Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics

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Athletics medal winners at the 1988 Seoul Olympics

Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
100 m Men	Carl Lewis,	9.92	Linford Christie,	9.97	Calvin Smith,	9.99
200 m Men	Joe DeLoach, USA		Carl Lewis, USA		Robson da Silva, Brazil
400 m Men	Steve Lewis, USA		Butch Reynolds, USA		Danny Everett, USA
800 m Men	Paul Ereng, Kenya		Joaquim Cruz, Brazil		Said Aouita, Morocco
1500 m Men	Peter Rono, Kenya		Peter Elliott, Great Britain		Jens-Peter Herold, East Germany
5,000 m Men	John Ngugi, Kenya		Dieter Baumann, West Germany		Hansjörg Kunze, East Germany
10,000 m Men	Brahim Boutayeb, Morocco		Salvatore Antibo, Italy		Kipkemboy Kimeli, Kenya
Marathon Men	Gelindo Bordin, Italy	2:10.32	Douglas Wakiihuri, Kenya	2:10.47	Ahmed Saleh, Djibouti	2:10.59
110 m Hurdles Men	Roger Kingdom,	12.98	Colin Jackson,	13.28		13.38
400 m Hurdles Men	Andre Phillips, USA		Amadou Dia Ba, Senegal		Edwin Moses, USA
3,000 m Steeplechase Men	Julius Kariuki, Kenya		Peter Koech, Kenya		Mark Rowland, Great Britain
4 x 100 m Relay Men	USSR, Viktor Bryzgin, Vladimir Krylov, Vladimir Muravyov, Vitaly Savin		GREAT BRITAIN, Elliott Bunney, John Regis, Michael McFarlane, Linford Christie		FRANCE, Bruno Marie-Rose, Daniel Sangouma, Gilles Quenehervé, Max Moriniére
4 x 400 m Men	USA, Danny Everett, Steve Lewis, Kevin Robinzine, Butch Reynolds		JAMAICA, Howard Davis, Devon Morris, Winthrop Graham, Bert Cameron		WEST GERMANY, Norbert Dobeleit, Edgar Itt, Jörg Vaihinger, Ralf Lübke
20 km Walk Men	Jozef Pribilinec, Czechoslovakia		Ronald Weigel, East Germany		Maurizio Damilano, Italy
50 km Walk Men	Vyacheslav Ivanenko, USSR		Ronald Weigel, East Germany		Hartwig Gauder, East Germany
High Jump Men	Gennadi Avdeyenko, USSR		Hollis Conway, USA		Rudolf Povarnitsyn, USSR equal with Patrik Sjöberg, Sweden
Pole Vault Men	Sergey Bubka, USSR		Rodion Gataullin, USSR		Grigori Yegorov, USSR
Long Jump Men	Carl Lewis, USA		Mike Powell, USA		Larry Myricks, USA
Triple Jump Men	Khristo Markov, Bulgaria		Igor Lapshin, USSR		Aleksandr Kovalenko, USSR
Shot Put Men	Ulf Timmermann, East Germany		Randy Barnes, USA		Werner Günthör, Switzerland
Discus Men	Jürgen Schult, East Germany		Romas Ubartas, USSR		Rolf Danneberg, West Germany
Hammer Throw Men	Sergey Litvinov, USSR		Yuriy Sedykh, USSR		Jüri Tamm, USSR
Javelin Men	Tapio Korjus, Finland		Jan Železný, Czechoslovakia		Seppo Räty, Finland
Decathlon Men	Christian Schenk, East Germany		Torsten Voss, East Germany		Dave Steen, Canada
100 m Women	Florence Griffith-Joyner,	10.54	Evelyn Ashford,	10.83	Heike Drechsler,	10.85
200 m Women	Florence Griffith-Joyner, USA		Grace Jackson, Jamaica		Heike Drechsler, East Germany
400 m Women	Olga Bryzgina, USSR		Petra Müller, East Germany		Olga Nazarova, USSR
800 m Women	Sigrun Wodars, East Germany		Christine Wachtel, East Germany		Kim Gallagher, USA
1500 m Women	Paula Ivan, Romania		Laimutė Baikauskaitė, USSR		Tatyana Samolenko, USSR
3,000 m Women	Tatyana Samolenko, USSR		Paula Ivan, Romania		Yvonne Murray, Great Britain
10,000 m Women	Olga Bondarenko, USSR		Liz McColgan, Great Britain		Yelena Yupiyeva, USSR
Marathon Women	Rosa Mota, Portugal	2:25.40	Lisa Martin, Australia	2:25.53	Katrin Dörre, East Germany	2:26.21
100 m Hurdles Women	Yordanka Donkova, Bulgaria	12.38		12.61		12.75
400 m Hurdles Women	Debbie Flintoff-King, Australia		Tatyana Ledovskaya, USSR		Ellen Fiedler, East Germany
4 x 100 m Women	USA, Alice Brown, Sheila Echols, Florence Griffith-Joyner, Evelyn Ashford		East Germany, Silke Möller, Kerstin Behrendt, Ingrid Lange, Marlies Göhr		USSR, Lyudmila Kondratieva, Galina Maltchouguina, Marina Zhirova, Natalya Pomoschnikhova
4 x 400 m Women	USSR, Tatyana Ledovskaya, Olga Nazarova, Mariya Pingina, Olga Bryzgina		USA, Denean Howard-Hill, Diane Dixon, Valerie Brisco-Hooks, Florence Griffith-Joyner		East Germany, Dagmar Neubauer, Kirsten Emmelmann, Sabine Busch, Petra Müller
High Jump Women	Louise Ritter, USA		Stefka Kostadinova, Bulgaria		Tamara Bykova, USSR
Long Jump Women	Jackie Joyner-Kersee, USA		Heike Drechsler, East Germany		Galina Chistyakova, USSR
Shot Put Women	Natalia Lisovskaya, USSR		Kathrin Neimke, East Germany		Meisu Li, People's Rep of China
Discus Women	Martina Hellmann, East Germany		Diana Gansky, East Germany		Tsvetanka Khristova, Bulgaria
Javelin Women	Petra Felke, East Germany		Fatima Whitbread, Great Britain		Beate Koch, East Germany
Heptathlon Women	Jackie Joyner-Kersee, USA		Sabine John, East Germany		Anke Behmer, East Germany

Ben Johnson led the 100m race at 9.79 seconds, but was later disqualified for doping.

at the 1988 Summer Olympics (Seoul)

Athletics at the Summer Olympics

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