Olympic Games 1988 - Seoul

MEN MARATHON - 2:10:32 Gelindo BORDIN (ita)
WOMEN MARATHON - 2:25:40 Rosa MOTA (por)

The men's marathon was held on Sunday October 2, 1988. The race started at 2.30 p.m. local time. A total number of 98 athletes completed the race, with Polin Belisle from Belize finishing in last position in 3:14:02. There were 118 competitors from 70 countries. Twenty of them did not finish.

Results
1°	Gelindo	Bordin	Italy	2:10:32
2°	Douglas	Wakiihuri	Kenya	2:10:47
3°	Ahmed	Salah	Djibouti	2:10:59
4°	Takeyuki	Nakayama	Japan	2:11:05
5°	Steve	Moneghetti	Australia	2:11:49
6°	Charlie	Spedding	Great Britain	2:12:19
7°	Juma	Ikangaa	Tanzania	2:13:06
8°	Robert	de Castella	Australia	2:13:07
9°	Toshihiko	Seko	Japan	2:13:41
10°	Ravil	Kashapov	Soviet Union	2:13:49
11°	Jesús	Herrera	Mexico	2:13:58
12°	John	Campbell	New Zealand	2:14:08
13°	Gerard	Nijboer	Netherlands	2:14:40
14°	Pete	Pfitzinger	United States of America	2:14:44
15°	Marti	ten Kate	Netherlands	2:14:53
16°	Orlando	Pizzolato	Italy	2:15:20
17°	Hisatoshi	Shintaku	Japan	2:15:42
18°	Kim	Won-Tak	Korea	2:15:44
19°	Piergiovanni	Poli	Italy	2:16:07
20°	Dieudonné	LaMothe	Haiti	2:16:15
21°	Dave	Long	Great Britain	2:16:18
22°	Henrik	Jørgensen	Denmark	2:16:40
23°	Ralf	Salzmann	West Germany	2:16:54
24°	Dick	Hooper	Ireland	2:17:16
25°	Miroslav	Vindiš	Yugoslavia	2:17:47
26°	Cai	Shangyan	China	2:17:54
27°	Joaquim	Silva	Portugal	2:18:05
28°	Art	Boileau	Canada	2:18:20
29°	Ed	Eyestone	United States of America	2:19:09
30°	Noureddine	Sobhi	Morocco	2:19:56
31°	Yoo	Jae-Sung	Korea	2:20:11
32°	Mehmet	Terzi	Turkey	2:20:12
33°	Kevin	Forster	Great Britain	2:20:45
34°	Bigboy Josie	Matlapeng	Botswana	2:20:51
35°	Allaoua	Khellil	Algeria	2:21:12
36°	Justin	Gloden	Luxembourg	2:22:14
37°	Alexandre	Gonzalez	France	2:22:24
38°	Zhang	Guowei	China	2:22:49
39°	Pedro	Ortiz	Colombia	2:23:34
40°	Ronald	Lanzoni	Costa Rica	2:23:45
41°	Bradley	Camp	Australia	2:23:49
42°	Adolphe	Ambowode	Central African Republic	2:23:52
43°	John	Burra	Tanzania	2:24:17
44°	Samuel	Hlawe	Swaziland	2:24:42
45°	Juan	Amores	Costa Rica	2:24:49
46°	Peter	Maher	Canada	2:24:49
47°	Abdou	Monzo	Niger	2:25:05
48°	Diamantino	dos Santos	Brazil	2:25:13
49°	Omar	Moussa	Djibouti	2:25:25
50°	Carlos	Retiz	Mexico	2:25:34
51°	Gary	Fanelli	American Samoa	2:25:35
52°	John	Woods	Ireland	2:25:38
53°	Gideon	Mthembu	Swaziland	2:25:56
54°	Baikuntha	Manandhar	Nepal	2:25:57
55°	Karel	David	Czechoslovakia	2:26:12
56°	Ivo	Rodrigues	Brazil	2:26:27
57°	Martín	Mondragón	Mexico	2:27:10
58°	Thomas	Dlamini	Swaziland	2:28:06
59°	Inni	Aboubacar	Niger	2:28:15
60°	Yohanna	Waziri	Nigeria	2:29:14
61°	Nqheku	Nteso	Lesotho	2:29:44
62°	Benjamin	Longiross	Uganda	2:30:29
63°	Vincent	Ruguga	Uganda	2:31:04
64°	Alfonso	Abellan	Spain	2:31:10
65°	Vithanakande Lek	Samarasinghe	Sri Lanka	2:31:29
66°	Teeka	Bogate	Nepal	2:31:49
67°	David	Edge	Canada	2:32:19
68°	Luis	López	Costa Rica	2:32:43
69°	Juan Rodrigo	Camacho	Bolivia	2:34:41
70°	Mohammed	Abbas	Nigeria	2:35:26
71°	Ahmet	Altun	Turkey	2:37:44
72°	James	Gombedza	Zimbabwe	2:38:13
73°	Kamana	Koji	Zaire	2:38:34
74°	João	Carvalho	Angola	2:40:45
75°	Aaron	Dupnai	Papua New Guinea	2:41:47
76°	Bineshwar	Prasad	Fiji	2:41:50
77°	Calvin	Dallas	Virgin Islands	2:42:19
78°	Telesphore	Dusabe	Rwanda	2:42:52
79°	Eugene	Muslar	Belize	2:43:29
80°	Hassane	Karinou	Niger	2:43:51
81°	Wallace	Williams	Virgin Islands	2:44:40
82°	Mohala	Mohloli	Lesotho	2:44:44
83°	Awadh Shaban	Al-Sameer	Oman	2:46:59
84°	Derrick	Adamson	Jamaica	2:47:57
85°	Krisnaba Hadur	Basnyat	Nepal	2:47:57
86°	Fred	Schumann	Guam	2:49:52
87°	John	Mwathiwa	Malawi	2:51:43
88°	Marlon	Williams	Virgin Islands	2:52:06
89°	Kaleka	Mutoke	Zaire	2:55:21
90°	James	Walker	Guam	2:56:32
91°	Mohiddin Mohamed	Kulmiye	Somalia	2:58:10
92°	Fred	Ogwang	Uganda	2:59:35
93°	Naser	Babapur	Iran	3:00:20
94°	Ricardo	Taitano	Guam	3:03:19
95°	Suma	Keita	Sierra Leone	3:04:00
96°	Alassane	Bah	Guinea	3:06:27
97°	Thuyet Nguyen	Van	Vietnam	3:10:57
98°	Polin	Belisle	Belize	3:14:02
Did not finish
DNF	Dirk	Vanderherten	Belgium
DNF	Domingo	Aguilar	Chile
DNF	Martin	Vrabel	Czechoslovakia
DNF	Jörg	Peter	East Germany
DNF	Alain	Lazare	France
DNF	John	Treacy	Ireland
DNF	Ibrahim	Hussein	Kenya
DNF	Joseph	Kipsang	Kenya
DNF	Kwon	Seong-Lak	Korea
DNF	George	Mambosasa	Malawi
DNF	Abdul Hadi	Abdul Latheef	Maldives
DNF	Hussein	Haleem	Maldives
DNF	Elmostafa	Nechchade	Morocco
DNF	Geir	Kvernmo	Norway
DNF	Paulo	Catarino	Portugal
DNF	John	Maeke	Solomon Islands
DNF	Ahmed Mohamed	Ismail	Somalia
DNF	Honorato	Hernández	Spain
DNF	Bruno	LaFranchi	Switzerland
DNF	Mark	Conover	United States of America
Did not start
Disqualified

The women's marathon was held on Friday September 23, 1988. The race started at 9.30 a.m. local time. A total number of 64 athletes completed the race, with Mariana Ysrael from Guam finishing in last position in 3:42:23. There were 69 competitors from 39 countries. Five of them did not finish.

Results
1°	Rosa	Mota	Portugal	2:25:40
2°	Lisa	Martin	Australia	2:25:53
3°	Katrin	Dörre	East Germany	2:26:21
4°	Tatyana	Polovinskaya	Soviet Union	2:27:05
5°	Youfeng	Zhao	China	2:27:06
6°	Laura	Fogli	Italy	2:27:49
7°	Danièle	Kaber	Luxembourg	2:29:23
8°	Maria	Curatolo	Italy	2:30:14
9°	Zoya	Ivanova	Soviet Union	2:30:25
10°	Angela	Pain	Great Britain	2:30:51
11°	Odette	Lapierre	Canada	2:30:56
12°	Susan	Tooby	Great Britain	2:31:33
13°	Karolina	Szabó	Hungary	2:32:26
14°	Françoise	Bonnet	France	2:32:36
15°	Lee	Mi-Ok	Korea	2:32:51
16°	Raisa	Smekhnova	Soviet Union	2:33:19
17°	Nancy	Ditz	United States of America	2:33:42
18°	Maria	Lelut	France	2:33:47
19°	Jocelyne	Villeton	France	2:34:02
20°	Conoeicão	Ferreira	Portugal	2:34:23
21°	Kerstin	Pressler	West Germany	2:34:26
22°	Wanda	Panfil	Poland	2:34:35
23°	Antonella	Bizioli	Italy	2:34:38
24°	Evy	Palm	Sweden	2:34:41
25°	Eriko	Asai	Japan	2:34:41
26°	Lizanne	Bussieres	Canada	2:35:03
27°	Gabriela	Wolf	West Germany	2:35:11
28°	Kumi	Araki	Japan	2:35:15
29°	Misako	Miyahara	Japan	2:35:26
30°	Huandi	Zhong	China	2:36:02
31°	Ellen	Rochefort	Canada	2:36:44
32°	Susan	Crehan	Great Britain	2:36:57
33°	Lorraine	Moller	New Zealand	2:37:52
34°	Carla	Beurskens	Netherlands	2:37:52
35°	Magda	Ilands	Belgium	2:38:02
36°	Sissel	Grottenberg	Norway	2:38:17
37°	Lim	Eum-Joo	Korea	2:38:21
38°	Marcianne	Makamurenzi	Rwanda	2:40:12
39°	Margaret	Groos	United States of America	2:40:59
40°	Cathy	O'Brien	United States of America	2:41:04
41°	Tuija	Jousimaa	Finland	2:43:00
42°	Sinikka	Keskitalo	Finland	2:43:00
43°	Blanca	Jaime	Mexico	2:43:00
44°	Angelica	Almeida	Brazil	2:43:40
45°	Ludmilla	Melicherová	Czechoslovakia	2:43:56
46°	Ailish	Smyth	Ireland	2:44:17
47°	Genoveva	Eichenmann	Switzerland	2:44:37
48°	Rosemarie	Müller	Switzerland	2:47:31
49°	Pascaline	Wangui	Kenya	2:47:42
50°	Apollinaire	Nyinawabera	Rwanda	2:49:18
51°	Maryse	Justin	Mauritius	2:50:00
52°	Michelle	Bush	Cayman Islands	2:51:30
53°	Maria	Menendez	Mexico	2:51:33
54°	Juan	Li	China	2:53:08
55°	Linda	Hunter	Zimbabwe	2:53:17
56°	Cornelia	Melis	Aruba	2:53:24
57°	Marie-Louise	Rollins	Ireland	2:54:37
58°	Kriscia	García	El Salvador	3:04:21
59°	Julie	Ogbourn	Guam	3:06:05
60°	Rajkumari	Pandey	Nepal	3:10:31
61°	Menuka	Rawat	Nepal	3:11:17
62°	Arlene	Vincent Mark	Grenada	3:23:56
63°	Lourdes	Kiltzkie	Guam	3:25:32
64°	Mariana	Ysrael	Guam	3:42:23
Did not finish
DNF	Agnes	Pardaens	Belgium
DNF	Mar Mar	Min	Burkina Faso
DNF	Kim	Mi-Kyong	Korea
DNF	Bente	Moe	Norway
DNF	Grete	Waitz	Norway
Did not start
DNS	Katerina	Pratsi	Cyprus
DNS	Birgit	Stephan	East Germany
DNS	Aurora	Cunha	Portugal
Disqualified