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

Women's 200 metre breaststroke; at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Venue	Piscines Bernat Picornell
Date	27 July (heats and finals)
Competitors	40 from 29 nations
Winning time	2:26.65 (OR)
Medalists
	← 1988 1996 →

Swimming events 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

The women's 200 metre breaststroke event, included in the swimming competition at the 1992 Summer Olympics, took place on July 27, at the Piscines Bernat Picornell in Barcelona, Spain. In this event, swimmers covered four lengths of the 50-metre (160 ft) Olympic-sized pool employing the breaststroke.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were:

World record	Anita Nall (USA)	2:25.35 s	Indianapolis, United States	2 March 1992	^[1]
Olympic record	Silke Hörner (GDR)	2:26.71 s	Seoul, South Korea	21 September 1988	^[2]

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Time	OR	WR
27 July	Final A	Kyoko Iwasaki	Japan	2:26.65	OR

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Anita Nall	United States	2:27.77	QA
2	5	3	Kyoko Iwasaki	Japan	2:27.78	QA
3	3	6	Yelena Rudkovskaya	Unified Team	2:28.24	QA
4	5	5	Guylaine Cloutier	Canada	2:29.01	QA
5	5	2	Nathalie Giguère	Canada	2:29.71	QA
6	5	6	Lin Li	China	2:29.99	QA
7	3	3	Manuela Dalla Valle	Italy	2:30.75	QA
8	4	2	Alicja Pęczak	Poland	2:30.78	QA
9	4	4	Jill Johnson	United States	2:30.80	QB
10	5	8	Gabriella Csépe	Hungary	2:32.04	QB
11	3	4	Samantha Riley	Australia	2:32.09	QB
12	4	7	Daniela Brendel	Germany	2:32.09	QB
13	4	5	Audrey Guérit	France	2:32.33	QB
14	3	5	Yelena Volkova	Unified Team	2:32.39	QB
15	3	2	Kyoko Kasuya	Japan	2:32.55	QB
16	3	8	Magdalena Kupiec	Poland	2:33.92	QB
17	3	7	Brigitte Becue	Belgium	2:34.11
18	3	1	Jana Dörries	Germany	2:34.58
19	4	3	Linley Frame	Australia	2:34.73
20	4	6	Beatrice Căslaru	Romania	2:34.97
21	2	3	Britta Vestergaard	Denmark	2:35.28
22	4	8	Suki Brownsdon	Great Britain	2:35.28
23	4	1	Park Mi-Yeong	South Korea	2:35.33
24	5	1	Elena Donati	Italy	2:36.42
25	1	4	Martina Nemec	Austria	2:36.65
26	2	7	Kira Bulten	Netherlands	2:37.09
27	2	4	Ragnheiður Runólfsdóttir	Iceland	2:37.42
28	2	5	Lourdes Becerra	Spain	2:37.69
29	5	7	Lu Di	China	2:38.63
30	2	2	Sornsawan Phuvichit	Thailand	2:41.20
31	2	6	Martine Janssen	Netherlands	2:41.48
32	1	5	Jenny Smatt	23x15px Bermuda	2:42.25
33	2	1	Jaime King	Great Britain	2:44.49
34	2	8	Penelope Heyns	South Africa	2:45.04
35	1	2	Priscilla Madero	23x15px Ecuador	2:46.79
36	1	3	Barbara Pexa	Guam	2:47.27
37	1	6	Claudia Velásquez	Peru	2:47.31
38	1	7	Nguyễn Thị Phương	Vietnam	2:57.71
39	1	1	Elke Talma	23x15px Seychelles	3:12.13
40	1	8	Bako Ratsifandrihamanana	Madagascar	—	DNS^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
1	5	Gabriella Csépe	Hungary	2:31.15
2	6	Daniela Brendel	Germany	2:32.05
3	2	Audrey Guérit	France	2:32.10
4	3	Samantha Riley	Australia	2:32.63
5	1	Kyoko Kasuya	Japan	2:32.97
6	4	Jill Johnson	United States	2:33.89
7	8	Magdalena Kupiec	Poland	2:35.74
8	7	Yelena Volkova	Unified Team	2:37.65

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Kyoko Iwasaki	Japan	2:26.65	OR^[3]
	7	Lin Li	China	2:26.85
	4	Anita Nall	United States	2:26.88
4	3	Yelena Rudkovskaya	Unified Team	2:28.47
5	6	Guylaine Cloutier	Canada	2:29.88
6	2	Nathalie Giguère	Canada	2:30.11
7	1	Manuela Dalla Valle	Italy	2:31.21
8	8	Alicja Pęczak	Poland	2:31.76