en Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre backstroke

Women's 200 metre backstroke
at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
Women's 200 metre backstroke; at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
Venue	Georgia Tech Aquatic Center
Date	25 July 1996 (heats & finals)
Competitors	33 from 28 nations
Winning time	2:07.83
Medalists
	← 1992 2000 →

The women's 200 metre backstroke event at the 1996 Summer Olympics took place on 25 July at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center in Atlanta, United States.^[1]

Records

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

World record	Krisztina Egerszegi (HUN)	2:06.62	Athens, Greece	25 August 1991
Olympic record	Krisztina Egerszegi (HUN)	2:07.06	Barcelona, Spain	31 July 1992

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	4	Krisztina Egerszegi	Hungary	2:09.18	Q
2	4	3	Whitney Hedgepeth	United States	2:11.63	Q
3	4	6	Anke Scholz	Germany	2:12.73	Q
4	4	4	Miki Nakao	Japan	2:12.92	Q
5	3	5	Nina Zhivanevskaya	Russia	2:13.32	Q
6	3	3	Lorenza Vigarani	Italy	2:13.58	Q
6	5	5	Cathleen Rund	Germany	2:13.58	Q
8	5	2	Anna Simcic	New Zealand	2:13.74	Q
9	3	4	Beth Botsford	United States	2:14.16	q
10	3	2	Hélène Ricardo	France	2:14.18	q
10	3	7	Lee Chang-ha	South Korea	2:14.18	q, NR
12	5	6	Chen Yan	China	2:14.74	q
13	5	3	Mai Nakamura	Japan	2:15.05	q
14	5	1	Joanne Deakins	Great Britain	2:15.12	q
15	4	7	Cătălina Cășaru	Romania	2:15.92	q
16	4	2	Marianne Kriel	South Africa	2:15.99	q
17	4	1	Mette Jacobsen	Denmark	2:16.68
18	4	5	Nicole Stevenson	Australia	2:16.71
19	3	1	Izabela Burczyk	Poland	2:16.91	NR
20	2	4	Julie Howard	Canada	2:17.25
21	5	8	Kateřina Pivoňková	Czech Republic	2:18.20
22	4	8	Yseult Gervy	Belgium	2:18.69
23	3	8	Ivette María	Spain	2:18.72
24	5	7	Lydia Lipscombe	New Zealand	2:19.54
25	2	2	Anu Koivisto	Finland	2:19.58	NR
26	2	6	Petra Chaves	Portugal	2:20.49
27	1	5	Maja Grozdanić	FR Yugoslavia	2:20.65
28	3	6	Wu Yanyan	China	2:20.89
29	2	5	Akiko Thomson	Philippines	2:21.36
30	1	4	Praphalsai Minpraphal	Thailand	2:21.82
31	2	3	Aikaterini Klepkou	Greece	2:22.83
32	1	3	Dijana Kvesić	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2:23.78
33	2	7	Lin Chi-chan	Chinese Taipei	2:24.50

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
9	2	Mai Nakamura	Japan	2:13.40
10	4	Beth Botsford	United States	2:13.48
11	6	Chen Yan	China	2:14.37
12	7	Joanne Deakins	Great Britain	2:14.50
13	5	Lee Chang-ha	South Korea	2:14.55
14	1	Cătãlina Cășaru	Romania	2:15.15
15	3	Hélène Ricardo	France	2:16.29
16	8	Marianne Kriel	South Africa	2:18.41

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	4	Krisztina Egerszegi	Hungary	2:07.83
	5	Whitney Hedgepeth	United States	2:11.98
	7	Cathleen Rund	Germany	2:12.06
4	3	Anke Scholz	Germany	2:12.90
5	6	Miki Nakao	Japan	2:13.57
6	8	Anna Simcic	New Zealand	2:14.04
7	1	Lorenza Vigarani	Italy	2:14.56
8	2	Nina Zhivanevskaya	Russia	2:14.59