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

The women's 200 metre butterfly event at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place on 31 July at the Piscines Bernat Picornell in Barcelona, Spain.^[1]

Women's 200 metre butterfly at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Venue	Piscines Bernat Picornell
Date	31 July 1992 (heats & finals)
Competitors	34 from 24 nations
Winning time	2:08.67
Medalists
Summer Sanders  United States Wang Xiaohong  China Susie O'Neill  Australia
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Records

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

World record	Mary T. Meagher (USA)	2:05.96	Brown Deer, United States	13 August 1981
Olympic record	Mary T. Meagher (USA)	2:06.90	Los Angeles, United States	4 August 1984

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	5	5	Susie O'Neill	Australia	2:10.47	Q
2	5	4	Summer Sanders	United States	2:10.58	Q
3	3	4	Rie Shito	Japan	2:11.00	Q
4	4	5	Mika Haruna	Japan	2:11.21	Q
5	4	4	Wang Xiaohong	China	2:11.83	Q
6	4	3	Angie Wester-Krieg	United States	2:12.00	Q
7	5	6	Ilaria Tocchini	Italy	2:13.03	Q
8	3	5	Mette Jacobsen	Denmark	2:13.18	Q
9	3	3	Cécile Jeanson	France	2:13.23	q
10	5	3	Hayley Lewis	Australia	2:14.50	q
11	4	7	Ewa Synowska	Poland	2:14.58	q, NR
12	2	4	Anna Uryniuk	Poland	2:14.91	q
13	4	6	Samantha Purvis	Great Britain	2:15.04	q
14	3	7	Iuliana Pantelimon	Romania	2:15.44	q
15	3	6	María Peláez	Spain	2:15.77	q
16	5	2	Berit Puggaard	Denmark	2:16.11	q
17	3	1	María Luisa Fernández	Spain	2:16.18
18	5	1	Nataša Meškovska	Independent Olympic Participants	2:16.54
19	4	8	Joana Arantes	Portugal	2:16.56
20	4	1	Timea Toth	Israel	2:16.84
21	5	7	Corina Dumitru	Romania	2:16.86
22	4	2	Nataliya Yakovleva	Unified Team	2:19.02
23	3	2	Jacinthe Pineau	Canada	2:19.44
24	2	3	Helen Slatter	Great Britain	2:20.45
25	1	5	Praphalsai Minpraphal	Thailand	2:20.48
26	1	4	Bettina Ustrowski	Germany	2:21.49
27	1	2	Anja Margetić	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2:21.56
28	2	2	Blanca Morales	Guatemala	2:21.97
29	5	8	Qian Hong	China	2:22.77
30	2	5	Shelley Cramer	Virgin Islands	2:25.24
31	1	6	Claudia Fortin	Honduras	2:26.92
32	1	3	May Ooi	Singapore	2:26.97
	2	6	Jeanine Steenkamp	South Africa	DNS
	3	8	Brigitte Becue	Belgium	DNS

Finals

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Final B

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	5	Hayley Lewis	Australia	2:13.11
10	4	Cécile Jeanson	France	2:13.40
11	3	Ewa Synowska	Poland	2:13.61	NR
12	6	Anna Uryniuk	Poland	2:14.44
13	2	Samantha Purvis	Great Britain	2:14.47
14	7	Iuliana Pantelimon	Romania	2:14.95
15	8	Berit Puggaard	Denmark	2:15.07
	1	María Peláez	Spain

Final A

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Summer Sanders	United States	2:08.67
	2	Wang Xiaohong	China	2:09.01	AS
	4	Susie O'Neill	Australia	2:09.03	OC
4	6	Mika Haruna	Japan	2:09.88	NR
5	3	Rie Shito	Japan	2:10.24
6	7	Angie Wester-Krieg	United States	2:11.46
7	8	Mette Jacobsen	Denmark	2:11.87	NR
8	1	Ilaria Tocchini	Italy	2:13.78