4	5	Katie Hoff	USA	2:14.03	Q
4	3	4	Amanda Beard	USA	2:14.49	Q
5	2	3	Hanna Shcherba	BLR	2:14.59	Q
6	2	6	Beatrice Câșlaru	ROM	2:14.70	Q
7	3	6	Ágnes Kovács	HUN	2:15.17	Q
8	2	5	Zhou Yafei	CHN	2:15.56	Q
9	3	5	Alice Mills	AUS	2:15.62	Q
10	2	4	Teresa Rohmann	GER	2:16.06	Q
11	4	6	Lara Carroll	AUS	2:16.17	Q
12	3	1	Joanna Melo	BRA	2:16.21	Q
13	3	2	Oxana Verevka	RUS	2:16.63	Q
14	4	7	Georgina Bardach	ARG	2:16.68	Q
15	4	3	Elizabeth Warden	CAN	2:17.12	Q
16	4	8	Helen Norfolk	NZL	2:17.27	Q
17	2	7	Misa Amano	JPN	2:17.88
18	2	2	Alenka Kejžar	SLO	2:18.60
19	4	1	Joscelin Yeo	SIN	2:18.61
20	2	8	Lin Man-hsu	TPE	2:18.86
21	2	1	Alessia Filippi	ITA	2:19.21
22	3	8	Siow Yi Ting	MAS	2:19.52
23	3	7	Athina Tzavella	GRE	2:20.30
24	1	2	Vered Borochovski	ISR	2:20.62
25	1	4	Petra Banović	CRO	2:20.83
26	1	5	Park Na-ri	KOR	2:21.48
27	1	6	Lára Hrund Bjargardóttir	ISL	2:22.00
28	1	7	Marina Mulyayeva	KAZ	2:24.25
29	3	3	Qi Hui	CHN	2:26.02
30	1	3	Louise Mai Jansen	DEN	2:27.08

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Yana Klochkova	UKR	2:13.30	Q
2	5	Amanda Beard	USA	2:13.51	Q
3	3	Beatrice Câșlaru	ROM	2:14.25	Q
4	2	Teresa Rohmann	GER	2:14.47	Q
5	7	Joanna Melo	BRA	2:15.43
6	1	Georgina Bardach	ARG	2:15.73
7	6	Zhou Yafei	CHN	2:15.93
8	8	Helen Norfolk	NZL	2:17.41

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Katie Hoff	USA	2:13.60	Q
2	4	Kirsty Coventry	ZIM	2:13.68	Q
3	7	Lara Carroll	AUS	2:13.80	Q
4	6	Ágnes Kovács	HUN	2:14.68	Q
5	3	Hanna Shcherba	BLR	2:14.92
6	2	Alice Mills	AUS	2:14.95
7	1	Oxana Verevka	RUS	2:15.93
8	8	Elizabeth Warden	CAN	2:17.32

Final

Rank	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
	4	Yana Klochkova	UKR	2:11.14
	5	Amanda Beard	USA	2:11.70	AM
	6	Kirsty Coventry	ZIM	2:12.72	AF
4	8	Ágnes Kovács	HUN	2:13.58
5	1	Teresa Rohmann	GER	2:13.74
6	2	Lara Carroll	AUS	2:13.74
7	3	Katie Hoff	USA	2:13.97
8	7	Beatrice Câșlaru	ROM	2:15.40

References

(5 August 2004). "Swimming schedule". [[BBC Sport]].
(17 August 2004). "Klochkova golden in 200 IM". [[USA Today]].
Thomas, Stephen. (17 August 2004). "Klochkova Scores a Unique Golden Double Double". [[Swimming World Magazine]].

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