Swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre individual medley

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 200 metre individual medley event at the 1988 Olympic Games took place September 24. 36 individuals swam this event.

This swimming event used medley swimming. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of four lengths of the pool. The first length was swum using the butterfly stroke, the second with the backstroke, the third length in breaststroke, and the fourth freestyle. Unlike other events using freestyle, swimmers could not use butterfly, backstroke, or breaststroke for the freestyle leg; most swimmers use the front crawl in freestyle events anyway.

Medalists

Gold

Daniela Hunger  East Germany

Silver

Yelena Dendeberova  Soviet Union

Bronze

Noemi Lung  Romania

Results

Finals

A Final

Place	Swimmer	Country	Time	Notes
	Daniela Hunger	East Germany	2:12.59	OR
	Yelena Dendeberova	Soviet Union	2:13.31
	Noemi Lung	Romania	2:14.85
4	Jodie Clatworthy	Australia	2:16.31
5	Marianne Muis	Netherlands	2:16.40
6	Aneta Pătrăşcoiu	Romania	2:16.70
7	Lin Li	China	2:17.42
8	Whitney Hedgepeth	United States	2:17.99

B Final

Place	Swimmer	Country	Time	Notes
9	Mildred Muis	Netherlands	2:17.73
10	Birgit Lohberg-Schulz	West Germany	2:17.85
11	Jean Hill	Great Britain	2:19.20
12	Anette Philipsson	Sweden	2:19.35
13	Roberta Felotti	Italy	2:19.63
	Anamarija Petricevic	Yugoslavia
15	Julia Bogacheva	Soviet Union	2:19.91
16	Yoshie Nishioka	Japan	2:20.43

Preliminary heats

Rank	Swimmer	Country	Time	Notes
1	Yelena Dendeberova	Soviet Union	2:15.30	q-A
2	Noemi Lung	Romania	2:15.55	q-A
3	Daniela Hunger	East Germany	2:16.23	q-A
4	Marianne Muis	Netherlands	2:16.60	q-A
5	Lin Li	China	2:17.09	q-A
6	Jodie Clatworthy	Australia	2:17.29	q-A
7	Aneta Patrascoiu	Romania	2:17.39	q-A
8	Whitney Hedgepeth	United States	2:17.45	q-A
9	Birgit Schulz-Lohberg	West Germany	2:17.46	q-B
10	Jean Hill	Great Britain	2:17.57	q-B
11	Anette Philipsson	Sweden	2:18.86	q-B
12	Julia Bogacheva	Soviet Union	2:19.07	q-B
13	Anamarija Petricevic	Yugoslavia	2:19.38	q-B
14	Mildred Muis	Netherlands	2:19.46	q-B
15	Allison Higson	Canada	2:19.54	q-B scratched final
16	Roberta Felotti	Italy	2:19.62	q-B
17	Yoshie Nishioka	Japan	2:20.20
18	Svenja Schlicnt	West Germany	2:20.31
19	Donna Procter	Australia	2:21.79
20	Annette Poursen	Denmark	2:21.83
21	Silvia Parera	Spain	2:22.20
22	Hiroyo Harada	Japan	2:22.59
23	Zara Long	Great Britain	2:22.64
24	Ragnheiður Runólfsdóttir	Iceland	2:22.65
25	Manuela Dalla Valle	Italy	2:22.85
26	Michelle Smith	Ireland	2:25.53
27	Marlene Bruten	Mexico	2:26.89
28	Carwai Seto	Chinese Taipei	2:27.72
29	Patricia Kohlmann	Mexico	2:29.61
30	Valentina Aracil	Argentina	2:31.53
31	Dipika Chanmugam	Sri Lanka	2:33.58
32	Annemarie Munk	Hong Kong	2:34.32
33	Kimberly Chan	Chinese Taipei	2:35.11
34	Sharon Pickering	Fiji	2:35.22
35	Angela Birch	Fiji	2:39.20
--	Mary Wayte	United States	DQ

References

• For the Record, Swimming World Magazine, November 1988, p. 81.
• 1988 Summer Olympics results: Women's 200m Individual Medley, from sports-reference.com; retrieved 2010-01-01.