Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics - Definition and Overview

At the 1996 Summer Olympics, 32 swimming events were contested.

MEN'S EVENTS

50 m Freestyle

Pos	Athlete	Time
Gold	Aleksandr Popov (RUS)	22.13
Silver	Gary Hall Jr. (USA)	22.26
Bronze	Fernando Scherer (BRA)	22.29

100 m Freestyle

Pos	Athlete	Time
Gold	Aleksandr Popov (RUS)	48.74
Silver	Gary Hall Jr. (USA)	48.81
Bronze	Gustavo Borges (BRA)	49.02

200 m Freestyle

Pos	Athlete	Time
Gold	Danyon Loader (NZL)	1:47.63
Silver	Gustavo Borges (BRA)	1:48.08
Bronze	Daniel Kowalski (AUS)	1:48.25

400 m Freestyle

Pos	Athlete	Time
Gold	Danyon Loader (NZL)	3:47.97
Silver	Paul Palmer (GBR)	3:49.00
Bronze	Daniel Kowalski (AUS)	3:49.39

1500 m Freestyle

Pos	Athlete	Time
Gold	Kieren Perkins (AUS)	14:56.40
Silver	Daniel Kowalski (AUS)	15:02.43
Bronze	Graeme Smith (GBR)	15:02.48

100 m Backstroke

Pos	Athlete	Time
Gold	Jeff Rouse (USA)	54.10
Silver	Rodolfo Falcon Cabrera (CUB)	54.98
Bronze	Neisser Bent (CUB)	55.02

200 m Backstroke

Pos	Athlete	Time
Gold	Brad Bridgewater (USA)	1:58.54
Silver	Tripp Schwenk (USA)	1:58.99
Bronze	Emanuele Merisi (ITA)	1:59.18

100 m Breaststroke

Pos	Athlete	Time
Gold	Frederik Deburghgraeve (BEL)	1:00.65
Silver	Jeremy Linn (USA)	1:00.77
Bronze	Mark Warnecke (GER)	1:01.33

200 m Breaststroke

Pos	Athlete	Time
Gold	Norbert Rózsa (HUN)	2:12.57
Silver	Karoly Guttler (HUN)	2:13.03
Bronze	Andrey Korneyev (RUS)	2:13.17

100 m Butterfly

Pos	Athlete	Time
Gold	Denis Pankratov (RUS)	52.27
Silver	Scott Miller (AUS)	52.53
Bronze	Vladislav Kulikov (RUS)	53.13

200 m Butterfly

Pos	Athlete	Time
Gold	Denis Pankratov (RUS)	1:56.51
Silver	Tom Malchow (USA)	1:57.44
Bronze	Scott Goodman (AUS)	1:57.48

200 m Individual Medley

Pos	Athlete	Time
Gold	Attila Czene (HUN)	1:59.91
Silver	Jani Sievinen (FIN)	2:00.13
Bronze	Curtis Myden (CAN)	2:01.13

400 m Individual Medley

Pos	Athlete	Time
Gold	Tom Dolan (USA)	4:14.90
Silver	Eric Namesnik (USA)	4:15.25
Bronze	Curtis Myden (CAN)	4:16.28

4x100 m Freestyle Relay

Pos	Team	Time
Gold	Jon Olsen, Josh Davis, Bradley Schumacher, Gary Hall Jr. (USA)	3:15.41
Silver	Roman Yegorov, Aleksandr Popov, Vladimir Predkin, Vladimir Pyshnenko (RUS)	3:17.06
Bronze	Christian Tröger, Bengt Zikarsky, Björn Zikarsky, Mark Pinger (GER)	3:17.20

4x200 m Freestyle Relay

Pos	Team	Time
Gold	Josh Davis, Joseph Hudepohl, Bradley Schumacher, Ryan Berube (USA)	7:14.84
Silver	Christer Wallen, Anders Holmertz, Lars Frölander, Anders Lyrbring (SWE)	7:17.56
Bronze	Aimo Heilmann, Christian Keller, Christian Tröger, Steffen Zesner (GER)	7:17.71

4x100 m Medley Relay

Pos	Team	Time
Gold	Jeff Rouse, Jeremy Linn, Mark Henderson, Gary Hall Jr. (USA)	3:34.84
Silver	Vladimir Selkov, Stanislav Lopukhov, Denis Pankratov, Aleksandr Popov (RUS)	3:37.55
Bronze	Steven Dewick, Philip Rogers, Scott Miller, Michael Klim (AUS)	3:39.56

WOMEN'S EVENTS

50 m Freestyle

100 m Freestyle

Pos	Athlete	Time
Gold	Le Jingyi (CHN)	54.50
Silver	Sandra Völker (GER)	54.88
Bronze	Angel Martino (USA)	54.93

200 m Freestyle

Pos	Athlete	Time
Gold	Claudia Poll (CRC)	1:58.16
Silver	Franziska van Almsick (GER)	1:58.57
Bronze	Dagmar Hase (BRA)	1:59.56

400 m Freestyle

800 m Freestyle

100 m Backstroke

Pos	Athlete	Time
Gold	Beth Botsford (USA)	1:01.19
Silver	Whitney Hedgepeth (USA)	1:01.47
Bronze	Marianne Kriel (RSA)	1:02.12

200 m Backstroke

Pos	Athlete	Time
Gold	Krisztina Egerszegi (HUN)	2:07.83
Silver	Whitney Hedgepeth (USA)	2:11.98
Bronze	Cathleen Rund (GER)	2:12.06

100 m Breaststroke

Pos	Athlete	Time
Gold	Penelope Heyns (RSA)	1:07.73
Silver	Amanda Beard (USA)	1:08.09
Bronze	Samantha Riley (AUS)	1:09.18

200 m Breaststroke

Pos	Athlete	Time
Gold	Penelope Heyns (RSA)	2:25.41
Silver	Amanda Beard (USA)	2:25.75
Bronze	Ágnes Kovács (HUN)	2:26.57

100 m Butterfly

Pos	Athlete	Time
Gold	Amy van Dyken (USA)	59.13
Silver	Liu Limin (CHN)	59.14
Bronze	Angel Martino (USA)	59.23

200 m Butterfly

Pos	Athlete	Time
Gold	Susie O'Neill (AUS)	2:07.76
Silver	Petria Thomas (AUS)	2:09.82
Bronze	Michelle Smith (IRL)	2:09.91

200 m Individual Medley

400 m Individual Medley

4x100 m Freestyle Relay

4x200 m Freestyle Relay

4x100 m Medley Relay

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