Swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Women's 800 metre freestyle

Women's 800 metre freestyle; at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Medalists
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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 800 freestyle at the 1998 Summer Olympics, was contested on the morning of September 23 (preliminaries) and the afternoon of September 24 (finals).

Records

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

World record	Janet Evans (USA)	8:17.12	Orlando, FL, USA	March 22, 1988
Olympic record	Tiffany Cohen (USA)	8:24.96	Los Angeles, USA	August 3, 1984

Finals

Place	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Janet Evans	United States	8:20.20	OR
	Astrid Strauss	East Germany	8:22.09
	Julie McDonald	Australia	8:22.93
4th	Anke Möhring	East Germany	8:23.09
5th	Tami Bruce	United States	8:30.86
6th	Janelle Elford	Australia	8:30.94
7th	Isabelle Arnould	Belgium	8:37.47
8th	Antoaneta Strumenlieva	Bulgaria	8:41.05

Preliminary heats

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Astrid Strauss	East Germany	8:28.07	q-A
2	Janet Evans	United States	8:28.13	q-A
3	Julie McDonald	Australia	8:29.68	q-A
4	Anke Möhring	East Germany	8:30.95	q-A
5	Tami Bruce	United States	8:31.57	q-A
6	Janelle Elford	Australia	8:32.14	q-A
7	Isabelle Arnould	Belgium	8:34.56	q-A
8	Antoaneta Strumenlieva	Bulgaria	8:35.40	q-A
9	Debbie Wurzburger	Canada	8:36.24
10	Irene Dalby	Norway	8:38.33
11	Tomomi Hosoda	Japan	8:39.55
12	Manuela Melchiorri	Italy	8:40.63
13	Karyn Faure	France	8:41.64
14	Stephanie Ortwig	West Germany	8:41.95
15	Natalia Trefilova	Soviet Union	8:43.19
16	Karen Mellor	Great Britain	8:44.64
17	Alexandra Russ	West Germany	8:49.31
18	Pernille Jensen	Denmark	8:50.82
19	Huda Abdullah Nurul	Malaysia	8:50.84
20	Christelle Janssens	Belgium	8:51.22
21	Patrícia Amorim	Brazil	8:51.95
22	Eva Mortensen	Denmark	8:53.67
23	Judit Csabai	Hungary	8:56.37
24	Cecile Prunier	France	8:57.22
25	Tracey Atkin	Great Britain	9:00.04
26	Ming Yan	China	9:00.81
27	Ritajean Garay	Puerto Rico	9:04.62