Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Women's 400 metre freestyle

Women's 400 metre freestyle
at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Women's 400 metre freestyle; at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Venue	Piscines Bernat Picornell
Date	28 July 1992 (heats & finals)
Competitors	33 from 24 nations
Winning time	4:07.18
Medalists
	← 1988 1996 →

The women's 400 metre freestyle event at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place on 28 July at the Piscines Bernat Picornell in Barcelona, Spain.^[1]

Records

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

World record	Janet Evans (USA)	4:03.85	Seoul, South Korea	22 September 1988
Olympic record	Janet Evans (USA)	4:03.85	Seoul, South Korea	22 September 1988

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	Janet Evans	United States	4:09.38	Q
2	5	3	Dagmar Hase	Germany	4:10.92	Q
3	5	5	Erika Hansen	United States	4:12.08	Q
4	4	3	Kerstin Kielgaß	Germany	4:12.50	Q
5	3	4	Hayley Lewis	Australia	4:12.95	Q
6	5	7	Malin Nilsson	Sweden	4:13.16	Q
7	3	3	Isabelle Arnould	Belgium	4:13.81	Q
8	5	6	Suzu Chiba	Japan	4:13.85	Q
9	3	6	Phillippa Langrell	New Zealand	4:14.00	q, NR
10	4	7	Olga Šplíchalová	Czechoslovakia	4:15.43	q, NR
11	4	5	Irene Dalby	Norway	4:16.05	q
12	3	5	Beatrice Câșlaru	Romania	4:16.23	q
13	4	2	Mette Jacobsen	Denmark	4:16.80	q, WD
14	5	2	Carla Negrea	Romania	4:17.00	q
15	3	2	Sandra Cam	Belgium	4:17.87	q
16	4	6	Manuela Melchiorri	Italy	4:19.18	q
17	5	1	Hana Černá	Czechoslovakia	4:19.87	q
18	4	4	Julie McDonald	Australia	4:20.16
19	4	1	Samantha Foggo	Great Britain	4:22.26
20	5	8	Itziar Esparza	Spain	4:22.27
21	3	1	Jeanine Steenkamp	South Africa	4:23.33	AF
22	3	7	Yan Ming	China	4:23.69
23	3	8	Laura Sánchez	Mexico	4:23.87
24	2	5	Judit Kiss	Hungary	4:24.01
25	4	1	Elizabeth Arnold	Great Britain	4:25.55
26	2	3	María José Marenco	El Salvador	4:29.32
27	1	6	Thanya Sridama	Thailand	4:29.64
28	1	4	Joscelin Yeo	Singapore	4:29.76
29	2	4	Erika González	Mexico	4:32.06
30	1	5	Robyn Lamsam	Hong Kong	4:32.23
31	2	6	Claudia Fortin	Honduras	4:37.58
32	1	3	May Ooi	Singapore	4:37.77
33	2	2	Corinne Leclair	Mauritius	4:43.53

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	4	Phillippa Langrell	New Zealand	4:12.96	NR
10	7	Sandra Cam	Belgium	4:14.11
11	3	Irene Dalby	Norway	4:14.46
12	6	Beatrice Câșlaru	Romania	4:14.90
13	2	Carla Negrea	Romania	4:14.92
14	5	Olga Šplíchalová	Czechoslovakia	4:16.41
15	1	Manuela Melchiorri	Italy	4:20.75
16	8	Hana Černá	Czechoslovakia	4:21.50

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	5	Dagmar Hase	Germany	4:07.18
	4	Janet Evans	United States	4:07.37
	2	Hayley Lewis	Australia	4:11.22
4	3	Erika Hansen	United States	4:11.50
5	6	Kerstin Kielgaß	Germany	4:11.52
6	1	Isabelle Arnould	Belgium	4:13.75
7	7	Malin Nilsson	Sweden	4:14.10
8	8	Suzu Chiba	Japan	4:15.71