Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre breaststroke

The men's 100 metre breaststroke 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 and 15.[1]

Men's 100 metre breaststroke
at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
VenueAthens Olympic Aquatic Centre
DateAugust 14, 2004 (heats &
semifinals)
August 15, 2004 (final)
Competitors60 from 55 nations
Winning time1:00.08
Medalists
Kosuke Kitajima  Japan
Brendan Hansen  United States
Hugues Duboscq  France

After finishing fourth in Sydney (2000), Japan's Kosuke Kitajima edged out U.S. swimmer and world-record holder Brendan Hansen to claim the gold medal by 0.17 of a second, in a time of 1:00.08. Katajima used an illegal dolphin kick during a pull-out, however he was not disqualified, and the rules were changed less than a year later to allow for a single dolphin kick after the start and after each wall.[2][3][4] Hansen, who turned 23 on the final day, earned a silver in 1:00.25, while France's Hugues Duboscq held off onrushing American Mark Gangloff to take the bronze in 1:00.88.[5][6]

Earlier in the semifinals Hansen lowered an Olympic record to 1:00.01 that had been set by his archrival Kitajima in the preliminaries by just 0.02 of a second.[7]

Russia's Roman Sloudnov, the third-fastest man in Olympic history and the first to swim under one minute, missed the top 8 final by 0.18 seconds (1:01.54).[7]

Records

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

World record Brendan Hansen (USA)59.30Long Beach, United States8 July 2004
Olympic record Domenico Fioravanti (ITA)1:00.46Sydney, Australia17 September 2000

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

DateEventNameNationalityTimeRecord
August 14Heat 7Kosuke Kitajima Japan1:00.03OR
August 14Semifinal 1Brendan Hansen United States1:00.01OR

Results

Heats

RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
174Kosuke Kitajima Japan1:00.03Q, OR
284Brendan Hansen United States1:00.25Q
365Mark Gangloff United States1:00.81Q
464Darren Mew Great Britain1:00.89Q
573James Gibson Great Britain1:00.99Q
675Hugues Duboscq France1:01.15Q
761Vladislav Polyakov Kazakhstan1:01.16Q
887Jens Kruppa Germany1:01.19Q
983Oleg Lisogor Ukraine1:01.21Q
1063Roman Sloudnov Russia1:01.65Q
1181Eduardo Fischer Brazil1:01.84Q
1266Richárd Bodor Hungary1:01.91Q
1377Jarno Pihlava Finland1:01.99Q
1476Thijs van Valkengoed Netherlands1:02.03Q
1562Dmitry Komornikov Russia1:02.05Q
1671René Kolonko Germany1:02.09Q
1772Emil Tahirovic Slovenia1:02.12
1885Morgan Knabe Canada1:02.13
1986Scott Dickens Canada1:02.16
82Jim Piper Australia
2188Alexander Dale Oen Norway1:02.25
2267Martin Gustavsson Sweden1:02.53
2344Jakob Johann Sveinsson Iceland1:02.97
2456Terence Parkin South Africa1:03.05
2552Maxim Podoprigora Austria1:03.08
2678Vanja Rogulj Croatia1:03.16
2751Alwin de Prins Luxembourg1:03.32
2853Daniel Málek Czech Republic1:03.35
2958Mladen Tepavčević Serbia and Montenegro1:03.52
3068Wang Haibo China1:03.54
3134You Seung-hun South Korea1:03.56
3257Sofiane Daid Algeria1:03.63
3355José Couto Portugal1:03.72
3454Remo Lütolf Switzerland1:03.82
3536Chen Cho-yi Chinese Taipei1:03.94
3635Ben Labowitch New Zealand1:03.99
47Arsenio López Puerto Rico
3837Aurimas Valaitis Lithuania1:04.11
3941Christos Papadopoulos Greece1:04.43
4043Malick Fall Senegal1:04.50
4142Bradley Ally Barbados1:04.71
4248Wickus Nienaber Swaziland1:04.74
4346Cristian Mauro Soldano Argentina1:05.05
4424Tam Chi Kin Hong Kong1:05.11
4532Alvaro Fortuny Guatemala1:05.41
4631Kyriakos Dimosthenous Cyprus1:05.54
4727Ahmed Al-Kudmani Saudi Arabia1:05.65
21Andrei Capitanciuc Moldova
4933Aleksander Baldin Estonia1:06.04
5026Raphael Matthew Chua Philippines1:06.37
5122Pāvels Murāns Latvia1:06.45
5238Nguyen Huu Viet Vietnam1:06.70
5315Eric Williams Nigeria1:07.69
5428Jean Luc Razakarivony Madagascar1:07.74
5525Yevgeny Petrashov Kyrgyzstan1:07.78
5623Oleg Sidorov Uzbekistan1:08.30
5714Chisela Kanchela Zambia1:09.95
5813Amar Shah Kenya1:10.17
5916Alice Shrestha Nepal1:12.25
45Ratapong Sirisanont ThailandDSQ

Semifinal 1

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
14Brendan Hansen United States1:00.01Q, OR
25Darren Mew Great Britain1:00.83Q
33Hugues Duboscq France1:01.17Q
42Roman Sloudnov Russia1:01.54
56Jens Kruppa Germany1:01.68
68René Kolonko Germany1:01.82
77Richárd Bodor Hungary1:01.88
81Thijs van Valkengoed Netherlands1:02.36

Semifinal 2

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
14Kosuke Kitajima Japan1:00.27Q
23James Gibson Great Britain1:01.07Q
2Oleg Lisogor UkraineQ
5Mark Gangloff United StatesQ
53Vladislav Polyakov Kazakhstan1:01.36Q
68Dmitry Komornikov Russia1:01.83
71Jarno Pihlava Finland1:01.86
87Eduardo Fischer Brazil1:02.07

Final

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
5Kosuke Kitajima Japan1:00.08
4Brendan Hansen United States1:00.25
1Hugues Duboscq France1:00.88
46Mark Gangloff United States1:01.17
58Vladislav Polyakov Kazakhstan1:01.34
67James Gibson Great Britain1:01.36
73Darren Mew Great Britain1:01.66
82Oleg Lisogor Ukraine1:02.42

References

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