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

Women's 200 metre butterfly at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
Venue	Georgia Tech Aquatic Center
Date	26 July 1996 (heats & finals)
Competitors	35 from 29 nations
Winning time	2:07.76
Medalists
Susie O'Neill  Australia Petria Thomas  Australia Michelle Smith  Ireland

The women's 200 metre butterfly event at the 1996 Summer Olympics took place on 26 July at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center in Atlanta, United States.

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).

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Susie O'Neill	Australia	2:09.46	Q
2	5	3	Michelle Smith	Ireland	2:10.03	Q, NR
3	3	3	Petria Thomas	Australia	2:10.64	Q
4	3	4	Qu Yun	China	2:11.35	Q
5	3	6	Jessica Deglau	Canada	2:12.48	Q
6	4	5	Mika Haruna	Japan	2:12.59	Q
7	3	5	Trina Jackson	United States	2:12.69	Q
8	5	5	Liu Limin	China	2:13.12	Q
9	5	2	Andrea Schwartz	Canada	2:13.33	q
10	5	7	Bárbara Franco	Spain	2:13.34	q
11	4	2	Cécile Jeanson	France	2:13.58	q
12	3	2	Sophia Skou	Denmark	2:13.59	q
13	4	7	María Peláez	Spain	2:13.85	q
14	4	6	Anna Uryniuk	Poland	2:13.90	q
15	5	6	Annette Salmeen	United States	2:14.69	q
16	4	4	Hitomi Kashima	Japan	2:16.04	q
17	3	7	Ilaria Tocchini	Italy	2:16.10
18	4	1	Hsieh Shu-tzu	Chinese Taipei	2:16.27
19	4	8	Sabine Herbst	Germany	2:16.66
20	2	6	Nataliya Zolotukhina	Ukraine	2:16.68	NR
21	5	1	Loredana Zisu	Romania	2:17.56
22	3	1	Ana Francisco	Portugal	2:17.61
23	2	5	Nataša Meškovska	Macedonia	2:17.90
	3	8	Edit Klocker	Hungary
25	5	8	Praphalsai Minpraphal	Thailand	2:18.19
26	2	8	Nida Zuhal	Turkey	2:18.46	NR
27	2	4	Marcela Kubalčíková	Czech Republic	2:19.38
28	2	2	María del Pilar Pereyra	Argentina	2:19.57
29	2	3	Marina Karystinou	Greece	2:20.57
30	2	1	Mandy Loots	South Africa	2:20.73
31	2	7	Tinka Dančević	Croatia	2:20.74
32	1	4	Park Woo-hee	South Korea	2:22.99
33	1	5	Melissa Mata	Costa Rica	2:23.89
34	1	3	Sonia Álvarez	Puerto Rico	2:25.24
	4	3	Mette Jacobsen	Denmark	DNS

Finals

Final B

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	6	Sophia Skou	Denmark	2:12.41
10	3	Cécile Jeanson	France	2:12.99
11	2	María Peláez	Spain	2:13.05
12	1	Annette Salmeen	United States	2:13.64
	7	Anna Uryniuk	Poland
14	8	Hitomi Kashima	Japan	2:13.97
15	4	Andrea Schwartz	Canada	2:14.07
16	5	Bárbara Franco	Spain	2:14.16

Final A

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Susie O'Neill	Australia	2:07.76
	3	Petria Thomas	Australia	2:09.82
	5	Michelle Smith	Ireland	2:09.91	NR
4	6	Qu Yun	China	2:10.26
5	8	Liu Limin	China	2:10.70
6	2	Jessica Deglau	Canada	2:11.40
7	7	Mika Haruna	Japan	2:11.93
8	1	Trina Jackson	United States	2:11.96

External links

• Official Report
• USA Swimming