Records

Records set in 1996 Games:

World Records

MEN

SWIMMING

100 breaststroke/Prelims

Fred Deburghgraeve, Belgium, 1 minute, 00.60 seconds (Old record: 1:00:95, Karoly Guttler, Hungary, August 8, 1993).

*

WEIGHTLIFTING

59 kg-130 pounds

Total -- Tang Ningsheng, China, 307.5 kilograms-678 pounds. (Old record: 305-672, Nikolay Pechalov, Bulgaria, 1993)

64kg-141 pounds

Clean-and-Jerk -- Naim Suleymanoglu, Turkey, 187.5 kilograms (413 1/4 pounds) (Old record: 183.0-403, Valkerios Leonidis, Greece, May 1995). Total -- Naim Suleymanoglu, Turkey, 335.0 kilograms (738 1/2 pounds) (Old record: 330.0-728, Suleymanoglu, Nov. 1994).

*

WOMEN

SWIMMING

100 Breaststroke

Penny Heyns, South Africa, 1 minute, 7.02 seconds (Old record: 1:07.46, Heyns, March 1996)

*

Olympic Records

MEN

SHOOTING

10 Air Pistol/Prelims

Wang Yifu, China, 587 points (Old record: Sorin Babil, Romania, 586, July 28, 1982).

*

WOMEN

SHOOTING

10 Air Pistol/Prelims

Marina Logvinenko, Russia, 390 points (Old Record: Jasna Sekaric, Yugoslavia, 389, August 1, 1992).

10 Air Rifle/Prelims

Petra Homeber, Germany, 397 points (Old Record: Vessela Letcheva, Bulgaria and Kab-Soon Yeo, South Korea, 396, August 1992).