1988 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 3000 m (women)

sport	athletics
discipline	3000 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	35 athletes from 25 countries
Competition location	Seoul Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	September 23, 1988 (preliminary round) September 25, 1988 (final)
Medalists Tetjana Samolenko ( URS )   Paula Ivan ( ROM )   Yvonne Murray ( GBR )

The women's 3000-meter run at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul was held in two rounds on September 23 and 25, 1988 in the Seoul Olympic Stadium. 35 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was Tetjana Samolenko from the Soviet Union. She won ahead of the Romanian Paula Ivan and the British Yvonne Murray .

Vera Michallek took part for the Federal Republic of Germany, who was eliminated in the preliminary round.
The Swiss Cornelia Bürki reached the final and finished eleventh.
Runners from the GDR, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current titleholders

Olympic champion 1984	Maricica Puică ( Romania )	8: 35.96 min	Los Angeles 1984
World Champion 1987	Tetjana Samolenko ( Soviet Union )	8: 38.73 min	Rome 1987
European champion 1986	Olga Bondarenko ( Soviet Union )	8: 33.99 min	Stuttgart 1986
Pan American Champion 1987	Mary Knisely ( USA )	9: 06.75 min	Indianapolis 1987
Central America and Caribbean Champion 1987	Milagro Rodríguez ( Cuba )	9: 58.86 min	Caracas 1987
South American Champion 1987	Mónica Regonesi ( Chile )	9: 47.30 min	São Paulo 1987
Asian champion 1987	Kim Chun-mae ( North Korea )	9: 17.19 min	Singapore 1987
African champion in 1988	Fatima Aouam ( Morocco )	8: 59.19 min	Annaba 1988

Existing records

World record	8: 22.62 min	Tatjana Kasankina ( Soviet Union )	Leningrad , Soviet Union (now Russia )	August 26, 1984
Olympic record	8: 35.96 min	Maricica Puică ( Romania )	Los Angeles final , USA	August 10, 1984

Preliminary round

Date: September 23, 1988

The athletes competed in a total of two preliminary runs. The first six athletes of each run qualified for the final. In addition, the three 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

Jelena Romanowa from the USSR won the Olympics

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Elena Romanova	Soviet Union	8: 48.47 min
2	Elly van Hulst	Netherlands	8: 48.54 min
3	Angela Chalmers	Canada	8: 48.60 min
4th	Lynn Williams	Canada	8: 48.70 min
5	Victoria Huber	United States	8: 48.93 min
6th	Wendy Sly	Great Britain	8:49, 71 min
7th	Wang Xiuting	People's Republic of China	8: 54.19 min
8th	Jill Hunter	Great Britain	8: 57.28 min
9	Christine Hughes	New Zealand	9: 1.30 min
10	Jacqueline Perkins	Australia	9: 01.82 min
11	Andrea Avraam	Cyprus	9: 02.18 min
12	Angelines Rodríguez	Spain	9: 03.39 min
13	Fernanda Ribeiro	Portugal	9: 05.92 min
14th	Susan Sirma	Kenya	9: 06.90 min
15th	Im Chun-ae	South Korea	9: 21.18 min
DNF	Marie-Pierre Duros	France
	Maricica Puică	Romania

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Paula Ivan	Romania	8: 43.10 min
2	Yvonne Murray	Great Britain	8: 43.73 min
3	Debbie Bowker	Canada	8: 43.81 min
4th	Mary Slaney	United States	8: 44.15 min
5	Tetiana Samolenko	Soviet Union	8: 44.18 min
6th	Natalia Artyomova	Soviet Union	8: 44.30 min
7th	PattiSue Plumer	United States	8: 45.21 min
8th	Annette Sergent	France	8: 45.94 min
9	Cornelia Bürki	Switzerland	8: 48.37 min
10	Vera Michallek	BR Germany	8: 51.34 min
11	Chen Qingmei	People's Republic of China	8: 51.53 min
12	Roberta Brunet	Italy	8: 53.04 min
13	Anne Keenan-Buckley	Ireland	9: 03.10 min
14th	Khin Khin Htwe	Burma	9: 26.57 min
15th	Daphrose Nyiramutuzo	Rwanda	9: 47.98 min
16	Dikanda Diba	Zaire	10: 32.88 min
DNF	Fatima Aouam	Morocco
	Poloni Avek	Papua New Guinea

final

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Tetiana Samolenko	Soviet Union	8: 26.53 min	OR
2	Paula Ivan	Romania	8: 27.15 min
3	Yvonne Murray	Great Britain	8: 29.02 min
4th	Elena Romanova	Soviet Union	8: 30.45 min
5	Natalia Artyomova	Soviet Union	8: 31.67 min
6th	Victoria Huber	United States	8: 37.25 min
7th	Wendy Sly	Great Britain	8: 37.70 min
8th	Lynn Williams	Canada	8: 38.43 min
9	Elly van Hulst	Netherlands	8: 43.92 min
10	Mary Slaney	United States	8: 47.13 min
11	Cornelia Bürki	Switzerland	8: 48.32 min
12	Annette Sergent	France	8: 49.14 min
13	PattiSue Plumer	United States	8: 59.17 min
14th	Angela Chalmers	Canada	9: 04.75 min
15th	Debbie Bowker	Canada	9: 11.95 min

Date: September 25, 1988

Three runners each from the Soviet Union, Canada and the USA and two from Great Britain qualified for the final. The starting field was completed with one athlete each from France, the Netherlands, Romania and Switzerland.

The favorites were the Soviet world champion Tetjana Samolenko and the American Mary Slaney. The Romanian Olympic champion from 1984 and vice world champion Maricica Puică had given up her race in the preliminary round due to an injury. Contenders for medals and front places were beyond especially the British Championship -Third and WM -Siebte Yvonne Murray, as WM -Vierte the Swiss Cornelia Bürki and as a WM -Sechste the Dutch Elly van Hulst.

In the final, Slaney took the lead early in the closed field. Her pace was so fast that there was a small gap to her pursuers over a longer distance, which sometimes grew a little and was then closed again. The Romanian Paula Ivan and Murray ran in second and third place. Due to the high speed, there was hardly any battles for position in the field. The 1000 meter split was 2: 47.46 minutes. A group of ten runners had broken off, five athletes had to be torn down. Three and a half laps before the end it slowed down and immediately the field moved closer together, sometimes running side by side. Little knew Victoria Huber from the USA took the lead at 1900 meters. Behind them were Murray, Ivan and Slaney, who, however, soon couldn't keep up the pace and lost space after space. The passage time at 2000 meters was 5: 44.08 minutes, so the second kilometer was about ten seconds slower than the first. At 2500 meters, the British Yvonne Murray then went forward and pulled on a long spurt. There were still nine runners in the lead group, which was now falling apart. Only Samolenko and Ivan could follow. Before the finish curve, Ivan took the lead and Samolenko also passed the Briton. Before the home stretch, Murray also had to let go. Tetjana Samolenko prevailed in the last sixty meters and was Olympic champion in a new Olympic record time ahead of Paula Ivan. Yvonne Murray won the bronze medal in front of the two Soviet runners Jelena Romanowa and Natalia Artjomowa. Victoria Huber was rewarded sixth for her courageous race. Overall, the runners up to fifth place were able to undercut the previous Olympic record of 1984.

Web links

• SportsReference 3000m , accessed January 30, 2018
• Official report on the Olympic Games in Seoul Volume two, part two , athletics results: p. 257f, English / French (PDF, 25.64 MB), accessed on January 30, 2018

Video

• Women's 3000m Final at Seoul Olympics 1988 , published July 29, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed January 30, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 795 , accessed on January 30, 2018
2. ↑ ^{a b} Official report on the Olympic Games in Seoul Volume two, part two , Athletics results: p. 258, English / French (PDF, 25.64 MB), accessed on January 30, 2018