Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay
Women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
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Venue | Olympic Aquatic Centre | |||||||||
Dates | August 18, 2004 (heats & final) | |||||||||
Competitors | 74 from 16 nations | |||||||||
Winning time | 7:53.42 WR | |||||||||
Medalists | ||||||||||
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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 4×200 metre freestyle relay took place on 18 August at the Olympic Aquatic Centre of the Athens Olympic Sports Complex in Athens, Greece.[1]
The U.S. women's swimming team (Natalie Coughlin, Carly Piper, Dana Vollmer, and Kaitlin Sandeno) broke the oldest world record in the book, when they clocked at 7:53.42, slashing 2.05 seconds off the old, drug-tainted mark set by the East Germans exactly 17 years ago. Leading off the race, Coughlin swam a fastest split and a personal best of 1:57.74, which became quicker than a gold-medal performance of 1:58.03 set by Romania's Camelia Potec in the individual 200 m freestyle.[2][3][4]
With Team USA taking its third straight title since the event's Olympic debut in 1996, China made a surprise packet with a silver medal, in an Asian record of 7:55.97.[5] Meanwhile, the unified Germans held off the Aussies for the bronze in 7:57.35, 45-hundredths of a second under an old Olympic record set by Team USA in 2000. Despite missing the podium by 0.05 of a second, the Australians broke their national record of 7:57.40 to settle only for fourth place.[2]
Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
World record | ![]() Manuela Stellmach (2:00.23) Astrid Strauss (1:58.90) Anke Möhring (1:58.73) Heike Friedrich (1:57.61) |
7:55.47 | Strasbourg, France | 18 August 1987 |
Olympic record | ![]() Samantha Arsenault (1:59.92) Diana Munz (1:59.19) Lindsay Benko (1:59.34) Jenny Thompson (1:59.35) |
7:57.80 | Sydney, Australia | 20 September 2000 |
The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.
Date | Event | Name | Nationality | Time | Record |
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August 18 | Final | Natalie Coughlin (1:57.74) Carly Piper (1:59.39) Dana Vollmer (1:58.12) Kaitlin Sandeno (1:58.17) |
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7:53.42 | WR |
Results
Heats
Final
Rank | Lane | Nation | Swimmers | Time | Time behind | Notes |
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4 | ![]() |
Natalie Coughlin (1:57.74) Carly Piper (1:59.39) Dana Vollmer (1:58.12) Kaitlin Sandeno (1:58.17) |
7:53.42 | WR | |
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7 | ![]() |
Zhu Yingwen (1:59.75) Xu Yanwei (1:58.45) Yang Yu (1:59.50) Pang Jiaying (1:58.27) |
7:55.97 | 2.55 | AS |
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6 | ![]() |
Franziska van Almsick (1:59.61) Petra Dallmann (2:00.06) Antje Buschschulte (1:58.46) Hannah Stockbauer (1:59.22) |
7:57.35 | 3.93 | |
4 | 3 | ![]() |
Alice Mills (2:00.38) Elka Graham (1:59.18) Shayne Reese (2:00.64) Petria Thomas (1:57.20) |
7:57.40 | 3.98 | OC |
5 | 5 | ![]() |
Melanie Marshall (1:59.39) Georgina Lee (2:00.50) Caitlin McClatchey (2:00.48) Karen Pickering (1:58.74) |
7:59.11 | 5.69 | |
6 | 2 | ![]() |
Tatiana Rouba (2:00.18) Melissa Caballero (2:00.57) Arantxa Ramos (2:02.32) Erika Villaécija García (1:59.04) |
8:02.11 | 8.69 | |
7 | 1 | ![]() |
Joanna Melo (2:01.20) Monique Ferreira (2:01.42) Mariana Brochado (2:01.15) Paula Baracho (2:01.52) |
8:05.29 | 11.87 | |
8 | 8 | ![]() |
Josefin Lillhage (1:59.86) Ida Mattsson (2:01.45) Malin Svahnström (2:03.68) Lotta Wanberg (2:03.35) |
8:08.34 | 14.92 |
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