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

Men's 200 metre individual medley at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Venue	Jamsil Indoor Swimming Pool
Date	25 September 1988 (heats & finals)
Competitors	58 from 36 nations
Winning time	2:00.17 WR
Medalists
Tamás Darnyi   Hungary Patrick Kühl   East Germany Vadim Yaroshchuk   Soviet Union
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The men's 200 metre individual medley event at the 1988 Summer Olympics took place on 25 September at the Jamsil Indoor Swimming Pool in Seoul, South Korea. ^[1]

Records

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

World record	Tamás Darnyi  (HUN)	2:00.56	Strasbourg, France	23 August 1987
Olympic record	Alex Baumann  (CAN)	2:01.42	Los Angeles, United States	4 August 1984

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nation	Time	Record
24 September	Final A	Tamás Darnyi	Hungary	2:00.17	WR

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	Tamás Darnyi	Hungary	2:02.15	Q
2	8	Vadim Yaroshchuk	Soviet Union	2:02.77	Q
3	6	Patrick Kühl	East Germany	2:03.77	Q
4	6	Mikhail Zubkov	Soviet Union	2:03.79	Q
5	6	Gary Anderson	Canada	2:04.00	Q
6	8	Raik Hannemann	East Germany	2:04.03	Q
7	8	Peter Bermel	West Germany	2:04.18	Q
8	7	Robert Bruce	Australia	2:04.31	Q
9	7	David Wharton	United States	2:04.64	q
10	7	Jens-Peter Berndt	West Germany	2:04.80	q
11	7	Christophe Bordeau	France	2:04.95	q
12	6	Bill Stapleton	United States	2:05.32	q
13	6	Luca Sacchi	Italy	2:05.45	q
14	7	Charalambos Papanikolaou	Greece	2:05.53	q
15	6	John Davey	Great Britain	2:05.55	q
16	7	Neil Cochran	Great Britain	2:05.56	q
17	8	Rob Woodhouse	Australia	2:05.87
18	6	Roberto Cassio	Italy	2:05.88
19	5	Takahiro Fujimoto	Japan	2:07.23
20	6	Gary O'Toole	Ireland	2:07.77
21	8	Darren Ward	Canada	2:07.84
22	5	Satoshi Takeda	Japan	2:08.11
23	7	József Szabó	Hungary	2:09.08
24	5	Javier Careaga	Mexico	2:09.38
25	5	Rodrigo González	Mexico	2:09.52
26	4	Júlio César Rebolal	Brazil	2:09.62
27	5	Eðvarð Þór Eðvarðsson	Iceland	2:10.18
28	4	Diogo Madeira	Portugal	2:10.21
29	5	Renato Ramalho	Brazil	2:10.32
30	4	René Concepcion	Philippines	2:10.37
31	5	Xie Jun	China	2:10.52
	5	Martín López-Zubero	Spain
33	4	Sidney Appelboom	Belgium	2:10.55
34	4	David Lim Fong Jock	Singapore	2:11.57
35	3	Lee Jae-soo	South Korea	2:11.88
36	8	Sergio López Miró	Spain	2:13.48
37	3	Richard Sam Bera	Indonesia	2:13.90
38	4	Wirmandi Sugriat	Indonesia	2:13.93
39	3	Hakan Eskioğlu	Turkey	2:14.32
40	4	Yip Hor Man	Hong Kong	2:14.65
41	3	Desmond Koh	Singapore	2:14.77
42	2	Sultan Al-Otaibi	Kuwait	2:15.63
43	3	Eric Greenwood	Costa Rica	2:15.64
44	2	Horst Niehaus	Costa Rica	2:16.16
45	3	Jonathan Sakovich	Guam	2:16.70
46	2	Kraig Singleton	Virgin Islands	2:16.93
47	2	Graham Thompson	Zimbabwe	2:17.06
48	3	Arthur Li Kai Yien	Hong Kong	2:17.10
49	2	Tsai Hsin-yen	Chinese Taipei	2:17.95
50	1	Vaughan Smith	Zimbabwe	2:18.07
51	2	Chiang Chi-li	Chinese Taipei	2:18.76
52	2	Mouhamed Diop	Senegal	2:20.74
53	1	Mohamed Bin Abid	United Arab Emirates	2:29.08
54	2	Bruno N'Diaye	Senegal	2:29.18
55	1	Mohamed Abdullah	United Arab Emirates	2:31.44
56	1	Rami Kantari	Lebanon	2:34.53
	3	Patrick Concepcion	Philippines	DNS
	8	Jan Bidrman	Sweden	DNS

Finals

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Final B

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	4	David Wharton	United States	2:03.05
10	1	John Davey	Great Britain	2:04.17
11	8	Neil Cochran	Great Britain	2:05.44
12	3	Christophe Bordeau	France	2:05.51
13	2	Luca Sacchi	Italy	2:05.68
14	7	Charalambos Papanikolaou	Greece	2:06.61
15	5	Jens-Peter Berndt	West Germany	2:06.76
16	6	Bill Stapleton	United States	2:06.82

Final A

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Tamás Darnyi	Hungary	2:00.17	WR
	3	Patrick Kühl	East Germany	2:01.61
	5	Vadim Yaroshchuk	Soviet Union	2:02.40
4	6	Mikhail Zubkov	Soviet Union	2:02.92
5	1	Peter Bermel	West Germany	2:03.81
6	8	Robert Bruce	Australia	2:04.34
7	7	Raik Hannemann	East Germany	2:04.82
8	2	Gary Anderson	Canada	2:06.35

References

1. "Swimming at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games: Men's 200 metres Individual Medley". Sports Reference . Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
2. "Seoul 1988: Swimming – Men's 200m Individual Medley Heats" (PDF). Seoul 1988 . LA84 Foundation. pp. 412–413. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
3. "Seoul 1988: Swimming – Men's 200m Individual Medley Finals" (PDF). Seoul 1988 . LA84 Foundation. p. 412. Retrieved 27 March 2017.

External links

• Official Report
• USA Swimming