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

Event:	Women's 200 metre butterfly
Games:	1992 Summer
Venue:	Piscines Bernat Picornell
Date:	31 July 1992 (heats & finals)
Competitors:	34
Nations:	24
Gold:	Summer Sanders
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Wang Xiaohong
Silvernoc:	CHN
Bronze:	Susie O'Neill
Bronzenoc:	AUS
Win Value:	2:08.67
Prev:	1988
Next:	1996

The women's 200 metre butterfly event at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place on 31 July at the Piscines Bernat Picornell in Barcelona, Spain.^[1]

Records

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

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	5	5			2:10.47	Q
2	5	4			2:10.58	Q
3	3	4			2:11.00	Q
4	4	5			2:11.21	Q
5	4	4			2:11.83	Q
6	4	3			2:12.00	Q
7	5	6			2:13.03	Q
8	3	5			2:13.18	Q
9	3	3			2:13.23	q
10	5	3			2:14.50	q
11	4	7			2:14.58	q, NR
12	2	4			2:14.91	q
13	4	6			2:15.04	q
14	3	7			2:15.44	q
15	3	6			2:15.77	q
16	5	2			2:16.11	q
17	3	1			2:16.18
18	5	1			2:16.54
19	4	8			2:16.56
20	4	1			2:16.84
21	5	7			2:16.86
22	4	2			2:19.02
23	3	2			2:19.44
24	2	3			2:20.45
25	1	5			2:20.48
26	1	4			2:21.49
27	1	2			2:21.56
28	2	2			2:21.97
29	5	8			2:22.77
30	2	5			2:25.24
31	1	6			2:26.92
32	1	3			2:26.97
	2	6
	3	8

Finals

^[3]

Final B

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	5			2:13.11
10	4			2:13.40
11	3			2:13.61	NR
12	6			2:14.44
13	2			2:14.47
14	7			2:14.95
15	8			2:15.07
	1

Final A

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5			2:08.67
	2			2:09.01	AS
	4			2:09.03	OC
4	6			2:09.88	NR
5	3			2:10.24
6	7			2:11.46
7	8			2:11.87	NR
8	1			2:13.78

External links

• Official Report

Notes and References

1. Web site: Swimming at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games: Women's 200 metres Butterfly . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417163857/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1992/SWI/womens-200-metres-butterfly.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . 14 March 2020 . Sports Reference.
2. Web site: Barcelona 1992: Swimming – Women's 200m Butterfly Heats. PDF. Barcelona 1992. LA84 Foundation. 380. 4 September 2017.
3. Web site: Barcelona 1992: Swimming – Women's 200m Butterfly Finals. PDF. Barcelona 1992. LA84 Foundation. 380. 4 September 2017.