Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics

The swimming competition at the 1996 Summer Olympics was held at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center in Atlanta, United States.^[1] There were 762 competitors from 117 countries.^[2] This was the last Olympics where swimming B-finals were held.

Swimming at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
The front of Georgia Tech's Campus Recreation Center
Venue	Georgia Tech Aquatic Center
Dates	July 20 –26, 1996
No. of events	32
Competitors	762 from 117 nations
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At the time of the games, the facility had a temporary 50 m warm-up pool located behind the locker rooms and entry concourse (on the ground); as well as a temporary roof, and open walls (there were wall-like structures/curtains at the diving well and turning end of the pool). The open walls allowed for temporary seating to be in place during the games. A wall and new roof have since been placed on the facility.

A total of 4 world records and 13 Olympic records were set during the competition

The women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay made its debut at these Games.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	13	11	2	26
2	Russia (RUS)	4	2	2	8
3	Hungary (HUN)	3	1	2	6
4	Ireland (IRL)	3	0	1	4
5	Australia (AUS)	2	4	6	12
6	South Africa (RSA)	2	0	1	3
7	New Zealand (NZL)	2	0	0	2
8	China (CHN)	1	3	2	6
9	Belgium (BEL)	1	0	0	1
	Costa Rica (CRC)	1	0	0	1
11	Germany (GER)	0	5	7	12
12	Brazil (BRA)	0	1	2	3
	Canada (CAN)	0	1	2	3
14	Cuba (CUB)	0	1	1	2
	Great Britain (GBR)	0	1	1	2
16	Finland (FIN)	0	1	0	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	0	1
18	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	2	2
19	Italy (ITA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (19 entries)		32	32	32	96

Medal summary

Men's events

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle details	Alexander Popov  Russia	22.13	Gary Hall, Jr.  United States	22.26	Fernando Scherer  Brazil	22.29 SA
100 m freestyle details	Alexander Popov  Russia	48.74	Gary Hall, Jr.  United States	48.81	Gustavo Borges  Brazil	49.02
200 m freestyle details	Danyon Loader  New Zealand	1:47.63 NR	Gustavo Borges  Brazil	1:48.08 SA	Daniel Kowalski  Australia	1:48.25
400 m freestyle details	Danyon Loader  New Zealand	3:47.97 NR	Paul Palmer  Great Britain	3:49.00	Daniel Kowalski  Australia	3:49.39
1500 m freestyle details	Kieren Perkins  Australia	14:56.40	Daniel Kowalski  Australia	15:02.43	Graeme Smith  Great Britain	15:02.48 NR
100 m backstroke details	Jeff Rouse  United States	54.10	Rodolfo Falcón  Cuba	54.98	Neisser Bent  Cuba	55.02
200 m backstroke details	Brad Bridgewater  United States	1:58.54	Tripp Schwenk  United States	1:58.99	Emanuele Merisi  Italy	1:59.18
100 m breaststroke details	Fred Deburghgraeve  Belgium	1:00.65	Jeremy Linn  United States	1:00.77 AM	Mark Warnecke  Germany	1:01.33 NR
200 m breaststroke details	Norbert Rózsa  Hungary	2:12.57	Károly Güttler  Hungary	2:13.03	Andrey Korneyev  Russia	2:13.17
100 m butterfly details	Denis Pankratov  Russia	52.27 WR	Scott Miller  Australia	52.53 OC	Vladislav Kulikov  Russia	53.13
200 m butterfly details	Denis Pankratov  Russia	1:56.51	Tom Malchow  United States	1:57.44	Scott Goodman  Australia	1:57.48
200 m medley details	Attila Czene  Hungary	1:59.91 OR	Jani Sievinen  Finland	2:00.13	Curtis Myden  Canada	2:01.13 NR
400 m medley details	Tom Dolan  United States	4:14.90	Eric Namesnik  United States	4:15.25	Curtis Myden  Canada	4:16.28 NR
4 × 100 m freestyle relay details	United States (USA) Jon Olsen Josh Davis Brad Schumacher Gary Hall, Jr. David Fox* Scott Tucker*	3:15.41 OR	Russia (RUS) Roman Yegorov Alexander Popov Vladimir Predkin Vladimir Pyshnenko Denis Pimankov*	3:17.06 ER	Germany (GER) Christian Tröger Bengt Zikarsky Björn Zikarsky Mark Pinger Alexander Lüderitz*	3:17.20
4 × 200 m freestyle relay details	United States (USA) Josh Davis Joe Hudepohl Brad Schumacher Ryan Berube Jon Olsen*	7:14.84	Sweden (SWE) Christer Wallin Anders Holmertz Lars Frölander Anders Lyrbring	7:17.56	Germany (GER) Aimo Heilmann Christian Keller Christian Tröger Steffen Zesner Konstantin Dubrovin* Oliver Lampe*	7:17.71
4 × 100 m medley relay details	United States (USA) Jeff Rouse Jeremy Linn Mark Henderson Gary Hall, Jr. Josh Davis* Kurt Grote* John Hargis* Tripp Schwenk*	3:34.84 WR	Russia (RUS) Vladimir Selkov Stanislav Lopukhov Denis Pankratov Alexander Popov Roman Ivanovsky* Vladislav Kulikov* Roman Yegorov*	3:37.55 ER	Australia (AUS) Steven Dewick Phil Rogers Scott Miller Michael Klim Toby Haenen*	3:39.56 OC

* Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Women's events

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle details	Amy Van Dyken  United States	24.87 AM	Le Jingyi  China	24.90	Sandra Völker  Germany	25.14
100 m freestyle details	Le Jingyi  China	54.50 OR	Sandra Völker  Germany	54.88	Angel Martino  United States	54.93
200 m freestyle details	Claudia Poll  Costa Rica	1:58.16	Franziska van Almsick  Germany	1:58.57	Dagmar Hase  Germany	1:59.56
400 m freestyle details	Michelle Smith  Ireland	4:07.25 NR	Dagmar Hase  Germany	4:08.30	Kirsten Vlieghuis  Netherlands	4:08.70 NR
800 m freestyle details	Brooke Bennett  United States	8:27.89	Dagmar Hase  Germany	8:29.91	Kirsten Vlieghuis  Netherlands	8:30.84 NR
100 m backstroke details	Beth Botsford  United States	1:01.19	Whitney Hedgepeth  United States	1:01.47	Marianne Kriel  South Africa	1:02.12 AF
200 m backstroke details	Krisztina Egerszegi  Hungary	2:07.83	Whitney Hedgepeth  United States	2:11.98	Cathleen Rund  Germany	2:12.06
100 m breaststroke details	Penelope Heyns  South Africa	1:07.73	Amanda Beard  United States	1:08.09 AM	Samantha Riley  Australia	1:09.18
200 m breaststroke details	Penelope Heyns  South Africa	2:25.41 OR	Amanda Beard  United States	2:25.75	Ágnes Kovács  Hungary	2:26.57
100 m butterfly details	Amy Van Dyken  United States	59.13	Liu Limin  China	59.14	Angel Martino  United States	59.23
200 m butterfly details	Susie O'Neill  Australia	2:07.76	Petria Thomas  Australia	2:09.82	Michelle Smith  Ireland	2:09.91 NR
200 m individual medley details	Michelle Smith  Ireland	2:13.93 NR	Marianne Limpert  Canada	2:14.35 NR	Lin Li  China	2:14.74
400 m individual medley details	Michelle Smith  Ireland	4:39.18 NR	Allison Wagner  United States	4:42.03	Krisztina Egerszegi  Hungary	4:42.53
4 × 100 m freestyle relay details	United States (USA) Angel Martino Amy Van Dyken Catherine Fox Jenny Thompson Lisa Jacob* Melanie Valerio*	3:39.29 OR	China (CHN) Le Jingyi Chao Na Nian Yun Shan Ying	3:40.48	Germany (GER) Sandra Völker Simone Osygus Antje Buschschulte Franziska van Almsick Meike Freitag*	3:41.48
4 × 200 m freestyle relay details	United States (USA) Trina Jackson Cristina Teuscher Sheila Taormina Jenny Thompson Lisa Jacob* Annette Salmeen* Ashley Whitney*	7:59.87 OR, AM	Germany (GER) Franziska van Almsick Kerstin Kielgass Anke Scholz Dagmar Hase Meike Freitag* Simone Osygus*	8:01.55	Australia (AUS) Julia Greville Nicole Stevenson Emma Johnson Susie O'Neill Lise Mackie*	8:05.47
4 × 100 m medley relay details	United States (USA) Beth Botsford Amanda Beard Angel Martino Amy Van Dyken Catherine Fox* Whitney Hedgepeth* Kristine Quance* Jenny Thompson*	4:02.88	Australia (AUS) Nicole Stevenson Samantha Riley Susie O'Neill Sarah Ryan Helen Denman* Angela Kennedy*	4:05.08	China (CHN) Chen Yan Han Xue Cai Huijue Shan Ying	4:07.34

* Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Olympic and world records broken

Note: Any world record is also an Olympic record

Men

Event	Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
100 m Breaststroke	20 July	Heat 6	Frédérik Deburghgraeve	Belgium	1:00.60	WR
100 m Butterfly	24 July	Heat 7	Scott Miller	Australia	52.89	OR
100 m Butterfly	24 July	Final A	Denis Pankratov	Russia	52.27	WR
200 m Individual Medley	25 July	Final A	Attila Czene	Hungary	1:59.91	OR
4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay	23 July	Final	Jon Olsen (49.94) Josh Davis (49.00) Brad Schumacher (49.02) Gary Hall, Jr. (47.45)	United States	3:15.41	OR
4 × 100 m Medley Relay	26 July	Final	Jeff Rouse (53.95) Jeremy Linn (1:00.32) Mark Henderson (52.39) Gary Hall, Jr. (48.18)	United States	3:34.84	WR

Women

Event	Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
100 m Freestyle	20 July	Final A	Le Jingyi	China	54.50	OR
100 m Breaststroke	21 July	Heat 6	Penny Heyns	South Africa	1:07.02	WR
200 m Breaststroke	23 July	Heat 4	Penny Heyns	South Africa	2:26.63	OR
200 m Breaststroke	23 July	Final A	Penny Heyns	South Africa	2:25.41	OR
4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay	22 July	Final	Angel Martino (55.34) Amy Van Dyken (53.91) Catherine Fox (55.93) Jenny Thompson (54.11)	United States	3:39.29	OR
4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay	25 July	Heat 2	Lisa Jacob (2:01.31) Ashley Whitney (2:01.77) Sheila Taormina (2:00.57) Annette Salmeen (2:01.34)	United States	8:04.99	OR
4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay	25 July	Final	Trina Jackson (1:59.71) Cristina Teuscher (1:58.86) Sheila Taormina (2:01.29) Jenny Thompson (1:56.83)	United States	7:59.87	OR

Participating nations

762 swimmers from 117 nations competed.^[2]

•  Algeria (1)
•  Andorra (2)
•  Angola (1)
•  Argentina (7)
•  Armenia (1)
•  Australia (33)
•  Austria (4)
•  Azerbaijan (1)
•  Bahamas (1)
•  Barbados (2)
•  Bangladesh (1)
•  Belgium (4)
•  Belarus (10)
•  Bolivia (2)
•  Bosnia and Herzegovina (2)
•  Brazil (10)
•  Bulgaria (1)
•  Cambodia (2)
•  Canada (27)
•  Chile (1)
•  China (21)
•  Chinese Taipei (8)
•  Colombia (5)
•  Republic of the Congo (2)
•  Costa Rica (3)
•  Croatia (11)
•  Cuba (3)
•  Cyprus (2)
•  Czech Republic (10)
•  Denmark (10)
•  Dominica (1)
•  Ecuador (5)
•  Egypt (2)
•  El Salvador (2)
•  Estonia (1)
•  Fiji (2)
•  Finland (12)
•  France (25)
•  Germany (28)
•  Great Britain (28)
•  Greece (8)
•  Guam (2)
•  Guatemala (2)
•  Haiti (1)
•  Honduras (1)
•  Hong Kong (3)
•  Hungary (21)
•  Iceland (3)
•  India (2)
•  Indonesia (1)
•  Iran (1)
•  Ireland (5)
•  Israel (4)
•  Italy (14)
•  Jamaica (1)
•  Japan (27)
•  Jordan (2)
•  Kazakhstan (7)
•  Kyrgyzstan (12)
•  Kuwait (3)
•  Latvia (4)
•  Lithuania (8)
•  Macedonia (4)
•  Madagascar (2)
•  Maldives (1)
•  Malaysia (5)
•  Malta (1)
•  Moldova (5)
•  Mauritius (2)
•  Mexico (2)
•  Monaco (1)
•  Mozambique (1)
•  Namibia (2)
•  Nepal (2)
•  Netherlands (20)
•  Netherlands Antilles (1)
•  New Zealand (14)
•  Nicaragua (1)
•  Norway (5)
•  Oman (1)
•  Pakistan (1)
•  Panama (2)
•  Paraguay (2)
•  Peru (2)
•  Philippines (2)
•  Poland (11)
•  Portugal (12)
•  Puerto Rico (7)
•  Romania (14)
•  Russia (30)
•  San Marino (1)
•  FR Yugoslavia (4)
•  Seychelles (1)
•  Sierra Leone (1)
•  Singapore (5)
•  Slovenia (5)
•  Slovakia (3)
•  South Africa (7)
•  South Korea (20)
•  Spain (18)
•  Suriname (4)
•  Swaziland (1)
•  Sweden (18)
•  Switzerland (5)
•  Syria (1)
•  Thailand (6)
•  Trinidad and Tobago (2)
•  Turkey (4)
•  Ukraine (13)
•  United States (44)
•  Virgin Islands (1)
•  United Arab Emirates (1)
•  Uruguay (2)
•  Uzbekistan (6)
•  Venezuela (7)
•  Vietnam (2)
•  Zimbabwe (1)