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Men's 200 m backstroke - Swimming |   | ||||
 Men's 200 m backstroke 1988
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| Final | |||||
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Igor Polyansky |  |
URS | 1.59,37 | |
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Frank Baltrusch |  |
GDR | 1.59,60 | |
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Paul Kingsman |  |
NZL | 2.00,48 | |
| 4. | Sergei Zabolotnov | |
URS | 2.00,52 | |
| 5. | Dirk Richter | |
GDR | 2.01,67 | |
| 6. | Jens-Peter Berndt |  |
FRG | 2.01,84 | |
| 7. | Daniel Veatch |  |
USA | 2.02,26 | |
| 8. | Rogerio Romero |  |
BRA | 2.02,28 | |
| B-Final | |||||
| 9. | Frank Hoffmeister | |
FRG | 2.01,65 | |
| 10. | Steve Bigelow | |
USA | 2.02,95 | |
| 11. | Martin Lopez-Zubero |  |
ESP | 2.03,70 | |
| 12. | Mark Tewksbury |  |
CAN | 2.03,79 | |
| 13. | Gueorgui Mikhalev |  |
BUL | 2.04,24 | |
| 14. | Tamas Deutsch |  |
HUN | 2.04,42 | |
| 15. | Daichi Suzuki |  |
JPN | 2.04,67 | |
| 16. | Gary Binfield |  |
GBR | 2.04,90 | |
| Round 1 - Heat 1 | |||||
| 1. | Brett Halford |  |
ZIM | 2.17,84 | |
| 2. | Pablo Barahona |  |
HON | 2.21,61 | |
| 3. | Mohamed Abdullah |  |
UAE | 2.29,64 | |
| 4. | Mohamed Bin Abid | |
UAE | 2.36,21 | |
| 5. | Rami Kantari |  |
LIB | 2.40,29 | |
| Round 1 - Heat 2 | |||||
| 1. | Stephen Cullen |  |
IRL | 2.06,98 | |
| 2. | Patrick Ferland |  |
SUI | 2.07,77 | |
| 3. | Fong Jock Lim |  |
SIN | 2.08,65 | |
| 4. | Wladimir Ribeiro | |
BRA | 2.11,48 | |
| 5. | Horst Niehaus |  |
CRC | 2.12,83 | |
| 6. | Eric Greenwood | |
CRC | 2.15,42 | |
| 7. | Patrick Sagisi |  |
GUM | 2.15,82 | |
| Park Dong-pil |  |
KOR | dq | ||
| Round 1 - Heat 3 | |||||
| 1. | Gary Binfield | |
GBR | 2.03,79 | |
| 2. | Alejandro Alvizuri Mack |  |
PER | 2.04,29 | |
| 3. | John Davey | |
GBR | 2.04,70 | |
| 4. | Ernesto Vela |  |
MEX | 2.05,08 | |
| 5. | Richard Gheel | |
IRL | 2.05,71 | |
| 6. | Lin Laijiu |  |
CHN | 2.08,28 | |
| 7. | Shigemori Maruyama | |
JPN | 2.09,16 | |
| Kharalambos Papanikolaou |  |
GRE | dq | ||
| Round 1 - Heat 4 | |||||
| 1. | Dirk Richter | |
GDR | 2.01,54 | q |
| 2. | Daniel Veatch | |
USA | 2.01,73 | q |
| 3. | Gueorgui Mikhalev | |
BUL | 2.02,71 | |
| 4. | Frank Hoffmeister | |
FRG | 2.03,34 | |
| 5. | Steve Bigelow | |
USA | 2.03,64 | |
| 6. | Sean Murphy | |
CAN | 2.03,81 | |
| 7. | Pavel Vokoun |  |
TCH | 2.07,24 | |
| Round 1 - Heat 5 | |||||
| 1. | Frank Baltrusch | |
GDR | 2.01,49 | q |
| 2. | Rogerio Romero | |
BRA | 2.02,26 | q |
| 3. | Martin Lopez-Zubero | |
ESP | 2.03,33 | |
| 4. | Daichi Suzuki | |
JPN | 2.03,36 | |
| 5. | Stefano Battistelli |  |
ITA | 2.03,63 | |
| 6. | Mark Tewksbury | |
CAN | 2.04,02 | |
| 7. | Edvard Edvardsson |  |
ISL | 2.05,61 | |
| Tamas Darnyi | |
HUN | dq | ||
| Round 1 - Heat 6 | |||||
| 1. | Sergei Zabolotnov | |
URS | 2.01,27 | q |
| 2. | Igor Polyansky | |
URS | 2.01,70 | q |
| 3. | Jens-Peter Berndt | |
FRG | 2.01,77 | q |
| 4. | Paul Kingsman | |
NZL | 2.02,20 | q |
| 5. | Tamas Deutsch | |
HUN | 2.03,17 | |
| 6. | David Holderbach |  |
FRA | 2.04,83 | |
| 7. | Simon Upton |  |
AUS | 2.05,08 | |
| 8. | Lars Sørensen |  |
DEN | 2.05,73 | |
| Men's 200 m backstroke - Swimming - Seoul 1988 Summer Olympics
Event Format:
Swimmers competed in preliminary heats, final and B-final. In the preliminary heats the swimmers with the best official starting times were placed in the last three heats. Normally eight swimmers competed in each heat. The eight swimmers with the best time in the preliminary heats advanced to the final. Swimmers placing 9th to 16th advanced to the B-final. The winner of the final was the Olympic Champion. Event facts: Men's 200 m backstroke competition was held at the Olympic Indoor Swimming Pool and 44 athletes participated in the event. |
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| These results for Men's 200 m backstroke - Seoul 1988 Summer Olympics - are based on the official olympic reports and the Olympian Database | |||||
