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

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.

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
Silke Hörner  East Germany Huang Xiaomin  China Antoaneta Frenkeva  Bulgarien

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	Zeit	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

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	6	Silke Hörner	East Germany	2:27.63	Q, OR
2	5	Yuliya Bogacheva	Soviet Union	2:28.94	Q
3	4	Antoaneta Frenkeva	Bulgarien	2:29.57	Q
4	6	Allison Higson	Kanada	2:29.67	Q
5	5	Tanya Dangalakova	Bulgarien	2:29.91	Q
6	5	Huang Xiaomin	China	2:30.03	Q
7	4	Ingrid Lempereur	Belgien	2:30.07	Q
8	4	Manuela Dalla Valle	Italien	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	Niederlande	2:31.98	q
12	6	Tracey McFarlane	Vereinigte Staaten	2:32.11	q
13	4	Annalisa Nisiro	Italien	2:32.77	q
14	6	Brigitte Becue	Belgien	2:33.13	q
15	6	Susan Rapp	Vereinigte Staaten	2:34.21	q
16	5	Guylaine Cloutier	Kanada	2:34.36	q
17	4	Britta Dahm	West Germany	2:35.06
18	3	Silvia Parera	Spanien	2:35.57
19	6	Yoshie Nishioka	Japan	2:35.81
20	3	Suki Brownsdon	Great Britain	2:36.14
21	5	Kornelia Stawicka	Polen	2:36.86
22	6	Virginie Bojaryn	Frankreich	2:37.38
23	5	Hiroko Nagasaki	Japan	2:37.44
24	1	Karen Horning	Peru	2:37.84
25	5	Pia Sørensen	Dänemark	2:38.49
26	4	Pascaline Louvrier	Frankreich	2:38.75
27	3	Ragnheiður Runólfsdóttir	Island	2:39.10
28	3	Dorota Chylak	Polen	2:39.38
29	2	Park Sung-won	Südkorea	2:39.40
30	3	Lara Hooiveld	Australien	2:39.97
31	2	Nancy Kemp-Arendt	Luxemburg	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	Schweiz	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	Argentinien	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	Argentinien	DSQ

Finals

Final B

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Zeit	Notes
9	4	Susanne Börnike	East Germany	2:28.55
10	5	Svetlana Kuzmina	Soviet Union	2:30.03
11	3	Linda Moes	Niederlande	2:30.83
12	2	Annalisa Nisiro	Italien	2:31.19
13	1	Susan Rapp	Vereinigte Staaten	2:32.90
14	6	Tracey McFarlane	Vereinigte Staaten	2:33.46
15	8	Guylaine Cloutier	Kanada	2:33.50
16	7	Brigitte Becue	Belgien	2:34.10

Final A

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

External links

• Official Report
• USA Swimming