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

Men's 100 metre breaststroke at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Venue	Jamsil Indoor Swimming Pool
Date	18 September 1988 (heats) 19 September 1988 (finals)
Competitors	62 from 47 nations
Winning time	1:02.04 NR
Medalists
Adrian Moorhouse   Great Britain Károly Güttler   Hungary Dmitry Volkov   Soviet Union
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The men's 100 metre breaststroke event at the 1988 Summer Olympics took place between 18–19 September at the Jamsil Indoor Swimming Pool in Seoul, South Korea. ^[1]

The winning margin was 0.01 seconds which as of 2023 remains the only time this event for men has been won at the Olympics by less than a tenth of a second.

Records

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

World record	Steve Lundquist  (USA)	1:01.65	Los Angeles, United States	29 July 1984
Olympic record	Steve Lundquist  (USA)	1:01.65	Los Angeles, United States	29 July 1984

Results

Heats

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	8	Adrian Moorhouse	Great Britain	1:02.19	Q, NR
2	6	Victor Davis	Canada	1:02.48	Q
3	8	Dmitry Volkov	Soviet Union	1:02.49	Q
4	8	Károly Güttler	Hungary	1:02.80	Q
5	7	Gianni Minervini	Italy	1:02.86	Q
6	8	Christian Poswiat	East Germany	1:02.99	Q
7	7	Richard Schroeder	United States	1:03.05	Q
8	7	Ronald Dekker	Netherlands	1:03.08	QSO
	7	Tamás Debnár	Hungary		QSO
10	6	Aleksey Matveyev	Soviet Union	1:03.25	q
11	6	Alexander Mayer	West Germany	1:03.54	q
12	8	Mark Warnecke	West Germany	1:03.56	q
13	8	Petri Suominen	Finland	1:03.58	q
14	7	Hironobu Nagahata	Japan	1:04.02	q
15	6	Daniel Watters	United States	1:04.04	q
16	6	Chen Jianhong	China	1:04.09	q
17	6	James Parrack	Great Britain	1:04.23
18	5	Kenji Watanabe	Japan	1:04.35
19	7	Pablo Restrepo	Colombia	1:04.43
20	7	Raik Hannemann	East Germany	1:04.46
21	5	Pierre-Yves Eberle	Switzerland	1:04.53
22	5	Ian McAdam	Australia	1:04.56
	5	David Leblanc	France
24	4	Tsai Hsin-yen	Chinese Taipei	1:04.58
25	4	Radek Beinhauer	Czechoslovakia	1:04.61
26	3	Yoon Joo-il	South Korea	1:04.68
27	7	Étienne Dagon	Switzerland	1:04.71
28	6	Alexander Marček	Czechoslovakia	1:04.95
29	8	Thomas Böhm	Austria	1:04.96
30	5	Jin Fu	China	1:05.02
31	8	Cameron Grant	Canada	1:05.10
32	4	Joaquín Fernández	Spain	1:05.19
33	3	Sidney Appelboom	Belgium	1:05.21
34	4	Gary O'Toole	Ireland	1:05.34
35	3	Javier Careaga	Mexico	1:05.37
36	5	Cédric Penicaud	France	1:05.46
37	5	Cícero Tortelli	Brazil	1:05.50
38	6	Jan-Erick Olsen	Norway	1:05.54
39	4	Anthony Beks	New Zealand	1:05.65
40	2	Alexandre Yokochi	Portugal	1:05.68
41	2	Ng Yue Meng	Singapore	1:05.87
42	5	Eyal Stigman	Israel	1:05.92
43	4	Sergio López Miró	Spain	1:06.08
44	3	Wirmandi Sugriat	Indonesia	1:06.22
45	3	Luc van de Vondel	Belgium	1:06.24
46	4	Richard Lockhart	New Zealand	1:06.27
47	4	Nikolaos Fokianos	Greece	1:06.30
48	2	Lars Sørensen	Denmark	1:06.48
49	3	Manuel Gutiérrez	Panama	1:06.73
50	3	Patrick Concepcion	Philippines	1:06.74
51	2	Arnþór Ragnarsson	Iceland	1:07.93
52	2	Watt Kam Sing	Hong Kong	1:08.03
53	3	Victor Ruberry	Bermuda	1:09.49
54	2	Quách Hoài Nam	Vietnam	1:10.90
55	2	Kraig Singleton	Virgin Islands	1:11.68
56	1	Michele Piva	San Marino	1:13.94
57	1	Amine El-Domyati	Lebanon	1:14.40
58	2	Bazlur Mohamed Rahman	Bangladesh	1:14.97
59	1	Gaspar Fragata	Angola	1:16.18
60	1	Obaid Al-Rumaithi	United Arab Emirates	1:17.01
61	1	Vivaldo Fernandes	Angola	1:17.98
	1	Trevor Ncala	Swaziland	DNS

Swimoff

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Ronald Dekker	Netherlands	1:02.63	Q, WD*
2	5	Tamás Debnár	Hungary	1:03.68	Q

* Opted to swim for the consolation final instead.

Finals

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Final B

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	5	Aleksey Matveyev	Soviet Union	1:03.01
10	4	Ronald Dekker	Netherlands	1:03.22
11	6	Mark Warnecke	West Germany	1:03.40
12	3	Alexander Mayer	West Germany	1:03.85
13	7	Hironobu Nagahata	Japan	1:03.89
14	2	Petri Suominen	Finland	1:04.04
15	1	Daniel Watters	United States	1:04.17
16	8	Chen Jianhong	China	1:04.72

Final A

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Adrian Moorhouse	Great Britain	1:02.04	NR
	6	Károly Güttler	Hungary	1:02.05
	3	Dmitry Volkov	Soviet Union	1:02.20
4	5	Victor Davis	Canada	1:02.38
5	8	Tamás Debnár	Hungary	1:02.50
6	1	Richard Schroeder	United States	1:02.55
7	2	Gianni Minervini	Italy	1:02.93
8	7	Christian Poswiat	East Germany	1:03.43

References

1. "Swimming at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games: Men's 100 metres Breaststroke". Sports Reference . Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 March 2017.
2. "Seoul 1988: Swimming – Men's 100m Breaststroke Heats" (PDF). Seoul 1988 . LA84 Foundation. p. 408. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
3. "Seoul 1988: Swimming – Men's 100m Breaststroke Finals" (PDF). Seoul 1988 . LA84 Foundation. p. 409. Retrieved 27 March 2017.

External links

• Official Report
• USA Swimming