Swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre breaststroke

Women's 200 metre breaststroke at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Venue	Jamsil Indoor Swimming Pool
Date	20 September (heats) 21 September (finals)
Competitors	43 from 27 nations
Winning time	2:26.71 (WR)
Medalists
Silke Hörner   East Germany   Huang Xiaomin   China   Antoaneta Frenkeva   Bulgaria

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 metre breaststroke event, included in the swimming competition at the 1988 Summer Olympics, took place on September 20–21, at the Jamsil Indoor Swimming Pool in Seoul, South Korea. In this event, swimmers covered four lengths of the 50-metre (160 ft) Olympic-sized pool employing the breaststroke. It was the fifteenth appearance of the event, which first appeared at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. A total of 43 competitors from 27 nations participated in the event.^[1]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were:

World record	Allison Higson (CAN)	2:27.27 s	Montreal, Canada	28 May 1988	[2]
Olympic record	Lina Kačiušytė (URS)	2:29.54 s	Moscow, Soviet Union	23 July 1980	[3]

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Time	OR	WR
20 September	Heat 6	Silke Hörner	East Germany	2:27.63	OR
21 September	Final A	Silke Hörner	East Germany	2:26.71	OR	WR

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	Hörner, SilkeSilke Hörner	East Germany	2:27.63	QA, OR[1]
2	5	Bohachova, YuliyaYuliya Bohachova	Soviet Union	2:28.94	QA, OR[3]
3	4	Frenkeva, AntoanetaAntoaneta Frenkeva	Bulgaria	2:29.57	QA
4	6	Higson, AllisonAllison Higson	Canada	2:29.67	QA
5	5	Dangalakova, TanyaTanya Dangalakova	Bulgaria	2:29.91	QA
6	5	HuangHuang Xiaomin	China	2:30.03	QA
7	4	Lempereur, IngridIngrid Lempereur	Belgium	2:30.07	QA
8	4	Dalla Valle, ManuelaManuela Dalla Valle	Italy	2:30.60	QA
9	6	Börnike, SusanneSusanne Börnike	East Germany	2:30.71	QB
10	4	Kuzmina, SvetlanaSvetlana Kuzmina	Soviet Union	2:30.93	QB
11	5	Moes, LindaLinda Moes	Netherlands	2:31.98	QB
12	6	McFarlane, TraceyTracey McFarlane	United States	2:32.11	QB
13	4	Nisiro, AnnalisaAnnalisa Nisiro	Italy	2:32.77	QB
14	6	Becue, BrigitteBrigitte Becue	Belgium	2:33.13	QB
15	6	Rapp, SusanSusan Rapp	United States	2:34.21	QB
16	5	Cloutier, GuylaineGuylaine Cloutier	Canada	2:34.36	QB
17	4	Dahm, BrittaBritta Dahm	West Germany	2:35.06
18	3	Parera, SilviaSilvia Parera	Spain	2:35.57
19	6	Nishioka, YoshieYoshie Nishioka	Japan	2:35.81
20	3	Brownsdon, SukiSuki Brownsdon	Great Britain	2:36.14
21	5	Stawicka, KorneliaKornelia Stawicka	Poland	2:36.86
22	6	Bojaryn, VirginieVirginie Bojaryn	France	2:37.38
23	5	Nagasaki, HirokoHiroko Nagasaki	Japan	2:37.44
24	1	Horning, KarenKaren Horning	Peru	2:37.84
25	5	Sørensen, PiaPia Sørensen	Denmark	2:38.49
26	4	Louvrier, PascalinePascaline Louvrier	France	2:38.75
27	3	Runólfsdóttir, RagnheiðurRagnheiður Runólfsdóttir	Iceland	2:39.10
28	3	Chylak, DorotaDorota Chylak	Poland	2:39.38
29	2	ParkPark Seong-won	South Korea	2:39.40
30	3	Hooiveld, LaraLara Hooiveld	Australia	2:39.97
31	2	Kemp-Arendt, NancyNancy Kemp-Arendt	Luxembourg	2:40.78
32	3	Petričević, AnamarijaAnamarija Petričević	Yugoslavia	2:40.80
33	2	Frank, HelenHelen Frank	Great Britain	2:41.12
34	6	Esser, HeikeHeike Esser	West Germany	2:41.34
35	1	Car-Wai, SetoSeto Car-Wai	Chinese Taipei	2:42.31
36	2	Brülhart, PatriciaPatricia Brülhart	Switzerland	2:42.82
37	1	Hidalgo, MontserratMontserrat Hidalgo	Costa Rica	2:44.72
38	2	Niehaus, SigridSigrid Niehaus	Costa Rica	2:45.35
39	3	Boscatto, AliciaAlicia Boscatto	Argentina	2:45.80
40	3	ChenChen Huiling	China	2:45.87
41	2	Chen, KimKim Chen	Chinese Taipei	2:50.84
42	1	Chanmugam, DipikaDipika Chanmugam	Sri Lanka	2:51.60
43	2	Aracil, ValentinaValentina Aracil	Argentina	—	DSQ[1]

Finals

Final B

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	Börnike, SusanneSusanne Börnike	East Germany	2:28.55
10	Kuzmina, SvetlanaSvetlana Kuzmina	Soviet Union	2:30.03
11	Moes, LindaLinda Moes	Netherlands	2:30.83
12	Nisiro, AnnalisaAnnalisa Nisiro	Italy	2:31.19
13	Rapp, SusanSusan Rapp	United States	2:32.90
14	McFarlane, TraceyTracey McFarlane	United States	2:33.46
15	Cloutier, GuylaineGuylaine Cloutier	Canada	2:33.50
16	Becue, BrigitteBrigitte Becue	Belgium	2:34.10

Final A

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Hörner, SilkeSilke Hörner	East Germany	2:26.71	WR[4]
	HuangHuang Xiaomin	China	2:27.49
	Frenkeva, AntoanetaAntoaneta Frenkeva	Bulgaria	2:28.34
4	Dangalakova, TanyaTanya Dangalakova	Bulgaria	2:28.43
5	Bohachova, YuliyaYuliya Bohachova	Soviet Union	2:28.54
6	Lempereur, IngridIngrid Lempereur	Belgium	2:29.42
7	Higson, AllisonAllison Higson	Canada	2:29.60
8	Dalla Valle, ManuelaManuela Dalla Valle	Italy	2:29.86

Sources

• "The Official Report of the Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIVth Olympiad Seoul 1988" (PDF). Volume 2: Competition Summary and Results. Seoul Olympic Organizing Committee (SLOOC). 1988. Retrieved 6 July 2012.
• "Swimming at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games: Women's 200 metres Breaststroke". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference, LLC. Retrieved 5 July 2012.

References

1. SLOOC, p. 573
2. SLOOC, p. 169
3. SLOOC, p. 172
4. Albert Schoenfeld, ed. (November 1988). "Results from the 1988 Olympic Games (Seoul)" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. Albert Schoenfeld. p. 81. ISSN 0039-7431. Retrieved 6 July 2012.