Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Swimming
at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
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	Piscines Bernat Picornell
Venue	Piscines Bernat Picornell
Dates	26 – 31 July 1992
No. of events	31
Competitors	641 from 92 nations
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Last updated November 11, 2025

At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, 31 swimming events were contested. There was a total of 641 participants from 92 countries competing.^[1]^[2]

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	11	9	7	27
2	Unified Team (EUN)	6	3	1	10
3	Hungary (HUN)	5	3	1	9
4	China (CHN)	4	5	0	9
5	Germany (GER)	1	3	7	11
6	Australia (AUS)	1	3	5	9
7	Canada (CAN)	1	0	1	2
8	Japan (JPN)	1	0	0	1
8	Spain (ESP)	1	0	0	1
10	Sweden (SWE)	0	2	1	3
11	Brazil (BRA)	0	1	0	1
	New Zealand (NZL)	0	1	0	1
	Poland (POL)	0	1	0	1
14	France (FRA)	0	0	3	3
15	Italy (ITA)	0	0	2	2
16	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1
	Suriname (SUR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (18 entries)		31	31	31	93

Medal summary

Men's events

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle details	Aleksandr Popov Unified Team ( Russia)	21.91 OR , ER	Matt Biondi United States	22.09	Tom Jager United States	22.30
100 m freestyle details	Aleksandr Popov Unified Team ( Russia)	49.02 ER	Gustavo Borges Brazil	49.43 SA	Stéphan Caron France	49.50
200 m freestyle details	Yevgeny Sadovyi Unified Team ( Russia)	1:46.70 OR , NR	Anders Holmertz Sweden	1:46.86	Antti Kasvio Finland	1:47.63 NR
400 m freestyle details	Yevgeny Sadovyi Unified Team ( Russia)	3:45.00 WR	Kieren Perkins Australia	3:45.16 OC	Anders Holmertz Sweden	3:46.77 NR
1500 m freestyle details	Kieren Perkins Australia	14:43.48 WR	Glen Housman Australia	14:55.29	Jörg Hoffmann Germany	15:02.29
100 m backstroke details	Mark Tewksbury Canada	53.98 OR , NR	Jeff Rouse United States	54.04	David Berkoff United States	54.78
200 m backstroke details	Martin López-Zubero Spain	1:58.47 OR	Vladimir Selkov Unified Team ( Russia)	1:58.87	Stefano Battistelli Italy	1:59.40
100 m breaststroke details	Nelson Diebel United States	1:01.50 OR	Norbert Rózsa Hungary	1:01.68	Phil Rogers Australia	1:01.76 OC
200 m breaststroke details	Mike Barrowman United States	2:10.16 WR	Norbert Rózsa Hungary	2:11.23 ER	Nick Gillingham Great Britain	2:11.29 NR
100 m butterfly details	Pablo Morales United States	53.32	Rafał Szukała Poland	53.35 NR	Anthony Nesty Suriname	53.41
200 m butterfly details	Melvin Stewart United States	1:56.26 OR	Danyon Loader New Zealand	1:57.93	Franck Esposito France	1:58.51
200 m individual medley details	Tamás Darnyi Hungary	2:00.76	Greg Burgess United States	2:00.97	Attila Czene Hungary	2:01.00
400 m individual medley details	Tamás Darnyi Hungary	4:14.23 OR	Eric Namesnik United States	4:15.57	Luca Sacchi Italy	4:16.34 NR
4 × 100 m freestyle relay details	United States (USA) Joe Hudepohl (50.05) Matt Biondi (48.69) Tom Jager (49.72) Jon Olsen (48.28) Shaun Jordan* Joel Thomas*	3:16.74	Unified Team (EUN) Pavlo Khnykin (49.92) Gennadiy Prigoda (50.05) Yuri Bashkatov (49.76) Aleksandr Popov (47.83) Vladimir Pyshnenko* Veniamin Tayanovich*	3:17.56	Germany (GER) Dirk Richter (49.97) Christian Tröger (49.35) Steffen Zesner (49.78) Mark Pinger (48.80) Andreas Szigat* Bengt Zikarsky*	3:17.90 NR
4 × 200 m freestyle relay details	Unified Team (EUN) Dmitry Lepikov (1:49.55) Vladimir Pyshnenko (1:46.58) Veniamin Tayanovich (1:48.99) Yevgeny Sadovyi (1:46.83) Aleksey Kudryavtsev* Yury Mukhin*	7:11.95 WR	Sweden (SWE) Christer Wallin (1:49.69) Anders Holmertz (1:46.16) Tommy Werner (1:49.35) Lars Frölander (1:50.31)	7:15.51 NR	United States (USA) Joe Hudepohl (1:49.52) Melvin Stewart (1:48.41) Jon Olsen (1:49.19) Doug Gjertsen (1:49.11) Scott Jaffe* Dan Jorgensen*	7:16.23
4 × 100 medley relay details	United States (USA) Jeff Rouse (53.86) WR Nelson Diebel (1:01.45) Pablo Morales (52.83) Jon Olsen (48.79) David Berkoff* Hans Dersch* Melvin Stewart* Matt Biondi*	3:36.93 =WR	Unified Team (EUN) Vladimir Selkov (55.50) Vasili Ivanov (1:01.59) Pavlo Khnykin (53.56) Aleksandr Popov (47.91) Vladimir Pyshnenko* Vladislav Kulikov* Dmitri Volkov*	3:38.56	Canada (CAN) Mark Tewksbury (54.09) Jonathan Cleveland (1:01.93) Marcel Gery (53.72) Stephen Clarke (49.92) Tom Ponting*	3:39.66

* Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Women's events

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle details	Yang Wenyi China	24.79 WR	Zhuang Yong China	25.08	Angel Martino United States	25.23
100 m freestyle details	Zhuang Yong China	54.64 OR	Jenny Thompson United States	54.84	Franziska van Almsick Germany	54.94
200 m freestyle details	Nicole Haislett United States	1:57.90 AM	Franziska van Almsick Germany	1:58.00	Kerstin Kielgass Germany	1:59.67
400 m freestyle details	Dagmar Hase Germany	4:07.18	Janet Evans United States	4:07.37	Hayley Lewis Australia	4:11.22
800 m freestyle details	Janet Evans United States	8:25.52	Hayley Lewis Australia	8:30.34	Jana Henke Germany	8:30.99
100 m backstroke details	Krisztina Egerszegi Hungary	1:00.68 OR	Tünde Szabó Hungary	1:01.14	Lea Loveless United States	1:01.43
200 m backstroke details	Krisztina Egerszegi Hungary	2:07.06 OR	Dagmar Hase Germany	2:09.46 NR	Nicole Stevenson Australia	2:10.20 OC
100 m breaststroke details	Yelena Rudkovskaya Unified Team ( Belarus)	1:08.00 NR	Anita Nall United States	1:08.17 AM	Samantha Riley Australia	1:09.25 OC
200 m breaststroke details	Kyoko Iwasaki Japan	2:26.65 OR , AS	Lin Li China	2:26.85 NR	Anita Nall United States	2:26.88
100 m butterfly details	Qian Hong China	58.62 OR	Crissy Ahmann-Leighton United States	58.74	Catherine Plewinski France	59.01 NR
200 m butterfly details	Summer Sanders United States	2:08.67	Wang Xiaohong China	2:09.01 AS	Susie O'Neill Australia	2:09.03 OC
200 m individual medley details	Lin Li China	2:11.65 WR	Summer Sanders United States	2:11.91 AM	Daniela Hunger Germany	2:13.92
400 m individual medley details	Krisztina Egerszegi Hungary	4:36.54 NR	Lin Li China	4:36.73 AS	Summer Sanders United States	4:37.58 AM
4 × 100 m freestyle relay details	United States (USA) Nicole Haislett (55.33) Dara Torres (55.33) Angel Martino (54.79) Jenny Thompson (54.01) Ashley Tappin* Crissy Ahmann-Leighton*	3:39.46 WR	China (CHN) Zhuang Yong (54.51) OR Lu Bin (55.90) Yang Wenyi (54.90) Le Jingyi (54.81) Zhao Kun*	3:40.12 AS	Germany (GER) Franziska van Almsick (54.99) Simone Osygus (55.74) Daniela Hunger (55.12) Manuela Stellmach (55.75) Kerstin Kielgass* Annette Hadding*	3:41.60
4 × 100 m medley relay details	United States (USA) Lea Loveless (1:00.82) AM Anita Nall (1:08.67) Crissy Ahmann-Leighton (58.58) Jenny Thompson (54.47) Janie Wagstaff* Megan Kleine* Summer Sanders* Nicole Haislett*	4:02.54 WR	Germany (GER) Dagmar Hase (1:01.61) Jana Dörries (1:09.43) Franziska van Almsick (59.08) Daniela Hunger (55.07) Daniela Brendel* Bettina Ustrowski* Simone Osygus*	4:05.19	Unified Team (EUN) Nina Zhivanevskaya (1:02.54) Yelena Rudkovskaya (1:07.44) Olga Kiritchenko (1:00.98) Natalya Meshcheryakova (55.48) Elena Choubina*	4:06.44

* Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Participating nations

641 swimmers from 92 nations competed.^[1]

References

1 2 "Swimming at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
↑ "Olympedia – Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved 17 December 2023.

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[SR-1] 1 2 "Swimming at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 March 2020.

[2] "Olympedia – Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved 17 December 2023.

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