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Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres
| 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 | ||||||||||
| ||||||||||
| 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 | ||
The Women's 100m 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]
Records
These were the standing World and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1988 Summer Olympics.
| World Record | 10.49 |  Florence Griffith-Joyner
|
Indianapolis (USA) | July 16, 1988 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olympic Record | 10.97 | Evelyn Ashford
|
Los Angeles (USA) | August 5, 1984 |
The following Olympic records were set during this competition.
| Date | Athlete | Time | OR | WR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Results
Heats
Heat 1
Wind +1.1
| 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 |
Heat 2
Wind +0.4
| 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 |
Heat 3
Wind +0.0
| 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 |
Heat 4
Wind +1.1
| 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 |
Heat 5
Wind +0.1
| 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 |
Heat 6
Wind +0.2
| 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 |
Heat 7
Wind +1.0
| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Florence Griffith-Joyner | United States
|
10.88 | Q, OR |
