page_title: Australia at the 1988 Summer Paralympics
section_title: Swimming
hierarchical_section_title: Australia at the 1988 Summer Paralympics / Events / Swimming
caption_attribution_description: English: An Australian table tennis competitor practises with a player from another country at the 1988 Seoul Paralympic Games
context_page_description: Australia competed at the 1988 Summer Paralympics in Seoul, South Korea in 16 sports, winning medals in 6 sports. Gold medals were won in three sports – athletics, lawn bowls and swimming. Australia won 95 medals – 23 gold, 34 silver and 38 bronze medals. Australia finished 10th on the gold medal table and 7th on the combined medal table. Australian Confederation of Sports for the Disabled reported another medal ranking after Games with Australia being 2nd ranked in amputee sports, 8th in wheelchair sports, 11th in blind sports and 12th in cerebral palsy sports.
  Notable Australian performances included:
  Rodney Nugent, an arm amputee, won 4 gold medals and 3 bronze medals in athletics
  Elizabeth Kosmala, a wheelchair shooter, won 3 gold medals and 1 silver medal
  Dual individual gold medallists included: amputee swimmer Greg Hammond, amputee swimmer Judith Young, vision impaired thrower Russell Short and wheelchair thrower Bruce Wallrodt
  Australian athletes broke eight world records.
context_section_description: Selected team of 25 athletes.
  Australia won 5 gold, 12 silver and 14 bronze medals. Greg Hammond won two gold medals and Sandra Yaxley won one gold medal.
  Judith Young won two gold medals and three silver medals. After winning gold in the 100m backstroke and 400m freestyle, The United States of America and Great Britain, protested that Young was swimming in the wrong category and should be reclassified from amputee to Les Autres. After winning both events in a world record time, the protest was upheld and Young was re-classified in the Les Autres category. Both world record times were scratched from the record books but Young was able to keep both the gold medals and a silver she won in the 100m breaststroke. She would go on to win two more medals in her new classification.
  Men
  Qualification Legend: Q= Qualified for final; PR= Paralympic Record; WR= World Record
  Women
  Qualification Legend: Q= Qualified for final; WR= World Record
caption: Australian tennis player practising with a player from another country
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