Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metre individual medley

Men's 400 metre individual medley at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Aquatic Centre
Date	August 14, 2004 (heats & final)
Competitors	36 from 26 nations
Winning time	4:08.26 WR
Medalists
Michael Phelps   United States   Erik Vendt   United States   László Cseh   Hungary

Swimming events at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
50 m		men		women
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m				women
1500 m		men
Backstroke
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
Breaststroke
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
Butterfly
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
Individual medley
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m		men		women
4×200 m		men		women
Medley relay
4×100 m		men		women

The men's 400 metre individual medley 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.^[1]

U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps broke a new world record of 4:08.26 to claim his first ever Olympic gold medal. Phelps' teammate Erik Vendt added a second silver to the one he earned behind Tom Dolan in Sydney four years earlier, finishing with a time of 4:11.81. Hungary's László Cseh, silver medalist at the 2003 FINA World Championships, held on for bronze in 4:12.15.^[2][3]

Records

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

World record	Michael Phelps (USA)	4:08.41	Long Beach, United States	7 July 2004
Olympic record	Tom Dolan (USA)	4:11.76	Sydney, Australia	17 September 2000

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

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
August 14	Final	Michael Phelps	United States	4:08.26	WR

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Michael Phelps	United States	4:13.29	Q
2	4	4	László Cseh	Hungary	4:14.26	Q
3	3	4	Alessio Boggiatto	Italy	4:15.78	Q
4	3	5	Jiro Miki	Japan	4:16.32	Q
5	3	7	Ioannis Kokkodis	Greece	4:16.56	Q
6	4	3	Oussama Mellouli	Tunisia	4:16.68	Q
	5	5	Erik Vendt	United States		Q
8	5	6	Travis Nederpelt	Australia	4:16.77	Q
9	4	2	Ioannis Drymonakos	Greece	4:16.83
10	4	5	Luca Marin	Italy	4:16.85
11	5	3	Justin Norris	Australia	4:16.90
12	4	7	Robin Francis	Great Britain	4:18.34
13	2	2	Dean Kent	New Zealand	4:18.55
14	3	6	Wu Peng	China	4:19.32
15	5	2	Brian Johns	Canada	4:21.10
16	5	7	Keith Beavers	Canada	4:21.47
17	3	2	Thiago Pereira	Brazil	4:22.06
18	3	3	Susumu Tabuchi	Japan	4:22.46
19	3	1	Lucas Salatta	Brazil	4:23.01
20	2	1	Kim Bang-hyun	South Korea	4:23.05	NR
21	5	1	Igor Berezutskiy	Russia	4:23.20
22	2	4	Jeremy Knowles	Bahamas	4:23.29
23	4	6	Adrian Turner	Great Britain	4:23.53
24	5	8	Alexey Kovrigin	Russia	4:23.77
25	2	6	Bradley Ally	Barbados	4:24.70
26	4	1	Dmytro Nazarenko	Ukraine	4:26.15
27	2	7	Vytautas Janušaitis	Lithuania	4:26.30
28	4	8	Liu Weijia	China	4:27.02
29	2	5	Yves Platel	Switzerland	4:28.94
30	2	8	Guntars Deičmans	Latvia	4:29.17
31	3	8	Marko Milenkovič	Slovenia	4:30.99
32	1	4	Saša Imprić	Croatia	4:32.02
33	1	5	Andrew Mackay	Cayman Islands	4:32.38
34	2	3	Miguel Molina	Philippines	4:33.25
35	1	6	Lin Yu-an	Chinese Taipei	4:41.76
36	1	3	Nikita Polyakov	Uzbekistan	5:09.66

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Michael Phelps	United States	4:08.26	WR
	1	Erik Vendt	United States	4:11.81
	5	László Cseh	Hungary	4:12.15
4	3	Alessio Boggiatto	Italy	4:12.28
5	7	Oussama Mellouli	Tunisia	4:14.49	AF
6	2	Ioannis Kokkodis	Greece	4:18.60
7	6	Jiro Miki	Japan	4:19.97
8	8	Travis Nederpelt	Australia	4:20.08

References

1. "Swimming schedule". BBC Sport. 5 August 2004. Retrieved 17 June 2007.
2. Dillman, Lisa (15 August 2004). "So Far, So Gold". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 16 March 2013.
3. Thomas, Stephen (14 August 2004). "New World Record as Michael "the Machine" Lowers 'his' 400 IM Yet Again! Vendt takes Silver, as USA Goes 1-2". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 16 March 2013.

External links

• Official Olympic Report