Women's 100 metre freestyle at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
Venue	Georgia Tech Aquatic Center
Date	20 July 1996 (heats & finals)
Competitors	48 from 44 nations
Winning time	54.50 OR
Medalists
Le Jingyi  China Sandra Völker  Germany Angel Martino  United States

Swimming 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 women's 100 metre freestyle event at the 1996 Summer Olympics took place on 20 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	Le Jingyi (CHN)	54.01	Rome, Italy	5 September 1994
Olympic record	Zhuang Yong (CHN)	54.64	Barcelona, Spain	26 July 1992

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
20 July	Final A	Le Jingyi	China	54.50	OR

Results

Heats

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	Le Jingyi	China	54.90	Q
2	6	3	Angel Martino	United States	55.44	Q
3	4	4	Sandra Völker	Germany	55.55	Q
4	6	5	Franziska van Almsick	Germany	55.80	Q
5	5	5	Karin Brienesse	Netherlands	55.81	Q
6	4	5	Amy Van Dyken	United States	55.94	Q
7	6	6	Mette Jacobsen	Denmark	56.06	Q
8	5	2	Sarah Ryan	Australia	56.07	Q
9	6	4	Shan Ying	China	56.10	q
10	6	1	Leah Martindale	Barbados	56.13	q, NR
11	6	2	Martina Moravcová	Slovakia	56.20	q
12	4	6	Luminița Dobrescu	Romania	56.27	q
13	5	2	Natalya Meshcheryakova	Russia	56.33	q
14	5	3	Karen Pickering	Great Britain	56.40	q
15	6	7	Linda Olofsson	Sweden	56.56	q
16	4	3	Sue Rolph	Great Britain	56.62	q
17	4	7	Shannon Shakespeare	Canada	56.63
18	6	8	Vibeke Johansen	Norway	56.88
19	5	1	Rania Elwani	Egypt	56.89	NR
20	4	8	Solenne Figuès	France	56.90
21	5	7	Claudia Franco	Spain	57.00
22	3	6	Minna Salmela	Finland	57.15
23	3	2	Gabrielle Rose	Brazil	57.16
24	3	4	Cecilia Vianini	Italy	57.17
25	4	2	Sumika Minamoto	Japan	57.25
26	2	1	Siobhan Cropper	Trinidad and Tobago	57.30	NR
27	2	2	Judith Draxler	Austria	57.34	NR
28	3	7	Metka Sparavec	Slovenia	57.66
29	5	8	Alison Fitch	New Zealand	57.71
30	1	3	Anna Nyíri	Hungary	57.82
31	2	4	Antonia Machaira	Greece	57.92
32	3	1	Monica Dahl	Namibia	57.95
33	3	3	Helene Muller	South Africa	57.98
34	2	3	Kristýna Kyněrová	Czech Republic	58.03
35	3	8	Lee Bo-eun	South Korea	58.27
36	2	7	Sandrine Paquier	Switzerland	58.38
37	4	1	Dita Želvienė	Lithuania	58.57
38	1	5	Teresa Moodie	Zimbabwe	58.59
39	2	8	Sviatlana Zhidko	Belarus	58.64
40	2	5	Tsai Shu-min	Chinese Taipei	58.65
41	3	5	Joscelin Yeo	Singapore	58.87
42	2	6	Yevgeniya Yermakova	Kazakhstan	59.12
43	1	4	Valeria Álvarez	Argentina	59.26
44	1	7	Viktoriya Polyayeva	Kyrgyzstan	59.40
45	1	2	Gabrijela Ujčić	Croatia	59.92
46	1	6	Duška Radan	FR Yugoslavia	1:00.34
47	1	1	Caroline Pickering	Fiji	1:00.51
48	1	8	Gail Rizzo	Malta	1:02.19

Finals

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Final B

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	4	Shan Ying	China	55.74
10	1	Linda Olofsson	Sweden	55.83
11	6	Luminița Dobrescu	Romania	55.98
12	5	Leah Martindale	Barbados	56.03	NR
13	2	Natalya Meshcheryakova	Russia	56.17
14	7	Karen Pickering	Great Britain	56.32
15	3	Martina Moravcová	Slovakia	56.47
16	8	Sue Rolph	Great Britain	56.58

Final A

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Le Jingyi	China	54.50	OR
	3	Sandra Völker	Germany	54.88
	5	Angel Martino	United States	54.93
4	7	Amy Van Dyken	United States	55.11
5	6	Franziska van Almsick	Germany	55.59
6	8	Sarah Ryan	Australia	55.85
7	1	Mette Jacobsen	Denmark	56.01
8	2	Karin Brienesse	Netherlands	56.12

References

External links

• Official Report
• USA Swimming