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

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.^[1]

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
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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).^[2]

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

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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