Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre breaststroke

Women's 100 metre breaststroke
at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
Women's 100 metre breaststroke; at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
Venue	Georgia Tech Aquatic Center
Date	21 July 1996 (heats & finals)
Competitors	46 from 38 nations
Winning time	1:07.73
Medalists
	← 1992 2000 →

The women's 100 metre breaststroke event at the 1996 Summer Olympics took place on 21 July at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center in Atlanta, United States.^[1]^[2]

Records

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

World record	Penny Heyns (RSA)	1:07.46	Durban, South Africa	4 March 1996
Olympic record	Tanya Dangalakova (BUL)	1:07.95	Seoul, South Korea	23 September 1988

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
21 July	Heat 6	Penny Heyns	South Africa	1:07.02	WR

Results

Heats

Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A (Q), while the next eight to final B (q).^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	4	Penny Heyns	South Africa	1:07.02	Q, WR
2	5	4	Amanda Beard	United States	1:09.04	Q
3	4	6	Ágnes Kovács	Hungary	1:09.05	Q, NR
4	5	3	Samantha Riley	Australia	1:09.37	Q
5	4	7	Vera Lischka	Austria	1:09.68	Q, NR
6	5	5	Guylaine Cloutier	Canada	1:09.72	Q
7	4	4	Svitlana Bondarenko	Ukraine	1:09.79	Q
8	6	5	Brigitte Becue	Belgium	1:09.83	Q
9	5	2	Masami Tanaka	Japan	1:09.89	q, NR
10	6	1	Elin Austevoll	Norway	1:09.96	q, NR
11	6	7	Manuela Dalla Valle	Italy	1:10.25	q
12	5	6	Lisa Flood	Canada	1:10.26	q
13	4	3	Han Xue	China	1:10.40	q
14	4	5	Helen Denman	Australia	1:10.64	q
15	4	1	Hanna Jaltner	Sweden	1:10.69	q
16	3	6	Alicja Pęczak	Poland	1:10.70	q
17	5	7	Jaime King	Great Britain	1:10.83
18	5	1	Julia Russell	South Africa	1:10.87
19	6	3	Kristine Quance	United States	1:10.92
20	6	2	Terrie Miller	Norway	1:11.09
21	6	8	Madelon Baans	Netherlands	1:11.17
22	4	2	Kyoko Iwasaki	Japan	1:11.33
23	4	8	Maria Östling	Sweden	1:11.58
24	6	6	Yuan Yuan	China	1:11.65
25	5	8	Karine Brémond	France	1:11.80
26	3	5	Kathrin Dumitru	Germany	1:11.92
27	3	7	Olga Landik	Russia	1:12.55
28	3	2	María Olay	Spain	1:12.58
29	2	3	Lenka Maňhalová	Czech Republic	1:12.72
30	1	3	Byun Hye-young	South Korea	1:12.85	NR
31	3	3	Anna Wilson	New Zealand	1:12.93
32	2	6	Mia Hagman	Finland	1:13.01
33	3	8	Yelena Rudkovskaya	Belarus	1:13.71
34	2	4	Joana Soutinho	Portugal	1:13.73
35	3	4	Larisa Lăcustă	Romania	1:13.91
36	1	6	Tay Li Leng	Malaysia	1:14.17
37	2	2	Natália Kodajová	Slovakia	1:14.24	NR
38	1	5	Isabel Ceballos	Colombia	1:14.75
39	2	5	Mou Ying-hsin	Chinese Taipei	1:14.82
40	3	1	Joscelin Yeo	Singapore	1:14.90
41	1	4	Snowie Pang Wang Yiu	Hong Kong	1:16.02
42	2	1	María Carolina Santa Cruz	Argentina	1:16.19
43	2	8	Nádia Cruz	Angola	1:16.62
44	2	7	Cerian Gibbes	Trinidad and Tobago	1:16.99
45	1	2	Anush Manukyan	Armenia	1:20.70
46	1	7	Hem Reaksmey	Cambodia	1:44.68

Finals

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Final B

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
9	2	Han Xue	China	1:09.90
10	6	Lisa Flood	Canada	1:10.21
11	7	Helen Denman	Australia	1:10.26
12	5	Elin Austevoll	Norway	1:10.27
13	4	Masami Tanaka	Japan	1:10.43
14	8	Alicja Pęczak	Poland	1:10.44
15	3	Manuela Dalla Valle	Italy	1:11.19
16	1	Hanna Jaltner	Sweden	1:11.41

Final A

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Penny Heyns	South Africa	1:07.73
	5	Amanda Beard	United States	1:08.09	AM
	6	Samantha Riley	Australia	1:09.18
4	1	Svitlana Bondarenko	Ukraine	1:09.21	NR
5	2	Vera Lischka	Austria	1:09.24	NR
6	7	Guylaine Cloutier	Canada	1:09.40
7	3	Ágnes Kovács	Hungary	1:09.55
8	8	Brigitte Becue	Belgium	1:09.79

References

^ "Swimming at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games: Women's 100 metres Breaststroke". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
^ "100 meters Breaststroke, Women". Olympedia. Archived from the original on 25 November 2023. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
^ "Atlanta 1996: Swimming – Women's 100m Breaststroke Heats" (PDF). Atlanta 1996. LA84 Foundation. p. 44. Retrieved 13 September 2017.
^ "Atlanta 1996: Swimming – Women's 100m Breaststroke Finals" (PDF). Atlanta 1996. LA84 Foundation. p. 44. Retrieved 12 September 2017.

External links

[SR-1] "Swimming at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games: Women's 100 metres Breaststroke". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 17 March 2020.

[Olympedia-2] "100 meters Breaststroke, Women". Olympedia. Archived from the original on 25 November 2023. Retrieved 25 November 2023.

[3] "Atlanta 1996: Swimming – Women's 100m Breaststroke Heats" (PDF). Atlanta 1996. LA84 Foundation. p. 44. Retrieved 13 September 2017.

[4] "Atlanta 1996: Swimming – Women's 100m Breaststroke Finals" (PDF). Atlanta 1996. LA84 Foundation. p. 44. Retrieved 12 September 2017.

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