U.S. swimmer Aaron Peirsol won a gold medal in this event, outside an Olympic record time of 54.06 seconds. Markus Rogan captured Austria's first ever medal in swimming after a hundred years, earning the silver at 54.35. Japan's Tomomi Morita, on the other hand, edged out defending Olympic champion and world record holder Lenny Krayzelburg to take a bronze by two hundredths of a second (0.02), breaking an Asian record time of 54.36 seconds.[2][3]
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The men s 100 metre backstroke event at the 2004 Olympic Games was contested at the Olympic Aquatic Centre of the Athens Olympic Sports Complex in Athens Greece on August 15 and 16 1 Men s 100 metre backstrokeat the Games of the XXVIII OlympiadVenueAthens Olympic Aquatic CentreDatesAugust 15 2004 heats amp semifinals August 16 2004 final Competitors45 from 39 nationsWinning time54 06MedalistsAaron Peirsol United StatesMarkus Rogan AustriaTomomi Morita Japan 20002008 U S swimmer Aaron Peirsol won a gold medal in this event outside an Olympic record time of 54 06 seconds Markus Rogan captured Austria s first ever medal in swimming after a hundred years earning the silver at 54 35 Japan s Tomomi Morita on the other hand edged out defending Olympic champion and world record holder Lenny Krayzelburg to take a bronze by two hundredths of a second 0 02 breaking an Asian record time of 54 36 seconds 2 3 Contents 1 Records 2 Results 2 1 Heats 2 2 Semifinals 2 2 1 Semifinal 1 2 2 2 Semifinal 2 2 3 Final 3 References 4 External linksRecords editPrior to this competition the existing world and Olympic records were as follows World record nbsp Lenny Krayzelburg USA 53 60 Sydney Australia 22 August 1999 Olympic record nbsp Lenny Krayzelburg USA 53 72 Sydney Australia 17 September 2000Results editHeats edit Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 6 3 Tomomi Morita nbsp Japan 54 41 Q 2 6 4 Aaron Peirsol nbsp United States 54 65 Q 3 4 6 Laszlo Cseh nbsp Hungary 54 80 Q 4 5 3 Markus Rogan nbsp Austria 54 87 Q 6 5 Lenny Krayzelburg nbsp United States Q 6 5 5 Steffen Driesen nbsp Germany 54 92 Q 7 4 4 Arkady Vyatchanin nbsp Russia 55 17 Q 8 6 6 Alex Lim nbsp Malaysia 55 22 Q 9 5 4 Matt Welsh nbsp Australia 55 35 Q 10 4 5 Ouyang Kunpeng nbsp China 55 50 Q 11 4 3 Marco di Carli nbsp Germany 55 58 Q 12 5 1 Gerhard Zandberg nbsp South Africa 55 62 Q 13 6 7 Simon Dufour nbsp France 55 76 Q 14 5 6 Gregor Tait nbsp Great Britain 55 77 Q 6 1 Răzvan Florea nbsp Romania Q 16 3 5 Gordan Kozulj nbsp Croatia 55 80 Q 17 3 2 Aristeidis Grigoriadis nbsp Greece 55 85 5 2 Josh Watson nbsp Australia 19 4 2 Yevgeny Aleshin nbsp Russia 55 91 20 3 6 Ryan Pini nbsp Papua New Guinea 55 97 21 5 8 Pierre Roger nbsp France 56 07 22 4 7 Cameron Gibson nbsp New Zealand 56 14 23 4 1 Adam Mania nbsp Poland 56 20 24 3 3 Darius Grigalionis nbsp Lithuania 56 21 25 2 5 Nicholas Neckles nbsp Barbados 56 32 26 3 7 Derya Buyukuncu nbsp Turkey 56 34 27 2 6 Ľubos Krizko nbsp Slovakia 56 62 4 8 Volodymyr Nikolaychuk nbsp Ukraine 5 7 Matthew Rose nbsp Canada 30 2 4 Sung Min nbsp South Korea 56 78 31 3 4 Ahmed Hussein nbsp Egypt 56 86 32 3 1 Paulo Machado nbsp Brazil 57 07 33 3 8 Eduardo German Otero nbsp Argentina 57 28 34 6 8 Peter Horvath nbsp Hungary 57 29 35 6 2 Aschwin Wildeboer nbsp Spain 57 35 36 2 2 Matti Maki nbsp Finland 57 57 37 2 3 George Gleason nbsp Virgin Islands 57 64 38 1 3 Chris Vythoulkas nbsp Bahamas 58 31 NR 39 2 1 Brendan Ashby nbsp Zimbabwe 58 91 40 2 7 Igor Beretic nbsp Serbia and Montenegro 59 38 41 1 4 Stanislav Osinsky nbsp Kazakhstan 59 92 42 1 5 Alexandru Ivlev nbsp Moldova 1 00 13 43 2 8 Danil Bugakov nbsp Uzbekistan 1 02 28 44 1 6 Omar Abu Fares nbsp Jordan 1 02 36 1 2 Donnie Defreitas nbsp Saint Vincent and the Grenadines DNS Semifinals edit Semifinal 1 edit Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Aaron Peirsol nbsp United States 54 34 Q 2 5 Markus Rogan nbsp Austria 54 42 Q 3 3 Steffen Driesen nbsp Germany 54 64 Q 4 2 Ouyang Kunpeng nbsp China 55 28 5 1 Gregor Tait nbsp Great Britain 55 31 6 7 Gerhard Zandberg nbsp South Africa 55 76 7 8 Gordan Kozulj nbsp Croatia 56 02 8 6 Alex Lim nbsp Malaysia 56 08 Semifinal 2 edit Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Tomomi Morita nbsp Japan 54 62 Q 2 3 Lenny Krayzelburg nbsp United States 54 63 Q 3 2 Matt Welsh nbsp Australia 54 69 Q 4 5 Laszlo Cseh nbsp Hungary 54 86 Q 5 7 Marco di Carli nbsp Germany 55 03 Q 6 6 Arkady Vyatchanin nbsp Russia 55 20 7 8 Răzvan Florea nbsp Romania 55 27 8 1 Simon Dufour nbsp France 56 15 Final edit Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes nbsp 4 Aaron Peirsol nbsp United States 54 06 nbsp 5 Markus Rogan nbsp Austria 54 35 nbsp 3 Tomomi Morita nbsp Japan 54 36 AS 4 6 Lenny Krayzelburg nbsp United States 54 38 5 7 Matt Welsh nbsp Australia 54 52 6 1 Laszlo Cseh nbsp Hungary 54 61 7 2 Steffen Driesen nbsp Germany 54 63 8 8 Marco di Carli nbsp Germany 55 27References edit Swimming schedule BBC Sport 5 August 2004 Retrieved 17 June 2007 Thomas Stephen 16 August 2004 Backstroke Double to USA Aaron Peirsol Wins his First Individual Gold Swimming World Magazine Archived from the original on 14 February 2007 Retrieved 26 March 2013 Peirsol captures gold in Athens Daily Pilot 16 August 2004 Retrieved 26 March 2013 External links editOfficial Olympic Report Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics Men 27s 100 metre backstroke amp oldid 1117444926, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
