1988 Olympics: Track & Field
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff 
Men
| Event | Time | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 100m | Carl Lewis, USA | 9.92 | OR |
| Linford Christie, GBR | 9.97 | ||
| Calvin Smith, USA | 9.99 | ||
| 200m | Joe DeLoach, USA | 19.75 | OR |
| Carl Lewis, USA | 19.79 | ||
| Robson da Silva, BRA | 20.04 | ||
| 400m | Steve Lewis, USA | 43.87 | |
| Butch Reynolds, USA | 43.93 | ||
| Danny Everett, USA | 44.09 | ||
| 800m | Paul Ereng, KEN | 1:43.45 | |
| Joaqim Cruz, BRA | 1:43.90 | ||
| Said Aouita, MOR | 1:44.06 | ||
| 1500m | Peter Rono, KEN | 3:35.96 | |
| Peter Elliott, GBR | 3:36.15 | ||
| Jens-Peter Herold, E. Ger | 3:36.21 | ||
| 5000m | John Ngugi, KEN | 13:11.70 | |
| Dieter Baumann, W. Ger | 13:15.52 | ||
| Hansjörg Kunze, E. Ger | 13:15.73 | ||
| 10,000m | Brahim Boutaib, MOR | 27:21.46 | OR |
| Salvatore Antibo, ITA | 27:23.55 | ||
| Kipkemboy Kimeli, KEN | 27:25.16 | ||
| Marathon | Gelindo Bordin, ITA | 2:10:32 | |
| Douglas Wakihuriu, KEN | 2:10:47 | ||
| Ahmed Saleh, DIJ | 2:10:59 | ||
| 110m H | Roger Kingdom, USA | 12.98 | OR |
| Colin Jackson, GBR | 13.28 | ||
| Anthony Campbell, USA | 13.38 | ||
| 400m H | Andre Phillips, USA | 47.19 | OR |
| Amadou Dia Ba, SEN | 47.23 | ||
| Edwin Moses, USA | 47.56 | ||
| 3000m Steeple | Julius Kariuki, KEN | 8:05.51 | OR |
| Peter Koech, KEN | 8:06.79 | ||
| Mark Rowland, GBR | 8:07.96 | ||
| 20k Walk | Jozef Pribilinec, CZE | 1:19:57 | OR |
| Ronald Weigel, E. Ger | 1:20:00 | ||
| Maurizio Damilano, ITA | 1:20:14 | ||
| 50k Walk | Viacheslav Ivanenko, USSR | 3:38:29 | OR |
| Ronald Weigel, E. Ger | 3:38:56 | ||
| Hartwig Gauder, E. Ger | 3:39:45 | ||
| 4x100m | USSR (Victor Bryzgine, Vladimir Krylov, Vladimir Mouraviev, Vitaly Savine) | 38.19 | |
| Great Britain | 38.28 | ||
| France | 38.40 | ||
| 4x400m | USA (Danny Everett, Steve Lewis, Kevin Robinzine, Butch Reynolds) | 2:56.16 | =WR |
| Jamaica | 3:00.30 | ||
| West Germany | 3:00.56 |
| Event | Mark | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| High Jump | Guennadi Avdeenko, USSR | 7- 93/4 | OR |
| Hollis Conway, USA | 7-83/4 | ||
| Rudolf Povarnitsin, USSR / Patrick Sjöberg, SWE | 7-83/4 | ||
| Pole Vault | Sergey Bubka, USSR | 19- 41/4 | OR |
| Rodion Gataullin, USSR | 19-21/4 | ||
| Grigori Yegorov, USSR | 19-01/4 | ||
| Long Jump | Carl Lewis, USA | 28- 71/4 | |
| Mike Powell, USA | 27-101/4 | ||
| Larry Myricks, USA | 27-13/4 | ||
| Triple Jump | Hristo Markov, BUL | 57- 91/4 | OR |
| Igor Lapshin, USSR | 57-53/4 | ||
| Alexander Kovalenko, USSR | 57-2 | ||
| Shot Put | Ulf Timmermann, E. Ger | 73- 83/4 | OR |
| Randy Barnes, USA | 73-51/2 | ||
| Werner Günthör, SWI | 72-13/4 | ||
| Discus | Jürgen Schult, E. Ger | 225- 9 | OR |
| Romas Ubartas, USSR | 221-5 | ||
| Rolf Danneberg, W. Ger | 221-1 | ||
| Hammer | Sergey Litvinov, USSR | 278- 2 | OR |
| Yuriy Sedych, USSR | 274-10 | ||
| Yuriy Tamm, USSR | 266-3 | ||
| Javelin | Tapio Korjus, FIN | 276- 6 | |
| Jan Zelezny, CZE | 276-0 | ||
| Seppo Räty, FIN | 273-2 | ||
| Decathlon | Christian Schenk, E. Ger | 8488 pts | |
| Torsten Voss, E. Ger | 8399 | ||
| Dave Steen, CAN | 8328 |
Women
| Event | Time | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 100m | Florence Griffith Joyner, USA | 10.54 | OR |
| Evelyn Ashford, USA | 10.83 | ||
| Heike Drechsler, E. Ger | 10.85 | ||
| 200m | Florence Griffith Joyner, USA | 21.34 | WR |
| Grace Jackson, JAM | 21.72 | ||
| Heike Drechsler, E. Ger | 21.95 | ||
| 400m | Olga Bryzgina, USSR | 48.65 | OR |
| Petra Müller, E. Ger | 49.45 | ||
| Olga Nasarova, USSR | 49.90 | ||
| 800m | Sigrun Wodars, E. Ger | 1:56.10 | |
| Christine Wachtel, E. Ger | 1:56.64 | ||
| Kim Gallagher, USA | 1:56.91 | ||
| 1500m | Paula Ivan, ROM | 3:53.96 | OR |
| Lelute Baikauskaite, USSR | 4:00.24 | ||
| Tatyana Samolenko, USSR | 4:00.30 | ||
| 3000m | Tatiana Samolenko, USSR | 8:26.53 | OR |
| Paula Ivan, ROM | 8:27.15 | ||
| Yvonne Murray, GBR | 8:29.02 | ||
| 10,000m | Olga Bondarenko, USSR | 31:05.21 | OR |
| Elizabeth McColgan, GBR | 31:08.44 | ||
| Yelena Yupiyeva, USSR | 31:19.82 | ||
| Marathon | Rosa Mota, POR | 2:25:40 | |
| Lisa Martin, AUS | 2:25:53 | ||
| Katrin Dörre, E. Ger | 2:26:21 | ||
| 100m H | Yordanka Donkova, BUL | 12.38 | OR |
| Gloria Siebert, E. Ger | 12.61 | ||
| Claudia Zaczkiewicz, W. Ger | 12.75 | ||
| 400m H | Debra Flintoff-King, AUS | 53.17 | OR |
| Tatyana Ledovskaya, USSR | 53.18 | ||
| Ellen Fiedler, W. Ger | 53.63 | ||
| 4x100m | USA (Alice Brown, Sheila Echols, Florence Griffith Joyner, Evelyn Ashford) | 41.98 | |
| East Germany | 42.09 | ||
| USSR | 42.75 | ||
| 4x400m | USSR (Tatyana Ledovskaia, Olga Nazarova, Maria Piniguina, Olga Bryzgina) | 3:15.18 | WR |
| USA | 3:15.51 | ||
| East Germany | 3:18.29 |
| Event | Mark | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| High Jump | Louise Ritter, USA | 6- 8 | OR |
| Stefka Kostadinova, BUL | 6-7 | ||
| Tamara Bykova, USSR | 6-61/4 | ||
| Long Jump | Jackie Joyner-Kersee, USA | 24- 31/4 | OR |
| Heike Drechsler, E. Ger | 23-81/4 | ||
| Galina Chistyakova, USSR | 23-4 | ||
| Shot Put | Natalya Lisovskaya, USSR | 72-111/4 | |
| Kathrin Neimke, E. Ger | 69-11/2 | ||
| Meisu Li, CHN | 69-11/4 | ||
| Discus | Martina Hellmann, E. Ger | 237- 21/2 | OR |
| Diana Gansky, E. Ger | 235-10 | ||
| Szvetanka Christova, BUL | 228-10 | ||
| Javelin | Petra Felke, E. Ger | 245- 0 | OR |
| Fatima Whitbread, GBR | 230-8 | ||
| Beate Koch, E. Ger | 220-9 | ||
| Heptathlon | Jackie Joyner-Kersee, USA | 7291 pts | WR |
| Sabine John, E. Ger | 6897 | ||
| Anke Behmer, E. Ger | 6858 |
