1988 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Heptathlon (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Heptathlon
gender	Women
Attendees	30 athletes from 19 countries
Competition location	Seoul Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	23–24 September 1988
Medalists Jackie Joyner-Kersee ( USA )   Sabine John ( GDR )   Anke Behmer ( GDR )

The heptathlon for women in the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul was on 23 and 24 September 1988 at the Olympic Stadium Seoul held. Thirty athletes took part. An all-around table modified in 1985 was used to determine the points.

The American Jackie Joyner-Kersee , who set a new world record, became the Olympic champion . Silver went to Sabine John , bronze to Anke Behmer , both from the GDR.

In addition to the two medal winners, Ines Schulz competed for the GDR . She finished sixth. Sabine Braun and Sabine Everts took part
for the Federal Republic of Germany . Braun was fourteenth, Everts broke off the competition after the third discipline. Switzerland was represented by Corinne Schneider , who reached thirteenth place. Athletes from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current titleholders

Olympic champion 1984	Glynis Nunn ( Australia )	6390 points - 1971 rating / act. Value. v. 1985: 6329 points	Los Angeles 1984
World Champion 1987	Jackie Joyner-Kersee ( USA )	7128 points	Rome 1987
European champion 1986	Anke Behmer ( GDR )	6717 points	Stuttgart 1986
Pan American Champion 1987	Cindy Greiner ( USA )	6184 points	Indianapolis 1987
Central America and Caribbean Champion 1987	Victoria Despaigne ( Cuba )	5514 points	Caracas 1987
South American Champion 1987	Conceição Geremias ( Brazil )	5550 points	São Paulo 1987
Asian champion 1987	Dong Yuping ( People's Republic of China )	6036 points	Singapore 1987
African champion in 1988	Yasmina Azzizi ( Algeria )	5740 points	Annaba 1988

Existing records

World record	7215 points	Jackie Joyner-Kersee ( USA )	Indianapolis , USA	15./16. July 1988
Olympic record	6331 points (6363)	Sabine Everts ( Federal Republic of Germany )	Los Angeles Heptathlon , USA	3rd / 4th August 1984

Note:
The Olympic record of 6331 points results from the conversion of the result from the 1977 scoring table valid at the time of this heptathlon. Sabine Everts finished third with 6363 points at the 1984 Games, where the no longer current scoring system was used behind the Australian Glynis Nunn - 6390 points - and Jackie Joyner-Kersee - 6385 points, who started as Jackie Joyner at the time.

Participants

American Olympic champion Jackie Joyner-Kersee on a Paraguayan postage stamp from 1989

Thirty athletes from nineteen countries took part in the Olympic competition:

Surname	nation
Chantal Beaugeant	France
Anke Behmer	GDR
Sabine Braun	BR Germany
Wendy Brown	United States
Svyatlana Buraha	Soviet Union
Svetla Dimitrova	Bulgaria
Sabine Everts	BR Germany
Jane Flemming	Australia
Conceição Geremias	Brazil
Cindy Greiner	United States
Kim Hagger	Great Britain
Jacqueline Hautenauve	Belgium
Jantien Hidding	Netherlands
Hui-Ing Hsu	Chinese Taipei
Ji Jeong-mi	South Korea
Sabine John	GDR
Jackie Joyner-Kersee	United States
Ragne Kytölä	Finland
Zuzana Lajbnerová	Czechoslovakia
Iammogapi Launa	Papua New Guinea
Joanne Mulliner	Great Britain
Satu Ruotsalainen	Finland
Remigija Sablovskaitė	Soviet Union
Corinne Schneider	Switzerland
Natalia Schubenkova	Soviet Union
Ines Schulz	GDR
Judy Simpson	Great Britain
Sainiana Tukana	Fiji
Marjon Wijnsma	Netherlands
Dong Yuping	People's Republic of China

Yasmina Azzizi , Algeria , and Yvonne Hasler , Liechtenstein , who were registered for the competition , did not take part.   

Conducting the competition

The heptathlon was carried out according to the same rules as today. The seven disciplines took place over two days, four of them on the first and three of them on the second day. The rating was based on the point table for the women's all-around competition from 1985 that is still valid today - as of February 2018 .

Time schedule

September 23, 1988: 100-meter hurdles , high jump , shot put , 200-meter run

September 24, 1988: long jump , javelin throw , 800 meter run

Disciplines

Note: In the shot put and javelin throw as well as in the long jump , the respective best distances are printed in bold. In the high jump , the last valid and therefore best attempt is printed in bold.

100 meter hurdles

The discipline was carried out in four runs.

With 12.69 s, Jackie Joyner-Kersee achieved the fastest time to date over 100 meter hurdles in an Olympic all-around competition.

Classification space Surname time Points 01 Joyner-Kersee 12.69 s 1172 02 John 12.85 s 1147 03 Behmer 13.20 s 1094 04th Dimitrova 13.24 s 1089 05 Buraga 13.25 s 1087 06th Flemming 13.38 s 1068 07th Hagger 13.47 s 1055 08th Schubenkowa 13.51 s 1049 09 Greiner 13.55 s 1043 10 Sablovskaitė 13.61 s 1034 11 Lajbnerová 13.63 s 1031 12 brown 13.71 s 1020 13 Everts 13.74 s 1015 14th Schulz 13.75 s 1014 Wijnsma 16 Simpson 13.78 s 1010 17th Ruotsalainen 13.79 s 1008 18th cutter 13.85 s 1000 19th Yuping 13.93 s 988 20th Hautenauve 14.04 s 973 21st Brown 14.07 s 968 22nd Geremias 14.23 s 946 23 Kytölä 14.31 s 935 24 Mulliner 14.39 s 924 25th Ji 14.53 s 905 26th Hsu 14.85 s 862 27 Toucana 15.60 s 764 28 Launa 16.42 s 664 29 Beaugeant 16.76 s 624 DNF Hidding 0

high jump

The discipline was conducted in two groups.

Jantien Hidding from the Netherlands did not participate in this second discipline.

Classification space Surname 1.38 m 1.65 m 1.41 m 1.68 m 1.44 m 1.71 m 1.47 m 1.74 m 1.50 m 1.77 m 1.53 m 1.80 m 1.56 m 1.83 m 1.59 m 1.86 m 1.62 m 1.89 m Points 01 Joyner-Kersee - - - - - o - - - o - - - o - x o - xxx 1054 cutter - - - o - o - o - o - o - o - x o - xxx Wijnsma - - - - - o - o - o - xo - o - x o - xxx Yuping - o - o - o - o - o - o - xxo - x o - xxx 05 Behmer - o - - - o - o - o - o - o - xxx - - 1016 brown - - - o - o - o - o - xxo - o - xxx - - Brown - - - o - o - xo - xo - xo - xx o - xxx - - Lajbnerová - o - o - - - xo - o - o - x o - xxx - - Schulz - o - o - o - xo - o - o - o - xxx - - 10 Beaugeant - - - - - o - o - o - o - xxx - - - - 978 Dimitrova - o - o - xxo - xo - o - xx o o xxx o - o - Flemming - o - - - o - o - xxo - o - xxx - - - - Greiner - o - - - o - xo - xo - o - xxx - - - - Hagger - - - o - o - o - o - x o - xxx o - o - John - o - o - o - o - o - xx o - xxx - - - - Ruotsalainen - - - xo - xo - o - xo - o - xxx - - - - Sablovskaitė - - - o - o - o - o - xx o - xxx o - o - 18th Buraga - - - o - xo - xo - o - xxx o - - - o - 941 Hautenauve - o - o - xo - o - x o - xxx - - xo - o - Kytölä - - - o - xo - xo - o - xxx - - - - - - Simpson - o - o - o - o - xx o - xxx - - - - - - 22nd Schubenkowa - o - o - o - xx o - xxx - - o - o - o - 903 23 Everts - o - o - o - xxx - - - - - - - - - - 867 Geremias - o - o - x o - xxx - - - - - - - - o - Ji - xo - xxo - x o - xxx - - - - o - o - o - Mulliner - o - xo - xx o - xxx - - - - - - o - o - 27 Hsu - o - x o - xxx - - - - - - - - xo - o - 830 28 Launa o - o - o - o - x o - xxx - - - xo - o - 621 - Toucana - - - - - - - - - - - - xxx - - - - - 0 Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Joyner-Kersee 2226 02 John 2125 03 Behmer 2110 04th Wijnsma 2068 05 Dimitrova 2067 06th cutter 2054 07th Lajbnerová 2047 08th Flemming 2046 09 Yuping 2042 10 brown 2036 11 Hagger 2033 12 Schulz 2030 13 Buraga 2028 14th Greiner 2021 15th Sablovskaitė 2012 16 Ruotsalainen 1986 17th Brown 1984 18th Schubenkowa 1952 19th Simpson 1951 20th Hautenauve 1914 21st Everts 1882 22nd Kytölä 1876 23 Geremias 1813 24 Mulliner 1791 25th Ji 1772 26th Hsu 1692 27 Beaugeant 1602 28 Launa 1285 29 Toucana 764

Shot put

The discipline was conducted in two groups.

Classification space Surname 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt Points 01 John 16.23 m x x 943 02 Joyner-Kersee 15.80 m 15.12 m 14.86 m 915 03 Sablovskaitė 15.14 m 15.12 m 15.23 m 876 04th Schubenkowa 13.75 m 14.66 m 14.76 m 845 05 Lajbnerová 14.28 m 13.96 m 13.78 m 813 06th Yuping 14.21 m x 12.66 m 808 07th Behmer 14.20 m 13.99 m 13.64 m 807 08th Greiner 13.29 m 14.13 m 14.00 m 803 09 Schulz 13.20 m 13.50 m 13.12 m 761 10 brown 13.05 m 13.16 m x 738 11 Wijnsma 12.81 m 12.57 m 13.01 m 728 12 Geremias 12.82 m 12.95 m 12.65 m 724 13 Flemming x 12.88 m 12.54 m 719 14th Beaugeant 12.79 m 12.55 m 12.48 m 713 15th Hagger 12.13 m 12.75 m 12.15 m 711 16 Brown 12.69 m x 12.41 m 707 17th Mulliner 12.34 m 12.68 m 12.63 m 706 18th Buraga 12.56 m x 12.62 m 702 19th Ruotsalainen 11.71 m 12.32 m 12.28 m 682 20th Dimitrova 11.95 m 11.78 m 12.02 m 662 21st Hautenauve 11.18 m 11.81 m 11.54 m 649 22nd Launa 10.01 m 10.07 m 11.78 m 647 23 Kytölä 11.23 m 11.45 m 11.66 m 639 24 cutter 11.31 m 11.42 m 11.58 m 633 25th Everts 11.54 m x - 631 26th Ji 10.83 m 10.78 m 10.52 m 584 27 Hsu 9.26 m 9.70 m 10.00 m 529 28 Toucana 7.59 m 8.61 m 7.61 m 439

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Joyner-Kersee 3141 02 John 3068 03 Behmer 2917 04th Sablovskaitė 2888 05 Lajbnerová 2860 06th Yuping 2850 07th Greiner 2824 08th Schubenkowa 2797 09 Wijnsma 2796 10 Schulz 2791 11 brown 2774 12 Flemming 2765 13 Hagger 2744 14th Buraga 2730 15th Dimitrova 2729 16 Brown 2691 17th cutter 2687 18th Ruotsalainen 2668 19th Hautenauve 2563 20th Geremias 2537 21st Kytölä 2515 22nd Everts 2513 23 Mulliner 2497 24 Ji 2356 25th Beaugeant 2315 26th Hsu 2221 27 Launa 1932 28 Toucana 1203

200 meter run

The discipline was carried out in four runs.

Three athletes did not take part in the fourth discipline: Chantal Beaugeant from France, Sabine Everts from the Federal Republic of Germany - bronze medalist from 1984 - and Judy Simpson from Great Britain.

With 22.56 s, Jackie Joyner-Kersee achieved the fastest time over 200 meters in an Olympic all-round competition.

Classification space Surname time Points 01 Joyner-Kersee 22.56 s 1123 02 Behmer 23.10 s 1069 03 Dimitrova 23.49 s 1030 04th Buraga 23.59 s 1020 Flemming 06th John 23.65 s 1015 07th Sablovskaitė 23.92 s 988 08th Schubenkowa 23.93 s 987 09 Greiner 24.48 s 935 10 Ruotsalainen 24.61 s 923 11 Schulz 24.65 s 919 12 brown 24.78 s 907 13 Brown 24.83 s 902 14th Lajbnerová 24.86 s 900 15th cutter 24.87 s 899 16 Mulliner 24.92 s 894 17th Yuping 25.00 s 887 18th Wijnsma 25.03 s 884 19th Hsu 25.23 s 866 20th Hagger 25.47 s 844 21st Geremias 25.50 s 841 22nd Hautenauve 25.61 s 832 23 Kytölä 25.69 s 824 24 Launa 26.16 s 783 25th Toucana 26.37 s 765 26th Ji 26.61 s 745

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Joyner-Kersee 4264 02 John 4083 03 Behmer 3986 04th Sablovskaitė 3876 05 Flemming 3785 06th Schubenkowa 3784 07th Lajbnerová 3760 08th Dimitrova 4162 Greiner 10 Buraga 3750 11 Yuping 3737 12 Schulz 3710 13 brown 3681 14th Wijnsma 3680 15th Brown 3593 16 Ruotsalainen 3591 17th Hagger 3588 18th cutter 3586 19th Hautenauve 3395 20th Mulliner 3391 21st Geremias 3378 22nd Kytölä 3339 23 Ji 3101 24 Hsu 3087 25th Launa 2715 26th Toucana 1968

Long jump

The competition was conducted in two groups.

With 7.27 m Jackie Joyner-Kersee achieved the largest distance in the long jump so far in an Olympic all-around competition. At the same time, this was a new long jump Olympic record .

Classification space Surname 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt Points 01 Joyner-Kersee 7.27 m - - 1264 02 John 6.71 m 6.67 m 6.64 m 1076 03 Behmer 6.68 m 6.36 m x 1066 04th Greiner 6.30 m x 6.47 m 997 05 Yuping 6.13 m 6.15 m 6.40 m 975 06th Flemming 6.13 m 6.36 m 6.37 m 965 07th Hagger 6.10 m x 6.34 m 956 Wijnsma 6.10 m 6.34 m 6.16 m 09 Schulz x 6.22 m 6.33 m 953 10 Schubenkowa 6.10 m 6.32 m x 949 11 Buraga 6.16 m 6.16 m 6.28 m 937 12 Sablovskaitė 5.92 m 6.13 m 6.25 m 927 13 Dimitrova 6.18 m 6.19 m x 908 14th Brown 6.09 m 6.13 m x 890 15th brown x 5.89 m 6.12 m 887 16 Lajbnerová 5.82 m 6.00 m 6.11 m 883 17th Mulliner 5.83 m x 6.10 m 880 18th Ruotsalainen x x 6.08 m 874 19th cutter 5.50 m 5.91 m 6.05 m 865 20th Hautenauve 5.57 m 5.99 m 5.95 m 846 21st Kytölä 5.75 m 5.49 m 5.40 m 774 22nd Geremias 5.50 m 5.50 m 5.45 m 700 Ji 4.36 m 5.50 m x 24 Hsu 5.47 m 5.47 m 5.28 m 691 25th Toucana 4.79 m 4.77 m 5.12 m 592 26th Launa x 4.52 m 4.88 m 527

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Joyner-Kersee 5528 02 John 5159 03 Behmer 5052 04th Sablovskaitė 4803 05 Greiner 4756 06th Flemming 4750 07th Schubenkowa 4733 08th Yuping 4712 09 Buraga 4687 10 Dimitrova 4667 11 Schulz 4663 12 Lajbnerová 4643 13 Wijnsma 4636 14th brown 4568 15th Hagger 4544 16 Brown 4483 17th Ruotsalainen 4465 18th cutter 4451 19th Mulliner 4271 20th Hautenauve 4241 21st Kytölä 4113 22nd Geremias 4078 23 Ji 3801 24 Hsu 3778 25th Launa 3242 26th Toucana 2560

Javelin throw

The discipline was conducted in two groups.

With 47.50 m Corinne Schneider achieved the largest javelin throw so far in an Olympic all-around competition.

Classification space Surname 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt Points 01 cutter 46.52 m 47.50 m x 812 02 Schubenkowa 47.46 m 44.14 m x 811 03 Launa 46.38 m 40.80 m x 790 04th Joyner-Kersee 44.34 m 45.66 m x 776 05 Ruotsalainen 43.58 m 45.44 m x 772 06th brown 44.58 m x x 755 07th Behmer 44.54 m - - 755 08th Brown x 41.24 m 44.34 m 751 09 Lajbnerová 39.82 m 37.60 m 43.30 m 731 10 Schulz 42.82 m 41.70 m 39.36 m 721 11 Sablovskaitė 41.00 m 42.78 m 42.54 m 721 12 John 41.60 m 41.52 m 42.56 m 716 13 Flemming 39.16 m x 40.28 m 673 14th Geremias 37.78 m 38.08 m 39.64 m 660 15th Kytölä x 39.48 m x 657 16 Ji 39.26 m 37.34 m 36.12 m 653 17th Hsu 37.92 m 39.14 m x 651 18th Buraga 39.06 m x 38.18 m 649 19th Yuping 34.96 m 38.60 m 34.44 m 640 20th Greiner 37.70 m 38.00 m 37.22 m 629 21st Wijnsma x 37.86 m x 626 22nd Mulliner x 34.48 m 37.76 m 624 23 Dimitrova 37.62 m 35.14 m 33.90 m 622 24 Hagger 35.78 m 33.46 m 33.30 m 587 25th Hautenauve 35.68 m x x 585 - Toucana x x x 0

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Joyner-Kersee 6304 02 John 5875 03 Behmer 5807 04th Schubenkowa 5544 05 Sablovskaitė 5524 06th Flemming 5423 07th Greiner 5385 08th Schulz 5384 09 Lajbnerová 5374 10 Yuping 5352 11 Buraga 5336 12 brown 5323 13 Dimitrova 5289 14th cutter 5263 15th Wijnsma 5262 16 Ruotsalainen 5237 17th Brown 5234 18th Hagger 5131 19th Mulliner 4895 20th Hautenauve 4826 21st Kytölä 4770 22nd Geremias 4738 23 Ji 4454 24 Hsu 4429 25th Launa 4032 26th Toucana 2560

800 meter run

The discipline was carried out in three runs.

Sainiana Tukana did not participate in this last discipline.

Classification space Surname time Points 01 Behmer 2: 04.20 min 1051 02 Schulz 2: 05.79 min 1027 03 John 2: 06.14 min 1022 04th Schubenkowa 2: 07.90 min 996 05 Joyner-Kersee 2: 08.51 min 987 06th Wijnsma 2: 11.49 min 943 07th Sablovskaitė 2: 12.24 min 932 08th Flemming 2: 12.54 min 928 09 Kytölä 2: 13.35 min 916 10 Greiner 2: 13.65 min 912 11 Hautenauve 2: 13.90 min 908 12 Buraga 2: 14.74 min 896 13 cutter 2: 14.93 min 894 14th Dimitrova 2:15:73 min 882 15th Lajbnerová 2: 16.05 min 878 16 Ruotsalainen 2: 17.06 min 864 17th Hsu 2: 17.30 min 861 18th Mulliner 2: 18.02 min 851 19th Hagger 2: 18.48 min 844 20th Ji 2: 19.17 min 835 21st brown 2: 22.82 min 786 22nd Geremias 2: 24.02 min 770 23 Brown 2: 26.43 min 738 24 Yuping 2: 26.67 min 735 25th Launa 2: 43.43 min 534

Summary

Silver for Sabine John (r.), Bronze for Anke Behmer (l.), Both from the GDR

Date: 23./24. September 1988

The US athlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee, silver medalist from 1984 and reigning world champion , was the top favorite. She was the first female heptathlete to surpass the 7,000 point mark - achieved at the US Olympic eliminations in Indianapolis - and thus also held the world record . All other heptathletes were clearly behind the American with their best performances. Medal contenders were the reigning European champion Anke Behmer from the GDR, vice European champion Natalja Schubenkowa, USSR, and Behmer's teammate Sabine John.

In the 100-meter hurdles , Joyner-Kersee laid the foundation for her Olympic victory. With 12.69 s she was 16 hundredths of a second faster than the GDR athlete Sabine John. The American was 81 hundredths of a second ahead of Anke Behmer and 85 hundredths of a second ahead of Bulgarian Swetla Dimitrova.

With 1.86 m, Joyner-Kersee also collected the most points in the high jump together with the Asian champion Dong Yuping from China, the Swiss Corinne Schneider and the Dutch Marjon Wijnsma. Behmer reached 1.83 m, John 1.80 m. Joyner-Kersees increased their lead to 101 points, while John was only 15 points ahead of Behmer. Wijnsma followed in fourth place 42 points behind. Between her and the German Sabine Braun in tenth, the gap was only 32 points.

In the shot put , John was the only participant to hit more than 16 meters. But Joyner-Kersee was not far behind with 15.80 m, while Behmer lost some ground with her 14.20 m. Joyner-Kersee stayed ahead, John had reduced their deficit to 73 points and was now 151 points ahead of Behmer. Behind Behmer, the Soviet athlete Remigija Sablovskaitė worked her way up to fourth place and, after her 15.23 m, was only 25 points behind Behmer.

In the 200-meter run , Jackie Joyner-Kersee achieved the fastest time over 200 meters in an Olympic all -around event with 22.56 s . Joyner-Kersee was over half a second faster than Behmer as second best. Bulgarian Dimitrova was third in this exercise, John sixth with 23.65 s and Sablovskaitė seventh with 23.92 s. At the end of the first day Joyner-Kersee had a lead of 181 points over John, who was 97 points ahead of Behmer. Sablovskaitė was fourth best, 110 points behind Behmer. Joyner-Kersee's interim result of 4262 points after these first four disciplines were absolutely top-class, even a new world record was still possible.

In the long jump , her best discipline, Joyner-Kersee not only achieved the greatest distance in an Olympic all- around event with 7.27 m, but also exceeded the long jump Olympic record of the Soviet Olympic champion from 1980 , Tatiana Kolpakova , who won 7th in Moscow . 06 m. However, this new record did not survive the games in Seoul either. In the individual long jump competition, Kersee-Joyner achieved 7.40 m and became the long jump Olympic champion. About half a meter less than Joyner-Kersee, John jumped as the next best heptathlete. Behind John, Behmer reached a good 6.68 m. The US athlete's lead over John was now 369 points. For her part, John had increased their lead over Behmer to 107 points, which in turn was 249 points over Sablovskaitė. The gaps between the leading three athletes were unusually large, behind them it was much closer.

The best javelin thrower was the Swiss Corinne Schneider, who with 47.50 m achieved the largest distance so far in an Olympic all-around competition. The Soviet athlete Natalja Schubenkowa threw only four centimeters less than the Swiss and displaced her compatriot Sablovskaitė to fifth place overall, but with 263 points she still had a gap to third-placed Behmer. Joyner-Kersee achieved the fourth best distance with 45.66 m behind the surprisingly strong thrower Iammogapi Launa from Papua New Guinea. Behmer threw 44.54 m, John 42.56 m. It was an absolutely high-class result of the heptathletes in this discipline and for Joyner-Kersee the world record was still possible. With a lead of 429 points she went into the final 800-meter run , for a world record she had to run 2: 13.65 minutes. John in second place was 68 points ahead of Behmer.

In the last discipline, the 800-meter run, Behmer was more than one and a half seconds faster than her second-placed compatriot Ines Schulz with 2: 04.20 minutes. John was third fastest in this discipline. Joyner-Kersee finished fifth with 2: 08.51 minutes and scored 987 points. She improved her own world record by 76 points. Anke Behmer made up 29 points on John, but stayed in third place and won the bronze medal behind Sabine John, who was also known by her maiden name Sabine Möbius and the name from a previous marriage Sabine Paetz. Natalja Schubenkowa defended her fourth place in the overall standings as the fourth fastest 800-meter runner, ahead of Remigija Sablovskaitė. Ines Schulz achieved sixth place with her performance.

Five days after this heptathlon, Jackie Joyner-Kersee won the second gold medal in the long jump at these games.

Bottom line

space	Surname	nation	Points	annotation
1	Jackie Joyner-Kersee	United States	7291	WR
2	Sabine John	GDR	6897
3	Anke Behmer	GDR	6858
4th	Natalia Schubenkova	Soviet Union	6540
5	Remigija Sablovskaitė	Soviet Union	6456
6th	Ines Schulz	GDR	6411
7th	Jane Flemming	Australia	6351
8th	Cindy Greiner	United States	6297
9	Zuzana Lajbnerová	Czechoslovakia	6252
10	Svyatlana Buraha	Soviet Union	6232
11	Marjon Wijnsma	Netherlands	6205
12	Svetla Dimitrova	Bulgaria	6171
13	Corinne Schneider	Switzerland	6157
14th	Sabine Braun	BR Germany	6109
15th	Satu Ruotsalainen	Finland	6101
16	Dong Yuping	People's Republic of China	6087
17th	Kim Hagger	Great Britain	5975
18th	Wendy Brown	United States	5972
19th	Joanne Mulliner	Great Britain	5746
20th	Jacqueline Hautenauve	Belgium	5734
21st	Ragne Kytölä	Finland	5686
22nd	Conceição Geremias	Brazil	5508
23	Hui-Ing Hsu	Chinese Taipei	5290
24	Ji Jeong-mi	South Korea	5289
25th	Iammogapi Launa	Papua New Guinea	4566

Web links

• SportsReference Heptathlon , accessed February 4, 2018
• Official report on the Olympic Games in Seoul Volume two, part two , athletics results: pp. 267–270, English / French (PDF, 25.64 MB), accessed on February 4, 2018

Video

• Jackie Joyner-Kersee - 1988 Olympic Heptathlon , published November 24, 2011 on youtube.com, accessed February 4, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 802 , accessed on February 4, 2018
2. ↑ SportsReference (100 m hurdles)
3. ↑ ^{a b} SportsReference (200 m) , accessed on February 4, 2018
4. ↑ ^{a b} SportsReference (long jump) , accessed on February 4, 2018
5. ↑ ^{a b} SportsReference (javelin throw) , accessed on February 4, 2018
6. ↑ Official report on the Olympic Games in Seoul Volume two, part two , athletics results: pp. 2667–270, English / French (PDF, 25.64 MB), accessed on February 4, 2018