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

Women's 100 metre backstroke
at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
VenuePiscines Bernat Picornell
Date28 July 1992 (heats & finals)
Competitors46 from 32 nations
Winning time1:00.68 OR
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Krisztina Egerszegi  Hungary
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Tünde Szabó  Hungary
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Lea Loveless  United States
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Swimming at the
1992 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
50 mmenwomen
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
800 mwomen
1500 mmen
Backstroke
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Breaststroke
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Butterfly
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Individual medley
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
Freestyle relay
4 × 100 mmenwomen
4 × 200 mmen
Medley relay
4 × 100 mmenwomen

The women's 100 metre backstroke event at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place on 28 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  Krisztina Egerszegi (HUN) 1:00.31 Athens, Greece 22 August 1991
Olympic record  Rica Reinisch (GDR) 1:00.86 Moscow, Soviet Union 23 July 1980

The following records were established during the competition:

Date Round Name Nationality Time Record
28 July Heat 6 Krisztina Egerszegi  Hungary 1:00.85 OR
28 July Final A Krisztina Egerszegi  Hungary 1:00.68 OR

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 6 4 Krisztina Egerszegi  Hungary 1:00.85 Q, OR
2 6 5 Lea Loveless  United States 1:01.19 Q
3 4 4 Tünde Szabó  Hungary 1:02.14 Q
4 5 3 Nina Zhivanevskaya  Unified Team 1:02.25 Q
5 5 4 Janie Wagstaff  United States 1:02.29 Q
6 5 5 Nicole Stevenson  Australia 1:02.54 Q
7 6 3 Yoko Koikawa  Japan 1:02.83 Q
8 5 6 Joanne Meehan  Australia 1:02.84 Q
9 6 6 Silvia Poll  Costa Rica 1:02.88 q, NR
10 4 3 Sandra Völker  Germany 1:02.90 q
11 5 2 Anna Simcic  New Zealand 1:03.12 q
12 5 1 Marianne Kriel  South Africa 1:03.20 q
13 6 1 Noriko Inada  Japan 1:03.21 q
14 4 5 Dagmar Hase  Germany 1:03.35 q
15 4 7 Nikki Dryden  Canada 1:03.71 q
16 4 1 He Cihong  China 1:03.83 q
17 6 2 Ellen Elzerman  Netherlands 1:03.96
18 3 2 Akiko Thomson  Philippines 1:04.32 NR
19 4 8 Joanne Deakins  Great Britain 1:04.38
20 6 8 Claudia Stănescu  Romania 1:04.44
21 4 2 Eva Gysling  Switzerland 1:04.50
22 2 7 Jill Brukman  South Africa 1:04.57
23 5 8 Lorenza Vigarani  Italy 1:04.65
24 6 7 Katherine Read  Great Britain 1:04.97
25 3 3 Lara Bianconi  Italy 1:05.02
26 5 7 Natalya Shibayeva  Unified Team 1:05.08
27 3 4 Núria Castelló  Spain 1:05.09
28 4 6 Julie Howard  Canada 1:05.26
29 2 5 Małgorzata Galwas  Poland 1:05.36 NR
30 3 5 Helena Straková  Czechoslovakia 1:05.38
31 3 6 Martina Moravcová  Czechoslovakia 1:05.73
32 2 3 Céline Bonnet  France 1:05.75
2 2 Nathalie Wunderlich  Switzerland
34 3 8 Rita Jean Garay  Puerto Rico 1:05.92 NR
35 2 1 Lee Chang-ha  South Korea 1:06.08
36 3 7 Ana Barros  Portugal 1:06.11
37 3 1 Mariya Kocheva  Bulgaria 1:06.17
38 2 4 Diane Lacombe  France 1:06.31
39 1 5 Anne Lackman  Finland 1:06.48
40 1 1 Darija Alauf  Independent Olympic Participants 1:06.81 NR
41 2 6 Tanja Godina  Slovenia 1:06.97
42 1 4 Sarah-Jane Murphy  Zimbabwe 1:07.47
43 1 6 Storme Moodie  Zimbabwe 1:07.60
44 1 3 Ana Joselina Fortin  Honduras 1:08.24
45 1 2 Rania Elwani  Egypt 1:10.12
1 7 Sharon Pickering  Fiji DNS

Finals

[3]

Final B

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
9 7 Dagmar Hase  Germany 1:02.93
10 6 Marianne Kriel  South Africa 1:03.12
11 3 Anna Simcic  New Zealand 1:03.30
12 2 Noriko Inada  Japan 1:03.42
13 8 He Cihong  China 1:03.50
14 1 Nikki Dryden  Canada 1:03.50
15 4 Silvia Poll  Costa Rica 1:03.57
16 5 Sandra Völker  Germany 1:04.52

Final A

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) 4 Krisztina Egerszegi  Hungary 1:00.68 OR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3 Tünde Szabó  Hungary 1:01.14
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 5 Lea Loveless  United States 1:01.43
4 7 Nicole Stevenson  Australia 1:01.78
5 2 Janie Wagstaff  United States 1:01.81
6 8 Joanne Meehan  Australia 1:02.07
7 6 Nina Zhivanevskaya  Unified Team 1:02.36
8 1 Yoko Koikawa  Japan 1:03.23

References

  1. ^ "Swimming at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games: Women's 100 metres Backstroke". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
  2. ^ "Barcelona 1992: Swimming – Women's 100m Backstroke Heats" (PDF). Barcelona 1992. LA84 Foundation. pp. 375–376. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
  3. ^ "Barcelona 1992: Swimming – Women's 100m Backstroke Finals" (PDF). Barcelona 1992. LA84 Foundation. p. 376. Retrieved 2 September 2017.

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