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

The women's 400 metre freestyle 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.

Women's 400 metre freestyle at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Venue	Athens Olympic Aquatic Centre
Date	August 15, 2004 (heats & final)
Competitors	38 from 31 nations
Winning time	4:05.34 EU
Medalists
Laure Manaudou  Frankreich Otylia Jędrzejczak  Polen Kaitlin Sandeno  Vereinigte Staaten

France's Laure Manaudou won the gold medal in this event, with a European record time of 4:05.34. The silver medal was awarded to Poland's Otylia Jędrzejczak, who finished behind Manaudou by half a second (0.50), in an outstanding time of 4:05.84. U.S. swimmer Kaitlin Sandeno, who earned a silver in the 400 m individual medley on the previous day, fought off a challenge from Romania's Camelia Potec in the final lap to take a bronze by two tenths of a second (0.20), clocking at 4:06.19.

Records

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

World record	Janet Evans (USA)	4:03.85	Seoul, South Korea	22 September 1988
Olympic record	Janet Evans (USA)	4:03.85	Seoul, South Korea	22 September 1988

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Zeit	Notes
1	5	3	Laure Manaudou	Frankreich	4:06.76	Q
2	4	5	Otylia Jędrzejczak	Polen	4:07.11	Q
3	3	4	Camelia Potec	Rumänien	4:07.39	Q
4	3	5	Ai Shibata	Japan	4:07.63	Q
5	4	1	Rebecca Cooke	Great Britain	4:08.18	Q
6	4	3	Kaitlin Sandeno	Vereinigte Staaten	4:08.22	Q
7	3	6	Linda Mackenzie	Australien	4:08.46	Q
8	5	5	Sachiko Yamada	Japan	4:09.10	Q
9	3	2	Claudia Poll	Costa Rica	4:09.75
10	4	2	Kalyn Keller	Vereinigte Staaten	4:09.83
11	5	7	Simona Păduraru	Rumänien	4:10.39
12	5	4	Hannah Stockbauer	Deutschland	4:10.46
13	5	6	Elka Graham	Australien	4:11.67
14	5	1	Pang Jiaying	China	4:11.81
15	4	4	Éva Risztov	Ungarn	4:12.08
16	5	2	Brittany Reimer	Kanada	4:12.33
17	4	6	Chen Hua	China	4:12.67
18	4	7	Erika Villaécija García	Spanien	4:13.03
19	5	8	Monique Ferreira	Brasilien	4:13.75
20	3	1	Zoi Dimoschaki	Griechenland	4:13.96
21	3	3	Joanne Jackson	Great Britain	4:14.89
22	2	6	Cecilia Biagioli	Argentinien	4:16.42
23	3	7	Arantxa Ramos	Spanien	4:16.52
24	2	3	Anja Čarman	Slowenien	4:17.79
25	4	8	Daria Parshina	Russland	4:18.24
26	2	7	Kristel Köbrich	Chile	4:18.68
27	2	2	Vesna Stojanovska	Mazedonien	4:19.39
28	2	5	Janelle Atkinson	Jamaika	4:20.00
29	1	6	Paola Duguet	Kolumbien	4:20.69
30	3	8	Kristýna Kyněrová	Tschechische Republik	4:21.12
31	2	1	Rebecca Linton	Neuseeland	4:21.58
32	2	8	Ha Eun-ju	Südkorea	4:21.65
33	1	4	Golda Marcus	El Salvador	4:22.27
34	1	5	Pilin Tachakittiranan	Thailand	4:23.62
35	1	7	Özlem Yasemin Taşkın	Türkei	4:24.08
36	1	3	Ivanka Moralieva	Bulgarien	4:25.92
37	1	2	Anita Galić	Kroatien	4:26.09
38	2	4	Olga Beresnyeva	Ukraine	4:26.30

Final

Rank	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Zeit	Notes
	4	Laure Manaudou	Frankreich	4:05.34	EU
	5	Otylia Jędrzejczak	Polen	4:05.84
	7	Kaitlin Sandeno	Vereinigte Staaten	4:06.19
4	3	Camelia Potec	Rumänien	4:06.34
5	6	Ai Shibata	Japan	4:07.51
6	8	Sachiko Yamada	Japan	4:10.91
7	1	Linda Mackenzie	Australien	4:10.92
8	2	Rebecca Cooke	Great Britain	4:11.35

External links

• Official Olympic Report