1988 Summer Olympics / Swimming - 100m Freestyle (Men)

sport	swim
discipline	100 m freestyle
gender	Men
Attendees	78 athletes from 50 countries
Competition location	Jamsil swimming pool
Competition phase	September 22, 1988
Winning time	48.63 s
Medalist  Matthew Biondi ( USA )  Christopher Jacobs ( USA )  Stéphan Caron ( FRA )

Swimming competitions at the 1988 Olympic Games
50 m freestyle	Men	Women
100 m freestyle	Men	Women
200 m freestyle	Men	Women
400 m freestyle	Men	Women
800 m freestyle		Women
1500 m freestyle	Men
100 m back	Men	Women
200 m back	Men	Women
100 m chest	Men	Women
200 m chest	Men	Women
100 m butterfly	Men	Women
200 m butterfly	Men	Women
200 m layers	Men	Women
400 m layers	Men	Women
4 × 100 m freestyle	Men	Women
4 × 200 m freestyle	Men
4 × 100 m layers	Men	Women

The men's 100-meter freestyle swimming competition at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul was held on September 22nd. Matthew Biondi from the United States won the gold medal with a new Olympic record. His compatriot Christopher Jacobs won silver and Stéphan Caron from France won bronze.

Records

Before the start of the Olympic Games, the following records were valid.

World record	49.44 s	Matthew Biondi	Austin , United States	August 10, 1988
Olympic record	49.99 s	Ambrose Gaines	Los Angeles , United States	July 31, 1984

The following new records were set:

Olympic record	49.20 s	Christopher Jacobs	Forward 8
	49.04 s	Matthew Biondi	Forward 10
	48.63 s	Matthew Biondi	A final

Results

Prelims

The eight fastest swimmers of all runs qualified for the A final. Places 9 to 16 for the B final.

rank	Run	athlete	nation	Time (s)	Note
1	10	Matthew Biondi	United States	49.04	Q, OR
2	8th	Christopher Jacobs	United States	49.20	Q, OR
3	9	Stéphan Caron	France	49.37	Q
4th	9	Iurie Bascatov	Soviet Union	50.08	Q
5	10	Gennady Prigoda	Soviet Union	50.13	Q
6th	8th	Per Johansson	Sweden	50.22	Q
7th	9	Andrew Baildon	Australia	50.34	Q
8th	8th	Tommy Werner	Sweden	50.45	Q
9	10	Steffen Zesner	GDR	50.73	q, WD
10	7th	Hilton Woods	Netherlands Antilles	50.73	q
11	8th	Franz Mortensen	Denmark	50.74	q
12	8th	Sven Lodziewski	GDR	50.77	q
13	9	Thomas Fahrner	BR Germany	50.78	q
14th	10	Sandy Goss	Canada	50.81	q
15th	9	Tsvetan Golomeev	Bulgaria	50.82	q
16	9	Tom Stachewicz	Australia	50.90	q
17th	10	Stéfan Voléry	Switzerland	50.96	q
18th	8th	Roberto Gleria	Italy	50.97
19th	9	Torsten Wiegel	BR Germany	51.02
20th	9	Christophe Kalfayan	France	51.05
21st	10	Andy Jameson	Great Britain	51.18
22nd	8th	Roland Lee	Great Britain	51.20
23	7th	Dano Halsall	Switzerland	51.21
24	4th	Manuel Guzman	Puerto Rico	51.25
25th	7th	Peter Rohde	Denmark	51.38
26th	10	Petr Kladiva	Czechoslovakia	51.39
27	10	Shen Jianqiang	China	51.40
28	7th	Rodrigo González	Mexico	51.46
29	7th	Hans Kroes	Netherlands	51.65
30th	7th	Patrick Dybiona	Netherlands	51.79
31	6th	Magnús Ólafsson	Iceland	52.01
32	5	Shigeo Ogata	Japan	52.08
33	6th	Jorge Fernandes	Brazil	52.23
34	6th	Jean-Marie Arnould	Belgium	52.26
35	6th	Yves Clausse	Luxembourg	52.27
36	7th	Ross Anderson	New Zealand	52.33
37	6th	Emanuel Nascimento	Brazil	52.41
38	6th	Feng Qiangbiao	China	52.45
39	5	Carlos Scanavino	Uruguay	52.52
40	6th	Ang Peng Siong	Singapore	52.53
41	5	Markus Opatril	Austria	52.66
42	8th	Mihály Richárd Bodor	Hungary	52.77
43	3	Oon Jin Gee	Singapore	53.26
44	5	Murat Tahir	Turkey	53.27
45	4th	Moustafa Amer	Egypt	53.57
46	5	Vaughan Smith	Zimbabwe	53.58
47	5	Richard Sam Bera	Indonesia	53.59
48	1	Garvin Ferguson	Bahamas	53.62
49	4th	Michael Wright	Hong Kong	53.64
50	4th	Li Khai Kam	Hong Kong	53.70
51	4th	René Concepcion	Philippines	53.84
52	5	Hakan Eskioğlu	Turkey	53.95
53	4th	Jonathan Sakovich	Guam	54.24
54	3	Hans Foerster	American Virgin Islands	54.29
55	3	Kwon Sang-won	South Korea	54.34
56	5	Ignacio Escamilla	Mexico	54.56
57	3	Song Kwang-sun	South Korea	54.63
58	3	Ronald Pickard	American Virgin Islands	54.72
59	2	Mouhamed Diop	Senegal	54.93
60	3	Graham Thompson	Zimbabwe	55.20
61	1	Paul Yelle	Barbados	55.35
62	3	Pedro Lima	Angola	55.53
63	4th	Chiang Chi-li	Chinese Taipei	55.87
64	2	Plutarco Castellanos	Honduras	56.11
65	3	Hasan Al-Shammari	Kuwait	56.44
66	2	Warren Sorby	Fiji	56.66
67	1	Sergio Fafitine	Mozambique	57.10
68	2	Pablo Barahona	Honduras	57.97
69	2	Michele Piva	San Marino	57.99
70	1	Jason Chute	Fiji	58.14
71	2	Filippo Piva	San Marino	58.39
72	1	Mohamed Bin Abid	United Arab Emirates	58.81
73	2	Ahmad Faraj	United Arab Emirates	59.10
74	2	Trevor Ncala	Swaziland	59.25
75	1	Émile Lahoud	Lebanon	1: 02.40
76	1	Yul Mark Du Pont	Swaziland	1: 02.70
	6th	Stefan Opatril	Austria	DNS
	7th	Giorgio Lamberti	Italy	DSQ

B final

rank	train	athlete	nation	Time (s)	Note
9	1	Tom Stachewicz	Australia	50.71
10	2	Sandy Goss	Canada	50.73
11	8th	Stéfan Voléry	Switzerland	50.74
12	3	Sven Lodziewski	GDR	51.00
13	5	Franz Mortensen	Denmark	51.05
14th	6th	Thomas Fahrner	BR Germany	51.12
15th	7th	Tsvetan Golomeev	Bulgaria	51.16
16	4th	Hilton Woods	Netherlands Antilles	51.25

A final

rank	train	athlete	nation	Time (s)	Note
1	4th	Matthew Biondi	United States	48.63	OR
2	5	Christopher Jacobs	United States	49.08
3	3	Stéphan Caron	France	49.62
4th	2	Gennady Prigoda	Soviet Union	49.75
5	6th	Iurie Bascatov	Soviet Union	50.08
6th	1	Andrew Baildon	Australia	50.23
7th	7th	Per Johansson	Sweden	50.35
8th	8th	Tommy Werner	Sweden	50.54

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