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

Women's 100 metre breaststroke at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
Medalists
Penelope Heyns  South Africa Amanda Beard  United States Samantha Riley  Australia

Swimming events at the 1996 Summer Olympics
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 finals of the Women's 100 metres Breaststroke event for the 1996 Summer Olympics were held in Atlanta, United States, on July 21, 1996.

Results

Final A

RANK	FINAL A	TIME
	Penelope Heyns (RSA)	1:07.73
	Amanda Beard (USA)	1:08.09
	Samantha Riley (AUS)	1:09.18
4.	Svetlana Bondarenko (UKR)	1:09.21
5.	Vera Lischka (AUT)	1:09.24
6.	Guylaine Cloutier (CAN)	1:09.40
7.	Ágnes Kovács (HUN)	1:09.55
8.	Brigitte Becue (BEL)	1:09.79

Final B

RANK	FINAL B	TIME
9.	Han Xue (CHN)	1:09.90
10.	Lisa Flood (CAN)	1:10.21
11.	Helen Denman (AUS)	1:10.26
12.	Elin Austevoll (NOR)	1:10.27
13.	Masami Tanaka (JPN)	1:10.43
14.	Alicja Pęczak (POL)	1:10.44
15.	Manuela Dalla Valle (ITA)	1:11.19
16.	Hanna Jaltner (SWE)	1:11.41

Non-Qualifiers

RANK	HEATS	TIME
17.	Jaime King (GBR)	1:10.83
18.	Julia Russell (RSA)	1:10.87
19.	Kristine Quance (USA)	1:10.92
20.	Terrie Miller (NOR)	1:11.09
21.	Madelon Baans (NED)	1:11.17
22.	Kyoko Iwasaki (JPN)	1:11.33
23.	Maria Östling (SWE)	1:11.58
24.	Yuan Yuan (CHN)	1:11.65
25.	Karine Brémond (FRA)	1:11.80
26.	Kathrin Dumitru (GER)	1:11.92
27.	Olga Landik (RUS)	1:12.55
28.	María Olay (ESP)	1:12.58
29.	Lenka Maňhalová (CZE)	1:12.72
30.	Byun Hye-Young (KOR)	1:12.85
31.	Anna Wilson (NZL)	1:12.93
32.	Mia Hagman (FIN)	1:13.01
33.	Elena Rudkovskaya (BLR)	1:13.71
34.	Joana Soutinho (POR)	1:13.73
35.	Larisa Lăcustă (ROU)	1:13.91
36.	Tay Li Leng (MAS)	1:14.17
37.	Natália Kodajová (SVK)	1:14.24
38.	Isabel Ceballos (COL)	1:14.75
39.	Mou Ying-Hsin (TPE)	1:14.82
40.	Joscelin Yeo (SIN)	1:14.90
41.	22x20px Pang Snowie (HKG)	1:16.02
42.	María Carolina Santa Cruz (ARG)	1:16.19
43.	Nádia Cruz (ANG)	1:16.62
44.	Cerian Gibbes (TRI)	1:16.99
45.	Anush Manukyan (ARM)	1:20.70
46.	Hem Raksmey (CAM)	1:44.68

See also

• 1997 Women's World Championships (SC) 100m Breaststroke
• 1997 Women's European Championships (LC) 100m Breaststroke

References

• USA Swimming