Women's 3000 metres at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	23 September 1988 (heats) 25 September 1988 (final)
Competitors	35 from 25 nations
Winning time	8:26.53 OR
Medalists
Tetyana Samolenko  Soviet Union Paula Ivan  Romania Yvonne Murray  Great Britain
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Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
Wheelchair races
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The women's 3000 metres at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea had an entry list of 35 competitors, with two qualifying heats (35) before the final (15) took place on Sunday September 25, 1988.^[1]

The winning margin was 0.62 seconds which was the only time the women's 3,000 metres was won by less than 0.8 seconds at the Olympics.

RANK	FINAL	TIME
	Tetyana Samolenko (URS)	8:26.53
	Paula Ivan (ROU)	8:27.15
	Yvonne Murray (GBR)	8:29.02
4.	Yelena Romanova (URS)	8:30.45
5.	Natalya Artyomova (URS)	8:31.67
6.	Vicki Huber (USA)	8:37.25
7.	Wendy Sly (GBR)	8:37.70
8.	Lynn Williams (CAN)	8:38.43
9.	Elly van Hulst (NED)	8:43.92
10.	Mary Slaney (USA)	8:47.13
11.	Cornelia Bürki (SUI)	8:48.32
12.	Annette Sergent (FRA)	8:49.14
13.	PattiSue Plumer (USA)	8:59.17
14.	Angela Chalmers (CAN)	9:04.75
15.	Debbie Bowker (CAN)	9:11.95

RANK	HEAT	QUALIFYING	TIME
1.	2	Paula Ivan (ROU)	8:43.10
2.	2	Yvonne Murray (GBR)	8:43.73
3.	2	Debbie Bowker (CAN)	8:43.81
4.	2	Mary Slaney (USA)	8:44.15
5.	2	Tetyana Samolenko (URS)	8:44.18
6.	2	Natalya Artyomova (URS)	8:44.30
7.	2	PattiSue Plumer (USA)	8:45.21
8.	2	Annette Sergent (FRA)	8:45.94
9.	2	Cornelia Bürki (SUI)	8:48.37
10.	1	Yelena Romanova (URS)	8:48.47
11.	1	Elly van Hulst (NED)	8:48.54
12.	1	Angela Chalmers (CAN)	8:48.60
13.	1	Lynn Williams (CAN)	8:48.70
14.	1	Vicki Huber (USA)	8:48.93
15.	1	Wendy Sly (GBR)	8:49.71
16.	2	Vera Michallek (FRG)	8:51.34
17.	2	Chen Qingmei (CHN)	8:51.53
18.	2	Roberta Brunet (ITA)	8:53.04
19.	1	Xiuting Wang (CHN)	8:54.19
20.	1	Jill Hunter (GBR)	8:57.28
21.	1	Christine Pfitzinger (NZL)	9:01.30
22.	1	Jacqueline Perkins (AUS)	9:01.82
23.	1	Andri Avraam (CYP)	9:02.18
24.	2	Anne Keenan-Buckley (IRL)	9:03.10
25.	1	Angelines Rodríguez (ESP)	9:03.39
26.	1	Fernanda Ribeiro (POR)	9:05.92
27.	1	Susan Sirma (KEN)	9:06.90
28.	1	Lim Chun-Ae (KOR)	9:21.18
29.	2	Khin Khin Htwe (BIR)	9:26.57
30.	2	Daphrose Nyiramutuzo (RWA)	9:47.98
31.	2	Dikanda Diba (ZAI)	10:32.88
–	1	Maricica Puică (ROU)	DNF
–	1	Marie Pierre Duros (FRA)	DNF
–	2	Fatima Aouam (MAR)	DNF
–	2	Polonie Avek (PNG)	DNF

• 1987 Women's World Championships 3.000 metres (Rome)
• 1990 Women's European Championships 3.000 metres (Split)
• 1991 Women's World Championships 3.000 metres (Tokyo)
• 1992 Women's Olympic 3.000 metres (Barcelona)

• (in English) Official Report