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

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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
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1st Silke Hörner  East Germany
2nd Huang Xiaomin  China
3rd Antoaneta Frenkeva  Bulgaria
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Swimming events at the
1988 Summer Olympics
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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 Silke Hörner  East Germany 2:27.63 QA, OR[1]
2 5 Yuliya Bohachova  Soviet Union 2:28.94 QA, OR[3]
3 4 Antoaneta Frenkeva  Bulgaria 2:29.57 QA
4 6 Allison Higson  Canada 2:29.67 QA
5 5 Tanya Dangalakova  Bulgaria 2:29.91 QA
6 5 Huang Xiaomin  China 2:30.03 QA
7 4 Ingrid Lempereur  Belgium 2:30.07 QA
8 4 Manuela Dalla Valle  Italy 2:30.60 QA
9 6 Susanne Börnike  East Germany 2:30.71 QB
10 4 Svetlana Kuzmina  Soviet Union 2:30.93 QB
11 5 Linda Moes  Netherlands 2:31.98 QB
12 6 Tracey McFarlane  United States 2:32.11 QB
13 4 Annalisa Nisiro  Italy 2:32.77 QB
14 6 Brigitte Becue  Belgium 2:33.13 QB
15 6 Susan Rapp  United States 2:34.21 QB
16 5 Guylaine Cloutier  Canada 2:34.36 QB
17 4 Britta Dahm  West Germany 2:35.06
18 3 Silvia Parera  Spain 2:35.57
19 6 Yoshie Nishioka  Japan 2:35.81
20 3 Suki Brownsdon  Great Britain 2:36.14
21 5 Kornelia Stawicka  Poland 2:36.86
22 6 Virginie Bojaryn  France 2:37.38
23 5 Hiroko Nagasaki  Japan 2:37.44
24 1 Karen Horning  Peru 2:37.84
25 5 Pia Sørensen  Denmark 2:38.49
26 4 Pascaline Louvrier  France 2:38.75
27 3 Ragnheiður Runólfsdóttir  Iceland 2:39.10
28 3 Dorota Chylak  Poland 2:39.38
29 2 Park Seong-won  South Korea 2:39.40
30 3 Lara Hooiveld  Australia 2:39.97
31 2 Nancy Kemp-Arendt  Luxembourg 2:40.78
32 3 Anamarija Petričević  Yugoslavia 2:40.80
33 2 Helen Frank  Great Britain 2:41.12
34 6 Heike Esser  West Germany 2:41.34
35 1 Seto Car-Wai  Chinese Taipei 2:42.31
36 2 Patricia Brülhart  Switzerland 2:42.82
37 1 Montserrat Hidalgo  Costa Rica 2:44.72
38 2 Sigrid Niehaus  Costa Rica 2:45.35
39 3 Alicia Boscatto  Argentina 2:45.80
40 3 Chen Huiling  China 2:45.87
41 2 Kim Chen  Chinese Taipei 2:50.84
42 1 Dipika Chanmugam  Sri Lanka 2:51.60
43 2 Valentina Aracil  Argentina — DSQ[1]

Finals

Final B

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
9 Susanne Börnike  East Germany 2:28.55
10 Svetlana Kuzmina  Soviet Union 2:30.03
11 Linda Moes  Netherlands 2:30.83
12 Annalisa Nisiro  Italy 2:31.19
13 Susan Rapp  United States 2:32.90
14 Tracey McFarlane  United States 2:33.46
15 Guylaine Cloutier  Canada 2:33.50
16 Brigitte Becue  Belgium 2:34.10

Final A

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st Silke Hörner  East Germany 2:26.71 WR[4]
2nd Huang Xiaomin  China 2:27.49
3rd Antoaneta Frenkeva  Bulgaria 2:28.34
4 Tanya Dangalakova  Bulgaria 2:28.43
5 Yuliya Bohachova  Soviet Union 2:28.54
6 Ingrid Lempereur  Belgium 2:29.42
7 Allison Higson  Canada 2:29.60
8 Manuela Dalla Valle  Italy 2:29.86

Sources

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 SLOOC, p. 573
  2. ↑ SLOOC, p. 169
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 SLOOC, p. 172
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