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

Event:	Women's 100 metre butterfly
Games:	1992 Summer
Venue:	Piscines Bernat Picornell
Date:	29 July 1992 (heats & finals)
Competitors:	49
Nations:	34
Gold:	Qian Hong
Goldnoc:	CHN
Silver:	Crissy Ahmann-Leighton
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Catherine Plewinski
Bronzenoc:	FRA
Longnames:	yes
Win Value:	58.62
Prev:	1988
Next:	1996

The women's 100 metre butterfly event at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place on 29 July at the Piscines Bernat Picornell in Barcelona, Spain.^[1]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

The following records were established during the competition:

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			59.34	Q
2	7	5			59.37	Q
3	6	5			59.95	Q
4	5	3			1:00.02	Q
5	5	5			1:00.03	Q
6	7	4			1:00.10	Q
7	5	4			1:00.38	Q
8	6	6			1:01.04	Q
9	7	3			1:01.07	q
10	5	6			1:01.12	q
11	7	2			1:01.20	q
12	7	6			1:01.33	q
13	6	2			1:01.37	q
14	5	7			1:01.38	q
15	6	3			1:01.56	q
16	6	7			1:01.78
	7	8
18	5	2			1:02.07
19	4	3			1:02.11
20	7	7			1:02.43
21	4	6			1:02.49
22	3	4			1:02.50	NR
23	4	7			1:02.72
24	7	1			1:02.78
25	5	1			1:02.79
26	3	2			1:02.83
27	6	8			1:02.89
28	5	8			1:02.94
29	4	2			1:03.18
	6	1
31	2	4			1:03.82
32	4	4			1:03.94
33	4	1			1:04.07
34	2	3			1:04.14
35	3	5			1:04.16
36	3	6			1:04.18
37	2	2			1:04.28
38	3	3			1:04.57
39	2	6			1:04.59
40	3	7			1:04.84
41	2	5			1:05.02
42	2	7			1:05.19
43	4	5			1:05.84
44	1	7			1:06.26	NR
45	1	5			1:06.35
46	1	4			1:06.58
47	1	3			1:07.94
48	1	6			1:10.17
49	1	2			1:10.27

* Delord and Kirichenko tied for sixteenth place, but the latter elected not to participate in a swimoff, allowing the former to advance to the semifinals by default.

Finals

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Final B

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	5			1:01.02
10	6			1:01.20
11	1			1:01.32
12	7			1:01.43
13	4			1:01.61
14	3			1:01.91
15	2			1:02.06
16	8			1:03.22

Final A

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5			58.62
	7			58.74
	2			59.01	NR
4	4			59.10
5	3			59.69	OC
6	1			59.82
7	6			1:00.70
8	8			1:01.16

External links

• Official Report

Notes and References

1. Web site: Swimming at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games: Women's 100 metres Butterfly . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417112330/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1992/SWI/womens-100-metres-butterfly.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . 14 March 2020 . Sports Reference.
2. Web site: Barcelona 1992: Swimming – Women's 100m Butterfly Heats. PDF. Barcelona 1992. LA84 Foundation. 379. 4 September 2017.
3. Web site: Barcelona 1992: Swimming – Women's 100m Butterfly Finals. PDF. Barcelona 1992. LA84 Foundation. 379. 2 September 2017.