Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre breaststroke
Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 4 Brooke Hanson Australia 1:07.35 Q
2 6 4 Leisel Jones Australia 1:07.69 Q
3 6 5 Tara Kirk United States 1:07.92 Q
4 4 5 Sarah Poewe Germany 1:07.97 Q
5 5 5 Amanda Beard United States 1:08.04 Q
6 5 4 Luo Xuejuan China 1:09.07 Q
7 5 3 Qi Hui China 1:09.29 Q
8 4 2 Svitlana Bondarenko Ukraine 1:09.35 Q
9 6 3 Rhiannon Leier Canada 1:09.38 Q
10 5 6 Masami Tanaka Japan 1:09.44 Q
11 6 7 Ágnes Kovács Hungary 1:09.51 Q
12 6 2 Vipa Bernhardt Germany 1:09.60 Q
13 4 6 Lauren van Oosten Canada 1:09.93 Q
14 4 3 Mirna Jukić Austria 1:09.99 Q
15 6 6 Elena Bogomazova Russia 1:10.24 Q
16 5 7 Chiara Boggiatto Italy 1:10.33 Q
17 5 2 Maria Östling Sweden 1:10.45
18 2 4 Inna Kapishina Belarus 1:10.66
19 4 7 Majken Thorup Denmark 1:10.97
20 4 8 Smiljana Marinović Croatia 1:11.00
Results -- Heats
The women's 100 metre breaststroke 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. Chinese swimmer and triple world champion Luo Xuejuan won the gold medal in this event, with an Olympic record time of 1:06.64, missing the world record by 0.27 of a second. Australia's Brooke Hanson took home the silver at 1:07.15, while her teammate and world record holder Leisel Jones, who won silver as a 15-year-old in Sydney (2000), finished behind Hanson for a bronze medal by a hundredth of a second (0.01), with a time of 1:07.16. In 2007, Luo announced her official retirement from swimming, because of heart ailments that had plagued her and had caused fainting spells during her training.