Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay

Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay
at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay; at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Venue	Piscines Bernat Picornell
Date	28 July 1992 (heats & final)
Competitors	60 from 13 nations
Winning time	3:39.46 WR
Medalists
	← 1988 1996 →

The women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay event at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place on 28 July at the Piscines Bernat Picornell in Barcelona, Spain.^[1]

Records edit

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	East Germany (GDR) Kristin Otto (54.73) Manuela Stellmach (54.96) Sabina Schulze (55.52) Heike Friedrich (55.36)	3:40.57	Madrid, Spain	19 August 1986
Olympic record	East Germany (GDR) Kristin Otto (55.11) Katrin Meissner (54.73) Daniela Hunger (55.69) Manuela Stellmach (55.10)	3:40.63	Seoul, South Korea	22 September 1988

The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
28 July	Final	Nicole Haislett (55.33) Dara Torres (55.33) Angel Martino (54.79) Jenny Thompson (54.01)	United States	3:39.46	WR

Rule: The eight fastest teams advance to the final (Q).^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
1	2	4	United States	Angel Martino (54.83) Ashley Tappin (55.68) Crissy Ahmann-Leighton (55.55) Dara Torres (55.51)	3:41.57	Q
2	1	3	China	Zhao Kun (56.95) Lü Bin (55.61) Yang Wenyi (55.51) Le Jingyi (55.34)	3:43.41	Q
3	2	5	Germany	Manuela Stellmach (56.10) Kerstin Kielgaß (55.85) Annette Hadding (56.35) Daniela Hunger (55.28)	3:43.58	Q
4	1	5	Netherlands	Mildred Muis (56.71) Diana van der Plaats (55.75) Inge de Bruijn (56.03) Marianne Muis (55.51)	3:44.00	Q
5	2	7	Unified Team	Natalya Meshcheryakova (56.05) Svetlana Leshukova (56.38) Yevgeniya Yermakova (56.43) Yelena Dendeberova (56.20)	3:45.06	Q
6	1	2	Sweden	Eva Nyberg (57.12) Linda Olofsson (57.38) Louise Karlsson (56.79) Ellenor Svensson (56.86)	3:48.15	Q
7	2	3	Denmark	Berit Puggaard (58.38) Gitta Jensen (55.66) Annette Poulsen (58.16) Mette Jacobsen (56.58)	3:48.78	Q
8	2	6	Canada	Marianne Limpert (57.11) Allison Higson (57.80) Nikki Dryden (58.26) Andrea Nugent (56.11)	3:49.28	Q
9	1	4	Australia	Angela Mullens (57.78) Lise Mackie (57.88) Nicole Stevenson (58.25) Lisa Curry (55.73)	3:49.64
10	1	6	Japan	Ayako Nakano (57.36) Yoko Koikawa (57.45) Shina Matsudo (58.05) Suzu Chiba (57.05)	3:49.91
11	2	2	France	Julie Blaise (57.54) Julia Reggiani (57.62) Marie-Laure Giraudon (57.78) Véronique Jardin (57.28)	3:50.22
12	1	7	Romania	Diana Ureche (58.43) Carla Negrea (1:00.26) Beatrice Căşlaru (59.34) Luminița Dobrescu (57.49)	3:55.52
13	2	8	Mauritius	Corinne Leclair (1:00.99) Luanne Maurice (1:02.94) Annabelle Mariejeanne (1:03.66) Nathalie Lam (1:02.37)	4:09.96

Rank	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
	4	United States	Nicole Haislett (55.33) Dara Torres (55.33) Angel Martino (54.79) Jenny Thompson (54.01)	3:39.46	WR
	5	China	Zhuang Yong (54.51) Lü Bin (55.90) Yang Wenyi (54.90) Le Jingyi (54.81)	3:40.12	AS
	3	Germany	Franziska van Almsick (54.99) Simone Osygus (55.74) Daniela Hunger (55.12) Manuela Stellmach (55.75)	3:41.60
4	2	Unified Team	Natalya Meshcheryakova (55.69) Svetlana Leshukova (56.56) Yelena Dendeberova (55.79) Yelena Shubina (55.64)	3:43.68
5	6	Netherlands	Diana van der Plaats (56.68) Mildred Muis (55.75) Marianne Muis (55.53) Karin Brienesse (55.78)	3:43.74
6	1	Denmark	Gitta Jensen (56.13) Mette Jacobsen (56.26) Berit Puggaard (57.67) Mette Nielsen (57.75)	3:47.81	NR
7	7	Sweden	Eva Nyberg (57.37) Louise Karlsson (56.50) Ellenor Svensson (57.66) Malin Nilsson (56.94)	3:48.47
8	8	Canada	Marianne Limpert (57.06) Nikki Dryden (57.65) Andrea Nugent (56.79) Allison Higson (57.87)	3:49.37