Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Athletics medal winners at the 1988 Seoul Olympics

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	20.04
400 m Men	Steve Lewis, USA	Butch Reynolds, USA	Danny Everett, USA	44.09
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	Douglas Wakiihuri, Kenya	Ahmed Saleh, Djibouti	2:10.59
110 m Hurdles Men	Roger Kingdom,	|12.98	Colin Jackson,	|13.28	Anthony Campbell,	| 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	8.27m
Triple Jump Men	Hristo 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 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	Lisa Martin, Australia	Katrin Dörre, East Germany	2:26.21
100 m Hurdles Women	Yordanka Donkova, Bulgaria	Gloria Siebert,	|12.61	Claudia Zaczkiewicz,	|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.