The women's 200 metre individual medley event at the 2004 Olympic Games was contested at the Olympic Aquatic Centre of the Athens Olympic Sports Complex in Athens, Greece on August 16 and 17.^[1]

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Women's 200 metre individual medley at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Venue	Athens Olympic Aquatic Centre
Date	August 16, 2004 (heats & semifinals) August 17, 2004 (final)
Competitors	30 from 27 nations
Winning time	2:11.14
Medalists
Yana Klochkova  Ukraine Amanda Beard  United States Kirsty Coventry  Zimbabwe
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Ukraine's Yana Klochkova became the first woman to claim two consecutive Olympic titles in the individual medley, finishing the final race with a time of 2:11.14. American swimmer and three-time Olympian Amanda Beard took home the silver, in an American record time of 2:11.70, while Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry, on the other hand, broke an African record of 2:12.72 to earn the bronze medal.^[2][3]

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Wu Yanyan (CHN)	2:09.72	Shanghai, China	17 October 1997
Olympic record	Yana Klochkova (UKR)	2:10.68	Sydney, Australia	19 September 2000