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Swimming at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games:
Men's 200 metres Backstroke
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Host City: Seoul, South Korea
Venue(s): Indoor Swimming Pool, Olympic Park, Seoul
Date Started: September 22, 1988
Date Finished: September 22, 1988
| Gold: |  Igor Polyansky |
| Silver: |  Frank Baltrusch |
| Bronze: |  Paul Kingsman |
Final Standings
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | Medal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Igor Polyansky | 21 | Soviet Union | URS | Gold | |
| 2 | Frank Baltrusch | 24 | East Germany | GDR | Silver | |
| 3 | Paul Kingsman | 21 | New Zealand | NZL | Bronze | |
| 4 | Sergey Zabolotnov | 25 | Soviet Union | URS | ||
| 5 | Dirk Richter | 24 | East Germany | GDR | ||
| 6 | Jens-Peter Berndt | 25 | West Germany | FRG | ||
| 7 | Dan Veatch | 23 | United States | USA | ||
| 8 | Rogério Romero | 18 | Brazil | BRA | ||
| 9 | Frank Hoffmeister | 22 | West Germany | FRG | ||
| 10 | Steve Bigelow | 17 | United States | USA | ||
| 11 | Martín López-Zubero | 19 | Spain | ESP | ||
| 12 | Mark Tewksbury | 20 | Canada | CAN | ||
| 13 | Georgi Mikhalev | 20 | Bulgaria | BUL | ||
| 14 | Tamás Deutsch | 18 | Hungary | HUN | ||
| 15 | Daichi Suzuki | 21 | Japan | JPN | ||
| 16 | Gary Binfield | 22 | Great Britain | GBR | ||
| 17 | Stefano Battistelli | 18 | Italy | ITA | QC | |
| 18 | Sean Murphy | 24 | Canada | CAN | ||
| 19 | Alejandro Alvizuri | 20 | Peru | PER | ||
| 20 | John Davey | 23 | Great Britain | GBR | ||
| 21 | David Holderbach | 17 | France | FRA | ||
| 22T | Simon Upton | 19 | Australia | AUS | ||
| 22T | Ernesto Vela | 19 | Mexico | MEX | ||
| 24 | Eðvarð Þór Eðvarðsson | 21 | Iceland | ISL | ||
| 25 | Richard Gheel | 19 | Ireland | IRL | ||
| 26 | Lars Sørensen | 20 | Denmark | DEN | ||
| 27 | Stephen Cullen | 17 | Ireland | IRL | ||
| 28 | Pavel Vokoun | 18 | Czechoslovakia | TCH | ||
| 29 | Patrick Ferland | 23 | Switzerland | SUI | ||
| 30 | Lin Laijiu | 20 | China | CHN | ||
| 31 | David Lim | 22 | Singapore | SIN | ||
| 32 | Shigemori Maruyama | 21 | Japan | JPN | ||
| 33 | Wladimir Ribeiro | 21 | Brazil | BRA | ||
| 34 | Horst Niehaus | 20 | Costa Rica | CRC | ||
| 35 | Eric Greenwood | 21 | Costa Rica | CRC | ||
| 36 | Patrick Sagisi | 17 | Guam | GUM | ||
| 37 | Brett Halford | 17 | Zimbabwe | ZIM | ||
| 38 | Pablo Barahona | 18 | Honduras | HON | ||
| 39 | Mohamed Abdullah | United Arab Emirates | UAE | |||
| 40 | Mohamed Bin Abid | 19 | United Arab Emirates | UAE | ||
| 41 | Rami Kantari | 25 | Lebanon | LIB | ||
| AC r1/2 | Kharalambos Papanikolaou | 19 | Greece | GRE | DQ | |
| AC r1/2 | Tamás Darnyi | 21 | Hungary | HUN | DQ | |
| AC r1/2 | Park Dong-Pil | 20 | South Korea | KOR | DQ |