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

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 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
		Daichi Suzuki	Japan	55.05
		David Berkoff	United States	55.18
		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	Hong Kong	1:01.91
44		Brett Halford	Zimbabwe	1:02.95
45		Eric Greenwood	Costa Rica	1:03.11
46		Pablo Barahona	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	Swaziland	1:12.50

References

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