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

Women's 100 metre backstroke at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Venue	Jamsil Indoor Swimming Pool
Date	22 September 1988 (heats & finals)
Competitors	41 from 30 nations
Winning time	1:00.89
Medalists
Kristin Otto  East Germany Krisztina Egerszegi  Hungary Cornelia Sirch  East Germany
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Swimming 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
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The women's 100 metre backstroke event at the 1988 Summer Olympics took place on 22 September at the Jamsil Indoor Swimming Pool in Seoul, South Korea.^[1]

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

World record	Ina Kleber (GDR)	1:00.59	Moscow, Soviet Union	24 August 1984
Olympic record	Rica Reinisch (GDR)	1:00.86	Moscow, Soviet Union	23 July 1980

Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A (Q), while the next eight to final B (q).^[2]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	Kristin Otto	East Germany	1:01.45	Q
2	5	Cornelia Sirch	East Germany	1:01.63	Q
3	5	Krisztina Egerszegi	Hungary	1:02.09	Q
4	6	Beth Barr	United States	1:02.63	Q
5	4	Betsy Mitchell	United States	1:02.85	Q
6	5	Silvia Poll	Costa Rica	1:03.21	Q, NR
7	6	Nicole Livingstone	Australia	1:03.26	Q
8	6	Marion Aizpors	West Germany	1:03.27	Q
9	4	Anca Pătrășcoiu	Romania	1:03.29	q
10	5	Svenja Schlicht	West Germany	1:03.72	q
11	4	Lorenza Vigarani	Italy	1:03.96	q
12	5	Lori Melien	Canada	1:04.29	q
13	5	Jolanda de Rover	Netherlands	1:04.39	q
14	5	Sharon Musson	New Zealand	1:04.58	q
15	6	Katherine Read	Great Britain	1:04.62	q
16	4	Manuela Carosi	Italy	1:04.69	qSO
	6	Karen Lord	Australia		qSO
18	5	Sharon Page	Great Britain	1:04.75
19	4	Bistra Gospodinova	Bulgaria	1:04.91
20	4	Laurence Guillou	France	1:05.07
	4	Eva Gysling	Switzerland
22	6	Johanna Larsson	Sweden	1:05.10
23	3	Wang Bolin	China	1:05.15
24	6	Satoko Morishita	Japan	1:05.38
25	4	Sylvia Hume	New Zealand	1:05.81
26	3	Tomoko Onogi	Japan	1:06.14
27	3	Michelle Smith	Ireland	1:06.22
28	3	Akiko Thomson	Philippines	1:06.51
29	3	Aileen Convery	Ireland	1:06.73
30	3	Hong Ji-hee	South Korea	1:08.33
31	3	Rita Jean Garay	Puerto Rico	1:08.58
32	3	Wang Chi	Chinese Taipei	1:09.56
33	2	Ana Joselina Fortin	Honduras	1:10.10
34	2	Tricia Duncan	Virgin Islands	1:10.37
35	2	Tsang Wing Sze	Hong Kong	1:10.50
36	2	Sharon Pickering	Fiji	1:12.14
37	1	Angela Birch	Fiji	1:13.48
38	1	Katerine Moreno	Bolivia	1:14.42
39	2	Elsa Freire	Angola	1:15.56
40	1	Carolina Araujo	Mozambique	1:15.86
41	2	Carla Fernandes	Angola	1:21.58

Round 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Manuela Carosi	Italy	1:05.05	qSO
	4	Karen Lord	Australia		qSO

Round 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Manuela Carosi	Italy	1:04.62	q
2	4	Karen Lord	Australia	1:04.75

^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	4	Anca Pătrășcoiu	Romania	1:03.33
10	5	Svenja Schlicht	West Germany	1:03.68
11	8	Manuela Carosi	Italy	1:03.80
12	6	Lori Melien	Canada	1:03.87
13	3	Lorenza Vigarani	Italy	1:03.88
14	2	Jolanda de Rover	Netherlands	1:04.11
15	7	Sharon Musson	New Zealand	1:04.17
16	1	Katherine Read	Great Britain	1:04.27

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Kristin Otto	East Germany	1:00.89
	3	Krisztina Egerszegi	Hungary	1:01.56
	5	Cornelia Sirch	East Germany	1:01.57
4	2	Betsy Mitchell	United States	1:02.71
5	6	Beth Barr	United States	1:02.78
6	7	Silvia Poll	Costa Rica	1:03.34
7	1	Nicole Livingstone	Australia	1:04.15
8	8	Marion Aizpors	West Germany	1:04.19

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