1988 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 10,000 m (women)

sport	athletics
discipline	10,000 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	34 athletes from 20 countries
Competition location	Seoul Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	September 26, 1988 (preliminary round) September 30, 1988 (final)
Medalists Olga Bondarenko ( URS )   Liz McColgan ( GBR )   Olena Schupijewa ( URS )

The women's 10,000-meter run at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul was held on September 26th and 30th, 1988 in two rounds in the Seoul Olympic Stadium. 34 athletes took part in the Olympic premiere of this discipline in women's athletics.

The first Olympic champion was Olga Bondarenko from the Soviet Union. She won ahead of the British Liz McColgan and Olena Schupijewa , also from the Soviet Union.

Kathrin Ullrich took part for the GDR . She reached the finals and was fourth.
The Swiss Martine Bouchonneau-Oppliger was eliminated in the preliminary round.
Runners from the Federal Republic of Germany, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current titleholders

Olympic champion 1984	Competition at the Olympic Games not yet held
world champion	Ingrid Kristiansen ( Norway )	31: 05.85 min	Rome 1987
European champion 1986		30: 23.25 min	Stuttgart 1986
Pan American Champion 1987	Marty Cooksey ( USA )	33: 00.00 min	Indianapolis 1987
Central America and Caribbean Champion 1987	Isabel Juárez ( Mexico )	35: 06.20 min	Caracas 1987
South American Champion 1987	Angélica de Almeida ( Brazil )	34: 59.2 min	São Paulo 1987
Asian champion 1987	Wang Huabi ( People's Republic of China )	34: 56.34 min	Singapore 1987
African champion in 1988	Maricanne Mukamurenzi ( Rwanda )	33: 03.98 min	Annaba 1988

Existing records

World record	30: 13.74 min	Ingrid Kristiansen ( Norway )	Oslo , Norway	5th July 1986
Olympic record	Competition at the Olympic Games not yet held

Preliminary round

Date: September 26, 1988

The athletes competed in two preliminary runs. The first eight athletes per 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
1	Ingrid Kristiansen	Norway	31: 44.69 min	first OR
2	Olga Bondarenko	Soviet Union	31: 47.67 min
3	Olena Schupiyeva	Soviet Union	31: 47.99 min
4th	Kathrin Ullrich	GDR	31: 51.40 min
5	Susan Lee	Canada	31: 51.42 min
6th	Francie Larrieu Smith	United States	31:52.02 min
7th	Albertina Machado	Portugal	31: 52.04 min
8th	Wang Qinghuan	People's Republic of China	32: 04.52 min
9	Rosanna Munerotto	Italy	32: 06.76 min
10	Carole Rouillard	Canada	32: 09.08 min
11	Carolyn Shuvalov	Australia	32: 10.05 min
12	Anne Audain	New Zealand	32: 10.73 min
13	Marleen Renders	Belgium	32: 11.49 min
14th	Martine Bouchonneau-Oppliger	Switzerland	32: 28.26 min
15th	Ana Isabel Alonso	Spain	32: 40.50 min
16	Angela Tooby	Great Britain	33: 26.57 min
17th	Xie Lihua	People's Republic of China	33: 28.13 min
18th	Jeong Mi-yes	South Korea	33: 48.96 min
DNS	Tuija Jousimaa	Finland
	Maryse Justin	Mauritius
	Mariann Panfil	Poland

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Liz McColgan	Great Britain	32: 11.95 min
2	Lyudmila Matveyeva	Soviet Union	32: 12.87 min
3	Wang Xiuting	People's Republic of China	32: 13.00 min
4th	Annette Sergent	France	32: 13.45 min
5	Albertina slides	Portugal	32: 13.85 min
6th	Lynn Nelson	United States	32: 15.45 min
7th	Nancy Tinari	Canada	32: 16.27 min
8th	Lynn Jennings	United States	32: 18.44 min
9	Akemi Matsuno	Japan	32: 19.57 min
10	Christine McMiken	New Zealand	32: 20.39 min
11	Jane Shields	Great Britain	32: 46.07 min
12	Andrea Avraam	Cyprus	32: 59.30 min
13	El-Hassania Darami	Morocco	33: 01.52 min
14th	Jacqueline Perkins	Australia	33: 45.22 min
15th	Godelieve Slegers	Belgium	33: 51.36 min
DNF	Erika Fazekas	Hungary
DNS	Danièle Kaber	Luxembourg
	Mar Mar Min	Burma
	Ľudmila Melicherová	Czechoslovakia
	Kerstin Pressler	BR Germany
	Päivi Tikkanen	Finland

final

The Olympic champion Kathrin Ullrich from the GDR

Date: September 30, 1988

Three runners each from the Soviet Union, Canada and the USA and two athletes from China and Portugal qualified for the final. The starting field was completed with one starter each from the GDR, Australia, France, Italy, New Zealand, Norway and Great Britain.

The favorite was the Norwegian world and European champion Ingrid Kristiansen, who also held the world record . However, she suffered from a foot injury. Her fiercest competitors were the two Soviet runners Jelena Schupijewa, second in the World Cup , and Olga Bondarenko, fourth in the World Cup , as well as vice world champion Kathrin Ullrich from the GDR and the fifth in the World Cup, Liz McColgan from Great Britain.

In the final, Kristiansen led the field before McColgan took over the lead. Kristiansen was still up front in the closed field, but had to retire after seven and a half laps due to her injury. The pace was high and Ullrich, who now took the lead, pushed hard again between the second and third kilometers. In the meantime, she was able to move away a few meters in front of her pursuers, but was caught again. So a four-person top group formed with Ullrich, McColgan, Bondarenko and Schupijewa. The pace slowed a little again, but remained in a top range. From the halfway point onwards, McColgan took the lead again and the group of four stayed together until five laps to go. Ullrich had to tear it down there. McColgan continued her lanes at a consistently high pace and from kilometer nine onwards, Schupiyeva could no longer follow. 200 meters from the finish, Olga Bondarenko sprinted over the Briton and ran undisputed to Olympic victory. Liz McColgan won the silver medal, Olena Schupijewa was third ahead of Kathrin Ullrich. The two Americans Francie Larrieu Smith and Lynn Jennings crossed the finish line in fifth and sixth with a clear gap.

Split times
Intermediate mark	Meanwhile	Leading	1000 m time
1000 m	3: 9.80 min	Liz McColgan in front of the closed field	3: 9.80 min
2000 m	6: 23.30 min	Liz McColgan in front of the closed field	3: 12.50 min
3000 m	9: 19.64 min	Kathrin Ullrich, Olga Bondarenko, Olena Schupijewa, Liz McColgan	2: 56.34 min
4000 m	12: 24.13 min	Ullrich about 3 seconds ahead of McColgan, Schupijewa and Bondarenko	3: 04.49 min
5000 m	15: 37.89 min	McColgan, Ullrich, Schupijewa, Bondarenko	3: 13.76 min
6000 m	18: 48.21 min	McColgan, Ullrich, Schupijewa, Bondarenko	3: 10.32 min
7000 m	21: 57.70 min	McColgan, Ullrich, Bondarenko, Schupijewa	3: 09.49 min
8000 m	25: 04.27 min	McColgan, Bondarenko, Schupijewa - Ullrich about 2 seconds back	3: 06.57 min
9000 m	28: 09.26 min	McColgan, Bondarenko, Shupiyeva	3: 04.59 min
10,000 m	31: 05.21 min	Olga Bondarenko	2: 55.55 min

Bottom line

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Olga Bondarenko	Soviet Union	31: 05.21 min	OR
2	Liz McColgan	Great Britain	31: 08.44 min
3	Olena Schupiyeva	Soviet Union	31: 19.82 min
4th	Kathrin Ullrich	GDR	31: 29.27 min
5	Francie Larrieu Smith	United States	31: 35.52 min
6th	Lynn Jennings	United States	31: 39.93 min
7th	Wang Xiuting	People's Republic of China	31: 40.23 min
8th	Susan Lee	Canada	31: 50.51 min
9	Albertina Machado	Portugal	32: 02.13 min
10	Albertina slides	Portugal	32: 07.13 min
11	Anne Audain	New Zealand	32: 10.47 min
12	Lyudmila Matveyeva	Soviet Union	32: 12.27 min
13	Nancy Tinari	Canada	32: 14.05 min
14th	Rosanna Munerotto	Italy	32: 29.84 min
15th	Lynn Nelson	United States	32: 32.24 min
16	Carole Rouillard	Canada	32: 41.43 min
17th	Carolyn Shuvalov	Australia	32: 45.07 min
18th	Wang Qinghuan	People's Republic of China	32: 49.86 min
19th	Annette Sergent	France	33: 17.38 min
DNF	Ingrid Kristiansen	Norway

Web links

• SportsReference 10,000 m
• Official report, page 258/259

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 796 , accessed on January 30, 2018
2. ↑ Official report on the Olympic Games in Seoul Volume two, part two , results in athletics: p. 258 f. (English / French, PDF; 25.64 MB), accessed on January 30, 2018,
3. ↑ Official report on the Olympic Games in Seoul Volume two, part two , athletics results: p. 259, English / French (PDF, 25.64 MB), accessed on January 30, 2018.