# Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre breaststroke

The women's 100 metre breaststroke event at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place on 29 July at the Piscines Bernat Picornell in Barcelona, Spain.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
| World record | Silke Hörner (GDR) | 1:07.91 | Strasbourg, France | 21 August 1987 |
| Olympic record | Tanya Dangalakova (BUL) | 1:07.95 | Seoul, South Korea | 23 September 1988 |

## Results
### Heats

Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A (Q), while the next eight to final B (q).
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | 2 | Yelena Rudkovskaya | Unified Team | 1:08.75 | Q, NR |
| 2 | 6 | 4 | Anita Nall | United States | 1:09.32 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | 4 | Samantha Riley | Australia | 1:09.38 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | 3 | Manuela Dalla Valle | Italy | 1:09.78 | Q |
| 5 | 4 | 4 | Guylaine Cloutier | Canada | 1:09.89 | Q |
| 6 | 6 | 6 | Jana Dörries | Germany | 1:10.00 | Q |
| 7 | 4 | 6 | Daniela Brendel | Germany | 1:10.49 | Q |
| 8 | 4 | 5 | Gabriella Csépe | Hungary | 1:10.58 | Q |
| 9 | 4 | 1 | Alicja Pęczak | Poland | 1:10.60 | q |
| 10 | 6 | 7 | Lou Xia | China | 1:10.74 | q |
| 11 | 4 | 3 | Magdalena Kupiec | Poland | 1:10.90 | q |
| 12 | 5 | 7 | Lisa Flood | Canada | 1:10.95 | q |
| 13 | 6 | 2 | Kyoko Iwasaki | Japan | 1:11.00 | q |
| 14 | 5 | 5 | Megan Kleine | United States | 1:11.04 | q |
| 15 | 5 | 3 | Lu Di | China | 1:11.58 | q |
| 15 | 6 | 5 | Linley Frame | Australia | 1:11.58 | q |
| 17 | 5 | 6 | Kyoko Kasuya | Japan | 1:11.60 | |
| 18 | 3 | 7 | Kira Bulten | Netherlands | 1:11.81 | |
| 19 | 6 | 8 | Ragnheiður Runólfsdóttir | Iceland | 1:12.14 | |
| 20 | 4 | 2 | Yelena Volkova | Unified Team | 1:12.46 | |
| 21 | 4 | 8 | Brigitte Becue | Belgium | 1:12.82 | |
| 22 | 3 | 2 | Rocío Ruiz | Spain | 1:13.11 | |
| 23 | 6 | 1 | Suki Brownsdon | Great Britain | 1:13.24 | |
| 24 | 4 | 7 | Jaime King | Great Britain | 1:13.32 | |
| 25 | 2 | 2 | Martina Nemec | Austria | 1:13.34 | NR |
| 26 | 5 | 1 | Park Mi-yeong | South Korea | 1:13.49 | |
| 27 | 5 | 8 | Britta Vestergaard | Denmark | 1:13.58 | |
| 28 | 2 | 6 | Jennifer Smatt | Bermuda | 1:13.94 | |
| 29 | 3 | 3 | Lenka Maňhalová | Czechoslovakia | 1:13.96 | |
| 30 | 3 | 4 | Audrey Guérit | France | 1:13.98 | |
| 31 | 2 | 5 | Sornsawan Phuvichit | Thailand | 1:14.69 | |
| 32 | 3 | 6 | Elena Donati | Italy | 1:14.70 | |
| 33 | 2 | 4 | Penny Heyns | South Africa | 1:14.99 | |
| 34 | 3 | 5 | Martine Janssen | Netherlands | 1:15.10 | |
| 35 | 2 | 3 | Riikka Ukkola | Finland | 1:15.56 | |
| 36 | 1 | 5 | Tammie Kaae | Guam | 1:16.78 | |
| 37 | 2 | 7 | Barbara Pexa | Guam | 1:17.71 | |
| 38 | 2 | 1 | Vola Hanta Ratsifa Andrihamanana | Madagascar | 1:17.77 | |
| 39 | 1 | 4 | Claudia Velásquez | Peru | 1:17.80 | |
| 40 | 1 | 3 | Priscilla Madero | Ecuador | 1:20.76 | |
| 41 | 1 | 2 | Nádia Cruz | Angola | 1:21.50 | |
| 42 | 1 | 7 | Elke Talma | Seychelles | 1:29.91 | |
| | 1 | 6 | Nguyễn Thị Phương | Vietnam | DSQ | |

### Finals
#### Final B

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 9 | 5 | Lou Xia | China | 1:10.07 | |
| 10 | 3 | Magdalena Kupiec | Poland | 1:10.32 | NR |
| 11 | 4 | Alicja Pęczak | Poland | 1:10.73 | |
| 12 | 7 | Megan Kleine | United States | 1:11.07 | |
| 13 | 2 | Kyoko Iwasaki | Japan | 1:11.16 | |
| 14 | 6 | Lisa Flood | Canada | 1:11.17 | |
| 15 | 1 | Linley Frame | Australia | 1:11.36 | |
| 16 | 8 | Lu Di | China | 1:12.07 | |

#### Final A

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 4 | Yelena Rudkovskaya | Unified Team | 1:08.00 | NR |
| | 5 | Anita Nall | United States | 1:08.17 | AM |
| | 3 | Samantha Riley | Australia | 1:09.25 | OC |
| 4 | 2 | Guylaine Cloutier | Canada | 1:09.71 | |
| 5 | 7 | Jana Dörries | Germany | 1:09.77 | |
| 6 | 8 | Gabriella Csépe | Hungary | 1:10.19 | |
| 7 | 6 | Manuela Dalla Valle | Italy | 1:10.39 | |
| 8 | 1 | Daniela Brendel | Germany | 1:11.05 | |