Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay

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 final of the Women's 4x100 metres Freestyle Relay event for the 1996 Summer Olympics was held in Atlanta, United States, on Monday July 22, 1996.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
United States (USA) Final Angel Martino Amy Van Dyken Catherine Fox Jenny Thompson Heat Lisa Jacob Melanie Valerio	China (CHN) Final Le Jingyi Na Chao Yun Nian Shan Ying	Germany (GER) Final Sandra Völker Simone Osygus Antje Buschschulte Franziska van Almsick Heat Meike Freitag

Results

Final

RANK	FINAL	TIME
	UNITED STATES Angel Martino Amy Van Dyken Catherine Fox Jenny Thompson	3:39.29 55.34 53.91 55.93 54.11
	PR CHINA Le Jingyi Na Chao Yun Nian Ying Shan	3:40.48 54.79 55.40 55.42 54.87
	GERMANY Sandra Völker Simone Osygus Antje Buschschulte Franziska van Almsick	3:41.48 55.70 56.05 55.20 54.53
4.	NETHERLANDS Marianne Muis Minouche Smit Wilma van Hofwegen Karin Brienesse	3:42.40 55.73 56.15 55.53 54.99
5.	SWEDEN Linda Olofsson Louise Jöhncke Louise Karlsson Johanna Sjöberg	3:44.91 55.75 56.32 56.07 56.77
6.	AUSTRALIA Sarah Ryan Julia Greville Lise Mackie Susie O'Neill	3:45.31 56.06 56.27 57.03 55.95
7.	CANADA Shannon Shakespeare Julie Howard Andrea Moody Marianne Limpert	3:46.27 56.07 57.03 56.74 56.43
—	RUSSIA Elena Nazemnova Natalya Sorokina Svetlana Leshukova Natalya Meshcheryakova	DSQ — — — —

Non-Qualifiers

RANK	HEATS	TIME
9.	GREAT BRITAIN Sue Rolph Alison Sheppard Carrie Willmott Karen Pickering	3:48.26 56.61 57.52 58.10 56.03
10.	FRANCE Solenne Figuès Jacqueline Delord Casey Legler Marianne Le Verge	3:48.30 57.12 57.56 56.98 56.64
11.	ROMANIA Ioana Diaconescu Florina Herea Andrea Trufaşu Liliana Dobrescu	3:48.43 56.89 58.16 57.18 56.20
12.	JAPAN Sumika Minamoto Naoko Imoto Eri Yamanoi Suzu Chiba	3:48.77 57.48 56.81 58.19 56.29
13.	DENMARK Mette Nielsen Mette Jacobsen Karen Egdal Ditte Jensen	3:48.93 57.85 56.01 57.63 57.44
14.	SPAIN Blanca Cerón Fátima Madrid Susanna Garabatos Claudia Franco	3:49.47 57.52 57.85 57.91 56.19
15.	BELARUS Svetlana Zhidko Inga Borodich Natalya Baranovskaya Alena Popchanka	3:50.22 58.11 57.49 57.90 56.72
16.	FINLAND Minna Salmela Paula Harmokivi Marja Pärssinen Marja Heikkilä	3:50.33 57.13 57.56 57.16 58.48
17.	SWITZERLAND Dominique Diezi Nicole Zahnd Lara Preacco Sandrine Paquier	3:53.30 57.60 58.35 58.83 58.52
18.	CHINESE TAIPEI Wei-Chia Chang Tsai Shu-Min Chien-Ju Lin Lin Chi-Chan	3:56.39 58.49 59.79 58.38 59.73
19.	SOUTH KOREA Lee Bo-Eun Seo So-Yung Lee Jie-Hyun Jeong Eun-Na	3:57.83 58.77 58.72 59.38 1:00.96

See also

• 1997 Women's World Championships (SC) 4x100m Freestyle
• 1997 Women's European Championships (LC) 4x100m Freestyle

References

• USA Swimming
• sports-reference