Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Template:Short description Template:Infobox Olympic event Template:AthleticsAt1988SummerOlympics 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

100 metres Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	9.92 (WR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	9.97 (AR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	9.99
200 metres Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	19.75 (OR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	19.79	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	20.04
400 metres Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	43.87	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	43.93	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	44.09
800 metres Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:43.45	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:43.90	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:44.06
1500 metres Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	3:35.96	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	3:36.15	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	3:36.21
5000 metres Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	13:11.70	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	13:15.52	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	13:15.73
10,000 metres Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	27:21.44 (OR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	27:23.55	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	27:25.16
110 metres hurdles Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	12.98 (OR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	13.28	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	13.38
400 metres hurdles Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	47.19 (OR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	47.23 (NR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	47.56
3000 metres steeplechase Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	8:05.51 (OR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	8:06.79	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	8:07.96
4 × 100 metres relay Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCteam Viktor Bryzhin Vladimir Krylov Vladimir Muravyov Vitaliy Savin	38.19	Template:FlagIOCteam Elliot Bunney John Regis Linford Christie Mike McFarlane Clarence Callender*	38.28	Template:FlagIOCteam Bruno Marie-Rose Daniel Sangouma Gilles Quenehervé Max Morinière	38.40
4 × 400 metres relay Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCteam Danny Everett Steve Lewis Kevin Robinzine Butch Reynolds Antonio McKay* Andrew Valmon*	2:56.16	Template:FlagIOCteam Howard Davis Devon Morris Winthrop Graham Bert Cameron Trevor Graham* Howard Burnett*	3:00.30	Template:FlagIOCteam Norbert Dobeleit Edgar Itt Jörg Vaihinger Ralf Lübke Mark Henrich* Bodo Kuhn*	3:00.56
Marathon Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:10:32	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:10:47	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:10:59
20 kilometres walk Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:19:57 (OR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:20:00	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:20:14
50 kilometres walk Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	3:38:29 (OR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	3:38:56	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	3:39:45
High jump Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2.38 m (OR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2.36 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2.36 m
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Pole vault Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	5.90 m (OR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	5.85 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	5.80 m
Long jump Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	8.72 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	8.49 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	8.27 m
Triple jump Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	17.61 m (OR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	17.52 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	17.42 m
Shot put Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	22.47 m (OR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	22.39 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	21.99 m
Discus throw Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	68.82 m (OR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	67.48 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	67.38 m
Hammer throw Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	84.80 m (OR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	83.76 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	81.16 m
Javelin throw Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	84.28 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	84.12 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	83.26 m
Decathlon Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	8488	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	8399	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	8328

Women

100 metres Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	10.54w (OR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	10.83w	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	10.85w
200 metres Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	21.34 (WR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	21.72	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	21.95
400 metres Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	48.65 (OR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	49.45	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	49.90
800 metres Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:56.10	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:56.64	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:56.91
1500 metres Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	3:53.96 (OR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	4:00.24	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	4:00.30
3000 metres Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	8:26.53 (OR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	8:27.15	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	8:29.02
10,000 metres Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	31:05.21 (OR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	31:08.44	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	31:19.82
100 metres hurdles Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	12.38 (OR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	12.61	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	12.75
400 metres hurdles Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	53.17 (OR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	53.18	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	53.63
4 × 100 metres relay Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCteam Alice Brown Sheila Echols Florence Griffith Joyner Evelyn Ashford Dannette Young*	41.98	Template:FlagIOCteam Silke Möller Kerstin Behrendt Ingrid Lange Marlies Göhr	42.09	Template:FlagIOCteam Lyudmila Kondratyeva Galina Malchugina Marina Zhirova Natalya Pomoshchnikova Maia Azarashvili*	42.75
4 × 400 metres relay Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCteam Tatyana Ledovskaya Olga Nazarova Mariya Pinigina Olha Bryzhina Lyudmyla Dzhyhalova*	3:15.17 (WR)	Template:FlagIOCteam Denean Howard Diane Dixon Valerie Brisco-Hooks Florence Griffith Joyner Sherri Howard* Lillie Leatherwood*	3:15.51 (AR)	Template:FlagIOCteam Dagmar Neubauer Kirsten Emmelmann Sabine Busch Petra Müller Grit Breuer*	3:18.29
Marathon Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:25:40	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:25:53	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:26:21
High jump Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2.03 m (OR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2.01 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1.99 m
Long jump Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	7.40 m (OR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	7.22 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	7.11 m
Shot put Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	22.24 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	21.07 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	21.06 m
Discus throw Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	72.30 m (OR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	71.88 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	69.74 m
Javelin throw Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	74.68 m (OR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	70.32 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	67.30 m
Heptathlon Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	7291 (WR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	6897	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	6858

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

See also

• 1988 in athletics (track and field)

External links

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

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