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

Women's 100 metre backstroke
at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Women's 100 metre backstroke; at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Venue	Athens Olympic Aquatic Centre
Date	August 15, 2004 (heats &; semifinals); August 16, 2004 (final)
Competitors	41 from 34 nations
Winning time	1:00.37
Medalists
	← 2000 2008 →

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.^[1]

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.^[2] 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.^[3]

Records

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

World record	Natalie Coughlin (USA)	59.58	Fort Lauderdale, United States	13 August 2002
Olympic record	Diana Mocanu (ROM)	1:00.21	Sydney, Australia	18 September 2000

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

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
August 15	Semifinal 2	Natalie Coughlin	United States	1:00.17	OR

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Laure Manaudou	France	1:01.27	Q
2	4	5	Reiko Nakamura	Japan	1:01.39	Q
3	6	4	Natalie Coughlin	United States	1:01.45	Q
4	3	5	Kirsty Coventry	Zimbabwe	1:01.60	Q, AF
5	4	6	Noriko Inada	Japan	1:01.67	Q
6	5	4	Antje Buschschulte	Germany	1:01.68	Q
7	6	5	Nina Zhivanevskaya	Spain	1:01.75	Q
8	4	3	Stanislava Komarova	Russia	1:01.84	Q
9	4	7	Ilona Hlaváčková	Czech Republic	1:01.95	Q
10	5	7	Giaan Rooney	Australia	1:01.96	Q
11	5	3	Haley Cope	United States	1:01.99	Q
12	6	3	Katy Sexton	Great Britain	1:02.01	Q
13	5	5	Louise Ørnstedt	Denmark	1:02.17	Q
13	6	7	Sarah Price	Great Britain	1:02.17	Q
15	6	2	Gao Chang	China	1:02.19	Q
16	4	2	Zhan Shu	China	1:02.39	Q
17	4	1	Erin Gammel	Canada	1:02.47
17	3	4	Sanja Jovanović	Croatia	1:02.47
19	5	6	Iryna Amshennikova	Ukraine	1:02.57
20	5	8	Marieke Guehrer	Australia	1:02.76
21	6	8	Nikolett Szepesi	Hungary	1:02.78
22	5	2	Hannah McLean	New Zealand	1:03.09
23	6	6	Janine Pietsch	Germany	1:03.13
24	4	8	Shim Min-ji	South Korea	1:03.14
25	3	3	Sviatlana Khakhlova	Belarus	1:03.25
26	6	1	Alessandra Cappa	Italy	1:03.50
27	3	2	Gisela Morales	Guatemala	1:03.72
28	3	6	Anna Gostomelsky	Israel	1:04.06
29	5	1	Alexandra Putra	France	1:04.13
30	3	8	Hiu Wai Sherry Tsai	Hong Kong	1:04.25
31	2	5	Kiera Aitken	Bermuda	1:04.37
32	2	1	Chonlathorn Vorathamrong	Thailand	1:05.15
33	3	1	Eirini Karastergiou	Greece	1:05.30
34	2	4	Şadan Derya Erke	Turkey	1:05.38
35	2	3	Serrana Fernández	Uruguay	1:05.51
36	3	7	Hanna-Maria Seppälä	Finland	1:05.55
37	2	2	Fu Hsiao-han	Chinese Taipei	1:06.62
38	2	7	Anastassiya Prilepa	Kazakhstan	1:07.55
39	1	4	Lenient Obia	Nigeria	1:09.95
40	1	5	Ana Galindo	Honduras	1:11.80
41	2	6	Olga Gnedovskaya	Uzbekistan	1:15.33
42	1	3	Yelena Rojkova	Turkmenistan	1:15.48

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Antje Buschschulte	Germany	1:00.94	Q
2	5	Kirsty Coventry	Zimbabwe	1:01.21	Q, AF
3	4	Reiko Nakamura	Japan	1:01.24	Q
4	2	Giaan Rooney	Australia	1:01.41	OC
5	6	Stanislava Komarova	Russia	1:01.63
6	7	Katy Sexton	Great Britain	1:01.96
7	8	Zhan Shu	China	1:02.10
8	1	Sarah Price	Great Britain	1:02.48

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Natalie Coughlin	United States	1:00.17	Q, OR
2	4	Laure Manaudou	France	1:00.88	Q
3	1	Louise Ørnstedt	Denmark	1:01.12	Q
4	7	Haley Cope	United States	1:01.13	Q
5	6	Nina Zhivanevskaya	Spain	1:01.19	Q
6	3	Noriko Inada	Japan	1:01.74
7	2	Ilona Hlaváčková	Czech Republic	1:01.81
8	8	Gao Chang	China	1:02.17

Final

Rank	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
	4	Natalie Coughlin	United States	1:00.37
	1	Kirsty Coventry	Zimbabwe	1:00.50	AF
	5	Laure Manaudou	France	1:00.88
4	8	Reiko Nakamura	Japan	1:01.05
5	7	Nina Zhivanevskaya	Spain	1:01.12
6	3	Antje Buschschulte	Germany	1:01.39
7	6	Louise Ørnstedt	Denmark	1:01.51
8	2	Haley Cope	United States	1:01.76

References

^ "Swimming schedule". BBC Sport. 5 August 2004. Retrieved 17 June 2007.
^ "Coughlin takes gold in 100-meter backstroke". USA Today. 16 August 2004. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
^ "Natalie Coughlin Finally Gets her Reward for Patience – Olympic Gold". Swimming World Magazine. 16 August 2004. Archived from the original on 11 April 2013. Retrieved 21 March 2013.

External links

Official Olympic Report

[Swimming_schedule-1] "Swimming schedule". BBC Sport. 5 August 2004. Retrieved 17 June 2007.

[2] "Coughlin takes gold in 100-meter backstroke". USA Today. 16 August 2004. Retrieved 21 March 2013.

[3] "Natalie Coughlin Finally Gets her Reward for Patience – Olympic Gold". Swimming World Magazine. 16 August 2004. Archived from the original on 11 April 2013. Retrieved 21 March 2013.

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