Swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre breaststroke

Women's 100 metre breaststroke
at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Women's 100 metre breaststroke; at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Venue	Jamsil Indoor Swimming Pool
Date	23 September 1988 (heats & finals)
Competitors	44 from 28 nations
Winning time	1:07.95 OR
Medalists
	← 1984 1992 →

The women's 100 metre breaststroke event at the 1988 Summer Olympics took place on 23 September at the Jamsil Indoor Swimming Pool in Seoul, South Korea.^[1]^[2]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Silke Hörner (GDR)	1:07.91	Strasbourg, France	21 August 1987
Olympic record	Petra van Staveren (NED)	1:09.88	Los Angeles, United States	2 August 1984

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
23 September	Heat 4	Tanya Dangalakova	Bulgaria	1:08.35	OR
23 September	Heat 5	Silke Hörner	East Germany	1:08.35	=OR
23 September	Final A	Tanya Dangalakova	Bulgaria	1:07.95	OR

Results

Heats

Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A (Q), while the next eight to final B (q).^[3]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Tanya Dangalakova	Bulgaria	1:08.35	Q, OR
1	6	Silke Hörner	East Germany	1:08.35	Q, OR
3	6	Allison Higson	Canada	1:08.39	Q
4	4	Yelena Volkova	Soviet Union	1:09.86	Q
5	5	Antoaneta Frenkeva	Bulgaria	1:10.09	Q
6	4	Tracey McFarlane	United States	1:10.59	Q
7	5	Annett Rex	East Germany	1:10.61	Q
8	5	Huang Xiaomin	China	1:10.78	Q
9	5	Svetlana Kuzmina	Soviet Union	1:10.83	q
10	5	Keltie Duggan	Canada	1:10.95	q
11	6	Ingrid Lempereur	Belgium	1:11.00	q, NR
12	6	Susan Johnson	United States	1:11.08	q
13	6	Gabriella Csépe	Hungary	1:11.10	q
14	5	Manuela Dalla Valle	Italy	1:11.25	q
15	6	Lara Hooiveld	Australia	1:11.40	q
16	4	Suki Brownsdon	Great Britain	1:11.66	q
17	5	Linda Moes	Netherlands	1:11.84
18	3	Park Sung-won	South Korea	1:12.32
19	6	Dorota Chylak	Poland	1:12.38
20	5	Margaret Hohmann	Great Britain	1:12.67
21	3	Brigitte Becue	Belgium	1:12.90
22	4	Britta Dahm	West Germany	1:12.98
23	3	Ragnheiður Runólfsdóttir	Iceland	1:13.01
24	4	Pascaline Louvrier	France	1:13.23
25	3	Yoshie Nishioka	Japan	1:13.36
26	3	Virginie Bojaryn	France	1:13.55
27	4	Chen Huiling	China	1:13.65
28	2	Karen Horning	Peru	1:14.03
29	3	Nancy Kemp-Arendt	Luxembourg	1:14.99
30	3	Patricia Brülhart	Switzerland	1:15.00
31	3	Kornelia Stawicka	Poland	1:15.41
32	2	Carwai Seto	Chinese Taipei	1:15.47
33	2	Alicia María Boscatto	Argentina	1:15.67
34	6	Hiroko Nagasaki	Japan	1:16.63
35	2	Sigrid Niehaus	Costa Rica	1:16.65
36	1	Montserrat Hidalgo	Costa Rica	1:18.42
37	2	Valentina Aracil	Argentina	1:19.60
38	2	Dipika Chanmugam	Sri Lanka	1:20.18
39	2	Kimberly Chen	Chinese Taipei	1:20.95
40	1	Katerine Moreno	Bolivia	1:22.52
41	1	Ana Martins	Angola	1:24.01
42	1	Nádia Cruz	Angola	1:24.46
	2	Annemarie Munk	Hong Kong	DNS
	4	Heike Esser	West Germany	DNS

Finals

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Final B

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	4	Svetlana Kuzmina	Soviet Union	1:10.42
10	5	Keltie Duggan	Canada	1:10.58
11	3	Ingrid Lempereur	Belgium	1:10.86	NR
12	7	Manuela Dalla Valle	Italy	1:10.95
13	6	Susan Johnson	United States	1:11.08
14	2	Gabriella Csépe	Hungary	1:11.24
15	1	Lara Hooiveld	Australia	1:11.26
16	8	Suki Brownsdon	Great Britain	1:11.88

Final A

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Tanya Dangalakova	Bulgaria	1:07.95	OR
	2	Antoaneta Frenkeva	Bulgaria	1:08.74
	5	Silke Hörner	East Germany	1:08.83
4	3	Allison Higson	Canada	1:08.86
5	6	Yelena Volkova	Soviet Union	1:09.24
6	7	Tracey McFarlane	United States	1:09.60
7	8	Huang Xiaomin	China	1:10.53
8	1	Annett Rex	East Germany	1:10.67

References

^ "Swimming at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games: Women's 100 metres Breaststroke". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
^ "100 meters Breaststroke, Women". Olympedia. Archived from the original on 25 November 2023. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
^ "Seoul 1988: Swimming – Women's 100m Breaststroke Heats" (PDF). Seoul 1988. LA84 Foundation. p. 424. Retrieved 2 April 2017.
^ "Seoul 1988: Swimming – Women's 100m Breaststroke Finals" (PDF). Seoul 1988. LA84 Foundation. p. 425. Retrieved 2 April 2017.

External links

[SportsRef-1] "Swimming at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games: Women's 100 metres Breaststroke". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 1 April 2017.

[Olympedia-2] "100 meters Breaststroke, Women". Olympedia. Archived from the original on 25 November 2023. Retrieved 25 November 2023.

[3] "Seoul 1988: Swimming – Women's 100m Breaststroke Heats" (PDF). Seoul 1988. LA84 Foundation. p. 424. Retrieved 2 April 2017.

[4] "Seoul 1988: Swimming – Women's 100m Breaststroke Finals" (PDF). Seoul 1988. LA84 Foundation. p. 425. Retrieved 2 April 2017.

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