Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Women's 800 metres

Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m				women
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men		women
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Road events
Marathon		men		women
20 km walk		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The Women's 800 metres at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea had an entrylist of 29 competitors, with four qualifying heats (29) and two semi-finals (16), before the final (8) took off on Monday September 26, 1988.

Medalists

Gold	Sigrun Wodars East Germany (GDR)
Silver	Christine Wachtel East Germany (GDR)
Bronze	Kim Gallagher United States (USA)

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1988 Summer Olympics.

World Record	1:53.28	Jarmila Kratochvílová	Munich (FGR)	July 26, 1983
Olympic Record	1:53.43	Nadezhda Olizarenko	Moscow (URS)	July 27, 1980

Final

RANK	FINAL	TIME
	Sigrun Wodars (GDR)	1:56.10
	Christine Wachtel (GDR)	1:56.64
	Kim Gallagher (USA)	1:56.91
4.	Slobodanka Čolović (YUG)	1:57.50
5.	Delisa Walton-Floyd (USA)	1:57.80
6.	Inna Yevseyeva (URS)	1:59.37
7.	Mayte Zuñiga (ESP)	1:59.82
8.	Diane Edwards (GBR)	2:00.77

Semi finals

RANK	HEAT 1	TIME
1.	Sigrun Wodars (GDR)	1:57.21
2.	Kim Gallagher (USA)	1:57.39
3.	Slobodanka Čolović (YUG)	1:57.49
4.	Mayte Zuñiga (ESP)	1:58.85
5.	Kirsty Wade (GBR)	2:00.86
6.	Soraya Telles (BRA)	2:01.86
7.	Joetta Clark (USA)	2:03.32
8.	Nadezhda Olizarenko (URS)	2:05.27

RANK	HEAT 2	TIME
1.	Christine Wachtel (GDR)	1:58.44
2.	Delisa Floyd (USA)	1:58.82
3.	Inna Yevseyeva (URS)	1:59.10
4.	Diane Edwards (GBR)	1:59.66
5.	Gaby Lesch (FRG)	1:59.85
6.	Shireen Bailey (GBR)	1:59.94
7.	Dalya Matoussiavichene (URS)	2:00.15
8.	Letitia Vriesde (SUR)	2:02.34

Qualifying heats

RANK	HEAT 1	TIME
1.	Inna Yevseieva (URS)	2:01.59
2.	Slobodanka Čolović (YUG)	2:01.80
3.	Shireen Bailey (GBR)	2:02.36
4.	Sharon Powell (JAM)	2:03.49
5.	Montserrat Pujol (ESP)	2:03.73
6.	Choi Se-Beom (KOR)	2:06.65
7.	Assumpta Achuo-Bei (CMR)	2:07.10
8.	Christine Bakombo (ZAI)	2:11.00

RANK	HEAT 2	TIME
1.	Christine Wachtel (GDR)	2:00.62
2.	Joetta Clark (USA)	2:00.83
3.	Gaby Lesch (FRG)	2:00.95
4.	Mayte Zúñiga (ESP)	2:00.98
5.	Mary Burzminski (CAN)	2:02.85
6.	Shiny Abraham-Wilson (IND)	2:03.26
7.	Maria Mutola (MOZ)	2:04.36
8.	Sheila Seebaluck (MRI)	2:08.93

RANK	HEAT 3	TIME
1.	Sigrun Wodars (GDR)	2:02.24
2.	Delisa Floyd (USA)	2:02.37
3.	Soraya Telles (BRA)	2:02.48
4.	Dalya Matusevičienė (URS)	2:02.57
5.	Kirsty Wade (GBR)	2:02.75
6.	Maureen Stewart (CRC)	2:08.17
7.	Laverne Bryan (ANT)	2:12.18

RANK	HEAT 4	TIME
1.	Kim Gallagher (USA)	2:01.70
2.	Diane Edwards (GBR)	2:01.79
3.	Nadezhda Olizarenko (URS)	2:01.81
4.	Letitia Vriesde (SUR)	2:01.83
5.	Hassiba Boulmerka (ALG)	2:03.33
6.	Renée Belanger (CAN)	2:04.74

See also

• 1987 Women's World Championships 800 metres (Rome)
• 1990 Women's European Championships 800 metres (Split)
• 1991 Women's World Championships 800 metres (Tokyo)
• 1992 Women's Olympic 800 metres (Barcelona)

References

• (English) Official Report