1988 in race walking
This page lists the World Best Year Performance in the year 1988 in both the men's and the women's race walking distances: 10 km, 20 km and 50 km (outdoor). The main event during this season were the Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea.
Abbreviations
- All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds
WR | world record |
AR | area record |
CR | event record |
NR | national record |
PB | personal best |
Men's 20 km
Records
1988 World Year Ranking
Men's 50 km
Records
1988 World Year Ranking
Rank |
Time |
Athlete |
Venue |
Date |
Note |
1 | 3:38:29 | Vyacheslav Ivanenko (URS) | Seoul, South Korea | 30 September 1988 | |
2 | 3:38:56 | Ronald Weigel (GDR) | Seoul, South Korea | 30 September 1988 | |
3 | 3:39:45 | Hartwig Gauder (GDR) | Seoul, South Korea | 30 September 1988 | |
4 | 3:41:00 | Aleksandr Potashov (URS) | Seoul, South Korea | 30 September 1988 | |
5 | 3:43:03 | José Marín (ESP) | Seoul, South Korea | 30 September 1988 | |
6 | 3:44:07 | Simon Baker (AUS) | Seoul, South Korea | 30 September 1988 | AR |
7 | 3:44:27 | Raffaello Ducceschi (ITA) | | | NR |
8 | 3:44:49 | Bo Gustafsson (SWE) | Seoul, South Korea | 30 September 1988 | NR |
9 | 3:44:57 | Reima Salonen (FIN) | | | |
10 | 3:46:30 | Vitaliy Popovich (URS) | | | |
11 | 3:46:31 | Dietmar Meisch (GDR) | Seoul, South Korea | 30 September 1988 | |
12 | 3:46:52 | Pavol Szikora (TCH) | | | |
13 | 3:47:14 | Giovanni Perricelli (ITA) | Seoul, South Korea | 30 September 1988 | |
14 | 3:47:30 | Bernd Gummelt (GDR) | | | |
15 | 3:47:31 | Pavol Blažek (TCH) | Seoul, South Korea | 30 September 1988 | |
16 | 3:48:08 | Sandro Bellucci (ITA) | | | |
17 | 3:48:09 | Jorge Llopart (ESP) | Seoul, South Korea | 30 September 1988 | |
18 | 3:48:15 | François Lapointe (CAN) | Seoul, South Korea | 30 September 1988 | |
19 | 3:48:39 | Nikolay Frolov (URS) | | | |
20 | 3:48:53 | Valeriy Suntsov (URS) | | | |
Women's 5 km
Records
1988 World Year Ranking
Rank |
Time |
Athlete |
Venue |
Date |
Note |
1 | 20:52 | Kerry Saxby-Junna (AUS) | Adelaide, Australia | 16 October 1988 | |
2 | 21:10 | Vera Ossipova (URS) | | | AR |
3 | 21:21 | Natalya Spiridonova (URS) | | | |
4 | 21:53 | Sada Eidikyte (URS) | | | |
5 | 21:54 | Svetlana Kaburkina (URS) | | | |
6 | 21:56 | Alina Ivanova (URS) | | | |
7 | 22:02 | Sari Essayah (FIN) | | | |
8 | 22:03 | Mirva Hämäläinen (FIN) | | | |
9 | 22:05 | Tatyana Titova (URS) | | | |
Yevgeniya Micheyeva (URS) | | | |
11 | 22:11 | Mari Cruz Díaz (ESP) | | | |
12 | 22:13 | Olga Kardopolzeva (URS) | | | |
13 | 22:14 | Yelena Rodionova (URS) | | | |
14 | 22:15 | Maria Reyes Sobrino (ESP) | | | |
15 | 22:18 | Valentina Zybulskaya (URS) | | | |
16 | 22:20 | Maria Popkova (URS) | | | |
17 | 22:21 | Leonarda Yuchnevich (URS) | | | |
18 | 22:24 | Raissa Sinyavina (URS) | | | |
19 | 22:30 | Regina Loseva (URS) | | | |
20 | 22:32 | Teresa Vaill (USA) | | | |
Sarah Standley (USA) | | | |
Women's 10 km
Records
1988 World Year Ranking
Rank |
Time |
Athlete |
Venue |
Date |
Note |
1 | 41:30 | Kerry Saxby-Junna (AUS) | Canberra, Australia | 27 August 1988 | WR |
2 | 43:26 | Svetlana Kaburkina (URS) | | | |
3 | 43:29 | Vera Makolova (URS) | | | |
4 | 43:37 | Yelena Nikolayeva (URS) | | | |
5 | 43:43 | Tamara Kovalenko (URS) | | | |
6 | 43:53 | Natalya Spiridonova (URS) | | | |
7 | 44:13 | Nadeshda Ryashkina (URS) | | | |
8 | 44:16 | Natalya Serbinenko (URS) | | | |
9 | 44:20 | Sada Eidikyte (URS) | | | |
10 | 44:21 | Olga Veremenchuk (URS) | | | |
11 | 44:26 | Sari Essayah (FIN) | | | NR |
12 | 44:33 | Beate Anders (GDR) | | | NR |
13 | 44:54 | Mirva Hämäläinen (FIN) | | | |
14 | 44:57 | Ludmila Lyubomirova (URS) | | | |
15 | 44:58 | Svetlana Polovinko (URS) | | | |
16 | 44:59 | Victoria Oprea (ROM) | | | NR |
17 | 45:00 | Yelena Rodionova (URS) | | | |
18 | 45:01 | Valentina Shmer (URS) | | | |
19 | 45:12 | Vera Ossipova (URS) | | | |
20 | 45:17 | Natalya Storochenko (URS) | | | |
References