Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre breaststroke

Women's 200 metre breaststroke
at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Women's 200 metre breaststroke; at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Venue	Piscines Bernat Picornell
Date	27 July 1992 (heats & finals)
Competitors	40 from 29 nations
Winning time	2:26.65 OR
Medalists
	← 1988 1996 →

The women's 200 metre breaststroke event at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place on 27 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	Anita Nall (USA)	2:25.35	Indianapolis, United States	2 March 1992
Olympic record	Silke Hörner (GDR)	2:26.71	Seoul, South Korea	21 September 1988

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
27 July	Final A	Kyoko Iwasaki	Japan	2:26.65	OR

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	5	4	Anita Nall	United States	2:27.77	Q
2	5	3	Kyoko Iwasaki	Japan	2:27.78	Q, NR
3	3	6	Yelena Rudkovskaya	Unified Team	2:28.24	Q
4	5	5	Guylaine Cloutier	Canada	2:29.01	Q
5	5	2	Nathalie Giguère	Canada	2:29.71	Q
6	5	6	Lin Li	China	2:29.99	Q
7	3	3	Manuela Dalla Valle	Italy	2:30.75	Q
8	4	2	Alicja Pęczak	Poland	2:30.78	Q, NR
9	4	4	Jill Johnson	United States	2:30.80	q
10	5	8	Gabriella Csépe	Hungary	2:32.04	q, NR
11	3	4	Samantha Riley	Australia	2:32.09	q
11	4	7	Daniela Brendel	Germany	2:32.09	q
13	4	5	Audrey Guérit	France	2:32.33	q
14	3	5	Yelena Volkova	Unified Team	2:32.39	q
15	3	2	Kyoko Kasuya	Japan	2:32.55	q
16	3	8	Magdalena Kupiec	Poland	2:33.92	q
17	3	7	Brigitte Becue	Belgium	2:34.11
18	3	1	Jana Dörries	Germany	2:34.58
19	4	3	Linley Frame	Australia	2:34.73
20	4	6	Beatrice Căşlaru	Romania	2:34.97
21	2	3	Britta Vestergaard	Denmark	2:35.28
21	4	8	Suki Brownsdon	Great Britain	2:35.28
23	4	1	Park Mi-yeong	South Korea	2:35.33
24	5	1	Elena Donati	Italy	2:36.42
25	1	4	Martina Nemec	Austria	2:36.65
26	2	7	Kira Bulten	Netherlands	2:37.09
27	2	4	Ragnheiður Runólfsdóttir	Iceland	2:37.42
28	2	5	Lourdes Becerra	Spain	2:37.69
29	5	7	Lu Di	China	2:38.63
30	2	2	Sornsawan Phuvichit	Thailand	2:41.20
31	2	6	Martine Janssen	Netherlands	2:41.48
32	1	5	Jennifer Smatt	Bermuda	2:42.25
33	2	1	Jaime King	Great Britain	2:44.49
34	2	8	Penny Heyns	South Africa	2:45.04
35	1	2	Priscilla Madero	Ecuador	2:46.79
36	1	3	Barbara Pexa	Guam	2:47.27
37	1	6	Claudia Velásquez	Peru	2:47.31
38	1	7	Nguyễn Thị Phương	Vietnam	2:57.71
39	1	1	Elke Talma	Seychelles	3:12.13
	1	8	Bako Ratsifandrihamanana	Madagascar	DNS

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Gabriella Csépe	Hungary	2:31.15	NR
2	6	Daniela Brendel	Germany	2:32.05
3	2	Audrey Guérit	France	2:32.10
4	3	Samantha Riley	Australia	2:32.63
5	1	Kyoko Kasuya	Japan	2:32.97
6	4	Jill Johnson	United States	2:33.89
7	8	Magdalena Kupiec	Poland	2:35.74
8	7	Yelena Volkova	Unified Team	2:37.65

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Kyoko Iwasaki	Japan	2:26.65	OR, NR
	7	Lin Li	China	2:26.85	NR
	4	Anita Nall	United States	2:26.88
4	3	Yelena Rudkovskaya	Unified Team	2:28.47
5	6	Guylaine Cloutier	Canada	2:29.88
6	2	Nathalie Giguère	Canada	2:30.11
7	1	Manuela Dalla Valle	Italy	2:31.21
8	8	Alicja Pęczak	Poland	2:31.76