Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre butterfly

Women's 100 metre butterfly at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
Venue	Georgia Tech Aquatic Center
Date	21 July 1996 (heats & finals)
Competitors	44 from 36 nations
Winning time	59.13
Medalists
Amy Van Dyken  United States Liu Limin  China Angel Martino  United States

The women's 100 metre butterfly event at the 1996 Summer Olympics took place on 24 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)	57.93	Brown Deer, United States	16 August 1981
Olympic record	Qian Hong (CHN)	58.62	Barcelona, Spain	29 July 1992

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	Angel Martino	United States	59.31	Q
2	6	3	Amy Van Dyken	United States	1:00.04	Q
3	6	5	Liu Limin	China	1:00.18	Q
4	6	4	Ayari Aoyama	Japan	1:00.20	Q
5	5	5	Susie O'Neill	Australia	1:00.55	Q
6	4	4	Hitomi Kashima	Japan	1:00.85	Q
7	4	5	Cai Huijue	China	1:00.89	Q
8	4	3	Mette Jacobsen	Denmark	1:00.91	Q
9	5	2	Johanna Sjöberg	Sweden	1:01.01	q
10	4	2	Gabrielle Rose	Brazil	1:01.22	q, SA
11	5	7	Sophia Skou	Denmark	1:01.25	q
12	6	6	Svetlana Pozdeyeva	Russia	1:01.29	q
13	6	2	Sarah Evanetz	Canada	1:01.32	q
14	4	7	Julia Voitovitsch	Germany	1:01.47	q
15	5	1	Yelena Nazemnova	Russia	1:01.54	q
16	4	6	Cécile Jeanson	France	1:01.58	q
17	5	6	Ilaria Tocchini	Italy	1:01.83
18	5	3	Angela Kennedy	Australia	1:01.89
19	6	7	María Peláez	Spain	1:01.99
20	3	7	Nataliya Zolotukhina	Ukraine	1:02.18	NR
21	3	5	Anna Uryniuk	Poland	1:02.39
22	3	3	Marja Pärssinen	Finland	1:02.53
23	4	8	Loredana Zisu	Romania	1:02.66
24	4	1	Joscelin Yeo	Singapore	1:02.71
25	6	8	Jessica Amey	Canada	1:02.81
26	2	5	Ana Francisco	Portugal	1:02.98
27	5	8	Caroline Foot	Great Britain	1:03.04
28	3	8	Praphalsai Minpraphal	Thailand	1:03.35
29	3	1	Eydis Konráðsdóttir	Iceland	1:03.41	NR
30	3	2	Mandy Loots	South Africa	1:03.53
31	3	6	Edit Klocker	Hungary	1:03.61
32	3	4	Marion Madine	Ireland	1:03.80
33	2	3	Marcela Kubalčíková	Czech Republic	1:03.82
34	1	5	María del Pilar Pereyra	Argentina	1:03.98	NR
35	2	7	Natalya Baranovskaya	Belarus	1:04.09
36	2	8	Nida Zuhal	Turkey	1:04.11
37	2	2	Nataša Meškovska	Macedonia	1:04.25
38	2	4	Hsieh Shu-ting	Chinese Taipei	1:04.39
39	1	3	Dita Želvienė	Lithuania	1:04.63
40	2	1	Marina Karystinou	Greece	1:05.05
41	1	4	Park Woo-hee	South Korea	1:05.36
42	2	6	Gabrijela Ujčić	Croatia	1:06.85
	1	6	Monica Dahl	Namibia	DNS
	6	1	Sandra Völker	Germany	DNS

Finals

Final B

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	4	Johanna Sjöberg	Sweden	1:00.76	NR
10	1	Yelena Nazemnova	Russia	1:00.93
11	3	Sophia Skou	Denmark	1:00.95
12	7	Julia Voitovitsch	Germany	1:01.14
13	8	Cécile Jeanson	France	1:01.20
14	5	Gabrielle Rose	Brazil	1:01.39
15	2	Sarah Evanetz	Canada	1:01.44
16	6	Svetlana Pozdeyeva	Russia	1:01.62

Final A

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Amy Van Dyken	United States	59.13
	3	Liu Limin	China	59.14
	4	Angel Martino	United States	59.23
4	7	Hitomi Kashima	Japan	1:00.11
5	2	Susie O'Neill	Australia	1:00.17
6	6	Ayari Aoyama	Japan	1:00.18
7	1	Cai Huijue	China	1:00.46
8	8	Mette Jacobsen	Denmark	1:00.76

External links

• Official Report
• USA Swimming