Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Athletics
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Athletics; at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
	Pictogram for Athletics
No. of events	42
Competitors	1,617 from 149 nations

At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul a total number of 42 events in athletics were contested: 24 by men and 18 by women. There were a total number of 1617 participating athletes from 149 countries.

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Carl Lewis United States	9.92 (WR)	Linford Christie Great Britain	9.97 (AR)	Calvin Smith United States	9.99
200 metres	Joe DeLoach United States	19.75 (OR)	Carl Lewis United States	19.79	Robson da Silva Brazil	20.04
400 metres	Steve Lewis United States	43.87	Butch Reynolds United States	43.93	Danny Everett United States	44.09
800 metres	Paul Ereng Kenya	1:43.45	Joaquim Cruz Brazil	1:43.90	Saïd Aouita Morocco	1:44.06
1500 metres	Peter Rono Kenya	3:35.96	Peter Elliott Great Britain	3:36.15	Jens-Peter Herold East Germany	3:36.21
5000 metres	John Ngugi Kenya	13:11.70	Dieter Baumann West Germany	13:15.52	Hansjörg Kunze East Germany	13:15.73
10,000 metres	Brahim Boutayeb Morocco	27:21.44 (OR)	Salvatore Antibo Italy	27:23.55	Kipkemboy Kimeli Kenya	27:25.16
110 metres hurdles	Roger Kingdom United States	12.98 (OR)	Colin Jackson Great Britain	13.28	Tonie Campbell United States	13.38
400 metres hurdles	Andre Phillips United States	47.19	Amadou Dia Ba Senegal	47.23 (NR)	Edwin Moses United States	47.56
3000 metres steeplechase	Julius Kariuki Kenya	8:05.51 (OR)	Peter Koech Kenya	8:06.79	Mark Rowland Great Britain	8:07.96
4 × 100 metres relay	Soviet Union (URS) Viktor Bryzhin Vladimir Krylov Vladimir Muravyov Vitaliy Savin	38.19	Great Britain (GBR) Elliot Bunney John Regis Linford Christie Mike McFarlane Clarence Callender*	38.28	France (FRA) Bruno Marie-Rose Daniel Sangouma Gilles Quenehervé Max Morinière	38.40
4 × 400 metres relay	United States (USA) Danny Everett Steve Lewis Kevin Robinzine Butch Reynolds Antonio McKay* Andrew Valmon*	2:56.16	Jamaica (JAM) Howard Davis Devon Morris Winthrop Graham Bert Cameron Trevor Graham* Howard Burnett*	3:00.30	West Germany (FRG) Norbert Dobeleit Edgar Itt Jörg Vaihinger Ralf Lübke Mark Henrich* Bodo Kuhn*	3:00.56
Marathon	Gelindo Bordin Italy	2:10:32	Douglas Wakiihuri Kenya	2:10:47	Hussein Ahmed Salah Djibouti	2:10:59
20 kilometres walk	Jozef Pribilinec Czechoslovakia	1:19:57	Ronald Weigel East Germany	1:20:00	Maurizio Damilano Italy	1:20:14
50 kilometres walk	Vyacheslav Ivanenko Soviet Union	3:38:29 (OR)	Ronald Weigel East Germany	3:38:56	Hartwig Gauder East Germany	3:39:45
High jump	Hennadiy Avdyeyenko Soviet Union	2.38 m	Hollis Conway United States	2.36 m	Rudolf Povarnitsyn Soviet Union	2.36 m
High jump	Hennadiy Avdyeyenko Soviet Union	2.38 m	Hollis Conway United States	2.36 m	Patrik Sjöberg Sweden	2.36 m
Pole vault	Sergey Bubka Soviet Union	5.90 m	Radion Gataullin Soviet Union	5.85 m	Grigoriy Yegorov Soviet Union	5.80 m
Long jump	Carl Lewis United States	8.72 m	Mike Powell United States	8.49 m	Larry Myricks United States	8.27 m
Triple jump	Khristo Markov Bulgaria	17.61 m	Igor Lapshin Soviet Union	17.52 m	Aleksandr Kovalenko Soviet Union	17.42 m
Shot put	Ulf Timmermann East Germany	22.47 m (OR)	Randy Barnes United States	22.39 m	Werner Günthör Switzerland	21.99 m
Discus throw	Jürgen Schult East Germany	68.82 m	Romas Ubartas Soviet Union	67.48 m	Rolf Danneberg West Germany	67.38 m
Hammer throw	Sergey Litvinov Soviet Union	84.80 m (OR)	Yuriy Sedykh Soviet Union	83.76 m	Jüri Tamm Soviet Union	81.16 m
Javelin throw	Tapio Korjus Finland	84.28 m	Jan Železný Czechoslovakia	84.12 m	Seppo Räty Finland	83.26 m
Decathlon	Christian Schenk East Germany	8488	Torsten Voss East Germany	8399	Dave Steen Canada	8328

Women

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Florence Griffith Joyner United States	10.54w	Evelyn Ashford United States	10.83w	Heike Drechsler East Germany	10.85w
200 metres	Florence Griffith Joyner United States	21.34 (WR)	Grace Jackson Jamaica	21.72	Heike Drechsler East Germany	21.95
400 metres	Olga Bryzgina Soviet Union	48.65	Petra Müller East Germany	49.45	Olga Nazarova Soviet Union	49.90
800 metres	Sigrun Wodars East Germany	1:56.10	Christine Wachtel East Germany	1:56.64	Kim Gallagher United States	1:56.91
1500 metres	Paula Ivan Romania	3:53.96 (OR)	Laimutė Baikauskaitė Soviet Union	4:00.24	Tetyana Samolenko Soviet Union	4:00.30
3000 metres	Tetyana Samolenko Soviet Union	8:26.53	Paula Ivan Romania	8:27.15	Yvonne Murray Great Britain	8:29.02
10,000 metres	Olga Bondarenko Soviet Union	31:05.21	Liz McColgan Great Britain	31:08.44	Yelena Zhupiyeva Soviet Union	31:19.82
100 metres hurdles	Yordanka Donkova Bulgaria	12.38 (OR)	Gloria Siebert East Germany	12.61	Claudia Zackiewicz West Germany	12.75
400 metres hurdles	Debbie Flintoff-King Australia	53.17 (OR)	Tatyana Ledovskaya Soviet Union	53.18	Ellen Fiedler East Germany	53.63
4 × 100 metres relay	United States (USA) Alice Brown Sheila Echols Florence Griffith Joyner Evelyn Ashford Dannette Young*	41.98	East Germany (GDR) Silke Möller Kerstin Behrendt Ingrid Lange Marlies Göhr	42.09	Soviet Union (URS) Lyudmila Kondratyeva Galina Malchugina Marina Zhirova Natalya Pomoshchnikova Maia Azarashvili*	42.75
4 × 400 metres relay	Soviet Union (URS) Tatyana Ledovskaya Olga Nazarova Mariya Pinigina Olha Bryzhina Lyudmyla Dzhyhalova*	3:15.17 (WR)	United States (USA) Denean Howard Diane Dixon Valerie Brisco-Hooks Florence Griffith Joyner Sherri Howard* Lillie Leatherwood*	3:15.51 (AR)	East Germany (GDR) Dagmar Neubauer Kirsten Emmelmann Sabine Busch Petra Müller Grit Breuer*	3:18.29
Marathon	Rosa Mota Portugal	2:25:40	Lisa Martin-Ondieki Australia	2:25:53	Katrin Dörre East Germany	2:26:21
High jump	Louise Ritter United States	2.03 m	Stefka Kostadinova Bulgaria	2.01 m	Tamara Bykova Soviet Union	1.99 m
Long jump	Jackie Joyner-Kersee United States	7.40 m (OR)	Heike Drechsler East Germany	7.22 m	Galina Chistyakova Soviet Union	7.11 m
Shot put	Natalya Lisovskaya Soviet Union	22.24 m	Kathrin Neimke East Germany	21.07 m	Li Meisu China	21.06 m
Discus throw	Martina Hellmann East Germany	72.30 m (OR)	Diana Gansky East Germany	71.88 m	Tsvetanka Khristova Bulgaria	69.74 m
Javelin throw	Petra Felke East Germany	74.68 m (OR)	Fatima Whitbread Great Britain	70.32 m	Beate Koch East Germany	67.30 m
Heptathlon	Jackie Joyner-Kersee United States	7291 (WR)	Sabine John East Germany	6897	Anke Behmer East Germany	6858

* = Athletes who ran in preliminary rounds and also received medals.

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	13	7	6	26
2	Soviet Union (URS)	10	6	10	26
3	East Germany (GDR)	6	11	10	27
4	Kenya (KEN)	4	2	1	7
5	Bulgaria (BUL)	2	1	1	4
6	Italy (ITA)	1	1	1	3
7	Australia (AUS)	1	1	0	2
	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	1	0	2
	Romania (ROM)	1	1	0	2
10	Finland (FIN)	1	0	1	2
10	Morocco (MAR)	1	0	1	2
12	Portugal (POR)	1	0	0	1
13	Great Britain (GBR)	0	6	2	8
14	Jamaica (JAM)	0	2	0	2
15	West Germany (FRG)	0	1	3	4
16	Brazil (BRA)	0	1	1	2
17	Senegal (SEN)	0	1	0	1
18	Canada (CAN)	0	0	1	1
	China (CHN)	0	0	1	1
	Djibouti (DJI)	0	0	1	1
	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (23 entries)		42	42	43	127

References

External links

Athletics at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2011-12-04.
Australia Athletics

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