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Swimming at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games:

Women's 800 metres Freestyle

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Host City: Seoul, South Korea
Location: Olympic Indoor Swimming Pool
Date Started: September 23, 1988
Date Finished: September 24, 1988

Gold:USA Janet Evans
Silver:GDR Astrid Strauß
Bronze:AUS Julie M. McDonald

Final Standings

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Rank Athlete Age Team NOC Medal
1 Janet Evans 17 United States USA Gold OR
2 Astrid Strauß 19 East Germany GDR Silver
3 Julie M. McDonald 18 Australia AUS Bronze
4 Anke Möhring 19 East Germany GDR
5 Tami Bruce 21 United States USA
6 Janelle Elford 18 Australia AUS
7 Isabelle Arnould 17 Belgium BEL
8 Antoaneta Strumenlieva 20 Bulgaria BUL
9 Debby Wurzburger 18 Canada CAN
10 Irene Dalby 17 Norway NOR
11 Tomomi Hosoda 17 Japan JPN
12 Manuela Melchiorri 18 Italy ITA
13 Karyn Faure 19 France FRA
14 Stephanie Ortwig 15 West Germany FRG
15 Nataliya Trefilova 17 Soviet Union URS
16 Karen Mellor 19 Great Britain GBR
17 Alexandra Russ 18 West Germany FRG
18 Pernille Jensen 15 Denmark DEN
19 Nurul Huda Ch' Su-Lin 16 Malaysia MAS
20 Christelle Janssens 16 Belgium BEL
21 Patricia Amorim 19 Brazil BRA
22 Eva Mortensen 18 Denmark DEN
23 Judit Csabai 15 Hungary HUN
24 Cécile Prunier 19 France FRA
25 Tracey Atkin 17 Great Britain GBR
26 Yan Ming 18 China CHN
27 Rita Garay 17 Puerto Rico PUR