Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre butterfly
Rank Lane Name Nationality Time
1 4 Andriy Serdinov Ukraine 51.74
2 3 Duje Draganja Croatia 52.74
3 2 Takashi Yamamoto Japan 52.81
4 6 Franck Esposito France 52.88
5 1 Mike Mintenko Canada 52.89
6 8 Helge Meeuw Germany 52.99
7 7 James Hickman Great Britain 53.10
8 5 Milorad Čavić Serbia and Montenegro 53.12
Results -- Semifinals
The men's 100 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 19 and 20. U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps broke an Olympic record of 51.25 to claim his fifth gold medal, edging out his teammate and world record holder Ian Crocker by four hundredths of a second (0.04). Meanwhile, Ukraine's Andriy Serdinov earned a bronze in a European record of 51.36. Earlier in the semifinals, Serdinov blasted a new Olympic record, previously set by Australia's Geoff Huegill in Sydney four years ago, with a time of 51.74. One heat later, Phelps stopped the clock at 51.61 to lower the record by 0.13 of a second.