Swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 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 200 metre butterfly event at the 1988 Olympic Games took place September 25.

This swimming event used the butterfly stroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of four lengths of the pool.

Medalists

Gold

Kathleen Nord East Germany (GDR)

Silver

Birte Weigang East Germany (GDR)

Bronze

Mary T. Meagher United States (USA)

Results

Finals

A Final

Place	Swimmer	Country	Time	Notes
	Kathleen Nord	East Germany	2:09.51
	Birte Weigang	East Germany	2:09.91
	Mary T. Meagher	United States	2:10.80
4	Stela Marian Pura	Romania	2:11.28
5	Trina Radke	United States	2:11.55
6	Kiyomi Takahashi	Japan	2:11.62
7	Wang Xiaohong	China	2:12.34
8	Conny van Bentum	Netherlands	2:13.17

B Final

Place	Swimmer	Country	Time	Notes
9	Mojca Cater	Canada	2:12.66
10	Ina Beyermann	West Germany	2:13.74
11	Gabi Reha	West Germany	2:14.20
12	Svetlana Koptchikova	Soviet Union	2:14.43
13	Mette Jacobsen	Denmark	2:15.60
14	Takayo Kitano	Japan	2:15.61
15	Helen Bewley	Great Britain	2:17.11
16	Lynne Wilson	Great Britain	2:18.66

Preliminary heats

Rank	Swimmer	Country	Time	Notes
1	Kathleen Nord	East Germany	2:11.81	q-A
2	Birte Weigang	East Germany	2:11.97	q-A
3	Mary T. Meagher	United States	2:12.35	q-A
4	Conny van Bentum	Netherlands	2:12.41	q-A
5	Stela Pura	Romania	2:12.53	q-A
6	Kiyomi Takahashi	Japan	2:12.68	q-A
7	Trina Radke	United States	2:12.93	q-A
8	Wang Xiaohong	China	2:13.05	q-A
9	Gabi Reha	West Germany	2:13.09	q-B
10	Mojca Cater	Canada	2:13.21	q-B
11	Ina Beyermann	West Germany	2:13.56	q-B
12	Svetlana Koptchikova	Soviet Union	2:15.26	q-B
13	Takayo Kitano	Japan	2:15.41	q-B
14	Mette Jacobsen	Denmark	2:15.78	q-B
15	Helen Bewley	Great Britain	2:17.10	q-B
16	Lynne Wilson	Great Britain	2:17.28	q-B
17	Donna Procter	Australia	2:18.17
18	Sandra Neves	Portugal	2:18.29
19	Neviana Miteva	Bulgaria	2:18.44
20	Soo-Jin Kim	South Korea	2:19.00
21	Blanca Morales-Masella	Guatemala	2:19.28
22	Mo Wanlan	China	2:19.56
23	Marlene Bruten	Mexico	2:19.68
24	Isabelle Arnould	Belgium	2:20.74
25	Claire Supiot	France	2:21.65
26	Hui-Chien Chang	Chinese Taipei	2:25.50
27	Oanh Nguyen Kieu	Vietnam	2:33.07
--	Donna McGinnis	Canada	DQ

References

• For the Record; Swimming World Magazine, November 1988 edition; page 81.
• 1988 Summer Olympics results: Women's 200 m butterfly, from sports-reference.com; retrieved 2010-01-01.