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Host City: Seoul, South Korea
Location: Olympic Indoor Swimming Pool
Date Started: September 18, 1988
Date Finished: September 18, 1988
Format: Fastest eight advanced to the final. Places 9-16 advanced to the B Final.
| Gold: | Adrian Moorhouse |
| Silver: | Károly Gűttler |
| Bronze: | Dmitry Volkov |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tamás Debnár | 17 | Hungary | HUN | 1:03.05 | |
| 2 | Ron Dekker | 22 | Netherlands | NED | 1:03.13 |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michele Piva | 23 | San Marino | SMR | 1:13.94 | |
| 2 | Amine El-Domyati | 26 | Lebanon | LIB | 1:14.40 | |
| 3 | Gaspar Fragata | 16 | Angola | ANG | 1:16.18 | |
| 4 | Obaid Al-Rumaithi | 16 | United Arab Emirates | UAE | 1:17.01 | |
| 5 | Vivaldo Fernandes | 17 | Angola | ANG | 1:17.98 |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alexandre Yokochi | 23 | Portugal | POR | 1:05.66 | |
| 2 | Ng Yue Meng | 18 | Singapore | SIN | 1:05.87 | |
| 3 | Lars Sørensen | 20 | Denmark | DEN | 1:06.48 | |
| 4 | Arnþór Ragnarsson | 20 | Iceland | ISL | 1:07.93 | |
| 5 | Watt Kam Sing | 21 | Hong Kong | HKG | 1:08.03 | |
| 6 | Quách Hoài Nam | 18 | Vietnam | VIE | 1:10.90 | |
| 7 | Kraig Singleton | 16 | United States Virgin Islands | ISV | 1:11.68 | |
| 8 | Bazlur Mohamed Rahman | 28 | Bangladesh | BAN | 1:14.97 |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yun Ju-Il | 15 | South Korea | KOR | 1:04.68 | |
| 2 | Sidney Appelboom | 21 | Belgium | BEL | 1:05.21 | |
| 3 | Javier Careaga | 20 | Mexico | MEX | 1:05.37 | |
| 4 | Wirmandi Sugriat | 17 | Indonesia | INA | 1:06.22 | |
| 5 | Luc Van de Vondel | 23 | Belgium | BEL | 1:06.24 | |
| 6 | Manuel Gutiérrez | 23 | Panama | PAN | 1:06.73 | |
| 7 | Patrick Concepcion | 20 | Philippines | PHI | 1:06.74 | |
| 8 | Victor Ruberry | 29 | Bermuda | BER | 1:09.49 |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tsai Hsin-Yen | 17 | Chinese Taipei | TPE | 1:04.58 | |
| 2 | Radek Beinhauer | 18 | Czechoslovakia | TCH | 1:04.61 | |
| 3 | Joaquín Fernández | 17 | Spain | ESP | 1:05.19 | |
| 4 | Gary O'Toole | 20 | Ireland | IRL | 1:05.34 | |
| 5 | Anthony Beks | 21 | New Zealand | NZL | 1:05.65 | |
| 6 | Sergio López | 20 | Spain | ESP | 1:06.08 | |
| 7 | Richard Lockhart | 25 | New Zealand | NZL | 1:06.27 | |
| 8 | Nikolaos Fokianos | 23 | Greece | GRE | 1:06.30 |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenji Watanabe | 19 | Japan | JPN | 1:04.35 | |
| 2 | Pierre-Yves Eberle | 20 | Switzerland | SUI | 1:04.53 | |
| 3T | Ian McAdam | 20 | Australia | AUS | 1:04.56 | |
| 3T | David Leblanc | 20 | France | FRA | 1:04.56 | |
| 5 | Jin Fu | 23 | China | CHN | 1:05.02 | |
| 6 | Cédric Pénicaud | 19 | France | FRA | 1:05.46 | |
| 7 | Cicero Torteli | 21 | Brazil | BRA | 1:05.50 | |
| 8 | Eyal Shtigman | 25 | Israel | ISR | 1:05.92 |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Victor Davis | 24 | Canada | CAN | 1:02.48 | QU |
| 2 | Aleksey Matveyev | 17 | Soviet Union | URS | 1:03.25 | QC |
| 3 | Alexander Mayer | 21 | West Germany | FRG | 1:03.54 | QC |
| 4 | Daniel Watters | 17 | United States | USA | 1:04.04 | QC |
| 5 | Chen Jianhong | 19 | China | CHN | 1:04.09 | QC |
| 6 | James Parrack | 21 | Great Britain | GBR | 1:04.23 | |
| 7 | Alexander Marček | 20 | Czechoslovakia | TCH | 1:04.95 | |
| 8 | Jan-Erick Olsen | 22 | Norway | NOR | 1:05.54 |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gianni Minervini | 21 | Italy | ITA | 1:02.86 | QU |
| 2 | Rich Schroeder | 26 | United States | USA | 1:03.05 | QU |
| 3T | Ron Dekker | 22 | Netherlands | NED | 1:03.08 | QC |
| 3T | Tamás Debnár | 17 | Hungary | HUN | 1:03.08 | QU |
| 5 | Hironobu Nagahata | 19 | Japan | JPN | 1:04.02 | QC |
| 6 | Pablo Restrepo | 28 | Colombia | COL | 1:04.43 | |
| 7 | Raik Hannemann | 20 | East Germany | GDR | 1:04.46 | |
| 8 | Étienne Dagon | 28 | Switzerland | SUI | 1:04.71 |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adrian Moorhouse | 24 | Great Britain | GBR | 1:02.19 | QU |
| 2 | Dmitry Volkov | 22 | Soviet Union | URS | 1:02.49 | QU |
| 3 | Károly Gűttler | 20 | Hungary | HUN | 1:02.80 | QU |
| 4 | Christian Poswiat | 20 | East Germany | GDR | 1:02.99 | QU |
| 5 | Mark Warnecke | 18 | West Germany | FRG | 1:03.56 | QC |
| 6 | Petri Suominen | 17 | Finland | FIN | 1:03.58 | QC |
| 7 | Thomas Böhm | 22 | Austria | AUT | 1:04.96 | |
| 8 | Cam Grant | 18 | Canada | CAN | 1:05.10 |