Women's 100 metre breaststroke at the Games of the XXV Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Piscines Bernat Picornell | ||||||||||||
Date | 29 July 1992 (heats & finals) | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 43 from 31 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 1:08.00 NR | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics | ||
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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 100 metre breaststroke event at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place on 29 July at the Piscines Bernat Picornell in Barcelona, Spain. [1] [2]
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
World record | Silke Hörner (GDR) | 1:07.91 | Strasbourg, France | 21 August 1987 |
Olympic record | Tanya Dangalakova (BUL) | 1:07.95 | Seoul, South Korea | 23 September 1988 |
Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A (Q), while the next eight to final B (q). [3]
Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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9 | 5 | Lou Xia | China | 1:10.07 | |
10 | 3 | Magdalena Kupiec | Poland | 1:10.32 | NR |
11 | 4 | Alicja Pęczak | Poland | 1:10.73 | |
12 | 7 | Megan Kleine | United States | 1:11.07 | |
13 | 2 | Kyoko Iwasaki | Japan | 1:11.16 | |
14 | 6 | Lisa Flood | Canada | 1:11.17 | |
15 | 1 | Linley Frame | Australia | 1:11.36 | |
16 | 8 | Lu Di | China | 1:12.07 |
Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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4 | Yelena Rudkovskaya | Unified Team | 1:08.00 | NR | |
5 | Anita Nall | United States | 1:08.17 | AM | |
3 | Samantha Riley | Australia | 1:09.25 | OC | |
4 | 2 | Guylaine Cloutier | Canada | 1:09.71 | |
5 | 7 | Jana Dörries | Germany | 1:09.77 | |
6 | 8 | Gabriella Csépe | Hungary | 1:10.19 | |
7 | 6 | Manuela Dalla Valle | Italy | 1:10.39 | |
8 | 1 | Daniela Brendel | Germany | 1:11.05 |
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The men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay event at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place on 29 July at the Piscines Bernat Picornell in Barcelona, Spain.
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The men's 100 metre breaststroke event at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place on 26 July at the Piscines Bernat Picornell in Barcelona, Spain.
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