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Swimming events at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual Medley
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle Relay
4×100 m	men	women
4×200 m	men
Medley Relay
4×100 m	men	women

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.

1 Competition schedule
2 Medal summary
- 2.1 Men’s events
- 2.2 Women’s events
3 Medal table

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 4x200 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 4x200 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 4x100 Free Relay	women's 400 freestyle (finals) men's 100 freestyle (finals) women's 100 backstroke (finals) men's 200 backstroke (finals) women's 4x100 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 4x100 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 4x100 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 4x100 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 4x100 Medley Relay (finals)
Sept.25	women's 200 butterfly (prelims) men's 200 I.M. (prelims) women's 50 freestyle (prelims) men's 4x100 Medley Relay (prelims) women's 200 backstroke (prelims)	men's 200 I.M. (finals) women's 200 butterfly women's 50 freestyle (finals) men's 1500 freestyle (finals) women's 200 backstroke (finals) men's 4x100 Medley Relay (finals)

Medal summary

Men’s events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Matt Biondi United States (USA)	22.14	Tom Jager United States (USA)	22.36	Gennadiy Prigoda Soviet Union (URS)	22.71
100 m freestyle	Matt Biondi United States (USA)	48.63	Chris Jacobs United States (USA)	49.08	Stéphan Caron France (FRA)	49.62
200 m freestyle	Duncan Armstrong Australia (AUS)	1:47.25	Anders Holmertz Sweden (SWE)	1:47.89	Matt Biondi United States (USA)	1:47.99
400 m freestyle	Uwe Daßler East Germany (GDR)	3:46.95	Duncan Armstrong Australia (AUS)	3:47.15	Artur Wojdat Poland (POL)	3:47.34
1500 m freestyle	Vladimir Salnikov Soviet Union (URS)	15:00.40	Stefan Pfeiffer West Germany (FRG)	15:02.69	Uwe Daßler East Germany (GDR)	15:06.15
100 m backstroke	Daichi Suzuki Japan (JPN)	55.05	David Berkoff United States (USA)	55.18	Igor Polyansky Soviet Union (URS)	55.20
200 m backstroke	Igor Polyansky Soviet Union (URS)	1:59.37	Frank Baltrusch East Germany (GDR)	1:59.60	Paul Kingsman New Zealand (NZL)	2:00.48
100 m breaststroke	Adrian Moorhouse Great Britain (GBR)	1:02.04	Károly Güttler Hungary (HUN)	1:02.05	Dmitry Volkov Soviet Union (URS)	1:02.20
200 m breaststroke	József Szabó Hungary (HUN)	2:13.52	Nick Gillingham Great Britain (GBR)	2:14.12	Sergio López Miró Spain (ESP)	2:15.21
100 m butterfly	Anthony Nesty Suriname (SUR)	53.00	Matt Biondi United States (USA)	53.01	Andy Jameson Great Britain (GBR)	53.30
200 m butterfly	Michael Gross West Germany (FRG)	1:56.94	Benny Nielsen Denmark (DEN)	1:58.24	Anthony Mosse New Zealand (NZL)	1:58.28
200 m individual medley	Tamás Darnyi Hungary (HUN)	2:00.17	Patrick Kühl East Germany (GDR)	2:01.61	Vadim Yaroshchuk Soviet Union (URS)	2:02.40
400 m individual medley	Tamás Darnyi Hungary (HUN)	4:14.75	David Wharton United States (USA)	4:17.36	Stefano Battistelli Italy (ITA)	4:18.01
4×100 m freestyle relay	United States (USA) Chris Jacobs Troy Dalbey Tom Jager Matt Biondi	3:16.53	Soviet Union (URS) Gennadiy Prigoda Yuri Bashkatov Nikolai Yevseyev Vladimir Tkashenko Raimundas Mažuolis	3:18.33	East Germany (GDR) Dirk Richter Thomas Flemming Lars Hinneburg Steffen Zesner	3:19.82
4×200 m freestyle relay	United States (USA) Troy Dalbey Matt Cetlinski Doug Gjertsen Matt Biondi	7:12.51	East Germany (GDR) Uwe Daßler Sven Lodziewski Thomas Flemming Steffen Zesner	7:13.68	West Germany (FRG) Erik Hochstein Thomas Fahrner Rainer Henkel Michael Gross	7:14.35
4×100 m medley relay	United States (USA) David Berkoff Richard Schroeder Matt Biondi Chris Jacobs	3:36.93	Canada (CAN) Mark Tewksbury Victor Davis Tom Ponting Sandy Goss	3:39.28	Soviet Union (URS) Igor Polyansky Dmitry Volkov Vadim Yaroshchuk Gennadiy Prigoda	3:39.96

Women’s events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Kristin Otto East Germany (GDR)	25.49	Yang Wenyi China (CHN)	25.64	Jill Sterkel United States (USA)	25.71
50 m freestyle	Kristin Otto East Germany (GDR)	25.49	Yang Wenyi China (CHN)	25.64	Katrin Meißner East Germany (GDR)	25.71
100 m freestyle	Kristin Otto East Germany (GDR)	54.93	Zhuang Yong China (CHN)	55.47	Catherine Plewinski France (FRA)	55.49
200 m freestyle	Heike Friedrich East Germany (GDR)	1:57.65	Silvia Poll Ahrens Costa Rica (CRC)	1:58.67	Manuela Stellmach East Germany (GDR)	1:59.01
400 m freestyle	Janet Evans United States (USA)	4:03.85	Heike Friedrich East Germany (GDR)	4:05.94	Anke Möhring East Germany (GDR)	4:06.62
800 m freestyle	Janet Evans United States (USA)	8:20.20	Astrid Strauß East Germany (GDR)	8:22.09	Julie McDonald Australia (AUS)	8:22.93
100 m backstroke	Kristin Otto East Germany (GDR)	1:00.89	Krisztina Egerszegi Hungary (HUN)	1:01.56	Cornelia Sirch East Germany (GDR)	1:01.57
200 m backstroke	Krisztina Egerszegi Hungary (HUN)	2:09.29	Katrin Zimmermann East Germany (GDR)	2:10.61	Cornelia Sirch East Germany (GDR)	2:11.45
100 m breaststroke	Tania Dangalakova Bulgaria (BUL)	1:07.95	Antoaneta Frenkeva Bulgaria (BUL)	1:08.74	Silke Hörner East Germany (GDR)	1:08.83
200 m breaststroke	Silke Hörner East Germany (GDR)	2:26.71	Huang Xiaomin China (CHN)	2:27.49	Antoaneta Frenkeva Bulgaria (BUL)	2:28.34
100 m butterfly	Kristin Otto East Germany (GDR)	59.00	Birte Weigang East Germany (GDR)	59.45	Hong Qian China (CHN)	59.52
200 m butterfly	Kathleen Nord East Germany (GDR)	2:09.51	Birte Weigang East Germany (GDR)	2:09.91	Mary T. Meagher United States (USA)	2:10.80
200 m individual medley	Daniela Hunger East Germany (GDR)	2:12.59	Yelena Dendeberova Soviet Union (URS)	2:13.31	Noemi Lung Romania (ROU)	2:14.85
400 m individual medley	Janet Evans United States (USA)	4:37.76	Noemi Lung Romania (ROU)	4:39.46	Daniela Hunger East Germany (GDR)	4:37.76
4×100 m freestyle relay	East Germany (GDR) Kristin Otto Katrin Meißner Daniela Hunger Manuela Stellmach	3:40.63	Netherlands (NED) Marianne Muis Mildred Muis Conny van Bentum Karin Brienesse	3:43.39	United States (USA) Mary Wayte Mitzi Kremer Laura Walker Dara Torres	3:44.25
4×100 m medley relay	East Germany (GDR) Kristin Otto Silke Hörner Birte Weigang Katrin Meißner	4:03.74	United States (USA) Beth Barr Tracey McFarlane Janel Jorgensen Mary Wayte	4:07.90	Canada (CAN) Lori Melien Allison Higson Jane Kerr Andrea Nugent	4:10.49

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany (GDR)	11	8	9	28
2	United States (USA)	8	6	4	18
3	Hungary (HUN)	4	2	0	6
4	Soviet Union (URS)	2	2	5	9
5	Australia (AUS)	1	1	1	3
	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	1	1	3
	Great Britain (GBR)	1	1	1	3
	West Germany (FRG)	1	1	1	3
9	Japan (JPN)	1	0	0	1
9	Suriname (SUR)	1	0	0	1
11	China (CHN)	0	3	1	4
12	Canada (CAN)	0	1	1	2
12	Romania (ROU)	0	1	1	2
14	Costa Rica (CRC)	0	1	0	1
	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	0	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	1	0	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	0	1
18	France (FRA)	0	0	2	2
18	New Zealand (NZL)	0	0	2	2
20	Italy (ITA)	0	0	1	1
	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
	Spain (ESP)	0	0	1	1

Events at the 1988 Summer Olympics (Seoul)

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Swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Contents

Competition schedule

Medal summary

Men’s events

Women’s events

Medal table