Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Swimming
at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Swimming; at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
	Piscines Bernat Picornell
Venue	Piscines Bernat Picornell
Dates	26 – 31 July 1992
No. of events	31
Competitors	641 from 92 nations

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


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	11	9	7	27
2	Unified Team (EUN)	6	3	1	10
3	Hungary (HUN)	5	3	1	9
4	China (CHN)	4	5	0	9
5	Germany (GER)	1	3	7	11
6	Australia (AUS)	1	3	5	9
7	Canada (CAN)	1	0	1	2
8	Japan (JPN)	1	0	0	1
8	Spain (ESP)	1	0	0	1
10	Sweden (SWE)	0	2	1	3
11	Brazil (BRA)	0	1	0	1
	New Zealand (NZL)	0	1	0	1
	Poland (POL)	0	1	0	1
14	France (FRA)	0	0	3	3
15	Italy (ITA)	0	0	2	2
16	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1
	Suriname (SUR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (18 entries)		31	31	31	93

Medal summary

Men's events

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Alexander Popov Unified Team ( Russia)	21.91 OR, ER	Matt Biondi United States	22.09	Tom Jager United States	22.30
100 m freestyle	Alexander Popov Unified Team ( Russia)	49.02 ER	Gustavo Borges Brazil	49.43 SA	Stéphan Caron France	49.50
200 m freestyle	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	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	Kieren Perkins Australia	14:43.48 WR	Glen Housman Australia	14:55.29	Jörg Hoffmann Germany	15:02.29
100 m backstroke	Mark Tewksbury Canada	53.98 OR, NR	Jeff Rouse United States	54.04	David Berkoff United States	54.78
200 m backstroke	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	Nelson Diebel United States	1:01.50 OR	Norbert Rózsa Hungary	1:01.68	Phil Rogers Australia	1:01.76 OC
200 m breaststroke	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	Pablo Morales United States	53.32	Rafał Szukała Poland	53.35 NR	Anthony Nesty Suriname	53.41
200 m butterfly	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	Tamás Darnyi Hungary	2:00.76	Greg Burgess United States	2:00.97	Attila Czene Hungary	2:01.00
400 m individual medley	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	United States (USA) 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 (EUN) Pavlo Khnykin (49.92) Gennadiy Prigoda (50.05) Yuri Bashkatov (49.76) Alexander Popov (47.83) Vladimir Pyshnenko* Veniamin Tayanovich*	3:17.56	Germany (GER) 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	Unified Team (EUN) 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 (SWE) 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 (USA) 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	United States (USA) 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 (EUN) Vladimir Selkov (55.50) Vasili Ivanov (1:01.59) Pavlo Khnykin (53.56) Alexander Popov (47.91) Vladimir Pyshnenko* Vladislav Kulikov* Dmitri Volkov*	3:38.56	Canada (CAN) 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	Yang Wenyi China	24.79 WR	Zhuang Yong China	25.08	Angel Martino United States	25.23
100 m freestyle	Zhuang Yong China	54.64 OR	Jenny Thompson United States	54.84	Franziska van Almsick Germany	54.94
200 m freestyle	Nicole Haislett United States	1:57.90 AM	Franziska van Almsick Germany	1:58.00	Kerstin Kielgass Germany	1:59.67
400 m freestyle	Dagmar Hase Germany	4:07.18	Janet Evans United States	4:07.37	Hayley Lewis Australia	4:11.22
800 m freestyle	Janet Evans United States	8:25.52	Hayley Lewis Australia	8:30.34	Jana Henke Germany	8:30.99
100 m backstroke	Krisztina Egerszegi Hungary	1:00.68 OR	Tünde Szabó Hungary	1:01.14	Lea Loveless United States	1:01.43
200 m backstroke	Krisztina Egerszegi Hungary	2:07.06 OR	Dagmar Hase Germany	2:09.46 NR	Nicole Stevenson Australia	2:10.20 OC
100 m breaststroke	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	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	Qian Hong China	58.62 OR	Crissy Ahmann-Leighton United States	58.74	Catherine Plewinski France	59.01 NR
200 m butterfly	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	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	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	United States (USA) 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 (CHN) Zhuang Yong (54.51) OR Lu Bin (55.90) Yang Wenyi (54.90) Le Jingyi (54.81) Zhao Kun*	3:40.12 AS	Germany (GER) 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	United States (USA) 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 (GER) 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 (EUN) 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]

Albania (1)
Algeria (1)
Angola (3)
Argentina (3)
Australia (33)
Austria (2)
Bahamas (2)
Bangladesh (1)
Belgium (7)
Bermuda (6)
Bolivia (2)
Bosnia and Herzegovina (2)
Brazil (9)
Bulgaria (5)
Canada (29)
China (16)
Republic of the Congo (1)
Costa Rica (1)
Colombia (1)
Cuba (2)
Cyprus (2)
Czechoslovakia (8)
Denmark (8)
Ecuador (1)
Egypt (2)
El Salvador (1)
Estonia (4)
Fiji (3)
Finland (12)
France (25)
Germany (34)
Great Britain (30)
Greece (2)
Guam (7)
Guatemala (5)
Honduras (4)
Hong Kong (8)
Hungary (13)
Iceland (2)
Independent Olympic Athletes (4)
Ireland (2)
Israel (4)
Italy (24)
Japan (25)
Kuwait (3)
Latvia (1)
Lebanon (1)
Lithuania (2)
Luxembourg (1)
Madagascar (1)
Malaysia (1)
Maldives (2)
Mauritius (6)
Mexico (7)
Monaco (1)
Mozambique (3)
Namibia (2)
Netherlands (9)
New Zealand (11)
Nigeria (2)
Norway (6)
Panama (1)
Paraguay (2)
Peru (2)
Philippines (5)
Poland (14)
Portugal (9)
Puerto Rico (6)
Romania (10)
San Marino (5)
Saudi Arabia (2)
Senegal (2)
Seychelles (4)
Singapore (5)
Slovenia (5)
South Africa (10)
South Korea (4)
Spain (21)
Sri Lanka (1)
Suriname (3)
Sweden (17)
Switzerland (4)
Syria (1)
Thailand (5)
Turkey (3)
Unified Team (29)
United Arab Emirates (5)
United States (40)
Virgin Islands (3)
Uruguay (1)
Vietnam (2)
Zimbabwe (4)

References

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

External links

Official Olympic Report

[SR-1] "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.

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