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

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 freestyle at the 1988 Summer Olympics was contested on September 18 (prelims) and September 19 (finals).

Contents

Records

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

World record  Kristin Otto (GDR) 54.73 Madrid, Spain 19 August 1986
Olympic record  Barbara Krause (GDR) 54.79 Moscow, USSR 21 July 1980

Finals

A Final

Place Name Nationality Time Notes
Kristin Otto East Germany 54.93
Zhuang Yong China 55.47
Catherine Plewinski France 55.49
4th Manuela Stellmach East Germany 55.52
5th Silvia Poll Costa Rica 55.90
6th Karin Brienesse Netherlands 56.15
7th Dara Torres United States 56.25
8th Conny van Bentum Netherlands 56.54

B Final

Place Name Nationality Time Notes
9th Natalia Trefilova Soviet Union 56.48
10th Ayako Nakano Japan 56.72
11th Liliana Dobrescu Romania 56.79
12th Mitzi Kremer United States 56.83
13th Gitta Jensen Denmark 57.02
14th Karen van Wirdum Australia 57.04
15th Svetlana Issakova Soviet Union 57.07
16th Tamara Costache Romania 57.11

Preliminary heats

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Catherine Plewinski France 55.53 q-A
2 Kristin Otto East Germany 55.80 q-A
3 Zhuang Yong China 55.84 q-A
4 Manuela Stellmach East Germany 56.14 q-A
5 Silvia Poll Costa Rica 56.16 q-A
6 Karin Brienesse Netherlands 56.29 q-A
7 Dara Torres United States 56.37 q-A
8 Conny van Bentum Netherlands 56.50 q-A
9 Natalia Trefilova Soviet Union 56.66 q-B
10 Luminita Dobrescu Romania 56.67 q-B
11 Tamara Costache Romania 56.79 q-B
12 Karen van Wirdum Australia 56.84 q-B
13 Mitzi Kremer United States 56.97 q-B
14 Svetlana Issakova Soviet Union 57.17 q-B
15 Gitta Jensen Denmark 57.28 q-B
16 Ayako Nakano Japan 57.29 q-B
17 Andrea Nugent Canada 57.33
18 Marie-Therese Armentero Switzerland 57.35
19 Christiane Pielke West Germany 57.47
20 Jane Kerr Canada 57.55
21 Eva Nyberg Sweden 57.57
22 Susie Baumer Australia 57.76
23 Yaping Lou China 57.79
24 Natasha Khristova Bulgaria 57.80
25 Annabelle Cripps Great Britain 57.81
26 Pia Sorensen Denmark 57.82
27 Karin Furuhed Sweden 57.97
28 June Croft Great Britain 58.19
29 Jacqueline Delord France 58.22
30 Silvia Persi Italy 58.22
31 Katja Zillox West Germany 58.39
32 Kaori Sasaki Japan 58.40
33 Senda Gharbi Tunisia 58.51
34 Adriana Pereira Brazil 58.53
35 Karen Dieffenthaller Trinidad and Tobago 58.64
36 Patricia Kohlmann Mexico 59.05
37 Isabelle Vieira Brazil 59.15
38 Maria Rivera Mexico 59.32
39 Akiko Thomson Philippines 59.41
40 Bryndís Ólafsdóttir Iceland 59.56
41 Carolina Mauri Costa Rica 1:00.14
42 Cee Kay Hung Hong Kong 1:00.18
43 Eun-Jung Kim South Korea 1:00.39
44 Ana Joselina Fortin Honduras 1:01.11
45 Fenella Ng Hong Kong 1:01.27
46 Young-Hee Han South Korea 1:01.55
47 Chi Wang Chinese Taipei 1:01.72
48 Sabrina Lum Chinese Taipei 1:02.11
49 Catherine Fogarty Zimbabwe 1:02.47
50 Veronica Cummings Guam 1:02.63
51 Angela Birch Fiji 1:02.91
52 Cina Munch Fiji 1:03.06
53 Carolina Araujo Mozambique 1:05.11
54 Katerine Moreno Bolivia 1:05.39
55 Elsa Freire Angola 1:05.47
56 Nancy Khalaf Lebanon 1:06.73
57 Carla Fernandes Angola 1:08.15

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