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Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre freestyle

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Men's 100 metre freestyle
at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Pieter van den Hoogenband (2008)
VenueAthens Olympic Aquatic Centre
DatesAugust 17, 2004 (heats &
semifinals)
August 18, 2004 (final)
Competitors69 from 62 nations
Winning time48.17
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Pieter van den Hoogenband
 Netherlands
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Roland Mark Schoeman
 South Africa
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Ian Thorpe
 Australia
← 2000
2008 →

The men's 100 metre freestyle event at the 2004 Summer Olympics was contested at the Olympic Aquatic Centre of the Athens Olympic Sports Complex in Athens, Greece on August 17 and 18.[1] There were 69 competitors from 62 nations.[2] Nations had been limited to two swimmers each since the 1984 Games.

Summary

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Dutch swimmer Pieter van den Hoogenband defended his Olympic title in the event (the fourth man to do so), outside the record time of 48.17. Roland Mark Schoeman, who solidified South Africa's triumph to break a world record in the 400 m freestyle relay, took home the silver in 48.23. It was South Africa's first medal in the event. Australia's Ian Thorpe edged out Schoeman's teammate Ryk Neethling to clinch a bronze medal by 0.07 of a second, in his personal best of 48.56.[3][4] Australia had not earned a medal in the men's 100 metre freestyle since 1984. Thorpe was the first man to win medals in the 100, 200, and 400 metre freestyle races in a single Olympics.[5]

Two-time Olympic champion Alexander Popov finished only in ninth place by just two hundredths of a second (0.02) outside the top 8 field from the semifinals (49.23).[6] By the following year, Popov announced his retirement from swimming, and became a full-time member of the International Olympic Committee. Other notable swimmers who missed the final cut featured France's Frédérick Bousquet, Lithuania's Rolandas Gimbutis, Trinidad and Tobago's George Bovell, and U.S. duo Jason Lezak and Ian Crocker. This became the first 100m freestyle where not a single American qualified for the semifinals.

Background

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This was the twenty-fourth appearance of the men's 100 metre freestyle. The event has been held at every Summer Olympics except 1900 (when the shortest freestyle was the 200 metres), though the 1904 version was measured in yards rather than metres.[2]

Two of the eight finalists from the 2000 Games returned: gold medalist Pieter van den Hoogenband of the Netherlands and silver medalist (and 1992 and 1996 gold medalist) Alexander Popov of Russia. Van den Hoogenband had placed second at the last two world championships, behind American Anthony Ervin (who had retired in 2003 at age 22) in 2001 and Popov in 2003. Ian Thorpe of Australia, primarily a middle-distance swimmer who had not competed in the 100 in 2000 when he won five gold medals, had shown ability in sprinting by placing third in the 2003 world championship.

Azerbaijan, Burundi, Guyana, Iraq, Latvia, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, and Serbia and Montenegro each made their debut in the event. The United States made its 23rd appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the boycotted 1980 Games.

Competition format

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This freestyle swimming competition consisted of three rounds: heats, semifinals, and a final. The swimmers with the best 16 times in the heats advanced to the semifinals. The swimmers with the best 8 times in the semifinals advanced to the final. Swim-offs were used as necessary to break ties for advancement to the next round.

Records

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

World record  Pieter van den Hoogenband (NED) 47.84 Sydney, Australia 19 September 2000
Olympic record  Pieter van den Hoogenband (NED) 47.84 Sydney, Australia 19 September 2000

Schedule

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All times are Greece Standard Time (UTC+2)

Date Time Round
Tuesday, 17 August 2004 10:00
19:30
Heats
Semifinals
Wednesday, 18 August 2004 20:20 Final

Results

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Heats

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Rank Heat Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes
1 7 4 Pieter van den Hoogenband  Netherlands 48.70 Q
2 5 4 Rolandas Gimbutis  Lithuania 48.85 Q
7 5 Ryk Neethling  South Africa 48.85 Q
4 6 1 Duje Draganja  Croatia 49.07 Q
5 7 2 Frédérick Bousquet  France 49.08 Q
6 8 5 Ian Thorpe  Australia 49.17 Q
7 9 1 Romain Barnier  France 49.49 Q
8 9 5 Alexander Popov  Russia 49.51 Q
9 8 3 Andrey Kapralov  Russia 49.52 Q
10 7 7 Peter Mankoč  Slovenia 49.54 Q
11 9 3 Filippo Magnini  Italy 49.58 Q
12 8 8 George Bovell  Trinidad and Tobago 49.61 Q
13 8 4 Roland Mark Schoeman  South Africa 49.68 Q
14 6 2 Luis Rojas  Venezuela 49.69 Q
15 7 1 Torsten Spanneberg  Germany 49.71 Q
16 9 2 Salim Iles  Algeria 49.72 Q
17 6 6 Yuriy Yegoshin  Ukraine 49.73
7 3 Ian Crocker  United States 49.73
19 8 1 Milorad Čavić  Serbia and Montenegro 49.74
20 6 8 Stefan Nystrand  Sweden 49.75
21 9 4 Jason Lezak  United States 49.87
22 6 4 Karel Novy  Switzerland 49.93
23 6 5 Matthew Kidd  Great Britain 49.97
24 9 7 José Meolans  Argentina 49.98
25 8 2 Lorenzo Vismara  Italy 50.03
26 9 8 Tiago Venâncio  Portugal 50.18
27 5 8 Yoshihiro Okumura  Japan 50.24
28 6 3 Attila Zubor  Hungary 50.26
29 5 6 Stanislau Neviarouski  Belarus 50.36
30 8 7 Eduardo Lorente  Spain 50.48
31 8 6 Ashley Callus  Australia 50.56
32 5 5 Aristeidis Grigoriadis  Greece 50.61
33 6 7 Jader Souza  Brazil 50.67
5 2 Matti Rajakylä  Finland 50.67
35 4 6 Romāns Miloslavskis  Latvia 50.94
36 9 6 Stephan Kunzelmann  Germany 50.98
37 5 3 Danil Haustov  Estonia 51.02
38 4 2 Alexandros Aresti  Cyprus 51.10
39 4 5 Ryan Pini  Papua New Guinea 51.11
40 3 3 Carl Probert  Fiji 51.42
41 4 3 Paul Kutscher  Uruguay 51.45
42 4 4 Kaan Tayla  Turkey 51.52
43 5 1 Cameron Gibson  New Zealand 51.56
44 4 1 George Gleason  Virgin Islands 51.69
45 3 4 Lee Chung-hee  South Korea 51.74
3 1 Ismael Ortiz  Panama 51.74
47 2 3 Octavian Guţu  Moldova 51.84
48 3 5 Damian Alleyne  Barbados 51.89
49 3 6 Max Schnettler  Chile 51.91
50 4 7 Allen Ong  Malaysia 52.04
51 3 2 Vyacheslav Titarenko  Kazakhstan 52.09
52 4 8 Raichin Antonov  Bulgaria 52.33
53 2 5 Camilo Becerra  Colombia 52.57
54 3 8 Wu Nien-pin  Chinese Taipei 52.58
55 2 6 Željko Panić  Bosnia and Herzegovina 52.75
56 3 7 Mark Chay  Singapore 52.83
57 2 4 Aleksandr Agafonov  Uzbekistan 52.92
58 2 1 Obaid Al Jasmi  United Arab Emirates 54.17
59 2 7 Onan Orlando Thom  Guyana 55.24
60 5 7 Huang Shaohua  China 55.46
61 2 2 Babak Farhoudi  Iran 56.42
62 2 8 Jean Laurent Ravera  Monaco 56.47
63 1 2 Mohammed Abbas  Iraq 56.81
64 1 6 Tamir Andryei  Mongolia 57.29
65 1 7 Leonel Matonse  Mozambique 57.79
66 1 4 Hesham Shehab  Bahrain 57.94
67 1 3 Sergey Dyachkov  Azerbaijan 58.26
68 1 5 Mumtaz Ahmed  Pakistan 59.19
69 1 1 Emery Nziyunvira  Burundi 1:09.40
7 6 Brent Hayden  Canada DNS
7 8 Rick Say  Canada DNS

Semifinals

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Rank Heat Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes
1 2 1 Roland Mark Schoeman  South Africa 48.39 Q
2 2 4 Pieter van den Hoogenband  Netherlands 48.55 Q
3 2 7 Filippo Magnini  Italy 48.91 Q
4 2 2 Andrey Kapralov  Russia 49.12 Q
5 1 8 Salim Iles  Algeria 49.13 Q
6 1 5 Duje Draganja  Croatia 49.14 Q
7 2 5 Ryk Neethling  South Africa 49.18 Q
8 1 3 Ian Thorpe  Australia 49.21 Q
9 1 6 Alexander Popov  Russia 49.23
10 2 3 Frédérick Bousquet  France 49.25
11 1 7 George Bovell  Trinidad and Tobago 49.53
12 2 6 Romain Barnier  France 49.63
13 1 2 Peter Mankoč  Slovenia 49.71
14 1 4 Rolandas Gimbutis  Lithuania 49.75
15 1 1 Luis Rojas  Venezuela 49.85
16 2 8 Torsten Spanneberg  Germany 49.88

Final

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Rank Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) 5 Pieter van den Hoogenband  Netherlands 48.17
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 4 Roland Mark Schoeman  South Africa 48.23
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 8 Ian Thorpe  Australia 48.56
4 1 Ryk Neethling  South Africa 48.63
5 3 Filippo Magnini  Italy 48.99
6 7 Duje Draganja  Croatia 49.23
7 2 Salim Iles  Algeria 49.30
6 Andrey Kapralov  Russia 49.30

References

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  1. ^ "Swimming schedule". BBC Sport. 5 August 2004. Retrieved 17 June 2007.
  2. ^ a b "100 metres Freestyle, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
  3. ^ "Van den Hoogenband wins 100 meters". CNN. 18 August 2004. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
  4. ^ Thomas, Stephen (18 August 2004). "Hoogie Takes the 100 Free, Repeats Sydney Win, Schoeman takes Silver, Thorpe the Bronze". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
  5. ^ "Ian Thorpe – Career at a glance". ABC News. 21 November 2006. Archived from the original on 20 September 2008. Retrieved 22 November 2006.
  6. ^ Whitten, Phillip (18 August 2004). "Day 4, Semifinals: Schoeman, Hoogie Qualify 1-2 for the 100 Free Final; Popov Is Out". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
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