Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre backstroke

Women's 100 metre backstroke at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Venue	Piscines Bernat Picornell
Date	28 July 1992 (heats & finals)
Competitors	46 from 32 nations
Winning time	1:00.68 OR
Medalists
Krisztina Egerszegi   Hungary Tünde Szabó   Hungary Lea Loveless   United States
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The women's 100 metre backstroke event at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place on 28 July at the Piscines Bernat Picornell in Barcelona, Spain. ^[1]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Krisztina Egerszegi  (HUN)	1:00.31	Athens, Greece	22 August 1991
Olympic record	Rica Reinisch  (GDR)	1:00.86	Moscow, Soviet Union	23 July 1980

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
28 July	Heat 6	Krisztina Egerszegi	Hungary	1:00.85	OR
28 July	Final A	Krisztina Egerszegi	Hungary	1:00.68	OR

Results

Heats

Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A (Q), while the next eight to final B (q). ^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	4	Krisztina Egerszegi	Hungary	1:00.85	Q, OR
2	6	5	Lea Loveless	United States	1:01.19	Q
3	4	4	Tünde Szabó	Hungary	1:02.14	Q
4	5	3	Nina Zhivanevskaya	Unified Team	1:02.25	Q
5	5	4	Janie Wagstaff	United States	1:02.29	Q
6	5	5	Nicole Stevenson	Australia	1:02.54	Q
7	6	3	Yoko Koikawa	Japan	1:02.83	Q
8	5	6	Joanne Meehan	Australia	1:02.84	Q
9	6	6	Silvia Poll	Costa Rica	1:02.88	q, NR
10	4	3	Sandra Völker	Germany	1:02.90	q
11	5	2	Anna Simcic	New Zealand	1:03.12	q
12	5	1	Marianne Kriel	South Africa	1:03.20	q
13	6	1	Noriko Inada	Japan	1:03.21	q
14	4	5	Dagmar Hase	Germany	1:03.35	q
15	4	7	Nikki Dryden	Canada	1:03.71	q
16	4	1	He Cihong	China	1:03.83	q
17	6	2	Ellen Elzerman	Netherlands	1:03.96
18	3	2	Akiko Thomson	Philippines	1:04.32	NR
19	4	8	Joanne Deakins	Great Britain	1:04.38
20	6	8	Claudia Stănescu	Romania	1:04.44
21	4	2	Eva Gysling	Switzerland	1:04.50
22	2	7	Jill Brukman	South Africa	1:04.57
23	5	8	Lorenza Vigarani	Italy	1:04.65
24	6	7	Katherine Read	Great Britain	1:04.97
25	3	3	Lara Bianconi	Italy	1:05.02
26	5	7	Natalya Shibayeva	Unified Team	1:05.08
27	3	4	Núria Castelló	Spain	1:05.09
28	4	6	Julie Howard	Canada	1:05.26
29	2	5	Małgorzata Galwas	Poland	1:05.36	NR
30	3	5	Helena Straková	Czechoslovakia	1:05.38
31	3	6	Martina Moravcová	Czechoslovakia	1:05.73
32	2	3	Céline Bonnet	France	1:05.75
	2	2	Nathalie Wunderlich	Switzerland
34	3	8	Rita Jean Garay	Puerto Rico	1:05.92	NR
35	2	1	Lee Chang-ha	South Korea	1:06.08
36	3	7	Ana Barros	Portugal	1:06.11
37	3	1	Mariya Kocheva	Bulgaria	1:06.17
38	2	4	Diane Lacombe	France	1:06.31
39	1	5	Anne Lackman	Finland	1:06.48
40	1	1	Darija Alauf	Independent Olympic Participants	1:06.81	NR
41	2	6	Tanja Godina	Slovenia	1:06.97
42	1	4	Sarah-Jane Murphy	Zimbabwe	1:07.47
43	1	6	Storme Moodie	Zimbabwe	1:07.60
44	1	3	Ana Joselina Fortin	Honduras	1:08.24
45	1	2	Rania Elwani	Egypt	1:10.12
	1	7	Sharon Pickering	Fiji	DNS

Finals

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Final B

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	7	Dagmar Hase	Germany	1:02.93
10	6	Marianne Kriel	South Africa	1:03.12
11	3	Anna Simcic	New Zealand	1:03.30
12	2	Noriko Inada	Japan	1:03.42
13	8	He Cihong	China	1:03.50
14	1	Nikki Dryden	Canada	1:03.50
15	4	Silvia Poll	Costa Rica	1:03.57
16	5	Sandra Völker	Germany	1:04.52

Final A

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Krisztina Egerszegi	Hungary	1:00.68	OR
	3	Tünde Szabó	Hungary	1:01.14
	5	Lea Loveless	United States	1:01.43
4	7	Nicole Stevenson	Australia	1:01.78	OC
5	2	Janie Wagstaff	United States	1:01.81
6	8	Joanne Meehan	Australia	1:02.07
7	6	Nina Zhivanevskaya	Unified Team	1:02.36
8	1	Yoko Koikawa	Japan	1:03.23

References

1. "Swimming at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games: Women's 100 metres Backstroke". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
2. "Barcelona 1992: Swimming – Women's 100m Backstroke Heats" (PDF). Barcelona 1992 . LA84 Foundation. pp. 375–376. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
3. "Barcelona 1992: Swimming – Women's 100m Backstroke Finals" (PDF). Barcelona 1992 . LA84 Foundation. p. 376. Retrieved 2 September 2017.

External links

• Official Report