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Host City: Seoul, South Korea

Format: Top eight in each heat and next four fastest advanced to the final.

Date Started: September 26, 1988

Date Finished: September 30, 1988

(Competitors: 34; Countries: 20; Finalists: 20)

Venue(s): Olympic Stadium, Seoul Sports Complex, Seoul

Overview by IAAF

Ingrid Kristiansen (NOR) had won the ’86 European and ’87 World titles, and her form of those two years gave her a 30 second advantage over the field. However, 1988 saw her suffering with an injured foot, which flared up after seven laps in the Olympic final, and caused her to drop out while leading. Kristiansen had set an Olympic record of 31:44.69 in the heats ahead of Bondarenko and Zhupiyeva, and these two latched on to McColgan and Ullrich. The German led to halfway, reached in 15:37.9, with the top four more than 10 seconds clear of the rest of the field. McColgan took over the pace, and lost Ullrich in the eighth kilometre and Zhupiyova in the ninth. Bondarenko, a good finisher, stayed on the Briton’s heels, and with a certain inevitability attacked with just over half a lap to go, completing her final 200m in 31.2 to win by 20m.

Summary by Sports-reference.com

Based on her form of 1986-87, Norway's Ingrid Kristiansen should have been an easy winner. She had won the 1986 Europeans and the 1987 World Championships. At the Bislett Games in 1985, she broke the 10K world record with 30:59.42 and then at the same meet in 1986, she ran a Beamonesque 30:13.74 to destroy that world record. In that race, run against a field of world-class competitors, she lapped every runner. But in 1988 she was battling a foot injury and she eventually dropped out of the final, after leading the first seven laps. That left a stunned field to battle for the medals. After her withdrawal, the lead was taken by Liz McColgan (GBR), Kathrin Ullrich (GDR), Yelena Zhupiyeva (URS), and Olga Bondarenko (URS). Ullrich led at 5K, but McColgan then pushed the pace and Ullrich could not maintain it after 8,000 metres. Zhupiyeva hung on until 9K, but the race then came down to McColgan and Bondarenko. With 200 left, Bondarenko pushed past McColgan and pulled away from her for the gold medal.

Records

This was the standing World record (in minutes) prior to the 1988 Summer Olympics.

World Record	30:13.74	Ingrid Kristiansen	Oslo (NOR)	July 5, 1986

The following Olympic records (in minutes) were set during this competition.

Date	Athlete	Time	OR	WR
September 26, 1988	Ingrid Kristiansen (NOR)	31:44.69	OR
September 30, 1988	Olga Bondarenko (URS)	31:05.21	OR

		Results

*10000 m*	Women	Final	30 September

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	31.05.21	Olga Bondarenko	Soviet Union	URS	2 Jun 60
2	31.08.44	Liz McColgan	Great Britain	GBR	24 May 64
3	31.19.82	Yelena Vyazova	Soviet Union	URS	18 Apr 60
4	31.29.27	Kathrin Weßel	East Germany	GDR	14 Aug 67
5	31.35.52	Francie Larrieu Smith	United States	USA	23 Nov 52
6	31.39.93	Lynn Jennings	United States	USA	1 Jul 60
7	31.40.23	Wang Xiuting	China	CHN	11 May 65
8	31.50.51	Sue Lee	Canada	CAN	7 May 60
9	32.02.13	Albertina Machado	Portugal	POR	25 Dec 61
10	32.07.13	Maria Albertina Dias	Portugal	POR	26 Apr 65
11	32.10.47	Anne Audain	New Zealand	NZL	1 Nov 55
12	32.12.27	Lyudmila Matveyeva	Soviet Union	URS	1 Feb 57
13	32.14.05	Nancy Tinari	Canada	CAN	13 Jun 59
14	32.29.84	Rosanna Munerotto	Italy	ITA	3 Dec 62
15	32.32.24	Lynn Nelson	United States	USA	8 Jan 62
16	32.41.43	Carole Rouillard	France	FRA	15 Mar 60
17	32.45.09	Carolyn Schuwalow	Australia	AUS	10 Aug 65
18	32.49.86	Wang Qinghuan	China	CHN	22 Dec 66
19	33.17.38	Annette Sergent-Palluy	France	FRA	17 Nov 62
	DNF	Ingrid Kristiansen	Norway	NOR	21 Mar 56
*10000 m*	Women	Heat 1	26 September

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	31.44.69	Ingrid Kristiansen	Norway	NOR	21 Mar 56
2	31.47.67	Olga Bondarenko	Soviet Union	URS	2 Jun 60
3	31.47.99	Yelena Vyazova	Soviet Union	URS	18 Apr 60
4	31.51.40	Kathrin Weßel	East Germany	GDR	14 Aug 67
5	31.51.42	Sue Lee	Canada	CAN	7 May 60
6	31.52.02	Francie Larrieu Smith	United States	USA	23 Nov 52
7	31.52.04	Albertina Machado	Portugal	POR	25 Dec 61
8	32.04.52	Wang Xiuting	China	CHN	11 May 65
9	32.06.76	Rosanna Munerotto	Italy	ITA	3 Dec 62
10	32.09.08	Carole Rouillard	France	FRA	15 Mar 60
11	32.10.05	Carolyn Schuwalow	Australia	AUS	10 Aug 65
12	32.10.73	Anne Audain	New Zealand	NZL	1 Nov 55
13	32.11.49	Marleen Renders	Belgium	BEL	24 Dec 68	NUR
14	32.28.26	Martine Oppliger	Switzerland	SUI	19 Oct 57
15	32.40.50	Ana Isabel Alonso	Spain	ESP	16 Aug 63
16	33.26.57	Angela Tooby	Great Britain	GBR	24 Oct 60
17	33.28.13	Xie Lihua	China	CHN	19 Jul 65
18	33.48.96	Chung Mi-Ja	South Korea	KOR	8 Mar 70
*10000 m*	Women	Heat 2	26 September

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	32.11.95	Liz McColgan	Great Britain	GBR	24 May 64
2	32.12.87	Lyudmila Matveyeva	Soviet Union	URS	1 Feb 57
3	32.13.00	Wang Qinghuan	China	CHN	22 Dec 66
4	32.13.45	Annette Sergent-Palluy	France	FRA	17 Nov 62
5	32.13.85	Maria Albertina Dias	Portugal	POR	26 Apr 65
6	32.15.45	Lynn Nelson	United States	USA	8 Jan 62
7	32.16.27	Nancy Tinari	Canada	CAN	13 Jun 59
8	32.18.44	Lynn Jennings	United States	USA	1 Jul 60
9	32.19.57	Akemi Matsuno	Japan	JPN	27 Apr 68
10	32.20.39	Christine McMiken	New Zealand	NZL	19 Jul 63
11	32.46.07	Jane Shields	Great Britain	GBR	23 Aug 60
12	32.59.30	Andri Avraam	Cyprus	CYP	20 Jan 63	NR
13	33.01.52	Hassania Darami	Morocco	MAR	10 Dec 53
14	33.45.22	Jackie Perkins	Australia	AUS	29 Aug 65
15	33.51.36	Liève Slegers	Belgium	BEL	6 Apr 65
	DNF	Erika Fazekas	Hungary	HUN	23 Oct 63