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

Women's 200 metre individual medley at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Venue	Piscines Bernat Picornell
Date	30 July 1992 (heats & finals)
Competitors	44 from 32 nations
Winning time	2:11.65 WR
Medalists
Lin Li  China Summer Sanders  United States Daniela Hunger  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 200 metre individual medley event at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place on 30 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	Ute Geweniger (GDR)	2:11.73	Magdeburg, East Germany	4 July 1981
Olympic record	Daniela Hunger (GDR)	2:12.59	Seoul, South Korea	24 September 1988

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
30 July	Final A	Lin Li	China	2:11.65	WR

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	Summer Sanders	United States	2:14.68	Q
2	6	2	Elli Overton	Australia	2:15.13	Q, OC
3	6	5	Daniela Hunger	Germany	2:15.16	Q
4	5	4	Lin Li	China	2:15.68	Q
5	5	5	Marianne Limpert	Canada	2:16.84	Q
6	3	6	Ewa Synowska	Poland	2:16.88	Q, NR
7	5	3	Yelena Dendeberova	Unified Team	2:17.13	Q
8	6	3	Nancy Sweetnam	Canada	2:17.26	Q
9	4	4	Nicole Haislett	United States	2:17.40	q, WD
10	4	1	Jana Haas	Germany	2:17.74	q
11	4	5	Jacqueline McKenzie	Australia	2:17.82	q
12	4	8	Alicja Pęczak	Poland	2:17.90	q
13	3	5	Silvia Parera	Spain	2:17.97	q
14	6	6	Noemi Lung	Romania	2:18.12	q
15	4	3	Hideko Hiranaka	Japan	2:18.13	q
16	4	2	Eri Kimura	Japan	2:18.63	q
17	5	6	Louise Karlsson	Sweden	2:18.75	q, WD
18	6	7	Céline Bonnet	France	2:18.95	q
19	6	8	Mildred Muis	Netherlands	2:19.10
20	4	6	Lara Bianconi	Italy	2:19.40
21	4	7	Sharron Davies	Great Britain	2:19.41
22	3	4	Hana Černá	Czechoslovakia	2:19.93
23	5	7	Lü Bin	China	2:20.12
24	5	1	Lenka Maňhalová	Czechoslovakia	2:20.52
25	6	1	Brigitte Becue	Belgium	2:21.98
26	5	8	Helen Slatter	Great Britain	2:22.04
27	3	3	Martina Nemec	Austria	2:22.63
28	2	4	Jill Brukman	South Africa	2:23.07
29	2	2	Nathalie Wunderlich	Switzerland	2:23.18
30	2	6	Praphalsai Minpraphal	Thailand	2:23.24	NR
31	3	2	Lourdes Becerra	Spain	2:23.51
32	2	5	Michelle Smith	Ireland	2:23.83	NR
33	2	3	Joscelin Yeo	Singapore	2:25.32
34	2	1	Claudia Fortin	Honduras	2:25.66
35	3	7	Annette Poulsen	Denmark	2:25.67
36	2	7	May Ooi	Singapore	2:27.62
37	3	1	Keren Regal	Israel	2:27.85
38	1	5	Jennifer Smatt	Bermuda	2:29.29
39	1	4	Ana Joselina Fortin	Honduras	2:30.07
40	1	2	Sharon Pickering	Fiji	2:30.11
41	1	3	Nguyễn Kiều Oanh	Vietnam	2:35.71
42	1	6	Tammie Kaae	Guam	2:36.31
43	1	7	Elke Talma	Seychelles	2:53.41
	1	1	Bako Ratsifandrihamanana	Madagascar	DNS

^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	7	Hideko Hiranaka	Japan	2:18.47
10	6	Silvia Parera	Spain	2:18.53
11	3	Alicja Pęczak	Poland	2:18.55
12	1	Eri Kimura	Japan	2:18.91
13	2	Noemi Lung	Romania	2:18.97
14	8	Céline Bonnet	France	2:19.14
15	5	Jacqueline McKenzie	Australia	2:19.41
16	4	Jana Haas	Germany	2:20.94

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	6	Lin Li	China	2:11.65	WR
	4	Summer Sanders	United States	2:11.91	AM
	3	Daniela Hunger	Germany	2:13.92
4	1	Yelena Dendeberova	Unified Team	2:15.47
5	5	Elli Overton	Australia	2:15.76
6	2	Marianne Limpert	Canada	2:17.09
7	8	Nancy Sweetnam	Canada	2:17.13
8	7	Ewa Synowska	Poland	2:18.85

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