Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres

The Women's 100 metres at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea had an entry list of 64 competitors, with eight qualifying heats (64), four second-round races (32) and two semifinals (16), before the final (8) took off on Sunday September 25, 1988.

Records These were the standing World and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1988 Summer Olympics. World record 10.49 Florence Griffith-Joyner Indianapolis (USA) July 16, 1988 Olympic record 10.97 Evelyn Ashford Los Angeles (USA) August 5, 1984

The following Olympic records were set during this competition. Date Athlete Time OR WRSeptember 24, 1988 10.88 ORSeptember 24, 1988 10.88 =ORSeptember 24, 1988 10.62 OR

Results Heats Heat 1 Wind +1.1 Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Anelia Nuneva 11.09 2 Grace Jackson 11.18 3 Paula Dunn 11.39 4 Tian Yumei 11.56 5 Voula Patoulidou 11.85 6 Melvina Vulah 12.16 7 Félicite Bada 12.27 8 Farida Kyakutewa 12.32

Heat 2 Wind +0.4 Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Pauline Davis 11.20 2 Nelli Cooman 11.22 3 Marlies Göhr 11.22 4 Jolanta Janota 11.71 5 Sandy Myers 11.86 6 Méryem Oumezdi 11.90 7 Yvette Bonapart 12.27 8 Aminata Diarra 12.27

Heat 3 Wind +0.0 Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Gwen Torrence 11.12 2 Lyudmila Kondratyeva 11.19 3 Laurence Bily 11.34 4 Amparo Caicedo 11.59 5 Marisa Masullo 11.71 6 Ewa Pisiewicz 11.84 7 Ng Ka Yee 12.18 8 Jabou Jawo 12.27

Heat 4 Wind +1.1 Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Juliet Cuthbert 11.14 2 Silke Möller 11.27 3 Els Vader 11.38 4 Sabine Richter 11.49 5 Françoise Leroux 11.58 6 Lydia de Vega 11.67 7 Guilhermina da Cruz 12.47 8 Erin Tierney 12.52

Heat 5 Wind +0.1 Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Evelyn Ashford 11.10 2 Marina Zhirova 11.22 3 Joanna Smolarek 11.43 4 Andrea Thomas 11.46 5 Julie Rocheleau 11.60 6 Gaily Dube 12.07 7 Claudia Acerenza 12.11 8 Judith Diankoléla-Missengué 12.14

Heat 6 Wind +0.2 Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Natalia Pomoshchnikova 11.11 2 Heike Drechsler 11.15 3 Simmone Jacobs 11.56 4 Angela Williams 11.62 5 Liu Shaomei 11.66 6 Lee Young-sook 11.74 7 Joyce Odhiambo 11.90 8 Mariama Ouiminga 12.62

Heat 7 Wind +1.0 Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Florence Griffith-Joyner 10.88 , OR 2 Kerry Johnson 11.44 3 Angela Bailey 11.61 4 Patricia Girard 11.65 5 Zhang Caihua 11.84 6 Gisèle Ongollo 11.85 7 Chen Ya-li 12.16 8 Evelyn Farrell 12.48

Heat 8 Wind +0.1 Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Merlene Ottey 11.03 2 Ulrike Sarvari 11.26 3 Angella Issajenko 11.42 4 Dinah Yankey 11.64 5 Rossella Tarolo 11.86 6 Helen Miles 11.88 7 Olivette Daruhi 13.00 8 Mala Sakonhninhom 15.12

Quarterfinals Quarterfinal 1 Wind +0.5 Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Heike Drechsler 10.96 2 Merlene Ottey 11.03 3 Ulrike Sarvari 11.16 4 Pauline Davis 11.21 5 Angela Bailey 11.29 6 Els Vader 11.51 7 Tian Yumei 11.55 8 Françoise Leroux 11.75

Quarterfinal 2 Wind +1.6 Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Evelyn Ashford 10.88 , =OR 2 Natalia Pomoishchnikova 10.98 3 Marlies Göhr 10.99 4 Nelli Cooman 11.08 5 Angella Issajenko 11.27 6 Joanna Smolarek 11.35 7 Angela Williams 11.45 8 Amparo Caicedo 11.65

Quarterfinal 3 Wind +1.0 Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Florence Griffith-Joyner 10.62 2 Juliet Cuthbert 11.03 3 Lyudmila Kondratyeva 11.05 4 Silke Möller 11.10 5 Simmone Jacobs 11.31 6 Laurence Bily 11.35 7 Andrea Thomas 11.37 8 Dinah Yankey 11.63

Quarterfinal 4 Wind +0.0 Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Anelia Nuneva 10.96 2 Gwen Torrence 10.99 3 Grace Jackson 11.13 4 Marina Zhirova 11.14 5 Paula Dunn 11.37 6 Kerry Johnson 11.42 7 Sabine Richter 11.59 8 Julie Rocheleau 11.75

Semifinals Semifinal 1 Wind +0.5 Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Evelyn Ashford 10.99 2 Anelia Nuneva 11.00 3 Gwen Torrence 11.02 4 Juliet Cuthbert 11.10 5 Silke Möller 11.12 6 Marlies Göhr 11.13 7 Lyudmila Kondratyeva 11.21 8 Marina Zhirova 11.24

Semifinal 2 Wind +2.6 Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Florence Griffith-Joyner 10.70 2 Heike Drechsler 10.91 3 Natalia Pomoshchnikova 11.03 4 Grace Jackson 11.06 5 Ulrike Sarvari 11.12 6 Pauline Davis 11.12 7 Nelli Cooman 11.13 — Merlene Ottey

Final Wind +3.0 Rank Lane Athlete Nation Time 3 Florence Griffith-Joyner 10.54 6 Evelyn Ashford 10.83 5 Heike Drechsler 10.85 4 8 Grace Jackson 10.97 5 1 Gwen Torrence 10.97 6 2 Natalia Pomoshchnikova 11.00 7 7 Juliet Cuthbert 11.26 8 4 Anelia Nuneva 11.49 Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine:

See also 1987 Women's World Championships 100 metres (Rome) 1990 Women's European Championships 100 metres (Split) 1991 Women's World Championships 100 metres (Tokyo) 1992 Women's Olympic 100 metres (Barcelona)

References

Official Report