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

Event:	Women's 100 metre breaststroke
Games:	1992 Summer
Venue:	Piscines Bernat Picornell
Date:	29 July 1992 (heats & finals)
Competitors:	43
Nations:	31
Gold:	Yelena Rudkovskaya
Goldnoc:	EUN
Silver:	Anita Nall
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Samantha Riley
Bronzenoc:	AUS
Win Value:	1:08.00 NR
Prev:	1988
Next:	1996

The women's 100 metre breaststroke event at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place on 29 July at the Piscines Bernat Picornell in Barcelona, Spain.^{[1] [2]}

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).^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	2			1:08.75	Q, NR
2	6	4			1:09.32	Q
3	5	4			1:09.38	Q
4	6	3			1:09.78	Q
5	4	4			1:09.89	Q
6	6	6			1:10.00	Q
7	4	6			1:10.49	Q
8	4	5			1:10.58	Q
9	4	1			1:10.60	q
10	6	7			1:10.74	q
11	4	3			1:10.90	q
12	5	7			1:10.95	q
13	6	2			1:11.00	q
14	5	5			1:11.04	q
15	5	3			1:11.58	q
	6	5				q
17	5	6			1:11.60
18	3	7			1:11.81
19	6	8			1:12.14
20	4	2			1:12.46
21	4	8			1:12.82
22	3	2			1:13.11
23	6	1			1:13.24
24	4	7			1:13.32
25	2	2			1:13.34	NR
26	5	1			1:13.49
27	5	8			1:13.58
28	2	6			1:13.94
29	3	3			1:13.96
30	3	4			1:13.98
31	2	5			1:14.69
32	3	6			1:14.70
33	2	4			1:14.99
34	3	5			1:15.10
35	2	3			1:15.56
36	1	5			1:16.78
37	2	7			1:17.71
38	2	1			1:17.77
39	1	4			1:17.80
40	1	3			1:20.76
41	1	2			1:21.50
42	1	7			1:29.91
	1	6

Finals

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Final B

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	5			1:10.07
10	3			1:10.32	NR
11	4			1:10.73
12	7			1:11.07
13	2			1:11.16
14	6			1:11.17
15	1			1:11.36
16	8			1:12.07

Final A

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4			1:08.00	NR
	5			1:08.17	AM
	3			1:09.25	OC
4	2			1:09.71
5	7			1:09.77
6	8			1:10.19
7	6			1:10.39
8	1			1:11.05

External links

• Official Report

Notes and References

1. Web site: Swimming at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games: Women's 100 metres Breaststroke . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417163855/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1992/SWI/womens-100-metres-breaststroke.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . 14 March 2020 . Sports Reference.
2. Web site: 100 meters Breaststroke, Women . https://web.archive.org/web/20231125211337/https://www.olympedia.org/results/7880 . live . 25 November 2023 . 25 November 2023 . Olympedia.
3. Web site: Barcelona 1992: Swimming – Women's 100m Breaststroke Heats. PDF. Barcelona 1992. LA84 Foundation. 377. 3 September 2017.
4. Web site: Barcelona 1992: Swimming – Women's 100m Breaststroke Finals. PDF. Barcelona 1992. LA84 Foundation. 378. 2 September 2017.