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Women's 400 metre individual medley
at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
Women's 400 metre individual medley; at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
Venue	Georgia Tech Aquatic Center
Date	20 July 1996 (heats & finals)
Competitors	31 from 24 nations
Winning time	4:39.18 NR
Medalists
	← 1992 2000 →

The women's 400 metre individual medley event at the 1996 Summer Olympics took place on 20 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	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	4:43.09	Q
2	4	3	Emma Johnson	Australia	4:43.45	Q
3	3	5	Michelle Smith	Ireland	4:43.79	Q
4	4	5	Allison Wagner	United States	4:44.06	Q
5	4	1	Beatrice Căşlaru	Romania	4:44.66	Q
6	3	2	Whitney Metzler	United States	4:44.74	Q
7	2	3	Sabine Herbst	Germany	4:45.36	Q
8	2	7	Lourdes Becerra	Spain	4:45.54	Q, NR
9	2	5	Joanne Malar	Canada	4:47.85	q
10	3	3	Fumie Kurotori	Japan	4:48.51	q
11	4	7	Nancy Sweetnam	Canada	4:48.56	q
12	3	7	Hideko Hiranaka	Japan	4:49.32	q
13	4	2	Hana Černá	Czech Republic	4:49.43	q, NR
14	2	6	Elli Overton	Australia	4:49.82	q
15	3	1	Pavla Chrástová	Czech Republic	4:51.35	q
16	1	4	Yseult Gervy	Belgium	4:53.11	q, NR
17	3	4	Chen Yan	China	4:53.87
18	2	4	Wu Yanyan	China	4:54.07
19	4	8	Sarah Hardcastle	Great Britain	4:54.64
20	3	8	Britta Vestergaard	Denmark	4:55.03
21	3	6	Cathleen Rund	Germany	4:55.30
22	1	7	Carolyn Adel	Suriname	4:55.48	NR
23	1	5	Mirjana Boševska	Macedonia	4:55.57
24	2	2	Anna Wilson	New Zealand	4:55.72
25	1	1	Aikaterini Sarakatsani	Greece	4:56.32	NR
26	4	6	Darya Shmeleva	Russia	4:57.06
27	1	3	Praphalsai Minpraphal	Thailand	4:58.33
28	1	2	Lee Ji-hyun	South Korea	4:59.52
29	1	6	Hsieh Shu-tzu	Chinese Taipei	5:01.70
30	2	8	Martina Nemec	Austria	5:02.52
31	2	1	Nadège Cliton	France	5:06.46

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	4	Joanne Malar	Canada	4:46.34
10	2	Hana Černá	Czech Republic	4:46.78	NR
11	3	Nancy Sweetnam	Canada	4:47.55
12	5	Fumie Kurotori	Japan	4:47.98
13	6	Hideko Hiranaka	Japan	4:48.72
14	7	Elli Overton	Australia	4:50.73
15	8	Yseult Gervy	Belgium	4:52.89
16	1	Pavla Chrástová	Czech Republic	4:56.23

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3	Michelle Smith	Ireland	4:39.18	NR
	6	Allison Wagner	United States	4:42.03
	4	Krisztina Egerszegi	Hungary	4:42.53
4	1	Sabine Herbst	Germany	4:43.78
5	5	Emma Johnson	Australia	4:44.02
6	2	Beatrice Câșlaru	Romania	4:44.91
7	8	Lourdes Becerra	Spain	4:45.17	NR
8	7	Whitney Metzler	United States	4:46.20