Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Women's 400 metre individual medley explained

Event:	Women's 400 metre individual medley
Games:	1992 Summer
Venue:	Piscines Bernat Picornell
Date:	26 July 1992 (heats & finals)
Competitors:	32
Nations:	21
Gold:	Krisztina Egerszegi
Goldnoc:	HUN
Silver:	Lin Li
Silvernoc:	CHN
Bronze:	Summer Sanders
Bronzenoc:	USA
Win Value:	4:36.54 NR
Prev:	1988
Next:	1996

The women's 400 metre individual medley event at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place on 26 July 1992 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	4	4			4:43.83	Q
2	2	4			4:43.95	Q
3	3	4			4:45.74	Q
4	2	6			4:46.00	Q, NR
5	3	6			4:46.17	Q, NR
6	2	3			4:46.57	Q
7	3	5			4:47.39	Q
8	3	3			4:47.92	Q
9	2	5			4:48.12	q
10	4	5			4:48.13	q
11	4	2			4:49.93	q
12	4	1			4:50.16	q
13	4	6			4:51.80	q
14	2	2			4:52.21	q
15	4	3			4:52.41	q
16	3	2			4:52.85	q
17	1	3			4:53.62	NR
18	3	8			4:53.91
19	2	7			4:54.70
20	4	7			4:54.93
21	2	1			4:56.44
22	3	1			4:56.78
23	3	7			4:58.24
24	4	8			4:58.30
25	1	4			4:58.48
26	1	5			4:58.94
27	1	2			5:03.34
28	1	6			5:04.95
29	1	7			5:07.97
30	1	8			5:08.19
31	1	1			5:09.84
	2	8

Finals

^[3]

Final B

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	3			4:47.74
10	5			4:48.37
11	8			4:48.52
12	6			4:48.77
13	1			4:50.17
14	7			4:50.30
15	4			4:50.60
16	2			4:52.04

Final A

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4			4:36.54	NR
	3			4:36.73	AS
	5			4:37.58
4	7			4:43.75
5	8			4:46.24
6	1			4:47.57
7	2			4:47.78
8	6			4:53.32

External links

• Official Report

Notes and References

1. Web site: Swimming at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games: Women's 400 metres Individual Medley . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417163855/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1992/SWI/womens-400-metres-individual-medley.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . 14 March 2020 . Sports Reference.
2. Web site: Barcelona 1992: Swimming – Women's 400m Individual Medley Heats. PDF. Barcelona 1992. LA84 Foundation. 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.