Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay
The women's 4×100 metre medley relay event at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place on 30 July at the Piscines Bernat Picornell in Barcelona, Spain.
Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.
| Date | Event | Name | Nationality | Time | Record |
| 30 July | Final | Lea Loveless Anita Nall Crissy Ahmann-Leighton Jenny Thompson | 4:02.54 |
Results
Heats
Rule: The eight fastest teams advance to the final.| Rank | Heat | Lane | Nation | Swimmers | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | 4 | Nina Zhivanevskaya Yelena Rudkovskaya Olga Kirichenko Yelena Shubina | 4:10.37 | Q | |
| 2 | 1 | 5 | Dagmar Hase Daniela Brendel Bettina Ustrowski Simone Osygus | 4:10.62 | Q | |
| 3 | 3 | 4 | Janie Wagstaff Megan Kleine Summer Sanders Nicole Haislett | 4:10.83 | Q | |
| 4 | 1 | 3 | Ellen Elzerman Kira Bulten Inge de Bruijn Marianne Muis | 4:11.25 | Q | |
| 5 | 3 | 3 | Yoko Koikawa Kyoko Iwasaki Yoko Kando Suzu Chiba | 4:11.48 | Q, NR | |
| 6 | 2 | 5 | Nikki Dryden Guylaine Cloutier Kristin Topham Andrea Nugent | 4:11.67 | Q | |
| 7 | 2 | 4 | Joanne Meehan Samantha Riley Susie O'Neill Lisa Curry | 4:12.54 | Q | |
| 8 | 3 | 5 | He Cihong Lou Xia Qian Hong Le Jingyi | 4:12.55 | Q | |
| 9 | 3 | 2 | Lorenza Vigarani Manuela Dalla Valle Ilaria Tocchini Ilaria Sciorelli | 4:12.77 | ||
| 10 | 2 | 3 | Joanne Deakins Suki Brownsdon Madeleine Campbell Karen Pickering | 4:16.51 | ||
| 11 | 1 | 6 | Mette Jacobsen Britta Vestergaard Berit Puggaard Gitta Jensen | 4:17.20 | ||
| 12 | 2 | 2 | Claudia Stănescu Beatrice Câșlaru Diana Ureche Luminița Dobrescu | 4:17.91 | ||
| 13 | 1 | 2 | Núria Castelló Rocío Ruiz María Peláez Claudia Franco | 4:19.27 | ||
| 14 | 3 | 6 | Céline Bonnet Audrey Guerit Jacqueline Delord Julie Blaise | 4:21.19 | ||
| 15 | 2 | 7 | Anne Lackman Riikka Ukkola Marja Pärssinen Minna Salmela | 4:23.07 | ||
| 16 | 3 | 7 | Jill Brukman Penny Heyns Jeanine Steenkamp Marianne Kriel | 4:24.28 | ||
| 17 | 1 | 7 | Heike Koerner Ana Mendoza Gabriela Gaja Laura Sánchez | 4:26.73 |
Final
| Rank | Lane | Nation | Swimmers | Time | Notes |
| 3 | Lea Loveless Anita Nall Crissy Ahmann-Leighton Jenny Thompson | 4:02.54 | |||
| 5 | Dagmar Hase Jana Dörries Franziska van Almsick Daniela Hunger | 4:05.19 | |||
| 4 | Nina Zhivanevskaya Yelena Rudkovskaya Olga Kirichenko Natalya Meshcheryakova | 4:06.44 | |||
| 4 | 8 | Lin Li Lou Xia Qian Hong Le Jingyi | 4:06.78 | AS | |
| 5 | 1 | Nicole Stevenson Samantha Riley Susie O'Neill Lisa Curry | 4:07.01 | OC | |
| 6 | 7 | Nikki Dryden Guylaine Cloutier Kristin Topham Andrea Nugent | 4:09.26 | ||
| 7 | 2 | Yoko Koikawa Kyoko Iwasaki Yoko Kando Suzu Chiba | 4:09.92 | NR | |
| 8 | 6 | Ellen Elzerman Kira Bulten Inge de Bruijn Marianne Muis | 4:10.87 |