Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Women's 50 metre freestyle
Appearance
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Women's 50 metre freestyle at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Georgia Tech Aquatic Center | ||||||||||||
Date | 26 July 1996 (heats & finals) | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 56 from 48 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 24.87 AM | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics | ||
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Freestyle | ||
50 m | men | women |
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
400 m | men | women |
800 m | women | |
1500 m | men | |
Backstroke | ||
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
Breaststroke | ||
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
Butterfly | ||
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
Individual medley | ||
200 m | men | women |
400 m | men | women |
Freestyle relay | ||
4 × 100 m | men | women |
4 × 200 m | men | women |
Medley relay | ||
4 × 100 m | men | women |
The women's 50 metre freestyle event at the 1996 Summer Olympics took place on 26 July at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center in Atlanta, United States.[1]
Records
[edit]Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
World record | Le Jingyi (CHN) | 24.51 | Rome, Italy | 11 September 1994 |
Olympic record | Yang Wenyi (CHN) | 24.79 | Barcelona, Spain | 31 July 1992 |
Results
[edit]Heats
[edit]Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A (Q), while the next eight to final B (q).[2]
Finals
[edit]Final B
[edit]Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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9 | 3 | Marianne Muis | Netherlands | 25.74 | |
10 | 2 | Angela Postma | Netherlands | 25.82 | |
11 | 8 | Claudia Franco | Spain | 26.04 | |
12 | 5 | Sumika Minamoto | Japan | 26.05 | |
13 | 6 | Yevgeniya Yermakova | Kazakhstan | 26.06 | |
14 | 7 | Simone Osygus | Germany | 26.16 | |
15 | 4 | Karen van Wirdum | Australia | 26.17 | |
16 | 1 | Laura Petrutytė | Lithuania | 26.36 |
Final A
[edit]Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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5 | Amy Van Dyken | United States | 24.87 | AM | |
4 | Le Jingyi | China | 24.90 | ||
3 | Sandra Völker | Germany | 25.14 | ||
4 | 6 | Angel Martino | United States | 25.31 | |
5 | 1 | Leah Martindale | Barbados | 25.49 | NR |
6 | 8 | Linda Olofsson | Sweden | 25.63 | |
7 | 2 | Shan Ying | China | 25.70 | |
7 | Natalya Meshcheryakova | Russia |
References
[edit]- ^ "Swimming at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games: Women's 50 metres Freestyle". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
- ^ "Atlanta 1996: Swimming – Women's 50m Freestyle Heats" (PDF). Atlanta 1996. LA84 Foundation. pp. 35–36. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
- ^ "Atlanta 1996: Swimming – Women's 50m Freestyle Finals" (PDF). Atlanta 1996. LA84 Foundation. p. 36. Retrieved 11 September 2017.