The men's 100 metre breaststroke event at the 2004 Summer Olympics was contested at the Olympic Aquatic Centre of the Athens Olympic Sports Complex in Athens, Greece on August 14 and 15.

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. 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.

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.

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).

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

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

Date Event Name Nationality Time Record August 14 Heat 7 Kosuke Kitajima 1:00.03 August 14 Semifinal 1 Brendan Hansen 1:00.01

Results

Heats Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes1 7 4 Kosuke Kitajima 1:00.03 Q, 2 8 4 Brendan Hansen 1:00.25 Q3 6 5 Mark Gangloff 1:00.81 Q4 6 4 Darren Mew 1:00.89 Q5 7 3 James Gibson 1:00.99 Q6 7 5 Hugues Duboscq 1:01.15 Q7 6 1 Vladislav Polyakov 1:01.16 Q8 8 7 Jens Kruppa 1:01.19 Q9 8 3 Oleg Lisogor 1:01.21 Q10 6 3 Roman Sloudnov 1:01.65 Q11 8 1 Eduardo Fischer 1:01.84 Q12 6 6 Richárd Bodor 1:01.91 Q13 7 7 Jarno Pihlava 1:01.99 Q14 7 6 Thijs van Valkengoed 1:02.03 Q15 6 2 Dmitry Komornikov 1:02.05 Q16 7 1 René Kolonko 1:02.09 Q17 7 2 Emil Tahirovic 1:02.12 18 8 5 Morgan Knabe 1:02.13 19 8 6 Scott Dickens 1:02.16 8 2 Jim Piper 21 8 8 Alexander Dale Oen 1:02.25 22 6 7 Martin Gustavsson 1:02.53 23 4 4 Jakob Johann Sveinsson 1:02.97 24 5 6 Terence Parkin 1:03.05 25 5 2 Maxim Podoprigora 1:03.08 26 7 8 Vanja Rogulj 1:03.16 27 5 1 Alwin de Prins 1:03.32 28 5 3 Daniel Málek 1:03.35 29 5 8 Mladen Tepavčević 1:03.52 30 6 8 Wang Haibo 1:03.54 31 3 4 You Seung-hun 1:03.56 32 5 7 Sofiane Daid 1:03.63 33 5 5 José Couto 1:03.72 34 5 4 Remo Lütolf 1:03.82 35 3 6 Chen Cho-yi 1:03.94 36 3 5 Ben Labowitch 1:03.99 4 7 Arsenio López 38 3 7 Aurimas Valaitis 1:04.11 39 4 1 Christos Papadopoulos 1:04.43 40 4 3 Malick Fall 1:04.50 41 4 2 Bradley Ally 1:04.71 42 4 8 Wickus Nienaber 1:04.74 43 4 6 Cristian Mauro Soldano 1:05.05 44 2 4 Tam Chi Kin 1:05.11 45 3 2 Alvaro Fortuny 1:05.41 46 3 1 Kyriakos Dimosthenous 1:05.54 47 2 7 Ahmed Al-Kudmani 1:05.65 2 1 Andrei Capitanciuc 49 3 3 Aleksander Baldin 1:06.04 50 2 6 Raphael Matthew Chua 1:06.37 51 2 2 Pāvels Murāns 1:06.45 52 3 8 Nguyen Huu Viet 1:06.70 53 1 5 Eric Williams 1:07.69 54 2 8 Jean Luc Razakarivony 1:07.74 55 2 5 Yevgeny Petrashov 1:07.78 56 2 3 Oleg Sidorov 1:08.30 57 1 4 Chisela Kanchela 1:09.95 58 1 3 Amar Shah 1:10.17 59 1 6 Alice Shrestha 1:12.25 4 5 Ratapong Sirisanont

Semifinals

Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Brendan Hansen 1:00.01 Q, 2 5 Darren Mew 1:00.83 Q 3 3 Hugues Duboscq 1:01.17 Q 4 2 Roman Sloudnov 1:01.54 5 6 Jens Kruppa 1:01.68 6 8 René Kolonko 1:01.82 7 7 Richárd Bodor 1:01.88 8 1 Thijs van Valkengoed 1:02.36

Semifinal 2 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Kosuke Kitajima 1:00.27 Q2 3 James Gibson 1:01.07 Q 2 Oleg Lisogor Q 5 Mark Gangloff Q 5 3 Vladislav Polyakov 1:01.36 Q 6 8 Dmitry Komornikov 1:01.83 7 1 Jarno Pihlava 1:01.86 8 7 Eduardo Fischer 1:02.07

Final Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 5 Kosuke Kitajima 1:00.08 4 Brendan Hansen 1:00.25 1 Hugues Duboscq 1:00.88 4 6 Mark Gangloff 1:01.17 5 8 Vladislav Polyakov 1:01.34 6 7 James Gibson 1:01.36 7 3 Darren Mew 1:01.66 8 2 Oleg Lisogor 1:02.42

References

External links Official Olympic Report