Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Men's 100 metre butterfly

These are the results of the Men's 100 metre butterfly, one of sixteen events for male competitors in Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics

2004 Summer Olympics

The 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, was a premier international multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece from August 13 to August 29, 2004 with the motto Welcome Home. 10,625 athletes competed, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team...

in Athens

Athens

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Medalists

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
Michael Phelps Michael Phelps Michael Fred Phelps is an American swimmer who has, overall, won 16 Olympic medals—six gold and two bronze at Athens in 2004, and eight gold at Beijing in 2008, becoming the most successful athlete at both of these Olympic Games editions... , USA	Ian Crocker Ian Crocker Ian Lowell Crocker is a former American swimmer and five-time Olympic medalist. He is a former world record holder in the 100 meter butterfly .... , USA	Andriy Serdinov Andriy Serdinov Andriy Serdinov is a Ukrainian swimmer, who competed in the 2000 Olympics, 2004 Olympics and the 2008 Olympics. Serdinov also won the bronze medal in the 100 m butterfly at the 2004 Summer Olympics.... , UKR

Heat 1

Luis Matias
Luis Matias
Luis Matias is an Angolan swimmer, who represented Angola at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the Men's 100 metre butterfly. While he won heat 1 with a time of 58.92, he finished in 58th place out of 60 spots and did not advance.-References:...

, Angola
Angola
Angola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its west coast is on the Atlantic Ocean with Luanda as its capital city...

58.92
Fernando Medrano-Medina, Nicaragua
Nicaragua
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1:00.91
Rad Aweisat, Palestinian Authority
Palestinian National Authority
The Palestinian Authority is the administrative organization established to govern parts of the West Bank and Gaza Strip...

1:01.60

Heat 2

Michal Rubacek, Czech Republic
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

54.87
Oleg Lyashko, Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan , officially the Republic of Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia and one of the six independent Turkic states. It shares borders with Kazakhstan to the west and to the north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east, and Afghanistan and Turkmenistan to the south....

55.90
Nicholas Rees, Bahamas 56.39
Gordon Touw Ngie Tjouw, Suriname
Suriname
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56.68
Conrad Francis, Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka
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56.80
Andy Wibowo, Indonesia
Indonesia
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56.86
Daniel O'Keeffe, Guam
Guam
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57.39
Davy Bisslik, Aruba
Aruba
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57.85

Heat 3

Doo-Hee Jeong, Korea
Korea
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54.76
Rustam Khudiyev
Rustam Khudiyev
Rustam Khudiyev is an Olympic butterfly swimmer from Kazakhstan. He swam for Kazakhstan at the 2004 and Rustam Khudiyev is an Olympic [[butterfly swimming|butterfly]] [[swimmer]] from [[Kazakhstan]]...

, Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...

55.03
Hjortur Mar Reynisson, Iceland
Iceland
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55.12
Eduardo German Otero, Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

55.24
Aleksandar Miladinovski, Macedonia
Republic of Macedonia
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55.71
Juan Pablo Valdivieso, Peru
Peru
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55.98
Aghiles Slimani, Algeria
Algeria
Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...

56.22
Onur Uras, Turkey
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

56.37

Heat 4

Jere Hård
Jere Hård
Jere Hård is a retired male freestyle and butterfly swimmer from Finland. He twice swam for his native country at the Olympics: in 2000 and 2004....

, Finland
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

54.02
Peter Mankoč
Peter Mankoc
Peter Mankoč is one of the best Slovenian swimmers of all time and one of the most successful short course European Championship swimmers in the history of the event.- Personal :...

, Slovenia
Slovenia
Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...

54.14
Sotirios Pastras, Greece
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

54.20
Rimvydas Salcius, Lithuania
Lithuania
Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...

54.46
Camilo Becerra
Camilo Becerra
Camilo Becerra is a three-time Olympic freestyle swimmer from Colombia. He swam from Colombia at the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Olympics....

, Colombia
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

54.71
Georgi Palazov, Bulgaria
Bulgaria
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54.91
Wu Peng
Wu Peng
Wu Peng is a Chinese swimmer. His height is 1.80 m and he weights approximately 72 kg. His father died when he was only 16 years old. He has concentrated on the butterfly since the 10th National Games in 2005.-Early life and career:...

, China
People's Republic of China
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55.17
Andrejs Duda
Andrejs Duda
Andrejs Dūda , is a Latvian swimmer, is a two-time Olympian and nine-time NCAA DIII national individual champion in swimming. Duda represented Latvia at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece and has qualified to compete in the 2008 summer Games...

, Latvia
Latvia
Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...

56.81

Heat 5

Milorad Čavić
Milorad Cavic
Milorad Čavić is an American-born Serbian swimmer.-Swimming career:...

, , 52.44 -Q
Ryan Pini
Ryan Pini
Ryan John Pini is a 2-time Olympic swimmer from Papua New Guinea. He swam for PNG at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics; also serving as the PNG flagbearer in 2008...

, , 53.26
Simão Morgado
Simão Morgado
Simão Morgado is a male Portuguese swimmer. He is the national record holder of the 50-meter butterfly and since 1997 and he has beaten the National Record in the 100 meters thirteen times....

, , 53.53
Frédérick Bousquet
Frédérick Bousquet
Frédérick Bousquet is a freestyle and butterfly swimmer from France. He was the holder of the world record in the 50 m freestyle in a time of 20.94 in long course, set on April 26, 2009 at the final of the French Championships...

, , 53.63
Pavel Lagoun, , 53.87
Erik Andersson, , 54.26
Zsolt Gáspár
Zsolt Gáspár
Zsolt Gáspár is a butterfly swimmer from Hungary, who competed in two consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 2000. He has ties to the United States by going to the University of South Carolina in his mid twenties, breaking several records while training for the...

, , 54.43
Luis Rojas
Luis Rojas (swimmer)
Luis Enrique Rojas Carpena is an Olympic swimmer and National Record holder from Venezuela. He swam for his native country at the 2004 Olympics. He swam collegiately in the United States, first at the University of Hawaii and then at the University of Arizona .-References:...

, , 54.58

Heat 6

Andriy Serdinov
Andriy Serdinov
Andriy Serdinov is a Ukrainian swimmer, who competed in the 2000 Olympics, 2004 Olympics and the 2008 Olympics. Serdinov also won the bronze medal in the 100 m butterfly at the 2004 Summer Olympics....

, Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

52.05 -Q
Evgeny Korotyshkin
Evgeny Korotyshkin
Yevgeny Yevgeniyevich Korotyshkin, occasionally spelled "Evgeny", is a Russian swimmer from Moscow.- References :...

, Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

52.93 -Q
Joris Keizer
Joris Keizer
Joris Gerhard Keizer is a retired butterfly swimmer from the Netherlands, who competed for his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000 in Sydney, Australia. There he was eliminated in the semi finals of the 100m Butterfly, and finished in fourth place with the Men's...

, Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

53.41
Denys Sylantyev
Denys Sylantyev
Denys Sylantyev is a Ukrainian swimmer, who won the silver medal at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney in the 200 m butterfly.He won the Mare Nostrum circuit three times: 2000, 2001 and 2002.-References:*...

, Ukraine 53.46
Todd Cooper
Todd Cooper
Todd Alexander Cooper is a freestyle and butterfly swimmer from England, who competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. There he finished in 22nd position in the 100 m butterfly...

, Great Britain
United Kingdom
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53.48
Mattia Nalesso, Italy
Italy
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53.49
Eugene Botes, South Africa
South Africa
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54.15
Josh Ilika Brenner, Mexico
Mexico
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54.29

Heat 7

Michael Phelps
Michael Phelps
Michael Fred Phelps is an American swimmer who has, overall, won 16 Olympic medals—six gold and two bronze at Athens in 2004, and eight gold at Beijing in 2008, becoming the most successful athlete at both of these Olympic Games editions...

, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

52.35 -Q
Geoff Huegill
Geoff Huegill
Geoffrey Andrew Huegill , nicknamed Skippy and Skip, is an Australian butterfly swimmer...

, Australia
Australia
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52.54 -Q
Duje Draganja
Duje Draganja
Duje Draganja |Split]]) is a swimmer from Croatia who won the silver medal in the men's 50 meter freestyle at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece....

, Croatia
Croatia
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52.56 -Q
Thomas Rupprath
Thomas Rupprath
Thomas Rupprath is an Olympic swimmer from Germany, who is nicknamed "The New Albatross". A specialist in the backstroke and butterfly, especially in short course, he held the world record for the 50 m backstroke with a time of 23.27 seconds set on 31 November 2002. This was broken by Robert...

, Germany
Germany
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52.57 -Q
Takashi Yamamoto, Japan
Japan
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52.71 -Q
James Hickman
James Hickman
James Hickman is a former swimmer from Great Britain, who became a world champion five times on the 200 m butterfly in short course , twice world record holder, Commonwealth Champion and four times European Champion. He announced his retirement from the sport in 2004...

, Great Britain 52.91 -Q
Corney Swanepoel
Corney Swanepoel
Corney Swanepoel is a butterfly swimmer from New Zealand. He swam for New Zealand at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics....

, New Zealand
New Zealand
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53.07 -Q
Ioan Gherghel
Ioan Gherghel
Ioan Gherghel is an Olympic butterfly swimmer from Romania. He swam for Romania at three consecutive Olympics: 2000, 2004 and 2008....

, Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

53.89

Heat 8

Ian Crocker
Ian Crocker
Ian Lowell Crocker is a former American swimmer and five-time Olympic medalist. He is a former world record holder in the 100 meter butterfly ....

, United States 52.03 -Q
Franck Esposito
Franck Esposito
Franck Esposito is a former swimmer from France, who won the bronze medal in the 200 metres butterfly at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona...

, France 52.61 -Q
Igor Marchenko
Igor Marchenko (swimmer)
Igor Yuryevich Marchenko is a Russian swimmer who competed at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics.-References:...

, Russia 52.62 -Q
Gabriel Mangabeira
Gabriel Mangabeira
Gabriel Semain Vasconcellos Mangabeira is a Brazilian international swimmer who qualified for the men's 100-meter butterfly at both the 2004 Summer Olympics and 2008 Summer Olympics...

, Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

52.76 -Q
Mike Mintenko
Mike Mintenko
Michael Mintenko is a freestyle and butterfly Olympic swimmer from Canada.-External links:* * -References:...

, Canada
Canada
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52.96 -Q
Helge Meeuw
Helge Meeuw
Helge Meeuw is a German swimmer from Wiesbaden. At the 2008 German Swimming Championships in Berlin, he swam in 53.10 sec a new European record at 100 m backstroke...

, Germany 53.11 -Q
Kaio de Almeida
Kaio de Almeida
Kaio Márcio Ferreira Costa de Almeida is a Brazilian swimmer, who specializes in butterfly. He is also known as: Kaio Márcio, Kaio Márcio de Almeida, Kaio Almeida, or Kaio de Almeida....

, Brazil 53.22
Adam Pine
Adam Pine
Adam Pine is an Australian freestyle and butterfly swimmer. Adam is married to Sasha Pine and is the father of 3 children, Maximillian, Buster and Xander....

, Australia 53.45