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

Event:	Women's 200 metre individual medley
Games:	1992 Summer
Venue:	Piscines Bernat Picornell
Date:	30 July 1992 (heats & finals)
Competitors:	44
Nations:	32
Gold:	Lin Li
Goldnoc:	CHN
Silver:	Summer Sanders
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Daniela Hunger
Bronzenoc:	GER
Win Value:	2:11.65
Prev:	1988
Next:	1996

The women's 200 metre individual medley event at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place on 30 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			2:14.68	Q
2	6	2			2:15.13	Q, OC
3	6	5			2:15.16	Q
4	5	4			2:15.68	Q
5	5	5			2:16.84	Q
6	3	6			2:16.88	Q, NR
7	5	3			2:17.13	Q
8	6	3			2:17.26	Q
9	4	4			2:17.40	q,
10	4	1			2:17.74	q
11	4	5			2:17.82	q
12	4	8			2:17.90	q
13	3	5			2:17.97	q
14	6	6			2:18.12	q
15	4	3			2:18.13	q
16	4	2			2:18.63	q
17	5	6			2:18.75	q,
18	6	7			2:18.95	q
19	6	8			2:19.10
20	4	6			2:19.40
21	4	7			2:19.41
22	3	4			2:19.93
23	5	7			2:20.12
24	5	1			2:20.52
25	6	1			2:21.98
26	5	8			2:22.04
27	3	3			2:22.63
28	2	4			2:23.07
29	2	2			2:23.18
30	2	6			2:23.24	NR
31	3	2			2:23.51
32	2	5			2:23.83	NR
33	2	3			2:25.32
34	2	1			2:25.66
35	3	7			2:25.67
36	2	7			2:27.62
37	3	1			2:27.85
38	1	5			2:29.29
39	1	4			2:30.07
40	1	2			2:30.11
41	1	3			2:35.71
42	1	6			2:36.31
43	1	7			2:53.41
	1	1

Finals

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Final B

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	7			2:18.47
10	6			2:18.53
11	3			2:18.55
12	1			2:18.91
13	2			2:18.97
14	8			2:19.14
15	5			2:19.41
16	4			2:20.94

Final A

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	6			2:11.65
	4			2:11.91	AM
	3			2:13.92
4	1			2:15.47
5	5			2:15.76
6	2			2:17.09
7	8			2:17.13
8	7			2:18.85

External links

• Official Report

Notes and References

1. Web site: Swimming at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games: Women's 200 metres Individual Medley . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417163832/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1992/SWI/womens-200-metres-individual-medley.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . 14 March 2020 . Sports Reference.
2. Web site: Barcelona 1992: Swimming – Women's 200m Individual Medley Heats. PDF. Barcelona 1992. LA84 Foundation. 380–381. 4 September 2017.
3. Web site: Barcelona 1992: Swimming – Women's 200m Individual Medley Finals. PDF. Barcelona 1992. LA84 Foundation. 381. 4 September 2017.