Swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men'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 Men's 200m Individual Medley event at the 1988 Olympic Games took place September 25, 1988.

Records at the time of the event were:

• World Record (WR): 2:00.56, Tamás Darnyi (Hungary); August 23, 1987, Strasbourg, France.
• Olympic Record (OR): 2:01.42, Alex Baumann (Canada); Los Angeles 1984.

Results

Final

A Final

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

B Final

Place	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
9	David Wharton	United States	2:03.05
10	John Davey	Great Britain	2:04.17
11	Neil Cochran	Great Britain	2:05.44
12	Christophe Bordeau	France	2:05.51
13	Luca Sacchi	Italy	2:05.68
14	Charalambos Papanikolaou	Greece	2:06.61
15	Jens-Peter Berndt	West Germany	2:06.76
16	Bill Stapleton	United States	2:06.82

Preliminary heats

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

See also

• Swimming at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre individual medley
• Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre individual medley

References

• "For the Record" from Swimming World Magazine, November 1988.
• 1988 Summer Olympics results: Men's 200 m individual medley, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2009-12-30.