Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre breaststroke

Women's 200 metre breaststroke
at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
Venue Georgia Tech Aquatic Center
Date 23 July 1996 (heats & finals)
Competitors 42 from 35 nations
Winning time 2:25.41 OR
Medalists
1st, gold medalist(s) Penny Heyns  South Africa
2nd, silver medalist(s) Amanda Beard  United States
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Ágnes Kovács  Hungary

The women's 200 metre breaststroke event at the 1996 Summer Olympics took place on 21 July at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center in Atlanta, United States.[1]

Records

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

World record Rebecca Brown (AUS)2:24.76Brisbane, Australia15 March 1994
Olympic record Kyoko Iwasaki (JPN)2:26.65Barcelona, Spain27 July 1992

The following records were established during the competition:

DateRoundNameNationalityTimeRecord
23 JulyHeat 4Penny Heyns South Africa2:26.63OR
23 JulyFinal APenny Heyns South Africa2:25.41OR

Results

Heats

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

RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
144 Penny Heyns South Africa 2:26.63Q, OR
254 Amanda Beard United States 2:28.10Q
364 Samantha Riley Australia 2:28.30Q
463 Masami Tanaka Japan 2:29.36Q
553 Ágnes Kovács Hungary 2:29.58Q
665 Brigitte Becue Belgium 2:29.62Q
756 Nadine Neumann Australia 2:29.91Q
866 Christin Petelski Canada 2:30.30Q
957 Lin Li China 2:30.64q
62 Alicja Pęczak Poland q
1143 Kyoko Iwasaki Japan 2:30.84q
1261 Marie Hardiman Great Britain 2:31.12q
1355 Jilen Siroky United States 2:31.57q
1447 Lena Eriksson Sweden 2:31.65q
1552 Lenka Maňhalová Czech Republic 2:32.14q
1642 Svitlana Bondarenko Ukraine 2:32.42q, WD
1741 Julia Russell South Africa 2:32.44q
1848 Elin Austevoll Norway 2:32.48
1946 Riley Mants Canada 2:32.97
2035 Alenka Kejžar Slovenia 2:33.34
2167 Maria Östling Sweden 2:33.44
2251 Yelena Makarova Russia 2:33.74
2336 Lourdes Becerra Spain 2:33.80
2434 Elvira Fischer Austria 2:33.89
45 Yuan Yuan China
2658 Manuela Dalla Valle Italy 2:34.76
2731 Mia Hagman Finland 2:36.11
2837 Roh Joo-hee South Korea 2:36.20
2924 Karine Brémond France 2:36.26
3026 Isabel Ceballos Colombia 2:36.94
3132 Kathrin Dumitru Germany 2:37.07
3238 María Carolina Santa Cruz Argentina 2:37.85
3368 Larisa Lăcustă Romania 2:38.08
3427 Margarita Kalmikova Latvia 2:39.63NR
3513 Erika Graf Uruguay 2:42.97
3623 Mou Ying-hsin Chinese Taipei 2:43.94
3722 Nádia Cruz Angola 2:44.24
3821 Natália Kodajová Slovakia 2:45.21
3925 Cerian Gibbes Trinidad and Tobago 2:45.87
4015 Oksana Cherevko Kyrgyzstan 2:57.65
14 Britta Vestergaard Denmark DNS
33 Anna Wilson New Zealand DNS

Finals

[3]

Final B

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
17 Lena Eriksson Sweden 2:28.87
23 Kyoko Iwasaki Japan 2:29.32
31 Lenka Maňhalová Czech Republic 2:29.96NR
48 Julia Russell South Africa 2:30.38
55 Alicja Pęczak Poland 2:30.99
66 Marie Hardiman Great Britain 2:31.39
72 Jilen Siroky United States 2:33.43
84 Lin Li China 2:33.45

Final A

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
1st, gold medalist(s)4 Penny Heyns South Africa 2:25.41OR
2nd, silver medalist(s)5 Amanda Beard United States 2:25.75
3rd, bronze medalist(s)2 Ágnes Kovács Hungary 2:26.57NR
43 Samantha Riley Australia 2:27.91
56 Masami Tanaka Japan 2:28.05
61 Nadine Neumann Australia 2:28.34
77 Brigitte Becue Belgium 2:28.36NR
88 Christin Petelski Canada 2:31.45

References

  1. ↑ "Swimming at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games: Women's 200 metres Breaststroke". Sports Reference. Retrieved 13 September 2017.
  2. ↑ "Atlanta 1996: Swimming – Women's 200m Breaststroke Heats" (PDF). Atlanta 1996. LA84 Foundation. p. 45. Retrieved 13 September 2017.
  3. ↑ "Atlanta 1996: Swimming – Women's 200m Breaststroke Finals" (PDF). Atlanta 1996. LA84 Foundation. p. 46. Retrieved 13 September 2017.
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