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200 metres Individual Medley, Men

Date	18 – 19 August 2004
Status	Olympic
Location	Olympiako Kentro Ugrou Stivou, Olympiako Athletiko Kentro Athinon Spiros Loues, Athina (Main Pool)
Participants	49 from 41 countries

With three gold medals already in his pocket, Michael Phelps had enough reason to expect success in the 200 metres medley without the added boost of being both World Champion and world record holder in one of the stronger events in his programme. Unsurprisingly nobody could live with the pace of “The Baltimore Bullet” and, as Phelps powered away into the distance to record a comfortable victory, interest shifted toward the question of whom else would stand on the victory podium. In a blanket finish that saw three men separated by just 0.06 seconds, it was Phelps’ teammate Ryan Lochte who sneaked into the silver medal with George Bovell taking a historic first ever swimming medal for Trinidad (or indeed the entire English-speaking Caribbean) when he edged out László Cseh, Jr. for third place.

This began a run of record four straight Olympic victories for Phelps in an event in which he also won five world titles.

Pos	Swimmer	NOC	R1	SF	Final
1	Michael Phelps	USA	2:00.01 (1 h7)	1:58.52 (1 h1)	1:57.14 (1)	Gold
2	Ryan Lochte	USA	2:01.41 (5 h6)	1:59.58 (2 h1)	1:58.78 (2)	Silver
3	George Bovell	TTO	2:00.65 (1 h5)	2:00.31 (3 h2)	1:58.80 (3)	Bronze
4	László Cseh, Jr.	HUN	1:59.50 (1 h6)	1:59.65 (1 h2)	1:58.84 (4)
5	Thiago Pereira	BRA	2:01.12 (3 h7)	2:00.07 (2 h2)	2:00.11 (5)
6	Takahiro Mori	JPN	2:01.33 (4 h7)	2:00.57 (4 h2)	2:00.60 (6)
7	Vytautas Janušaitis	LTU	2:01.32 (4 h6)	2:00.57 (3 h1)	2:01.28 (7)
8	Jiro Miki	JPN	2:00.93 (2 h7)	2:01.09 (4 h1)	2:02.16 (8)
9	Oussama Mellouli	TUN	2:01.94 (2 h5)	2:01.11 (5 h2)	–
10	Alessio Boggiatto	ITA	2:01.30 (2 h6)	2:01.27 (5 h1)	–
11	Massi Rosolino	ITA	2:01.56 (6 h6)	2:01.29 (6 h2)	–
12	Ioannis Kokkodis	GRE	2:02.11 (1 h4)	2:01.57 (6 h1)	–
13	Tamás Kerékjártó	HUN	2:01.75 (6 h7)	2:01.89 (7 h1)	–
14	Dean Kent	NZL	2:01.31 (3 h6)	2:01.94 (7 h2)	–
15	Adrian Turner	GBR	2:01.73 (7 h6)	2:02.06 (8 h2)	–
16	Robin Francis	GBR	2:01.57 (5 h7)	2:03.85 (8 h1)	–
17	Adam Lucas	AUS	2:02.12 (7 h7)	–	–
18	Mihail Aleksandrov	BUL	2:02.39 (2 h4)	–	–
19	Zhao Tao	CHN	2:02.41 (8 h6)	–	–
20	Jani Sievinen	FIN	2:02.79 (3 h5)	–	–
21	Christian Keller	GER	2:02.93 (4 h5)	–	–
22	Serhiy Serhieiev	UKR	2:03.26 (3 h4)	–	–
23	Bradley Ally	BAR	2:03.29 (4 h4)	–	–
24	Wu Peng	CHN	2:03.60 (5 h5)	–	–
25	Guntars Deičmans	LAT	2:03.68 (5 h4)	–	–
26	Diogo Yabe	BRA	2:03.86 (6 h5)	–	–
27	Justin Norris	AUS	2:03.87 (7 h5)	–	–
28	Brian Johns	CAN	2:03.95 (8 h5)	–	–
29	Aleksey Zatsepin	RUS	2:04.11 (8 h7)	–	–
30	Jeremy Knowles	BAH	2:04.22 (6 h4)	–	–
31	Jacob Carstensen	DEN	2:04.80 (1 h3)	–	–
32	Kim Bang-Hyeon	KOR	2:05.06 (2 h3)	–	–
33	Miguel Molina	PHI	2:05.28 (3 h3)	–	–
34	Krešimir Čač	CRO	2:05.33 (4 h3)	–	–
35	Raouf Benabid	ALG	2:06.34 (1 h2)	–	–
36	Hocine Haciane	AND	2:06.48 (2 h2)	–	–
37	Darian Townsend	RSA	2:07.04 (7 h4)	–	–
38	Aleksandar Miladinovski	MKD	2:07.39 (3 h2)	–	–
39	Andrei Zaharov	MDA	2:07.40 (5 h3)	–	–
40	Albert Sutanto	INA	2:07.55 (6 h3)	–	–
41	Drew MacKay	CAY	2:07.65 (4 h2)	–	–
42	Oleg Pukhnaty	UZB	2:08.24 (5 h2)	–	–
43	Gary Tan	SGP	2:08.44 (7 h3)	–	–
44	Wu Nien-Pin	TPE	2:08.72 (6 h2)	–	–
=45	Jorge Oliver	PUR	2:08.84 (1 h1)	–	–
=45	Uğur Orel Oral	TUR	2:08.84 (7 h2)	–	–
47	Malick Fall	SEN	2:12.13 (8 h3)	–	–
48	Giorgos Dimitriadis	CYP	2:12.27 (2 h1)	–	–
DQ	Yevgeny Ryzhkov	KAZ	– (DQ h1)	–	–

Round One (18 August 2004)

Fastest 16 advanced to the semi-finals.

Heat One (11:10)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time	Reaction
1	4	Jorge Oliver	PUR	26.38 (1) 32.27 (1)	58.65 (1) 38.91 (1)	1:37.56 (1) 31.28 (1)	2:08.84	0.75
2	3	Giorgos Dimitriadis	CYP	27.38 (2) 33.14 (2)	1:00.52 (2) 39.63 (2)	1:40.15 (2) 32.12 (2)	2:12.27	0.79
DQ	5	Yevgeny Ryzhkov	KAZ	– (–) –	– (–) –	– (–) –	–	[0.82]	1

Heat Two (11:14)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time	Reaction
1	4	Raouf Benabid	ALG	26.54 (2) 31.89 (2)	58.43 (1) 38.10 (6)	1:36.53 (3) 29.81 (3)	2:06.34	0.72
2	6	Hocine Haciane	AND	27.48 (5) 33.38 (7)	1:00.86 (6) 35.97 (1)	1:36.83 (4) 29.65 (2)	2:06.48	0.78
3	3	Aleksandar Miladinovski	MKD	26.49 (1) 32.57 (5)	59.06 (3) 37.21 (4)	1:36.27 (2) 31.12 (6)	2:07.39	0.77
4	1	Drew MacKay	CAY	27.78 (6) 32.40 (4)	1:00.18 (5) 37.39 (5)	1:37.57 (5) 30.08 (4)	2:07.65	0.59
5	2	Oleg Pukhnaty	UZB	27.02 (3) 31.80 (1)	58.82 (2) 36.91 (3)	1:35.73 (1) 32.51 (7)	2:08.24	0.82
6	7	Wu Nien-Pin	TPE	27.26 (4) 32.36 (3)	59.62 (4) 39.46 (7)	1:39.08 (7) 29.64 (1)	2:08.72	0.61
7	5	Uğur Orel Oral	TUR	27.80 (7) 33.18 (6)	1:00.98 (7) 36.90 (2)	1:37.88 (6) 30.96 (5)	2:08.84	0.76

Heat Three (11:18)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time	Reaction
1	6	Jacob Carstensen	DEN	27.00 (6) 33.53 (7)	1:00.53 (6) 35.58 (3)	1:36.11 (4) 28.69 (1)	2:04.80	0.76
2	3	Kim Bang-Hyeon	KOR	27.46 (7) 32.17 (3)	59.63 (4) 36.23 (5)	1:35.86 (3) 29.20 (2)	2:05.06	0.84
3	2	Miguel Molina	PHI	26.97 (4) 31.77 (1)	58.74 (1) 35.84 (4)	1:34.58 (1) 30.70 (6)	2:05.28	0.67
4	4	Krešimir Čač	CRO	26.98 (5) 32.93 (5)	59.91 (5) 35.37 (1)	1:35.28 (2) 30.05 (4)	2:05.33	0.86
5	5	Andrei Zaharov	MDA	26.84 (1) 35.01 (8)	1:01.85 (8) 35.52 (2)	1:37.37 (6) 30.03 (3)	2:07.40	0.85
6	1	Albert Sutanto	INA	26.95 (3) 31.99 (2)	58.94 (2) 38.39 (8)	1:37.33 (5) 30.22 (5)	2:07.55	0.74
7	7	Gary Tan	SGP	26.93 (2) 32.22 (4)	59.15 (3) 38.38 (7)	1:37.53 (7) 30.91 (7)	2:08.44	0.77
8	8	Malick Fall	SEN	28.03 (8) 33.06 (6)	1:01.09 (7) 37.54 (6)	1:38.63 (8) 33.50 (8)	2:12.13	0.84

Heat Four (11:22)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time	Reaction
1	4	Ioannis Kokkodis	GRE	26.98 (=6) 30.97 (1)	57.95 (3) 34.87 (1)	1:32.82 (2) 29.29 (1)	2:02.11	0.89	Q
2	3	Mihail Aleksandrov	BUL	25.92 (1) 31.27 (3)	57.19 (1) 34.90 (2)	1:32.09 (1) 30.30 (7)	2:02.39	0.74
3	5	Serhiy Serhieiev	UKR	26.59 (5) 31.80 (4)	58.39 (4) 34.97 (3)	1:33.36 (3) 29.90 (5)	2:03.26	0.74
4	8	Bradley Ally	BAR	26.42 (3) 31.01 (2)	57.43 (2) 36.00 (6)	1:33.43 (4) 29.86 (4)	2:03.29	0.72
5	7	Guntars Deičmans	LAT	26.98 (=6) 31.92 (5)	58.90 (5) 35.37 (4)	1:34.27 (5) 29.41 (2)	2:03.68	0.85
6	6	Jeremy Knowles	BAH	26.48 (4) 32.43 (6)	58.91 (6) 35.54 (5)	1:34.45 (6) 29.77 (3)	2:04.22	0.79
7	1	Darian Townsend	RSA	26.13 (2) 32.99 (7)	59.12 (7) 37.89 (7)	1:37.01 (7) 30.03 (6)	2:07.04	0.75

Heat Five (11:26)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time	Reaction
1	4	George Bovell	TTO	26.65 (6) 30.32 (1)	56.97 (1) 34.85 (2)	1:31.82 (1) 28.83 (=3)	2:00.65	0.82	Q
2	2	Oussama Mellouli	TUN	26.33 (2) 31.51 (2)	57.84 (2) 35.47 (4)	1:33.31 (2) 28.63 (1)	2:01.94	0.75	Q
3	5	Jani Sievinen	FIN	27.28 (8) 31.85 (3)	59.13 (8) 34.83 (1)	1:33.96 (3) 28.83 (=3)	2:02.79	0.78
4	7	Christian Keller	GER	26.45 (=3) 32.37 (7)	58.82 (5) 35.23 (3)	1:34.05 (4) 28.88 (5)	2:02.93	0.80
5	8	Wu Peng	CHN	26.45 (=3) 31.89 (6)	58.34 (3) 36.62 (8)	1:34.96 (7) 28.64 (2)	2:03.60	0.79
6	1	Diogo Yabe	BRA	26.64 (5) 31.88 (5)	58.52 (4) 35.56 (5)	1:34.08 (5) 29.78 (8)	2:03.86	0.76
7	3	Justin Norris	AUS	26.25 (1) 32.78 (8)	59.03 (6) 35.62 (6)	1:34.65 (6) 29.22 (7)	2:03.87	0.81
8	6	Brian Johns	CAN	27.23 (7) 31.87 (4)	59.10 (7) 35.95 (7)	1:35.05 (8) 28.90 (6)	2:03.95	0.82

Heat Six (11:30)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time	Reaction
1	3	László Cseh, Jr.	HUN	25.67 (1) 29.56 (1)	55.23 (1) 35.39 (=6)	1:30.62 (1) 28.88 (4)	1:59.50	0.86	Q
2	6	Alessio Boggiatto	ITA	26.68 (5) 31.46 (7)	58.14 (7) 34.91 (4)	1:33.05 (5) 28.25 (2)	2:01.30	0.81	Q
3	8	Dean Kent	NZL	26.46 (3) 30.27 (4)	56.73 (3) 34.62 (2)	1:31.35 (3) 29.96 (7)	2:01.31	0.75	Q
4	7	Vytautas Janušaitis	LTU	26.03 (2) 29.85 (2)	55.88 (2) 35.39 (=6)	1:31.27 (2) 30.05 (8)	2:01.32	0.84	Q
5	4	Ryan Lochte	USA	27.56 (8) 30.40 (5)	57.96 (5) 35.12 (5)	1:33.08 (6) 28.33 (3)	2:01.41	0.70	Q
6	5	Massi Rosolino	ITA	26.82 (6) 32.16 (8)	58.98 (8) 34.37 (1)	1:33.35 (8) 28.21 (1)	2:01.56	0.86	Q
7	2	Adrian Turner	GBR	26.66 (4) 31.32 (6)	57.98 (6) 34.73 (3)	1:32.71 (4) 29.02 (5)	2:01.73	0.84	Q
8	1	Zhao Tao	CHN	27.16 (7) 30.13 (3)	57.29 (4) 35.84 (8)	1:33.13 (7) 29.28 (6)	2:02.41	0.86

Heat Seven (11:34)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time	Reaction
1	4	Michael Phelps	USA	26.12 (3) 29.49 (1)	55.61 (1) 36.05 (8)	1:31.66 (2) 28.35 (1)	2:00.01	0.74	Q
2	3	Jiro Miki	JPN	26.53 (6) 30.68 (3)	57.21 (4) 34.91 (3)	1:32.12 (3) 28.81 (2)	2:00.93	0.69	Q
3	5	Thiago Pereira	BRA	25.53 (1) 30.61 (2)	56.14 (2) 34.84 (2)	1:30.98 (1) 30.14 (8)	2:01.12	0.71	Q
4	6	Takahiro Mori	JPN	26.29 (4) 31.21 (6)	57.50 (6) 34.92 (4)	1:32.42 (4) 28.91 (3)	2:01.33	0.74	Q
5	2	Robin Francis	GBR	26.81 (7) 31.35 (7)	58.16 (7) 34.32 (1)	1:32.48 (5) 29.09 (4)	2:01.57	0.87	Q
6	7	Tamás Kerékjártó	HUN	26.06 (2) 31.11 (5)	57.17 (3) 35.37 (5)	1:32.54 (6) 29.21 (5)	2:01.75	0.68	Q
7	1	Adam Lucas	AUS	26.52 (5) 30.84 (4)	57.36 (5) 35.47 (6)	1:32.83 (7) 29.29 (6)	2:02.12	0.74
8	8	Aleksey Zatsepin	RUS	27.05 (8) 31.60 (8)	58.65 (8) 35.76 (7)	1:34.41 (8) 29.70 (7)	2:04.11	0.79

Semi-Finals (18 August 2004)

Fastest eight advanced to the final.

Heat One (20:38)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time	Reaction
1	4	Michael Phelps	USA	25.24 (1) 29.33 (1)	54.57 (1) 35.83 (8)	1:30.40 (1) 28.12 (1)	1:58.52	0.73	QOR
2	2	Ryan Lochte	USA	26.50 (4) 29.88 (3)	56.38 (3) 34.37 (1)	1:30.75 (2) 28.83 (4)	1:59.58	0.72	Q
3	6	Vytautas Janušaitis	LTU	26.39 (3) 29.58 (2)	55.97 (2) 35.32 (7)	1:31.29 (3) 29.28 (6)	2:00.57	0.83	Q
4	5	Jiro Miki	JPN	26.74 (6) 30.86 (=4)	57.60 (6) 34.85 (3)	1:32.45 (4) 28.64 (3)	2:01.09	0.65	Q
5	3	Alessio Boggiatto	ITA	26.95 (7) 31.38 (7)	58.33 (7) 34.74 (2)	1:33.07 (7) 28.20 (2)	2:01.27	0.77
6	8	Ioannis Kokkodis	GRE	26.63 (5) 30.86 (=4)	57.49 (5) 35.19 (6)	1:32.68 (6) 28.89 (5)	2:01.57	0.86
7	1	Tamás Kerékjártó	HUN	26.05 (2) 31.32 (6)	57.37 (4) 35.11 (5)	1:32.48 (5) 29.41 (7)	2:01.89	0.67
8	7	Robin Francis	GBR	27.08 (8) 31.72 (8)	58.80 (8) 35.06 (4)	1:33.86 (8) 29.99 (8)	2:03.85	0.84

Heat Two (20:44)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time	Reaction
1	4	László Cseh, Jr.	HUN	25.65 (1) 29.81 (1)	55.46 (1) 35.27 (8)	1:30.73 (1) 28.92 (7)	1:59.65	0.83	Q
2	3	Thiago Pereira	BRA	25.94 (2) 30.32 (2)	56.26 (2) 34.91 (6)	1:31.17 (2) 28.90 (6)	2:00.07	0.69	Q
3	5	George Bovell	TTO	26.52 (=4) 30.77 (4)	57.29 (3) 34.17 (2)	1:31.46 (3) 28.85 (5)	2:00.31	0.83	Q
4	2	Takahiro Mori	JPN	26.16 (3) 31.27 (6)	57.43 (4) 34.84 (5)	1:32.27 (4) 28.30 (1)	2:00.57	0.73	Q
5	8	Oussama Mellouli	TUN	26.52 (=4) 30.99 (5)	57.51 (5) 35.10 (7)	1:32.61 (6) 28.50 (2)	2:01.11	0.73
6	7	Massi Rosolino	ITA	26.85 (7) 32.11 (7)	58.96 (8) 33.73 (1)	1:32.69 (7) 28.60 (3)	2:01.29	0.86
7	6	Dean Kent	NZL	27.01 (8) 30.62 (3)	57.63 (6) 34.71 (4)	1:32.34 (5) 29.60 (8)	2:01.94	0.74
8	1	Adrian Turner	GBR	26.70 (6) 32.17 (8)	58.87 (7) 34.38 (3)	1:33.25 (8) 28.81 (4)	2:02.06	0.82

Final (19 August 2004 — 20:18)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time	Reaction
1	4	Michael Phelps	USA	25.51 (1) 28.84 (1)	54.35 (1) 35.02 (5)	1:29.37 (1) 27.77 (1)	1:57.14	0.75	OR
2	5	Ryan Lochte	USA	26.19 (5) 29.93 (3)	56.12 (5) 34.47 (3)	1:30.59 (5) 28.19 (2)	1:58.78	0.66
3	2	George Bovell	TTO	26.22 (6) 29.99 (4)	56.21 (6) 33.95 (1)	1:30.16 (2) 28.64 (5)	1:58.80	0.80
4	3	László Cseh, Jr.	HUN	25.68 (3) 29.54 (2)	55.22 (2) 35.21 (6)	1:30.43 (4) 28.41 (4)	1:58.84	0.83
5	6	Thiago Pereira	BRA	25.59 (2) 30.33 (6)	55.92 (3) 34.49 (4)	1:30.41 (3) 29.70 (8)	2:00.11	0.68
6	1	Takahiro Mori	JPN	26.27 (7) 31.62 (8)	57.89 (8) 34.43 (2)	1:32.32 (7) 28.28 (3)	2:00.60	0.73
7	7	Vytautas Janušaitis	LTU	25.92 (4) 30.11 (5)	56.03 (4) 35.75 (8)	1:31.78 (6) 29.50 (7)	2:01.28	0.81
8	8	Jiro Miki	JPN	26.46 (8) 31.37 (7)	57.83 (7) 35.33 (7)	1:33.16 (8) 29.00 (6)	2:02.16	0.65