# Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre butterfly

The women's 200 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 17 and 18.
Polish swimmer and world record holder Otylia Jędrzejczak added gold to her two silver medals by a storming victory in this event, and by becoming the nation's first ever swimming champion, in an outstanding time of 2:06.05. Three-time Olympian Petria Thomas of Australia managed to repeat her silver from Atlanta, lowering her time to 2:06.36. Japan's Yuko Nakanishi, on the other hand, took home the bronze at 2:08.04.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
| World record | Otylia Jędrzejczak (POL) | 2:05.78 | Berlin, Germany | 4 August 2002 |
| Olympic record | Misty Hyman (USA) | 2:05.88 | Sydney, Australia | 20 September 2000 |

## Results
### Heats

| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | 4 | Otylia Jędrzejczak | Poland | 2:09.64 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | 5 | Yuko Nakanishi | Japan | 2:10.04 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | 4 | Éva Risztov | Hungary | 2:10.49 | Q |
| 4 | 4 | 3 | Kaitlin Sandeno | United States | 2:10.50 | Q |
| 5 | 3 | 4 | Petria Thomas | Australia | 2:10.87 | Q |
| 6 | 2 | 3 | Georgina Lee | Great Britain | 2:10.99 | Q |
| 7 | 3 | 5 | Felicity Galvez | Australia | 2:11.17 | Q |
| 8 | 4 | 2 | Yukiko Osada | Japan | 2:11.20 | Q |
| 9 | 3 | 6 | Francesca Segat | Italy | 2:11.40 | Q |
| 10 | 4 | 1 | María Peláez | Spain | 2:11.66 | Q |
| 11 | 3 | 1 | Li Jie | China | 2:11.77 | Q |
| 12 | 2 | 5 | Dana Kirk | United States | 2:11.96 | Q |
| 13 | 4 | 6 | Mette Jacobsen | Denmark | 2:11.99 | Q |
| 14 | 2 | 6 | Annika Mehlhorn | Germany | 2:12.25 | Q |
| 15 | 3 | 7 | Aurore Mongel | France | 2:12.26 | Q |
| 16 | 3 | 3 | Paola Cavallino | Italy | 2:12.34 | Q |
| 17 | 2 | 7 | Beatrix Boulsevicz | Hungary | 2:12.54 | |
| 18 | 1 | 5 | Maria Bulakhova | Russia | 2:12.99 | |
| 19 | 3 | 2 | Roser Vives | Spain | 2:13.02 | |
| 20 | 2 | 8 | Raquel Felgueiras | Portugal | 2:13.08 | |
| 21 | 4 | 8 | Georgina Bardach | Argentina | 2:13.68 | |
| 22 | 4 | 7 | Vasiliki Angelopoulou | Greece | 2:13.88 | |
| 23 | 2 | 2 | Petra Zahrl | Austria | 2:13.92 | |
| 24 | 2 | 1 | Kwon You-ri | South Korea | 2:14.30 | |
| 25 | 1 | 3 | Cheng Wan-jung | Chinese Taipei | 2:16.25 | |
| 26 | 3 | 8 | Vesna Stojanovska | Macedonia | 2:16.51 | |
| 27 | 1 | 2 | Nataliya Samorodina | Ukraine | 2:17.15 | |
| 28 | 1 | 4 | Anja Klinar | Slovenia | 2:18.15 | |
| 29 | 1 | 6 | Chan Wing Suet | Hong Kong | 2:18.45 | |
| 30 | 1 | 1 | Heather Roffey | Cayman Islands | 2:19.34 | |
| 31 | 1 | 7 | Gülşah Günenç | Turkey | 2:20.17 | |
| 32 | 1 | 8 | Christel Bouvron | Singapore | 2:26.21 | |

### Semifinals
#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | Kaitlin Sandeno | United States | 2:08.77 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Yuko Nakanishi | Japan | 2:08.83 | Q |
| 3 | 8 | Paola Cavallino | Italy | 2:10.23 | Q |
| 4 | 7 | Dana Kirk | United States | 2:10.69 | |
| 5 | 3 | Georgina Lee | Great Britain | 2:10.93 | |
| 6 | 6 | Yukiko Osada | Japan | 2:11.35 | |
| 7 | 1 | Annika Mehlhorn | Germany | 2:11.37 | |
| 8 | 2 | María Peláez | Spain | 2:12.54 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Otylia Jędrzejczak | Poland | 2:08.84 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Petria Thomas | Australia | 2:09.24 | Q |
| 3 | 6 | Felicity Galvez | Australia | 2:09.54 | Q |
| 4 | 5 | Éva Risztov | Hungary | 2:09.83 | Q |
| 5 | 1 | Mette Jacobsen | Denmark | 2:10.47 | Q |
| 6 | 8 | Aurore Mongel | France | 2:11.13 | |
| 7 | 2 | Francesca Segat | Italy | 2:11.18 | |
| 8 | 7 | Li Jie | China | 2:13.41 | |

### Final

| Rank | Lane | Swimmer | Nation | Time |
| | 3 | Otylia Jędrzejczak | Poland | 2:06.05 |
| | 6 | Petria Thomas | Australia | 2:06.36 |
| | 5 | Yuko Nakanishi | Japan | 2:08.04 |
| 4 | 4 | Kaitlin Sandeno | United States | 2:08.18 |
| 5 | 2 | Felicity Galvez | Australia | 2:09.28 |
| 6 | 8 | Mette Jacobsen | Denmark | 2:10.01 |
| 7 | 1 | Paola Cavallino | Italy | 2:10.14 |
| 8 | 7 | Éva Risztov | Hungary | 2:10.58 |