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

Women's 200 metre freestyle
at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Women's 200 metre freestyle; at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Venue	Jamsil Indoor Swimming Pool
Date	20 September 1988 (heats); 21 September 1988 (finals)
Competitors	45 from 30 nations
Winning time	1:57.65 OR
Medalists
	← 1984 1992 →

The women's 200 metre freestyle event at the 1988 Summer Olympics took place between 20–21 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	Heike Friedrich (GDR)	1:57.55	East Berlin, East Germany	18 June 1986
Olympic record	Barbara Krause (GDR)	1:58.33	Moscow, Soviet Union	24 July 1980

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
21 September	Final A	Heike Friedrich	East Germany	1:57.65	OR

Results

Heats

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	Heike Friedrich	East Germany	1:59.02	Q
2	5	Silvia Poll	Costa Rica	1:59.22	Q, NR
3	6	Mary Wayte	United States	1:59.50	Q
4	5	Manuela Stellmach	East Germany	2:00.30	Q
5	4	Natalia Trefilova	Soviet Union	2:00.54	Q
6	5	Stephanie Ortwig	West Germany	2:00.66	Q
7	4	Mitzi Kremer	United States	2:01.45	Q
8	5	Cécile Prunier	France	2:01.60	Q
9	5	Chikako Nakamori	Japan	2:01.76	q
10	4	Mette Jacobsen	Denmark	2:01.80	q
11	6	Luminița Dobrescu	Romania	2:01.93	q
12	4	Ruth Gilfillan	Great Britain	2:02.11	q
13	4	Stela Pura	Romania	2:02.26	q
14	6	Patricia Noall	Canada	2:02.31	q
15	5	Zhuang Yong	China	2:02.40	q
16	1	Birgit Lohberg-Schulz	West Germany	2:02.77	q
17	3	Diana van der Plaats	Netherlands	2:03.02
18	6	Isabelle Arnould	Belgium	2:03.32
18	6	Suzanne Nilsson	Sweden	2:03.32
20	5	Sheridan Burge-Lopez	Australia	2:03.42
21	6	June Croft	Great Britain	2:03.63
22	4	Karin Brienesse	Netherlands	2:04.36
23	5	Silvia Persi	Italy	2:04.40
24	4	Annette Jørgensen	Denmark	2:04.71
25	3	Patrícia Amorim	Brazil	2:04.74
26	4	Susie Baumer	Australia	2:04.82
27	3	Nurul Huda Abdullah	Malaysia	2:04.85
28	6	Jane Kerr	Canada	2:04.92
29	3	Kaori Sasaki	Japan	2:04.92
30	3	Senda Gharbi	Tunisia	2:06.60
31	3	Karen Dieffenthaler	Trinidad and Tobago	2:07.09	NR
32	2	Bryndís Ólafsdóttir	Iceland	2:07.11
33	3	Rita Jean Garay	Puerto Rico	2:07.44
34	2	Natasha Aguilar	Costa Rica	2:10.22
35	3	Patricia Kohlmann	Mexico	2:10.36
36	2	Fenella Ng	Hong Kong	2:10.43
37	2	Kim Eun-jung	South Korea	2:10.85
38	2	Chang Hui-chien	Chinese Taipei	2:11.50
39	2	Park Joo-li	South Korea	2:11.53
40	2	Qian Hong	China	2:12.44
41	1	Catherine Fogarty	Zimbabwe	2:13.44
42	2	Hung Cee Kay	Hong Kong	2:13.61
43	1	Angela Birch	Fiji	2:16.79
44	1	Cina Munch	Fiji	2:18.45
	1	Nancy Khalaf	Lebanon	DNS

Finals

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Final B

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
9	7	Patricia Noall	Canada	2:00.77
10	6	Ruth Gilfillan	Great Britain	2:01.66
11	5	Mette Jacobsen	Denmark	2:01.84
12	3	Luminița Dobrescu	Romania	2:01.98
13	2	Stela Pura	Romania	2:02.30
14	4	Chikako Nakamori	Japan	2:02.31
15	8	Birgit Lohberg-Schulz	West Germany	2:02.32
16	1	Zhuang Yong	China	2:14.23

Final A

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Heike Friedrich	East Germany	1:57.65	OR
	5	Silvia Poll	Costa Rica	1:58.67	NR
	6	Manuela Stellmach	East Germany	1:59.01
4	3	Mary Wayte	United States	1:59.04
5	2	Natalia Trefilova	Soviet Union	1:59.24
6	1	Mitzi Kremer	United States	2:00.23
7	7	Stephanie Ortwig	West Germany	2:00.73
8	8	Cécile Prunier	France	2:02.88

References

^ "Swimming at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games: Women's 200 metres Freestyle". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
^ "Seoul 1988: Swimming – Women's 200m Freestyle Heats" (PDF). Seoul 1988. LA84 Foundation. pp. 419–420. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
^ "Seoul 1988: Swimming – Women's 200m Freestyle Finals" (PDF). Seoul 1988. LA84 Foundation. p. 420. Retrieved 31 March 2017.

External links

[SportsRef-1] "Swimming at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games: Women's 200 metres Freestyle". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 30 March 2017.

[2] "Seoul 1988: Swimming – Women's 200m Freestyle Heats" (PDF). Seoul 1988. LA84 Foundation. pp. 419–420. Retrieved 31 March 2017.

[3] "Seoul 1988: Swimming – Women's 200m Freestyle Finals" (PDF). Seoul 1988. LA84 Foundation. p. 420. Retrieved 31 March 2017.

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