Swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 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 100 backstroke at the 1988 Summer Olympics was held on September 22.

Records

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

World record	Ina Kleber (GDR)	1:00.59	Moscow, USSR	August 24, 1984
Olympic record	Rica Reinisch (GDR)	1:00.86	Moscow, USSR	July 23, 1980

Place	Name	Nationality	Time
	Kristin Otto	East Germany	1:00.89
	Krisztina Egerszegi	Hungary	1:01.56
	Cornelia Sirch	East Germany	1:01.57
4	Betsy Mitchell	United States	1:02.71
5	Beth Barr	United States	1:02.78
6	Silvia Poll	Costa Rica	1:03.34
7	Nicole Livingstone	Australia	1:04.15
8	Marion Aizpors	West Germany	1:04.19

Place	Name	Nationality	Time
9	Aneta Patrascoiu	Romania	1:03.33
10	Svenja Schlicht	West Germany	1:03.68
11	Manuela Carosi	Italy	1:03.80
12	Lori Melien	Canada	1:03.87
13	Lorenza Vigarani	Italy	1:03.88
14	Jolanda de Rover	Netherlands	1:04.11
15	Sharon Musson	New Zealand	1:04.17
16	Katharine Read	Great Britain	1:04.27

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Kristin Otto	East Germany	1:01.45	q-A
2	Cornelia Sirch	East Germany	1:01.63	q-A
3	Krisztina Egerszegi	Hungary	1:02.09	q-A
4	Beth Barr	United States	1:02.63	q-A
5	Betsy Mitchell	United States	1:02.85	q-A
6	Silvia Poll	Costa Rica	1:03.21	q-A
7	Nicole Livingstone	Australia	1:03.26	q-A
8	Marion Aizpors	West Germany	1:03.27	q-A

9	Aneta Patrascoiu	Romania	1:03.29	q-B
10	Svenja Schlicht	West Germany	1:03.72	q-B
11	Lorenza Vigarani	Italy	1:03.96	q-B
12	Lorie Melien	Canada	1:04.29	q-B
13	Jolanda de Rover	Netherlands	1:04.39	q-B
14	Sharon Musson	New Zealand	1:04.58	q-B
15	Katharine Read	Great Britain	1:04.62	q-B
16	Manuela Carosi	Italy	1:04.69	q-B Swim-offs= 1:05.05 / 1:04.62

17	Karen Lord	Australia	1:04.69	Swim-offs= 1:05.05 / 1:04.75
18	Sharon Page	Great Britain	1:04.75
19	Bistra Gospodinova	Bulgaria	1:04.91
20	Laurence Guillou	France	1:05.07
20	Eva Gysling	Switzerland	1:05.07
22	Johanna Larsson	Sweden	1:05.10
23	Bolin Wang	China	1:05.15
24	Satoko Morishita	Japan	1:05.38
25	Sylvia Hume	New Zealand	1:05.81
26	Tomoko Onogi	Japan	1:06.14
27	Michelle Smith	Ireland	1:06.22
28	Akiko Thomson	23x15px Philippines	1:06.51
29	Alleen Convery	Ireland	1:06.73
30	Ji-Hee Hong	South Korea	1:08.33
31	Ritajean Garay	Puerto Rico	1:08.58
32	Chi Wang	Chinese Taipei	1:09.56
33	Ana Joselina Fortin	23x15px Honduras	1:10.10
34	Tricia Duncan	Virgin Islands	1:10.37
35	Wing Sze Tsang	23x15px Hong Kong	1:10.50
36	Sharon Pickering	Fiji	1:12.14
37	Angela Birch	Fiji	1:13.48
38	Katerine Moreno	Bolivia	1:14.42
39	Elsa Frelre	Angola	1:15.56
40	Carolina Araujo	Mozambique	1:15.86
41	Carla Fernandes	Angola	1:21.58