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

Women's 200 metre butterfly
at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
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
	← 1992 2000 →

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.^[1]

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

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	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
23	3	8	Edit Klocker	Hungary	2:17.90
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

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
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
12	7	Anna Uryniuk	Poland	2:13.64
14	8	Hitomi Kashima	Japan	2:13.97
15	4	Andrea Schwartz	Canada	2:14.07
16	5	Bárbara Franco	Spain	2:14.16

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