Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay

From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
Jump to: navigation, search
Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay
at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Venue Olympic Aquatic Centre
Dates August 20, 2004 (heats)
August 21, 2004 (final)
Competitors 73 from 16 nations
Winning time 3:30.68 WR
Medalists
<templatestyles src="Module:Infobox/styles.css"></templatestyles>
1st  United States (USA)
Aaron Peirsol, Brendan Hansen, Ian Crocker, Jason Lezak, Lenny Krayzelburg*, Mark Gangloff*, Michael Phelps*, Neil Walker*
2nd  Germany (GER)
Steffen Driesen, Jens Kruppa, Thomas Rupprath, Lars Conrad, Helge Meeuw*
3rd

 Japan (JPN)
Tomomi Morita, Kosuke Kitajima, Takashi Yamamoto, Yoshihiro Okumura


*Indicates the swimmer only competed in the preliminary heats.
← 2000
2008 →
Swimming events at the
2004 Summer Olympics
Swimming pictogram.svg
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 men's 4×100 meter medley relay took place on 20–21 August at the Olympic Aquatic Centre of the Athens Olympic Sports Complex in Athens, Greece.[1]

The U.S. team added two new world records to the books in the final men's event of the Olympic swimming program. Aaron Peirsol, Brendan Hansen, Ian Crocker, and Jason Lezak lowered their time set at the 2003 FINA World Championships in Barcelona, Spain, stopping the clock in 3:30.68. At the opening of the race, Peirsol led off a backstroke leg with a new world record of 53.45, beating a 0.15-second mark set by Lenny Krayzelburg (53.60) from the Pan Pacific Championships in 1999.[2][3]

Meanwhile, the Germans earned a silver medal in a European record of 3:33.62, 11-hundredths of a second under the old Olympic record set by Team USA in 2000. Japan finished third in 3:35.22 to hold off the strong Russian team anchored by double Olympic champion Alexander Popov, who made up more than 1.5 seconds, but fell short of a medal in his last Olympic final.[2][4]

Records

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

World record  United States (USA)
Aaron Peirsol (53.71)
Brendan Hansen (59.61)
Ian Crocker (50.39)
Jason Lezak (47.83)
3:31.54 Barcelona, Spain 27 July 2003
Olympic record  United States (USA)
Lenny Krayzelburg (53.87)
Ed Moses (59.84)
Ian Crocker (52.10)
Gary Hall, Jr. (47.92)
3:33.73 Sydney, Australia 23 September 2000

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

Date Event Name Nationality Time Record
August 21 Final Aaron Peirsol (53.45)
Brendan Hansen (59.37)
Ian Crocker (50.28)
Jason Lezak (47.58)
 United States 3:30.68 WR

Results

Heats

Rank Heat Lane Nation Swimmers Time Notes
1 2 4  United States Lenny Krayzelburg (54.27)
Mark Gangloff (1:00.27)
Michael Phelps (52.43)
Neil Walker (48.13)
3:35.10 Q
2 2 8  Germany Steffen Driesen (54.75)
Jens Kruppa (1:00.80)
Helge Meeuw (52.73)
Lars Conrad (48.37)
3:36.65 Q
3 2 2  Great Britain Gregor Tait (55.36)
James Gibson (1:00.30)
James Hickman (52.23)
Matthew Kidd (49.05)
3:36.94 Q
4 2 5  Japan Tomomi Morita (54.63)
Kosuke Kitajima (59.69)
Takashi Yamamoto (52.66)
Yoshihiro Okumura (50.06)
3:37.04 Q
5 2 6  Hungary László Cseh (55.22)
Richárd Bodor (1:00.31)
Zsolt Gáspár (52.96)
Attila Zubor (48.78)
3:37.27 Q
6 2 3  France Simon Dufour (55.69)
Hugues Duboscq (1:00.10)
Franck Esposito (52.52)
Frédérick Bousquet (49.29)
3:37.60 Q
7 1 4  Russia Arkady Vyatchanin (55.47)
Roman Sloudnov (1:01.22)
Yevgeny Korotyshkin (52.35)
Andrey Kapralov (49.03)
3:38.07 Q
8 1 3  Ukraine Pavlo Illichov (56.40)
Valeriy Dymo (1:01.23)
Denys Sylantyev (52.41)
Yuriy Yegoshin (48.81)
3:38.85 Q
9 1 5  Australia Matt Welsh (55.36)
Jim Piper (1:02.10)
Adam Pine (53.02)
Michael Klim (48.66)
3:39.14
10 1 6  Canada Riley Janes (56.17)
Mike Brown (1:01.73)
Mike Mintenko (52.48)
Brent Hayden (48.98)
3:39.36
11 1 2  Finland Jani Sievinen (56.84)
Jarno Pihlava (1:01.39)
Jere Hård (53.19)
Matti Rajakylä (50.22)
3:41.64
12 2 1  New Zealand Scott Talbot-Cameron (56.11)
Ben Labowitch (1:03.88)
Corney Swanepoel (52.41)
Cameron Gibson (50.34)
3:42.74
13 2 7  South Africa Gerhard Zandberg (56.23)
Terence Parkin (1:03.89)
Eugene Botes (54.57)
Karl Otto Thaning (49.25)
3:43.94
14 1 7  Slovenia Blaž Medvešek (56.47)
Emil Tahirovič (1:02.52)
Peter Mankoč (53.75)
Jernej Godec (51.43)
3:44.17
15 1 1  Brazil Paulo Machado (57.33)
Eduardo Fischer (1:02.58)
Kaio de Almeida (53.52)
Jader Souza (50.98)
3:44.41
1 8 23x15px Italy Emanuele Merisi (56.55)
Paolo Bossini
Mattia Nalesso
Giacomo Vassanelli
DSQ

Final

Rank Lane Nation Swimmers Time Time behind Notes
1st 4  United States Aaron Peirsol (53.45) WR
Brendan Hansen (59.37)
Ian Crocker (50.28)
Jason Lezak (47.58)
3:30.68 WR
2nd 5  Germany Steffen Driesen (54.26)
Jens Kruppa (1:00.50)
Thomas Rupprath (51.40)
Lars Conrad (47.46)
3:33.62 2.94 EU
3rd 6  Japan Tomomi Morita (54.25) AS
Kosuke Kitajima (59.35)
Takashi Yamamoto (51.87)
Yoshihiro Okumura (49.75)
3:35.22 4.54 AS
4 1  Russia Arkady Vyatchanin (55.15)
Roman Sloudnov (1:01.00)
Igor Marchenko (51.74)
Alexander Popov (48.02)
3:35.91 5.23
5 7  France Simon Dufour (55.74)
Hugues Duboscq (1:00.07)
Franck Esposito (52.22)
Frédérick Bousquet (48.54)
3:36.57 5.89
6 8  Ukraine Pavlo Illichov (56.19)
Oleg Lisogor (1:00.99)
Andriy Serdinov (50.80)
Yuriy Yegoshin (48.89)
3:36.87 6.19
7 2  Hungary László Cseh (54.89)
Richárd Bodor (1:00.25)
Zsolt Gáspár (53.32)
Attila Zubor (49.00)
3:37.46 6.78
8 3  Great Britain Gregor Tait (55.69)
James Gibson (1:00.30)
James Hickman (52.64)
Matthew Kidd (49.14)
3:37.77 7.09

References

  1. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  4. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

External links