Swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men'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 men's 100 breaststroke at the 1988 Summer Olympics was held on September 18 (prelims) and September 19 (finals).

Contents

Records

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

World record  Steve Lundquist (USA) 1:01.65 Los Angeles, CA, USA July 29, 1984
Olympic record  Steve Lundquist (USA) 1:01.65 Los Angeles, CA, USA July 29, 1984

Finals

A Final

Place Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
Adrian Moorhouse Great Britain 1:02.04
Károly Güttler Hungary 1:02.05
Dmitry Volkov Soviet Union 1:02.20
4th Victor Davis Canada 1:02.38
5th Tamas Debnar Hungary 1:02.50
6th Richard Schroeder United States 1:02.55
7th Gianni Minervini Italy 1:02.93
8th Christian Poswiat East Germany 1:03.43

B Final

Place Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
9th Alexei Matveev Soviet Union 1:03.01
10th Ronald Dekker Netherlands 1:03.22
11th Mark Warnecke West Germany 1:03.40
12th Alexander Mayer West Germany 1:03.85
13th Hironobu Nagahata Japan 1:03.89
14th Petri Suominen Japan 1:04.04
15th Daniel Watters United States 1:04.17
16th Chen Jianhong China 1:04.72

Preliminary heats

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Adrian Moorhouse Great Britain 1:02.19 q-A
2 Victor Davis Canada 1:02.48 q-A
3 Dmitry Volkov Soviet Union 1:02.49 q-A
4 Károly Güttler Hungary 1:02.80 q-A
5 Gianni Minervini Italy 1:02.86 q-A
6 Christian Poswiat East Germany 1:02.99 q-A
7 Richard Schroeder United States 1:03.05 q-A
8 Ronald Dekker Netherlands 1:03.08 q-A
swim-off= 1:02.63
8 Tamás Debnár Hungary 1:03.08 q-B
swim-off= 1:03.68
10 Alexei Mateev Soviet Union 1:03.25 q-B
11 Alexander Mayer West Germany 1:03.54 q-B
12 Mark Warnecke West Germany 1:03.56 q-B
13 Petri Suominen Finland 1:03.58 q-B
14 Hironobu Nagahata Japan 1:04.02 q-B
15 Daniel Watters United States 1:04.04 q-B
16 Chen Jianhong China 1:04.09 q-B
17 James Parrack Great Britain 1:04.23
18 Kenji Watanaoe Japan 1:04.35
19 Rablo Restrepo Colombia 1:04.43
20 Raik Hannemann East Germany 1:04.46
21 Pierre-Yves Eberie Switzerland 1:04.53
22 Ian McAdam Australia 1:04.56
22 David Leblanc France 1:04.56
24 Hsin-Yen Tsai Chinese Taipei 1:04.58
25 Radek Beinhauer Czechoslovakia 1:04.61
26 Joo-Il Yoon South Korea 1:04.68
27 Étienne Dagon Switzerland 1:04.71
28 Alexander Marcek Czechoslovakia 1:04.95
29 Thomas Boehm Austria 1:04.96
30 Fu Jin China 1:05.02
31 Cameron Grant Canada 1:05.10
32 Joaquín Fernández Spain 1:05.19
33 Sidney Appelboom Belgium 1:05.21
34 Gary O'Toole Ireland 1:05.34
35 Javier Careaga Mexico 1:05.37
36 Cédric Penicaud France 1:05.46
37 Cicero Torteli Brazil 1:05.50
38 Jan Erick Olsen Norway 1:05.54
39 Anthony Beks New Zealand 1:05.65
40 Alexandre Yokochi Portugal 1:05.68
41 Yue Meng Ng Singapore 1:05.87
42 Eyal Shtigman Israel 1:05.92
43 Sergio López Spain 1:06.08
44 Wirmandi Sugriat Indonesia 1:06.22
45 Luc van de Vondel Belgium 1:06.24
46 Richard Lockhart New Zealand 1:06.27
47 Nikolaos Fokianos Greece 1:06.30
48 Lars Sørensen Denmark 1:06.48
49 Manuel Gutierrez Panama 1:06.73
50 Lee Concepcion Philippines 1:06.74
51 Arnþór Ragnarsson Iceland 1:07.93
52 Kam Sing Watt Hong Kong 1:08.03
53 Victor Ruderry Bermuda 1:09.49
54 Man Quach Hoai Vietnam 1:10.90
55 Kraig Singleton Virgin Islands 1:11.68
56 Michele Piva San Marino 1:13.94
57 Amine El-Domyati Lebanon 1:14.40
58 Mohamed Bazlur Rahman Bangladesh 1:14.97
59 Gaspar Fragata Angola 1:16.18
60 Obaid Airumaithi United Arab Emirates 1:17.01
61 Vivaldo Fernandes Angola 1:17.98

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