Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay
The women's 4×100 metre medley relay event at the 1996 Summer Olympics took place on 24 July at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center in Atlanta, United States.
Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.Results
Heats
Rule: The eight fastest teams advance to the final.| Rank | Heat | Lane | Nation | Swimmers | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 2 | 4 | Whitney Hedgepeth Kristine Quance Jenny Thompson Catherine Fox | 4:05.80 | Q | |
| 2 | 3 | 4 | Nicole Stevenson Helen Denman Angela Kennedy Sarah Ryan | 4:08.87 | Q | |
| 3 | 3 | 3 | Antje Buschschulte Kathrin Dumitru Franziska van Almsick Sandra Völker | 4:08.95 | Q | |
| 4 | 1 | 4 | Chen Yan Han Xue Cai Huijue Shan Ying | 4:09.23 | Q | |
| 5 | 3 | 6 | Marianne Kriel Penny Heyns Mandy Loots Helene Muller | 4:09.47 | Q, AF | |
| 6 | 2 | 5 | Julie Howard Guylaine Cloutier Sarah Evanetz Shannon Shakespeare | 4:09.50 | Q | |
| 7 | 3 | 2 | Lorenza Vigarani Manuela Dalla Valle Ilaria Tocchini Cecilia Vianini | 4:10.57 | Q | |
| 8 | 1 | 5 | Nina Zhivanevskaya Yelena Makarova Svetlana Pozdeyeva Natalya Meshcheryakova | 4:10.65 | Q | |
| 9 | 3 | 5 | Mai Nakamura Masami Tanaka Ayari Aoyama Suzu Chiba | 4:10.71 | ||
| 10 | 2 | 3 | Therese Alshammar Hanna Jaltner Johanna Sjöberg Louise Jöhncke | 4:10.88 | ||
| 11 | 1 | 3 | Krisztina Egerszegi Ágnes Kovács Edit Klocker Anna Nyíri | 4:10.92 | ||
| 12 | 1 | 7 | Brenda Starink Madelon Baans Wilma van Hofwegen Karin Brienesse | 4:11.64 | ||
| 13 | 2 | 6 | Helen Slatter Jaime King Caroline Foot Karen Pickering | 4:13.75 | ||
| 14 | 1 | 2 | Anu Koivisto Mia Hagman Marja Pärssinen Minna Salmela | 4:14.14 | NR | |
| 15 | 2 | 2 | Eva Piñera María Olay María Peláez Claudia Franco | 4:15.63 | ||
| 16 | 1 | 6 | Hélène Ricardo Karine Brémond Cécile Jeanson Solenne Figuès | 4:15.69 | ||
| 17 | 2 | 7 | Cătălina Cășaru Beatrice Câșlaru Loredana Zisu Luminiţa Dobrescu | 4:16.18 | ||
| 18 | 2 | 1 | Lee Ji-hyun Byun Hye-young Park Woo-hee Lee Bo-eun | 4:18.98 | NR | |
| 19 | 3 | 7 | Lydia Lipscombe Anna Wilson Anna Simcic Alison Fitch | 4:19.83 | ||
| 20 | 2 | 8 | Kateřina Pivoňková Lenka Maňhalová Marcela Kubalčíková Kristýna Kyněrová | 4:21.05 | ||
| 21 | 3 | 1 | Maria Santos Joana Soutinho Ana Francisco Ana Alegria | 4:21.61 | ||
| 22 | 3 | 8 | Aikaterini Klepkou Aikaterini Sarakatsani Marina Karystinou Antonia Machaira | 4:24.80 | ||
| 23 | 1 | 8 | Valeria Álvarez María Carolina Santa Cruz María del Pilar Pereyra María Bertelloti | 4:27.99 | ||
| 24 | 1 | 1 | Lin Chien-ju Mou Ying-hsin Hsieh Shu-ting Tsai Shu-min | 4:38.90 |
Final
| Rank | Lane | Nation | Swimmers | Time | Notes |
| 4 | Beth Botsford Amanda Beard Angel Martino Amy Van Dyken | 4:02.88 | |||
| 5 | Nicole Stevenson Samantha Riley Susie O'Neill Sarah Ryan | 4:05.08 | |||
| 6 | Chen Yan Han Xue Cai Huijue Shan Ying | 4:07.34 | |||
| 4 | 2 | Marianne Kriel Penny Heyns Mandy Loots Helene Muller | 4:08.16 | AF | |
| 5 | 7 | Julie Howard Guylaine Cloutier Sarah Evanetz Shannon Shakespeare | 4:08.29 | ||
| 6 | 3 | Antje Buschschulte Kathrin Dumitru Franziska van Almsick Sandra Völker | 4:09.22 | ||
| 7 | 8 | Nina Zhivanevskaya Yelena Makarova Yelena Nazemnova Natalya Meshcheryakova | 4:10.56 | ||
| 8 | 1 | Lorenza Vigarani Manuela Dalla Valle Ilaria Tocchini Cecilia Vianini | 4:10.59 |