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Host City: Seoul, South Korea
Location: Olympic Indoor Swimming Pool
Date Started: September 20, 1988
Date Finished: September 20, 1988
Format: Fastest eight advanced to the final. Places 9-16 advanced to the B Final.
| Gold: | Anthony Nesty |
| Silver: | Matt Biondi |
| Bronze: | Andy Jameson |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paul Yelle | 24 | Barbados | BAR | 57.36 | |
| 2 | Sergio Fafitine | 19 | Mozambique | MOZ | 1:01.15 | |
| 3 | Plutarco Castellanos | 17 | Honduras | HON | 1:02.69 | |
| 4 | Salam Mohamed Abdul Salam | 29 | Bangladesh | BAN | 1:03.69 | |
| 5 | Mohamed Bin Abid | 19 | United Arab Emirates | UAE | 1:06.25 | |
| 6 | Trevor Ncala | 23 | Swaziland | SWZ | 1:06.85 | |
| 7 | Jorge Gomes | 16 | Angola | ANG | 1:09.60 |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Reinhold Leitner | 22 | Austria | AUT | 56.72 | |
| 2 | Mabílio Albuquerque | 19 | Portugal | POR | 57.30 | |
| 3 | Urbano Zea | 19 | Mexico | MEX | 57.89 | |
| 4 | Pedro Lima | 17 | Angola | ANG | 59.21 | |
| 5 | Graham Thompson | 24 | Zimbabwe | ZIM | 1:00.13 | |
| 6 | Kristan Singleton | 16 | United States Virgin Islands | ISV | 1:00.97 | |
| 7 | William Cleveland | 22 | United States Virgin Islands | ISV | 1:01.10 |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joseph Buhain | 18 | Philippines | PHI | 57.17 | |
| 2 | Wladimir Ribeiro | 21 | Brazil | BRA | 57.25 | |
| 3 | Theodoros Griniazakis | 20 | Greece | GRE | 57.56 | |
| 4 | Paulo Camacho | 18 | Portugal | POR | 57.62 | |
| 5 | Park Yeong-Cheol | 19 | South Korea | KOR | 57.74 | |
| 6 | Tsang Yi Ming | 22 | Hong Kong | HKG | 57.84 |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | David Wilson | 21 | Australia | AUS | 55.54 | |
| 2 | Yukinori Tanaka | 22 | Japan | JPN | 56.19 | |
| 3 | Ross Anderson | 19 | New Zealand | NZL | 56.31 | |
| 4 | Eduardo Poli | 19 | Brazil | BRA | 56.37 | |
| 5 | Théophile David | 24 | Switzerland | SUI | 56.77 | |
| 6 | Ang Peng Siong | 25 | Singapore | SIN | 57.41 | |
| 7 | Carlos Romo | 21 | Mexico | MEX | 58.04 |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andy Jameson | 23 | Great Britain | GBR | 53.34 | QU |
| 2 | Tom Ponting | 23 | Canada | CAN | 54.31 | QU |
| 3 | Anthony Mosse | 23 | New Zealand | NZL | 54.63 | QC |
| 4 | Vlastimil Cerny | 25 | Canada | CAN | 54.66 | QC |
| 5 | Zheng Jian | 24 | China | CHN | 54.69 | QC |
| 6 | Rafał Szukała | 17 | Poland | POL | 54.83 | QC |
| 7 | Shen Jianqiang | 23 | China | CHN | 54.86 | QC |
| 8 | Valerio Giambalvo | 20 | Italy | ITA | 56.57 |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anthony Nesty | 20 | Suriname | SUR | 53.50 | QU |
| 2 | Vadim Yaroshchuk | 22 | Soviet Union | URS | 54.17 | QU |
| 3 | Jay Mortenson | 21 | United States | USA | 54.44 | QU |
| 4 | Neil Cochran | 23 | Great Britain | GBR | 54.75 | QC |
| 5 | José Luis Ballester | 19 | Spain | ESP | 55.27 | |
| 6 | Leonardo Michelotti | 23 | Italy | ITA | 55.83 | |
| 7 | Konstantin Petrov | 24 | Soviet Union | URS | 55.84 | |
| 8 | Ludovic Dépickère | 19 | France | FRA | 56.47 |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Matt Biondi | 22 | United States | USA | 53.46 | QU |
| 2 | Michael Groß | 24 | West Germany | FRG | 53.78 | QU |
| 3 | Jon Sieben | 22 | Australia | AUS | 53.85 | QU |
| 4 | Benny Nielsen | 22 | Denmark | DEN | 54.52 | QC |
| 5 | Hiroshi Miura | 22 | Japan | JPN | 54.82 | QC |
| 6 | Martin Herrmann | 18 | West Germany | FRG | 55.20 | |
| 7 | Frank Drost | 25 | Netherlands | NED | 55.38 | |
| 8 | Robert Wolf | 17 | Czechoslovakia | TCH | 55.73 |