Swimming at the 1988 Summer Paralympics

Swimming at the VIII Paralympic Games
Paralympic Swimming
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Swimming at the 1988 Summer Paralympics consisted of 257 events.

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	33	27	21	81
2	Sweden (SWE)	31	27	7	65
3	Great Britain (GBR)	25	37	22	84
4	Canada (CAN)	24	10	18	52
5	West Germany (FRG)	20	10	10	40
6	Netherlands (NED)	19	18	18	55
7	France (FRA)	17	21	24	62
8	Poland (POL)	13	20	20	53
9	Denmark (DEN)	12	11	13	36
10	Spain (ESP)	12	10	8	30
11	Israel (ISR)	12	6	12	30
12	China (CHN)	9	7	2	18
13	Norway (NOR)	7	3	4	14
14	Australia (AUS)	5	14	14	33
15	Italy (ITA)	5	6	9	20
16	Belgium (BEL)	4	3	1	8
17	Finland (FIN)	2	4	4	10
18	Ireland (IRL)	2	0	4	6
19	Faroe Islands (FRO)	1	3	3	7
20	Iceland (ISL)	1	2	5	8
21	Brazil (BRA)	1	1	7	9
22	New Zealand (NZL)	1	1	4	6
23	Mexico (MEX)	1	1	1	3
24	South Korea (KOR)	1	0	3	4
25	Japan (JPN)	1	0	2	3
26	Soviet Union (URS)	0	11	9	20
27	Argentina (ARG)	0	2	1	3
28	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	5	6
29	Yugoslavia (YUG)	0	1	2	3
30	Austria (AUT)	0	1	1	2
	Greece (GRE)	0	1	1	2
32	Egypt (EGY)	0	0	2	2
33	Morocco (MAR)	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (34 nations)		259	259	259	777

Participating nations[]

Medal summary[]

Men's events[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
50 m freestyle 1A	Mike Kenny  Great Britain	Phillip Tracey  Australia	Italy
50 m freestyle 1B	United States	West Germany	Greece
50 m freestyle 1C	Luca Pancalli  Italy	Krzysztof Sleczka  Poland	United States
50 m freestyle 2	United States	Israel	Roby Crichton  New Zealand
50 m freestyle 3	Great Britain	Arkadiusz Pawlowski  Poland	Brent Gibson  New Zealand
50 m freestyle B1	Izhar Cohen  Israel	Soviet Union	Timothy McIsaac  Canada
50 m freestyle B2	France	Christopher Holmes  Great Britain	Soviet Union
50 m freestyle B3	Michael Edgson  Canada	Great Britain	Denmark
50 m freestyle L1	John Petersson  Denmark	Sweden	France
100 m freestyle 1A	Mike Kenny  Great Britain	Phillip Tracey  Australia	Italy
100 m freestyle 1B	United States	Poland	West Germany
100 m freestyle 1C	Luca Pancalli  Italy	Krzysztof Sleczka  Poland	Brazil
100 m freestyle 4	Shlomo Pinto  Israel	Netherlands	France
100 m freestyle 5	Poland	France	Mexico
100 m freestyle 6	Uri Bergman  Israel	Tomas Hainey  Canada	Ireland
100 m freestyle A1	Great Britain	China	Hungary
100 m freestyle A2	Netherlands	United States	David Griffin  Australia
100 m freestyle A4	Netherlands	Ron Bolotin  Israel	France
100 m freestyle A5	France	France	Italy
100 m freestyle A6	China	Denmark	Poland
100 m freestyle A7	West Germany	Andrzej Wojciechowski  Poland	Ralph Smith  Australia
100 m freestyle A8	Greg Hammond  Australia	Emmanuel Lacroix  France	Israel
100 m freestyle B1	Izhar Cohen  Israel	Soviet Union	Timothy McIsaac  Canada
100 m freestyle B2	France	Poland	Christopher Holmes  Great Britain
100 m freestyle B3	Michael Edgson  Canada	United States	Great Britain
100 m freestyle C3	Norway	France	Israel
100 m freestyle C4	Robin Surgeoner  Great Britain	Sweden	United States
100 m freestyle C5	Denmark	Netherlands	West Germany
100 m freestyle C6	Netherlands	Great Britain	South Korea
100 m freestyle C8	West Germany	Belgium	Netherlands
100 m freestyle L1	John Petersson  Denmark	Sweden	France
100 m freestyle L3	Sweden	Yugoslavia	Netherlands
100 m freestyle L4	Netherlands	Erling Trondsen  Norway	Andrew Gilbert  Great Britain
100 m freestyle L5	West Germany	Great Britain	South Korea
100 m freestyle L6	Sweden	Italy	West Germany
200 m freestyle 2	Poland	Roby Crichton  New Zealand	Italy
200 m freestyle 3	Brent Gibson  New Zealand	Poland	Arkadiusz Pawlowski  Poland
200 m freestyle C4	Robin Surgeoner  Great Britain	Sweden	United States
200 m freestyle C5	Denmark	Martin Mansell  Great Britain	West Germany
200 m freestyle C8	Belgium	West Germany	Netherlands
200 m freestyle L3	Sweden	Netherlands	Yugoslavia
400 m freestyle 4	Netherlands	Shlomo Pinto  Israel	Morocco
400 m freestyle 5	Poland	France	Wayne Ryding  Australia
400 m freestyle 6	Spain	Tomas Hainey  Canada	Ireland
400 m freestyle A2	Stephane Lecours  Canada	Netherlands	United States
400 m freestyle A4	Netherlands	Great Britain	Ron Bolotin  Israel
400 m freestyle A6	Japan	Denmark	None
400 m freestyle A8	China	Sweden	Israel
400 m freestyle B1	Timothy McIsaac  Canada	Sweden	Soviet Union
400 m freestyle B2	Lee Grenon  Canada	Christopher Holmes  Great Britain	Poland
400 m freestyle B3	Michael Edgson  Canada	United States	Denmark
400 m freestyle C3–4	Robin Surgeoner  Great Britain	United States	Sweden
400 m freestyle C5	Denmark	West Germany	Netherlands
400 m freestyle C8	Belgium	West Germany	Austria
400 m freestyle L4	Netherlands	West Germany	Andrew Gilbert  Great Britain
400 m freestyle L5	West Germany	Great Britain	Iceland
400 m freestyle L6	Sweden	Hungary	Italy
25 m backstroke 1A	Mike Kenny  Great Britain	Phillip Tracey  Australia	United States
25 m backstroke 1B	United States	Greece	West Germany
25 m backstroke 1C	Krzysztof Sleczka  Poland	Luca Pancalli  Italy	Brazil
25 m backstroke L1	John Petersson  Denmark	Sweden	France
50 m backstroke 2	Italy	Poland	France
50 m backstroke 3	Poland	France	Arkadiusz Pawlowski  Poland
50 m backstroke A5	France	France	Poland
50 m backstroke C6	Netherlands	Great Britain	United States
50 m backstroke L3	Sweden	Netherlands	Hungary
100 m backstroke 4	Poland	Netherlands	United States
100 m backstroke 5	France	Poland	France
100 m backstroke 6	Ireland	Spain	Spain
100 m backstroke A2	Stephane Lecours  Canada	Iceland	Netherlands
100 m backstroke A4	Netherlands	France	Marc Woods  Great Britain
100 m backstroke A6	China	China	Denmark
100 m backstroke A7	West Germany	Andrzej Wojciechowski  Poland	Yugoslavia
100 m backstroke A8	Israel	Emmanuel Lacroix  France	Canada
100 m backstroke B1	Timothy McIsaac  Canada	Soviet Union	Italy
100 m backstroke B2	Poland	Pablo Corral  Spain	United States
100 m backstroke B3	Michael Edgson  Canada	Norway	United States
100 m backstroke C3	Norway	France	Israel
100 m backstroke C5	Martin Mansell  Great Britain	West Germany	Denmark
100 m backstroke L4	Netherlands	Andrew Gilbert  Great Britain	West Germany
100 m backstroke L5	West Germany	Great Britain	Netherlands
100 m backstroke L6	Sweden	Spain	Italy
200 m backstroke C3	South Korea	France	Israel
200 m backstroke C5	Denmark	West Germany	Martin Mansell  Great Britain
25 m breaststroke 1A	Mike Kenny  Great Britain	Carlos Maslup  Argentina	United States
25 m breaststroke 1B	United States	West Germany	Poland
25 m breaststroke 1C	Luca Pancalli  Italy	Krzysztof Sleczka  Poland	Brazil
25 m breaststroke L1	John Petersson  Denmark	Sweden	France
50 m breaststroke 2	West Germany	Chris Hallam  Great Britain	Italy
50 m breaststroke 3	United States	Arkadiusz Pawlowski  Poland	Israel
50 m breaststroke B1	Izhar Cohen  Israel	Sweden	China
50 m breaststroke B2	Spain	France	Poland
50 m breaststroke B3	Norway	United States	Kingsley Bugarin  Australia
50 m breaststroke C6	Netherlands	Canada	Japan
50 m breaststroke L3	West Germany	Netherlands	Denmark
100 m breaststroke 4	Netherlands	Shlomo Pinto  Israel	Poland
100 m breaststroke 5	France	Poland	Sweden
100 m breaststroke A1	China	China	Hungary
100 m breaststroke A2	Stephane Lecours  Canada	United States	Poland
100 m breaststroke A4	Netherlands	China	Ireland
100 m breaststroke A5	France	Italy	Poland
100 m breaststroke A6	China	China	Hungary
100 m breaststroke A8	Greg Hammond  Australia	Geir Sverrisson  Iceland	Israel
100 m breaststroke B1	Sweden	Izhar Cohen  Israel	Soviet Union
100 m breaststroke B2	Spain	Soviet Union	Poland
100 m breaststroke B3	Norway	United States	Kingsley Bugarin  Australia
100 m breaststroke C4	Robin Surgeoner  Great Britain	Sweden	Denmark
100 m breaststroke C8	Belgium	Netherlands	South Korea
100 m breaststroke L4	Netherlands	France	Erling Trondsen  Norway
100 m breaststroke L5	Netherlands	West Germany	Rutger Sturkenboom  Netherlands
100 m breaststroke L6	West Germany	Sweden	Spain
200 m breaststroke B1	Sweden	Soviet Union	Timothy McIsaac  Canada
200 m breaststroke B2	Spain	Soviet Union	Poland
200 m breaststroke B3	Norway	United States	Kingsley Bugarin  Australia
25 m butterfly 1A	Alvise de Vidi  Italy	United States	United States
25 m butterfly 1B	United States	West Germany	Egypt
25 m butterfly 2	United States	Great Britain	Poland
25 m butterfly 3	Arkadiusz Pawlowski  Poland	France	Poland
50 m butterfly 4	Shlomo Pinto  Israel	Netherlands	France
50 m butterfly A5	France	France	Poland
50 m butterfly L3	Sweden	Denmark	Denmark
100 m butterfly 5	Poland	Mexico	France
100 m butterfly 6	Ireland	Tomas Hainey  Canada	Spain
100 m butterfly A2	Stephane Lecours  Canada	Great Britain	David Griffin  Australia
100 m butterfly A4	Ron Bolotin  Israel	Great Britain	Netherlands
100 m butterfly A6	China	Poland	Denmark
100 m butterfly A8	China	Sweden	Emmanuel Lacroix  France
100 m butterfly B1	Timothy McIsaac  Canada	Spain	Spain
100 m butterfly B2	Lee Grenon  Canada	Poland	France
100 m butterfly B3	Michael Edgson  Canada	Denmark	Great Britain
100 m butterfly L4	Erling Trondsen  Norway	Netherlands	Netherlands
100 m butterfly L5	Great Britain	France	Iceland
100 m butterfly L6	Sweden	Spain	Brazil
100 m individual medley 2	Poland	Italy	West Germany
100 m individual medley 3	Arkadiusz Pawlowski  Poland	Poland	Brent Gibson  New Zealand
75 m individual medley 1A	Mike Kenny  Great Britain	Carlos Maslup  Argentina	Egypt
75 m individual medley 1B	United States	Poland	West Germany
200 m individual medley 4	Shlomo Pinto  Israel	Netherlands	France
200 m individual medley 5	Mexico	France	Poland
200 m individual medley 6	Spain	Tomas Hainey  Canada	Ireland
200 m individual medley A1	China	China	Poland
200 m individual medley A2	Stephane Lecours  Canada	United States	Netherlands
200 m individual medley A4	Netherlands	Ron Bolotin  Israel	Great Britain
200 m individual medley A5	France	Poland	France
200 m individual medley A6	China	Denmark	China
200 m individual medley A8	Israel	China	Sweden
200 m individual medley B1	Timothy McIsaac  Canada	Soviet Union	Spain
200 m individual medley B2	Per Andersson  Sweden	Spain	France
200 m individual medley B3	Michael Edgson  Canada	Norway	United States
200 m individual medley C5	Denmark	Martin Mansell  Great Britain	West Germany
200 m individual medley C8	Belgium	Austria	Janos Becsey  Hungary
200 m individual medley L3	Sweden	Denmark	Netherlands
200 m individual medley L4	Erling Trondsen  Norway	Netherlands	Netherlands
200 m individual medley L5	West Germany	Great Britain	Rutger Sturkenboom  Netherlands
200 m individual medley L6	Sweden	Italy	Spain
400 m individual medley B2	Per Andersson  Sweden	Poland	Lee Grenon  Canada
400 m individual medley B3	Michael Edgson  Canada	United States	Norway
3×25 m freestyle relay 1A–1C	United States (USA)	Great Britain (GBR)	Italy (ITA) Luca Pancalli
4×50 m freestyle relay A1–A8	France (FRA)	Australia (AUS)	Great Britain (GBR)
4 × 100 m freestyle relay A–L	Great Britain (GBR)	Netherlands (NED)	France (FRA)
4 × 100 m freestyle relay B1–B3	Canada (CAN)	Soviet Union (URS)	United States (USA)
3×50 m medley relay 2–4	United States (USA)	Poland (POL)	Israel (ISR)
4×50 m medley relay A1–A8	France (FRA)	Great Britain (GBR)	Netherlands (NED)
4 × 100 m medley relay A–L	Great Britain (GBR)	Sweden (SWE)	Netherlands (NED)
4 × 100 m medley relay B1–B3	Canada (CAN)	Soviet Union (URS)	Spain (ESP)
4 × 100 m medley relay T/P open	Spain (ESP)	France (FRA)	Israel (ISR)

Women's events[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
50 m freestyle 2	United States	United States	Lyn Lillecrapp  Australia
50 m freestyle B1	Janice Burton  Great Britain	Magdalena Tjernberg  Sweden	Canada
50 m freestyle B2	Trischa Zorn  United States	Great Britain	Soviet Union
50 m freestyle B3	United States	Soviet Union	Sweden
50 m freestyle L1	France	Béatrice Pierre  France	Sweden
50 m freestyle L2	Sweden	United States	Finland
100 m freestyle 4	Great Britain	United States	Iceland
100 m freestyle 5	Spain	Spain	Poland
100 m freestyle 6	Brazil	United States	Brazil
100 m freestyle A2	Sweden	United States	Iceland
100 m freestyle A4	Denmark	Joanne Mucz  Canada	Dianne Barr  Great Britain
100 m freestyle A8	Sweden	Denmark	United States
100 m freestyle B1	Magdalena Tjernberg  Sweden	Canada	Janice Burton  Great Britain
100 m freestyle B2	Trischa Zorn  United States	Great Britain	Soviet Union
100 m freestyle B3	United States	Sweden	Soviet Union
100 m freestyle C4	Tammy Barker  Canada	Jane Stidever  Great Britain	Israel
100 m freestyle C6	Sandra Yaxley  Australia	France	Canada
100 m freestyle C8	Netherlands	Faroe Islands	Judy Goodrich  Canada
100 m freestyle L2	Sweden	Finland	Denmark
100 m freestyle L4	Poland	Britta Siegers  West Germany	Norway
100 m freestyle L5	France	France	Finland
			Great Britain
100 m freestyle L6	Claudia Hengst  West Germany	Faroe Islands	Sjerstin Vermeulen  Netherlands
200 m freestyle C4	Tammy Barker  Canada	Jane Stidever  Great Britain	United States
400 m freestyle 4	Great Britain	United States	Japan
400 m freestyle 5	Spain	Spain	Poland
400 m freestyle 6	West Germany	United States	Spain
400 m freestyle A2	Sweden	Great Britain	Deborah Holland  Australia
400 m freestyle A4	Joanne Mucz  Canada	Denmark	Dianne Barr  Great Britain
400 m freestyle A8	Judith Young  Australia	Denmark	France
400 m freestyle B1	Magdalena Tjernberg  Sweden	Janice Burton  Great Britain	Finland
400 m freestyle B2	Trischa Zorn  United States	Eva Andersson  Sweden	Great Britain
400 m freestyle B3	United States	Sweden	Canada
400 m freestyle C3–4	Jane Stidever  Great Britain	Christina Naess  Faroe Islands	United States
400 m freestyle L6	Claudia Hengst  West Germany	Sjerstin Vermeulen  Netherlands	Faroe Islands
25 m backstroke L1	Béatrice Pierre  France	Sweden	France
50 m backstroke 2	United States	United States	Lyn Lillecrapp  Australia
50 m backstroke C6	France	Sandra Yaxley  Australia	United States
50 m backstroke L2	Finland	Sweden	United States
100 m backstroke 4	Great Britain	United States	United States
100 m backstroke 5	Spain	Spain	Poland
100 m backstroke 6	Spain	United States	West Germany
100 m backstroke A2	Jacqueline Nannenberg  Netherlands	Sweden	Iceland
100 m backstroke A4	Dianne Barr  Great Britain	Joanne Mucz  Canada	Susan Knox  Australia
100 m backstroke A8	Judith Young  Australia	Joanne Round  Great Britain	Denmark
100 m backstroke B1	Canada	Janice Burton  Great Britain	Finland
100 m backstroke B2	Trischa Zorn  United States	Finland	Great Britain
100 m backstroke B3	United States	Sweden	Canada
100 m backstroke C3	Christina Naess  Faroe Islands	Catherine Huggett  Australia	Great Britain
100 m backstroke C4	Jane Stidever  Great Britain	Tammy Barker  Canada	France
100 m backstroke C8	Netherlands	Judy Goodrich  Canada	Faroe Islands
100 m backstroke L4	Britta Siegers  West Germany	Jeanette Esling  Great Britain	Norway
100 m backstroke L6	Claudia Hengst  West Germany	Sjerstin Vermeulen  Netherlands	Thelma Young  Great Britain
25 m breaststroke L1	France	Denmark	Tara Flood  Great Britain
50 m breaststroke 2	United States	Lyn Lillecrapp  Australia	United States
50 m breaststroke B1	Magdalena Tjernberg  Sweden	Great Britain	Canada
50 m breaststroke B2	Trischa Zorn  United States	Soviet Union	Belgium
50 m breaststroke B3	Sweden	Mandy Maywood  Australia	United States
50 m breaststroke L2	Sweden	United States	Denmark
100 m breaststroke 5	Poland	Spain	Sweden
100 m breaststroke 6	West Germany	Argentina	Brazil
100 m breaststroke A2	Sweden	United States	Israel
100 m breaststroke A8	Sweden	Judith Young  Australia	France
100 m breaststroke B1	Magdalena Tjernberg  Sweden	Great Britain	Canada
100 m breaststroke B2	Trischa Zorn  United States	Belgium	Soviet Union
100 m breaststroke B3	Sweden	United States	Mandy Maywood  Australia
100 m breaststroke C4	Israel	Jane Stidever  Great Britain	New Zealand
100 m breaststroke L5	Laura Tramuns  Spain	Finland	Switzerland
100 m breaststroke L6	Claudia Hengst  West Germany	Sjerstin Vermeulen  Netherlands	Thelma Young  Great Britain
200 m breaststroke B1	Magdalena Tjernberg  Sweden	Great Britain	Canada
200 m breaststroke B2	Trischa Zorn  United States	Belgium	Soviet Union
200 m breaststroke B3	Sweden	United States	Mandy Maywood  Australia
25 m butterfly 2	United States	United States	Lyn Lillecrapp  Australia
100 m butterfly 6	Spain	Brazil	Brazil
100 m butterfly A2	Israel	United States	Jacqueline Nannenberg  Netherlands
100 m butterfly A8	Denmark	Joanne Round  Great Britain	France
100 m butterfly B1	Finland	Magdalena Tjernberg  Sweden	Janice Burton  Great Britain
100 m butterfly B2	Trischa Zorn  United States	Great Britain	Eva Andersson  Sweden
100 m butterfly L6	Claudia Hengst  West Germany	Judith Young  Australia	Faroe Islands
200 m individual medley 6	West Germany	United States	Argentina
200 m individual medley A2	Iceland	Jacqueline Nannenberg  Netherlands	United States
200 m individual medley A8	Denmark	Joanne Round  Great Britain	France
200 m individual medley B1	Magdalena Tjernberg  Sweden	Janice Burton  Great Britain	Canada
200 m individual medley B2	Trischa Zorn  United States	Finland	Great Britain
200 m individual medley B3	United States	Sweden	Canada
200 m individual medley L6	Claudia Hengst  West Germany	Judith Young  Australia	Sjerstin Vermeulen  Netherlands
400 m individual medley B2	Trischa Zorn  United States	Great Britain	Soviet Union
400 m individual medley B3	United States	Sweden	Canada
4 × 100 m freestyle relay A–L	Great Britain (GBR)	Australia (AUS)	Denmark (DEN)
4 × 100 m freestyle relay B1–B3	United States (USA)	Sweden (SWE)	Great Britain (GBR)
4 × 100 m medley relay A–L	Great Britain (GBR)	Denmark (DEN)	France (FRA)
4 × 100 m medley relay B1–B3	United States (USA)	Sweden (SWE)	Canada (CAN)

References[]

• Swimming at the Seoul 1988 Paralympic Games