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Host City: Seoul, South Korea

Format: 42,195 metres (26 miles, 385 yards) out-and-back.

Date Started: September 23, 1988

Date Finished: September 23, 1988

(Competitors: 69; Countries: 39)

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

Overview by IAAF

This was expected to be a four-way battle between Mota, Waitz, Dörre and Martin. A pack of nine runners were together past halfway (1:12:20), and the biggest shock of the race came when Waitz retired at 30Km, due to slow recovery from knee surgery the previous month. By 35Km the top three were accompanied only by Polovinskaya, and the Ukrainian started to drop back just after 36Km. Mota made her break with 4Km to go, and won by 60m from Martin, with Dörre 150m further back.

Summary by Sports-reference.com

The top women marathoners between 1984 and 1988 were Norway’s Grete Waitz and Ingrid Kristiansen and Portugal’s Rosa Mota. Kristiansen elected not to run the marathon at Seoul, choosing the 10,000 instead. Mota was not as heralded as Waitz, the first great female marathoner, but her overall marathon record in major championships is unsurpassed. She won the first World Championship in 1983 in Helsinki, won the European Championships in 1982, 1986, and 1990, and she eventually won every major city marathon except New York, at which she never competed.

During the Seoul race, Mota ran in the lead group throughout and never really trailed. Running with her for most of the race were two well-considered runners, Australia’s Lisa Martin and the GDR’s Katrin Dörre. The three were still together as they approache 40 km., but Mota surged slightly and opened a narrow gap. She was able to hold the lead, eventually defeating Martin by 13 seconds, with Dörre winning a bronze medal.

Records

Standing records prior to the 1988 Summer Olympics
World Record	Ingrid Kristiansen (NOR)	2:21:06	April 21, 1985	London, United Kingdom
Olympic Record	Joan Benoit (USA)	2:24:52	August 5, 1984	Los Angeles, United States
Season Best	Lisa Ondieki (AUS)	2:23:51	January 31, 1988	Osaka, Japan

		Results

*Marathon*	Women	Final	23 September

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	2.25.40	Rosa Mota	Portugal	POR	29 Jun 58
2	2.25.53	Lisa Ondieki	Australia	AUS	12 May 60
3	2.26.21	Katrin Dörre-Heinig	East Germany	GDR	6 Oct 61
4	2.27.05	Tatyana Dzhabraylova	Soviet Union	URS	14 Mar 65
5	2.27.06	Zhao Youfeng	China	CHN	5 May 65
6	2.27.49	Laura Fogli	Italy	ITA	5 Oct 59
7	2.29.23	Danièle Kaber	Luxembourg	LUX	20 Apr 60	NR
8	2.30.14	Maria Curatolo	Italy	ITA	12 Oct 63
9	2.30.25	Zoya Ivanova	Soviet Union	URS	14 Mar 52
10	2.30.51	Angie Hulley	Great Britain	GBR	8 Feb 62
11	2.30.56	Odette Lapierre	Canada	CAN	28 Jan 55
12	2.31.33	Susan Tooby	Great Britain	GBR	24 Oct 60
13	2.32.26	Karolina Szabó	Hungary	HUN	17 Nov 61
14	2.32.36	Françoise Bonnet	France	FRA	8 Apr 57
15	2.32.51	Lee Mi-Ok	South Korea	KOR	10 Mar 68
16	2.33.19	Raisa Smekhnova	Soviet Union	URS	16 Sep 50
17	2.33.42	Nancy Ditz	United States	USA	25 Jun 54
18	2.33.47	Maria Lelut-Rebelo	France	FRA	29 Jan 56
19	2.34.02	Jocelyn Villeton	France	FRA	17 Sep 54
20	2.34.23	Maria Conceição Ferreira	Portugal	POR	13 Mar 62
21	2.34.26	Kerstin Preßler	West Germany	FRG	2 Feb 62
22	2.34.35	Wanda Panfil	Poland	POL	26 Jan 59
23	2.34.38	Antonella Bizioli	Italy	ITA	29 Mar 57
24	2.34.41	Eriko Asai	Japan	JPN	20 Oct 59
25	2.34.41	Evy Palm	Sweden	SWE	31 Jan 42
26	2.35.03	Lizanne Bussières-Chafe	Canada	CAN	20 Aug 61
27	2.35.11	Gabriela Wolf	West Germany	FRG	28 Oct 60
28	2.35.15	Kumi Araki	Japan	JPN	11 Oct 65
29	2.35.26	Misako Miyahara	Japan	JPN	29 May 62
30	2.36.02	Zhong Huandi	China	CHN	17 Jan 68
31	2.36.44	Ellen Rochefort	Canada	CAN	22 Nov 54
32	2.36.57	Susan Crehan	Great Britain	GBR	12 Sep 56
33	2.37.52	Lorraine Moller	New Zealand	NZL	1 Jun 55
34	2.37.52	Carla Beurskens	Netherlands	NED	10 Feb 52
35	2.38.02	Magda Ilands	Belgium	BEL	16 Jan 50
36	2.38.17	Sissel Grottenberg	Norway	NOR	17 Aug 56
37	2.38.21	Lim Eun-Yoo	South Korea	KOR	5 Mar 61
38	2.40.12	Marcianne Mukamurenzi	Rwanda	RWA	11 Nov 59
39	2.40.59	Margaret Groos	United States	USA	27 Sep 59
40	2.41.04	Cathy O'Brien	United States	USA	19 Jul 67
41	2.43.00	Sinikka Keskitalo	Finland	FIN	29 Jan 51
41	2.43.00	Tuija Toivonen	Finland	FIN	1 Mar 58
43	2.43.00	Blanca Jaime	Mexico	MEX	3 Nov 65
44	2.43.40	Angélica de Almeida	Brazil	BRA	25 Mar 65
45	2.43.56	Ludmila Melicherová	Czechoslovakia	TCH	6 Jun 64
46	2.44.17	Ailish Smyth	Ireland	IRL	18 Sep 58
47	2.44.37	Genoveva Eichenmann	Switzerland	SUI	12 Sep 57
48	2.47.31	Rosmarie Müller	Switzerland	SUI	27 Mar 58
49	2.47.42	Pascaline Wangui	Kenya	KEN
50	2.49.18	Apollinarie Nyinawabera	Rwanda	RWA	62
51	2.50.00	Maryse Justin	Mauritius	MRI	25 Aug 59
52	2.51.30	Michelle Bush	Cayman Islands	CAY	3 Oct 61
53	2.51.33	Maria del Pilar Menendez	Guatemala	GUA	12 Oct 54	NR
54	2.53.08	Li Yuan	China	CHN	3 Feb 71
55	2.53.17	Liesl Hunter	Zimbabwe	ZIM	10 Dec 63
56	2.53.24	Lia Melis	Aruba	ARU	23 Feb 60
57	2.54.37	Marie Rollins	Ireland	IRL	23 Mar 59
58	3.04.21	Krisia García	El Salvador	ESA	20 Sep 63
59	3.06.05	Julie Ogbourn	Guam	GUM	1 Aug 58
60	3.10.31	Raj Kumari Pandey	Nepal	NEP	13 Dec 69
61	3.11.17	Menuka Ravat	Nepal	NEP	72
62	3.23.56	Arlene Vincent Mark	Grenada	GRN	6 Oct 54
63	3.25.32	Lourdes Klitzkie	Guam	GUM	2 Feb 40
64	3.42.23	Mariana Ysrael	Guam	GUM
	DNF	Kim My-Kyong	South Korea	KOR	19 Feb 67
	DNF	Aurora Cunha	Portugal	POR	31 May 59
	DNF	Agnes Pardaens	Belgium	BEL	9 Oct 56
	DNF	Bente Moe	Norway	NOR	2 Dec 60
	DNF	Grete Waitz	Norway	NOR	1 Oct 53
	DNF	Mar Mar Min	Myanmar	MYA	18 Jul 58

More Details by Marathoninfo

1988 SEOUL: Dorando Pietri finally avenged Rosa Mota or the crowning of a great.

DATED	FEMALE WINNER	AGE	STARTERS	WITHDRAWALS
Friday, September 23 at 9:30 am	Rosa Mota (Portugal)	30 years	69 from 39 countries	5 (7.24%)

Rosa Mota, the Portuguese winner of this Olympiad, is probably the most marathon titled, with victories in the prestigious marathons in Chicago, Rotterdam, London, Boston, Osaka, plus three European titles gleaned in Athens (in his first race on the distance in 1982), Stuttgart (1986) and Split (1990), no one has done better level the winners. Yet his personal record of 2h23'29 "(Chicago 1985) never allowed him to hold the best world performance that the Norwegian Ingrid Kristiansen has a long held in 2:21:06. Never mind, the Portuguese , daughter of a mechanic of a popular district of Porto and started to running to escape his destiny servant, will remain in the history of women's marathon as one of its first events.

For the Seoul Olympics, the race will start at 9:30 in difficult conditions, already twenty degrees to and a humidity of 92% !! Despite these conditions alone 5 girls abandon the race. The race will be run completely different from four years ago, when Joan Benoit had dominated the head and shoulders leading the race from start to finish. Here the race will be more tactical and will proceed by elimination, wear shall we say !! Thus the 25th kilometer timed in 1h25'55 ", they are still twelve to compete for medals, but a favorite of the Norwegian Grete Waitz, actually no longer part. Really, that champion has never managed its Olympics , this is explained by health problems, she had to undergo arthroscopic knee surgery and was going to give up. the other Norwegian Ingrid Kristiansen, preferred to book strangely for the 10000m, while she held the record of world marathon. the height of bad choices, she will give up to 10,000 m final.

The thirtieth kilometer past in 1h43'13 ", selection begins to operate, there are top Rosa Mota, Australian Lisa Martin, Soviet Tatiana Polovinskaïa, and the East German Katrin Doerre, conspicuously absent from the last Olympics Soviet Polovinskaïa young 23 year old was already champion of USSR. Australian Lisa Martin who was 28 weighed only 47 kg for 1m66, double Commonwealth champion in 1986 and 1990 and won the start season of the Osaka marathon in 2:23:51, the seventh world performance of all time. Finally the German Eastern Katrin Doerre like many of his compatriots of his time was suspected of doping at these games even if the kidney has not been officially proven and has never confessed. on April 30, we learned that she was pregnant, which would of course deprive the Olympics, yet it is there, how explain the case is particularly distressing, but at that time there was a practice among the runners is: intentional pregnancies in order to cause an increase in blood volume and plasma causing transporting more amount of oxygen. A sort of EPO in a way, but this practice ended by abortion course after a few months of pregnancy is particularly revolting !! One wonders how doping whatsoever can then hearth tolerated when we see how it can get !! Several testimonies of Soviet athletes and German have confirmed since this form of doping. Katrin Doerre, who gave birth to a daughter in 1989, is for its part never went to confession, even if the circumstances of his performance in Seoul are quite disturbing. His prize list will then be provided with enough 3rd place in world in Tokyo in 1991, a 5th place at the Olympics in Barcelona, and a 4th place with those of Atlanta in 1996. On 25 April she won at the age of 35 years Hamburg marathon in 2h24'35 ", his 24th victory. All these victories they wash the suspicion? We will not know probably never and thus leave him the benefit of the doubt.

Still, at 39th kilometer, Rosa Mota will escape one and win the first Olympic medal for his country in 2:25:40, which she had already finished third in Los Angeles, she already reached the heights of his progress that we have seen will continue with other medals even if it does not defend his title in Barcelona in 1992.

As for the French, the results obtained have not been yet equivalent to the 14th place in 2:32:36 Françoise Bonnet, best place ever achieved by a French far, we add the 18th place Maria Lelut and 19th Jocelyne Villeton, a beautiful tripled in the top 20 !!