Swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre backstroke

The men's 100 metre backstroke event at the 1988 Summer Olympics took place on 24 September at the Jamsil Indoor Swimming Pool in Seoul, South Korea.

Men's 100 metre backstroke at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Venue	Jamsil Indoor Swimming Pool
Date	24 September 1988 (heats & finals)
Competitors	54 from 42 nations
Winning time	55.05 AS
Medalists
Daichi Suzuki  Japan David Berkoff  Vereinigte Staaten Igor Polyansky  Soviet Union

Records

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

World record	David Berkoff (USA)	54.91	Austin, United States	13 August 1988
Olympic record	Rick Carey (USA)	55.41	Los Angeles, CA, United States	4 August 1984

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Zeit	Record
24 September	Heat 6	Igor Polyansky	Soviet Union	55.04	OR
24 September	Heat 7	David Berkoff	Vereinigte Staaten	54.51	WR

Results

Heats

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

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Zeit	Notes
1	7	David Berkoff	Vereinigte Staaten	54.51	Q, WR
2	6	Igor Polyansky	Soviet Union	55.04	Q
3	7	Daichi Suzuki	Japan	55.90	Q
4	7	Sergei Zabolotnov	Soviet Union	56.13	Q
5	7	Frank Hoffmeister	West Germany	56.19	Q
6	5	Sean Murphy	Kanada	56.20	Q
	6	Mark Tewksbury	Kanada		Q
8	6	Frank Baltrusch	East Germany	56.45	Q
9	5	Dirk Richter	East Germany	56.52	q
10	6	Franck Schott	Frankreich	56.76	q
11	6	Georgi Mihalev	Bulgarien	57.06	q
12	5	Jens-Peter Berndt	West Germany	57.08	q, WD
13	5	Jay Mortenson	Vereinigte Staaten	57.19	q
14	3	David Lim Fong Jock	Singapur	57.34	q, NR
15	5	Shigemori Maruyama	Japan	57.54	q
16	4	Manuel Guzmán	Puerto Rico	57.62	q
17	5	Eðvarð Þór Eðvarðsson	Island	57.70	q
18	6	Lin Laijiu	China	57.74
19	7	Paul Kingsman	Neuseeland	57.80
20	7	Rogério Romero	Brasilien	57.91
21	6	Lars Sørensen	Dänemark	58.01
22	4	Neil Harper	Great Britain	58.02
23	4	Martín López-Zubero	Spanien	58.06
24	4	Patrick Ferland	Schweiz	58.17
25	3	Neil Cochran	Great Britain	58.25
26	3	Alejandro Alvizuri	Peru	58.37
27	5	Carl Wilson	Australien	58.40
28	4	Tamás Deutsch	Ungarn	58.65
29	3	Stephen Cullen	Irland	58.82
30	5	Pavel Vokoun	Czechoslovakia	58.88
31	4	Renaud Boucher	Frankreich	58.90
32	5	Simon Upton	Australien	59.06
33	3	Ernesto Vela	Mexiko	59.19
34	3	Ilias Malamas	Griechenland	59.24
35	4	Huang Guoxiong	China	59.36
36	3	Richard Gheel	Irland	59.37
37	5	Valerio Giambalvo	Italien	59.48
38	4	Wladimir Ribeiro	Brasilien	59.76
39	3	Amin Amer	Ägypten	1:00.76
40	2	Park Dong-pil	Südkorea	1:01.25
41	2	Patrick Sagisi	Guam	1:01.86
42	2	Yip Hor Man	Hongkong	1:01.91
	2	Horst Niehaus	Costa Rica
44	2	Brett Halford	Simbabwe	1:02.95
45	2	Eric Greenwood	Costa Rica	1:03.11
46	2	Pablo Barahona	Honduras	1:03.90
47	2	Bruno N'Diaye	Senegal	1:05.06
48	1	Filippo Piva	San Marino	1:07.63
49	1	Mohamed Abdullah	Vereinigte Arabische Emirate	1:08.91
50	1	Rami Kantari	Libanon	1:09.35
51	1	Mohamed Bin Abid	Vereinigte Arabische Emirate	1:10.01
52	1	Yul Mark Du Pont	Swasiland	1:12.50
	1	Paul Yelle	Barbados	DNS

Finals

Final B

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Zeit	Notes
9	4	Dirk Richter	East Germany	56.66
10	5	Franck Schott	Frankreich	56.98
11	6	Jay Mortenson	Vereinigte Staaten	57.06
12	7	Shigemori Maruyama	Japan	57.13
13	3	Georgi Mihalev	Bulgarien	57.17
14	2	David Lim Fong Jock	Singapur	57.72
15	1	Manuel Guzmán	Puerto Rico	57.95
16	8	Eðvarð Þór Eðvarðsson	Island	58.20

Final A

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Zeit	Notes
	3	Daichi Suzuki	Japan	55.05	AS
	4	David Berkoff	Vereinigte Staaten	55.18
	5	Igor Polyansky	Soviet Union	55.20
4	6	Sergei Zabolotnov	Soviet Union	55.37
5	1	Mark Tewksbury	Kanada	56.09
6	8	Frank Baltrusch	East Germany	56.10
7	2	Frank Hoffmeister	West Germany	56.19
8	7	Sean Murphy	Kanada	56.32

External links

• Official Report
• USA Swimming