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Host City: Seoul, South Korea
Location: Olympic Indoor Swimming Pool
Date Started: September 22, 1988
Date Finished: September 22, 1988
Format: Fastest eight advanced to the final. Places 9-16 advanced to the B Final.
| Gold: | Matt Biondi |
| Silver: | Chris Jacobs |
| Bronze: | Stéphane Caron |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Garvin Ferguson | 20 | Bahamas | BAH | 53.62 | |
| 2 | Paul Yelle | 24 | Barbados | BAR | 55.35 | |
| 3 | Sergio Fafitine | 19 | Mozambique | MOZ | 57.10 | |
| 4 | Jason Chute | 16 | Fiji | FIJ | 58.14 | |
| 5 | Mohamed Bin Abid | 19 | United Arab Emirates | UAE | 58.81 | |
| 6 | Émile Lahoud | 13 | Lebanon | LIB | 1:02.40 | |
| 7 | Yul Mark Du Pont | 17 | Swaziland | SWZ | 1:02.70 |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mouhamed Diop | 24 | Senegal | SEN | 54.93 | |
| 2 | Plutarco Castellanos | 17 | Honduras | HON | 56.11 | |
| 3 | Warren Sorby | 23 | Fiji | FIJ | 56.66 | |
| 4 | Pablo Barahona | 18 | Honduras | HON | 57.97 | |
| 5 | Michele Piva | 23 | San Marino | SMR | 57.99 | |
| 6 | Filippo Piva | 21 | San Marino | SMR | 58.39 | |
| 7 | Ahmad Faraj | 22 | United Arab Emirates | UAE | 59.10 | |
| 8 | Trevor Ncala | 23 | Swaziland | SWZ | 59.25 |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oon Jin Gee | 21 | Singapore | SIN | 53.26 | |
| 2 | Hans Foerster | 23 | United States Virgin Islands | ISV | 54.29 | |
| 3 | Gwon Sang-Won | 19 | South Korea | KOR | 54.34 | |
| 4 | Song Gwang-Seon | 18 | South Korea | KOR | 54.63 | |
| 5 | Ronald Pickard | 19 | United States Virgin Islands | ISV | 54.72 | |
| 6 | Graham Thompson | 24 | Zimbabwe | ZIM | 55.20 | |
| 7 | Pedro Lima | 17 | Angola | ANG | 55.53 | |
| 8 | Hasan Al-Shammari | 21 | Kuwait | KUW | 56.44 |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Manuel Guzmán | 18 | Puerto Rico | PUR | 51.25 | |
| 2 | Moustafa Amer | 21 | Egypt | EGY | 53.57 | |
| 3 | Michael Wright | 22 | Hong Kong | HKG | 53.64 | |
| 4 | Li Khai Kam | 22 | Hong Kong | HKG | 53.70 | |
| 5 | René Concepcion | 19 | Philippines | PHI | 53.84 | |
| 6 | Jonathan Sakovich | 18 | Guam | GUM | 54.24 | |
| 7 | Chiang Chi-Li | 17 | Chinese Taipei | TPE | 55.87 |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shigeo Ogata | 19 | Japan | JPN | 52.08 | |
| 2 | Carlos Scanavino | 24 | Uruguay | URU | 52.52 | |
| 3 | Markus Opatril | 23 | Austria | AUT | 52.66 | |
| 4 | Murat Tahir | 24 | Turkey | TUR | 53.27 | |
| 5 | Vaughan Smith | 19 | Zimbabwe | ZIM | 53.58 | |
| 6 | Richard Sam Bera | 16 | Indonesia | INA | 53.59 | |
| 7 | Hakan Eskioğlu | 17 | Turkey | TUR | 53.95 | |
| 8 | Ignacio Escamilla | 30 | Mexico | MEX | 54.56 |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Magnús Ólafsson | 21 | Iceland | ISL | 52.01 | |
| 2 | Jorge Luiz Leite | 26 | Brazil | BRA | 52.23 | |
| 3 | Jean-Marie Arnould | 22 | Belgium | BEL | 52.26 | |
| 4 | Yves Clausse | 19 | Luxembourg | LUX | 52.27 | |
| 5 | Emanuel Fortes | 18 | Brazil | BRA | 52.41 | |
| 6 | Feng Qiangbiao | 23 | China | CHN | 52.45 | |
| 7 | Ang Peng Siong | 25 | Singapore | SIN | 52.53 | |
| AC | Stefan Opatril | 21 | Austria | AUT | DQ |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hilton Woods | 20 | Netherlands Antilles | AHO | 50.73 | QC |
| 2 | Dano Halsall | 25 | Switzerland | SUI | 51.21 | |
| 3 | Peter Rohde | 23 | Denmark | DEN | 51.38 | |
| 4 | Rodrigo González | 20 | Mexico | MEX | 51.46 | |
| 5 | Hans Kroes | 23 | Netherlands | NED | 51.65 | |
| 6 | Patrick Dybiona | 25 | Netherlands | NED | 51.79 | |
| 7 | Ross Anderson | 19 | New Zealand | NZL | 52.33 |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chris Jacobs | 23 | United States | USA | 49.20 | QU/OR |
| 2 | Per Johansson | 25 | Sweden | SWE | 50.22 | QU |
| 3 | Tommy Werner | 22 | Sweden | SWE | 50.45 | QU |
| 4 | Franz Mortensen | 24 | Denmark | DEN | 50.74 | QC |
| 5 | Sven Lodziewski | 23 | East Germany | GDR | 50.77 | QC |
| 6 | Roberto Gleria | 19 | Italy | ITA | 50.97 | |
| 7 | Roland Lee | 24 | Great Britain | GBR | 51.20 | |
| 8 | Mihály Richárd Bodor | 26 | Hungary | HUN | 52.77 |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stéphane Caron | 22 | France | FRA | 49.37 | QU |
| 2 | Yury Bashkatov | 20 | Soviet Union | URS | 50.08 | QU |
| 3 | Andrew Baildon | 17 | Australia | AUS | 50.34 | QU |
| 4 | Thomas Fahrner | 25 | West Germany | FRG | 50.78 | QC |
| 5 | Tsvetan Golomeev | 27 | Bulgaria | BUL | 50.82 | QC |
| 6 | Tom Stachewicz | 22 | Australia | AUS | 50.90 | QC |
| 7 | Torsten Wiegel | 21 | West Germany | FRG | 51.02 | |
| 8 | Christophe Kalfayan | 19 | France | FRA | 51.05 |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Matt Biondi | 22 | United States | USA | 49.04 | QU/OR |
| 2 | Gennady Prigoda | 23 | Soviet Union | URS | 50.13 | QU |
| 3 | Steffen Zesner | 20 | East Germany | GDR | 50.73 | QC |
| 4 | Sandy Goss | 21 | Canada | CAN | 50.81 | QC |
| 5 | Stéfan Voléry | 27 | Switzerland | SUI | 50.96 | |
| 6 | Andy Jameson | 23 | Great Britain | GBR | 51.18 | |
| 7 | Petr Kladiva | 21 | Czechoslovakia | TCH | 51.39 | |
| 8 | Shen Jianqiang | 23 | China | CHN | 51.40 |