Athletics 1988

Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics was held from 23 September to 2 October 1988 at the Seoul Olympic Stadium.

For the first time in history, the women's long-distance running was extended to 10,000 metres. This edition marked the last Olympics to feature the track and field athletes from the Soviet Union and East Germany.

Medal Table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	13	7	6	26
2	Soviet Union	10	6	10	26
3	East Germany	6	11	10	27
4	Kenya	4	2	1	7
5	Bulgaria	2	1	1	4
6	Italy	1	1	1	3
7	Australia	1	1	0	2
	Czechoslovakia	1	1	0	2
	Romania	1	1	0	2
10	Finland	1	0	1	2
	Morocco	1	0	1	2
12	Portugal	1	0	0	1
13	Great Britain	0	6	2	8
14	Jamaica	0	2	0	2
15	West Germany	0	1	3	4
16	Brazil	0	1	1	2
17	Senegal	0	1	0	1
18	Canada	0	0	1	1
	China	0	0	1	1
	Djibouti	0	0	1	1
	France	0	0	1	1
	Sweden	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland	0	0	1	1

Medalists

Men

Event
100 m	Carl Lewis	Linford Christie	Calvin Smith
200 m	Joe Deloach	Carl Lewis	Robson Silva
400 m	Steven Lewis	Harry Butch Reynolds	Danny Everett
800 m	Paul Ereng	Joaquim Cruz	Said Aouita
1500 m	Peter Rono	Peter Elliott	Jens-Peter Herold
5000 m	John Ngugi	Dieter Baumann	Hansjoerg Kunze
10000 m	Brahim Boutaib	Salvatore Antibo	Kipkemboi Kimeli
Marathon	Gelindo Bordin	Douglas Wakiihuri	Houssein Ahmed Saleh
110 m hurdles	Roger Kingdom	Colin Jackson	Anthony Campbell
400 m hurdles	Andre Phillips	El Hadj Dia Ba	Edwin Moses
3000 m steeplechase	Julius Kariuki	Peter Koech	Mark Rowland
4x100 m	Soviet Union Victor Bryzgine Vladimir Krylov Vladimir Mouraviev Vitali Savine	Great Britain Elliot Bunney Clarence Callender Linford Christie Michael McFarlane John Regis	France Bruno Marie-Rose Max Moriniere Gilles Queneherve Daniel Sangouma
4x400 m	United States Danny Everett Steven Lewis Antonio McKay Kevin Robinzine Harry Butch Reynolds Andrew Valmon	Jamaica Howard Burnett Bertland Cameron Howard Davis Trevor Graham Winthrop Graham Devon Morris	West Germany Norbert Dobeleit Mark Henrich Edgar Itt Bodo Kuhn Ralf Lubke Jorg Vaihinger
20 km walk	Jozef Pribilinec	Ronald Weigel	Maurizio Damilano
50 km walk	Viacheslav Ivanenko	Ronald Weigel	Hartwig Gauder
High jump	Guennadi Avdeenko	Hollis Conway	Patrik Sjoberg Roudolf Povarnitsyne
Pole vault	Sergey Bubka	Radion Gataoulline	Grigori Egorov
Long jump	Carl Lewis	Mike Powell	Larry Myricks
Triple jump	Hristo Markov	Igor Lapchine	Alexandre Kovalenko
Shot put	Ulf Timmermann	Randy Barnes	Werner Guenthoer
Discus throw	Jurgen Schult	Romas Ubartas	Rolf Danneberg
Hammer throw	Serguei Litvinov	Yuriy Sedykh	Iouri Tamm
Javelin throw	Tapio Korjus	Jan Zelezny	Seppo Raty
Decathlon	Christian Schenk	Torsten Voss	David Steen

Women

Event
100 m	Florence Griffith Joyner	Evelyn Ashford	Heike Drechsler
200 m	Florence Griffith Joyner	Grace Jackson	Heike Drechsler
400 m	Olga Bryzguina	Petra Mueller	Olga Nazarova
800 m	Sigrun Wodars	Christine Wachtel	Kim Gallagher
1500 m	Paula Ivan	Lailute Baikauskaite	Tatiana Samolenko
3000 m	Tatiana Samolenko	Paula Ivan	Yvonne Murray
10000 m	Olga Bondarenko	Elizabeth McColgan	Elena Joupieva
Marathon	Rosa Mota	Lisa Martin	Kathrin Doerre
100 m hurdles	Jordanka Donkova	Gloria Siebert	Claudia Zackiewicz
400 m hurdles	Debra Flintoff-King	Tatiana Ledovskaia	Ellen Fiedler
4x100 m	United States Evelyn Ashford Alice Brown Sheila Echols Florence Griffith Joyner Dannette Young	East Germany Kerstin Behrendt Marlies Goehr Ingrid Lange Silke Moeller	Soviet Union Marina Jirova Lioudmila Kondratieva Galina Maltchougina Natalia Pornochtchnikova
4x400 m	Soviet Union Olga Bryzguina Lioudmila Djigalova Tatiana Ledovskaia Olga Nazarova Maria Piniguina	United States Valerie Brisco Diane Dixon Florence Griffith Joyner Denean Howard Sherri Howard Lillie Leatherwood	East Germany Grit Breuer Sabine Busch Kirsten Emmelmann Petra Mueller Dagmar Neubauer
High jump	Louise Ritter	Stefka Ostadinova	Tamara Bykova
Long jump	Jackie Joyner-Kersee	Heike Drechsler	Galina Tchistiakova
Shot put	Natalia Lisovskaya	Kathrin Neimke	Li Meisu
Discus throw	Martina Hellmann	Diana Gansky	Tzvetanka Hristova
Javelin throw	Petra Felke	Fatima Whitbread	Beate Koch
Heptathlon	Jackie Joyner-Kersee	Sabine John	Anke Behmer

Trivia

• There were 1617 total athletes from 149 countries.
• Anwar Alharazi was the youngest participant with 15 years and 293 days.
• Lourdes Klitzkie was the oldest participant with 48 years and 234 days.
• 65 participants were chosen to be a flag bearer at the opening ceremony, the highest number out of all sports.
• Soviet Union and United States won 26 medals, more than in any other sport.
• Great Britain won 8 medals, more than in any other sport.
• Morocco won 2 medals, more than in any other sport.
• Kenya won its only 7 medals of Seoul 1988.
• Jamaica won its only 2 medals of Seoul 1988.
• Portugal won its only medal of Seoul 1988.
• Djibouti and Senegal won their first-ever Olympic medal and their only medal of Seoul 1988.
• Bulgaria won its first 2 gold medals in the sport since Montreal 1976.

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