Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics

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Swimming
at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Piscines Bernat Picornell
VenuePiscines Bernat Picornell
Dates26 – 31 July 1992
No. of events31
Competitors641 from 92 nations
 1988
1996 

At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, 31 swimming events were contested. There was a total of 641 participants from 92 countries competing.[1][2]

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 United States119727
2 Unified Team63110
3 Hungary5319
4 China4509
5 Germany13711
6 Australia1359
7 Canada1012
8 Japan1001
 Spain1001
10 Sweden0213
11 Brazil0101
 New Zealand0101
 Poland0101
14 France0033
15 Italy0022
16 Finland0011
 Great Britain0011
 Suriname0011
Totals (18 entries)31313193

Medal summary

Men's events

Games Gold Silver Bronze
50 m freestyle
details
Aleksandr Popov
 Unified Team
( Russia)
21.91 OR, ER Matt Biondi
 United States
22.09 Tom Jager
 United States
22.30
100 m freestyle
details
Aleksandr Popov
 Unified Team
( Russia)
49.02 ER Gustavo Borges
 Brazil
49.43 SA Stéphan Caron
 France
49.50
200 m freestyle
details
Yevgeny Sadovyi
 Unified Team
( Russia)
1:46.70 OR, NR Anders Holmertz
 Sweden
1:46.86 Antti Kasvio
 Finland
1:47.63 NR
400 m freestyle
details
Yevgeny Sadovyi
 Unified Team
( Russia)
3:45.00 WR Kieren Perkins
 Australia
3:45.16 OC Anders Holmertz
 Sweden
3:46.77 NR
1500 m freestyle
details
Kieren Perkins
 Australia
14:43.48 WR Glen Housman
 Australia
14:55.29 Jörg Hoffmann
 Germany
15:02.29
100 m backstroke
details
Mark Tewksbury
 Canada
53.98 OR, NR Jeff Rouse
 United States
54.04 David Berkoff
 United States
54.78
200 m backstroke
details
Martin López-Zubero
 Spain
1:58.47 OR Vladimir Selkov
 Unified Team
( Russia)
1:58.87 Stefano Battistelli
 Italy
1:59.40
100 m breaststroke
details
Nelson Diebel
 United States
1:01.50 OR Norbert Rózsa
 Hungary
1:01.68 Phil Rogers
 Australia
1:01.76 OC
200 m breaststroke
details
Mike Barrowman
 United States
2:10.16 WR Norbert Rózsa
 Hungary
2:11.23 ER Nick Gillingham
 Great Britain
2:11.29 NR
100 m butterfly
details
Pablo Morales
 United States
53.32 Rafał Szukała
 Poland
53.35 NR Anthony Nesty
 Suriname
53.41
200 m butterfly
details
Melvin Stewart
 United States
1:56.26 OR Danyon Loader
 New Zealand
1:57.93 Franck Esposito
 France
1:58.51
200 m individual medley
details
Tamás Darnyi
 Hungary
2:00.76 Greg Burgess
 United States
2:00.97 Attila Czene
 Hungary
2:01.00
400 m individual medley
details
Tamás Darnyi
 Hungary
4:14.23 OR Eric Namesnik
 United States
4:15.57 Luca Sacchi
 Italy
4:16.34 NR
4 × 100 m freestyle relay
details
 United States
Joe Hudepohl (50.05)
Matt Biondi (48.69)
Tom Jager (49.72)
Jon Olsen (48.28)
Shaun Jordan*
Joel Thomas*
3:16.74  Unified Team
Pavlo Khnykin (49.92)
Gennadiy Prigoda (50.05)
Yuri Bashkatov (49.76)
Aleksandr Popov (47.83)
Vladimir Pyshnenko*
Veniamin Tayanovich*
3:17.56  Germany
Dirk Richter (49.97)
Christian Tröger (49.35)
Steffen Zesner (49.78)
Mark Pinger (48.80)
Andreas Szigat*
Bengt Zikarsky*
3:17.90 NR
4 × 200 m freestyle relay
details
 Unified Team
Dmitry Lepikov (1:49.55)
Vladimir Pyshnenko (1:46.58)
Veniamin Tayanovich (1:48.99)
Yevgeny Sadovyi (1:46.83)
Aleksey Kudryavtsev*
Yury Mukhin*
7:11.95 WR  Sweden
Christer Wallin (1:49.69)
Anders Holmertz (1:46.16)
Tommy Werner (1:49.35)
Lars Frölander (1:50.31)
7:15.51 NR  United States
Joe Hudepohl (1:49.52)
Melvin Stewart (1:48.41)
Jon Olsen (1:49.19)
Doug Gjertsen (1:49.11)
Scott Jaffe*
Dan Jorgensen*
7:16.23
4 × 100 medley relay
details
 United States
Jeff Rouse (53.86) WR
Nelson Diebel (1:01.45)
Pablo Morales (52.83)
Jon Olsen (48.79)
David Berkoff*
Hans Dersch*
Melvin Stewart*
Matt Biondi*
3:36.93 =WR  Unified Team
Vladimir Selkov (55.50)
Vasili Ivanov (1:01.59)
Pavlo Khnykin (53.56)
Aleksandr Popov (47.91)
Vladimir Pyshnenko*
Vladislav Kulikov*
Dmitri Volkov*
3:38.56  Canada
Mark Tewksbury (54.09)
Jonathan Cleveland (1:01.93)
Marcel Gery (53.72)
Stephen Clarke (49.92)
Tom Ponting*
3:39.66

* Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Women's events

Games Gold Silver Bronze
50 m freestyle
details
Yang Wenyi
 China
24.79 WR Zhuang Yong
 China
25.08 Angel Martino
 United States
25.23
100 m freestyle
details
Zhuang Yong
 China
54.64 OR Jenny Thompson
 United States
54.84 Franziska van Almsick
 Germany
54.94
200 m freestyle
details
Nicole Haislett
 United States
1:57.90 AM Franziska van Almsick
 Germany
1:58.00 Kerstin Kielgass
 Germany
1:59.67
400 m freestyle
details
Dagmar Hase
 Germany
4:07.18 Janet Evans
 United States
4:07.37 Hayley Lewis
 Australia
4:11.22
800 m freestyle
details
Janet Evans
 United States
8:25.52 Hayley Lewis
 Australia
8:30.34 Jana Henke
 Germany
8:30.99
100 m backstroke
details
Krisztina Egerszegi
 Hungary
1:00.68 OR Tünde Szabó
 Hungary
1:01.14 Lea Loveless
 United States
1:01.43
200 m backstroke
details
Krisztina Egerszegi
 Hungary
2:07.06 OR Dagmar Hase
 Germany
2:09.46 NR Nicole Stevenson
 Australia
2:10.20 OC
100 m breaststroke
details
Yelena Rudkovskaya
 Unified Team
( Belarus)
1:08.00 NR Anita Nall
 United States
1:08.17 AM Samantha Riley
 Australia
1:09.25 OC
200 m breaststroke
details
Kyoko Iwasaki
 Japan
2:26.65 OR, AS Lin Li
 China
2:26.85 NR Anita Nall
 United States
2:26.88
100 m butterfly
details
Qian Hong
 China
58.62 OR Crissy Ahmann-Leighton
 United States
58.74 Catherine Plewinski
 France
59.01 NR
200 m butterfly
details
Summer Sanders
 United States
2:08.67 Wang Xiaohong
 China
2:09.01 AS Susie O'Neill
 Australia
2:09.03 OC
200 m individual medley
details
Lin Li
 China
2:11.65 WR Summer Sanders
 United States
2:11.91 AM Daniela Hunger
 Germany
2:13.92
400 m individual medley
details
Krisztina Egerszegi
 Hungary
4:36.54 NR Lin Li
 China
4:36.73 AS Summer Sanders
 United States
4:37.58 AM
4 × 100 m freestyle relay
details
 United States
Nicole Haislett (55.33)
Dara Torres (55.33)
Angel Martino (54.79)
Jenny Thompson (54.01)
Ashley Tappin*
Crissy Ahmann-Leighton*
3:39.46 WR  China
Zhuang Yong (54.51) OR
Lu Bin (55.90)
Yang Wenyi (54.90)
Le Jingyi (54.81)
Zhao Kun*
3:40.12 AS  Germany
Franziska van Almsick (54.99)
Simone Osygus (55.74)
Daniela Hunger (55.12)
Manuela Stellmach (55.75)
Kerstin Kielgass*
Annette Hadding*
3:41.60
4 × 100 m medley relay
details
 United States
Lea Loveless (1:00.82) AM
Anita Nall (1:08.67)
Crissy Ahmann-Leighton (58.58)
Jenny Thompson (54.47)
Janie Wagstaff*
Megan Kleine*
Summer Sanders*
Nicole Haislett*
4:02.54 WR  Germany
Dagmar Hase (1:01.61)
Jana Dörries (1:09.43)
Franziska van Almsick (59.08)
Daniela Hunger (55.07)
Daniela Brendel*
Bettina Ustrowski*
Simone Osygus*
4:05.19  Unified Team
Nina Zhivanevskaya (1:02.54)
Yelena Rudkovskaya (1:07.44)
Olga Kiritchenko (1:00.98)
Natalya Meshcheryakova (55.48)
Elena Choubina*
4:06.44

* Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Participating nations

641 swimmers from 92 nations competed.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Swimming at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
  2. "Olympedia – Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved 17 December 2023.