Men 100m Butterfly Swimming XXIV Olympic Games 1988 Seoul, South Korea - 21st September

Men 100m Butterfly Swimming XXIV Olympic Games 1988 Seoul, South Korea - 21st September - Gold Medal: Anthony Nesty, Surinam

Final		time		gap	L	Y	50m
1. Anthony Nesty	Surinam	53.00s	OR		-	20	25.02s 5.
2. Matt Biondi	United States	53.01s		+0.01s	-	22	24.53s 1.
3. Andrew Jameson	Great Britain	53.30s		+0.30s	-	23	25.00s 3.
4. Jon Sieben	Australia	53.33s		+0.33s	-	22	24.75s 2.
5. Michael Gross	West Germany	53.44s		+0.44s	-	24	25.01s 4.
6. Jay Mortensen	United States	54.07s		+1.07s	-	21	25.20s 7.
7. Tom Ponting	Canada	54.09s		+1.09s	-	23	25.29s 8.
8. Vadym Yaroshchuk	Soviet Union	54.60s		+1.60s	-	22	25.14s 6.

55 competitors from 38 nations.
Men 100m Butterfly History	1992 Men 100m Butterfly	1984 Men 100m Butterfly

World Record: Pablo Morales, United States 52.84s Orlando, United States 23 June 1986

Olympic Record: Michael Gross, West Germany 53.08s Los Angeles United States 30 July 1984

58.50s LCM-time done since Jan 1, 1987

56.50s SCM-time done since Sep 1, 1987

Final B		time	gap	L	Y	50m
9. Jianqiang Shen	China	54.52s		8	23	25.83s
10.Anthony Mosse	New Zealand	54.63s	+0.11s	5	23	25.78s
11.Benny Nielsen	Denmark	54.77s	+0.25s	4	22	25.49s
12.Vlastimil Cerny	Canada	54.79s	+0.27s	3	25	25.81s
13.Rafal Szukala	Poland	54.80s	+0.28s	1	17	25.90s
14.Hiroshi Miura	Japan	54.98s	+0.46s	7	22	25.97s
15.Jian Zheng	China	55.05s	+0.53s	6	24	25.76s
16.Neil Cochran	Great Britain	55.22s	+0.70s	2	23	25.84s

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Men 50m Freestyle	Women 50m Freestyle
Men 100m Freestyle	Women 100m Freestyle
Men 200m Freestyle	Women 200m Freestyle
Men 400m Freestyle	Women 400m Freestyle
Men 1500m Freestyle	Women 800m Freestyle
Men 100m Backstroke	Women 100m Backstroke
Men 200m Backstroke	Women 200m Backstroke
Men 100m Breaststroke	Women 100m Breaststroke
Men 200m Breaststroke	Women 200m Breaststroke
Men 100m Butterfly	Women 100m Butterfly
Men 200m Butterfly	Women 200m Butterfly
Men 200m Medley	Women 200m Medley
Men 400m Medley	Women 400m Medley
Men 4x100m Freestyle Relay	Women 4x100m Freestyle Relay
Men 4x200m Freestyle Relay
Men 4x100m Medley Relay	Women 4x100m Medley Relay

The best butterflyer in the world for the last 5-6 years was American Pablo Morales. But he shockingly failed to make the US team at the Olympic Trials. This left his teammate Matt Biondi in the favorite's role in Seoul. Biondi was attempting to emulate [Mark Spitz] and win seven gold medals, but the night before this final, the 1988 Olympics had started poorly for him when he won "only" a bronze medal in the 200 free.
In the butterfly final, Biondi went out ahead well ahead to the wall. He led the race until the last stroke, but as he neared the wall, he was between strokes and elected to kick in, only to be slightly farther out than he realized, and this allowed Suriname's Anthony Nesty to pass him and win the gold medal by 1/100th of a second. Nesty was not unknown, having placed fourth at the 1986 World Championships, and winning gold at the 1987 Pan American Games, but this was an upset, and it was the first Olympic medal ever won for Suriname, and also made Nesty the first black swimmer to win an Olympic gold medal.
Nesty had trained and lived and went to college in the United States for several years. But he considered Suriname home and returned to a hero's welcome, being showered with gifts. He would return to Barcelona four years hence and add a bronze medal in this event. Biondi recovered fairly well from his poor start in Seoul, winning five golds in his last five races.

Heats - 21st September Morning

Heat 7		time	gap	L	Y	Rk	50m
2. Matt Biondi	United States	53.46s	+0.13s	-	22	1.	24.81s
4. Michael Gross	West Germany	53.78s	+0.45s	-	24	2.	25.05s
5. Jon Sieben	Australia	53.85s	+0.52s	-	22	3.	25.44s
9. Benny Nielsen	Denmark	54.52s	+1.19s	-	22	4.	25.75s
14.Hiroshi Miura	Japan	54.82s	+1.49s	-	22	5.	26.03s
17.Martin Herrmann	West Germany	55.20s	+1.87s	-	18	6.	25.92s
19.Frank Drost	Netherlands	55.38s	+2.05s	-	25	7.	25.95s
21.Robert Wolf	Czechoslovakia	55.73s	+2.40s	-	17	8.	25.67s

Heat 6		time	gap	L	Y	Rk	50m
3. Anthony Nesty	Surinam	53.50s	+0.17s	-	20	1.	25.57s
6. Vadym Yaroshchuk	Soviet Union	54.17s	+0.84s	-	22	2.	25.10s
8. Jay Mortensen	United States	54.44s	+1.11s	-	21	3.	25.68s
12.Jian Zheng	China	54.69s	+1.36s	-	24	4.	25.27s
18.Jose Luis Ballester	Spain	55.27s	+1.94s	-	19	5.	25.84s
22.Leonardo Michelotti	Italy	55.83s	+2.50s	-	23	6.	26.14s
23.Konstantin Petrov	Soviet Union	55.84s	+2.51s	-	24	7.	25.54s
27.Ludovic De Pickere	France	56.47s	+3.14s	-	19	8.	26.36s

Heat 5		time	gap	L	Y	Rk	50m
1. Andy Jameson	Great Britain	53.33s		-	23	1.	25.18s
7. Tom Ponting	Canada	54.31s	+0.98s	-	23	2.	25.70s
10.Anthony Mosse	New Zealand	54.63s	+1.30s	-	23	3.	25.50s
11.Vlastimil Cerny	Canada	54.66s	+1.33s	-	25	4.	25.70s
13.Neil Cochran	Great Britain	54.75s	+1.42s	-	23	5.	25.77s
15.Rafal Szukala	Poland	54.83s	+1.50s	-	17	6.	26.07s
16.Jianqiang Shen	China	54.86s	+1.53s	-	23	7.	26.13s
28.Valerio Giambalvo	Italy	56.57s	+3.24s	-	20	8.	26.80s

Heat 4		time	gap	L	Y	Rk	50m
20.David Wilson	Australia	55.54s	+2.21s	-	21	1.	26.56s
24.Yukinori Tanaka	Japan	56.19s	+2.86s	-	22	2.	26.30s
25.Ross Anderson	New Zealand	56.31s	+2.98s	-	19	3.	26.57s
26.Eduardo Poli	Brazil	56.37s	+3.04s	-	19	4.	27.25s
30.Theophile David	Switzerland	56.77s	+3.44s	-	24	5.	26.97s
35.Peng Siong Ang	Singapore	57.41s	+4.08s	-	25	6.	26.95s
41.Carlos Romo	Mexico	58.04s	+4.71s	-	21	7.	26.92s
-. Michael Adam	Austria	DNS		-	23	-.

Heat 3		time	gap	L	Y	Rk	50m
31.Joseph Eric Buhain	Philippines	57.17s	+3.84s	-	18	1.	27.01s
32.Wladimir Ribeiro	Brazil	57.25s	+3.92s	-	21	2.	26.99s
36.Theodoros Griniazakis	Greece	57.56s	+4.23s	-	20	3.	27.34s
37.Paulo Camacho	Portugal	57.62s	+4.29s	-	18	4.	27.42s
38.Young-Ho Park	South Korea	57.74s	+4.41s	-		5.	27.15s
39.Yi-Ming Tsang	Hong Kong	57.84s	+4.51s	-	22	6.	27.33s
-. Jin-Gee Oon	Singapore	DNS		-	21	-.
-. Matjaz Kozelj	Yugoslavia	DNS		-	18	-.

Heat 2		time	gap	L	Y	Rk	50m
29.Reinhold Leitner	Austria	56.72s	+3.39s	-	22	1.	26.87s
33.Mabilio Albuquerque	Portugal	57.30s	+3.97s	-	19	2.	27.14s
40.Urbano Zea	Mexico	57.89s	+4.56s	-	19	3.	27.53s
42.Pedro Lima Barata	Angola	59.21s	+5.88s	-	17	4.	28.09s
43.Graham Lewis Thompson	Zimbabwe	1:00.13	+6.80s	-	24	5.	27.71s
44.Kristan Brent Singleton	US Virgin Islands	1:00.97	+7.64s	-	16	6.	28.69s
45.William Cleveland	US Virgin Islands	1:01.10	+7.77s	-	22	7.	28.84s
-. Salvador Vassallo	Puerto Rico	DNS		-	20	-.

Heat 1		time	gap	L	Y	Rk	50m
34.Paul Yelle	Barbados	57.36s	+4.03s	-	24	1.	26.56s
46.Sergio Fafitine	Mozambique	1:01.15	+7.82s	-	19	2.	29.25s
47.Plutarco Castellanos Dusavage	Honduras	1:02.69	+9.36s	-	17	3.	29.24s
48.Mohamed Abdul Salam	Bangladesh	1:03.69	+10.36s	-	29	4.	29.65s
49.Mohamed Bin Abid	UA Emirates	1:06.25	+12.92s	-	19	5.	30.74s
50.Trevor Ncala	Eswatini	1:06.85	+13.52s	-	23	6.	30.16s
51.Jorge Gomes	Angola	1:09.60	+16.27s	-	16	7.	32.60s

Final		time		gap	L	Y	50m
1. Anthony Nesty	Surinam	53.00s	OR		-	20	25.02s 5.
2. Matt Biondi	United States	53.01s		+0.01s	-	22	24.53s 1.
3. Andrew Jameson	Great Britain	53.30s		+0.30s	-	23	25.00s 3.
4. Jon Sieben	Australia	53.33s		+0.33s	-	22	24.75s 2.
5. Michael Gross	West Germany	53.44s		+0.44s	-	24	25.01s 4.
6. Jay Mortensen	United States	54.07s		+1.07s	-	21	25.20s 7.
7. Tom Ponting	Canada	54.09s		+1.09s	-	23	25.29s 8.
8. Vadym Yaroshchuk	Soviet Union	54.60s		+1.60s	-	22	25.14s 6.
9. Jianqiang Shen	China	54.52s			8	23	25.83s
10.Anthony Mosse	New Zealand	54.63s		+0.11s	5	23	25.78s
11.Benny Nielsen	Denmark	54.77s		+0.25s	4	22	25.49s
12.Vlastimil Cerny	Canada	54.79s		+0.27s	3	25	25.81s
13.Rafal Szukala	Poland	54.80s		+0.28s	1	17	25.90s
14.Hiroshi Miura	Japan	54.98s		+0.46s	7	22	25.97s
15.Jian Zheng	China	55.05s		+0.53s	6	24	25.76s
16.Neil Cochran	Great Britain	55.22s		+0.70s	2	23	25.84s
Heats		time		gap	L	Y	50m
1. Andy Jameson	Great Britain	53.33s			-	23	25.18s
2. Matt Biondi	United States	53.46s		+0.13s	-	22	24.81s
3. Anthony Nesty	Surinam	53.50s		+0.17s	-	20	25.57s
4. Michael Gross	West Germany	53.78s		+0.45s	-	24	25.05s
5. Jon Sieben	Australia	53.85s		+0.52s	-	22	25.44s
6. Vadym Yaroshchuk	Soviet Union	54.17s		+0.84s	-	22	25.10s
7. Tom Ponting	Canada	54.31s		+0.98s	-	23	25.70s
8. Jay Mortensen	United States	54.44s		+1.11s	-	21	25.68s
9. Benny Nielsen	Denmark	54.52s		+1.19s	-	22	25.75s
10.Anthony Mosse	New Zealand	54.63s		+1.30s	-	23	25.50s
11.Vlastimil Cerny	Canada	54.66s		+1.33s	-	25	25.70s
12.Jian Zheng	China	54.69s		+1.36s	-	24	25.27s
13.Neil Cochran	Great Britain	54.75s		+1.42s	-	23	25.77s
14.Hiroshi Miura	Japan	54.82s		+1.49s	-	22	26.03s
15.Rafal Szukala	Poland	54.83s		+1.50s	-	17	26.07s
16.Jianqiang Shen	China	54.86s		+1.53s	-	23	26.13s
17.Martin Herrmann	West Germany	55.20s		+1.87s	-	18	25.92s
18.Jose Luis Ballester	Spain	55.27s		+1.94s	-	19	25.84s
19.Frank Drost	Netherlands	55.38s		+2.05s	-	25	25.95s
20.David Wilson	Australia	55.54s		+2.21s	-	21	26.56s
21.Robert Wolf	Czechoslovakia	55.73s		+2.40s	-	17	25.67s
22.Leonardo Michelotti	Italy	55.83s		+2.50s	-	23	26.14s
23.Konstantin Petrov	Soviet Union	55.84s		+2.51s	-	24	25.54s
24.Yukinori Tanaka	Japan	56.19s		+2.86s	-	22	26.30s
25.Ross Anderson	New Zealand	56.31s		+2.98s	-	19	26.57s
26.Eduardo Poli	Brazil	56.37s		+3.04s	-	19	27.25s
27.Ludovic De Pickere	France	56.47s		+3.14s	-	19	26.36s
28.Valerio Giambalvo	Italy	56.57s		+3.24s	-	20	26.80s
29.Reinhold Leitner	Austria	56.72s		+3.39s	-	22	26.87s
30.Theophile David	Switzerland	56.77s		+3.44s	-	24	26.97s
31.Joseph Eric Buhain	Philippines	57.17s		+3.84s	-	18	27.01s
32.Wladimir Ribeiro	Brazil	57.25s		+3.92s	-	21	26.99s
33.Mabilio Albuquerque	Portugal	57.30s		+3.97s	-	19	27.14s
34.Paul Yelle	Barbados	57.36s		+4.03s	-	24	26.56s
35.Peng Siong Ang	Singapore	57.41s		+4.08s	-	25	26.95s
36.Theodoros Griniazakis	Greece	57.56s		+4.23s	-	20	27.34s
37.Paulo Camacho	Portugal	57.62s		+4.29s	-	18	27.42s
38.Young-Ho Park	South Korea	57.74s		+4.41s	-		27.15s
39.Yi-Ming Tsang	Hong Kong	57.84s		+4.51s	-	22	27.33s
40.Urbano Zea	Mexico	57.89s		+4.56s	-	19	27.53s
41.Carlos Romo	Mexico	58.04s		+4.71s	-	21	26.92s
42.Pedro Lima Barata	Angola	59.21s		+5.88s	-	17	28.09s
43.Graham Lewis Thompson	Zimbabwe	1:00.13		+6.80s	-	24	27.71s
44.Kristan Brent Singleton	US Virgin Islands	1:00.97		+7.64s	-	16	28.69s
45.William Cleveland	US Virgin Islands	1:01.10		+7.77s	-	22	28.84s
46.Sergio Fafitine	Mozambique	1:01.15		+7.82s	-	19	29.25s
47.Plutarco Castellanos Dusavage	Honduras	1:02.69		+9.36s	-	17	29.24s
48.Mohamed Abdul Salam	Bangladesh	1:03.69		+10.36s	-	29	29.65s
49.Mohamed Bin Abid	UA Emirates	1:06.25		+12.92s	-	19	30.74s
50.Trevor Ncala	Eswatini	1:06.85		+13.52s	-	23	30.16s
51.Jorge Gomes	Angola	1:09.60		+16.27s	-	16	32.60s
-. Michael Adam	Austria	DNS			-	23
-. Salvador Vassallo	Puerto Rico	DNS			-	20
-. Jin-Gee Oon	Singapore	DNS			-	21
-. Matjaz Kozelj	Yugoslavia	DNS			-	18

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