Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Women's 400 metre individual medley

Women's 400 metre individual medley
at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Women's 400 metre individual medley; at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Venue	Piscines Bernat Picornell
Date	26 July 1992 (heats & finals)
Competitors	32 from 21 nations
Winning time	4:36.54 NR
Medalists
	← 1988 1996 →

The women's 400 metre individual medley event at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place on 26 July 1992 at the Piscines Bernat Picornell in Barcelona, Spain.^[1]

Records

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

World record	Petra Schneider (GDR)	4:36.10	Guayaquil, Ecuador	1 August 1982
Olympic record	Petra Schneider (GDR)	4:36.29	Moscow, Soviet Union	26 July 1980

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	4	4	Krisztina Egerszegi	Hungary	4:43.83	Q
2	2	4	Summer Sanders	United States	4:43.95	Q
3	3	4	Lin Li	China	4:45.74	Q
4	2	6	Ewa Synowska	Poland	4:46.00	Q, NR
5	3	6	Eri Kimura	Japan	4:46.17	Q, NR
6	2	3	Hayley Lewis	Australia	4:46.57	Q
7	3	5	Daniela Hunger	Germany	4:47.39	Q
8	3	3	Hideko Hiranaka	Japan	4:47.92	Q
9	2	5	Beatrice Câșlaru	Romania	4:48.12	q
10	4	5	Erika Hansen	United States	4:48.13	q
11	4	2	Jana Haas	Germany	4:49.93	q
12	4	1	Silvia Parera	Spain	4:50.16	q
13	4	6	Jacqueline McKenzie	Australia	4:51.80	q
14	2	2	Hana Černá	Czechoslovakia	4:52.21	q
15	4	3	Nancy Sweetnam	Canada	4:52.41	q
16	3	2	Joanne Malar	Canada	4:52.85	q
17	1	3	Phillippa Langrell	New Zealand	4:53.62	NR
18	3	8	Noemi Lung	Romania	4:53.91
19	2	7	Céline Bonnet	France	4:54.70
20	4	7	Yan Ming	China	4:54.93
21	2	1	Sharron Davies	Great Britain	4:56.44
22	3	1	Elisenda Pérez	Spain	4:56.78
23	3	7	Helen Slatter	Great Britain	4:58.24
24	4	8	Marta Włodkowska	Poland	4:58.30
25	1	4	Jeanine Steenkamp	South Africa	4:58.48
26	1	5	Michelle Smith	Ireland	4:58.94
27	1	2	Jill Brukman	South Africa	5:03.34
28	1	6	Praphalsai Minpraphal	Thailand	5:04.95
29	1	7	Keren Regal	Israel	5:07.97
30	1	8	May Ooi	Singapore	5:08.19
31	1	1	Claudia Fortin	Honduras	5:09.84
	2	8	Britta Vestergaard	Denmark	DSQ

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
9	3	Jana Haas	Germany	4:47.74
10	5	Erika Hansen	United States	4:48.37
11	8	Joanne Malar	Canada	4:48.52
12	6	Silvia Parera	Spain	4:48.77
13	1	Nancy Sweetnam	Canada	4:50.17
14	7	Hana Černá	Czechoslovakia	4:50.30
15	4	Beatrice Câșlaru	Romania	4:50.60
16	2	Jacqueline McKenzie	Australia	4:52.04

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Krisztina Egerszegi	Hungary	4:36.54	NR
	3	Lin Li	China	4:36.73	AS
	5	Summer Sanders	United States	4:37.58
4	7	Hayley Lewis	Australia	4:43.75
5	8	Hideko Hiranaka	Japan	4:46.24
6	1	Daniela Hunger	Germany	4:47.57
7	2	Eri Kimura	Japan	4:47.78
8	6	Ewa Synowska	Poland	4:53.32