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

Women's 100 metre breaststroke at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Venue	Piscines Bernat Picornell
Date	29 July 1992 (heats & finals)
Competitors	43 from 31 nations
Winning time	1:08.00 NR
Medalists
Yelena Rudkovskaya  Unified Team Anita Nall  United States Samantha Riley  Australia

Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics
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]

Records

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

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	5	2	Yelena Rudkovskaya	Unified Team	1:08.75	Q, NR
2	6	4	Anita Nall	United States	1:09.32	Q
3	5	4	Samantha Riley	Australia	1:09.38	Q
4	6	3	Manuela Dalla Valle	Italy	1:09.78	Q
5	4	4	Guylaine Cloutier	Canada	1:09.89	Q
6	6	6	Jana Dörries	Germany	1:10.00	Q
7	4	6	Daniela Brendel	Germany	1:10.49	Q
8	4	5	Gabriella Csépe	Hungary	1:10.58	Q
9	4	1	Alicja Pęczak	Poland	1:10.60	q
10	6	7	Lou Xia	China	1:10.74	q
11	4	3	Magdalena Kupiec	Poland	1:10.90	q
12	5	7	Lisa Flood	Canada	1:10.95	q
13	6	2	Kyoko Iwasaki	Japan	1:11.00	q
14	5	5	Megan Kleine	United States	1:11.04	q
15	5	3	Lu Di	China	1:11.58	q
	6	5	Linley Frame	Australia		q
17	5	6	Kyoko Kasuya	Japan	1:11.60
18	3	7	Kira Bulten	Netherlands	1:11.81
19	6	8	Ragnheiður Runólfsdóttir	Iceland	1:12.14
20	4	2	Yelena Volkova	Unified Team	1:12.46
21	4	8	Brigitte Becue	Belgium	1:12.82
22	3	2	Rocío Ruiz	Spain	1:13.11
23	6	1	Suki Brownsdon	Great Britain	1:13.24
24	4	7	Jaime King	Great Britain	1:13.32
25	2	2	Martina Nemec	Austria	1:13.34	NR
26	5	1	Park Mi-yeong	South Korea	1:13.49
27	5	8	Britta Vestergaard	Denmark	1:13.58
28	2	6	Jennifer Smatt	Bermuda	1:13.94
29	3	3	Lenka Maňhalová	Czechoslovakia	1:13.96
30	3	4	Audrey Guérit	France	1:13.98
31	2	5	Sornsawan Phuvichit	Thailand	1:14.69
32	3	6	Elena Donati	Italy	1:14.70
33	2	4	Penny Heyns	South Africa	1:14.99
34	3	5	Martine Janssen	Netherlands	1:15.10
35	2	3	Riikka Ukkola	Finland	1:15.56
36	1	5	Tammie Kaae	Guam	1:16.78
37	2	7	Barbara Pexa	Guam	1:17.71
38	2	1	Vola Hanta Ratsifa Andrihamanana	Madagascar	1:17.77
39	1	4	Claudia Velásquez	Peru	1:17.80
40	1	3	Priscilla Madero	Ecuador	1:20.76
41	1	2	Nádia Cruz	Angola	1:21.50
42	1	7	Elke Talma	Seychelles	1:29.91
	1	6	Nguyễn Thị Phương	Vietnam	DSQ

Finals

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Final B

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
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

Final A

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	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

References

External links

• Official Report