By Stephen J. Thomas<\/p>\n
ATHENS, Greece. August 14. BRENDAN Hansen lowered the Olympic record that had been set by arch-rival, Japan's Kosuke Kitajima, in the prelims this morning by just 0.02 of a second in the first semifinal of the men's 100 breaststroke. Hansen clocked 1:00.01 but looked disappointed when he looked up at the scoreboard. <\/p>\n
Kitajima then won the second semifinal in 1:00.27, which sets up an exciting final between the current and most recent past world record-holder over the distance.<\/p>\n
USA's Mark Gangloff made an Olympic final in his first attempt, winding up in a three-way tie for fourth place in 1:01.07. There will also be two
\nBrits in the final: Darren Mew (1:00.83) and James Gibson (1:01.07). <\/p>\n
Ukrainian Oleg Lisogor also clocked 1:01.07 with Frenchman Hugues Duboscq (1:01.17) and Vlad Polyakov (1:01.36) also through.<\/p>\n
russia's Roman Sloudnov, the third-fastest man in history and the first under one minute, placed ninth and failed to advance to the finals.<\/p>\n
\nMen 100m Breaststroke Semifinals <\/b><\/p>\n
Record Split Name NOC Location Date
\nWR 59.30 27.93
\n HANSEN Brendan USA Long Beach (USA) 08 JUL 2004
\nOR 1:00.03 28.46
\n KITAJIMA Kosuke JPN Athens (GRE) 14 AUG 2004 <\/p>\n
Event No: 5 <\/p>\n
Rank Heat Lane Name NOC R.T. 50m Time Time
\nBehind
\n1 1 4 HANSEN Brendan USA 0.74 28.27 1:00.01
\n31.74 OR
\n2 2 4 KITAJIMA Kosuke JPN 0.72 28.41 1:00.27
\n31.86 0.26
\n3 1 5 MEW Darren GBR 0.78 28.48 1:00.83
\n32.35 0.82
\n4 2 5 GANGLOFF Mark USA 0.75 28.86 1:01.07
\n32.21 1.06
\n4 2 2 LISOGOR Oleg UKR 0.81 28.61 1:01.07
\n32.46 1.06
\n4 2 3 GIBSON James GBR 0.82 28.34 1:01.07
\n32.73 1.06
\n7 1 3 DUBOSCQ Hugues FRA 0.75 28.65 1:01.17
\n32.52 1.16
\n8 2 6 POLYAKOV Vladislav KAZ 0.79 28.80 1:01.36
\n32.56 1.35 <\/p>\n
9 1 2 SLUDNOV Roman RUS 0.81 29.02 1:01.54
\n32.52 1.53
\n10 1 6 KRUPPA Jens GER 0.83 28.89 1:01.68
\n32.79 1.67
\n11 1 8 KOLONKO Rene GER 0.87 29.08 1:01.82
\n32.74 1.81
\n12 2 8 KOMORNIKOV Dmitry RUS 0.89 29.33 1:01.83
\n32.50 1.82
\n13 2 1 PIHLAVA Jarno FIN 0.82 28.96 1:01.86
\n32.90 1.85
\n14 1 7 BODOR Richard HUN 0.76 29.30 1:01.88
\n32.58 1.87
\n15 2 7 FISCHER Eduardo BRA 0.81 29.20 1:02.07
\n32.87 2.06
\n16 1 1 van VALKENGOED Thijs NED 0.79 29.22 1:02.36
\n33.14 2.35<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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