Swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Women's 50 metre freestyle

Women's 50 metre freestyle
at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Women's 50 metre freestyle; at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Venue	Jamsil Indoor Swimming Pool
Date	25 September 1988 (heats & finals)
Competitors	50 from 33 nations
Winning time	25.49 OR
Medalists
	1992 →

The inaugural women's 50 metre freestyle event at the 1988 Summer Olympics took place on 25 September at the Jamsil Indoor Swimming Pool in Seoul, South Korea.^[1]

Records edit

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

World record	Yang Wenyi (CHN)	24.98	Guangzhou, China	11 April 1988
Olympic record	Inaugural event	—	—	—

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
25 September	Heat 7	Yang Wenyi	China	25.67	OR
25 September	Final A	Kristin Otto	East Germany	25.49	OR

Results edit

Heats edit

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	7	Yang Wenyi	China	25.67	Q, OR
2	7	Katrin Meissner	East Germany	25.77	Q
3	6	Kristin Otto	East Germany	25.85	Q
4	5	Leigh Ann Fetter	United States	25.91	Q
5	6	Catherine Plewinski	France	26.01	Q, NR
6	7	Jill Sterkel	United States	26.02	Q
7	6	Tamara Costache	Romania	26.06	Q
8	7	Karen van Wirdum	Australia	26.12	Q, OC
9	7	Marion Aizpors	West Germany	26.20	q
10	7	Inna Abramova	Soviet Union	26.27	q
11	5	Marie-Thérèse Armentero	Switzerland	26.32	q
12	5	Christiane Pielke	West Germany	26.33	q
13	6	Ayako Nakano	Japan	26.44	q
14	4	Diana van der Plaats	Netherlands	26.49	q, NR
15	6	Kristin Topham	Canada	26.50	q
16	5	Karin Brienesse	Netherlands	26.54	q
17	4	Adriana Pereira	Brazil	26.56
17	5	Luminița Dobrescu	Romania	26.56
19	6	Andrea Nugent	Canada	26.60
20	5	Gitta Jensen	Denmark	26.61
20	5	Kaori Sasaki	Japan	26.61
22	6	Xia Fujie	China	26.66
23	7	Helena Aberg	Sweden	26.67
24	6	Karin Furuhed	Sweden	26.85
25	7	Alison Sheppard	Great Britain	27.14
26	4	María Rivera	Mexico	27.16
27	4	Annabelle Cripps	Great Britain	27.17
28	4	Karen Dieffenthaler	Trinidad and Tobago	27.27
29	5	Senda Gharbi	Tunisia	27.34
30	4	Akiko Thomson	Philippines	27.43
31	3	Mônica Rezende	Brazil	27.44
32	4	Patricia Kohlmann	Mexico	27.45
33	2	Carolina Mauri	Costa Rica	27.96
34	3	Han Young-hee	South Korea	28.02
35	3	Hung Cee Kay	Hong Kong	28.15
36	3	Park Joo-li	South Korea	28.20
37	2	Bryndís Ólafsdóttir	Iceland	28.38
38	3	Ana Joselina Fortin	Honduras	28.46
39	2	Cina Munch	Fiji	28.55
40	2	Catherine Fogarty	Zimbabwe	28.66
41	3	Wang Chi	Chinese Taipei	28.73
42	2	Sabrina Lum	Chinese Taipei	28.82
43	2	Veronica Cummings	Guam	28.94
44	2	Angela Birch	Fiji	29.01
45	3	Tsang Wing Sze	Hong Kong	29.14
46	2	Katerine Moreno	Bolivia	29.42
47	4	Elsa Freire	Angola	29.54
48	1	Carolina Araujo	Mozambique	29.64
49	3	Ana Martins	Angola	29.74
50	1	Nancy Khalaf	Lebanon	30.77

Finals edit

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Final B edit

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
9	4	Marion Aizpors	West Germany	26.17
10	6	Christiane Pielke	West Germany	26.22
11	3	Marie-Thérèse Armentero	Switzerland	26.34
12	1	Kristin Topham	Canada	26.45
12	2	Ayako Nakano	Japan	26.45
14	5	Inna Abramova	Soviet Union	26.48
15	8	Karin Brienesse	Netherlands	26.66
16	7	Diana van der Plaats	Netherlands	26.80

Final A edit

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3	Kristin Otto	East Germany	25.49	OR
	4	Yang Wenyi	China	25.64
	5	Katrin Meissner	East Germany	25.71
	7	Jill Sterkel	United States	25.71
5	6	Leigh Ann Fetter	United States	25.78
6	1	Tamara Costache	Romania	25.80
7	2	Catherine Plewinski	France	25.90	NR
8	8	Karen van Wirdum	Australia	26.01	OC

References edit

^ "Swimming at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games: Women's 50 metres Freestyle". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
^ "Seoul 1988: Swimming – Women's 50m Freestyle Heats" (PDF). Seoul 1988. LA84 Foundation. pp. 417–418. Retrieved 29 March 2017.
^ "Seoul 1988: Swimming – Women's 50m Freestyle Finals" (PDF). Seoul 1988. LA84 Foundation. p. 418. Retrieved 29 March 2017.

External links edit

[SportsRef-1] "Swimming at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games: Women's 50 metres Freestyle". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 27 March 2017.

[2] "Seoul 1988: Swimming – Women's 50m Freestyle Heats" (PDF). Seoul 1988. LA84 Foundation. pp. 417–418. Retrieved 29 March 2017.

[3] "Seoul 1988: Swimming – Women's 50m Freestyle Finals" (PDF). Seoul 1988. LA84 Foundation. p. 418. Retrieved 29 March 2017.

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