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

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 men's 100 butterfly at the 1988 Summer Olympics, was contested on September 20 (preliminaries) and September 21 (finals).

Records

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

World record	Pablo Morales (USA)	52.84	Orlando, FL, USA	23 June 1986
Olympic record	Michael Gross (FRG)	53.08	Los Angeles, CA, USA	30 July 1984

Finals

A Final

Place	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Anthony Nesty	Suriname	53.00	OR,^[1] NR
	Matt Biondi	United States	53.01
	Andy Jameson	Great Britain	53.30
4th	Jon Sieben	Australia	53.33
5th	Michael Gross	West Germany	53.44
6th	Jay Mortenson	United States	54.07
7th	Tom Ponting	Canada	54.09
8th	Vadim Yaroshchuk	Soviet Union	54.60

B Final

Place	Name	Nationality	Time
9th	Shen Jianqiang	China	54.52
10th	Anthony Mosse	New Zealand	54.63
11th	Benny Nielsen	Denmark	54.77
12th	Vlastimil Černý	Canada	54.79
13th	Rafał Szukała	Poland	54.80
14th	Hiroshi Miura	Japan	54.98
15th	Zheng Jian	China	55.00
16th	Neil Cochran	Great Britain	55.22

Preliminary heats

Rank	Heat (Heat Place)	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5 (1)	Andy Jameson	Great Britain	53.34	q-A
2	7 (1)	Matt Biondi	United States	53.46	q-A
3	6 (1)	Anthony Nesty	Suriname	53.50	q-A
4	7 (2)	Michael Gross	West Germany	53.78	q-A
5	7 (3)	Jon Sieben	Australia	53.85	q-A
6	6 (2)	Vadim Yaroshchuk	Soviet Union	54.17	q-A
7	5 (2)	Tom Ponting	Canada	54.31	q-A
8	6 (3)	Jay Mortenson	United States	54.44	q-A
9	7 (4)	Benny Nielsen	Denmark	54.52	q-B
10	5 (3)	Anthony Mosse	New Zealand	54.63	q-B
11	5 (4)	Vlastimil Černý	Canada	54.66	q-B
12	5 (5)	Zhan Jiang	China	54.69	q-B
13	6 (4)	Neil Cochran	Great Britain	54.75	q-B
14	7 (5)	Hiroshi Miura	Japan	54.82	q-B
15	5 (6)	Rafał Szukała	Poland	54.83	q-B
16	5 (7)	Shen Jianqiang	China	54.86	q-B
17		Martin Hermann	West Germany	55.20
18		José Luis Ballester	Spain	55.27
19		Frank Drost	Netherlands	55.38
20		David Wilson	Australia	55.54
21		Robert Wolf	Czechoslovakia	55.73
22		Leonardo Michelotti	Italy	55.83
23		Konstantine Petrov	Soviet Union	55.84
24		Yukinori Tanaka	Japan	56.19
25		Ross Anderson	New Zealand	56.31
26		Eduardo de Poli	Brazil	56.37
27		Ludovic Depickère	France	56.47
28		Valerio Giambalvo	Italy	56.57
29		Reinhold Leitner	Austria	56.72
30		Théophile David	Switzerland	56.77
31		Joseph Buhain	23x15px Philippines	57.17
32		Vladimir Ribeiro	Brazil	57.25
33		M. Albuquerque	Portugal	57.30
34		Paul Yelle	Barbados	57.36
35		Pen Siong Ang	Singapore	57.41
36		Theodoras Griniazakis	Greece	57.56
37		Paulo Camacho	Portugal	57.62
38		Young-Chui Park	South Korea	57.74
39		Yi Ming Tsang	23x15px Hong Kong	57.84
40		Urbano Zea	Mexico	57.89
41		Carlos Ramo	Mexico	58.04
42		Pedro Lima	Angola	59.21
43		Graham Thompson	Zimbabwe	1:00.13
44		Kristan Singleton	Virgin Islands	1:00.97
45		William Cleveland	Virgin Islands	1:01.10
46		Sergio Faffine	Mozambique	1:01.15
47		Plutarco Castellanos	23x15px Honduras	1:02.69
48		Salam Mohamed Abdul Salam	Bangladesh	1:03.69
49		Mohammed Binabid	United Arab Emirates	1:06.25
50		Trevor Ncala	Eswatini	1:06.85
51		Jorge Gomes	Angola	1:09.60