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

Women's 200 metre breaststroke
at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
VenueGeorgia Tech Aquatic Center
Date23 July 1996 (heats & finals)
Competitors42 from 35 nations
Winning time2:25.41 OR
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Penny Heyns  South Africa
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Amanda Beard  United States
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Ágnes Kovács  Hungary
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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) 2:24.76 Brisbane, Australia 15 March 1994 [2]
Olympic record  Kyoko Iwasaki (JPN) 2:26.65 Barcelona, Spain 27 July 1992

The following records were established during the competition:

Date Round Name Nationality Time Record
23 July Heat 4 Penny Heyns  South Africa 2:26.63 OR
23 July Final A Penny Heyns  South Africa 2:25.41 OR

Results

Heats

Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A (Q), while the next eight to final B (q).[3]

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 4 Penny Heyns  South Africa 2:26.63 Q, OR
2 5 4 Amanda Beard  United States 2:28.10 Q
3 6 4 Samantha Riley  Australia 2:28.30 Q
4 6 3 Masami Tanaka  Japan 2:29.36 Q
5 5 3 Ágnes Kovács  Hungary 2:29.58 Q
6 6 5 Brigitte Becue  Belgium 2:29.62 Q
7 5 6 Nadine Neumann  Australia 2:29.91 Q
8 6 6 Christin Petelski  Canada 2:30.30 Q
9 5 7 Lin Li  China 2:30.64 q
6 2 Alicja Pęczak  Poland q
11 4 3 Kyoko Iwasaki  Japan 2:30.84 q
12 6 1 Marie Hardiman  Great Britain 2:31.12 q
13 5 5 Jilen Siroky  United States 2:31.57 q
14 4 7 Lena Eriksson  Sweden 2:31.65 q
15 5 2 Lenka Maňhalová  Czech Republic 2:32.14 q
16 4 2 Svitlana Bondarenko  Ukraine 2:32.42 q, WD
17 4 1 Julia Russell  South Africa 2:32.44 q
18 4 8 Elin Austevoll  Norway 2:32.48
19 4 6 Riley Mants  Canada 2:32.97
20 3 5 Alenka Kejžar  Slovenia 2:33.34
21 6 7 Maria Östling  Sweden 2:33.44
22 5 1 Yelena Makarova  Russia 2:33.74
23 3 6 Lourdes Becerra  Spain 2:33.80
24 3 4 Elvira Fischer  Austria 2:33.89
4 5 Yuan Yuan  China
26 5 8 Manuela Dalla Valle  Italy 2:34.76
27 3 1 Mia Hagman  Finland 2:36.11
28 3 7 Roh Joo-hee  South Korea 2:36.20
29 2 4 Karine Brémond  France 2:36.26
30 2 6 Isabel Ceballos  Colombia 2:36.94
31 3 2 Kathrin Dumitru  Germany 2:37.07
32 3 8 María Carolina Santa Cruz  Argentina 2:37.85
33 6 8 Larisa Lăcustă  Romania 2:38.08
34 2 7 Margarita Kalmikova  Latvia 2:39.63 NR
35 1 3 Erika Graf  Uruguay 2:42.97
36 2 3 Mou Ying-hsin  Chinese Taipei 2:43.94
37 2 2 Nádia Cruz  Angola 2:44.24
38 2 1 Natália Kodajová  Slovakia 2:45.21
39 2 5 Cerian Gibbes  Trinidad and Tobago 2:45.87
40 1 5 Oksana Cherevko  Kyrgyzstan 2:57.65
1 4 Britta Vestergaard  Denmark DNS
3 3 Anna Wilson  New Zealand DNS

Finals

[4]

Final B

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 7 Lena Eriksson  Sweden 2:28.87
2 3 Kyoko Iwasaki  Japan 2:29.32
3 1 Lenka Maňhalová  Czech Republic 2:29.96 NR
4 8 Julia Russell  South Africa 2:30.38
5 5 Alicja Pęczak  Poland 2:30.99
6 6 Marie Hardiman  Great Britain 2:31.39
7 2 Jilen Siroky  United States 2:33.43
8 4 Lin Li  China 2:33.45

Final A

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) 4 Penny Heyns  South Africa 2:25.41 OR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 5 Amanda Beard  United States 2:25.75
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 2 Ágnes Kovács  Hungary 2:26.57 NR
4 3 Samantha Riley  Australia 2:27.91
5 6 Masami Tanaka  Japan 2:28.05
6 1 Nadine Neumann  Australia 2:28.34
7 7 Brigitte Becue  Belgium 2:28.36 NR
8 8 Christin Petelski  Canada 2:31.45

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