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Host City: Athina, Greece
Venue(s): Olympic Aquatic Centre, Athens Olympic Sports Complex Spiros Loues, Athina
Date Started: August 15, 2004
Date Finished: August 15, 2004
Format: Fastest eight advanced to the final.
| Gold: | Laure Manaudou |
| Silver: | Otylia Jędrzejczak |
| Bronze: | Kaitlin Sandeno |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paola Duguet | 16 | Colombia | COL | 4:20.69 | |
| 2 | Golda Marcus | 21 | El Salvador | ESA | 4:22.27 | |
| 3 | Pilin Tachakittiranan | 21 | Thailand | THA | 4:23.62 | |
| 4 | Yasemin Özlem Taşkın | 18 | Turkey | TUR | 4:24.08 | |
| 5 | Ivanka Moralieva | 20 | Bulgaria | BUL | 4:25.92 | |
| 6 | Anita Galić | 19 | Croatia | CRO | 4:26.09 |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cecilia Biagioli | 19 | Argentina | ARG | 4:16.42 | |
| 2 | Anja Čarman | 19 | Slovenia | SLO | 4:17.79 | |
| 3 | Kristel Köbrich | 19 | Chile | CHI | 4:18.68 | |
| 4 | Vesna Stojanovska | 19 | Macedonia | MKD | 4:19.39 | |
| 5 | Janelle Atkinson | 21 | Jamaica | JAM | 4:20.00 | |
| 6 | Rebecca Linton | 18 | New Zealand | NZL | 4:21.58 | |
| 7 | Ha Eun-Ju | 17 | South Korea | KOR | 4:21.65 | |
| 8 | Olha Beresneva | 18 | Ukraine | UKR | 4:26.30 |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Camelia Potec | 22 | Romania | ROU | 4:07.39 | QU |
| 2 | Ai Shibata | 22 | Japan | JPN | 4:07.63 | QU |
| 3 | Linda MacKenzie | 20 | Australia | AUS | 4:08.46 | QU |
| 4 | Claudia Poll | 31 | Costa Rica | CRC | 4:09.75 | |
| 5 | Zoi Dimoskhaki | 19 | Greece | GRE | 4:13.96 | |
| 6 | Jo Jackson | 17 | Great Britain | GBR | 4:14.89 | |
| 7 | Arantxa Ramos | 15 | Spain | ESP | 4:16.52 | |
| 8 | Kristýna Kyněrová | 25 | Czech Republic | CZE | 4:21.12 |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Otylia Jędrzejczak | 20 | Poland | POL | 4:07.11 | QU |
| 2 | Rebecca Cooke | 21 | Great Britain | GBR | 4:08.18 | QU |
| 3 | Kaitlin Sandeno | 21 | United States | USA | 4:08.22 | QU |
| 4 | Kalyn Keller | 19 | United States | USA | 4:09.83 | |
| 5 | Éva Risztov | 18 | Hungary | HUN | 4:12.08 | |
| 6 | Chen Hua | 22 | China | CHN | 4:12.67 | |
| 7 | Erika Villaecija | 20 | Spain | ESP | 4:13.03 | |
| 8 | Darya Parshina | 16 | Russia | RUS | 4:18.24 |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Laure Manaudou | 17 | France | FRA | 4:06.76 | QU |
| 2 | Sachiko Yamada | 21 | Japan | JPN | 4:09.10 | QU |
| 3 | Simona Păduraru | 22 | Romania | ROU | 4:10.39 | |
| 4 | Hannah Stockbauer | 22 | Germany | GER | 4:10.46 | |
| 5 | Elka Graham | 22 | Australia | AUS | 4:11.67 | |
| 6 | Pang Jiaying | 19 | China | CHN | 4:11.81 | |
| 7 | Brittany Reimer | 16 | Canada | CAN | 4:12.33 | |
| 8 | Monique Ferreira | 24 | Brazil | BRA | 4:13.75 |