Swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Template:Short description Template:Infobox Olympic event Template:SwimmingAt1988SummerOlympics The 1988 Summer Olympics took place in Seoul, South Korea. The swimming competition, held from September 18 to September 25, was notable for the seven medals, including five golds, won by Matt Biondi, the six golds won by Kristin Otto, and the three individual golds won by Janet Evans. 633 participants from 77 countries were competing.<ref name="SportsRef">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Events

The swimming program for 1988 included two new events, the men's and women's 50 m freestyle, bringing the total number of events to 31.

The following events were contested:

• Freestyle: 50 m, 100 m, 200 m, 400 m, 800 m (women), 1500 m (men)
• Backstroke: 100 m, 200 m
• Breaststroke: 100 m, 200 m
• Butterfly: 100 m, 200 m
• Individual Medley: 200 m, 400 m
• Relay: 4 × 100 m free, 4 × 200 m free (men); 4 × 100 m medley

Competition schedule

All dates are in 1988.

date	Morning session	Afternoon session
Sept.18	no competition	women's 100 freestyle (prelims) men's 100 breaststroke (prelims) women's 400 I.M. (prelims) men's 200 freestyle (prelims)
Sept.19	women's 100 freestyle (finals) men's 100 breaststroke (finals) women's 400 I.M. (finals) men's 200 freestyle (finals)
Sept.20	men's 100 butterfly (prelims) women's 200 freestyle (prelims) men's 400 I.M. (prelims) women's 200 breaststroke (prelims) men's 4 × 200 Freestyle Relay (prelims)
Sept.21		men's 100 butterfly (finals) women's 200 freestyle (finals) men's 400 I.M. (finals) women's 200 breaststroke (finals) men's 4 × 200 Freestyle Relay (finals)
Sept.22	women's 400 freestyle (prelims) men's 100 freestyle (prelims) women's 100 backstroke (prelims) men's 200 backstroke (prelims) women's 4 × 100 Free Relay	women's 400 freestyle (finals) men's 100 freestyle (finals) women's 100 backstroke (finals) men's 200 backstroke (finals) women's 4 × 100 Freestyle Relay (finals)
Sept.23	men's 400 freestyle (prelims) women's 100 butterfly (prelims) men's 200 breaststroke (prelims) women's 100 breaststroke (prelims) men's 4 × 100 Freestyle Relay (prelims) women's 800 freestyle (prelims)	men's 400 freestyle (final) women's 100 butterfly (finals) men's 200 breaststroke (finals) women's 100 breaststroke (finals) men's 4 × 100 Freestyle Relay (finals)
Sept.24	men's 200 butterfly (prelims) women's 200 I.M. (prelims) men's 50 freestyle (prelims) men's 100 backstroke (prelims) women's 4 × 100 Medley Relay (prelims) men's 1500 freestyle (prelims)	women's 200 I.M. (finals) men's 200 butterfly (finals) men's 50 freestyle (finals) women's 800 freestyle (finals) men's 100 backstroke (finals) women's 4 × 100 medley relay (finals)
Sept.25	women's 200 butterfly (prelims) men's 200 I.M. (prelims) women's 50 freestyle (prelims) men's 4 × 100 medley relay (prelims) women's 200 backstroke (prelims)	men's 200 I.M. (finals) women's 200 butterfly (finals) women's 50 freestyle (finals) men's 1500 freestyle (finals) women's 200 backstroke (finals) men's 4 × 100 medley relay (finals)

Medal summary

Men’s events

50 m freestyle Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	22.14 Template:WR	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	22.36	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	22.71
100 m freestyle Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	48.63 Template:OlyR	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	49.08	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	49.62
200 m freestyle Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:47.25 Template:WR	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:47.89	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:47.99
400 m freestyle Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	3:46.95 Template:WR	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	3:47.15 OC	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	3:47.34
1500 m freestyle Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	15:00.40	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	15:02.69	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	15:06.15
100 m backstroke Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	55.05 AS	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	55.18	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	55.20
200 m backstroke Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:59.37	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:59.60	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:00.48 NR
100 m breaststroke Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:02.04 NR	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:02.05	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:02.20
200 m breaststroke Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:13.52 ER	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:14.12	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:15.21 NR
100 m butterfly Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	53.00 Template:OlyR	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	53.01	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	53.30
200 m butterfly Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:56.94 Template:OlyR	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:58.24 NR	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:58.28
200 m individual medley Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:00.17 Template:WR	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:01.61	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:02.40
400 m individual medley Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	4:14.75 Template:WR	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	4:17.36	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	4:18.01
4 × 100 m freestyle relay Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCteam Chris Jacobs Troy Dalbey Tom Jager Matt Biondi Doug Gjertsen* Brent Lang* Shaun Jordan*	3:16.53 Template:WR	Template:FlagIOCteam Gennadiy Prigoda Yuri Bashkatov Nikolai Yevseyev Vladimir Tkachenko Raimundas Mažuolis* Oleksiy Boryslavskiy*	3:18.33 ER	Template:FlagIOCteam Dirk Richter Thomas Flemming Lars Hinneburg Steffen Zesner	3:19.82
4 × 200 m freestyle relay Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCteam Troy Dalbey Matt Cetlinski Doug Gjertsen Matt Biondi Craig Oppel* Dan Jorgensen*	7:12.51 (WR)	Template:FlagIOCteam Uwe Daßler Sven Lodziewski Thomas Flemming Steffen Zesner Lars Hinneburg*	7:13.68	Template:FlagIOCteam Erik Hochstein Thomas Fahrner Rainer Henkel Michael Gross Peter Sitt* Stefan Pfeiffer*	7:14.35
4 × 100 m medley relay Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCteam David Berkoff Richard Schroeder Matt Biondi Chris Jacobs Jay Mortenson* Tom Jager*	3:36.93	Template:FlagIOCteam Mark Tewksbury Victor Davis Tom Ponting Sandy Goss	3:39.28	Template:FlagIOCteam Igor Polyansky Dmitry Volkov Vadim Yaroshchuk Gennadiy Prigoda Sergey Zabolotnov* Valeriy Lozik* Konstantin Petrov* Nikolay Yevseyev*	3:39.96

* Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Women’s events

50 m freestyle Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	25.49 (OR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	25.64	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	25.71
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100 m freestyle Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	54.93	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	55.47	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	55.49
200 m freestyle Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:57.65 (OR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:58.67	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:59.01
400 m freestyle Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	4:03.85 (WR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	4:05.94	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	4:06.62
800 m freestyle Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	8:20.20 (OR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	8:22.09	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	8:22.93
100 m backstroke Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:00.89	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:01.56	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:01.57
200 m backstroke Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:09.29 (OR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:10.61	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:11.45
100 m breaststroke Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:07.95 (OR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:08.74	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:08.83
200 m breaststroke Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:26.71 (WR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:27.49	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:28.34
100 m butterfly Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	59.00 (OR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	59.45	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	59.52
200 m butterfly Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:09.51	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:09.91	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:10.80
200 m individual medley Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:12.59 (OR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:13.31	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:14.85
400 m individual medley Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	4:37.76	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	4:39.46	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	4:39.76
4 × 100 m freestyle relay Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCteam Kristin Otto Katrin Meissner Daniela Hunger Manuela Stellmach Sabina Schulze* Heike Friedrich*	3:40.63	Template:FlagIOCteam Marianne Muis Mildred Muis Conny van Bentum Karin Brienesse Diana van der Plaats*	3:43.39	Template:FlagIOCteam Mary Wayte Mitzi Kremer Laura Walker Dara Torres Paige Zemina* Jill Sterkel*	3:44.25
4 × 100 m medley relay Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCteam Kristin Otto Silke Hörner Birte Weigang Katrin Meissner Cornelia Sirch* Manuela Stellmach*	4:03.74	Template:FlagIOCteam Beth Barr Tracey McFarlane Janel Jorgensen Mary Wayte Betsy Mitchell* Mary T. Meagher* Dara Torres*	4:07.90	Template:FlagIOCteam Lori Melien Allison Higson Jane Kerr Andrea Nugent Keltie Duggan* Patricia Noall*	4:10.49

* Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Participating nations

633 swimmers from 77 nations competed.<ref name="SportsRef"/>

References

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