1988 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 1500 m (women)
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sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 1500 meter run | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 28 athletes from 19 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Seoul Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | September 29, 1988 (preliminary round) October 1, 1988 (final) |
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The women's 1,500-meter run at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul was held in two rounds on September 29 and October 1, 1988 in the Seoul Olympic Stadium. 28 athletes took part.
The Romanian Paula Ivan became Olympic champion . She won ahead of the two Soviet athletes Laimutė Baikauskaitė and Tetjana Samolenko .
Vera Michallek took part for the Federal Republic of Germany, who was eliminated in the preliminary round.
The GDR was represented by Andrea Hahmann . She reached the final and was sixth.
The Swiss Cornelia Bürki failed in the preliminary round.
Runners from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current titleholders
Olympic champion 1984 |
Gabriella Dorio ( Italy )
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4: 03.25 min | Los Angeles 1984 |
World Champion 1987 |
Tetjana Samolenko ( Soviet Union )
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3: 58.56 min | Rome 1987 |
European champion 1986 |
Rawilja Agletdinova ( Soviet Union )
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4: 01.19 min | Stuttgart 1986 |
Pan American Champion 1987 |
Linda Sheskey ( USA )
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4: 07.84 min | Indianapolis 1987 |
Central America and Caribbean Champion 1987 | Milagro Rodríguez ( Cuba )
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4: 29.34 min | Caracas 1987 |
South American Champion 1987 | Soraya Telles ( Brazil )
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4: 29.9 min | São Paulo 1987 |
Asian champion 1987 | Yang Liuxia ( People's Republic of China )
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4: 19.29 min | Singapore 1987 |
African champion in 1988 |
Hassiba Boulmerka ( Algeria )
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4: 12.14 min | Annaba 1988 |
Existing records
World record | 3: 52.47 min |
Tatjana Kasankina ( Soviet Union )
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Zurich , Switzerland | August 13, 1980 |
Olympic record | 3: 55.0 min | Final of Moscow , Soviet Union (today Russia ) | July 6, 1980 |
Preliminary round
Date: September 29, 1988
The athletes competed in a total of two preliminary runs. The first four athletes of each run qualified for the final. In addition, the four fastest times, the so-called lucky losers , made it through. The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.
Forward 1
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Doina Melinte |
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4: 06.87 min | |
2 | Debbie Bowker |
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4: 07.06 min | |
3 | Tetiana Samolenko |
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4: 07.11 min | |
4th | Kim Gallagher |
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4: 07.22 min | |
5 | Elly van Hulst |
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4: 07.40 min | |
6th | Kirsty Wade |
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4: 08.37 min | |
7th | Lyubov Gurina |
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4: 08.59 min | |
8th | Angela Chalmers |
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4: 08.64 min | |
9 | Vera Michallek |
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4: 10.05 min | |
10 | Cornelia Bürki |
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4: 10.89 min | |
11 | Khin Khin Htwe |
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4: 20.92 min | |
12 | No Hye-sun |
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4: 26.05 min | |
13 | Daphrose Nyiramutuzo |
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4: 32.31 min | |
14th | Poloni Avek |
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4: 46.49 min |
Forward 2
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Paula Ivan |
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4: 03.33 min | |
2 | Mary Slaney |
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4: 03.61 min | |
3 | Andrea Hahmann |
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4: 03.65 min | |
4th | Lynn Williams |
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4: 04.20 min | |
5 | Shireen Bailey |
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4: 04.65 min | |
6th | Christina Cahill |
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4: 05.33 min | |
7th | Laimutė Baikauskaitė |
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4: 05.74 min | |
8th | Fatima Aouam |
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4: 06.87 min | |
9 | Hassiba Boulmerka |
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4: 08.33 min | |
10 | Susan Sirma |
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4: 10.13 min | |
11 | Regina Jacobs |
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4: 18.09 min | |
12 | Letitia Vriesde |
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4: 19.58 min | |
13 | Laverne Bryan |
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4: 39.73 min | |
14th | Rachel Thompson |
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5: 31.42 min |
final
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Paula Ivan |
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3: 53.96 min | OR |
2 | Laimutė Baikauskaitė |
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4: 00.24 min | |
3 | Tetiana Samolenko |
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4: 00.30 min | |
4th | Christina Cahill |
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4: 00.64 min | |
5 | Lynn Williams |
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4: 00.86 min | |
6th | Andrea Hahmann |
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4:00, 96 min | |
7th | Shireen Bailey |
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4: 02.32 min | |
8th | Mary Slaney |
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4: 02.49 min | |
9 | Doina Melinte |
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4: 02.89 min | |
10 | Fatima Aouam |
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4: 08.00 min | |
11 | Kim Gallagher |
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4: 16.25 min | |
12 | Debbie Bowker |
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4: 17.95 min |
Date: October 1, 1988
Two runners from the Soviet Union, Romania, Canada, the United States and Great Britain each qualified for the final on October 1st. The starting field was completed with one athlete each from the GDR and Morocco.
The favorites were the Soviet world champion Tetjana Samolenko, who had already won the 3,000-meter run here in Seoul , and the American Mary Slaney, the world champion from 1983 , who at the time had won under her maiden name Mary Decker and who won the Game in Los Angeles was unhappy due to a fall. Another medal candidate was the 1984 silver medalist Doina Melinte from Romania, who was third in the European Championship in 1986 and third in the World Cup in 1987.
In the final, Romanian Paula Ivan took the lead right from the start and set a high pace. She ran the first lap in 1: 02.52 minutes. After 600 meters a gap opened up between Ivan and the rest of the field, which got bigger and bigger. After two laps, Ivan had run out of eight meters. Her pace remained high, the 800-meter split was 2: 05.78 minutes. Meanwhile, the gap between the Romanian and the pursuers grew bigger and bigger. When it came to the final lap, Melinte was in second place, while Slaney fell behind. The 1200-meter split was 3: 08.24 minutes, Ivan kept her steady high pace even now. Andrea Hahmann, GDR, had moved up to second place, while Samolenko was third in front of the British Christina Cahill. Paula Ivan didn't let anything burn for the last two hundred meters. She continued to pull through and became Olympic champion with a lead of forty meters and a new Olympic record . In the fight for the other medals, the Soviet runner Laimutė Baikauskaitė was able to free most of her strength on the home straight and sprinted silver ahead of Tetjana Samolenko, who won bronze. Christina Cahill finished fourth ahead of Canadians Lynn Williams and Andrea Hahmann. Never before had a 1,500-meter runner won an Olympic gold medal by more than six seconds.
Paula Ivan won Romania's first Olympic victory over 1500 meters for women.
Web links
- SportsReference 1500 m , accessed January 30, 2018
- Official report on the Olympic Games in Seoul Volume two, part two , Athletics results: p. 257, English / French (PDF, 25.64 MB), accessed on January 30, 2018
Video
- Women's 1500m Final at Seoul Olympics 1988 , published July 29, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed January 30, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 795 , accessed on January 30, 2018
- ↑ a b Official report on the Olympic Games in Seoul Volume two, part two , Athletics results: p. 257, English / French (PDF, 25.64 MB), accessed on January 30, 2018