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

Women's 200 metre freestyle at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Venue	Piscines Bernat Picornell
Date	27 July 1992 (heats & finals)
Competitors	37 from 26 nations
Winning time	1:57.90 AM
Medalists
Nicole Haislett  United States Franziska van Almsick  Germany Kerstin Kielgaß  Germany

The women's 200 metre freestyle 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	Heike Friedrich (GDR)	1:57.55	East Berlin, East Germany	18 June 1986
Olympic record	Heike Friedrich (GDR)	1:57.65	Seoul, South Korea	21 September 1988

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	3	4	Franziska van Almsick	Germany	1:57.90	Q
2	5	4	Nicole Haislett	United States	1:59.33	Q
3	4	2	Luminița Dobrescu	Romania	2:00.51	Q, NR
4	3	5	Kerstin Kielgaß	Germany	2:00.55	Q
5	4	3	Lü Bin	China	2:00.56	Q
6	4	5	Catherine Plewinski	France	2:00.67	Q
	5	7	Olga Kirichenko	Unified Team		Q
8	5	3	Suzu Chiba	Japan	2:00.96	Q
9	3	6	Susie O'Neill	Australia	2:01.05	q
10	3	2	Karen Pickering	Great Britain	2:01.09	q
11	4	7	Yelena Dendeberova	Unified Team	2:01.28	q
12	4	4	Jenny Thompson	United States	2:01.71	q, WD
13	5	5	Mette Jacobsen	Denmark	2:01.84	q
14	3	3	Gitta Jensen	Denmark	2:02.27	q
15	4	6	Nicole Stevenson	Australia	2:02.50	q
16	5	8	Carla Negrea	Romania	2:03.16	q
17	5	2	Yoko Koikawa	Japan	2:03.32	q, WD
18	5	1	Malin Nilsson	Sweden	2:03.44	q
19	3	8	Nikki Dryden	Canada	2:03.59
20	3	7	Isabelle Arnould	Belgium	2:04.06
21	5	6	Zhuang Yong	China	2:04.12
22	2	5	Allison Higson	Canada	2:04.25
23	4	8	Irene Dalby	Norway	2:04.28
24	2	4	Natalia Pulido	Spain	2:04.39
25	3	1	Sandra Cam	Belgium	2:04.72
26	4	1	Diana van der Plaats	Netherlands	2:05.42
27	2	3	Rita Jean Garay	Puerto Rico	2:07.08
28	2	2	Joscelin Yeo	Singapore	2:07.09
29	1	3	Akiko Thomson	Philippines	2:07.95
30	1	5	Robyn Lamsam	Hong Kong	2:08.60
31	2	2	Rania Elwani	Egypt	2:08.93
32	1	4	María José Marenco	El Salvador	2:09.36
33	1	6	Claudia Fortin	Honduras	2:12.24
34	1	7	Sharon Pickering	Fiji	2:12.43
35	2	1	Corinne Leclair	Mauritius	2:12.55
36	2	7	May Ooi	Singapore	2:13.20
37	1	2	Paola Peñarrieta	Bolivia	2:15.74

Finals

Final B

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	3	Yelena Dendeberova	Unified Team	2:00.09
10	5	Karen Pickering	Great Britain	2:00.33	NR
11	4	Susie O'Neill	Australia	2:00.89
12	8	Malin Nilsson	Sweden	2:02.02	NR
13	6	Mette Jacobsen	Denmark	2:02.14
14	2	Gitta Jensen	Denmark	2:02.32
15	1	Carla Negrea	Romania	2:02.96
16	7	Nicole Stevenson	Australia	2:04.21

Final A

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Nicole Haislett	United States	1:57.90	AM
	4	Franziska van Almsick	Germany	1:58.00
	6	Kerstin Kielgaß	Germany	1:59.67
4	1	Catherine Plewinski	France	1:59.88	NR
5	3	Luminița Dobrescu	Romania	2:00.48	NR
6	8	Suzu Chiba	Japan	2:00.64	NR
7	7	Olga Kirichenko	Unified Team	2:00.90
8	2	Lü Bin	China	2:02.10

External links

• Official Report