Swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre backstroke

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 men's 200 metre backstroke event at the 1988 Olympic Games took place September 22. This swimming event used backstroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of four lengths of the pool.

Medalists

Gold	Igor Polyansky Soviet Union (URS)
Silver	Frank Baltrusch East Germany (GDR)
Bronze	Paul Kingsman New Zealand (NZL)

Results

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Igor Polyansky	Soviet Union	1:59.37
	Frank Baltrusch	East Germany	1:59.60
	Paul Kingsman	New Zealand	2:00.48
4	Sergei Zabolotnov	Soviet Union	2:00.52
5	Dirk Richter	East Germany	2:01.67
6	Jens-Peter Berndt	West Germany	2:01.84
7	Dan Veatch	United States	2:02.26
8	Rogério Romero	Brazil	2:02.28

References

• 1988 Summer Olympics results: Men's 200 m backstroke, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2009-12-30.