Women 200m Breaststroke Swimming XXIV Olympic Games 1988 Seoul, South Korea - Wednesday, 21st September - Gold Medal: Silke Hörner 
Final A   time gap L Y 50m 100m 150m 1. Silke Hörner 2:26.71 WR - 23 32.88s 1:10.24 1:47:38 2. Xiaomin Huang 2:27.49 +0.78s - 18 34.00s 1:11.41 1:49.22 3. Antoaneta Frenkeva 2:28.34 +1.63s - 17 33.16s 1:10.32 1:48.83 4. Tanya Bogomilova-Dangalakova 2:28.43 +1.72s - 24 32.46s 1:09.22 1:47.48 5. Yuliya Yuriivna Bohachova 2:28.54 +1.83s - 18 34.44s 1:12.44 1:49.98 6. Ingrid Lempereur 2:29.42 +2.71s - 19 34.79s 1:13.39 1:52.02 7. Allison Higson 2:29.60 +2.89s - 15 32.71s 1:09.91 1:48.56 8. Manuela Dalla Valle 2:29.86 +3.15s - 25 35.07s 1:12.9s 1:50.79 
World Record: Allison Higson, Canada 2:27.27  Montreal, Canada 28 May 1988 Olympic Record: Lina Kačiušytė, Soviet Union 2:29.54  Moscow, Soviet Union 23 July 1980 
Final B   time gap L Y 50m 100m 150m 9. Susanne Bornike 2:28.55   - 20 33.98s 1:11.26 1:49.77 10.Svetlana Kuzmina 2:30.03 +1.48s - 19 35.35s 1:13.85 1:51.93 11.Linda Moes 2:30.83 +2.28s - 16 35.00s 1:13.00 1:51.60 12.Annalisa Nisiro 2:31.19 +2.64s - 15 35.58s 1:14.21 1:52.60 13.Susan Rapp 2:32.90 +4.35s - 23 35.12s 1:13.73 1:52.94 14.Tracey Mcfarlane 2:33.46 +4.91s - 22 34.62s 1:13.37 1:53.05 15.Guylaine Cloutier 2:33.55 +5.00s - 16 35.39s 1:14.47 1:53.98 16.Brigitte Becue 2:34.10 +5.55s - 16 36.59s 1:16.65 1:55.89 
 
 
      
 
The gold medal favorite was East German - Silke Hörner who was the 1986 World Champion, the 1987 European Champion, and had set two world records in the event. But in May, at the Canadian trials, Allison Higson broke Hörner's world record with 2:27.27. She was somewhat of an unknown factor as she had never beaten the East Germans head on, and was only 16th in the world in 1987. In the prelims Hörner confirmed her fitness, leading in 2:27.63, within ½-second of Higson's world mark, while Higson qualified fourth.
Heat 6   time gap L Y Rk 50m 100m 150m 1. Silke Hörner 2:27.63 OR - 23 1. 33.10s 1:10.46 1:48.37 2. Allison Higson 2:29.67 +2.04s - 15 4. 33.53s 1:11.35 1:50.10 3. Susanne Bornike 2:30.71 +3.08s - 20 9. 34.87s 1:12.55 1:51.54 4. Tracey Mcfarlane 2:32.11 +4.48s - 22 12. 34.44s 1:13.33 1:52.63 5. Susan Rapp 2:34.21 +6.58s - 23 15. 34.86s 1:13.24 1:52.89 6. Yoshie Nishioka 2:35.81 +8.18s - 14 19. 36.13s 1:15.56 1:56.27 7. Virginie Bojaryn 2:37.38 +9.75s - 17 22. 35.29s 1:14.49 1:55.42 8. Heike Esser 2:41.34 +13.71s - 15 34. 36.37s 1:16.19 1:57.92 
Heat 5   time gap L Y Rk 50m 100m 150m 1. Yuliya Yuriivna Bohachova 2:28.94 +1.31s OR - 18 2. 34.85s 1:13.04 1:51.05 2. Tanya Bogomilova-Dangalakova 2:29.91 +2.28s - 24 5. 33.73s 1:12.21 1:50.89 3. Xiaomin Huang 2:30.03 +2.40s - 18 6. 33.65s 1:11.48 1:50.48 4. Linda Moes 2:31.98 +4.35s - 16 11. 34.58s 1:13.19 1:52.60 5. Guylaine Cloutier 2:34.36 +6.73s - 16 16. 34.53s 1:12.99 1:53.54 6. Kornelia Stawicka 2:36.86 +9.23s - 15 21. 37.21s 1:17.02 1:56.92 7. Hiroko Nagasaki 2:37.44 +9.81s - 20 23. 35.44s 1:14.94 1:55.76 8. Pia Sorensen 2:38.49 +10.86s - 21 25. 35.51s 1:14.9s 1:55.70 
Heat 4   time gap L Y Rk 50m 100m 150m 1. Antoaneta Frenkeva 2:29.57 +1.94s - 17 3. 33.18s 1:10.20 1:48.86 2. Ingrid Lempereur 2:30.07 +2.44s - 19 7. 34.89s 1:13.46 1:52.17 3. Manuela Dalla Valle 2:30.60 +2.97s - 25 8. 35.38s 1:14.01 1:51.61 4. Svetlana Kuzmina 2:30.93 +3.30s - 19 10. 34.15s 1:12.33 1:51.74 5. Annalisa Nisiro 2:32.77 +5.14s - 15 13. 34.84s 1:13.99 1:53.25 6. Britta Dahm 2:35.06 +7.43s - 19 17. 35.09s 1:13.96 1:54.10 7. Susannah Brownsdon 2:36.14 +8.51s - 22 20. 35.20s 1:15.24 1:55.53 8. Pascaline Louvrier 2:38.75 +11.12s - 16 26. 35.62s 1:15.21 1:55.84 
Heat 3   time gap L Y Rk 50m 100m 150m 1. Brigitte Becue 2:33.13 +5.50s - 16 14. 35.08s 1:14.56 1:54.33 2. Silvia Parera 2:35.57 +7.94s - 19 18. 39.48s 1:15.29 1:54.98 3. Ragnheildur Runolfsdottir 2:39.10 +11.47s - 21 27. 35.28s 1:15.68 1:57.40 4. Dorota Chylakowna 2:39.38 +11.75s - 21 28. 35.25s 1:15.13 1:56.79 5. Lara Hooiveld 2:39.97 +12.34s - 17 30. 34.72s 1:15.49 1:57.75 6. Anamarija Petricevic 2:40.80 +13.17s - 16 32. 36.57s 1:17.02 1:58.71 7. Alicia Maria Boscatto 2:45.80 +18.17s - 28 39. 37.26s 1:18.63 2:01.84 8. Hui-Ling Chen 2:45.87 +18.24s - 17 40. 35.13s 1:16.31 2:00.32 
Heat 2   time gap L Y Rk 50m 100m 150m 1. Karen Horning 2:37.84 +10.21s - 21 24. 36.86s 1:16.73 1:56.71 2. Sung-Won Park 2:39.40 +11.77s - 16 29. 36.23s 1:16.62 1:57.57 3. Nancy Arendt-Kemp 2:40.78 +13.15s - 19 31. 36.68s 1:17.43 1:58.92 4. Helen Frank 2:41.12 +13.49s - 17 33. 36.74s 1:17.84 1:59.35 5. Patricia Brulhart 2:42.82 +15.19s - 20 36. 36.58s 1:17.06 1:58.91 6. Sigrid Niehaus 2:45.35 +17.72s - 23 38. 36.79s 1:17.82 2:00.95 7. Kimberley Chen 2:50.84 +23.21s - 21 41. 38.59s 1:21.61 2:05.72 -. Valentina Aracil DNS   - 22 -.   
Heat 1   time gap L Y Rk 50m 100m 150m 1. Carwai Seto 2:42.31 +14.68s - 15 35. 36.53s 1:17.45 1:59.52 2. Montserrat Hidalgo 2:44.72 +17.09s - 20 37. 37.33s 1:19.09 2:01.49 3. Dipika Chanmuggan 2:51.60 +23.97s - 16 42. 38.37s 1:21.41 2:06.24 
 
 
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