| Women 100m Freestyle Swimming XXIV Olympic Games 1988 Seoul, South Korea - Monday, 19th September - Gold Medal: Kristin Otto, East Germany | 
| | Final |  | time | gap | L | Y | 50m |  | 1. Kristin Otto |  East Germany | 54.93s |  | - | 22 | 26.36s |  | 2. Yong Zhuang |  China | 55.47s | +0.54s | - | 16 | 26.84s |  | 3. Catherine Plewinski |  France | 55.49s | +0.56s | - | 20 | 26.59s |  | 4. Manuela Stellmach |  East Germany | 55.52s | +0.59s | - | 18 | 27.00s |  | 5. Silvia Poll |  Costa Rica | 55.90s | +0.97s | - | 17 | 26.78s |  | 6. Karin Brienesse |  Netherlands | 56.15s | +1.22s | - | 19 | 27.11s |  | 7. Dara Torres |  United States | 56.25s | +1.32s | - | 21 | 26.71s |  | 8. Conny Van Bentum |  Netherlands | 56.54s | +1.61s | - | 23 | 27.15s | 
 | Final B |  | time | gap | L | Y | 50m |  | 9. Natalya Trefilova |  Soviet Union | 56.48s |  | - | 17 | 27.38s |  | 10.Ayako Nakano |  Japan | 56.72s | +0.24s | - | 15 | 27.29s |  | 11 Liliana Dobrescu |  Romania | 56.79s | +0.31s | - | 17 | 27.70s |  | 12 Mitzi Kremer |  United States | 56.83s | +0.35s | - | 20 | 27.56s |  | 13.Gitta Jensen |  Denmark | 57.02s | +0.54s | - | 16 | 27.34s |  | 14.Karen Van Wirdum |  Australia | 57.04s | +0.56s | - | 17 | 27.31s |  | 15.Svetlana Isakova |  Soviet Union | 57.07s | +0.59s | - | 18 | 27.94s |  | 16.Tamara Costache |  Romania | 57.11s | +0.63s | - | 18 | 27.16s | 
 | World Record: Kristin Otto, East Germany 54.73s Madrid, Spain 19 August 1986 |  | Olympic Record: Barbara Krause, East Germany 54.79s Moscow, Soviet Union 21 July 1980 | 
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| | Heat 8 |  | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 50m |  | 1. Catherine Plewinski |  France | 55.53s |  | - | 20 | 1. | 26.67s |  | 2. Kristin Otto |  East Germany | 55.80s | +0.27s | - | 22 | 2. | 27.30s |  | 3. Silvia Poll |  Costa Rica | 56.16s | +0.63s | - | 17 | 5. | 27.14s |  | 4. Dara Torres |  United States | 56.37s | +0.84s | - | 21 | 7. | 27.19s |  | 5. Gitta Jensen |  Denmark | 57.28s | +1.75s | - | 16 | 15. | 27.95s |  | 6. Andrea Nugent |  Canada | 57.33s | +1.80s | - | 19 | 17. | 27.70s |  | 7. Marie-Therese Armentero |  Switzerland | 57.35s | +1.82s | - | 22 | 18. | 27.52s |  | 8. Christiane Pielke |  West Germany | 57.47s | +1.94s | - | 25 | 19. | 27.29s | 
 |  | | Heat 7 |  | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 50m |  | 1. Manuela Stellmach |  East Germany | 56.14s | +0.61s | - | 18 | 4. | 27.34s |  | 2. Karin Brienesse |  Netherlands | 56.29s | +0.76s | - | 19 | 6. | 27.25s |  | 3. Conny Van Bentum |  Netherlands | 56.50s | +0.97s | - | 23 | 8. | 27.56s |  | 4. Liliana Dobrescu |  Romania | 56.67s | +1.14s | - | 17 | 10. | 27.47s |  | 5. Tamara Costache |  Romania | 56.79s | +1.26s | - | 18 | 11. | 27.17s |  | 6. Svetlana Isakova |  Soviet Union | 57.17s | +1.64s | - | 18 | 14. | 27.67s |  | 7. Natasha Khristova |  Bulgaria | 57.80s | +2.27s | - | 18 | 24. | 28.11s |  | 8. Katja Ziliox |  West Germany | 58.39s | +2.86s | - | 18 | 31. | 27.87s | 
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| | Heat 6 |  | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 50m |  | 1. Yong Zhuang |  China | 55.84s | +0.31s | - | 16 | 3. | 27.25s |  | 2. Natalya Trefilova |  Soviet Union | 56.66s | +1.13s | - | 17 | 9. | 27.64s |  | 3. Karen Van Wirdum |  Australia | 56.84s | +1.31s | - | 17 | 12. | 27.21s |  | 4. Mitzi Kremer |  United States | 56.97s | +1.44s | - | 20 | 13. | 27.72s |  | 5. Jane Kerr |  Canada | 57.55s | +2.02s | - | 20 | 20. | 28.04s |  | 6. Yaping Lou |  China | 57.79s | +2.26s | - | 17 | 23. | 28.05s |  | 7. Pia Sorensen |  Denmark | 57.82s | +2.29s | - | 21 | 26. | 27.93s |  | 8. Silvia Persi |  Italy | 58.22s | +2.69s | - | 22 | 29. | 27.55s | 
 |  | | Heat 5 |  | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 50m |  | 1. Ayako Nakano |  Japan | 57.29s | +1.76s | - | 15 | 16. | 27.43s |  | 2. Eva Nyberg |  Sweden | 57.57s | +2.04s | - | 19 | 21. | 28.02s |  | 3. Annabelle Cripps |  Great Britain | 57.81s | +2.28s | - | 20 | 25. | 27.86s |  | 4. Karin Furuhed |  Sweden | 57.97s | +2.44s | - | 21 | 27. | 27.79s |  | 5. June Croft |  Great Britain | 58.19s | +2.66s | - | 25 | 28. | 28.18s |  | 6. Jacqueline Delord |  France | 58.22s | +2.69s | - | 18 | 29. | 28.05s |  | 7. Kaori Sasaki |  Japan | 58.40s | +2.87s | - | 17 | 32. | 27.81s |  | 8. Senda Al Gharbi |  Tunisia | 58.51s | +2.98s | - | 21 | 33. | 28.36s | 
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| | Heat 4 |  | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 50m |  | 1. Suzanne Carol Baumer |  Australia | 57.76s | +2.23s | - | 22 | 22. | 27.97s |  | 2. Adriana Pereira |  Brazil | 58.53s | +3.00s | - | 24 | 34. | 28.39s |  | 3. Karen Dieffenthaller |  Trinidad Tob | 58.64s | +3.11s | - | 20 | 35. | 28.03s |  | 4. Patricia Kohlmann |  Mexico | 59.05s | +3.52s | - | 20 | 36. | 28.22s |  | 5. Isabele Vieira |  Brazil | 59.15s | +3.62s | - | 16 | 37. | 28.86s |  | 6. Maria Soledad Rivera |  Mexico | 59.32s | +3.79s | - | 21 | 38. | 28.30s |  | 7. Bryndis Ollafsdottir |  Iceland | 59.56s | +4.03s | - | 19 | 40. | 28.92s |  | 8. Sze Ki Celeste Hung |  Hong Kong | 1:00.18 | +4.65s | - | 16 | 42. | 28.99s | 
 |  | | Heat 3 |  | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 50m |  | 1. Gillian Akiko Thomson |  Philippines | 59.41s | +3.88s | - | 13 | 39. | 28.62s |  | 2. Carolina Mauri |  Costa Rica | 1:00.14 | +4.61s | - | 18 | 41. | 28.45s |  | 3. Eun-Jung Kim |  South Korea | 1:00.39 | +4.86s | - | 15 | 43. | 29.59s |  | 4. Ana Fortin |  Honduras | 1:01.11 | +5.58s | - | 16 | 44. | 29.52s |  | 5. Fenella Ng |  Hong Kong | 1:01.27 | +5.74s | - | 20 | 45. | 29.75s |  | 5. Young-Hee Han |  South Korea | 1:01.72 | +6.19s | - | 15 | 46. | 29.92s |  | 6. Wang Chi |  Taiwan | 1:01.72 | +6.19s | - | 18 | 46. | 29.90s |  | 8. Elsa Freire Vicente |  Angola | 1:05.47 | +9.94s | - | 14 | 55. | 30.62s | 
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| | Heat 2 |  | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 50m |  | 1. Sabrina Lum |  Taiwan | 1:02.11 | +6.58s | - | 17 | 48. | 30.28s |  | 2. Catherine Helen Fogarty |  Zimbabwe | 1:02.47 | +6.94s | - | 17 | 49. | 29.90s |  | 3. Veronica Cummings |  Guam | 1:02.63 | +7.10s | - | 15 | 50. | 30.68s |  | 4. Angela Birch |  Fiji | 1:02.91 | +7.38s | - | 14 | 51. | 30.04s |  | 5. Cina Munch |  Fiji | 1:03.06 | +7.53s | - | 17 | 52. | 29.34s |  | 6. Nancy Khalaf |  Lebanon | 1:06.73 | +11.20s | - | 14 | 56. | 31.03s |  | 7. Carla Fernandes |  Angola | 1:08.15 | +12.62s | - | 14 | 57. | 31.81s | 
 |  | | Heat 1 |  | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 50m |  | 1. Carolina Manuela Lopes De Araujo |  Mozambique | 1:05.11 | +9.58s | - | 17 | 53. | 30.72s |  | 2. Katerine Moreno |  Bolivia | 1:05.39 | +9.86s | - | 14 | 54. | 30.42s |  | 3. Rita Jean Garay |  Puerto Rico | DNS |  | - |  |  | 31.81s | 
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