Swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre butterfly

Men's 200 metre butterfly
at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Men's 200 metre butterfly; at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Venue	Jamsil Indoor Swimming Pool
Date	24 September 1988 (heats & finals)
Competitors	42 from 31 nations
Winning time	1:56.94 OR
Medalists
	← 1984 1992 →

The men's 200 metre butterfly event at the 1988 Summer Olympics took place on 24 September at the Jamsil Indoor Swimming Pool in Seoul, South Korea.^[1]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Michael Gross (FRG)	1:56.24	Hannover, West Germany	28 June 1986
Olympic record	Jon Sieben (AUS)	1:57.04	Los Angeles, United States	3 August 1984

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nation	Time	Record
24 September	Final A	Michael Gross	West Germany	1:56.94	OR

Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A (Q), while the next eight to final B (q).^[2]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	Michael Gross	West Germany	1:58.09	Q
2	4	Anthony Mosse	New Zealand	1:58.71	Q
3	5	David Wilson	Australia	1:59.02	Q
4	5	Benny Nielsen	Denmark	1:59.26	Q, NR
5	4	Jon Kelly	Canada	1:59.40	Q
6	6	Melvin Stewart	United States	1:59.78	Q
7	4	Tom Ponting	Canada	2:00.08	Q
8	6	Anthony Nesty	Suriname	2:00.17	Q, NR
9	4	Martin Roberts	Australia	2:00.32	q
10	6	Mark Dean	United States	2:00.86	q
11	6	Frank Drost	Netherlands	2:00.99	q
12	4	Tim Jones	Great Britain	2:01.01	q
13	5	Vadim Yaroshchuk	Soviet Union	2:01.05	q
14	6	Satoshi Takeda	Japan	2:01.42	q
15	3	Nick Hodgson	Great Britain	2:01.44	q
16	5	Christophe Bordeau	France	2:01.70	q
17	4	Rafał Szukała	Poland	2:01.91
18	5	Reinhold Leitner	Austria	2:02.18
19	4	Hiroshi Miura	Japan	2:02.30
20	3	Ross Anderson	New Zealand	2:02.40
21	5	Martin Herrmann	West Germany	2:02.61
22	4	Ondřej Bureš	Czechoslovakia	2:02.93
23	6	Jan Larsen	Denmark	2:03.01
24	5	José Luis Ballester	Spain	2:03.32
25	3	Jean-Marie Arnould	Belgium	2:03.76
26	2	Diogo Madeira	Portugal	2:03.79
26	3	Christer Wallin	Sweden	2:03.79
28	3	Khazan Singh Tokas	India	2:03.95
29	2	João Santos	Portugal	2:04.74
30	3	Zhan Jiang	China	2:05.22
31	2	Ahmed Abdullah	Egypt	2:05.28
32	2	Joseph Eric Buhain	Philippines	2:05.32
33	3	Théophile David	Switzerland	2:05.58
34	6	Eduardo de Poli	Brazil	2:06.15
35	2	Park Yeong-cheol	South Korea	2:08.57
36	1	Emanuel Nascimento	Brazil	2:09.40
37	2	Desmond Koh	Singapore	2:10.86
38	1	Sultan Al-Otaibi	Kuwait	2:12.89
39	1	William Cleveland	Virgin Islands	2:13.19
40	1	Kristan Singleton	Virgin Islands	2:19.68
	1	Julian Bolling	Sri Lanka	DNS
	5	Matjaž Kozelj	Yugoslavia	DNS

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
9	5	Mark Dean	United States	2:00.26
10	6	Tim Jones	Great Britain	2:00.32
11	2	Vadim Yaroshchuk	Soviet Union	2:00.34
12	1	Nick Hodgson	Great Britain	2:01.09
13	8	Christophe Bordeau	France	2:01.46
14	3	Frank Drost	Netherlands	2:01.59
15	7	Satoshi Takeda	Japan	2:02.18
16	4	Martin Roberts	Australia	2:04.28

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Michael Gross	West Germany	1:56.94	OR
	6	Benny Nielsen	Denmark	1:58.24	NR
	5	Anthony Mosse	New Zealand	1:58.28
4	1	Tom Ponting	Canada	1:58.91
5	7	Melvin Stewart	United States	1:59.19
6	3	David Wilson	Australia	1:59.20
7	2	Jon Kelly	Canada	1:59.48
8	8	Anthony Nesty	Suriname	2:00.80