Women's 200 metre freestyle at the Games of the XXV Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Piscines Bernat Picornell | ||||||||||||
Date | 27 July 1992 (heats & finals) | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 37 from 26 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 1:57.90 AM | ||||||||||||
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 200 metre freestyle event at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place on 27 July at the Piscines Bernat Picornell in Barcelona, Spain. [1]
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
World record | Heike Friedrich (GDR) | 1:57.55 | East Berlin, East Germany | 18 June 1986 |
Olympic record | Heike Friedrich (GDR) | 1:57.65 | Seoul, South Korea | 21 September 1988 |
Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A (Q), while the next eight to final B (q). [2]
Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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9 | 3 | Yelena Dendeberova | Unified Team | 2:00.09 | |
10 | 5 | Karen Pickering | Great Britain | 2:00.33 | NR |
11 | 4 | Susie O'Neill | Australia | 2:00.89 | |
12 | 8 | Malin Nilsson | Sweden | 2:02.02 | NR |
13 | 6 | Mette Jacobsen | Denmark | 2:02.14 | |
14 | 2 | Gitta Jensen | Denmark | 2:02.32 | |
15 | 1 | Carla Negrea | Romania | 2:02.96 | |
16 | 7 | Nicole Stevenson | Australia | 2:04.21 |
Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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5 | Nicole Haislett | United States | 1:57.90 | AM | |
4 | Franziska van Almsick | Germany | 1:58.00 | ||
6 | Kerstin Kielgaß | Germany | 1:59.67 | ||
4 | 1 | Catherine Plewinski | France | 1:59.88 | NR |
5 | 3 | Luminița Dobrescu | Romania | 2:00.48 | NR |
6 | 8 | Suzu Chiba | Japan | 2:00.64 | NR |
7 | 7 | Olga Kirichenko | Unified Team | 2:00.90 | |
8 | 2 | Lü Bin | China | 2:02.10 |
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The Women's 100 Metre Freestyle event at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place on 26 July at the Piscines Bernat Picornell in Barcelona, Spain.
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