Tags: Olympic Event, Olympics.
The men’s 200 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 17 and 18.After missing out the semifinals in Sydney four years earlier Japan’s Kosuke Kitajima blasted one of the longest Olympic swimming records in the book when he clocked at 2:09.44 to erase a 0.77-second mark by American swimmer Mike Barrowman in 1992 and to strike a breaststroke double for the second straight time.