Swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre backstroke

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Swimming events at the
1988 Summer Olympics
Swimming pictogram.svg
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 backstroke at the 1988 Summer Olympics was held on September 24, 1998, with both preliminaries and finals on the same day.

Records

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

World record  David Berkoff (USA) 54.91 Austin, TX, USA 13 August 1988
Olympic record  Rick Carey (USA) 55.41 Los Angeles, CA, USA 4 August 1984

Finals

A Final

Place Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Daichi Suzuki  Japan 55.05
2 David Berkoff  United States 55.18
3 Igor Polyansky  Soviet Union 55.20
4 Sergei Zabolotnov  Soviet Union 55.37
5 Mark Tewksbury  Canada 56.09
6 Frank Baltrusch  East Germany 56.10
7 Frank Hoffmeister  West Germany 56.19
8 Sean Murphy  Canada 56.32

B Final

Place Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
9 Dirk Richter  East Germany 56.66
10 Franck Schott  France 56.98
11 Jay Mortenson  United States 57.06
12 Shigemori Maruyama  Japan 57.13
13 Georgi Mihalev  Bulgaria 57.17
14 David Lim  Singapore 57.72
15 Manuel Guzmán  Puerto Rico 57.95
16 Eðvarð Eðvarðsson  Iceland 58.20

Preliminary heats

Rank Heat
(Heat Rank)		 Name Nationality Time Notes
1 7  (1) David Berkoff  United States 54.51 q-A
WR
2 6  (1) Igor Polyansky  Soviet Union 55.04 q-A
3 7  (2) Daichi Suzuki  Japan 55.90 q-A
4 7  (3) Sergei Zabolotnov  Soviet Union 56.13 q-A
5 7  (4) Frank Hoffmeister  West Germany 56.19 q-A
6 5  (1) Sean Murphy  Canada 56.20 q-A
6 6  (2) Mark Tewksbury  Canada 56.20 q-A
8 6  (3) Frank Baltrusch  East Germany 56.45 q-A
9 5  (2) Dirk Richter  East Germany 56.52 q-B
10 6  (4) Franck Schott  France 56.76 q-B
11 6  (5) Georgi Mihalev  Bulgaria 57.06 q-B
12 5  (3) Jens-Peter Berndt  West Germany 57.08 q-B
Scratched final
13 5  (4) Jay Mortenson  United States 57.19 q-B
14 3  (1) David Lim  Singapore 57.34 q-B, NR
15 5  (5) Shigemori Maruyama  Japan 57.54 q-B
16 4  (1) Manuel Guzmán  Puerto Rico 57.62 q-B
17 5  (6) Eðvarð Eðvarðsson  Iceland 57.70
18 6  (6) Lin Laijiu  China 57.74
19 7  (5) Paul Kingsman  New Zealand 57.80
20 7  (6) Rogério Romero  Brazil 57.91
21 6  (7) Lars Sørensen  Denmark 58.01
22 4  (2) Neil Harper  Great Britain 58.02
23 4  (3) Martin López-Zubero  Spain 58.06
24 4  (4) Patrick Ferland  Switzerland 58.17
25 Neil Cochran  Great Britain 58.25
26 Alejandro Alvizuri  Peru 58.37
27 Carl Wilson  Australia 58.40
28 Tamás Deutsch  Hungary 58.65
29 Stephen Cullen  Ireland 58.82
30 Pavel Vokoun  Czechoslovakia 58.88
31 Renaud Boucher  France 58.90
32 Simon Upton  Australia 59.06
33 Ernesto Vela  Mexico 59.19
34 Helias Malamas  Greece 59.24
35 Guoxiong Huang  China 59.36
36 Richard Gheel  Ireland 59.37
37 Valerio Giambalvo  Italy 59.48
38 Wladimir Ribeiro  Brazil 59.76
39 Amin Amer  Egypt 1:00.76
40 Dong-Pil Park  South Korea 1:01.25
41 Patrick Sagisi  Guam 1:01.86
42 Horst Niehaus  Costa Rica 1:01.91
42 Hor Man Yip 23x15px Hong Kong 1:01.91
44 Brett Halford  Zimbabwe 1:02.95
45 Eric Greenwood  Costa Rica 1:03.11
46 Pablo Barahona 23x15px Honduras 1:03.90
47 Bruno Ndiaye  Senegal 1:05.06
48 Filippo Piva  San Marino 1:07.63
49 Mohamed Abdulla  United Arab Emirates 1:08.91
50 Rami Kantari  Lebanon 1:09.35
51 Mohammed Binabid  United Arab Emirates 1:10.01
52 Yul Mark Du Pont  Eswatini 1:12.50

References

  • Swimming World Magazine, November 1988.
  • The Complete Book of the Olympics by David Wallechinsky. Published by Aurum Press Limited; 1996.


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