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Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics was held from 26 to 31 July 1992 at Piscines Bernat Picornell.

Medal Table[]

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 United States United States 11 9 7 27
2 Unified Team Unified Team 6 3 1 10
3 Hungary Hungary 5 3 1 9
4 China China 4 5 0 9
5 Germany Germany 1 3 7 11
6 Australia Australia 1 3 5 9
7 Canada Canada 1 0 1 2
8 Japan Japan 1 0 0 1
Spain Spain 1 0 0 1
10 Sweden Sweden 0 2 1 3
11 Brazil Brazil 0 1 0 1
New Zealand New Zealand 0 1 0 1
Poland Poland 0 1 0 1
14 France France 0 0 3 3
15 Italy Italy 0 0 2 2
16 Finland Finland 0 0 1 1
Great Britain Great Britain 0 0 1 1
Suriname Suriname 0 0 1 1

Medalists[]

Men[]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
50 m freestyle Alexander Popov
Unified Team
Matthew Biondi
United States
Tom Jager
United States
100 m freestyle Alexander Popov
Unified Team
Gustavo Borges
Brazil
Stephan Caron
France
200 m freestyle Evgueni Sadovyi
Unified Team
Anders Holmertz
Sweden
Antti Kasvio
Finland
400 m freestyle Evgueni Sadovyi
Unified Team
Kieren Perkins
Australia
Anders Holmertz
Sweden
1500 m freestyle Kieren Perkins
Australia
Glen Housman
Australia
Joerg Hoffmann
Germany
100 m backstroke Mark Tewksbury
Canada
Jeff Norman Rouse
United States
David Berkoff
United States
200 m backstroke Martin Lopez-Zubero
Spain
Vladimir Selkov
Unified Team
Stefano Battistelli
Italy
100 m breaststroke Nelson Diebel
United States
Norbert Rozsa
Hungary
Phil Rogers
Australia
200 m breaststroke Mike Barrowman
United States
Norbert Rozsa
Hungary
Nick Gillingham
Great Britain
100 m butterfly Pablo Morales
United States
Rafal Szukala
Poland
Anthony Conrad Nesty
Suriname
200 m butterfly Mel Stewart
United States
Danyon Loader
New Zealand
Franck Esposito
France
200 m individual medley Tamas Darnyi
Hungary
Gregory Burgess
United States
Attila Czene
Hungary
400 m individual medley Tamas Darnyi
Hungary
Eric Namesnik
United States
Luca Sacchi
Italy
4x100 m freestyle relay United States United States
Matthew Biondi
Joseph Hudepohl
Tom Jager
Shaun Jordan
Jon Olsen
Joel Thomas
Unified Team Unified Team
Iouri Bachkatov
Pavel Khnykine
Alexander Popov
Guennadi Prigoda
Vladimir Pychnenko
Veniamin Taianovich
Germany Germany
Mark Pinger
Dirk Richter
Andreas Szigat
Christian Troeger
Steffen Zesner
Bengt Zikarsky
4x200 m freestyle relay Unified Team Unified Team
Alexei Koudriavtsev
Dmitri Lepikov
Iouri Moukhine
Vladimir Pychnenko
Evgueni Sadovyi
Veniamin Taianovich
Sweden Sweden
Lars Frolander
Anders Holmertz
Christer Wallin
Tommy Werner
United States United States
Doug Gjertsen
Joseph Hudepohl
Scott Jaffe
Daniel Jorgensen
Jon Olsen
Mel Stewart
4x100 m medley relay United States United States
David Berkoff
Matthew Biondi
Hans Dersch
Nelson Diebel
Pablo Morales
Jon Olsen
Jeff Norman Rouse
Mel Stewart
Unified Team Unified Team
Vassili Ivanov
Pavel Khnykine
Vladislav Koulikov
Alexander Popov
Vladimir Pychnenko
Vladimir Selkov
Dmitri Volkov
Canada Canada
Stephen Clarke
Jonathan Thomas Cleveland
Marcel Gery
Thomas Ponting
Mark Tewksbury

Women[]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
50 m freestyle Yang Wenyi
China
Zhuang Yong
China
Angel Martino
United States
100 m freestyle Zhuang Yong
China
Jennifer Thompson
United States
Franziska van Almsick
Germany
200 m freestyle Nicole Haislett
United States
Franziska van Almsick
Germany
Kerstin Kielgass
Germany
400 m freestyle Dagmar Hase
Germany
Janet Evans
United States
Hayley Jane Lewis
Australia
800 m freestyle Janet Evans
United States
Hayley Jane Lewis
Australia
Jana Henke
Germany
100 m backstroke Krisztina Egerszegi
Hungary
Tunde Szabo
Hungary
Lea Loveless
United States
200 m backstroke Krisztina Egerszegi
Hungary
Dagmar Hase
Germany
Nicole Dawn Stevenson
Australia
100 m breaststroke Elena Roudkovskaia
Unified Team
Anita Nall
United States
Samantha Linette Riley
Australia
200 m breaststroke Kyoko Iwasaki
Japan
Lin Li
China
Anita Nall
United States
100 m butterfly Qian Hong
China
Christine Ahmann-Leighton
United States
Catherine Plewinski
France
200 m butterfly Summer Sanders
United States
Wang Xiaohong
China
Susie O'Neill
Australia
200 m individual medley Lin Li
China
Summer Sanders
United States
Daniela Hunger
Germany
400 m individual medley Krisztina Egerszegi
Hungary
Lin Li
China
Summer Sanders
United States
4x100 m freestyle relay United States United States
Christine Ahmann-Leighton
Nicole Haislett
Angel Martino
Ashley Tappin
Jennifer Thompson
Dara Torres
China China
Le Jingyi
Lu Bin
Yang Wenyi
Zhao Kun
Zhuang Yong
Germany Germany
Annette Hadding
Daniela Hunger
Kerstin Kielgass
Simone Osygus
Manuela Stellmach
Franziska van Almsick
4x100 m medley relay United States United States
Christine Ahmann-Leighton
Nicole Haislett
Megan Kleine
Lea Loveless
Anita Nall
Summer Sanders
Jennifer Thompson
Elizabeth Wagstaff
Germany Germany
Daniela Brendel
Jana Doerries
Dagmar Hase
Daniela Hunger
Simone Osygus
Bettina Ustrowski
Franziska van Almsick
Unified Team Unified Team
Elena Choubina
Nina Jivanevskaia
Olga Kiritchenko
Natalia Mechtcheriakova
Elena Roudkovskaia

Statistics[]

  • There were 641 total athletes from 92 countries.
  • Judit Kiss was the youngest participant with 12 years and 183 days.
  • Gilles Coudray was the oldest participant with 36 years and 262 days.
  • 9 participants were chosen to be a flag bearer at the opening ceremony.
  • China and Hungary won 9 medals, more than in any other sport.
  • Suriname won its only medal of Barcelona 1992.
  • China won its first-ever 4 gold medals in the sport.
  • Spain won its first-ever gold medal in the sport.
  • Finland won its first medal in the sport since Antwerp 1920.
  • Brazil won its first medal in the sport since Los Angeles 1984.
  • 5 world records and 12 Olympic records were broken in the course of the competition.
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