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

Women's 100 Metre Freestyle at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Venue	Piscines Bernat Picornell
Date	26 July 1992 (heats & finals)
Competitors	48 from 34 nations
Winning time	54.64 OR
Medalists
Zhuang Yong  China Jenny Thompson  United States Franziska van Almsick  Germany
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Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4 × 100 m	men	women
4 × 200 m	men
Medley relay
4 × 100 m	men	women
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The Women's 100 Metre Freestyle event at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place on 26 July at the Piscines Bernat Picornell in Barcelona, Spain.^[1]

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

World record	Jenny Thompson (USA)	54.48	Indianapolis, United States	1 March 1992
Olympic record	Barbara Krause (GDR)	54.79	Moscow, Soviet Union	21 July 1980

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
26 July	Heat 6	Jenny Thompson	United States	54.69	OR
26 July	Final A	Zhuang Yong	China	54.64	OR

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	Jenny Thompson	United States	54.69	Q, OR
2	6	5	Franziska van Almsick	Germany	55.40	Q
3	6	6	Catherine Plewinski	France	55.44	Q
4	5	4	Nicole Haislett	United States	55.67	Q
5	4	4	Zhuang Yong	China	55.78	Q
6	6	2	Le Jingyi	China	55.87	Q
7	4	5	Karin Brienesse	Netherlands	55.98	Q
	5	3	Simone Osygus	Germany		Q
9	5	6	Suzu Chiba	Japan	56.26	q, NR
10	6	8	Yelena Shubina	Unified Team	56.31	q
11	5	7	Luminița Dobrescu	Romania	56.45	q
12	6	3	Gitta Jensen	Denmark	56.47	q
13	5	5	Susie O'Neill	Australia	56.58	q
14	4	6	Mildred Muis	Netherlands	56.67	q
	5	1	Yevgeniya Yermakova	Unified Team		q
16	5	2	Andrea Nugent	Canada	56.82	q
17	4	3	Karen Pickering	Great Britain	57.17
18	6	7	Martina Moravcová	Czechoslovakia	57.19
19	4	1	Eva Nyberg	Sweden	57.36
20	3	5	Marianne Kriel	South Africa	57.50
21	3	1	Claudia Franco	Spain	57.57
22	4	7	Ayako Nakano	Japan	57.71
23	6	1	Ellenor Svensson	Sweden	58.03
24	3	8	Minna Salmela	Finland	58.04	NR
25	4	8	Allison Higson	Canada	58.47
26	3	2	Natalia Pulido	Spain	58.54
27	3	3	Mette Nielsen	Denmark	58.67
28	4	2	Karen van Wirdum	Australia	58.75
29	5	8	Toni Jeffs	New Zealand	58.80
30	2	5	Rania Elwani	Egypt	58.82
31	3	4	Alison Sheppard	Great Britain	58.83
	3	7	Diana Ureche	Romania
33	1	5	Joscelin Yeo	Singapore	58.93
34	2	7	Akiko Thomson	Philippines	59.02
35	2	4	Monica Dahl	Namibia	59.05
36	3	6	Ilaria Sciorelli	Italy	59.11
37	1	4	Robyn Lamsam	Hong Kong	59.26
38	2	8	Marja Pärssinen	Finland	59.46
39	2	7	Shelley Cramer	Virgin Islands	59.99	NR
40	2	2	Helga Sigurðardóttir	Iceland	1:00.29
41	2	1	Ana Alegria	Portugal	1:00.35
42	1	2	Joshua Ikhaghomi	Nigeria	1:00.72
43	2	3	Ratiporn Wong	Thailand	1:00.85
44	1	6	Corinne Leclair	Mauritius	1:00.95
45	1	7	Sharon Pickering	Fiji	1:01.42
46	1	3	Ana Joselina Fortin	Honduras	1:01.50
47	1	1	Paola Peñarrieta	Bolivia	1:04.08
48	1	8	Elsa Freire	Angola	1:05.45

^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	4	Suzu Chiba	Japan	55.97	NR
10	3	Luminița Dobrescu	Romania	56.17
11	5	Yelena Shubina	Unified Team	56.19
12	6	Gitta Jensen	Denmark	56.59
13	7	Mildred Muis	Netherlands	56.64
14	1	Yevgeniya Yermakova	Unified Team	56.66
15	2	Susie O'Neill	Australia	56.68
16	8	Andrea Nugent	Canada	56.91

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	2	Zhuang Yong	China	54.64	OR
	4	Jenny Thompson	United States	54.84
	5	Franziska van Almsick	Germany	54.94
4	6	Nicole Haislett	United States	55.19
5	3	Catherine Plewinski	France	55.72
6	7	Le Jingyi	China	55.89
7	1	Simone Osygus	Germany	55.93
8	8	Karin Brienesse	Netherlands	56.59

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