Swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre backstroke


The men's 200 metre backstroke event at the 1988 Summer Olympics took place on 22 September at the Jamsil Indoor Swimming Pool in Seoul, South Korea.

Records

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

Results

Heats

Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A, while the next eight to final B.
RankHeatNameNationalityTimeNotes
16Sergei Zabolotnov2:01.27Q
25Frank Baltrusch2:01.49Q
34Dirk Richter2:01.54Q
46Igor Polyansky2:01.70Q
54Dan Veatch2:01.73Q
66Jens-Peter Berndt2:01.77Q
76Paul Kingsman2:02.20Q
85Rogério Romero2:02.26Q
94Georgi Mihalev2:02.71q
106Tamás Deutsch2:03.17q
115Martín López-Zubero2:03.33q
124Frank Hoffmeister2:03.34q
135Daichi Suzuki2:03.36q
145Stefano Battistelli2:03.63q,
154Steve Bigelow2:03.64q
163Gary Binfield2:03.79q
174Sean Murphy2:03.81q,
185Mark Tewksbury2:04.02q
193Alejandro Alvizuri2:04.29
203John Davey2:04.70
216David Holderbach2:04.83
223Ernesto Vela2:05.08
226Simon Upton2:05.08
245Eðvarð Þór Eðvarðsson2:05.61
253Richard Gheel2:05.71
266Lars Sørensen2:05.73
272Stephen Cullen2:06.98
284Pavel Vokoun2:07.24
292Patrick Ferland2:07.77
303Lin Laijiu2:08.28
312David Lim Fong Jock2:08.65
323Shigemori Maruyama2:09.16
332Wladimir Ribeiro2:11.48
342Horst Niehaus2:12.83
352Eric Greenwood2:15.42
362Patrick Sagisi2:15.82
371Brett Halford2:17.84
381Pablo Barahona2:21.61
391Mohamed Abdullah2:29.64
401Mohamed Bin Abid2:36.21
411Rami Kantari2:40.29
2Park Dong-pil
3Charalambos Papanikolaou
5Tamás Darnyi

Finals

Final B

Final A