Swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Women'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 Women's 200 Backstroke event at the 1988 Olympic Games took place September 25, 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. It was one of 15 Swimming events for females at the Games. All Swimming events at the Olympics are contested in a long course (50m) pool.

Medalists

Gold	Krisztina Egerszegi Hungary (HUN)
Silver	Katrin Zimmermann East Germany (GDR)
Bronze	Cornelia Sirch East Germany (GDR)

Results

Finals

A Final

Place	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Krisztina Egerszegi	Hungary	2:09.29	OR
	Katrin Zimmermann	East Germany	2:10.61
	Cornelia Sirch	East Germany	2:11.45
4	Beth Barr	United States	2:12.39
5	Nicole Livingstone	Australia	2:13.43
6	Andrea Hayes	United States	2:15.02
7	Jolanda de Rover	Netherlands	2:15.17
8	Svenja Schlicht	West Germany	2:15.94

B Final

Place	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
9	Aneta Patrascoiu	Romania	2:15.75
10	Sharon Musson	New Zealand	2:16.06
11	Lin Li	China	2:16.68
12	Katharine Read	Great Britain	2:18.20
13	Lorenza Vigarani	Italy	2:18.69
14	Karen Lord	Australia	2:18.78
14	Satoko Morishita	Japan	2:18.78
16	Johanna Larsson	Sweden	DQ

Key: OR = Olympic record

Preliminary heats

References

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