1988 in the sport of athletics

1988 in athletics

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Overview of the events of 1988 in the sport of athletics

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This article contains an overview of the year 1988 in athletics.

## International events

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* African Championships
* Balkan Games
* European Indoor Championships
* Olympic Games
* World Cross Country Championships
* World Junior Championships

## World records

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### Men

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EVENT  | ATHLETE  | MARK  | DATE  | VENUE

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100 metres |  Carl Lewis (USA) | 9.92 | 24 September  | Seoul, South Korea
400 metres |  Butch Reynolds (USA) | 43.29 | 17 August  | Zürich, Switzerland
4 × 400 metres relay |  United States (USA)
• Danny Everett
• Steve Lewis
• Kevin Robinzine
• Butch Reynolds | 2:56.16 | 1 October  | Seoul, South Korea
High Jump |  Javier Sotomayor (CUB) | 2.43m | 8 September  | Salamanca, Spain
Pole vault |  Sergey Bubka (URS) | 6.05m | 9 June  | Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
Sergey Bubka (URS) | 6.06m | 10 July  | Nice, France
Shot put |  Ulf Timmermann (GDR) | 23.06m | 22 May  | Chania, Greece
Marathon |  Belayneh Dinsamo (ETH) | 2:06:50 | 17 April  | Rotterdam, Netherlands

* Carl Lewis finished behind Ben Johnson (9.79) who was disqualified for a failed drugs test
* 4 × 400 team equalled the record by the United States on October 20, 1968, by Vincent Matthews, Ron Freeman, Larry James and Lee Evans.

### Women

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EVENT  | ATHLETE  | MARK  | DATE  | VENUE

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100 metres |  Florence Griffith Joyner (USA) | 10.49 | 16 July  | Indianapolis, United States
200 metres |  Florence Griffith Joyner (USA) | 21.56 | 29 September  | Seoul, South Korea
Florence Griffith Joyner (USA) | 21.34 | 29 September  | Seoul, South Korea
25,000 metres |  Karolina Szabó (HUN) | 1:29:29.2 | 22 April  | Budapest, Hungary
30,000 metres |  Karolina Szabó (HUN) | 1:47:05.6 | 22 April  | Budapest, Hungary
100 metres hurdles |  Yordanka Donkova (BUL) | 12.21 | 20 August  | Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
4 × 400 m Relay |  Soviet Union (URS)
• Tatyana Ledovskaya
• Olga Nazarova
• Mariya Pinigina
• Olga Bryzgina | 3:15.17 | 1 October  | Seoul, South Korea
Long jump |  Galina Chistyakova (URS) | 7.52 m | 11 June  | Leningrad, Soviet Union
Discus throw |  Gabriele Reinsch (GDR) | 76.80 m | 9 July  | Neubrandenburg, East Germany
Javelin throw |  Petra Felke (GDR) | 80.00 m | 9 September  | Potsdam, East Germany
Heptathlon |  Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA) | 7215 | 16 July  | Indianapolis, United States
Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA) | 7291 | 24 September  | Seoul, South Korea

* Many observers believe Griffith-Joyner's time of 10.49 should not have been accepted as a record due to excessive following wind
* Christyakova equalled the previous record of 7.45m with a prior jump

## Men's Best Year Performers

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### 100 metres

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Main race this year: Men's Olympic 100 metres
RANK  | 1988 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS  | TIME

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1\.  |  Carl Lewis (USA) | 9.92
2\.  |  Linford Christie (GBR) | 9.97
-- |  Calvin Smith (USA) | 9.97
4\.  |  Joe DeLoach (USA) | 10.03
-- |  Dennis Mitchell (USA) | 10.03

### 200 metres

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Main race this year: Men's Olympic 200 metres
RANK  | 1988 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS  | TIME

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1\.  |  Joe DeLoach (USA) | 19.75
2\.  |  Carl Lewis (USA) | 19.79
3\.  |  Lorenzo Daniel (USA) | 19.87
4\.  |  Robson da Silva (BRA) | 20.04
5\.  |  Roy Martin (USA) | 20.05
-- |  Albert Robinson (USA) | 20.05

### 400 metres

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Main race this year: Men's Olympic 400 metres
RANK  | 1988 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS  | TIME

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1\.  |  Butch Reynolds (USA) | 43.29
2\.  |  Steve Lewis (USA) | 43.87
3\.  |  Danny Everett (USA) | 43.98
4\.  |  Roberto Hernández (CUB) | 44.22
5\.  |  Darren Clark (AUS) | 44.38

### 800 metres

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Main race this year: Men's Olympic 800 metres
RANK  | 1988 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS  | TIME

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1\.  |  Johnny Gray (USA) | 1:42.65
2\.  |  José Luíz Barbosa (BRA) | 1:43.20
3\.  |  Steve Cram (GBR) | 1:43.42
4\.  |  Paul Ereng (KEN) | 1:43.45
5\.  |  Saïd Aouita (MAR) | 1:43.86

### 1,500 metres

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Main race this year: Men's Olympic 1,500 metres
RANK  | 1988 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS  | TIME

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1\.  |  Steve Cram (GBR) | 3:30.95
2\.  |  Jim Spivey (USA) | 3:31.01
3\.  |  Saïd Aouita (MAR) | 3:32.69
4\.  |  Peter Elliott (GBR) | 3:32.94
5\.  |  Jens-Peter Herold (GDR) | 3:33.33

### Mile

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RANK  | 1988 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS  | TIME

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1\.  |  Steve Cram (GBR) | 3:48.85
2\.  |  Peter Elliott (GBR) | 3:49.20
3\.  |  Jens-Peter Herold (GDR) | 3:49.22
4\.  |  Abdi Bile (SOM) | 3:49.40
5\.  |  Steve Scott (USA) | 3:50.09

### 3,000 metres

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RANK  | 1988 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS  | TIME

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1\.  |  Sydney Maree (USA) | 7:38.79
2\.  |  Brahim Boutayeb (MAR) | 7:43.22
3\.  |  Pierre Délèze (SUI) | 7:43.46
4\.  |  Paul Arpin (FRA) | 7:43.58
5\.  |  Saïd Aouita (MAR) | 7:43.65

### 5,000 metres

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Main race this year: Men's Olympic 5,000 metres
RANK  | 1988 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS  | TIME

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1\.  |  John Ngugi (KEN) | 13:11.70
2\.  |  Dieter Baumann (FRG) | 13:15.52
3\.  |  José Regalo (POR) | 13:15.62
4\.  |  Hansjörg Kunze (GDR) | 13:15.73
5\.  |  Sydney Maree (USA) | 13:15.85

### 10,000 metres

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Main race this year: Men's Olympic 10,000 metres
RANK  | 1988 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS  | TIME

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1\.  |  Brahim Boutayeb (MAR) | 27:21.46
2\.  |  Eamonn Martin (GBR) | 27:23.06
3\.  |  Salvatore Antibo (ITA) | 27:23.55
4\.  |  Arturo Barrios (MEX) | 27:25.07
5\.  |  Kipkemboi Kimeli (KEN) | 27:25.16

### Half marathon

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RANK  | 1988 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS  | TIME

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1\.  |  John Treacy (IRL) | 1:01:00

### Marathon

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Main race this year: Men's Olympic Marathon
RANK  | 1988 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS  | TIME

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1\.  |  Belayneh Dinsamo (ETH) | 2:06:50
2\.  |  Hussein Ahmed Salah (DJI) | 2:07:07
3\.  |  Abebe Mekonnen (ETH) | 2:07:35
4\.  |  Hiromi Taniguchi (JPN) | 2:07:40
5\.  |  Stephen Jones (WAL) | 2:08:20

### Race Walking

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Main article: 1988 Race Walking Year Ranking

### 110m hurdles

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Main race this year: Men's Olympic 110m hurdles
RANK  | 1988 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS  | TIME

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1\.  |  Roger Kingdom (USA) | 12.97
2\.  |  Colin Jackson (GBR) | 13.11
3\.  |  Mark McKoy (CAN) | 13.17
-- |  Tonie Campbell (USA) | 13.17
5\.  |  Aleksandr Markin (URS) | 13.20

### 400m hurdles

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Main race this year: Men's Olympic 400m hurdles
RANK  | 1988 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS  | TIME

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1\.  |  Andre Phillips (USA) | 47.19
2\.  |  Amadou Dia Bâ (SEN) | 47.23
3\.  |  Edwin Moses (USA) | 47.37
4\.  |  Kevin Young (USA) | 47.72
5\.  |  Danny Harris (USA) | 47.74

### 3,000m steeplechase

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Main race this year: Men's Olympic 3,000m steeplechase
RANK  | 1988 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS  | TIME

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1\.  |  Julius Kariuki (KEN) | 8:05.51
2\.  |  Peter Koech (KEN) | 8:06.79
3\.  |  Mark Rowland (GBR) | 8:07.96
4\.  |  Patrick Sang (KEN) | 8:12.00
5\.  |  Alessandro Lambruschini (ITA) | 8:12.17

### High jump

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Main competition this year: Men's Olympic High Jump
RANK  | 1988 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS  | HEIGHT

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1\.  |  Javier Sotomayor (CUB) | 2.43
2\.  |  Sergey Malchenko (URS) | 2.38
-- |  Hennadiy Avdyeyenko (URS) | 2.38
4\.  |  Tom McCants (USA) | 2.37
-- |  Jerome Carter (USA) | 2.37
-- |  Sorin Matei (ROU) | 2.37
-- |  Patrik Sjöberg (SWE) | 2.37

### Long jump

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Main competition this year: Men's Olympic Long Jump
RANK  | 1988 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS  | DISTANCE

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1\.  |  Carl Lewis (USA) | 8.76
2\.  |  Larry Myricks (USA) | 8.74
3\.  |  Mike Powell (USA) | 8.49
4\.  |  Leonid Voloshin (URS) | 8.46
5\.  |  Eric Metcalf (USA) | 8.44

### Triple jump

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Main competition this year: Men's Olympic Triple Jump
RANK  | 1988 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS  | DISTANCE

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1\.  |  Khristo Markov (BUL) | 17.77
2\.  |  Igor Lapshin (URS) | 17.69
3\.  |  Oleg Protsenko (URS) | 17.68
4\.  |  Mike Conley (USA) | 17.59
5\.  |  Māris Bružiks (URS) | 17.56

### Discus

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Main competition this year: Men's Olympic Discus Throw
RANK  | 1988 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS  | DISTANCE

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1\.  |  Jürgen Schult (GDR) | 70.46
2\.  |  Yuriy Dumchev (URS) | 70.30
3\.  |  Romas Ubartas (URS) | 70.06
4\.  |  Mike Buncic (USA) | 68.92
5\.  |  Vladimir Zinchenko (URS) | 68.88

### Shot put

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Main competition this year: Men's Olympic Shot Put
RANK  | 1988 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS  | DISTANCE

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1\.  |  Ulf Timmermann (GDR) | 23.06
2\.  |  Werner Günthör (SUI) | 22.75
3\.  |  Randy Barnes (USA) | 22.42
4\.  |  Udo Beyer (GDR) | 22.10
5\.  |  Sergey Smirnov (URS) | 21.88

### Hammer

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Main article: 1988 Hammer Throw Year Ranking

RANK  | 1988 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS  | DISTANCE

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1\.  |  Yuriy Sedykh (URS) | 85.14
2\.  |  Sergey Litvinov (URS) | 84.80
3\.  |  Jüri Tamm (URS) | 84.16
4\.  |  Igor Nikulin (URS) | 83.78
5\.  |  Igor Astapkovich (URS) | 83.44

### Javelin (new design)

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Main competition this year: Men's Olympic Javelin Throw
RANK  | 1988 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS  | DISTANCE

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1\.  |  Jan Železný (TCH) | 86.88
2\.  |  Tapio Korjus (FIN) | 86.50
3\.  |  Klaus Tafelmeier (FRG) | 85.96
4\.  |  Einar Vilhjálmsson (ISL) | 84.66
5\.  |  Silvio Warsönke (GDR) | 84.14

### Pole vault

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Main competition this year: Men's Olympic Pole Vault
RANK  | 1988 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS  | HEIGHT

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1\.  |  Sergey Bubka (URS) | 6.06
2\.  |  Radion Gataullin (URS) | 5.95
3\.  |  Miroslaw Chmara (POL) | 5.90
4\.  |  Kory Tarpenning (USA) | 5.89
5\.  |  Earl Bell (USA) | 5.87

### Decathlon

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Main competition this year: Men's Olympic Decathlon
RANK  | 1988 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS  | POINTS

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1\.  |  Christian Plaziat (FRA) | 8512
2\.  |  Valter Külvet (EST) | 8506
3\.  |  Christian Schenk (GDR) | 8488
4\.  |  Robert de Wit (NED) | 8447
5\.  |  Alexander Apaychev (UKR) | 8424

## Women's Best Year Performers

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Main race this year: Women's Olympic 100 metres

### 100 metres

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RANK  | 1988 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS  | TIME

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1\.  |  Florence Griffith Joyner (USA) | 10.49
2\.  |  Evelyn Ashford (USA) | 10.81
3\.  |  Sheila Echols (USA) | 10.83
4\.  |  Anelia Nuneva (BUL) | 10.85
5\.  |  Diane Williams (USA) | 10.86

### 200 metres

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Main race this year: Women's Olympic 200 metres
RANK  | 1988 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS  | TIME

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1\.  |  Florence Griffith Joyner (USA) | 21.34
2\.  |  Grace Jackson (JAM) | 21.72
3\.  |  Heike Drechsler (GDR) | 21.84
4\.  |  Pam Marshall (USA) | 21.93
5\.  |  Merlene Ottey (JAM) | 21.99

### 400 metres

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Main race this year: Women's Olympic 400 metres
RANK  | 1988 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS  | TIME

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1\.  |  Olga Bryzgina (URS) | 48.65
2\.  |  Olga Nazarova (URS) | 49.11
3\.  |  Petra Müller (GDR) | 49.30
4\.  |  Aelita Yurchenko (URS) | 49.47
5\.  |  Grace Jackson (JAM) | 49.57

### 800 metres

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Main race this year: Women's Olympic 800 metres
RANK  | 1988 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS  | TIME

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1\.  |  Inna Yevseyeva (URS) | 1:56.0
-- |  Nadiya Olizarenko (URS) | 1:56.0
3\.  |  Sigrun Wodars (GDR) | 1:56.10
4\.  |  Ana Fidelia Quirot (CUB) | 1:56.36
5\.  |  Paula Ivan (ROU) | 1:56.42

### 1,500 metres

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Main race this year: Women's Olympic 1,500 metres
RANK  | 1988 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS  | TIME

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1\.  |  Paula Ivan (ROU) | 3:53.96
2\.  |  Mary Slaney (USA) | 3:58.92
3\.  |  Laimutė Baikauskaitė (URS) | 4:00.24
4\.  |  Tatyana Samolenko (URS) | 4:00.30
5\.  |  Regina Jacobs (USA) | 4:00.46

### Mile

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RANK  | 1988 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS  | TIME

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1\.  |  Mary Slaney (USA) | 4:21.25
2\.  |  Paula Ivan (ROU) | 4:25.80

### 3,000 metres

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Main race this year: Women's Olympic 3,000 metres
RANK  | 1988 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS  | TIME

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1\.  |  Tatyana Samolenko (URS) | 8:26.53
2\.  |  Paula Ivan (ROU) | 8:27.15
3\.  |  Yvonne Murray (GBR) | 8:29.02
4\.  |  Yelena Romanova (URS) | 8:30.45
5\.  |  Natalya Artyomova (URS) | 8:31.67

### 5,000 metres

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RANK  | 1988 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS  | TIME

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1\.  |  Liz McColgan (GBR) | 15:03.29
2\.  |  Ingrid Kristiansen (NOR) | 15:10.89
3\.  |  Olga Bondarenko (URS) | 15:11.16
4\.  |  Lynn Jennings (USA) | 15:11.83
5\.  |  Lynn Nelson (USA) | 15:12.7

### 10,000 metres

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Main race this year: Women's Olympic 10,000 metres
RANK  | 1988 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS  | TIME

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1\.  |  Olga Bondarenko (URS) | 31:05.21
2\.  |  Liz McColgan (GBR) | 31:06.99
3\.  |  Yelena Zhupiyeva (URS) | 31:19.82
4\.  |  Kathrin Ullrich (GDR) | 31:26.79
5\.  |  Ingrid Kristiansen (NOR) | 31:31.37

### Half marathon

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RANK  | 1988 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS  | TIME

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1\.  |  Grete Waitz (NOR) | 1:08:49

### Marathon

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Main race this year: Women's Olympic Marathon
RANK  | 1988 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS  | TIME

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1\.  |  Lisa Martin (AUS) | 2:23:51
2\.  |  Rosa Mota (POR) | 2:24:30
3\.  |  Ingrid Kristiansen (NOR) | 2:25:41
4\.  |  Katrin Dörre (GDR) | 2:26:21
5\.  |  Tatyana Polovinskaya (URS) | 2:27:05

### Race Walking

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Main article: 1988 Race Walking Year Ranking

### 100m hurdles

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Main race this year: Women's Olympic 100m hurdles
RANK  | 1988 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS  | TIME

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1\.  |  Yordanka Donkova (BUL) | 12.21
2\.  |  Ginka Zagorcheva (BUL) | 12.48
-- |  Gloria Siebert (GDR) | 12.48
-- |  Nataliya Grygoryeva (URS) | 12.48
5\.  |  Cornelia Oschkenat (GDR) | 12.52

### 400m hurdles

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Main race this year: Women's Olympic 400m hurdles
RANK  | 1988 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS  | TIME

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1\.  |  Debbie Flintoff-King (AUS) | 53.17
2\.  |  Tatyana Ledovskaya (URS) | 53.18
3\.  |  Ellen Fiedler (GDR) | 53.63
4\.  |  Sabine Busch (GDR) | 53.69
5\.  |  Sally Gunnell (GBR) | 54.03

### High Jump

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Main competition this year: Women's Olympic High Jump
RANK  | 1988 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS  | HEIGHT

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1\.  |  Stefka Kostadinova (BUL) | 2.07 m
2\.  |  Louise Ritter (USA) | 2.03 m
3\.  |  Silvia Costa (CUB) | 2.02 m
4\.  |  Olga Turchak (URS) | 2.00 m
-- |  Larisa Kositsyna (URS) | 2.00 m
-- |  Alina Astafei (ROU) | 2.00 m

### Long Jump

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Main competition this year: Women's Olympic Long Jump
RANK  | 1988 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS  | DISTANCE

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1\.  |  Galina Chistyakova (URS) | 7.52 m
2\.  |  Heike Drechsler (GDR) | 7.48 m
3\.  |  Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA) | 7.40 m
4\.  |  Yelena Belevskaya (URS) | 7.36 m
5\.  |  Yelena Khlopotnova (URS) | 7.29 m

### Shot put

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Main competition this year: Women's Olympic Shot Put
RANK  | 1988 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS  | DISTANCE

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1\.  |  Natalya Lisovskaya (URS) | 22.55 m
2\.  |  Li Meisu (CHN) | 21.76 m
3\.  |  Natalya Akhrimenko (URS) | 21.73 m
4\.  |  Huang Zhihong (CHN) | 21.28 m
5\.  |  Heike Hartwig (GDR) | 21.27 m

### Discus throw

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Main competition this year: Women's Olympic Discus Throw
RANK  | 1988 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS  | DISTANCE

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1\.  |  Gabriele Reinsch (GDR) | 76.80 m
2\.  |  Ilke Wyludda (GDR) | 74.40 m
3\.  |  Daniela Costian (ROM) | 73.84 m
4\.  |  Diana Gansky (GDR) | 72.94 m
5\.  |  Martina Hellmann (GDR) | 72.30 m

### Javelin (old design)

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Main competition this year: Women's Olympic Javelin Throw
RANK  | 1988 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS  | DISTANCE

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1\.  |  Petra Felke (GDR) | 80.00 m
2\.  |  Tiina Lillak (FIN) | 73.30 m
3\.  |  Tessa Sanderson (GBR) | 71.70 m
4\.  |  Silke Renk (GDR) | 71.00 m
5\.  |  Ivonne Leal (CUB) | 70.48 m

### Heptathlon

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Main competition this year: Women's Olympic Heptathlon
RANK  | 1988 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS  | POINTS

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1\.  |  Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA) | 7291
2\.  |  Sabine John (GDR) | 6897
3\.  |  Anke Behmer (GDR) | 6858
4\.  |  Chantal Beaugeant (FRA) | 6702
5\.  |  Ines Schulz (GDR) | 6660

## Births

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* January 17 -- Anna Bulgakova, Russian hammer thrower
* January 21 -- Ashton Eaton, American decathlete
* January 26 -- Gilbert Yegon, Kenyan long-distance runner
* April 29 -- Jan Kudlička, Czech pole vaulter
* May 20 -- Yomara Hinestroza, Colombian sprinter
* May 26 -- Dani Samuels, Australian discus thrower
* June 22 -- Yekaterina Yevseyeva, Kazakh high jumper
* July 5 -- Vincent Chepkok, Kenyan long-distance runner
* August 4 -- Liam Zamel-Paez, Australian high jumper
* August 10 -- Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot, Kenyan marathon runner
* August 24 -- Matteo Galvan, Italian sprinter
* August 29 -- Harry Aikines-Aryeetey, English sprinter
* September 5 -- Chu Yafei, Chinese race walker
* October 31 -- Eglė Balčiūnaitė, Lithuanian middle-distance runner
* December 17 -- David Rudisha, Kenyan middle-distance runner

## Deaths

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* July 8 — Ray Barbuti (83), American athlete (b. 1905)

## References

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* Year Lists
* 1988 Year Rankings
* Association of Road Racing Statisticians

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