SEOUL 1988
The Games of the XXIV Summer Olympiad. September 17 - October 2, 1988. Seoul, South Korea.
Archery Athletics Basketball Boxing Canoeing Cycling Diving Equestrian Fencing Field Hockey Football Gymnastics Handball Judo Rowing Sailing Shooting Swimming Synchronized Swimming Table Tennis Tennis Volleyball Water Polo Weightlifting Wrestling Medal Count
Men’s team
2.USA (Darrell Pace)
Women’s individual
1.Kim Soo-nyung (South Korea)
2.Wang Hee-kyung (South Korea)
Women’s team
1.South Korea (Kim Soo-nyung, Wang Hee-kyung)
Kim Soo-nyung, Wang Hee-kyung (South Korea)
3.USA (Denise Parker)
MEN
100 m
1.Carl Lewis (USA)
2.Linford Christie (Great Britain)
3.Calvin Smith (USA)
200 m
1.Joe DeLoach (USA)
2.Carl Lewis (USA)
49.Andre Francois (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)
400 m
1.Steve Lewis (USA)
NQF (7 in Heat 6).Michael Williams (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)
800 m
1.Paul Ereng (Kenya)
2.Joaquim Cruz (Brazil)
3.Said Aouita (Morocco)
NQF (6 in Heat 2).Eversley Linley (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)
1500 m
1.Peter Rono (Kenya)
2.Peter Elliott (Great Britain)
3.Jens-Peter Herold (East Germany)
4.Steve Cram (Great Britain)
5.Steve Scott (USA)
110 m hurdles
1.Roger Kingdom (USA)
3.Tonie Campbell (USA)
400 m hurdles
3.Edwin Moses (USA)
4 x 100 m
1.USSR (Vitaliy Savin)
2.Great Britain (John Regis, Linford Christie)
4 x 400 m
1.USA (Antonio McKay (ran in Semifinals))
2.Jamaica (Winthrop Graham)
3.West Germany
Marathon
1.Gelindo Bordin (Italy)
2.Douglas Wakiihuri (Kenya)
3.Hussein Ahmed Salah (Djibouti)
20 km walk
1.Jozef Pribilinec (Czechoslovakia)
Long jump
1.Carl Lewis (USA)
2.Mike Powell (USA)
3.Larry Myricks (USA)
NQF.Orde Ballantyne (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)
Triple jump
1.Khristo Markov (Bulgaria)
3.Aleksandr Kovalenko (USSR)
NQF (19 in Qualification Group A).Lennox Adams (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)
High jump
1.Gennadiy Avdeyenko (USSR)
2.Hollis Conway (USA)
3-4.Patrik Sjoberg (Sweden)
Pole vault
1.Sergey Bubka (USSR)
Shot put
1.Ulf Timmermann (East Germany)
2.Randy Barnes (USA)
Discus throw
1.Jurgen Schult (East Germany)
2.Romas Ubartas (USSR)
3.Rolf Danneberg (West Germany)
Hammer throw
2.Yuriy Sedykh (USSR)
Javelin throw
1.Tapio Korjus (Finland)
3.Seppo Raty (Finland)
Decathlon
1.Christian Schenk (East Germany)
3.Dave Steen (Canada)
WOMEN
100 m
1.Florence Griffith Joyner (USA)
2.Evelyn Ashford (USA)
3.Heike Drechsler (East Germany)
200 m
1.Florence Griffith Joyner (USA)
3.Heike Drechsler (East Germany)
400 m
1.Olga Bryzgina (USSR)
1500 m: 1.Paula Ivan (Romania)
3000 m: 2.Paula Ivan (Romania)
10000 m
1.Olga Bondarenko (USSR)
2.Liz McColgan (Great Britain)
3.Yelena Zhupiyeva (USSR)
4.Kathrin Ullrich (East Germany)
4 x 100 m
1.USA (Alice Brown, Evelyn Ashford, Florence Griffith Joyner)
2.East Germany (Marlies Oelsner-Gohr)
4 x 400 m
1.USSR (Olga Bryzgina)
2.USA (Valerie Brisco-Hooks, Florence Griffith Joyner)
Marathon
1.Rosa Mota (Portugal)
Long jump
1.Jackie Joyner Kersee (USA)
2.Heike Drechsler (East Germany)
High jump
1.Louise Ritter (USA)
2.Stefka Kostadinova (Bulgaria)
Heptathlon
1.Jackie Joyner Kersee (USA)
Men
Final
USSR - Yugoslavia 76:63
(Sarunas Marciulionis - Vlade Divac, Zarko Paspalj)
1.USSR (Tiit Sokk, Sarunas Marciulionis)
2.Yugoslavia (Drazen Petrovic, Zarko Paspalj, Vlade Divac)
3.USA (David Robinson)
5.Brazil
6.Canada (John Hatch)
(the match depicted on the stamp is either Brazil - Canada 125:109 from Preliminary Round, Group B or Brazil - Canada 106:90, the Fifth-Place Game)
Women
Third-Place Game
USSR - Australia 68:53
(Irina Gerlits, Irina Minkh - Michele Timms)
2.Yugoslavia
3.USSR (Irina Gerlits, Irina Minkh)
4.Australia (Michele Timms)
54 kg
3-4.Jorge Julio Rocha (Colombia)
57 kg
1.Giovanni Parisi (Italy)
2.Daniel Dumitrescu (Romania)
60 kg
Final
Andreas Zulow (East Germany) - George Cramne (Sweden) 5:0
1.Andreas Zulow (East Germany)
2.George Cramne (Sweden)
3-4.Nerguin Enkhbat (Mongolia)
75 kg
1.Henry Maske (East Germany)
81 kg
Final
Andrew Maynard (USA) - Nurmagomed Shavanazov (USSR) 5:0
1.Andrew Maynard (USA)
2.Nurmagomed Shavanazov (USSR)
3-4.Damir Skaro (Yugoslavia)
MEN
C-1 500 m
1.Olaf Heukrodt (East Germany)
C-2 500 m
1.Viktor Reneysky / Nikolai Zhuravsky (USSR)
2.Marek Dopierala / Marek Lbik (Poland)
C-2 1000 m
1.Viktor Reneysky / Nikolai Zhuravsky (USSR)
2.Olaf Heukrodt / Ingo Spelly (East Germany)
3.Marek Dopierala / Marek Lbik (Poland)
4.Christian Fredericksen / Arne Nielsson (Denmark)
K-1 500 m
3.Paul MacDonald (New Zealand)
K-1 1000 m
1.Greg Barton (USA)
K-2 500 m
1.Ian Ferguson / Paul MacDonald (New Zealand)
K-2 1000 m
1.Greg Barton / Norman Bellingham (USA)
2.Ian Ferguson / Paul MacDonald (New Zealand)
WOMEN
K-1 500 m
2.Birgit Schmidt (East Germany)
K-2 500 m
1.Birgit Schmidt / Anke Nothnagel (East Germany)
K-4 500 m
1.East Germany (Birgit Schmidt, Anke Nothnagel)
ROAD - MEN
Team time trial
1.East Germany
ROAD - WOMEN
Road race
1.Monique Knol (Netherlands)
2.Jutta Niehaus (West Germany)
TRACK - MEN
Individual pursuit
1.Gintautas Umaras (USSR)
Team pursuit
1.USSR (Gintautas Umaras)
3.Australia (Scott McGrory)
Sprint
1.Lutz Hesslich (East Germany)
TRACK - WOMEN
Sprint
1.Erika Salumae (USSR)
2.Christa Luding-Rothenburger (East Germany)
MEN
3 m springboard
1.Greg Louganis (USA)
10 m platform
1.Greg Louganis (USA)
WOMEN
3 m springboard
3.Kelly McCormick (USA)
10 m platform
1.Xu Yanmei (China)
2.Michele Mitchell (USA)
Individual dressage
1.Nicole Uphoff (West Germany)
3.Christine Stuckelberger (Switzerland)
Team dressage
1.West Germany (Reiner Klimke, Nicole Uphoff)
2.Switzerland (Christine Stuckelberger)
Individual eventing
1.Mark Todd (New Zealand)
Team eventing
1.West Germany (Claus Erhorn, Matthias Andreas Baumann, Thies Kaspareit, Ralf Ehrenbrink)
2.Great Britain (Mark Phillips)
3.New Zealand (Mark Todd)
Individual jumping
1.Pierre Durand, Jr. (France)
Team jumping
1.West Germany
2.USA (Joseph Fargis)
3.France (Pierre Durand, Jr.)
MEN
Individual epee
1.Arnd Schmitt (West Germany)
Individual foil
1.Stefano Cerioni (Italy)
Team foil
1.USSR (Vladimir Aptsiauri)
2.West Germany (Matthias Behr)
Individual sabre
1.Jean-Francois Lamour (France)
WOMEN
Individual foil
Semifinal
Anja Fichtel-Mauritz (West Germany) - Zsuzsa Janosi (Hungary) 8:5
Final
Anja Fichtel-Mauritz (West Germany) - Sabine Bau (West Germany) 8:5
1.Anja Fichtel-Mauritz (West Germany)
2.Sabine Bau (West Germany)
4.Zsuzsa Janosi (Hungary)
Team foil
1.West Germany (Sabine Bau, Anja Fichtel-Mauritz)
2.Italy
Women
1.Australia (Rechelle Hawkes)
Final
USSR - Brazil 2:1 (after extra time)
(NOTE: The score depicted on the sheet is incorrect)
(Sergei Gorlukovich - Edmar)
(Viktor Losev - Romario)
(Igor Dobrovolski (USSR))
1.USSR (Igor Dobrovolski, Sergei Gorlukovich, Gela Ketashvili, Viktor Losev)
2.Brazil (Ademir, Bebeto, Edmar, Jorginho, Romario, Claudio Taffarel)
3.West Germany (Thomas Hassler, Jurgen Klinsmann)
Gela Ketashvili (USSR)
MEN
Team all-around
1.USSR (Vladimir Artemov, Dmitry Bilozerchev, Vladimir Gogoladze)
2.East Germany (Holger Behrendt, Ralf Buchner, Sven Tippelt)
3.Japan (Yukio Iketani)
Individual all-around
1.Vladimir Artemov (USSR)
3.Dmitry Bilozerchev (USSR)
18.Ralf Buchner (East Germany)
Floor exercise
2.Vladimir Artemov (USSR)
3-4.Yukio Iketani (Japan)
Pommel horse
1-3.Dmitry Bilozerchev (USSR)
Rings
1-2.Holger Behrendt (East Germany), Dmitry Bilozerchev (USSR)
3.Sven Tippelt (East Germany)
Parallel bars
1.Vladimir Artemov (USSR)
3.Sven Tippelt (East Germany)
Horizontal bar
1-2.Vladimir Artemov (USSR)
3-4.Holger Behrendt (East Germany)
WOMEN
Team all-around
1.USSR (Elena Shushunova)
2.Romania (Daniela Silivas)
3.East Germany
Individual all-around
1.Elena Shushunova (USSR)
2.Daniela Silivas (Romania)
Floor exercise: 1.Daniela Silivas (Romania)
Balance beam: 1.Daniela Silivas (Romania)
2.Elena Shushunova (USSR)
Uneven bars: 1.Daniela Silivas (Romania)
3.Elena Shushunova (USSR)
Vault
3.Daniela Silivas (Romania)
Men
3.Yugoslavia
78 kg
Final
Waldemar Legien (Poland) def. Frank Wieneke (West Germany)
1.Waldemar Legien (Poland)
2.Frank Wieneke (West Germany)
95 kg
3-4.Robert Van de Walle (Belgium)
95+ kg
1.Hitoshi Saito (Japan)
MEN
Single sculls
1.Thomas Lange (East Germany)
Double sculls
1.Nico Rienks / Ronald Florijn (Netherlands)
Coxless pairs
1.Andy Holmes / Steve Redgrave (Great Britain)
3.Sadik Mujkic / Bojan Presern (Yugoslavia)
Coxed pairs
3.Great Britain (Steve Redgrave)
Coxed fours
2.Romania (Dimitrie Popescu)
Coxed eights
1.West Germany (Bahne Rabe, Eckhardt Schultz, Ansgar Wessling, Wolfgang Maening, Matthias Mellinghaus, Thomas Mollenkamp, Thomas Domian, Armin Eichholz, Manfred Klein)
WOMEN
Double sculls: 2.Elisabeta Lipa / Veronica Cogeanu (Romania)
Quadruple sculls: 3.Romania (Elisabeta Lipa)
Coxless pairs
1.Rodica Arba / Olga Homeghi (Romania)
Coxed eights
2.Romania (Rodica Arba, Olga Homeghi)
WOMEN
470
1.Allison Jolly / Lynne Jewell (USA)
MEN
Finn
1.Jose Doreste (Spain)
MEN
50 m rifle three positions
2.Alister Allan (Great Britain)
10 m air rifle
1.Goran Maksimovic (Yugoslavia)
50 m pistol
1.Sorin Babii (Romania)
2.Ragnar Skanaker (Sweden)
WOMEN
50 m rifle three positions
1.Silvia Sperber (West Germany)
10 m air rifle
2.Silvia Sperber (West Germany)
25 m pistol
1.Nino Salukvadze (USSR)
3.Jasna Sekaric (Yugoslavia)
10 m air pistol
1.Jasna Sekaric (Yugoslavia)
MIXED
Skeet
3.Jorge Guardiola (Spain)
MEN
50 m freestyle
1.Matt Biondi (USA)
100 m freestyle
1.Matt Biondi (USA)
200 m freestyle
3.Matt Biondi (USA)
200 m breaststroke
3.Sergio Lopez Miro (Spain)
100 m butterfly
1.Anthony Nesty (Suriname)
2.Matt Biondi (USA)
200 m butterfly
1.Michael Gross (West Germany)
4 x 100 m freestyle
1.USA (Matt Biondi)
2.USSR (Yuri Bashkatov)
4 x 200 m freestyle
1.USA (Matt Biondi)
3.West Germany (Michael Gross)
4 x 200 m medley
1.USA (Matt Biondi)
2.Canada (Mark Tewksbury, Victor Davis)
WOMEN
50 m freestyle: 1.Kristin Otto (East Germany)
100 m freestyle: 1.Kristin Otto (East Germany)
200 m freestyle
2.Silvia Poll (Costa Rica)
100 m backstroke
1.Kristin Otto (East Germany)
2.Krisztina Egerszegi (Hungary)
200 m backstroke
1.Krisztina Egerszegi (Hungary)
100 m butterfly
1.Kristin Otto (East Germany)
2.Birte Weigang (East Germany)
200 m butterfly
1.Kathleen Nord (East Germany)
2.Birte Weigang (East Germany)
200 m individual medley
1.Daniela Hunger (East Germany)
3.Noemi Lung (Romania)
400 m individual medley
2.Noemi Lung (Romania)
3.Daniela Hunger (East Germany)
4 x 100 m freestyle
1.East Germany (Kristin Otto, Daniela Hunger)
4 x 100 m medley
1.East Germany (Kristin Otto, Birte Weigang)
Solo
2.Tracie Ruiz (USA)
Duet
2.Karen Josephson / Sarah Josephson (USA)
3.Mikako Kotani / Miyako Tanaka (Japan)
Men’s singles
1.Yoo Nam-Kyu (South Korea)
Men’s doubles
2.Ilija Lupulesku / Zoran Primorac (Yugoslavia)
3.Ahn Jae-Hyung / Yoo Nam-Kyu (South Korea)
Women’s doubles
1.Hyun Jung-Hwa / Yang Young-Ja (South Korea)
3.Jasna Fazlic / Gordana Perkucin (Yugoslavia)
Men’s singles
1.Miroslav Mecir (Czechoslovakia)
2.Tim Mayotte (USA)
3-4.Brad Gilbert (USA), Stefan Edberg (Sweden)
Men’s doubles
2.Emilio Sanchez / Sergio Casal (Spain)
3-4.Stefan Edberg / Anders Jarryd (Sweden)
Women’s singles
Final
Steffi Graf (West Germany) - Gabriela Sabatini (Argentina) 6-3, 6-3
1.Steffi Graf (West Germany)
2.Gabriela Sabatini (Argentina)
3-4.Zina Garrison (USA)
Women’s doubles
1.Pam Shriver / Zina Garrison (USA)
3-4.Elizabeth Smylie / Wendy Turnbull (Australia), Steffi Graf / Claudia Kohde-Kilsch (West Germany)
Men
Final
USA - USSR 3-1
(Craig Buck, Robert Partie, Steve Timmons - Raimundas Vilde)
1.USA (Robert Partie, Steve Timmons, Craig Buck, Karch Kiraly)
Karch Kiraly (USA)
2.USSR (Vyacheslav Zaitsev, Raimundas Vilde)
3.Argentina (Hugo Conte)
1.Yugoslavia
56 kg
1.Oksen Mirzoyan (USSR)
60 kg
1.Naim Suleymanoglu (Turkey)
3.Ye Huanming (China)
67.5 kg
2.Israel Militosyan (USSR)
75 kg
1.Borislav Gidikov (Bulgaria)
82.5 kg
3.Lee Hyung-Kun (South Korea)
100 kg
2.Nicu Vlad (Romania)
110+ kg
1.Alexander Kurlovich (USSR)
2.Manfred Nerlinger (West Germany)
FREESTYLE
52 kg
2.Saban Trstena (Yugoslavia)
100 kg
1.Vasile Puscasu (Romania)
130 kg
1.David Gobejishvili (USSR)
GRECO-ROMAN
48 kg
Final
Vincenzo Maenza (Italy) def. Andrzej Glab (Poland)
1.Vincenzo Maenza (Italy)
2.Andrzej Glab (Poland)
57 kg
1.Andras Sike (Hungary)
68 kg
1.Levon Julfalakyan (USSR)
1.USSR (55-31-46)
2.EAST GERMANY (37-35-30)
3.USA (36-31-27)
6.HUNGARY (11-6-6)
8.ROMANIA (7-11-6)
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