Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox Olympic event Template:SwimmingAt1996SummerOlympics The swimming competition at the 1996 Summer Olympics was held at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center in Atlanta, United States.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> There were 762 competitors from 117 countries.<ref name="SR">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> This was the last Olympics where swimming B-finals were held.

At the time of the games, the facility had a temporary 50 m warm-up pool located behind the locker rooms and entry concourse (on the ground); as well as a temporary roof, and open walls (there were wall-like structures/curtains at the diving well and turning end of the pool). The open walls allowed for temporary seating to be in place during the games. A wall and new roof have since been placed on the facility.

A total of 4 world records and 13 Olympic records were set during the competition

The women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay made its debut at these Games.

Medal summary

Men's events

50 m freestyle Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	22.13	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	22.26	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	22.29 SA
100 m freestyle Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	48.74	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	48.81	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	49.02
200 m freestyle Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:47.63 NR	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:48.08 SA	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:48.25
400 m freestyle Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	3:47.97 NR	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	3:49.00	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	3:49.39
1500 m freestyle Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	14:56.40	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	15:02.43	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	15:02.48 NR
100 m backstroke Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	54.10	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	54.98	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	55.02
200 m backstroke Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:58.54	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:58.99	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:59.18
100 m breaststroke Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:00.65	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:00.77 AM	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:01.33 NR
200 m breaststroke Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:12.57	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:13.03	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:13.17
100 m butterfly Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	52.27 Template:WR	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	52.53 OC	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	53.13
200 m butterfly Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:56.51	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:57.44	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:57.48
200 m medley Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:59.91 Template:OlyR	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:00.13	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:01.13 NR
400 m medley Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	4:14.90	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	4:15.25	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	4:16.28 NR
4 × 100 m freestyle relay Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCteam Jon Olsen Josh Davis Brad Schumacher Gary Hall, Jr. David Fox* Scott Tucker*	3:15.41 Template:OlyR	Template:FlagIOCteam Roman Yegorov Aleksandr Popov Vladimir Predkin Vladimir Pyshnenko Denis Pimankov*	3:17.06 ER	Template:FlagIOCteam Christian Tröger Bengt Zikarsky Björn Zikarsky Mark Pinger Alexander Lüderitz*	3:17.20
4 × 200 m freestyle relay Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCteam Josh Davis Joe Hudepohl Brad Schumacher Ryan Berube Jon Olsen*	7:14.84	Template:FlagIOCteam Christer Wallin Anders Holmertz Lars Frölander Anders Lyrbring	7:17.56	Template:FlagIOCteam Aimo Heilmann Christian Keller Christian Tröger Steffen Zesner Konstantin Dubrovin* Oliver Lampe*	7:17.71
4 × 100 m medley relay Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCteam Jeff Rouse Jeremy Linn Mark Henderson Gary Hall, Jr. Josh Davis* Kurt Grote* John Hargis* Tripp Schwenk*	3:34.84 Template:WR	Template:FlagIOCteam Vladimir Selkov Stanislav Lopukhov Denis Pankratov Aleksandr Popov Roman Ivanovsky* Vladislav Kulikov* Roman Yegorov*	3:37.55 ER	Template:FlagIOCteam Steven Dewick Phil Rogers Scott Miller Michael Klim Toby Haenen*	3:39.56 OC

* Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Women's events

50 m freestyle Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	24.87 AM	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	24.90	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	25.14
100 m freestyle Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	54.50 Template:OlyR	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	54.88	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	54.93
200 m freestyle Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:58.16	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:58.57	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:59.56
400 m freestyle Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	4:07.25 NR	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	4:08.30	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	4:08.70 NR
800 m freestyle Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	8:27.89	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	8:29.91	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	8:30.84 NR
100 m backstroke Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:01.19	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:01.47	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:02.12 AF
200 m backstroke Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:07.83	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:11.98	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:12.06
100 m breaststroke Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:07.73	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:08.09 AM	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:09.18
200 m breaststroke Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:25.41 Template:OlyR	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:25.75	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:26.57
100 m butterfly Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	59.13	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	59.14	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	59.23
200 m butterfly Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:07.76	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:09.82	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:09.91 NR
200 m individual medley Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:13.93 NR	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:14.35 NR	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:14.74
400 m individual medley Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	4:39.18 NR	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	4:42.03	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	4:42.53
4 × 100 m freestyle relay Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCteam Angel Martino Amy Van Dyken Catherine Fox Jenny Thompson Lisa Jacob* Melanie Valerio*	3:39.29 Template:OlyR	Template:FlagIOCteam Le Jingyi Chao Na Nian Yun Shan Ying	3:40.48	Template:FlagIOCteam Sandra Völker Simone Osygus Antje Buschschulte Franziska van Almsick Meike Freitag*	3:41.48
4 × 200 m freestyle relay Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCteam Trina Jackson Cristina Teuscher Sheila Taormina Jenny Thompson Lisa Jacob* Annette Salmeen* Ashley Whitney*	7:59.87 Template:OlyR, AM	Template:FlagIOCteam Franziska van Almsick Kerstin Kielgass Anke Scholz Dagmar Hase Meike Freitag* Simone Osygus*	8:01.55	Template:FlagIOCteam Julia Greville Nicole Stevenson Emma Johnson Susie O'Neill Lise Mackie*	8:05.47
4 × 100 m medley relay Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCteam Beth Botsford Amanda Beard Angel Martino Amy Van Dyken Catherine Fox* Whitney Hedgepeth* Kristine Quance* Jenny Thompson*	4:02.88	Template:FlagIOCteam Nicole Stevenson Samantha Riley Susie O'Neill Sarah Ryan Helen Denman* Angela Kennedy*	4:05.08	Template:FlagIOCteam Chen Yan Han Xue Cai Huijue Shan Ying	4:07.34

* Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Olympic and world records broken

Note: Any world record is also an Olympic record

Men

Event	Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
100 m Breaststroke	20 July	Heat 6	Frédérik Deburghgraeve	Template:FlagIOC	1:00.60	Template:WR
100 m Butterfly	24 July	Heat 7	Scott Miller	Template:FlagIOC	52.89	Template:OlyR
100 m Butterfly	24 July	Final A	Denis Pankratov	Template:FlagIOC	52.27	Template:WR
200 m Individual Medley	25 July	Final A	Attila Czene	Template:FlagIOC	1:59.91	Template:OlyR
Template:Nowrap Freestyle Relay	23 July	Final	Jon Olsen (49.94) Josh Davis (49.00) Brad Schumacher (49.02) Gary Hall, Jr. (47.45)	Template:FlagIOC	3:15.41	Template:OlyR
Template:Nowrap Medley Relay	26 July	Final	Jeff Rouse (53.95) Jeremy Linn (1:00.32) Mark Henderson (52.39) Gary Hall, Jr. (48.18)	Template:FlagIOC	3:34.84	Template:WR

Women

Event	Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
100 m Freestyle	20 July	Final A	Le Jingyi	Template:FlagIOC	54.50	Template:OlyR
100 m Breaststroke	21 July	Heat 6	Penny Heyns	Template:FlagIOC	1:07.02	Template:WR
200 m Breaststroke	23 July	Heat 4	Penny Heyns	Template:FlagIOC	2:26.63	Template:OlyR
200 m Breaststroke	23 July	Final A	Penny Heyns	Template:FlagIOC	2:25.41	Template:OlyR
Template:Nowrap Freestyle Relay	22 July	Final	Angel Martino (55.34) Amy Van Dyken (53.91) Catherine Fox (55.93) Jenny Thompson (54.11)	Template:FlagIOC	3:39.29	Template:OlyR
Template:Nowrap Freestyle Relay	25 July	Heat 2	Lisa Jacob (2:01.31) Ashley Whitney (2:01.77) Sheila Taormina (2:00.57) Annette Salmeen (2:01.34)	Template:FlagIOC	8:04.99	Template:OlyR
Template:Nowrap Freestyle Relay	25 July	Final	Trina Jackson (1:59.71) Cristina Teuscher (1:58.86) Sheila Taormina (2:01.29) Jenny Thompson (1:56.83)	Template:FlagIOC	7:59.87	Template:OlyR

Participating nations

762 swimmers from 117 nations competed.<ref name="SR"/>

External links

• Swim rankings results

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