Tags: Olympic Event, Olympics.
The men’s 100 metre backstroke 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.U.S. swimmer Aaron Peirsol won a gold medal in this event outside an Olympic record time of 54.06 seconds. Markus Rogan captured Austria’s first ever medal in swimming after a hundred years earning the silver at 54.35.