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

The women's 200 metre backstroke event at the 1988 Olympic Games

1988 Summer Olympics

The 1988 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad, were an all international multi-sport events celebrated from September 17 to October 2, 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. They were the second summer Olympic Games to be held in Asia and the first since the 1964 Summer Olympics...

took place September 25. This swimming

Swimming (sport)

Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...

event used backstroke

Backstroke

The backstroke, also sometimes called the back crawl, is one of the four swimming styles regulated by FINA, and the only regulated style swum on the back. This has the advantage of easy breathing, but the disadvantage of swimmers not being able to see where they are going. It is also the only...

. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of four lengths of the pool.

Medalists

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Krisztina Egerszegi Krisztina Egerszegi Krisztina Egerszegi is a Hungarian former world record holding swimmer and one of the greatest Hungarian Olympic champions of the modern era...		2:09.29	OR
	Katrin Zimmermann Katrin Zimmermann Katrin Zimmermann is a former backstroke swimmer from East Germany, who won the silver medal in the 200 m backstroke at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.-References:*...		2:10.61
	Cornelia Sirch Cornelia Sirch Cornelia Sirch is a former backstroke swimmer from East Germany, who won two bronze medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. The 21-year-old triumphed in the 100 m and 200 m backstroke...		2:11.45
4	Beth Barr Beth Barr Elizabeth Cynthia Barr is a former backstroke swimmer from the United States, who won the silver medal in the 4x100m Medley Relay at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea...		2:12.39
5	Nicole Livingstone-Stevenson		2:13.43
6	Andrea Hayes Andrea Hayes Andrea Jean Hayes is a retired female backstroke swimmer from the United States, who represented her native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. She is best known for winning a gold medal at the inaugural 1985 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in Tokyo, Japan.-References:*...		2:15.02
7	Jolanda de Rover Jolanda de Rover Jolanda de Rover is a former backstroke swimmer from the Netherlands, who won the gold medal on the 200 backstroke at the 1984 Olympics. In total she won 12 long-course Dutch national titles between 1980-1987. De Rover retired after the 1988 Summer Olympics in South Korea.-References:*...		2:15.17
8	Svenja Schlicht		2:15.94

Key: OR = Olympic record

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