The men's 100 metre backstroke 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 and 16.

U.S. swimmer Aaron Peirsol won a gold medal in this event, outside an Olympic record time of 54.06 seconds. Markus Rogan captured Austria's first ever medal in swimming after a hundred years, earning the silver at 54.35. Japan's Tomomi Morita, on the other hand, edged out defending Olympic champion and world record holder Lenny Krayzelburg to take a bronze by two hundredths of a second (0.02), breaking an Asian record time of 54.36 seconds.

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

Results

Heats Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 6 3 Tomomi Morita 54.41 Q 2 6 4 Aaron Peirsol 54.65 Q 3 4 6 László Cseh 54.80 Q4 5 3 Markus Rogan 54.87 Q 6 5 Lenny Krayzelburg Q 6 5 5 Steffen Driesen 54.92 Q 7 4 4 Arkady Vyatchanin 55.17 Q 8 6 6 Alex Lim 55.22 Q 9 5 4 Matt Welsh 55.35 Q 10 4 5 Ouyang Kunpeng 55.50 Q 11 4 3 Marco di Carli 55.58 Q 12 5 1 Gerhard Zandberg 55.62 Q 13 6 7 Simon Dufour 55.76 Q14 5 6 Gregor Tait 55.77 Q 6 1 Răzvan Florea Q 16 3 5 Gordan Kožulj 55.80 Q17 3 2 Aristeidis Grigoriadis 55.85 5 2 Josh Watson 19 4 2 Yevgeny Aleshin 55.91 20 3 6 Ryan Pini 55.97 21 5 8 Pierre Roger 56.07 22 4 7 Cameron Gibson 56.14 23 4 1 Adam Mania 56.20 24 3 3 Darius Grigalionis 56.21 25 2 5 Nicholas Neckles 56.32 26 3 7 Derya Büyükuncu 56.34 27 2 6 Ľuboš Križko 56.62 4 8 Volodymyr Nikolaychuk 5 7 Matthew Rose 30 2 4 Sung Min 56.78 31 3 4 Ahmed Hussein 56.86 32 3 1 Paulo Machado 57.07 33 3 8 Eduardo German Otero 57.28 34 6 8 Péter Horváth 57.29 35 6 2 Aschwin Wildeboer 57.35 36 2 2 Matti Mäki 57.57 37 2 3 George Gleason 57.64 38 1 3 Chris Vythoulkas 58.31 NR 39 2 1 Brendan Ashby 58.91 40 2 7 Igor Beretić 59.38 41 1 4 Stanislav Osinsky 59.92 42 1 5 Alexandru Ivlev 1:00.13 43 2 8 Danil Bugakov 1:02.28 44 1 6 Omar Abu Fares 1:02.36 1 2 Donnie Defreitas

Semifinals

Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Aaron Peirsol 54.34 Q 2 5 Markus Rogan 54.42 Q 3 3 Steffen Driesen 54.64 Q 4 2 Ouyang Kunpeng 55.28 5 1 Gregor Tait 55.31 6 7 Gerhard Zandberg 55.76 7 8 Gordan Kožulj 56.02 8 6 Alex Lim 56.08

Semifinal 2 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Tomomi Morita 54.62 Q 2 3 Lenny Krayzelburg 54.63 Q 3 2 Matt Welsh 54.69 Q 4 5 László Cseh 54.86 Q 5 7 Marco di Carli 55.03 Q 6 6 Arkady Vyatchanin 55.20 7 8 Răzvan Florea 55.27 8 1 Simon Dufour 56.15

Final Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Aaron Peirsol 54.06 5 Markus Rogan 54.35 3 Tomomi Morita 54.36 AS 4 6 Lenny Krayzelburg 54.38 5 7 Matt Welsh 54.52 6 1 László Cseh 54.61 7 2 Steffen Driesen 54.63 8 8 Marco di Carli 55.27

References

External links Official Olympic Report