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

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 100 freestyle at the 1988 Summer Olympics was contested on September 18 (prelims) and September 19 (finals).

Records [edit]

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

World record	Kristin Otto (GDR)	54.73	Madrid, Spain	19 August 1986
Olympic record	Barbara Krause (GDR)	54.79	Moscow, USSR	21 July 1980

Finals [edit]

A Final [edit]

Place	Name	Nationality	Time
	Kristin Otto	East Germany	54.93
	Zhuang Yong	China	55.47
	Catherine Plewinski	France	55.49
4th	Manuela Stellmach	East Germany	55.52
5th	Silvia Poll	Costa Rica	55.90
6th	Karin Brienesse	Netherlands	56.15
7th	Dara Torres	United States	56.25
8th	Conny van Bentum	Netherlands	56.54

B Final [edit]

Place	Name	Nationality	Time
9th	Natalia Trefilova	Soviet Union	56.48
10th	Ayako Nakano	Japan	56.72
11th	Liliana Dobrescu	Romania	56.79
12th	Mitzi Kremer	United States	56.83
13th	Gitta Jensen	Denmark	57.02
14th	Karen van Wirdum	Australia	57.04
15th	Svetlana Issakova	Soviet Union	57.07
16th	Tamara Costache	Romania	57.11

Preliminary heats [edit]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Catherine Plewinski	France	55.53	q-A
2	Kristin Otto	East Germany	55.80	q-A
3	Zhuang Yong	China	55.84	q-A
4	Manuela Stellmach	East Germany	56.14	q-A
5	Silvia Poll	Costa Rica	56.16	q-A
6	Karin Brienesse	Netherlands	56.29	q-A
7	Dara Torres	United States	56.37	q-A
8	Conny van Bentum	Netherlands	56.50	q-A
9	Natalia Trefilova	Soviet Union	56.66	q-B
10	Luminita Dobrescu	Romania	56.67	q-B
11	Tamara Costache	Romania	56.79	q-B
12	Karen van Wirdum	Australia	56.84	q-B
13	Mitzi Kremer	United States	56.97	q-B
14	Svetlana Issakova	Soviet Union	57.17	q-B
15	Gitta Jensen	Denmark	57.28	q-B
16	Ayako Nakano	Japan	57.29	q-B
17	Andrea Nugent	Canada	57.33
18	Marie-Therese Armentero	Switzerland	57.35
19	Christiane Pielke	West Germany	57.47
20	Jane Kerr	Canada	57.55
21	Eva Nyberg	Sweden	57.57
22	Susie Baumer	Australia	57.76
23	Yaping Lou	China	57.79
24	Natasha Khristova	Bulgaria	57.80
25	Annabelle Cripps	Great Britain	57.81
26	Pia Sorensen	Denmark	57.82
27	Karin Furuhed	Sweden	57.97
28	June Croft	Great Britain	58.19
29	Jacqueline Delord	France	58.22
30	Silvia Persi	Italy	58.22
31	Katja Zillox	West Germany	58.39
32	Kaori Sasaki	Japan	58.40
33	Senda Gharbi	Tunisia	58.51
34	Adriana Pereira	Brazil	58.53
35	Karen Dieffenthaller	Trinidad and Tobago	58.64
36	Patricia Kohlmann	Mexico	59.05
37	Isabelle Vieira	Brazil	59.15
38	Maria Rivera	Mexico	59.32
39	Akiko Thomson	Philippines	59.41
40	Bryndís Ólafsdóttir	Iceland	59.56
41	Carolina Mauri	Costa Rica	1:00.14
42	Cee Kay Hung	Hong Kong	1:00.18
43	Eun-Jung Kim	South Korea	1:00.39
44	Ana Joselina Fortin	Honduras	1:01.11
45	Fenella Ng	Hong Kong	1:01.27
46	Young-Hee Han	South Korea	1:01.55
47	Chi Wang	Chinese Taipei	1:01.72
48	Sabrina Lum	Chinese Taipei	1:02.11
49	Catherine Fogarty	Zimbabwe	1:02.47
50	Veronica Cummings	Guam	1:02.63
51	Angela Birch	Fiji	1:02.91
52	Cina Munch	Fiji	1:03.06
53	Carolina Araujo	Mozambique	1:05.11
54	Katerine Moreno	Bolivia	1:05.39
55	Elsa Freire	Angola	1:05.47
56	Nancy Khalaf	Lebanon	1:06.73
57	Carla Fernandes	Angola	1:08.15