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 (heats and finals)
Competitors	42 from 35 nations
Winning time	2:25.41 (OR)
Medalists
Penelope Heyns   South Africa   Amanda Beard   United States   Ágnes Kovács   Hungary

Swimming events at the 1996 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		women
Medley relay
4×100 m		men		women

The women's 200 metre breaststroke event, included in the swimming competition at the 1996 Summer Olympics, took place on July 23, at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center in Atlanta, United States. In this event, swimmers covered four lengths of the 50-metre (160 ft) Olympic-sized pool employing the breaststroke.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were:

World record	Rebecca Brown (AUS)	2:24.76 s	Brisbane, Australia	15 March 1994
Olympic record	Kyoko Iwasaki (JPN)	2:26.65 s	Barcelona, Spain	27 July 1992

The following records were established during the competition:

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

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Heyns, PenelopePenelope Heyns	South Africa	2:26.63	QA, OR[1]
2	5	4	Beard, AmandaAmanda Beard	United States	2:28.10	QA
3	6	4	Riley, SamanthaSamantha Riley	Australia	2:28.30	QA
4	6	3	Tanaka, MasamiMasami Tanaka	Japan	2:29.36	QA
5	5	3	Kovács, ÁgnesÁgnes Kovács	Hungary	2:29.58	QA
6	6	5	Becue, BrigitteBrigitte Becue	Belgium	2:29.62	QA
7	5	6	Neumann, NadineNadine Neumann	Australia	2:29.91	QA
8	6	6	Petelski, ChristinChristin Petelski	Canada	2:30.30	QA
9	5	7	LinLin Li	China	2:30.64	QB
10	6	2	PeczakAlicja Pęczak	Poland	2:30.64	QB
11	4	3	Iwasaki, KyokoKyoko Iwasaki	Japan	2:30.84	QB
12	6	1	Hardiman, MarieMarie Hardiman	Great Britain	2:31.12	QB
13	5	5	Siroky, JilenJilen Siroky	United States	2:31.57	QB
14	4	7	Eriksson, LenaLena Eriksson	Sweden	2:31.65	QB
15	5	2	ManhalovaLenka Maňhalová	Czech Republic	2:32.14	QB
16	4	2	Bondarenko, SvitlanaSvitlana Bondarenko	Ukraine	2:32.42	QB
17	4	1	Russell, JuliaJulia Russell	South Africa	2:32.44
18	4	8	Austevoll, ElinElin Austevoll	Norway	2:32.48
19	4	6	Mants, RileyRiley Mants	Canada	2:32.97
20	3	5	Kejžar, AlenkaAlenka Kejžar	Slovenia	2:33.34
21	6	7	OstlingMaria Östling	Sweden	2:33.44
22	5	1	Makarova, YelenaYelena Makarova	Russia	2:33.74
23	3	6	Becerra, LourdesLourdes Becerra	Spain	2:33.80
24	3	4	Fischer, ElviraElvira Fischer	Austria	2:33.89
25	4	5	Yuan, YuanYuan Yuan	China	2:33.89
26	5	8	Dalla Valle, ManuelaManuela Dalla Valle	Italy	2:34.76
27	3	1	Hagman, MiaMia Hagman	Finland	2:36.11
28	3	7	RohRoh Joo-Hee	South Korea	2:36.20
29	2	4	Brémond, KarineKarine Brémond	France	2:36.26
30	2	6	Ceballos, IsabelIsabel Ceballos	Colombia	2:36.94
31	3	2	Dumitru, KathrinKathrin Dumitru	Germany	2:37.07
32	3	8	Santa Cruz , María CarolinaMaría Carolina Santa Cruz	Argentina	2:37.85
33	6	8	LacustaLarisa Lăcustă	Romania	2:38.08
34	2	7	Kalmikova, MargaritaMargarita Kalmikova	Latvia	2:39.63
35	1	3	Graf, ErikaErika Graf	Uruguay	2:42.97
36	2	3	MouMou Ying-Hsin	Chinese Taipei	2:43.94
37	2	2	Cruz, NádiaNádia Cruz	Angola	2:44.24
38	2	1	Kodajová, NatáliaNatália Kodajová	Slovakia	2:45.21
39	2	5	Gibbes, CerianCerian Gibbes	Trinidad and Tobago	2:45.87
40	1	5	Cherevko, OksanaOksana Cherevko	Kyrgyzstan	2:57.65
41	1	4	Vestergaard, BrittaBritta Vestergaard	Denmark	—	DNS[1]
42	3	3	Wilson, AnnaAnna Wilson	New Zealand	—	DNS[1]

Finals

Final B

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	7	Eriksson, LenaLena Eriksson	Sweden	2:28.87
2	3	Iwasaki, KyokoKyoko Iwasaki	Japan	2:29.32
3	1	ManhalovaLenka Maňhalová	Czech Republic	2:29.96
4	8	Russell, JuliaJulia Russell	South Africa	2:30.38
5	5	PeczakAlicja Pęczak	Poland	2:30.99
6	6	Hardiman, MarieMarie Hardiman	Great Britain	2:31.39
7	2	Siroky, JilenJilen Siroky	United States	2:33.43
8	4	Li, LinLin Li	China	2:33.45

Final A

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Heyns, PenelopePenelope Heyns	South Africa	2:25.41	OR[2]
	5	Beard, AmandaAmanda Beard	United States	2:25.75
	2	Kovács, ÁgnesÁgnes Kovács	Hungary	2:26.57
4	3	Riley, SamanthaSamantha Riley	Australia	2:27.91
5	6	Tanaka, MasamiMasami Tanaka	Japan	2:28.05
6	1	Neumann, NadineNadine Neumann	Australia	2:28.34
7	7	Becue, BrigitteBrigitte Becue	Belgium	2:28.36
8	8	Petelski, ChristinChristin Petelski	Canada	2:31.45

See also

• Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre breaststroke
• Swimming at the 1994 World Aquatics Championships
• Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics
• Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre breaststroke
• Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre breaststroke
• Swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre breaststroke

Sources

• "The Official Report of the Centennial Games" (PDF). Volume 3: The Competition Results. The Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games (ACOG). 1996. Retrieved 8 July 2012.
• "Swimming at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games: Women's 200 metres Breaststroke". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference, LLC. Retrieved 8 July 2012.

References

1. ACOG, p. 30
2. ACOG, p. 31