Women's 800 metre freestyle at the Games of the XXV Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Piscines Bernat Picornell | ||||||||||||
Date | 30 July 1992 (heats & final) | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 26 from 19 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 8:25.52 | ||||||||||||
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 800 metre freestyle event at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place on 30 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 | Janet Evans (USA) | 8:16.22 | Tokyo, Japan | 20 August 1989 | [2] |
Olympic record | Janet Evans (USA) | 8:20.20 | Seoul, South Korea | 24 September 1988 |
Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final (Q). [3]
Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | 4 | 4 | Janet Evans | United States | 8:32.69 | Q |
2 | 4 | 5 | Hayley Lewis | Australia | 8:33.04 | Q |
3 | 2 | 5 | Jana Henke | Germany | 8:35.11 | Q |
4 | 2 | 4 | Erika Hansen | United States | 8:36.56 | Q |
5 | 3 | 3 | Phillippa Langrell | New Zealand | 8:38.43 | Q, NR |
6 | 3 | 5 | Irene Dalby | Norway | 8:38.58 | Q |
7 | 4 | 6 | Isabelle Arnould | Belgium | 8:40.86 | Q |
8 | 2 | 6 | Olga Šplíchalová | Czechoslovakia | 8:42.16 | Q |
9 | 3 | 6 | Kerstin Kielgaß | Germany | 8:43.52 | |
10 | 4 | 3 | Beatrice Căşlaru | Romania | 8:44.17 | |
11 | 2 | 2 | Carla Negrea | Romania | 8:48.36 | |
12 | 2 | 3 | Manuela Melchiorri | Italy | 8:50.14 | |
13 | 2 | 7 | Samantha Foggo | Great Britain | 8:50.17 | |
14 | 4 | 1 | Sandra Cam | Belgium | 8:50.91 | |
15 | 3 | 4 | Julie McDonald | Australia | 8:51.59 | |
16 | 4 | 7 | Itziar Esparza | Spain | 8:55.65 | |
17 | 3 | 7 | Elizabeth Arnold | Great Britain | 8:56.04 | |
18 | 3 | 1 | Judit Kiss | Hungary | 8:58.16 | NR |
19 | 3 | 2 | Jeanine Steenkamp | South Africa | 8:59.62 | AF |
20 | 3 | 8 | María José Marenco | El Salvador | 9:09.41 | |
21 | 2 | 1 | Laura Sánchez | Mexico | 9:10.31 | |
22 | 1 | 4 | Claudia Fortin | Honduras | 9:10.54 | |
23 | 1 | 3 | Thanya Sridama | Thailand | 9:10.58 | |
24 | 4 | 2 | Yan Ming | China | 9:14.63 | |
25 | 4 | 8 | Erika González | Mexico | 9:17.18 | |
1 | 5 | May Ooi | Singapore | DNS |
Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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4 | Janet Evans | United States | 8:25.52 | ||
5 | Hayley Lewis | Australia | 8:30.34 | ||
3 | Jana Henke | Germany | 8:30.99 | ||
4 | 2 | Phillippa Langrell | New Zealand | 8:35.57 | NR |
5 | 7 | Irene Dalby | Norway | 8:37.12 | |
6 | 8 | Olga Šplíchalová | Czechoslovakia | 8:37.66 | |
7 | 6 | Erika Hansen | United States | 8:39.25 | |
8 | 1 | Isabelle Arnould | Belgium | 8:41.86 |
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