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

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Women's 400 metre individual medley
at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Venue Athens Olympic Aquatic Centre
Date August 14, 2004 (heats & final)
Competitors 25 from 21 nations
Winning time 4:34.83
Medalists
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1st Yana Klochkova  Ukraine
2nd Kaitlin Sandeno  United States
3rd Georgina Bardach  Argentina
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Swimming events at the
2004 Summer Olympics
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Freestyle
50 m   men   women
100 m men women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m women
1500 m men
Backstroke
100 m men women
200 m men women
Breaststroke
100 m men women
200 m men women
Butterfly
100 m men women
200 m men women
Individual medley
200 m men women
400 m men women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m men women
4×200 m men women
Medley relay
4×100 m men women

The women's 400 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 14.[1]

World record holder Yana Klochkova of Ukraine successfully defended her Olympic title in this event, outside the record time of 4:34.83. U.S. swimmer Kaitlin Sandeno, who finished behind Klochkova by 0.12 of a second, earned a silver medal, in an American record time of 4:34.95. Georgina Bardach, on the other hand, won Argentina's first Olympic bronze medal in swimming, breaking a South American record of 4:37.51.[2] South Korea's Nam Yoo-sun and Greece's Vasiliki Angelopoulou became the first female swimmers for their respective nation to reach an Olympic final, finishing outside the medals in seventh and eighth place, respectively. Romania's Beatrice Căslaru, who won a bronze medal in Sydney, finished only in fourteenth place on the morning's preliminary heats.[3]

Records

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

World record  Yana Klochkova (UKR) 4:33.59 Sydney, Australia 16 September 2000
Olympic record  Yana Klochkova (UKR) 4:33.59 Sydney, Australia 16 September 2000

No new records were set during this competition.

Results

Heats

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 4 Yana Klochkova  Ukraine 4:38.36 Q
2 4 5 Kaitlin Sandeno  United States 4:40.21 Q
3 2 5 Georgina Bardach  Argentina 4:41.20 Q
3 3 4 Éva Risztov  Hungary 4:41.20 Q
5 2 6 Nicole Hetzer  Germany 4:41.74 Q
6 4 6 Joanna Melo  Brazil 4:42.01 Q
7 4 1 Vasiliki Angelopoulou  Greece 4:44.90 Q, NR
8 2 1 Nam Yoo-sun 23x15px South Korea 4:45.16 Q
9 2 2 Helen Norfolk  New Zealand 4:45.21
10 4 2 Misa Amano  Japan 4:45.61
11 3 6 Elizabeth Warden  Canada 4:46.27
12 2 3 Lara Carroll  Australia 4:46.32
13 3 3 Anja Klinar  Slovenia 4:46.66
14 4 3 Beatrice Căslaru  Romania 4:46.94
15 4 7 Zsuzsanna Jakabos  Hungary 4:47.21
16 3 1 Alessia Filippi 23x15px Italy 4:47.26
17 2 4 Katie Hoff  United States 4:47.49
18 3 7 Teresa Rohmann  Germany 4:48.51
19 3 5 Jennifer Reilly  Australia 4:49.04
20 4 8 Lin Man-hsu  Chinese Taipei 4:52.22
21 2 7 Yana Martynova  Russia 4:52.96
22 1 4 Nimitta Thaveesupsoonthorn  Thailand 5:00.06
23 1 5 Ana Dangalakova  Bulgaria 5:01.00
24 1 3 Sabria Dahane  Algeria 5:10.20
3 2 Zhang Tianyi  China DSQ

Final

Rank Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes
1st 4 Yana Klochkova  Ukraine 4:34.83
2nd 5 Kaitlin Sandeno  United States 4:34.95 AM
3rd 3 Georgina Bardach  Argentina 4:37.51 SA
4 6 Éva Risztov  Hungary 4:39.29
5 7 Joanna Melo  Brazil 4:40.00 NR
6 2 Nicole Hetzer  Germany 4:40.20
7 8 Nam Yoo-sun 23x15px South Korea 4:50.35
8 1 Vasiliki Angelopoulou  Greece 4:50.85

References

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