Swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre breaststroke

Swimming events at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
50 m		men		women
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m				women
1500 m		men
Backstroke
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
Breaststroke
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
Butterfly
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
Individual medley
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m		men		women
4×200 m		men
Medley relay
4×100 m		men		women

The women's 100 breaststroke at the 1988 Summer Olympics was held on September 23.

Records

The existing World and Olympic records at the time of the competition were:

World record	Silke Hörner (GDR)	1:07.91	Strasbourg, France	August 21, 1987
Olympic record	Petra van Staveren (NED)	1:09.88	Los Angeles, USA	August 2, 1984

Finals

A Final

Place	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
		Tanya Dangalakova	Bulgaria	1:07.95	OR
		Antoaneta Frenkeva	Bulgaria	1:08.74
		Silke Hörner	East Germany	1:08.83
4th		Allison Higson	Canada	1:08.86
5th		Yelena Volkova	Soviet Union	1:09.24
6th		Tracey McFarlane	United States	1:09.60
7th		Huang Xiaomin	China	1:10.53
8th		Annett Rex	East Germany	1:10.67

B Final

Place	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9th		Svetlana Kouzmina	Soviet Union	1:10.42
10th		Keltie Duggan	Canada	1:10.58
11th		Ingrid Lempereur	Belgium	1:10.86
12th		Manuela Dalla Valle	Italy	1:10.95
13th		Susan Johnson	United States	1:11.08
14th		Gabriella Csépe	Hungary	1:11.24
15th		Lara Hooiveld	Australia	1:11.26
16th		Suki Brownsdon	Great Britain	1:11.88

Preliminary heats

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Tanya Dangalakova	Bulgaria	1:08.35	q-A
1	Silke Hörner	East Germany	1:08.35	q-A
3	Allison Higson	Canada	1:08.39	q-A
4	Yelena Volkova	Soviet Union	1:09.86	q-A
5	Antoaneta Frenkeva	Bulgaria	1:10.09	q-A
6	Tracey McFarlane	United States	1:10.59	q-A
7	Annett Rex	East Germany	1:10.61	q-A
8	Huang Xiaomin	China	1:10.78	q-A
9	Svetlana Kouzmina	Soviet Union	1:10.83	q-B
10	Keltie Duggan	Canada	1:10.95	q-B
11	Ingrid Lempereur	Belgium	1:11.00	q-B
12	Susan Johnson	United States	1:11.08	q-B
13	Gabriella Csépe	Hungary	1:11.10	q-B
14	Manuela Dalla Valle	Italy	1:11.25	q-B
15	Lara Hooiveld	Australia	1:11.40	q-B
16	Suki Brownsdon	Great Britain	1:11.66	q-B
17	Linda Moes	Netherlands	1:11.66
18	Sung-Wan Park	South Korea	1:12.32
19	Dorota Chylak	Poland	1:12.38
20	Margaret Hohmann	Great Britain	1:12.67
21	Brigitte Becue	Belgium	1:12.90
22	Britta Dahm	West Germany	1:12.98
23	Ragnheiður Runólfsdóttir	Iceland	1:13.01
24	Pascaline Louvrier	France	1:13.23
25	Yoshie Nishioka	Japan	1:13.36
26	Virginie Bojaryn	France	1:13.55
27	Huiling Chen	China	1:13.65
28	Karen Horning	Peru	1:14.03
29	Nancy Arendt	Luxembourg	1:14.99
30	Patricia Brülhart	Switzerland	1:15.00
31	Kornelia Stawicka	Poland	1:15.41
32	Carwai Seto	Chinese Taipei	1:15.47
33	Alicia Boscatto	Argentina	1:15.67
34	Hiroko Nagasaki	Japan	1:15.83
35	Sigrid Niehaus	Costa Rica	1:16.65
36	Montserrat Hidalgo	Costa Rica	1:18.42
37	Valentina Aracil	Argentina	1:19.60
38	Dipika Chanmugam	Sri Lanka	1:20.18
39	Y.F. Kimberly Chen	Chinese Taipei	1:20.95
40	Katerine Moreno	Bolivia	1:22.52
41	Ana Martins	Angola	1:24.01
42	Nádia Cruz	Angola	1:24.46

References

• Swimming World Magazine, November 1988