# Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre butterfly

The women's 200 metre butterfly event at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place on 31 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 | Mary T. Meagher (USA) | 2:05.96 | Brown Deer, United States | 13 August 1981 |
| Olympic record | Mary T. Meagher (USA) | 2:06.90 | Los Angeles, United States | 4 August 1984 |

## 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 | 5 | Susie O'Neill | Australia | 2:10.47 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | 4 | Summer Sanders | United States | 2:10.58 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | 4 | Rie Shito | Japan | 2:11.00 | Q |
| 4 | 4 | 5 | Mika Haruna | Japan | 2:11.21 | Q |
| 5 | 4 | 4 | Wang Xiaohong | China | 2:11.83 | Q |
| 6 | 4 | 3 | Angie Wester-Krieg | United States | 2:12.00 | Q |
| 7 | 5 | 6 | Ilaria Tocchini | Italy | 2:13.03 | Q |
| 8 | 3 | 5 | Mette Jacobsen | Denmark | 2:13.18 | Q |
| 9 | 3 | 3 | Cécile Jeanson | France | 2:13.23 | q |
| 10 | 5 | 3 | Hayley Lewis | Australia | 2:14.50 | q |
| 11 | 4 | 7 | Ewa Synowska | Poland | 2:14.58 | q, NR |
| 12 | 2 | 4 | Anna Uryniuk | Poland | 2:14.91 | q |
| 13 | 4 | 6 | Samantha Purvis | Great Britain | 2:15.04 | q |
| 14 | 3 | 7 | Iuliana Pantelimon | Romania | 2:15.44 | q |
| 15 | 3 | 6 | María Peláez | Spain | 2:15.77 | q |
| 16 | 5 | 2 | Berit Puggaard | Denmark | 2:16.11 | q |
| 17 | 3 | 1 | María Luisa Fernández | Spain | 2:16.18 | |
| 18 | 5 | 1 | Nataša Meškovska | Independent Olympic Participants | 2:16.54 | |
| 19 | 4 | 8 | Joana Arantes | Portugal | 2:16.56 | |
| 20 | 4 | 1 | Timea Toth | Israel | 2:16.84 | |
| 21 | 5 | 7 | Corina Dumitru | Romania | 2:16.86 | |
| 22 | 4 | 2 | Nataliya Yakovleva | Unified Team | 2:19.02 | |
| 23 | 3 | 2 | Jacinthe Pineau | Canada | 2:19.44 | |
| 24 | 2 | 3 | Helen Slatter | Great Britain | 2:20.45 | |
| 25 | 1 | 5 | Praphalsai Minpraphal | Thailand | 2:20.48 | |
| 26 | 1 | 4 | Bettina Ustrowski | Germany | 2:21.49 | |
| 27 | 1 | 2 | Anja Margetić | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2:21.56 | |
| 28 | 2 | 2 | Blanca Morales | Guatemala | 2:21.97 | |
| 29 | 5 | 8 | Qian Hong | China | 2:22.77 | |
| 30 | 2 | 5 | Shelley Cramer | Virgin Islands | 2:25.24 | |
| 31 | 1 | 6 | Claudia Fortin | Honduras | 2:26.92 | |
| 32 | 1 | 3 | May Ooi | Singapore | 2:26.97 | |
| | 2 | 6 | Jeanine Steenkamp | South Africa | DNS | |
| | 3 | 8 | Brigitte Becue | Belgium | DNS | |

### Finals
#### Final B

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 9 | 5 | Hayley Lewis | Australia | 2:13.11 | |
| 10 | 4 | Cécile Jeanson | France | 2:13.40 | |
| 11 | 3 | Ewa Synowska | Poland | 2:13.61 | NR |
| 12 | 6 | Anna Uryniuk | Poland | 2:14.44 | |
| 13 | 2 | Samantha Purvis | Great Britain | 2:14.47 | |
| 14 | 7 | Iuliana Pantelimon | Romania | 2:14.95 | |
| 15 | 8 | Berit Puggaard | Denmark | 2:15.07 | |
| 15 | 1 | María Peláez | Spain | 2:15.07 | |

#### Final A

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 5 | Summer Sanders | United States | 2:08.67 | |
| | 2 | Wang Xiaohong | China | 2:09.01 | AS |
| | 4 | Susie O'Neill | Australia | 2:09.03 | OC |
| 4 | 6 | Mika Haruna | Japan | 2:09.88 | NR |
| 5 | 3 | Rie Shito | Japan | 2:10.24 | |
| 6 | 7 | Angie Wester-Krieg | United States | 2:11.46 | |
| 7 | 8 | Mette Jacobsen | Denmark | 2:11.87 | NR |
| 8 | 1 | Ilaria Tocchini | Italy | 2:13.78 | |