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

The women's 200 metre butterfly event at the 1988 Summer Olympics took place on 25 September at the Jamsil Indoor Swimming Pool in Seoul, South Korea.^[1]

Women's 200 metre butterfly at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Venue	Jamsil Indoor Swimming Pool
Date	25 September 1988 (heats & finals)
Competitors	28 from 21 nations
Winning time	2:09.51
Medalists
Kathleen Nord  East Germany Birte Weigang  East Germany Mary T. Meagher  United States
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Records

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

World record	Mary T. Meagher (USA)	2:05.96	Brown Deer, United States	13 August 1981
Olympic record	Mary T. Meagher (USA)	2:06.90	Los Angeles, United States	4 August 1984

Results

Heats

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	2	Kathleen Nord	East Germany	2:11.81	Q
2	3	Birte Weigang	East Germany	2:11.97	Q
3	4	Mary T. Meagher	United States	2:12.35	Q
4	4	Conny van Bentum	Netherlands	2:12.41	Q
5	4	Stela Pura	Romania	2:12.53	Q
6	2	Kiyomi Takahashi	Japan	2:12.68	Q
7	3	Trina Radke	United States	2:12.93	Q
8	3	Wang Xiaohong	China	2:13.05	Q
9	4	Gabi Reha	West Germany	2:13.09	q
10	2	Mojca Cater	Canada	2:13.21	q
11	3	Ina Beyermann	West Germany	2:13.56	q
12	4	Svitlana Kopchykova	Soviet Union	2:15.26	q
13	4	Takayo Kitano	Japan	2:15.41	q
14	2	Mette Jacobsen	Denmark	2:15.78	q
15	3	Helen Bewley	Great Britain	2:17.10	q
16	4	Lynne Wilson	Great Britain	2:17.28	q
17	4	Donna Procter	Australia	2:18.17
18	2	Sandra Neves	Portugal	2:18.29
19	3	Neviana Miteva	Bulgaria	2:18.44
20	3	Kim Soo-jin	South Korea	2:19.00
21	1	Blanca Morales	Guatemala	2:19.28
22	2	Mo Wanlan	China	2:19.56
23	1	Marlene Bruten	Mexico	2:19.68
24	1	Isabelle Arnould	Belgium	2:20.74
25	3	Claire Supiot	France	2:21.65
26	1	Chang Hui-chien	Chinese Taipei	2:25.50
27	1	Nguyễn Kiều Oanh	Vietnam	2:33.07
	2	Donna McGinnis	Canada	DSQ

Finals

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Final B

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	5	Mojca Cater	Canada	2:12.66
10	3	Ina Beyermann	West Germany	2:13.74
11	4	Gabi Reha	West Germany	2:14.20
12	6	Svitlana Kopchykova	Soviet Union	2:14.43
13	7	Mette Jacobsen	Denmark	2:15.60
14	2	Takayo Kitano	Japan	2:15.61
15	1	Helen Bewley	Great Britain	2:17.11
16	8	Lynne Wilson	Great Britain	2:18.66

Final A

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Kathleen Nord	East Germany	2:09.51
	5	Birte Weigang	East Germany	2:09.91
	3	Mary T. Meagher	United States	2:10.80
4	2	Stela Pura	Romania	2:11.28
5	1	Trina Radke	United States	2:11.55
6	7	Kiyomi Takahashi	Japan	2:11.62
7	8	Wang Xiaohong	China	2:12.34
8	6	Conny van Bentum	Netherlands	2:13.17