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The Top 10 - Stroke and IM - Women

Dateline:  05/01/2000 (Updated 5/13/2000)

A look at the top ranked swimmers, and where their performances would have placed them in the 1996 Summer Olympics. The Strokes and IM will be added soon.

Men - Freestyle - Strokes and IM

Women - Freestyle - Strokes and IM

 

Name

Country

Where time would have placed in 1996

 

Women's 100 Back; 1996 winner –
Beth Botsford, USA, 1:01.19

1

Mai Nakamura

JPN

1:00.78, 1st

2

Noriko Inada

JPN

1:01.11, 1st

3

Nina Zhivanevskaya

ESP

1:01.46, 2nd

4

Lea Loveless-Maurer

USA

1:01.47, 2nd

5

Diana Mocanu

ROM

1:01.61, 3rd

6

Miki Nakao

JPN

1:02.15, 4th

7

Jamie Reid

USA

1:02.29, 4th

8

Katy Sexton

GBR

1:02.31, 4th

9

Aya Terakawa

JPN

1:02.53, 7th

10

Roxana Maracineanu

FRA

1:02.59, 7th

10

Haley Cope

USA

1:02.59, 7th

 

Women's 200 Back; 1996 winner –
Kristina Egerszegi, HUN, 2:07.83

1

Miki Nakao

JPN

2:10.40, 2nd

2

Tomoko Hagiwara

JPN

2:10.91, 2nd

3

Mai Nakamura

JPN

2:11.95, 2nd

4

Jamie Reid

USA

2:12.00, 3rd

5

Yoshiko Saito

JPN

2:12.27, 4th

6

Reiko Nakamura

JPN

2:12.35, 4th

7

Noriko Inada

JPN

2:12.69, 4th

8

Katy Sexton

GBR

2:13.00, 5th

9

Nina Zhivanevskaya

ESP

2:13.24, 5th

10

Diana Mocanu

ROM

2:13.38, 5th

 

Women's 100 Breast; 1996 winner –
Penelope Heyns, RSA, 1:07.73

1

Masami Tanaka

JPN

1:07.27, 1st

2

Megan Quann

USA

1:07.54, 1st

3

Penelope Heyns

RSA

1:07.67, 1st

4

Kristy Kowal

USA

1:07.85, 2nd

5

Leisl Jones

AUS

1:08.30, 3rd

6

Sarah Poewe

RSA

1:08.62, 3rd

7

Agnes Kovacs

HUN

1:08.71, 3rd

8

Caroline Hildreth

USA

1:09.54, 7th

9

Katie McClelland

USA

1:09.61, 8th

10

Samantha Riley

AUS

1:09.91, 10th

 

Women's 200 Breast; 1996 winner –
Penelope Heyns, RSA, 2:25.41

1

Masami Tanaka

JPN

2:24.12, 1st

2

Kristy Kowal

USA

2:25.74, 2nd

3

Hui Qi

CHN

2:25.75, 3rd

4

Penelope Heyns,

RSA

2:26.14, 3rd

5

Agnes Kovacs

HUN

2:26.86, 4th

6

Sarah Poewe

RSA

2:27.58, 4th

7

Junko Isoda

JPN

2:28.04, 5th

8

Olga Bakaldina

RUS

2:28.30, 7th

9

Leisl Jones

AUS

2:28.38, 8th

10

Megan Quann

USA

2:28.77, 8th

 

Women’s 100 Fly; 1996 winner –
Amy Van Dyken, USA, 59.13

1

Martina Moravcova

SVK

58.41, 1st

2

Petria Thomas

AUS

58.54, 1st

3

Junko Onishi

JPN

59.01, 2nd

4

Karen Campbell

USA

59.22, 3rd

5

Maki Mita

JPN

59.23, 4th

6

Dara Torres

USA

59.54, 4th

7

Tomoko Hagiwara

JPN

59.68, 4th

8

Ashley Tappin

USA

59.75, 4th

9

Susan O’Neill

AUS

59.90, 4th

10

Diana Mocanu

ROM

1:00.17, 6th

 

Women’s 200 Fly; 1996 winner –
Susan O’Neill, AUS, 2:07.76

1

Susan O’Neill

AUS

2:07.77, 2nd

2

Maki Mita

JPN

2:08.13, 2nd

3

Yuko Nakanishi

JPN

2:10.16, 4th

4

Margaretha Pedder

GBR

2:10.57, 5th

5

Yasuko Tajima

JPN

2:10.61, 5th

6

Petria Thomas

AUS

2:10.75, 6th

7

Kaitlin Sandeno

USA

2:10.80, 6th

8

Mireia Garcia

ESP

2:11.13, 6th

9

Jennifer Button

CAN

2:11.95, 8th

10

Tomoko Hagiwara

JPN

2:12.19, 9th

 

Women’s 200 IM; 1996 winner –
Michelle Smith, IRL, 2:13.93

1

Tomoko Hagiwara

JPN

2:12.84, 1st

2

Martina Moravcova

SVK

2:14.44, 3rd

3

Kristine Quance-Julian

USA

2:15.14, 5th

4

Beatrice Coada-Caslaru

ROM

2:15.85, 5th

5

Yasuko Tajima

JPN

2:16.05, 6th

6

Oxana Verevka

RUS

2:16.13, 6th

7

Sue Rolph

GBR

2:16.67, 7th

8

Diana Mocanu

ROM

2:16.78, 8th

9

Natalie Coughlin

USA

2:16.91, 8th

10

Laura Davis

USA

2:17.08, 8th

 

Women’s 400 IM; 1996 winner –
Michelle Smith, IRL, 4:39.18

1

Yasuko Tajima

JPN

4:39.13, 1st

2

Kaitlin Sandeno

USA

4:42.74, 4th

3

Kristine Quance-Julian

USA

4:43.20, 4th

4

Madeleine Crippen

USA

4:43.51, 4th

5

Joanne Malar

CAN

4:45.90, 8th

6

Yan Chen

CHN

4:46.09, 8th

7

Helen Norfolk

NZL

4:47.56, 12th

8

Hideko Hiranaka-Ando

JPN

4:47.59, 12th

9

Ayane Sato

JPN

4:47.75, 12th

10

Carrie Burgoyne

CAN

4:48.62, 13th

To: The Top 10 Men's Freestyle

To The Top 10 Men's Strokes and IM

To The Top 10 Women's Freestyle

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