Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre breaststroke

Women's 200 metre breaststroke at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Venue	Piscines Bernat Picornell
Date	27 July (heats and finals)
Competitors	40 from 29 nations
Winning time	2:26.65 (OR)
Medalists
Kyoko Iwasaki   Japan   Lin Li   China   Anita Nall   United States

Swimming events at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
50 m		men		women
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m				women
1500 m		men
Backstroke
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
Breaststroke
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
Butterfly
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
Individual medley
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m		men		women
4×200 m		men
Medley relay
4×100 m		men		women

The women's 200 metre breaststroke event, included in the swimming competition at the 1992 Summer Olympics, took place on July 27, at the Piscines Bernat Picornell in Barcelona, Spain. In this event, swimmers covered four lengths of the 50-metre (160 ft) Olympic-sized pool employing the breaststroke.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were:

World record	Anita Nall (USA)	2:25.35 s	Indianapolis, United States	2 March 1992	[1]
Olympic record	Silke Hörner (GDR)	2:26.71 s	Seoul, South Korea	21 September 1988	[2]

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Time	OR	WR
27 July	Final A	Kyoko Iwasaki	Japan	2:26.65	OR

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Nall, AnitaAnita Nall	United States	2:27.77	QA
2	5	3	Iwasaki, KyokoKyoko Iwasaki	Japan	2:27.78	QA
3	3	6	Rudkovskaya, YelenaYelena Rudkovskaya	Unified Team	2:28.24	QA
4	5	5	Cloutier, GuylaineGuylaine Cloutier	Canada	2:29.01	QA
5	5	2	Giguère, NathalieNathalie Giguère	Canada	2:29.71	QA
6	5	6	LinLin Li	China	2:29.99	QA
7	3	3	Dalla Valle, ManuelaManuela Dalla Valle	Italy	2:30.75	QA
8	4	2	PeczakAlicja Pęczak	Poland	2:30.78	QA
9	4	4	Johnson, JillJill Johnson	United States	2:30.80	QB
10	5	8	Csépe, GabriellaGabriella Csépe	Hungary	2:32.04	QB
11	3	4	Riley, SamanthaSamantha Riley	Australia	2:32.09	QB
12	4	7	Brendel, DanielaDaniela Brendel	Germany	2:32.09	QB
13	4	5	Guérit, AudreyAudrey Guérit	France	2:32.33	QB
14	3	5	Volkova, YelenaYelena Volkova	Unified Team	2:32.39	QB
15	3	2	Kasuya, KyokoKyoko Kasuya	Japan	2:32.55	QB
16	3	8	Kupiec, MagdalenaMagdalena Kupiec	Poland	2:33.92	QB
17	3	7	Becue, BrigitteBrigitte Becue	Belgium	2:34.11
18	3	1	Dörries, JanaJana Dörries	Germany	2:34.58
19	4	3	Frame, LinleyLinley Frame	Australia	2:34.73
20	4	6	CaslaruBeatrice Căslaru	Romania	2:34.97
21	2	3	Vestergaard, BrittaBritta Vestergaard	Denmark	2:35.28
22	4	8	Brownsdon, SukiSuki Brownsdon	Great Britain	2:35.28
23	4	1	ParkPark Mi-Yeong	South Korea	2:35.33
24	5	1	Donati, ElenaElena Donati	Italy	2:36.42
25	1	4	Nemec, MartinaMartina Nemec	Austria	2:36.65
26	2	7	Bulten, KiraKira Bulten	Netherlands	2:37.09
27	2	4	Runólfsdóttir, RagnheiðurRagnheiður Runólfsdóttir	Iceland	2:37.42
28	2	5	Becerra, LourdesLourdes Becerra	Spain	2:37.69
29	5	7	LuLu Di	China	2:38.63
30	2	2	Phuvichit, SornsawanSornsawan Phuvichit	Thailand	2:41.20
31	2	6	Janssen, MartineMartine Janssen	Netherlands	2:41.48
32	1	5	Smatt, JennyJenny Smatt	Bermuda	2:42.25
33	2	1	King, JaimeJaime King	Great Britain	2:44.49
34	2	8	Heyns, PenelopePenelope Heyns	South Africa	2:45.04
35	1	2	Madero, PriscillaPriscilla Madero	Ecuador	2:46.79
36	1	3	Pexa, BarbaraBarbara Pexa	Guam	2:47.27
37	1	6	Velásquez, ClaudiaClaudia Velásquez	Peru	2:47.31
38	1	7	NguyenNguyễn Thị Phương	Vietnam	2:57.71
39	1	1	Talma, ElkeElke Talma	Seychelles	3:12.13
40	1	8	Ratsifandrihamanana, BakoBako Ratsifandrihamanana	Madagascar	—	DNS[3]

Finals

Final B

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Csépe, GabriellaGabriella Csépe	Hungary	2:31.15
2	6	Brendel, DanielaDaniela Brendel	Germany	2:32.05
3	2	Guérit, AudreyAudrey Guérit	France	2:32.10
4	3	Riley, SamanthaSamantha Riley	Australia	2:32.63
5	1	Kasuya, KyokoKyoko Kasuya	Japan	2:32.97
6	4	Johnson, JillJill Johnson	United States	2:33.89
7	8	Kupiec, MagdalenaMagdalena Kupiec	Poland	2:35.74
8	7	Volkova, YelenaYelena Volkova	Unified Team	2:37.65

Final A

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Iwasaki, KyokoKyoko Iwasaki	Japan	2:26.65	OR[3]
	7	LinLin Li	China	2:26.85
	4	Nall, AnitaAnita Nall	United States	2:26.88
4	3	Rudkovskaya, YelenaYelena Rudkovskaya	Unified Team	2:28.47
5	6	Cloutier, GuylaineGuylaine Cloutier	Canada	2:29.88
6	2	Giguère, NathalieNathalie Giguère	Canada	2:30.11
7	1	Dalla Valle, ManuelaManuela Dalla Valle	Italy	2:31.21
8	8	Pęczak, AlicjaAlicja Pęczak	Poland	2:31.76

See also

• Swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre breaststroke
• Swimming at the 1991 World Aquatics Championships
• Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics
• Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre breaststroke
• Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre breaststroke

Sources

• "Games of the XXV Olympiad Barcelona 1992" (PDF). Volume 5: The Results. Comité Coordinador Olímpico de Barcelona (COOB). 1992. Retrieved 6 July 2012.
• Albert Schoenfeld, ed. (November 1992). "Results from the 1992 Olympic Games (Barcelona)" (PDF). Swimming World and Junior Swimmer. Albert Schoenfeld. p. 98. ISSN 0039-7431. Retrieved 6 July 2012.
• "Swimming at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games: Women's 200 metres Breaststroke". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference, LLC. Retrieved 8 July 2012.

References

1. "World Record Progression; 200 m Breaststroke Long Course Women". Swimming Statistics. www.scmsom.se. 30 July 2011. Retrieved 8 July 2012.
2. "Swimming at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games: Women's 200 metres Breaststroke Final". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference, LLC. Retrieved 8 July 2012.
3. COOB, p. 376