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

Women's 100 metre backstroke
at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
Women's 100 metre backstroke; at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
Venue	Georgia Tech Aquatic Center
Date	22 July 1996 (heats & finals)
Competitors	36 from 30 nations
Winning time	1:01.19
Medalists
	← 1992 2000 →

The women's 100 metre backstroke event at the 1996 Summer Olympics took place on 22 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	He Cihong (CHN)	1:00.16	Rome, Italy	10 September 1994
Olympic record	Krisztina Egerszegi (HUN)	1:00.68	Barcelona, Spain	28 July 1992

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	5	4	Whitney Hedgepeth	United States	1:01.70	Q
2	5	5	Beth Botsford	United States	1:02.00	Q
3	4	3	Marianne Kriel	South Africa	1:02.33	Q, AF
4	4	5	Mai Nakamura	Japan	1:02.35	Q
5	3	5	Nicole Stevenson	Australia	1:02.50	Q
6	3	3	Chen Yan	China	1:02.62	Q
7	3	2	Antje Buschschulte	Germany	1:02.68	Q
8	4	4	Miki Nakao	Japan	1:02.90	Q
9	3	4	Nina Zhivanevskaya	Russia	1:02.94	q
10	5	7	Anke Scholz	Germany	1:03.05	q
11	5	3	Mette Jacobsen	Denmark	1:03.14	q, WD
12	4	6	Olga Kochetkova	Russia	1:03.17	q
13	4	7	Lydia Lipscombe	New Zealand	1:03.61	q
14	4	2	Therese Alshammar	Sweden	1:03.79	q
15	5	6	Julie Howard	Canada	1:03.84	q
16	5	6	Elli Overton	Australia	1:03.88	q
17	5	1	Helen Slatter	Great Britain	1:03.89	q
18	2	4	Lee Ji-hyun	South Korea	1:03.96	NR
19	3	7	Hélène Ricardo	France	1:04.03
20	3	1	Eva Piñera	Spain	1:04.41
21	2	3	Praphalsai Minpraphal	Thailand	1:04.61	NR
22	5	8	Maria Santos	Portugal	1:04.84
23	4	8	Anu Koivisto	Finland	1:05.25
24	2	7	Marcela Kubalčíková	Czech Republic	1:05.48
25	2	1	Yseult Gervy	Belgium	1:05.72
26	3	6	He Cihong	China	1:05.87
27	2	2	Aikaterini Klepkou	Greece	1:05.94
28	2	5	Florina Herea	Romania	1:06.12
28	2	6	Akiko Thomson	Philippines	1:06.12
30	3	8	Valeria Álvarez	Argentina	1:06.38
31	4	1	Dagmara Komorowicz	Poland	1:06.70
32	1	4	Annamária Kiss	Hungary	1:07.38
33	1	6	Gail Rizzo	Malta	1:07.61
34	2	8	Tsai Shu-min	Chinese Taipei	1:11.44
35	1	3	Ximena Escalera	Bolivia	1:11.70
36	1	5	Harijesy Razafindramahatra	Madagascar	1:13.83

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
9	4	Nina Zhivanevskaya	Russia	1:02.38
10	5	Anke Scholz	Germany	1:02.85
11	6	Lydia Lipscombe	New Zealand	1:03.30
12	3	Olga Kochetkova	Russia	1:03.52
13	8	Helen Slatter	Great Britain	1:03.61
14	7	Elli Overton	Australia	1:03.69
15	2	Julie Howard	Canada	1:04.01
16	1	Therese Alshammar	Sweden	1:04.15

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Beth Botsford	United States	1:01.19
	4	Whitney Hedgepeth	United States	1:01.47
	3	Marianne Kriel	South Africa	1:02.12	AF
4	6	Mai Nakamura	Japan	1:02.33
5	7	Chen Yan	China	1:02.50
6	1	Antje Buschschulte	Germany	1:02.52
7	2	Nicole Stevenson	Australia	1:02.70
8	8	Miki Nakao	Japan	1:02.78