Tags: Olympic Event, Olympics.
The men’s 50 metre freestyle event at the 2004 Summer Olympics was contested at the Olympic Aquatic Centre of the Athens Olympic Sports Complex in Athens Greece on August 19 and 20.United States’ Gary Hall Jr. defended his Olympic title in the event in 21.93 just two hundredths of a second off the record set by Alexander Popov in 1992. The silver medal was awarded to Croatia’s Duje Draganja who placed behind Hall by a hundredth-second margin in 21.94.