Swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre breaststroke

Swimming events at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men	women
4×200 m	men
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women

The men's 100 breaststroke at the 1988 Summer Olympics was held on September 18 (prelims) and September 19 (finals).

Records

The existing World and Olympic records at the time of the competition were:

World record	Steve Lundquist (USA)	1:01.65	Los Angeles, CA, USA	July 29, 1984
Olympic record	Steve Lundquist (USA)	1:01.65	Los Angeles, CA, USA	July 29, 1984

Finals

A Final

Place	Name	Nationality	Time
	Adrian Moorhouse	Great Britain	1:02.04
	Károly Güttler	Hungary	1:02.05
	Dmitry Volkov	Soviet Union	1:02.20
4th	Victor Davis	Canada	1:02.38
5th	Tamás Debnár	Hungary	1:02.50
6th	Richard Schroeder	United States	1:02.55
7th	Gianni Minervini	Italy	1:02.93
8th	Christian Poswiat	East Germany	1:03.43

B Final

Place	Name	Nationality	Time
9th	Alexei Matveev	Soviet Union	1:03.01
10th	Ronald Dekker	Netherlands	1:03.22
11th	Mark Warnecke	West Germany	1:03.40
12th	Alexander Mayer	West Germany	1:03.85
13th	Hironobu Nagahata	Japan	1:03.89
14th	Petri Suominen	Finland	1:04.04
15th	Daniel Watters	United States	1:04.17
16th	Chen Jianhong	China	1:04.72

Preliminary heats

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Adrian Moorhouse	Great Britain	1:02.19	q-A
2	Victor Davis	Canada	1:02.48	q-A
3	Dmitry Volkov	Soviet Union	1:02.49	q-A
4	Károly Güttler	Hungary	1:02.80	q-A
5	Gianni Minervini	Italy	1:02.86	q-A
6	Christian Poswiat	East Germany	1:02.99	q-A
7	Richard Schroeder	United States	1:03.05	q-A
8	Ronald Dekker	Netherlands	1:03.08	q-A swim-off= 1:02.63
8	Tamás Debnár	Hungary	1:03.08	q-B swim-off= 1:03.68
10	Alexei Mateev	Soviet Union	1:03.25	q-B
11	Alexander Mayer	West Germany	1:03.54	q-B
12	Mark Warnecke	West Germany	1:03.56	q-B
13	Petri Suominen	Finland	1:03.58	q-B
14	Hironobu Nagahata	Japan	1:04.02	q-B
15	Daniel Watters	United States	1:04.04	q-B
16	Chen Jianhong	China	1:04.09	q-B
17	James Parrack	Great Britain	1:04.23
18	Kenji Watanaoe	Japan	1:04.35
19	Pablo Restrepo	Colombia	1:04.43
20	Raik Hannemann	East Germany	1:04.46
21	Pierre-Yves Eberie	Switzerland	1:04.53
22	Ian McAdam	Australia	1:04.56
22	David Leblanc	France	1:04.56
24	Hsin-Yen Tsai	Chinese Taipei	1:04.58
25	Radek Beinhauer	Czechoslovakia	1:04.61
26	Joo-Il Yoon	South Korea	1:04.68
27	Étienne Dagon	Switzerland	1:04.71
28	Alexander Marcek	Czechoslovakia	1:04.95
29	Thomas Boehm	Austria	1:04.96
30	Fu Jin	China	1:05.02
31	Cameron Grant	Canada	1:05.10
32	Joaquín Fernández	Spain	1:05.19
33	Sidney Appelboom	Belgium	1:05.21
34	Gary O'Toole	Ireland	1:05.34
35	Javier Careaga	Mexico	1:05.37
36	Cédric Penicaud	France	1:05.46
37	Cícero Tortelli	Brazil	1:05.50
38	Jan Erick Olsen	Norway	1:05.54
39	Anthony Beks	New Zealand	1:05.65
40	Alexandre Yokochi	Portugal	1:05.68
41	Yue Meng Ng	Singapore	1:05.87
42	Eyal Stigman	Israel	1:05.92
43	Sergio López	Spain	1:06.08
44	Wirmandi Sugriat	Indonesia	1:06.22
45	Luc van de Vondel	Belgium	1:06.24
46	Richard Lockhart	New Zealand	1:06.27
47	Nikolaos Fokianos	Greece	1:06.30
48	Lars Sørensen	Denmark	1:06.48
49	Manuel Gutierrez	Panama	1:06.73
50	Lee Concepcion	23x15px Philippines	1:06.74
51	Arnþór Ragnarsson	Iceland	1:07.93
52	Kam Sing Watt	23x15px Hong Kong	1:08.03
53	Victor Ruderry	23x15px Bermuda	1:09.49
54	Man Quach Hoai	Vietnam	1:10.90
55	Kraig Singleton	Virgin Islands	1:11.68
56	Michele Piva	San Marino	1:13.94
57	Amine El-Domyati	Lebanon	1:14.40
58	Mohamed Bazlur Rahman	Bangladesh	1:14.97
59	Gaspar Fragata	Angola	1:16.18
60	Obaid Airumaithi	United Arab Emirates	1:17.01
61	Vivaldo Fernandes	Angola	1:17.98