| Women 100m Backstroke Swimming XXIV Olympic Games 1988 Seoul, South Korea - --th September - Gold Medal: Kristin Otto, East Germany | 
| | Final |  | time | gap | L | Y | 50m |  | 1. Kristin Otto |  East Germany | 1:00.89 |  | 4 | 22 | 29.12s |  | 2. Krisztina Egerszegi |  Hungary | 1:01.56 | +0.67s | 3 | 14 | 29.36s |  | 3. Cornelia Sirch |  East Germany | 1:01.57 | +0.68s | 5 | 21 | 29.43s |  | 4. Betsy Mitchell |  United States | 1:02.71 | +1.82s | 2 | 22 | 30.20s |  | 5. Beth Barr |  United States | 1:02.78 | +1.89s | 6 | 16 | 30.60s |  | 6. Silvia Poll |  Costa Rica | 1:03.34 | +2.45s | 7 | 17 | 29.68s |  | 7. Nicole Stevenson |  Australia | 1:04.15 | +3.26s | 1 | 17 | 31.05s |  | 8. Marion Aizpors |  West Germany | 1:04.19 | +3.30s | 8 | 27 | 30.61s | 
 | Final B |  | time | gap | L | Y | 50m |  | 9. Anca Patrascoiu |  Romania | 1:03.33 |  | 4 | 20 | 30.68s |  | 10.Svenja Schlicht |  West Germany | 1:03.68 | +0.35s | 5 | 21 | 30.94s |  | 11.Manuela Carosi |  Italy | 1:03.80 | +0.47s | 8 | 23 |  |  | 12.Lori Melien |  Canada | 1:03.87 | +0.54s | 6 | 16 | 30.66s |  | 13.Lorenza Vigarani |  Italy | 1:03.88 | +0.55s | 3 | 18 | 30.64s |  | 14.Jolanda De Rover |  Netherlands | 1:04.11 | +0.78s | 2 | 24 | 30.81s |  | 15.Sharon Musson |  New Zealand | 1:04.17 | +0.84s | 7 | 18 | 31.24s |  | 16.Katherine Read |  Great Britain | 1:04.27 | +0.94s | 1 | 19 | 30.83s | 
 | 41 Competitors from 30 countries. |  | World Record: Ina Kleber, East Germany 1:00.59 Moscow, Soviet Union 24th August 1984 |  | Olympic Record: Rica Reinisch, East Germany 1:00.86 Moscow, Soviet Union 23rd July 1980 |  | 1:08.70 LCM-time done since Jan 1, 1987 |  | 1:06.30 SCM-time done since Sep 1, 1987 | 
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| Heats - Thursday, 22nd September | 
| Best 8 times advanced to Final. Next 8 to Final B. There were 2 Swimm-Offs for 16th place. | 
| | Heat 6 |  | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 50m |  | 1. Kristin Otto |  East Germany | 1:01.45 |  | - | 22 | 1. | 29.60s |  | 2. Beth Barr |  United States | 1:02.63 | +1.18s | - | 16 | 4. | 30.19s |  | 3. Nicole Stevenson |  Australia | 1:03.26 | +1.81s | - | 17 | 7. | 30.81s |  | 4. Marion Aizpors |  West Germany | 1:03.27 | +1.82s | - | 27 | 8. | 29.92s |  | 5. Katherine Read |  Great Britain | 1:04.62 | +3.17s | - | 19 | 15. | 31.07s |  | 6. Karen Lord |  Australia | 1:04.69 | +3.24s | - | 18 | 16. | 31.15s |  | 7. Johanna Larsson |  Sweden | 1:05.10 | +3.65s | - | 16 | 22. | 31.13s |  | 8. Satoko Morishita |  Japan | 1:05.38 | +3.93s | - | 14 | 24. | 31.69s | 
 |  | | Heat 5 |  | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 50m |  | 1. Cornelia Sirch |  East Germany | 1:01.63 | +0.18s | - | 21 | 2. | 29.74s |  | 2. Krisztina Egerszegi |  Hungary | 1:02.09 | +0.64s | - | 14 | 3. | 29.86s |  | 3. Silvia Poll |  Costa Rica | 1:03.21 | +1.76s | - | 17 | 6. | 30.05s |  | 4. Svenja Schlicht |  West Germany | 1:03.72 | +2.27s | - | 21 | 10. | 30.74s |  | 5. Lori Melien |  Canada | 1:04.29 | +2.84s | - | 16 | 12. | 30.78s |  | 6. Jolanda De Rover |  Netherlands | 1:04.39 | +2.94s | - | 24 | 13. | 31.02s |  | 7. Sharon Musson |  New Zealand | 1:04.58 | +3.13s | - | 18 | 14. | 31.03s |  | 8. Sharron Page |  Great Britain | 1:04.75 | +3.30s | - | 17 | 18. | 31.27s | 
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| | Heat 4 |  | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 50m |  | 1. Betsy Mitchell |  United States | 1:02.85 | +1.40s | - | 22 | 5. | 30.00s |  | 2. Anca Patrascoiu |  Romania | 1:03.29 | +1.84s | - | 20 | 9. | 30.67s |  | 3. Lorenza Vigarani |  Italy | 1:03.96 | +2.51s | - | 18 | 11. | 30.63s |  | 4. Manuela Carosi |  Italy | 1:04.69 | +3.24s | - | 23 | 16. | 30.86s |  | 5. Bistra Gospodinova |  Bulgaria | 1:04.91 | +3.46s | - | 22 | 19. | 31.32s |  | 6. Laurence Guillou |  France | 1:05.07 | +3.62s | - | 18 | 20. | 31.46s |  | 7. Eva Gysling |  Switzerland | 1:05.07 | +3.62s | - | 21 | 20. | 31.06s |  | 8. Sylvia Hume |  New Zealand | 1:05.81 | +4.36s | - | 20 | 25. | 31.04s | 
 |  | | Heat 3 |  | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 50m |  | 1. Bo-Lin Wang |  China | 1:05.15 | +3.70s | - | 17 | 23. | 31.70s |  | 2. Tomoko Onogi |  Japan | 1:06.14 | +4.69s | - | 18 | 26. | 32.02s |  | 3. Michelle Smith De Bruin |  Ireland | 1:06.22 | +4.77s | - | 18 | 27. | 32.16s |  | 4. Gillian Akiko Thomson |  Philippines | 1:06.51 | +5.06s | - | 13 | 28. | 31.97s |  | 5. Aileen Convery |  Ireland | 1:06.73 | +5.28s | - | 19 | 29. | 31.85s |  | 6. Ji-Hee Hong |  South Korea | 1:08.33 | +6.88s | - | 15 | 30. | 32.48s |  | 7. Rita Garay |  Puerto Rico | 1:08.58 | +7.13s | - | 17 | 31. | 33.24s |  | 8. Wang Chi |  Taiwan | 1:09.56 | +8.11s | - | 18 | 32. | 33.43s | 
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| | Heat 2 |  | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 50m |  | 1. Ana Fortin |  Honduras | 1:10.10 | +8.65s | - | 16 | 33. | 33.22s |  | 2. Patricia Duncan |  US Virgin Islands | 1:10.37 | +8.92s | - | 15 | 34. | 33.66s |  | 3. Wing-Sze Tsang |  Hong Kong | 1:10.50 | +9.05s | - | 16 | 35. | 33.78s |  | 4. Sharon Tania Pickering |  Fiji | 1:12.14 | +10.69s | - | 20 | 36. | 34.30s |  | 5. Elsa Freire Vicente |  Angola | 1:15.56 | +14.11s | - | 14 | 39. | 36.01s |  | 6. Carla Fernandes |  Angola | 1:21.58 | +20.13s | - | 14 | 41. | 38.30s | 
 |  | | Heat 1 |  | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 50m |  | 1. Angela Birch |  Fiji | 1:13.48 | +12.03s | - | 14 | 37. | 34.51s |  | 2. Katerine Moreno |  Bolivia | 1:14.42 | +12.97s | - | 14 | 38. | 35.86s |  | 3. Carolina Manuela Lopes De Araujo |  Mozambique | 1:15.86 | +14.41s | - | 17 | 40. | 35.81s | 
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| | Swimm-Off 1 |  | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 50m |  | 16.Manuela Carosi |  Italy | 1:05.05 |  | 5 | 23 | 16. | 3-.--s |  | 16.Karen Lord |  Australia | 1:05.05 |  | 4 | 18 | 16. | 3-.--s | 
 |  | | Swimm-Off 2 |  | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 50m |  | 16.Manuela Carosi |  Italy | 1:04.62 |  | 5 | 23 | 16. | 3-.--s |  | 17.Karen Lord |  Australia | 1:04.75 | +0.13s | 4 | 18 | 17. | 3-.--s | 
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