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

Women's 200 metre breaststroke at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Venue	Piscines Bernat Picornell
Date	27 July 1992 (heats & finals)
Competitors	40 from 29 nations
Winning time	2:26.65 OR
Medalists
Kyoko Iwasaki  Japan Lin Li  China Anita Nall  United States

The women's 200 metre breaststroke event at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place on 27 July at the Piscines Bernat Picornell in Barcelona, Spain.

Records

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

World record	Anita Nall (USA)	2:25.35	Indianapolis, United States	2 March 1992
Olympic record	Silke Hörner (GDR)	2:26.71	Seoul, South Korea	21 September 1988

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
27 July	Final A	Kyoko Iwasaki	Japan	2:26.65	OR

Results

Heats

Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A (Q), while the next eight to final B (q).

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Anita Nall	United States	2:27.77	Q
2	5	3	Kyoko Iwasaki	Japan	2:27.78	Q, NR
3	3	6	Yelena Rudkovskaya	Unified Team	2:28.24	Q
4	5	5	Guylaine Cloutier	Canada	2:29.01	Q
5	5	2	Nathalie Giguère	Canada	2:29.71	Q
6	5	6	Lin Li	China	2:29.99	Q
7	3	3	Manuela Dalla Valle	Italy	2:30.75	Q
8	4	2	Alicja Pęczak	Poland	2:30.78	Q, NR
9	4	4	Jill Johnson	United States	2:30.80	q
10	5	8	Gabriella Csépe	Hungary	2:32.04	q, NR
11	3	4	Samantha Riley	Australia	2:32.09	q
	4	7	Daniela Brendel	Germany		q
13	4	5	Audrey Guérit	France	2:32.33	q
14	3	5	Yelena Volkova	Unified Team	2:32.39	q
15	3	2	Kyoko Kasuya	Japan	2:32.55	q
16	3	8	Magdalena Kupiec	Poland	2:33.92	q
17	3	7	Brigitte Becue	Belgium	2:34.11
18	3	1	Jana Dörries	Germany	2:34.58
19	4	3	Linley Frame	Australia	2:34.73
20	4	6	Beatrice Căşlaru	Romania	2:34.97
21	2	3	Britta Vestergaard	Denmark	2:35.28
	4	8	Suki Brownsdon	Great Britain
23	4	1	Park Mi-yeong	South Korea	2:35.33
24	5	1	Elena Donati	Italy	2:36.42
25	1	4	Martina Nemec	Austria	2:36.65
26	2	7	Kira Bulten	Netherlands	2:37.09
27	2	4	Ragnheiður Runólfsdóttir	Iceland	2:37.42
28	2	5	Lourdes Becerra	Spain	2:37.69
29	5	7	Lu Di	China	2:38.63
30	2	2	Sornsawan Phuvichit	Thailand	2:41.20
31	2	6	Martine Janssen	Netherlands	2:41.48
32	1	5	Jennifer Smatt	Bermuda	2:42.25
33	2	1	Jaime King	Great Britain	2:44.49
34	2	8	Penny Heyns	South Africa	2:45.04
35	1	2	Priscilla Madero	Ecuador	2:46.79
36	1	3	Barbara Pexa	Guam	2:47.27
37	1	6	Claudia Velásquez	Peru	2:47.31
38	1	7	Nguyễn Thị Phương	Vietnam	2:57.71
39	1	1	Elke Talma	Seychelles	3:12.13
	1	8	Bako Ratsifandrihamanana	Madagascar	DNS

Finals

Final B

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Gabriella Csépe	Hungary	2:31.15	NR
2	6	Daniela Brendel	Germany	2:32.05
3	2	Audrey Guérit	France	2:32.10
4	3	Samantha Riley	Australia	2:32.63
5	1	Kyoko Kasuya	Japan	2:32.97
6	4	Jill Johnson	United States	2:33.89
7	8	Magdalena Kupiec	Poland	2:35.74
8	7	Yelena Volkova	Unified Team	2:37.65

Final A

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Kyoko Iwasaki	Japan	2:26.65	OR, NR
	7	Lin Li	China	2:26.85	NR
	4	Anita Nall	United States	2:26.88
4	3	Yelena Rudkovskaya	Unified Team	2:28.47
5	6	Guylaine Cloutier	Canada	2:29.88
6	2	Nathalie Giguère	Canada	2:30.11
7	1	Manuela Dalla Valle	Italy	2:31.21
8	8	Alicja Pęczak	Poland	2:31.76

External links

• Official Report