The swimming competition at the 1996 Summer Olympics was held at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center in Atlanta, Georgia, which was built for the Games.

At the time of the '96 Games, the facility had a temporary 50m warm-up pool located behind the lockerrooms/entry concourse (on the ground); as well as a temporary roof, and open walls (there were wall-like structures/curtains at the diving well and turning end of the pool). The open walls allowed for temporary seating to be in place during the Games to accommodate the spectators. A wall and new roof have subsequent been placed on the facility.

Medal summary

Men's events

50 m freestyle		22.13		22.26		22.29
100 m freestyle		48.74		48.81		49.02
200 m freestyle		1:47.63		1:48.08		1:48.25
400 m freestyle		3:47.97		3:49.00		3:49.39
1500 m freestyle		14:56.40		15:02.43		15:02.48
100 m backstroke		54.10		54.98		55.02
200 m backstroke		1:58.54		1:58.99		1:59.18
100 m breaststroke		1:00.65		1:00.77		1:01.33
200 m breaststroke		2:12.57		2:13.03		2:13.17
100 m butterfly		52.27		52.53		53.13
200 m butterfly		1:56.51		1:57.44		1:57.48
200 m individual medley		1:59.91		2:00.13		2:01.13
400 m individual medley		4:14.90		4:15.25		4:16.28
4×100 m freestyle relay	Jon Olsen Josh Davis Bradley Schumacher Gary Hall, Jr. David Fox* Scott Tucker*	3:15.41	Roman Yegorov Alexander Popov Vladimir Predkin Vladimir Pyshnenko Denis Pimankov*	3:17.06	Christian Tröger Bengt Zikarsky Björn Zikarsky Mark Pinger Alexander Luderitz*	3:17.20
4×200 m freestyle relay	Josh Davis Joe Hudepohl Bradley Schumacher Ryan Berube Jon Olsen*	7:14.84	Christer Wallin Anders Holmertz Lars Frölander Anders Lyrbring	7:17.56	Aimo Heilmann Christian Keller Christian Tröger Steffen Zesner Konstantin Dubrovin* Oliver Lampe*	7:17.71
4×100 m medley relay	Jeff Rouse Jeremy Linn Mark Henderson Gary Hall, Jr. Josh Davis* David Field* John Hargis* Tripp Schwenk*	3:34.84	Vladimir Selkov Stanislav Lopukhov Denis Pankratov Alexander Popov Roman Ivanovsky* Vladislav Kulikov* Roman Yegorov*	3:37.55	Steven Dewick Phil Rogers Scott Miller Michael Klim Toby Haenen*	3:39.56

* Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals. ===Women's events=== {| {{MedalistTable|type=Event|columns=2}} |- | [[Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics - Women's 50 metre freestyle|50 m freestyle]] | {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Amy Van Dyken]]|USA|1996 Summer}} || 24.87 | {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Le Jingyi]]|CHN|1996 Summer}} || 24.90 | {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Sandra Völker]]|GER|1996 Summer}} || 25.14 |- | [[Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics - Women's 100 metre freestyle|100 m freestyle]] | {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Le Jingyi]]|CHN|1996 Summer}} || 54.50 | {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Sandra Völker]]|GER|1996 Summer}} || 54.88 | {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Angel Martino]]|USA|1996 Summer}} || 54.93 |- | [[Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics - Women's 200 metre freestyle|200 m freestyle]] | {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Claudia Poll]]|CRC|1996 Summer}} || 1:58.16 | {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Franziska van Almsick]]|GER|1996 Summer}} || 1:58.57 | {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Dagmar Hase]]|GER|1996 Summer}} || 1:59.56 |- | [[Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics - Women's 400 metre freestyle|400 m freestyle]] | {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Michelle Smith]]|IRL|1996 Summer}} || 4:07.25 | {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Dagmar Hase]]|GER|1996 Summer}} || 4:08.30 | {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Kirsten Vlieghuis]]|NED|1996 Summer}} || 4:08.70 |- | [[Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics - Women's 800 metre freestyle|800 m freestyle]] | {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Brooke Bennett]]|USA|1996 Summer}} || 8:27.89 | {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Dagmar Hase]]|GER|1996 Summer}} || 8:29.91 | {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Kirsten Vlieghuis]]|NED|1996 Summer}} || 8:30.84 |- | [[Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics - Women's 100 metre backstroke|100 m backstroke]] | {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Beth Botsford]]|USA|1996 Summer}} || 1:01.19 | {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Whitney Hedgepeth]]|USA|1996 Summer}} || 1:01.47 | {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Marianne Kriel]]|RSA|1996 Summer}} || 1:02.12 |- | [[Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics - Women's 200 metre backstroke|200 m backstroke]] | {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Krisztina Egerszegi]]|HUN|1996 Summer}} || 2:07.83 | {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Whitney Hedgepeth]]|USA|1996 Summer}} || 2:11.98 | {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Cathleen Rund]]|GER|1996 Summer}} || 2:12.06 |- | [[Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics - Women's 100 metre breaststroke|100 m breaststroke]] | {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Penelope Heyns]]|RSA|1996 Summer}} || 1:07.73 | {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Amanda Beard]]|USA|1996 Summer}} || 1:08.09 | {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Samantha Riley]]|AUS|1996 Summer}} || 1:09.18 |- | [[Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics - Women's 200 metre breaststroke|200 m breaststroke]] | {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Penelope Heyns]]|RSA|1996 Summer}} || 2:25.41 | {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Amanda Beard]]|USA|1996 Summer}} || 2:25.75 | {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Ágnes Kovács]]|HUN|1996 Summer}} || 2:26.57 |- | [[Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics - Women's 100 metre butterfly|100 m butterfly]] | {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Amy Van Dyken]]|USA|1996 Summer}} || 59.13 | {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Liu Limin]]|CHN|1996 Summer}} || 59.14 | {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Angel Martino]]|USA|1996 Summer}} || 59.23 |- | [[Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics - Women's 200 metre butterfly|200 m butterfly]] | {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Susie O'Neill]]|AUS|1996 Summer}} || 2:07.76 | {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Petria Thomas]]|AUS|1996 Summer}} || 2:09.82 | {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Michelle Smith]]|IRL|1996 Summer}} || 2:09.91 |- | [[Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics - Women's 200 metre individual medley|200 m individual medley]] | {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Michelle Smith]]|IRL|1996 Summer}} || 2:13.93 | {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Marianne Limpert]]|CAN|1996 Summer}} || 2:14.35 | {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Lin Li (swimmer)|Lin Li]]|CHN|1996 Summer}} || 2:14.74 |- | [[Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics - Women's 400 metre individual medley|400 m individual medley]] | {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Michelle Smith]]|IRL|1996 Summer}} || 4:39.18 | {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Allison Wagner]]|USA|1996 Summer}} || 4:42.03 | {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Krisztina Egerszegi]]|HUN|1996 Summer}} || 4:42.53 |- | [[Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics - Women's 4 x 100 metre freestyle relay|4×100 m freestyle relay]] |valign=top| {{flagIOCteam|USA|1996 Summer}}
[[Angel Martino]]
[[Amy Van Dyken]]
[[Catherine Mai Lan Fox|Catherine Fox]]
[[Jenny Thompson]]
[[Lisa Jacob]]*
[[Melanie Valerio]]* || 3:39.29 |valign=top| {{flagIOCteam|CHN|1996 Summer}}
[[Le Jingyi]]
[[Na Chao]]
[[Yun Nian]]
[[Shan Ying]] || 3:40.48 |valign=top| {{flagIOCteam|GER|1996 Summer}}
[[Sandra Völker]]
[[Simone Osygus]]
[[Antje Buschschulte]]
[[Franziska van Almsick]]
[[Meike Freitag]]* || 3:41.48 |- | [[Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics - Women's 4 x 200 metre freestyle relay|4×200 m freestyle relay]] |valign=top| {{flagIOCteam|USA|1996 Summer}}
[[Trina Jackson]]
[[Cristina Teuscher]]
[[Sheila Taormina]]
[[Jenny Thompson]]
[[Lisa Jacob]]*
[[Annette Salmeen]]*
[[Ashley Whitney]]* || 7:59.87 |valign=top| {{flagIOCteam|GER|1996 Summer}}
[[Franziska van Almsick]]
[[Kerstin Kielgass]]
[[Anke Scholz]]
[[Dagmar Hase]]
[[Meike Freitag]]*
[[Simone Osygus]]* || 8:01.55 |valign=top| {{flagIOCteam|AUS|1996 Summer}}
[[Julia Greville]]
[[Nicole Stevenson]]
[[Emma Johnson (swimmer)|Emma Johnson]]
[[Susie O'Neill]]
[[Lise Mackie]]* || 8:05.47 |- | [[Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics - Women's 4 x 100 metre medley relay|4×100 m medley relay]] |valign=top| {{flagIOCteam|USA|1996 Summer}}
[[Beth Botsford]]
[[Amanda Beard]]
[[Angel Martino]]
[[Amy Van Dyken]]
[[Catherine Fox]]*
[[Whitney Hedgepeth]]*
[[Kristine Quance]]*
[[Jenny Thompson]]* || 4:02.88 |valign=top| {{flagIOCteam|AUS|1996 Summer}}
[[Nicole Stevenson]]
[[Samantha Riley]]
[[Susie O'Neill]]
[[Sarah Ryan]]
[[Helen Denman]]*
[[Angela Kennedy (swimmer)|Angela Kennedy]]* || 4:05.08 |valign=top| {{flagIOCteam|CHN|1996 Summer}}
[[Chen Yan (b. 1979)]]
[[Han Xue]]
[[Cai Huijue]]
[[Shan Ying]] || 4:07.34 |} * Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Medal table

1		13	12	5	30
2		2	4	6	12
3		0	5	7	12
4		4	2	2	8
5		3	1	2	6
6		1	3	2	6
7		3	0	1	4
8		2	0	1	3
9		0	1	2	3
		0	1	2	3
11		2	0	0	2
12		0	1	1	2
		0	1	1	2
14		0	0	2	2
15		1	0	0	1
		1	0	0	1
17		0	1	0	1
		0	1	0	1
19		0	0	1	1

External links

• Swim Rankings results