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Athletics at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games:
Women's 200 metres
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Host City: Seoul, South Korea
Location: Olympic Stadium
Date Started: September 28, 1988
Date Finished: September 29, 1988
| Gold: |  Florence Griffith Joyner |
| Silver: |  Grace Jackson-Small |
| Bronze: |  Heike Drechsler |
Summary
East Germany had two of the favorites in Heike Drechsler-Daute, who had twice equaled the world record of 21.71, once in winning the European title; and Silke Gladisch, the 1987 World Champion. America’s top bet was Florence Griffith Joyner, second in this event 1984, but with the East Germans absent. She had been dominant at the US Olympic Trials, running 21.77 in the semi-finals for an American record, and shattering the 100 world record in 10.49. In Seoul Griffith Joyner had already won the 100 by over three metres. In the 200 she broke the US and Olympic record in the quarter-finals with 21.76, and then in the semi-finals, posted a world record 21.56. The final was highly anticipated but it was not much of a race as FloJo destroyed the field, winning by four metres from Jamaica’s Grace Jackson with Drechsler another two metres back in third. Her world record time of 21.34 was considered Beamonesque and still stood as the world record 20 years later.
Final Standings
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | Medal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Florence Griffith Joyner | 28 | United States | USA | Gold | WR |
| 2 | Grace Jackson-Small | 27 | Jamaica | JAM | Silver | |
| 3 | Heike Drechsler | 23 | East Germany | GDR | Bronze | |
| 4 | Merlene Ottey | 28 | Jamaica | JAM | ||
| 5 | Silke Möller | 24 | East Germany | GDR | ||
| 6 | Gwen Torrence | 23 | United States | USA | ||
| 7 | Maia Azarashvili | 24 | Soviet Union | URS | ||
| 8 | Galina Malchugina | 25 | Soviet Union | URS | ||
| 5 h1r3/4 | Mary Onyali-Omagbemi | 20 | Nigeria | NGR | ||
| 5 h2r3/4 | Nadezhda Georgieva | 27 | Bulgaria | BUL | ||
| 6 h1r3/4 | Katrin Krabbe | 18 | East Germany | GDR | ||
| 6 h2r3/4 | Paula Dunn | 23 | Great Britain | GBR | ||
| 7 h1r3/4 | Pauline Davis-Thompson | 22 | Bahamas | BAH | ||
| 7 h2r3/4 | Agnieszka Siwek | 26 | Poland | POL | ||
| 8 h1r3/4 | Andrea Thomas | 25 | West Germany | FRG | ||
| 8 h2r3/4 | Regula Aebi | 22 | Switzerland | SUI | ||
| 5 h1r2/4 | Kerry Johnson | 24 | Australia | AUS | ||
| 5 h2r2/4 | Falilat Ogunkoya | 19 | Nigeria | NGR | ||
| 5 h3r2/4 | Muriel Leroy | 20 | France | FRA | ||
| 5 h4r2/4 | Simone Jacobs | 22 | Great Britain | GBR | ||
| 6 h1r2/4 | Silke Knoll | 21 | West Germany | FRG | ||
| 6 h2r2/4 | Anna Rita Angotzi | 21 | Italy | ITA | ||
| 6 h3r2/4 | Marisa Masullo | 29 | Italy | ITA | ||
| 6 h4r2/4 | Maria Magnólia Figueiredo | 24 | Brazil | BRA | ||
| 7 h1r2/4 | Angela Williams | 23 | Trinidad and Tobago | TRI | ||
| 7 h2r2/4 | Jolanta Janota | 24 | Poland | POL | ||
| 7 h3r2/4 | Jocelyn Joseph | 24 | Antigua and Barbuda | ANT | ||
| 7 h4r2/4 | Karin Janke | 24 | West Germany | FRG | ||
| 8 h1r2/4 | Marie-Christine Cazier-Ballo | 25 | France | FRA | ||
| 8 h2r2/4 | Louise Stuart | 21 | Great Britain | GBR | ||
| 8 h3r2/4 | Norfalia Carabali | 24 | Colombia | COL | ||
| 8 h4r2/4 | Marie-José Pérec | 20 | France | FRA | ||
| 4 h6r1/4 | Yolande Straughn | 20 | Barbados | BAR | ||
| 4 h8r1/4 | Xie Zhiling | 24 | China | CHN | ||
| 5 h1r1/4 | Ximena Restrepo | 19 | Colombia | COL | ||
| 5 h2r1/4 | Marina Skordi | 26 | Greece | GRE | ||
| 5 h4r1/4 | Joyce Odhiambo | 25 | Kenya | KEN | ||
| 5 h5r1/4 | Zhang Xiaoqiong | 22 | China | CHN | ||
| 5 h6r1/4 | Gaily Dube | 19 | Zimbabwe | ZIM | ||
| 5 h8r1/4 | Olivette Daruhi | 20 | Vanuatu | VAN | ||
| 6 h1r1/4 | Félicite Bada | 26 | Benin | BEN | ||
| 6 h2r1/4 | Ruth Morris | 25 | United States Virgin Islands | ISV | ||
| 6 h3r1/4 | U Yang-Ja | 17 | South Korea | KOR | ||
| 6 h4r1/4 | Oliver Acii | 18 | Uganda | UGA | ||
| 6 h5r1/4 | Yvette Bonapart | 23 | Suriname | SUR | ||
| 6 h6r1/4 | Yvonne Hasler | 19 | Liechtenstein | LIE | ||
| 6 h7r1/4 | Claudia Acerenza | 22 | Uruguay | URU | ||
| 6 h8r1/4 | Rosa Mbuamangongo | 19 | Equatorial Guinea | GEQ | ||
| 7 h1r1/4 | Mariama Ouiminga | 18 | Burkina Faso | BUR | ||
| 7 h2r1/4 | Agnes Griffith | 19 | Grenada | GRN | ||
| 7 h3r1/4 | Melvina Vulah | 22 | Liberia | LBR | ||
| 7 h4r1/4 | Judith Diankoléla-Missengué | 20 | Congo (Brazzaville) | CGO | ||
| 7 h5r1/4 | Guilhermina da Cruz | 18 | Angola | ANG | ||
| 7 h6r1/4 | Aminata Diarra | 18 | Mali | MLI | ||
| 7 h7r1/4 | Chen Ya-Li | 19 | Chinese Taipei | TPE | ||
| 8 h2r1/4 | Ng Ka Yee | 22 | Hong Kong | HKG | ||
| 8 h3r1/4 | Erin Tierney | 18 | Cook Islands | COK | ||
| 8 h4r1/4 | Evelyn Farrell | 28 | Aruba | ARU | ||
| AC h8r1/4 | Pam Marshall | 28 | United States | USA |
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