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Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Athletics Medal Winner at the 1988 Summer Olympics
| Event: | |||
| Men's 100 m | Carl Lewis, USA 9.92 | Linford Christie, GBR 9.97 | Calvin Smith, USA 9.99 |
| Men's 200 m | Joe DeLoach, USA 19.75 | Carl Lewis, USA 19.79 | Robson da Silva, BRA 20.04 |
| Men's 400 m | Steven Lewis, USA 43.87 | Butch Reynolds, USA 43.93 | Danny Everett, USA 44.09 |
| Men's 800 m | Paul Ereng, KEN 1:43.45 | Joaquim Cruz, BRA 1:43.90 | Said Aouita, MAR 1:44.06 |
| Men's 1,500 m | Peter Rono, KEN 3:35.96 | Peter Elliott , GBR 3:36.15 | Jens-Peter Herold, GDR 3:36.21 |
| Men's 5,000 m | John Ngugi, KEN 13:11.70 | Dieter Baumann, FRG 13:15.52 | Hansjorg Kunze, GDR 13:15.73 |
| Men's 10,000 m | Brahim Boutaib, MAR 27:21.44 | Salvatore Antibo, ITA 27:23.55 | Kipkemboy Kimeli, KEN 27:25.16 |
| Men's Marathon | Gelindo Bordin, ITA 2:10:32 | Douglas Wakihuriu, KEN 2:10:47 | Ahmed Saleh, DJI 2:10:59 |
| Men's 110 m Hurdles | Roger Kingdom, USA 12.98 | Colin Jackson, GBR 13.28 | Anthony Campbell, USA 13.38 |
| Men's 400 m Hurdles | Andre Philipps , USA 47.19 | Amadou Dia Ba, SEN 47.23 | Edwin Moses, USA 47.56 |
| Men's 3,000 m Steeplechase | Julius Kariuki, KEN 8:05.51 | Peter Koech, KEN 8:06.79 | Mark Rowland, GBR 8:07.96 |
| Men's 4 x 100 m Relay | Soviet Union 38.19 | Great Britain 38.28 | France 38.40 |
| Men's 4 x 400 m Relay | United States 2:56.16 | Jamaica 3:00.30 | West Germany 3:00.56 |
| Men's 20 km Walk | Jozef Pribilinec , TCH 1:19:57 | Ronald Weigel, GDR 1:20:00 | Maurizio Damilano, ITA 1:20:14 |
| Men's 50 km Walk | Vyacheslav Ivanenko , URS 3:38:29 | Ronald Weigel, GDR 3:38:56 | Hartwig Gauder, GDR 3:39:45 |
| Men's High Jump | Gennadi Avdeyenko , URS 7'9¾" | Hollis Conway, USA 7'8¾" | Patrick Sjoberg, SWE 7'8¾" |
| Men's Pole Vault | Sergey Bubka, URS 19'4¼" | Rodion Gataullin, URS 19'2¼" | Grigori Yegorov, URS 19'¼" |
| Men's Long Jump | Carl Lewis, USA 28'7½" | Mike Powell, USA 27'10¼" | Larry Myricks , USA 27'1¾" |
| Men's Triple Jump | Khristo Markov , BUL 57'9½" | Igor Lapshin, URS 57'5¾" | Alexander Kovalenko, URS 57'2" |
| Men's Shot Put | Ulf Timmermann, GDR 73'8¾" | Randy Barnes, USA 73'5½" | Werner Gunthor, SUI 72'1¾" |
| Men's Discus | Jurgen Schult, GDR 225'9" | Romas Ubartas, URS 221'5" | Rolf Danneberg, FRG 221'1" |
| Men's Hammer Throw | Sergey Litvinov, URS 278'2" | Yury Sedych, URS 274'10" | Yury Tamm, URS 266'3" |
| Men's Javelin | Tapio Korjus, FIN 276'6" | Jan Zelezny, TCH 276'0" | Seppo Raty, FIN 273'2" |
| Men's Decathlon | Charistian Schenk, GDR 8488 | Torsten Voss, GDR 8399 | Dave Steen, CAN 8328 |
| Women's 100 m | Florence Griffith-Joyner, USA 10.54 | Evelyn Ashford, USA 10.83 | Heike Drechsler, GDR 10.85 |
| Women's 200 m | Florence Griffith-Joyner, USA 21.34 | Grace Jackson, JAM 21.72 | Heike Drechsler, GDR 21.95 |
| Women's 400 m | Olga Brizgina, URS 48.65 | Petra Muller, GDR 49.45 | Olga Nasarova, URS 49.90 |
| Women's 800 m | Sigrun Wodars, GDR 1:56.10 | Christine Wachtel, GDR 1:56.64 | Kim Gallagher, USA 1:56.91 |
| Women's 1,500 m | Paula Ivan, ROM 3:53.96 | Lelute Baikauskaite, URS 4:00.24 | Tatyana Samolenko, URS 4:00.30 |
| Women's 3,000 m | Tatyana Samolenko, URS 8:26.53 | Paula Ivan, ROM 8:27.15 | Yvonne Murray, GBR 8:29.02 |
| Women's 10,000 m | Olga Bondarenko, URS 31:05.21 | Elizabeth McColgan, GBR 31:08.44 | Yelena Yupiyeva, URS 31:19.82 |
| Women's Marathon | Rosa Mota, POR 2:25:40 | Lisa Martin, AUS 2:25:53 | Katrin Dorre, GDR 2:26:21 |
| Women's 100 m Hurdles | Yordanka Donkova, BUL 12.38 | Gloria Siebert, GDR 12.61 | Claudia Zaczkiewicz, FRG 12.75 |
| Women's 400 m Hurdles | Debra Flintoff-King, AUS 53.17 | Tatyana Ledovskaya, URS 53.18 | Ellen Fiedler, GDR 53.63 |
| Women's 4 x 100 m Relay | United States 41.98 | East Germany 42.09 | Soviet Union 42.75 |
| Women's 4 x 400 m Relay | Soviet Union 3:15.18 | United States 3:15.51 | East Germany 3:18.29 |
| Women's High Jump | Louise Ritter, USA 6'8" | Stefka Kostadinova, BUL 6'7" | Tamara Bykova, URS 6'6¼" |
| Women's Long Jump | Jackie Joyner-Kersee, USA 24'3½" | Heike Drechsler, GDR 23'8¼" | Galina Chistyakova, URS 23'4" |
| Women's Shot Put | Natalia Lisovskaya, URS 72'11¾" | Kathrin Neimke, GDR 69'1½" | Meisu Li, CHN 69'1¼" |
| Women's Discus | Martina Hellmann, GDR 237'2" | Diana Gansky, GDR 235'10" | Szvetanka Christova, BUL 228'10" |
| Women's Javelin | Petra Felke, GDR 245'0" | Fatima Whitbread, GBR 230'8" | Beate Koch, GDR 220'9" |
| Women's Heptathlon | Jackie Joyner-Kersee, USA 7291 | Sabine John, GDR 6897 | Anke Behmer, GDR 6858 |
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