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

Women's 200 metre breaststroke
at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
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
	← 1984 1992 →

The women's 200 metre breaststroke event at the 1988 Summer Olympics took place between 20 and 21 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	Allison Higson (CAN)	2:27.27	Montreal, Canada	28 May 1988
Olympic record	Lina Kačiušytė (URS)	2:29.54	Moscow, Soviet Union	23 July 1980

The following records were established during the competition:

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

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	Silke Hörner	East Germany	2:27.63	Q, OR
2	5	Yuliya Bogacheva	Soviet Union	2:28.94	Q
3	4	Antoaneta Frenkeva	Bulgaria	2:29.57	Q
4	6	Allison Higson	Canada	2:29.67	Q
5	5	Tanya Dangalakova	Bulgaria	2:29.91	Q
6	5	Huang Xiaomin	China	2:30.03	Q
7	4	Ingrid Lempereur	Belgium	2:30.07	Q
8	4	Manuela Dalla Valle	Italy	2:30.60	Q
9	6	Susanne Börnike	East Germany	2:30.71	q
10	4	Svetlana Kuzmina	Soviet Union	2:30.93	q
11	5	Linda Moes	Netherlands	2:31.98	q
12	6	Tracey McFarlane	United States	2:32.11	q
13	4	Annalisa Nisiro	Italy	2:32.77	q
14	6	Brigitte Becue	Belgium	2:33.13	q
15	6	Susan Rapp	United States	2:34.21	q
16	5	Guylaine Cloutier	Canada	2:34.36	q
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 Sung-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	Carwai Seto	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 María Boscatto	Argentina	2:45.80
40	3	Chen Huiling	China	2:45.87
41	2	Kimberly Chen	Chinese Taipei	2:50.84
42	1	Dipika Chanmugam	Sri Lanka	2:51.60
	2	Valentina Aracil	Argentina	DSQ

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
9	4	Susanne Börnike	East Germany	2:28.55
10	5	Svetlana Kuzmina	Soviet Union	2:30.03
11	3	Linda Moes	Netherlands	2:30.83
12	2	Annalisa Nisiro	Italy	2:31.19
13	1	Susan Rapp	United States	2:32.90
14	6	Tracey McFarlane	United States	2:33.46
15	8	Guylaine Cloutier	Canada	2:33.50
16	7	Brigitte Becue	Belgium	2:34.10

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