Swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics

The 1988 Summer Olympics took place in Seoul, South Korea. The swimming was notable for the seven medals, including five golds, won by Matt Biondi.

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
50 m freestyle	File:Us flag large.png Matt Biondi, USA	File:Us flag large.png Thomas Jager, USA	Gennadi Prigoda, USSR
100 m backstroke	Daichi Suzuki, Japan	File:Us flag large.png David Berkoff, USA	Igor Polyanski, USSR
100 m breaststroke	File:Uk flag large.png Adrian Moorhouse, Great Britain	File:Hungary flag large.png Karoly Guttler, Hungary	Dmitri Volkov, USSR
100 m butterfly	File:Suriname flag large.png Anthony Nesty, Suriname	File:Us flag large.png Matt Biondi, USA	File:Uk flag large.png Andrew Jameson, Great Britain
100 m freestyle	File:Us flag large.png Matt Biondi, USA	File:Us flag large.png Christopher Jacobs, USA	Stèphane Caron, France
200 m backstroke	Igor Polyanski, USSR	File:East Germany flag.png Frank Baltrusch, East Germany	Paul Kingsman, New Zealand
200 m breaststroke	File:Hungary flag large.png Jozef Szabo, Hungary	File:Uk flag large.png Nick Gillingham, Great Britain	File:Spain flag large.png Sergio Lopez Miro, Spain¨
200 m butterfly	File:Germany flag large.png Michael Gross, West Germany	File:Denmark flag large.png Benny Leo Nielsen, Denmark	Anthony Mosse, New Zealand
200 m freestyle	File:Australia flag large.png Duncan Armstrong, Australia	File:Sweden flag large.png Anders Holmertz, Sweden	File:Us flag large.png Matt Biondi, USA
200 m medley	File:Hungary flag large.png Tamàs Darnyi, Hungary	File:East Germany flag.png Patrick Kühl, East Germany	Vadim Yaroschcuk, USSR
400 m freestyle	File:East Germany flag.png Uwe Dässler, East Germany	File:Australia flag large.png Duncan Armstrong, Australia	File:Poland flag large.png Artur Wojdat, Poland
1500 m freestyle	Vladimir Salnikov, USSR	File:Germany flag large.png Stefan Pfeiffer, West Germany	File:East Germany flag.png Uwe Dässler, East Germany
4 x 100 m freestyle relay	File:Us flag large.png Christopher Jacobs, Troy Dalbey, Thomas Jager, Matt Biondi	Gennadi Prigoda, Yuri Bashkatov, Nikolai Evseev, Vladimir Tkashenko	File:East Germany flag.png Dirk Richter, Thomas Flemming, Lars Hinneburg, Steffen Zesner
4 x 100 medley relay	File:Us flag large.png David Berkoff, Richard Schroeder, Matt Biondi, Christopher Jacobs	Mark Tewksbury, Victor Davis, Thomas Ponting, Donald A. Goss	File:Soviet Union flag large.png Igor Polyanski, Dmitri Volkov, Vadim Yaroshchcuk, Gennadi Prigoda
4 x 200 m freestyle relay	File:Us flag large.png Troy Dalbey, Matthew Cetlinski, Douglas Gjertsen, Matt Biondi	File:East Germany flag.png Uwe Dässler, Sven Lodziewski, Thomas Flemming, Steffen Zesner	File:Germany flag large.png Erik Hochstein, Thomas Fahrner, Rainer Henkel, Michael Gross

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
50 m freestyle	File:East Germany flag.png Kristin Otto, East Germany	File:China flag large.png Wenyi Wang, China	File:Us flag large.png Gillian Ann Sterkel, USA	File:East Germany flag.png Katrin Meissner, East Germany
100 m backstroke	File:East Germany flag.png Kristin Otto, East Germany	File:Hungary flag large.png Krisztina Egerszegi, Hungary	File:East Germany flag.png Cornelia Sirch, East Germany
100 m breaststroke	File:Bulgaria flag large.png Tania Bogomilova-Dangalakova, Bulgaria	File:Bulgaria flag large.png Antoaneta Frenkeva, Bulgaria	File:East Germany flag.png Silke Hörner, East Germany
100 m butterfly	File:East Germany flag.png Kristin Otto, East Germany	File:East Germany flag.png Birte Weigang, East Germany	File:China flag large.png Hong Qian, China
100 m freestyle	File:East Germany flag.png Kristin Otto, East Germany	File:China flag large.png Yong Zhuang, China	Catherine Plewinski, France
200 m backstroke	File:Hungary flag large.png Krisztina Egerszegi, Hungary	File:East Germany flag.png Katrin Zimmermann, East Germany	File:East Germany flag.png Cornelia Sirch, East Germany
200 m breaststroke	File:East Germany flag.png Silke Hörner, East Germany	File:China flag large.png Xiao-Min Hoang, China	File:Bulgaria flag large.png Antoaneta Frenkeva
200 m butterfly	File:East Germany flag.png Kathleen Nord, East Germany	File:East Germany flag.png Birte Weigang, East Germany	File:Us flag large.png Mary Meagher, USA
200 m freestyle	File:East Germany flag.png Heike Friedrich, East Germany	File:Costa rica flag large.png Silvia Poll-Ahrens, Costa Rica	File:East Germany flag.png Manuela Stellmach, East Germany
200 m medley	File:East Germany flag.png Daniela Hunger, East Germany	Elena Dendeberova, USSR	File:Romania flag large.png Noemi Lung, Romania
400 m freestyle	File:Us flag large.png Janet Evans, USA	File:East Germany flag.png Heike Friedrich, East Germany	File:East Germany flag.png Anke Möhring, East Germany
400 m medley	File:Us flag large.png Janet Evans, USA	File:Romania flag large.png Noemi Lung, Romania	File:East Germany flag.png Daniela Hunger, East Germany
800 m freestyle	File:Us flag large.png Janet Evans, USA	File:East Germany flag.png Astrid Strauss, East Germany	File:Australia flag large.png Julie McDonald, Australia
4 x 100 freestyle relay	File:East Germany flag.png Kristin Otto, Katrin Meissner, Daniela Hunger, Manuela Stellmach	File:Netherlands flag large.png Marianne Muis, Mildred Muis, Conny van Bentum, Karin Brienesse	File:Us flag large.png Mary Wayte, Mitzi Kramer, Laura Walker, Dara Torres
4 x 100 medley relay	File:East Germany flag.png Kristin Otto, Silke Hörner, Birte Weigang, Katrin Meissner	File:Us flag large.png Elizabeth Barr, Tracey McFarlane, Janet Jorgensen, Mary Wayte	Lori Melien, Allison Higson, Jane Kerr, Andrea Nugent