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The 2000 Olympics

The Rankings - Women

as of 19 August, 2000

Note - If a country has more than two swimmers in the top rankings, or if a swimmer in the top rankings failed to qualify at that country's Olympic trials, the swimmer not expected to take part in the Olympics in that event has an asterisk instead of a ranking.

50 M Freestyle
Rec: 24.39 Inge de Bruijn,NED,00
1) 24.39 Inge de Bruijn,73,NED
2) 24.44 Therese Alshammar,77,SWE
3) 24.73 Dara Torres,67,USA
4) 24.99 Amy Van Dyken,73,USA
5) 25.09 Sandra Volker,74,GER
6) 25.12 Alison Sheppard,72,GBR
* 25.22 Jenny Thompson,73,USA
7) 25.29 Sumika Minamoto,79,JPN
8) 25.30 Ekaterina Kibalo,82,RUS
* 25.33 Tammie Stone,76,USA
* 25.40 Haley Cope,79,USA
9) 25.46 Wilma van Rijn,71,NED
100 M Freestyle
Rec: 53.80 Inge de Bruijn,NED,00
1) 53.80 Inge de Bruijn,73,NED
2) 54.07 Jenny Thompson,73,USA
3) 54.39 Antje Buschschulte,78,GER
4) 54.41 Therese Alshammar,77,SWE
5) 54.45 Martina Moravcova,76,SVK
6) 54.47 Dara Torres,67,USA
7) 54.86 Susan O'Neill,73,AUS
8) 55.03 Sandra Volker,74,GER
9) 55.12 Katrin Meissner,73,GER
200 M Freestyle
Rec: 1:56.78 Franziska van Almsick,GER,94
1) 1:57.47 Susan O'Neill,73,AUS
2) 1:58.02 Claudia Poll,72,CRC
3) 1:59.06 Camelia Potec,82,ROM
4) 1:59.25 Franziska van Almsick,78,GER
5) 1:59.28 Martina Moravcova,76,SVK
6) 1:59.44 Luna Wang,80,CHN
* 1:59.49 Jenny Thompson,73,USA
7) 1:59.50 Giaan Rooney,82,AUS
8) 1:59.51 Natalia Baranovskaya,79,BLR
400 M Freestyle
Rec: 4:03.85 Janet Evans,USA,88
1) 4:06.55 Hannah Stockbauer,82,GER
2) 4:08.56 Diana Munz,82,USA
3) 4:08.76 Brooke Bennett,80,USA
4) 4:08.82 Kerstin Kielgass,69,GER
5) 4:09.04 Claudia Poll,72,CRC
6) 4:09.41 Yana Klochkova,82,UKR
7) 4:09.80 Sachiko Yamada,82,JPN
8) 4:10.22 Camelia Potec,82,ROM
9) 4:10.78 Yasuko Tajima,81,JPN
800 M Freestyle
Rec: 8:16.22 Janet Evans,USA,89
1) 8:23.92 Brooke Bennett,80,USA
2) 8:28.61 Kaitlin Sandeno,83,USA
* 8:28.66 Diana Munz,82,USA
3) 8:29.16 Flavia Rigamonti,81,SUI
4) 8:29.84 Hannah Stockbauer,82,GER
5) 8:31.33 Jana Henke,73,GER
6) 8:31.36 Chantal Strasser,78,SUI
7) 8:32.93 Sachiko Yamada,82,JPN
8) 8:35.56 Hayley Lewis,75,AUS
9) 8:35.73 Janelle Atkinson,82,JAM
100 M Backstroke
Rec: 1:00.16 Cihong He,CHN,94
1) 1:00.78 Mai Nakamura,79,JPN
2) 1:01.01 Antje Buschschulte,78,GER
3) 1:01.02 Nina Zhivanevskaya,77,ESP
4) 1:01.11 Noriko Inada,78,JPN
5) 1:01.41 Sandra Volker,74,GER
* 1:01.47 Lea Loveless-Maurer,71,USA
6) 1:01.54 Diana Mocanu,84,ROM
7) 1:01.57 Barbara Bedford,72,USA
8) 1:01.71 Dyana Calub,75,AUS
9) 1:01.80 Katy Sexton,82,GBR
200 M Backstroke
Rec: 2:06.62 Krisztina Egerszegi,HUN,91
1) 2:09.53 Nina Zhivanevskaya,77,ESP
2) 2:10.40 Miki Nakao,78,JPN
3) 2:10.91 Tomoko Hagiwara,80,JPN
4) 2:11.12 Antje Buschschulte,78,GER
5) 2:11.25 Helen Don-Duncan,81,GBR
6) 2:11.62 Noriko Inada,78,JPN
7) 2:11.62 Diana Mocanu,84,ROM
8) 2:11.95 Mai Nakamura,79,JPN
* 2:12.00 Jamie Reid,84,USA
9) 2:12.10 Joanna Fargus,82,GBR
100 M Breaststroke
Rec: 1:06.52 Penelope Heyns,RSA,99
1) 1:07.12 Megan Quann,84,USA
2) 1:07.27 Masami Tanaka,79,JPN
3) 1:07.67 Penelope Heyns,74,RSA
* 1:07.79 Kristy Kowal,78,USA
4) 1:07.79 Staciana Stitts,81,USA
5) 1:07.92 Agnes Kovacs,81,HUN
* 1:08.29 Amy Balcerzak,78,USA
6) 1:08.30 Leisel Jones,85,AUS
7) 1:08.62 Sarah Poewe,83,RSA
8) 1:08.87 Xuejuan Luo,84,CHN
* 1:09.01 Amanda Beard,81,USA
9) 1:09.05 Tarnee White,81,AUS
200 M Breaststroke
Rec: 2:23.64 Penelope Heyns,RSA,99
1) 2:24.12 Masami Tanaka,79,JPN
2) 2:24.75 Kristy Kowal,78,USA
3) 2:24.94 Agnes Kovacs,81,HUN
4) 2:25.51 Hui Qi,85,CHN
5) 2:26.14 Penelope Heyns,74,RSA
6) 2:26.45 Olga Bakaldina,85,RUS
7) 2:26.59 Leisel Jones,85,AUS
8) 2:26.76 Beatrice Coada-Caslaru,75,ROM
9) 2:26.79 Amanda Beard,81,USA
100 M Butterfly
Rec: 56.64 Inge de Bruijn,NED,00
1) 56.64 Inge de Bruijn,73,NED
2) 57.58 Dara Torres,67,USA
3) 57.59 Jenny Thompson,73,USA
4) 58.05 Petria Thomas,75,AUS
5) 58.41 Martina Moravcova,76,SVK
6) 58.71 Susan O'Neill,73,AUS
7) 58.77 Otilia Jedrzejczak,83,POL
* 58.84 Ashley Tappin,74,USA
* 58.90 Karen Campbell,77,USA
8) 59.01 Junko Onishi,74,JPN
* 59.15 Misty Hyman,79,USA
9) 59.23 Maki Mita,83,JPN
200 M Butterfly
Rec: 2:05.81 Susan O'Neill,AUS,00
1) 2:05.81 Susan O'Neill,73,AUS
2) 2:07.21 Petria Thomas,75,AUS
3) 2:08.12 Mette Jacobsen,73,DEN
4) 2:08.13 Maki Mita,83,JPN
5) 2:08.63 Otilia Jedrzejczak,83,POL
6) 2:09.27 Misty Hyman,79,USA
7) 2:09.54 Kaitlin Sandeno,83,USA
8) 2:10.16 Yuko Nakanishi,81,JPN
9) 2:10.44 Mireia Garcia,81,ESP
200 M Individual Medley
Rec: 2:09.72 Yanyan Wu,CHN,97
1) 2:12.57 Beatrice Coada-Caslaru,75,ROM
2) 2:12.57 Yana Klochkova,82,UKR
3) 2:12.84 Tomoko Hagiwara,80,JPN
4) 2:13.36 Cristina Teuscher,78,USA
5) 2:14.38 Joanne Malar,75,CAN
6) 2:14.42 Diana Mocanu,84,ROM
7) 2:14.44 Martina Moravcova,76,SVK
8) 2:14.63 Marianne Limpert,72,CAN
9) 2:14.66 Elli Overton,74,AUS
400 M Individual Medley
Rec: 4:34.79 Yan Chen,CHN,97
1) 4:39.13 Yasuko Tajima,81,JPN
2) 4:39.78 Yana Klochkova,82,UKR
3) 4:40.91 Kaitlin Sandeno,83,USA
4) 4:41.64 Beatrice Coada-Caslaru,75,ROM
5) 4:41.66 Nicole Hetzer,79,GER
6) 4:41.71 Joanne Malar,75,CAN
7) 4:42.81 Madeleine Crippen,80,USA
8) 4:43.17 Yin Liu,84,CHN
* 4:43.20 Kristine Quance-Julian,75,USA
9) 4:44.20 Jennifer Reilly,83,AUS

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