The women's 100 metre butterfly event at the 2004 Olympic Games was contested at the Olympic Aquatic Centre of the Athens Olympic Sports Complex in Athens, Greece on August 14 and 15.

Australia's Petria Thomas, who finished fourth in Sydney, won her first individual gold medal in this event, outside the Olympic record time of 57.72 seconds. The silver medal was awarded to Poland's Otylia Jędrzejczak, who trailed behind Thomas by 0.12 of a second, in an outstanding time of 57.84. Defending Olympic champion and world record holder Inge de Bruijn of the Netherlands, on the other hand, took home the bronze at 57.99 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 5 4 Petria Thomas 57.47 Q 2 4 5 Otylia Jędrzejczak 57.84 Q, NR 3 5 5 Inge de Bruijn 58.47 Q 4 3 4 Martina Moravcová 58.48 Q 5 5 7 Jessicah Schipper 58.57 Q 6 4 4 Jenny Thompson 58.77 Q 7 5 3 Junko Onishi 59.22 Q8 5 6 Malia Metella 59.38 Q 3 3 Rachel Komisarz Q 10 4 2 Ambra Migliori 59.47 Q 11 5 1 Franziska van Almsick 59.53 Q, 12 4 6 Zhou Yafei 59.62 Q 13 3 2 Natalya Sutyagina 59.76 Q 14 3 5 Alena Popchanka 59.77 Q 15 2 4 Mette Jacobsen 59.81 Q 16 4 3 Anna-Karin Kammerling 59.84 Q 17 3 1 Yuko Nakanishi 1:00.16 Q 18 3 8 Beatrix Boulsevicz 1:00.18 19 2 3 Eirini Kavarnou 1:00.43 20 4 1 Georgina Lee 1:00.45 21 4 8 Chantal Groot 1:00.49 22 5 8 Francesca Segat 1:00.56 23 2 5 Elizabeth Coster 1:00.61 3 6 Johanna Sjöberg 25 4 7 Aurore Mongel 1:00.65 26 3 7 Vered Borochovski 1:00.69 27 2 6 Joscelin Yeo 1:00.81 28 5 2 Xu Yanwei 1:01.53 29 2 2 Maria Papadopoulou 1:02.01 30 1 6 Kateryna Zubkova 1:02.22 31 2 1 Kolbrún Yr Kristjánsdóttir 1:02.33 32 2 8 Sze Hang Yu 1:02.42 33 2 7 Park Kyung-hwa 1:02.52 34 1 4 Cheng Wan-jung 1:02.94 35 1 5 Gülşah Günenç 1:04.30 36 1 2 Angela Galea 1:05.47 37 1 3 Mariya Bugakova 1:07.08 38 1 7 Natasha Sara Georgeos 1:07.94

Semifinals

Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Otylia Jędrzejczak 58.10 Q 2 5 Martina Moravcová 58.66 Q 3 3 Jenny Thompson 58.91 Q 4 6 Rachel Komisarz 59.34 5 2 Ambra Migliori 59.53 5 8 Yuko Nakanishi 59.53 7 1 Mette Jacobsen 59.72 8 7 Natalya Sutyagina 59.79

Semifinal 2 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 Inge de Bruijn 57.50 Q 2 4 Petria Thomas 57.93 Q 3 3 Jessicah Schipper 58.63 Q 4 1 Alena Popchanka 58.97 Q 5 6 Junko Onishi 59.24 Q 5 2 Malia Metella 59.28 7 8 Anna-Karin Kammerling 59.33 8 7 Zhou Yafei 59.48

Final Rank Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 5 Petria Thomas 57.72 3 Otylia Jędrzejczak 57.84 4 Inge de Bruijn 57.99 4 6 Jessicah Schipper 58.22 5 7 Jenny Thompson 58.72 6 2 Martina Moravcová 58.96 7 1 Alena Popchanka 59.06 8 8 Junko Onishi 59.83

References

External links Official Olympic Report