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

The women's 200 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 16 and 17.
Ukraine's Yana Klochkova became the first woman to claim two consecutive Olympic titles in the individual medley, finishing the final race with a time of 2:11.14. American swimmer and three-time Olympian Amanda Beard took home the silver, in an American record time of 2:11.70, while Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry, on the other hand, broke an African record of 2:12.72 to earn the bronze medal.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
| World record | Wu Yanyan (CHN) | 2:09.72 | Shanghai, China | 17 October 1997 |
| Olympic record | Yana Klochkova (UKR) | 2:10.68 | Sydney, Australia | 19 September 2000 |

## Results
### Heats

| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | 2 | Kirsty Coventry | Zimbabwe | 2:13.33 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | 4 | Yana Klochkova | Ukraine | 2:13.40 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | 5 | Katie Hoff | United States | 2:14.03 | Q |
| 4 | 3 | 4 | Amanda Beard | United States | 2:14.49 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | 3 | Hanna Shcherba | Belarus | 2:14.59 | Q |
| 6 | 2 | 6 | Beatrice Câșlaru | Romania | 2:14.70 | Q |
| 7 | 3 | 6 | Ágnes Kovács | Hungary | 2:15.17 | Q |
| 8 | 2 | 5 | Zhou Yafei | China | 2:15.56 | Q |
| 9 | 3 | 5 | Alice Mills | Australia | 2:15.62 | Q |
| 10 | 2 | 4 | Teresa Rohmann | Germany | 2:16.06 | Q |
| 11 | 4 | 6 | Lara Carroll | Australia | 2:16.17 | Q |
| 12 | 3 | 1 | Joanna Melo | Brazil | 2:16.21 | Q |
| 13 | 3 | 2 | Oxana Verevka | Russia | 2:16.63 | Q |
| 14 | 4 | 7 | Georgina Bardach | Argentina | 2:16.68 | Q |
| 15 | 4 | 3 | Elizabeth Warden | Canada | 2:17.12 | Q |
| 16 | 4 | 8 | Helen Norfolk | New Zealand | 2:17.27 | Q |
| 17 | 2 | 7 | Misa Amano | Japan | 2:17.88 | |
| 18 | 2 | 2 | Alenka Kejžar | Slovenia | 2:18.60 | |
| 19 | 4 | 1 | Joscelin Yeo | Singapore | 2:18.61 | |
| 20 | 2 | 8 | Lin Man-hsu | Chinese Taipei | 2:18.86 | |
| 21 | 2 | 1 | Alessia Filippi | Italy | 2:19.21 | |
| 22 | 3 | 8 | Siow Yi Ting | Malaysia | 2:19.52 | |
| 23 | 3 | 7 | Athina Tzavella | Greece | 2:20.30 | |
| 24 | 1 | 2 | Vered Borochovski | Israel | 2:20.62 | |
| 25 | 1 | 4 | Petra Banović | Croatia | 2:20.83 | |
| 26 | 1 | 5 | Park Na-ri | South Korea | 2:21.48 | |
| 27 | 1 | 6 | Lára Hrund Bjargardóttir | Iceland | 2:22.00 | |
| 28 | 1 | 7 | Marina Mulyayeva | Kazakhstan | 2:24.25 | |
| 29 | 3 | 3 | Qi Hui | China | 2:26.02 | |
| 30 | 1 | 3 | Louise Mai Jansen | Denmark | 2:27.08 | |

### Semifinals
#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Yana Klochkova | Ukraine | 2:13.30 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Amanda Beard | United States | 2:13.51 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Beatrice Câșlaru | Romania | 2:14.25 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | Teresa Rohmann | Germany | 2:14.47 | Q |
| 5 | 7 | Joanna Melo | Brazil | 2:15.43 | |
| 6 | 1 | Georgina Bardach | Argentina | 2:15.73 | |
| 7 | 6 | Zhou Yafei | China | 2:15.93 | |
| 8 | 8 | Helen Norfolk | New Zealand | 2:17.41 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | Katie Hoff | United States | 2:13.60 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Kirsty Coventry | Zimbabwe | 2:13.68 | Q |
| 3 | 7 | Lara Carroll | Australia | 2:13.80 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Ágnes Kovács | Hungary | 2:14.68 | Q |
| 5 | 3 | Hanna Shcherba | Belarus | 2:14.92 | |
| 6 | 2 | Alice Mills | Australia | 2:14.95 | |
| 7 | 1 | Oxana Verevka | Russia | 2:15.93 | |
| 8 | 8 | Elizabeth Warden | Canada | 2:17.32 | |

### Final

| Rank | Lane | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
| | 4 | Yana Klochkova | Ukraine | 2:11.14 | |
| | 5 | Amanda Beard | United States | 2:11.70 | AM |
| | 6 | Kirsty Coventry | Zimbabwe | 2:12.72 | AF |
| 4 | 8 | Ágnes Kovács | Hungary | 2:13.58 | |
| 5 | 1 | Teresa Rohmann | Germany | 2:13.74 | |
| 6 | 2 | Lara Carroll | Australia | 2:13.74 | |
| 7 | 3 | Katie Hoff | United States | 2:13.97 | |
| 8 | 7 | Beatrice Câșlaru | Romania | 2:15.40 | |