Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres

Women's 100 metres
at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Women's 100 metres; at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Date	24 September 1988 (heats, quarter-finals); 25 September 1988 (semi-finals, final)
Competitors	64 from 41 nations
Winning time	10.54
Medalists
	← 1984 1992 →

The Women's 100 metres at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea had an entry list of 64 competitors, with eight qualifying heats (64), four second-round races (32) and two semifinals (16), before the final (8) took off on Sunday September 25, 1988.^[1]

VenueOlympic Stadium

Date24 September 1988 (heats, quarter-finals)
25 September 1988 (semi-finals, final)

Competitors64 from 41 nations

Winning time10.54

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World record	10.49	Florence Griffith-Joyner	Indianapolis (USA)	July 16, 1988
Olympic record	10.97	Evelyn Ashford	Los Angeles (USA)	August 5, 1984

Date	Athlete	Time	OR
September 24, 1988	Florence Griffith-Joyner (USA)	10.88	OR
September 24, 1988	Evelyn Ashford (USA)	10.88	=OR
September 24, 1988	Florence Griffith-Joyner (USA)	10.62	OR

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Anelia Nuneva	Bulgaria	11.09	Q
2	Grace Jackson	Jamaica	11.18	Q
3	Paula Dunn	Great Britain	11.39	Q
4	Tian Yumei	China	11.56	q
5	Voula Patoulidou	Greece	11.85
6	Melvina Vulah	Liberia	12.16
7	Félicite Bada	Benin	12.27
8	Farida Kyakutewa	Uganda	12.32

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Pauline Davis	Bahamas	11.20	Q
2	Nelli Cooman	Netherlands	11.22	Q
3	Marlies Göhr	East Germany	11.22	Q
4	Jolanta Janota	Poland	11.71
5	Sandy Myers	Spain	11.86
6	Méryem Oumezdi	Morocco	11.90
7	Yvette Bonapart	Suriname	12.27
8	Aminata Diarra	Mali	12.27

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Gwen Torrence	United States	11.12	Q
2	Lyudmila Kondratyeva	Soviet Union	11.19	Q
3	Laurence Bily	France	11.34	Q
4	Amparo Caicedo	Colombia	11.59	q
5	Marisa Masullo	Italy	11.71
6	Ewa Pisiewicz	Poland	11.84
7	Ng Ka Yee	Hong Kong	12.18
8	Jabou Jawo	The Gambia	12.27

Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres

Records

Results

Heats

Heat 1

Heat 2

Heat 3

Heat 4

Heat 5

Heat 6

Heat 7

Heat 8

Quarterfinals

Quarterfinal 1

Quarterfinal 2

Quarterfinal 3

Quarterfinal 4

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Semifinal 2

Final

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Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Juliet Cuthbert	Jamaica	11.14	Q
2	Silke Möller	East Germany	11.27	Q
3	Els Vader	Netherlands	11.38	Q
4	Sabine Richter	West Germany	11.49	q
5	Françoise Leroux	France	11.58	q
6	Lydia de Vega	Philippines	11.67
7	Guilhermina da Cruz	Angola	12.47
8	Erin Tierney	Cook Islands	12.52

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Evelyn Ashford	United States	11.10	Q
2	Marina Zhirova	Soviet Union	11.22	Q
3	Joanna Smolarek	Poland	11.43	Q
4	Andrea Thomas	West Germany	11.46	q
5	Julie Rocheleau	Canada	11.60	q
6	Gaily Dube	Zimbabwe	12.07
7	Claudia Acerenza	Uruguay	12.11
8	Judith Diankoléla-Missengué	Republic of the Congo	12.14

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Natalia Pomoshchnikova	Soviet Union	11.11	Q
2	Heike Drechsler	East Germany	11.15	Q
3	Simmone Jacobs	Great Britain	11.56	Q
4	Angela Williams	Trinidad and Tobago	11.62	q
5	Liu Shaomei	China	11.66
6	Lee Young-sook	South Korea	11.74
7	Joyce Odhiambo	Kenya	11.90
8	Mariama Ouiminga	Burkina Faso	12.62

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Florence Griffith-Joyner	United States	10.88	Q, OR
2	Kerry Johnson	Australia	11.44	Q
3	Angela Bailey	Canada	11.61	Q
4	Patricia Girard	France	11.65
5	Zhang Caihua	China	11.84
6	Gisèle Ongollo	Gabon	11.85
7	Chen Ya-li	Chinese Taipei	12.16
8	Evelyn Farrell	Aruba	12.48

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Merlene Ottey	Jamaica	11.03	Q
2	Ulrike Sarvari	West Germany	11.26	Q
3	Angella Issajenko	Canada	11.42	Q
4	Dinah Yankey	Ghana	11.64	q
5	Rossella Tarolo	Italy	11.86
6	Helen Miles	Great Britain	11.88
7	Olivette Daruhi	Vanuatu	13.00
8	Mala Sakonhninhom	Laos	15.12

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Heike Drechsler	East Germany	10.96	Q
2	Merlene Ottey	Jamaica	11.03	Q
3	Ulrike Sarvari	West Germany	11.16	Q
4	Pauline Davis	Bahamas	11.21	Q
5	Angela Bailey	Canada	11.29
6	Els Vader	Netherlands	11.51
7	Tian Yumei	China	11.55
8	Françoise Leroux	France	11.75

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Florence Griffith-Joyner	United States	10.62	Q, OR
2	Juliet Cuthbert	Jamaica	11.03	Q
3	Lyudmila Kondratyeva	Soviet Union	11.05	Q
4	Silke Möller	East Germany	11.10	Q
5	Simmone Jacobs	Great Britain	11.31
6	Laurence Bily	France	11.35
7	Andrea Thomas	West Germany	11.37
8	Dinah Yankey	Ghana	11.63

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Evelyn Ashford	United States	10.99	Q
2	Anelia Nuneva	Bulgaria	11.00	Q
3	Gwen Torrence	United States	11.02	Q
4	Juliet Cuthbert	Jamaica	11.10	Q
5	Silke Möller	East Germany	11.12
6	Marlies Göhr	East Germany	11.13
7	Lyudmila Kondratyeva	Soviet Union	11.21
8	Marina Zhirova	Soviet Union	11.24

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Florence Griffith-Joyner	United States	10.70	Q
2	Heike Drechsler	East Germany	10.91	Q
3	Natalia Pomoshchnikova	Soviet Union	11.03	Q
4	Grace Jackson	Jamaica	11.06	Q
5	Ulrike Sarvari	West Germany	11.12
6	Pauline Davis	Bahamas	11.12
7	Nelli Cooman	Netherlands	11.13
—	Merlene Ottey	Jamaica	DNS