1988 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Marathon (Women)
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| sport | athletics | ||||||||
| discipline | Marathon run | ||||||||
| gender | Women | ||||||||
| Attendees | 69 athletes from 38 countries | ||||||||
| Competition location |
Seoul Olympic Stadium (start and finish) |
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| Competition phase | September 23, 1988 | ||||||||
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The marathon of women in the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul was held on September 23 1988th 69 athletes took part, 64 of them made it to the finish line. The start and finish was the Seoul Olympic Stadium .
The Olympic champion was the Portuguese Rosa Mota . She won ahead of the Australian Lisa Martin and Katrin Dörre from the GDR.
Kerstin Preßler and Gabriela Wolf competed for the Federal Republic of Germany . Preßler finished 21st, Wolf 27th.
Switzerland was represented by Genoveva Eichenmann and Rosmarie Müller. Eichenmann took 47th place, Müller 48th place.
Runners from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current titleholders
| Olympic champion 1984 |
Joan Benoit ( USA )
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2:24:52 h | Los Angeles 1984 |
| world champion |
Rosa Mota ( Portugal )
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2:25:17 h | Rome 1987 |
| European champion 1986 | 2:28:38 h | Stuttgart 1986 | |
| Pan American Champion 1987 |
María del Carmen Cárdenas ( Mexico )
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2:52:06 h | Indianapolis 1987 |
| Central America and Caribbean Champion 1987 | Marathon not run | ||
| South American Champion 1987 | |||
| Asian champion 1987 | |||
| African champion in 1988 | |||
Existing records
| World record | 2:21:06 h |
Ingrid Kristiansen ( Norway )
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London , UK | April 21, 1985 |
| Olympic record | 2:24:52 h |
Joan Benoit ( USA )
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Los Angeles Marathon , USA | 5th August 1984 |
Note: World records were not set in the marathon because of the different track conditions.
Routing
The race started in the Seoul Olympic Stadium . After two laps, the track ran out of the stadium to the south and shortly afterwards to the west. The route crossed the Tanjeon River and entered the Gangnam district . In a north-westerly direction, the Seocho district and the south bank of the Hangang were reached. We continued along the embankment to the Dongjak district . Turning north, the course crossed the river over the Mapo Bridge and then headed eastwards on the north bank through the districts of Mapo-gu and Yongsan-gu . Over the Benpo Bridge we went back over the slope to the other bank. Now the route ran in an easterly direction parallel to the south bank. The Tanjeon was crossed again near the confluence with the Hangang and the route approached the Olympic Stadium from the north. The starting point was reached again from the south via an arch around the stadium. The final destination was on the Olympic Stadium track.
Race course
There were several favorites for the race. These included the Portuguese world and European champion Rosa Mota, the Norwegian Grete Waitz, world and European champion over 10,000 meters , at the same time owner of the marathon world record, and Ingrid Kristiansen, also from Norway. However, Kristiansen had decided to forego the marathon and instead to compete in the 10,000-meter run, which was held in Seoul for the first time as an Olympic discipline. She then had to give up this race early due to a foot injury.
Michelle Bush represented the Cayman Islands for the first time in athletics at the Olympic Games.
After the start, Mota quickly took the lead. After only five kilometers, a four-man leadership group was formed, which included Mota, Katrin Dörre from the GDR, the Australian Lisa Martin and the Soviet runner Raissa Smechnowa. This leading group was ten seconds ahead. But numerous pursuers caught up again, so that the group now consisted of nineteen runners. Over time, however, more and more female athletes fell behind. At fifteen kilometer, eleven starters were still together in the front who stayed together for a long time. At thirty kilometers, seven runners had fallen back again. At the top were Mota, Martin, Dörre and Tatjana Polowinskaja from the USSR. They ran a steady pace with five-kilometer sections ranging between 17:05 and 17:20 minutes. After 35 kilometers it slowed down a bit, but Polovinskaya was now falling behind. There was a three-way battle between Mota, Martin and Dörre. Shortly before forty kilometers, Mota stepped up the pace again and ran a slight lead on her pursuers. Behind her, the Australian managed to break away from Dörre a little later. Rosa Mota won with a lead of thirteen seconds over silver medalist Lisa Martin, who in turn crossed the finish line 28 seconds ahead of Katrin Dörre. The distances to the next places were larger. Tatjana Polowinskaja, USSR, came fourth, Chinese Zhao Youfeng came fifth and Italian Laura Fogli took sixth place.
| Split times | |||
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| Intermediate mark |
Meanwhile | Leading | 5 km time |
| 5 km | 17:10 min | Rosa Mota, Lisa Martin, Katrin Dörre, Raissa Smechnowa | 17:10 min |
| 10 km | 34:13 min | Nineteen head group | 17:03 min |
| 15 km | 51:30 min | eleven-headed group | 17:17 min |
| 20 km | 1:08:46 h | eleven-headed group | 17:16 min |
| 25 km | 1:25:55 h | eleven-headed group | 17:09 min |
| 30 km | 1:43:13 h | Rosa Mota, Lisa Martin, Katrin Dörre, Tatjana Polowinskaja | 17:18 min |
| 35 km | 2:01:09 h | Rosa Mota, Katrin Dörre, Lisa Martin, Tatjana Polowinskaja | 17:56 min |
| 40 km | 2:18:10 h | Pink Mota | 17:01 min |
Result
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Web links and sources
- marathoninfo.free.fr , accessed January 30, 2018
- Women's marathon at the 1988 Summer Olympics from Sports-Reference.com database , accessed January 30, 2018
- Official report on the Olympic Games in Seoul Volume two, part two , athletics results: p. 264, English / French (PDF, 25.64 MB), accessed on January 30, 2018
Video
- 1988 Olympic Games Women's Marathon , published March 17, 2011 on youtube.com, accessed January 30, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 807 , accessed on January 30, 2018
- ↑ Route map in a study by the Korean Society of Geodesy, Photogrammetry & Cartography (p. 43–57) ( Memento of the original dated December 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 30, 2018
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