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

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 women's 100 butterfly at the 1998 Summer Olympics was held on September 23, 1998, with both preliminaries and finals on the same day.

Records

The existing World and Olympic records at the time of the event were:

World record	Mary T. Meagher (USA)	57.93	Brown Deer, WI, USA	August 16, 1981
Olympic record	Mary T. Meagher (USA)	59.05	Los Angeles, CA, United States	July 1984

Finals

A Final

Place	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
		Kristin Otto	East Germany	59.00	OR
		Birte Weigang	East Germany	59.45
		Hong Qian	China	59.52
4th		Catherine Plewinski	France	59.58
5th		Janel Jorgensen	United States	1:00.48
6th		Conny van Bentum	Netherlands	1:00.62
7th		Mary T. Meagher	United States	1:00.97
8th		Wang Xiaohong	China	1:01.15

B final

Place	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9th		Svetlana Koptchikova	Soviet Union	1:01.48
10th		Kiyomi Takahashi	Japan	1:01.80
11th		Jacqueline Delord	France	1:02.45
12th		Neviana Miteva	Bulgaria	1:02.47
13th		Fiona Alessandri	Australia	1:02.51
14th		Takayo Kitano	Japan	1:02.53
15th		Gabi Rehaa	West Germany	1:02.63
16th		Ilaria Tocchini	Italy	1:02.78

Preliminary heats

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Catherine Plewinski	France	59.34	q-A
2	Birte Weigang	East Germany	59.97	q-A
3	Kristin Otto	East Germany	1:00.40	q-A
4	Hong Qian	China	1:00.66	q-A
5	Conny van Bentum	Netherlands	1:00.94	q-A
6	Janel Jorgensen	United States	1:00.97	q-A
7	Wang Xiaohong	China	1:01.18	q-A
8	Mary T. Meagher	United States	1:01.48	q-A
9	Svetlana Koptchikova	Soviet Union	1:01.85	q-B
10	Fiona Alessandri	Australia	1:01.90	q-B
11	Neviana Miteva	Bulgaria	1:02.01	q-B
12	Kiyomi Takahashi	Japan	1:02.04	q-B
13	Ilaria Tocchini	Italy	1:02.07	q-B
14	Jacqueline Delord	France	1:02.24	q-B
15	Gabi Rehaa	West Germany	1:02.27	q-B
16	Takayo Kitano	Japan	1:02.39	q-B
17	Maria L. Fernandez	Spain	1:02.47
18	Caroline Foot	Great Britain	1:02.76
19	Ina Beyermann	West Germany	1:02.85
20	Jane Kerr	Canada	1:02.91
21	Annabelle Cripps	Great Britain	1:03.34
22	Agneta Eriksson	Sweden	1:03.45
23	Andrea Nugent	Canada	1:03.69
24	Emanuela Viola	Italy	1:03.91
24	Stela Pura	Romania	1:03.91
26	Lee Hong-Mi	South Korea	1:04.36
27	Sandra Neves	Portugal	1:04.60
28	Blanca Morales-Massella	Guatemala	1:05.02
29	Marlene Bruten	Mexico	1:05.37
30	Kim Soo-Jin	South Korea	1:06.14
31	Cee Kay Hung	Hong Kong	1:06.94
32	Hui-Chien Chang	Chinese Taipei	1:07.36
33	Marcela Cuesta	Costa Rica	1:07.66
34	Oanh Nguyen Kieu	Vietnam	1:07.96
35	Ana Joselina Fortin	Honduras	1:07.99
36	Annemarie Munk	Hong Kong	1:08.35
37	Sharon Pickering	Fiji	1:10.51
38	Cina Munch	Fiji	1:12.03
39	Elsa Freir	Angola	1:12.27
40	Barbara Gayle	Guam	1:12.84

References

• Swimming World Magazine, November 1988.