Swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre freestyle

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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 women's 200 freestyle at the 1988 Summer Olympics, was contested on September 20 (preliminaries) and September 21 (finals).

Silvia Poll's silver medal was Costa Rica's first Olympic medal ever.

Records

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

World record  Heike Friedrich (GDR) 1:57.55 East Berlin, East Germany 18 June 1986
Olympic record  Barbara Krause (GDR) 1:58.33 Moscow, Soviet Union 24 July 1980

Finals

A Final

Place Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Heike Friedrich  East Germany 1:57.65 OR[1]
2 Silvia Poll  Costa Rica 1:58.67
3 Manuela Stellmach  East Germany 1:59.01
4th Mary Wayte  United States 1:59.04
5th Natalia Trefilova  Soviet Union 1:59.24
6th Mitzi Kremer  United States 2:00.23
7th Stephanie Ortwig  West Germany 2:00.73
8th Cécile Prunier  France 2:02.88

B Final

Place Name Nationality Time Notes
9th Patricia Noall  Canada 2:00.77
10th Ruth Gilfillan  Great Britain 2:01.66
11th Mette Jacobsen  Denmark 2:01.84
12th Liliana Dobrescu  Romania 2:01.98
13th Stela Pura  Romania 2:02.30
14th Chikako Nakamori  Japan 2:02.31
15th Birgit Lohberg-Schulz  West Germany 2:02.32
16th Zhuang Yong  China 2:14.23

Preliminary heats

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Heike Friedrich  East Germany 1:59.02 q-A
2 Silvia Poll  Costa Rica 1:59.22 q-A
3 Mary Wayte  United States 1:59.50 q-A
4 Manuela Stellmach  East Germany 2:00.30 q-A
5 Natalia Trefilova  Soviet Union 2:00.54 q-A
6 Stephanie Ortwig  West Germany 2:00.66 q-A
7 Mitzi Kremer  United States 2:01.45 q-A
8 Cécile Prunier  France 2:01.60 q-A
9 Chikako Nakamori  Japan 2:01.76 q-B
10 Mette Jacobsen  Denmark 2:01.80 q-B
11 Luminita Dobrescu  Romania 2:01.93 q-B
12 Ruth Gilfillan  Great Britain 2:02.11 q-B
13 Stela Pura  Romania 2:02.26 q-B
14 Patricia Noall  Canada 2:02.31 q-B
15 Zhuang Yong  China 2:02.40 q-B
16 Birgit Lohberg-Schulz  West Germany 2:02.77 q-B
17 Adriana van der Plaats  Netherlands 2:03.02
18 Isabelle Arnould  Belgium 2:03.32
18 Suzanne Nilsson  Sweden 2:03.32
20 Sheridan Burge-Lopez  Australia 2:03.42
21 June Croft  Great Britain 2:03.63
22 Karin Brienesse  Netherlands 2:04.36
23 Silvia Persi  Italy 2:04.40
24 Annette Jorgensen  Denmark 2:04.71
25 Patrícia Amorim  Brazil 2:04.74
26 Susie Baumer  Australia 2:04.82
27 Huda Abdullah Nurul  Malaysia 2:04.85
28 Jane Kerr  Canada 2:04.92
29 Kaori Sasaki  Japan 2:04.92
30 Senda Gharbi  Tunisia 2:06.60
31 Karen Dieffenthaller  Trinidad and Tobago 2:07.09 NR
32 Bryndís Ólafsdóttir  Iceland 2:07.11
33 Ritajean Garay  Puerto Rico 2:07.44
34 Natasha Aguilar  Costa Rica 2:10.22
35 Patricia Kohlmann  Mexico 2:10.36
36 Fenella Ng 23x15px Hong Kong 2:10.43
37 Eum-Jung Kim  South Korea 2:10.85
38 Hui-Chien Chang  Chinese Taipei 2:11.50
39 Joo-Li Park  South Korea 2:11.53
40 Hong Olan  China 2:12.44
41 Catherine Fogarty  Zimbabwe 2:13.44
42 Cee Kay Hung 23x15px Hong Kong 2:13.61
43 Angela Birch  Fiji 2:16.79
44 Cina Munch  Fiji 2:18.45

References

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