Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics
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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.

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Medal summary

Men's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m
Details
 Carl Lewis
United States (USA)
9.92
(OR)
 Linford Christie
Great Britain (GBR)
9.97
ER
 Calvin Smith
United States (USA)
9.99
200 m
Details
 Joe DeLoach
United States (USA)
19.75  Carl Lewis
United States (USA)
19.79  Robson da Silva
Brazil (BRA)
20.04
400 m
Details
 Steve Lewis
United States (USA)
43.87  Butch Reynolds
United States (USA)
43.93  Danny Everett
United States (USA)
44.09
800 m
Details
 Paul Ereng
Kenya (KEN)
1:43.45  Joaquim Cruz
Brazil (BRA)
1:43.90  Saïd Aouita
Morocco (MAR)
1:44.06
1500 m
Details
 Peter Rono
Kenya (KEN)
3:35.96  Peter Elliott
Great Britain (GBR)
3:36.15  Jens-Peter Herold
East Germany (GDR)
3:36.21
5000 m
Details
 John Ngugi
Kenya (KEN)
13:11.70  Dieter Baumann
West Germany (FRG)
13:15.52  Hansjörg Kunze
East Germany (GDR)
13:15.73
10000 m
Details
 Brahim Boutayeb
Morocco (MAR)
27:21.44  Salvatore Antibo
Italy (ITA)
27:23.55  Kipkemboy Kimeli
Kenya (KEN)
27:25.16
Marathon
Details
 Gelindo Bordin
Italy (ITA)
2:10:32  Douglas Wakiihuri
Kenya (KEN)
2:10:47  Ahmed Salah
Djibouti (DJI)
2:10:59
110 m Hurdles
Details
 Roger Kingdom
United States (USA)
12.98  Colin Jackson
Great Britain (GBR)
13.28  Tonie Campbell
United States (USA)
13.38
400 m Hurdles
Details
 Andre Phillips
United States (USA)
47.19  Amadou Dia Ba
Senegal (SEN)
47.23  Edwin Moses
United States (USA)
47.56
3000 m steeplechase
Details
 Julius Kariuki
Kenya (KEN)
8:05.51
(OR)
 Peter Koech
Kenya (KEN)
8:06.79  Mark Rowland
Great Britain (GBR)
8:07.96
4x100 m Relay
Details
Soviet Union Soviet Union (URS)
Viktor Bryzgin
Vladimir Krylov
Vladimir Muravyov
Vitaly Savin
38.19 Great Britain Great Britain (GBR)
Elliot Bunney
John Regis
Michael McFarlane
Linford Christie
38.28 France France (FRA)
Bruno Marie-Rose
Daniel Sangouma
Gilles Quenehervé
Max Morinière
38.40
4x400 m Relay
Details
United States United States (USA)
Danny Everett
Steve Lewis
Kevin Robinzine
Butch Reynolds
2:56.16 Jamaica Jamaica (JAM)
Howard Davis
Devon Morris
Winthrop Graham
Bert Cameron
3:00.30 West Germany West Germany (FRG)
Norbert Dobeleit
Edgar Itt
Jörg Vaihinger
Ralf Lübke
3:00.56
20 km Walk
Details
 Jozef Pribilinec
Czechoslovakia (TCH)
1:19:57  Ronald Weigel
East Germany (GDR)
1:20:00  Maurizio Damilano
Italy (ITA)
1:20:14
50 km Walk
Details
 Vyacheslav Ivanenko
Soviet Union (URS)
3:38:29
(OR)
 Ronald Weigel
East Germany (GDR)
3:38:56  Hartwig Gauder
East Germany (GDR)
3:39:45
High Jump
Details
 Gennadiy Avdeyenko
Soviet Union (URS)
2.38 m  Hollis Conway
United States (USA)
2.36 m  Rudolf Povarnitsyn
Soviet Union (URS)
2.36 m
 Patrik Sjöberg
Sweden (SWE)
Pole Vault
Details
 Sergey Bubka
Soviet Union (URS)
5.90 m  Rodion Gataullin
Soviet Union (URS)
5.85 m  Grigoriy Yegorov
Soviet Union (URS)
5.80 m
Long Jump
Details
 Carl Lewis
United States (USA)
8.72 m  Mike Powell
United States (USA)
8.49 m  Larry Myricks
United States (USA)
8.27 m
Triple Jump
Details
 Hristo Markov
Bulgaria (BUL)
17.61 m  Igor Lapshin
Soviet Union (URS)
17.52 m  Aleksandr Kovalenko
Soviet Union (URS)
17.42 m
Shot Put
Details
 Ulf Timmermann
East Germany (GDR)
22.47 m
(OR)
 Randy Barnes
United States (USA)
22.39 m  Werner Günthör
Switzerland (SUI)
21.99 m
Discus
Details
 Jürgen Schult
East Germany (GDR)
68.82 m  Romas Ubartas
Soviet Union (URS)
67.48 m  Rolf Danneberg
West Germany (FRG)
67.38 m
Hammer
Details
 Sergey Litvinov
Soviet Union (URS)
84.80 m
(OR)
 Yuriy Sedykh
Soviet Union (URS)
83.76 m  Jüri Tamm
Soviet Union (URS)
81.16 m
Javelin
Details
 Tapio Korjus
Finland (FIN)
84.28 m  Jan Železný
Czechoslovakia (TCH)
84.12 m  Seppo Räty
Finland (FIN)
83.26 m
Decathlon
Details
 Christian Schenk
East Germany (GDR)
8488  Torsten Voss
East Germany (GDR)
8399  Dave Steen
Canada (CAN)
8328

Women's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m
Details
 Florence Griffith-Joyner
United States (USA)
10.54  Evelyn Ashford
United States (USA)
10.83  Heike Drechsler
East Germany (GDR)
10.85
200 m
Details
 Florence Griffith-Joyner
United States (USA)
21.34
(WR)
 Grace Jackson
Jamaica (JAM)
21.72  Heike Drechsler
East Germany (GDR)
21.95
400 m
Details
 Olga Bryzgina
Soviet Union (URS)
48.65  Petra Müller
East Germany (GDR)
49.45  Olga Nazarova
Soviet Union (URS)
49.90
800 m
Details
 Sigrun Wodars
East Germany (GDR)
1:56.10  Christine Wachtel
East Germany (GDR)
1:56.64  Kim Gallagher
United States (USA)
1:56.91
1500 m
Details
 Paula Ivan
Romania (ROU)
3:53.96
(OR)
 Laimutė Baikauskaitė
Soviet Union (URS)
4:00.24  Tetyana Samolenko
Soviet Union (URS)
4:00.30
3000 m
Details
 Tetyana Samolenko
Soviet Union (URS)
8:26.53  Paula Ivan
Romania (ROU)
8:27.15  Yvonne Murray
Great Britain (GBR)
8:29.02
10000 m
Details
 Olga Bondarenko
Soviet Union (URS)
31:05.21  Liz McColgan
Great Britain (GBR)
31:08.44  Yelena Zhupiyeva-Vyazova
Soviet Union (URS)
31:19.82
Marathon
Details
 Rosa Mota
Portugal (POR)
2:25:40  Lisa Martin
Australia (AUS)
2:25:53  Katrin Dörre
East Germany (GDR)
2:26:21
100 m Hurdles
Details
 Yordanka Donkova
Bulgaria (BUL)
12.38  Gloria Siebert
East Germany (GDR)
12.61  Claudia Zackiewicz
West Germany (FRG)
12.75
400 m Hurdles
Details
 Debbie Flintoff-King
Australia (AUS)
53.17  Tatyana Ledovskaya
Soviet Union (URS)
53.18  Ellen Fiedler
East Germany (GDR)
53.63
4x100 m Relay
Details
United States United States (USA)
Alice Brown
Sheila Echols
Florence Griffith-Joyner
Evelyn Ashford
41.98 East Germany East Germany (GDR)
Silke Möller
Kerstin Behrendt
Ingrid Auerswald
Marlies Göhr
42.09 Soviet Union Soviet Union (URS)
Lyudmila Kondratieva
Galina Malchugina
Marina Zhirova
Natalya Voronova
42.75
4x400 m Relay
Details
Soviet Union Soviet Union (URS)
Tatyana Ledovskaya
Olga Nazarova
Mariya Pingina
Olga Bryzgina
3:15.17
(WR)
United States United States (USA)
Denean Howard-Hill
Diane Dixon
Valerie Brisco-Hooks
Florence Griffith-Joyner
3:15.51 East Germany East Germany (GDR)
Dagmar Neubauer
Kirsten Emmelmann
Sabine Busch
Petra Schersing
3:18.29
High Jump
Details
 Louise Ritter
United States (USA)
2.03 m  Stefka Kostadinova
Bulgaria (BUL)
2.01 m  Tamara Bykova
Soviet Union (URS)
1.99 m
Long Jump
Details
 Jackie Joyner-Kersee
United States (USA)
7.40 m
(OR)
 Heike Drechsler
East Germany (GDR)
7.22 m  Galina Chistyakova
Soviet Union (URS)
7.11 m
Shot Put
Details
 Natalya Lisovskaya
Soviet Union (URS)
22.24 m  Kathrin Neimke
East Germany (GDR)
21.07 m  Li Meisu
China (CHN)
21.06 m
Discus
Details
 Martina Hellmann
East Germany (GDR)
72.30 m
(OR)
 Diana Gansky
East Germany (GDR)
71.88 m  Tsvetanka Khristova
Bulgaria (BUL)
69.74 m
Javelin
Details
 Petra Felke
East Germany (GDR)
74.68 m  Fatima Whitbread
Great Britain (GBR)
70.32 m  Beate Koch
East Germany (GDR)
67.30 m
Heptathlon
Details
 Jackie Joyner-Kersee
United States (USA)
7291
(WR)
 Sabine John
East Germany (GDR)
6897  Anke Behmer
East Germany (GDR)
6858
  • Ben Johnson led the 100 m race at 9.79 seconds, but was later disqualified for doping.

Medal table

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


See also

References