Great Britain at the 1988 Summer Olympics

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Great Britain at the
1988 Summer Olympics
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg
Flag of the United Kingdom
IOC code GBR
NOC British Olympic Association
in Seoul
Competitors345 (219 men and 126 women) in 22 sports
Flag bearers Ian Taylor (opening)
Malcolm Cooper (closing)
Medals
Ranked 12th
Gold
5
Silver
10
Bronze
9
Total
24
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
Other related appearances
1906 Intercalated Games

Great Britain, represented by the British Olympic Association (BOA), competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. 345 competitors, 219 men and 126 women, took part in 191 events in 22 sports. [1] British athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic Games.

Contents

Similarly to the previous two Summer Olympics, British athletes once again won five gold medals.

Medallists

Medals by discipline
Discipline Gold medal icon.svg Silver medal icon.svg Bronze medal icon.svg Total
Swimming 1113
Shooting 1102
Rowing 1012
Field hockey 1001
Sailing 1001
Athletics 0628
Equestrian 0213
Archery 0011
Boxing 0011
Judo 0011
Modern pentathlon 0011
Total510924
MedalNameSportEventDate
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Adrian Moorhouse Swimming Men's 100 metre breaststroke 19 September
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Malcolm Cooper Shooting Men's 50 metre rifle three positions 22 September
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Andy Holmes
Steven Redgrave 		Rowing Men's coxless pair 24 September
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Mike McIntyre
Bryn Vaile 		Sailing Star 27 September
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Great Britain men's national field hockey team
Field hockey Men's tournament 1 October
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Alister Allan Shooting Men's 50 metre rifle three positions 22 September
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Ian Stark Equestrian Individual eventing 22 September
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Virginia Leng
Mark Phillips
Ian Stark
Karen Straker 		Equestrian Team eventing 22 September
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Nick Gillingham Swimming Men's 200 metre breaststroke 23 September
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Linford Christie Athletics Men's 100 metres 24 September
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Colin Jackson Athletics Men's 110 metres hurdles 26 September
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Fatima Whitbread Athletics Women's javelin throw 26 September
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Liz McColgan Athletics Women's 10,000 metres 30 September
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Peter Elliott Athletics Men's 1500 metres 1 October
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Elliot Bunney
Clarence Callender
Linford Christie
Mike McFarlane
John Regis 		Athletics Men's 4 × 100 metres relay 1 October
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Andy Jameson Swimming Men's 100 metre butterfly 21 September
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Graham Brookhouse
Dominic Mahony
Richard Phelps 		Modern pentathlon Men's team 22 September
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Virginia Leng Equestrian Individual eventing 22 September
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Andy Holmes
Steven Redgrave
Patrick Sweeney 		Rowing Men's coxed pair 25 September
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Yvonne Murray Athletics Women's 3000 metres 25 September
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Richie Woodhall Boxing Light middleweight 29 September
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Mark Rowland Athletics Men's 3000 metres steeplechase 30 September
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Dennis Stewart Judo Men's 95 kg 30 September
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Steven Hallard
Richard Priestman
Leroy Watson 		Archery Men's team 1 October

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games. [2]

SportMenWomenTotal
Archery 336
Athletics 5745102
Boxing 8–8
Canoeing 12517
Cycling 13417
Diving 325
Equestrian 6612
Fencing 8513
Field hockey 161632
Gymnastics 235
Judo 7–7
Modern pentathlon 3–3
Rowing 21930
Sailing 13215
Shooting 628
Swimming 191938
Synchronized swimming –33
Table tennis 404
Tennis 224
Weightlifting 10–10
Wrestling 6–6
Total219126345


Archery

In the fifth appearance by Great Britain in modern Olympic archery, the men's team won a bronze medal while Joanne Franks added another top eight finish in the women's individual and the women's team came in 5th.

Women's Individual Competition:

Men's Individual Competition:

Men's Team Competition:

Women's Team Competition:

Athletics

Men's 100 metres

Men's 200 metres

Men's 400 metres

Men's 800 metres

Men's 1.500 metres

Men's 5.000 metres

Men's 10.000 metres

  • First Round — 28:25.46
  • Final — did not finish (→ no ranking)
  • First Round — 28:52.88 (→ did not advance)

Men's Marathon

  • Final — 2"12:19 (→ 6th place)
  • Final — 2"16:18 (→ 21st place)
  • Final — 2"20:45 (→ 33rd place)

Men's 400 m Hurdles

  • Heat — 49.62 (2nd)
  • Semi-Final — 49.22 (4th)
  • Final — 48.69 (6th)
  • Heat — 50.67 (5th → did not advance
  • Heat — 50.81 (5th place → did not advance)

Men's 4 × 400 m Relay

  • Heat — 3:04.18
  • Semi Final — 3:04.60
  • Final — 3:02.00 (→ 5th place)

Men's 3,000 m Steeplechase

  • Heat — 8:31.40
  • Semi Final — 8:18.31
  • Final — 8:07.96 (→ Med 3.png Bronze Medal)
  • Heat — 8:38.90
  • Semi Final — 8:28.62 (→ did not advance)
  • Heat — 8:39.30
  • Semi Final — did not finish (→ did not advance)

Men's Javelin Throw

  • Qualification — 80.98 m
  • Final — 76.96 m (→ 11th place)
  • Qualification — 75.96 m (→ did not advance)
  • Qualification — 77.20 m (→ did not advance)

Men's Discus Throw

  • Qualifying Heat – 58.28 m (→ did not advance)

Men's Hammer Throw

  • Qualifying Heat — 69.12 m (→ did not advance)
  • Qualifying Heat — 62.42 m (→ did not advance)
  • Qualifying Heat — 70.38 m (→ did not advance)

Men's Shot Put

  • Qualifying Heat – 16.28 m (→ did not advance)
  • Qualifying Heat – 15.68 m (→ did not advance)

Men's Long Jump

  • Qualification — 7.77 m
  • Final — 7.54 m (→ 12th place)
  • Qualification — 7.74 m (→ did not advance)
  • Qualification — 7.57 m (→ did not advance)

Men's Decathlon

  • 100 metres — 10.62 s
  • Long Jump — 7.38 m
  • Shot Put — 15.02 m
  • High Jump — 2.03 m
  • 400 metres — 49.06 s
  • 110 m Hurdles — 14.72 s
  • Discus Throw — 44.80 m
  • Pole Vault — 4.90 m
  • Javelin Throw — 64.04 m
  • 1,500 metres — 4:45.11 s
  • 100 metres — 11.30 s
  • Long Jump — 6.97 m
  • Shot Put — 12.23 m
  • High Jump — 2.15 m
  • 400 metres — 49.98 s
  • 110 m Hurdles — 15.38 s
  • Discus Throw — 38.72 m
  • Pole Vault — 4.60 m
  • Javelin Throw — 54.34 m
  • 1,500 metres — 4:37.84 s
  • 100 metres — 11.50 s
  • Long Jump — 7.09 m
  • Shot Put — 12.94 m
  • High Jump — 1.82 m
  • 400 metres — 49.27 s
  • 110 m Hurdles — 15.56 s
  • Discus Throw — 42.32 m
  • Pole Vault — 4.50 m
  • Javelin Throw — 53.50 m
  • 1,500 metres — 4:53.85 s

Men's 50 km Walk

  • Final — 3'59:30 (→ 27th place)
  • Final — 4'00:07 (→ 28th place)


Women's 4 × 400 m Relay

  • Heat — 3:28.52
  • Final — 3:26.89 (→ 6th place)

Women's Marathon

Women's Discus Throw

  • Qualification – 50.92 m (→ did not advance)

Women's Javelin Throw

  • Qualification – 68.44 m
  • Final – 70.32 m (→ Med 2.png Silver Medal)
  • Qualification – 56.70 m (→ did not advance)
  • Qualification – 56.00 m (→ did not advance)

Women's Shot Put

  • Qualification – 15.13 m (→ did not advance)
  • Qualification – 18.34 m (→ did not advance)
  • Qualification – 17.31 m (→ did not advance)

Women's Heptathlon

  • Final Result — 5975 points (→ 17th place)
  • Final Result — 5746 points (→ 19th place)
  • Final Result — 1951 points (→ 29th place) - (withdrew after two events)

Boxing

Men's Light Flyweight (– 48 kg)

Men's Flyweight (– 51 kg)

  • First Round — Lost to Ramzan Gul (Turkey), on points (1:4)

Men's Featherweight (– 57 kg)

Men's Heavyweight (– 91 kg)

  • First Round – Bye
  • Second Round – Lost to Arnold Vanderlyde (Netherlands) on points

Canoeing

Cycling

Seventeen cyclists, thirteen men and four women, represented Great Britain in 1988.

Men's road race
Men's team time trial
Men's sprint
Men's individual pursuit
Men's team pursuit
Women's road race
Women's sprint

Diving

Equestrian

Fencing

13 fencers, 8 men and 5 women, represented Great Britain in 1988.

Men's foil
Men's team foil
Men's épée
Men's sabre
Women's foil
Women's team foil

Gymnastics

Hockey

Men's team competition

  • Great Britain – South Korea 2-2
  • Great Britain – Canada 3-0
  • Great Britain – West Germany 1-2
  • Great Britain – Soviet Union 3-1
  • Great Britain – India 3-0
  • Great Britain – Australia 3-2
  • Great Britain – West Germany 3-1 (→ Med 1.png Gold Medal)

Women's Team Competition

  • Great Britain – Argentina 1-0
  • Great Britain – The Netherlands 1-5
  • Great Britain – United States 2-2
  • Great Britain – South Korea 0-1
  • Great Britain – The Netherlands 1-3 (→ Fourth place)

Judo

Modern pentathlon

Three male pentathletes represented Great Britain in 1988. They won bronze in the team event.

Men's Individual Competition:

Men's Team Competition:

Rhythmic gymnastics

Rowing

Men's coxless pair

  • (→ Med 1.png Gold Medal)

Men's coxed pair

  • (→ Med 3.png Bronze Medal)

Men's coxless four

  • (→ 4th place)

Men's coxed four

  • (→ 4th place)

Eight

  • (→ 4th place)

Women's double scull

  • (→ 9th place)

Women's coxless pair

  • (→ 8th place)

Women's coxed four

  • (→ 6th place)

Sailing

Shooting

Swimming

Men's 50 m freestyle

  • Heat – 23.51 (→ did not advance, 22nd place)
  • Heat – 23.67 (→ did not advance, 25th place)

Men's 100 m freestyle

  • Heat – 51.18 (→ did not advance, 21st place)
  • Heat – 51.20 (→ did not advance, 22nd place)

Men's 200 m freestyle

  • Heat – 1:51.22
  • B-Final – 1:51.99 (→ 16th place)
  • Heat – 1:53.03 (→ did not advance, 27th place)

Men's 400 m freestyle

  • Heat – 3:50.01
  • Final – 3:50.16 (→ 7th place)
  • Heat – 3:57.91 (→ did not advance, 24th place)

Men's 1500 m freestyle

  • Heat – 15:17.56
  • Final – 15:21.16 (→ 7th place)
  • Heat – 15:38.75 (→ did not advance, 22nd place)

Men's 100 m backstroke

  • Heat – 58.02 (→ did not advance, 22nd place)
  • Heat – 58.25 (→ did not advance, 25th place)

Men's 200 m backstroke

  • Heat – 2:03.79
  • B-Final – 2:04.90 (→ 16th place)
  • Heat – 2:04.70 (→ did not advance, 20th place)

Men's 100 m breaststroke

  • Heat – 1:02.19
  • Final – 1:02.04 (→ Med 1.png Gold Medal)
  • Heat – 1:04.23 (→ did not advance, 17th place)

Men's 200 m breaststroke

  • Heat – 2:14.58
  • Final – 2:14.12 (→ Med 2.png Silver Medal)
  • Heat – 2:18.51 (→ 15th place)
  • B-Final – scratched (→ did not advance, no ranking)

Men's 100 m butterfly

  • Heat – 53.34
  • Final – 53.30 (→ Med 3.png Bronze Medal)
  • Heat – 54.75
  • B-Final – 55.22 (→ 16th place)

Men's 200 m butterfly

  • Heat – 2:01.01
  • B-Final – 2:00.32 (→ 10th place)
  • Heat – 2:01.44
  • B-Final – 2:01.09 (→ 12th place)

Men's 200 m individual medley

  • Heat – 2:05.55
  • B-Final – 2:04.17 (→ 10th place)
  • Heat – 2:05.56
  • B-Final – 2:05.44 (→ 11th place)

Men's 400 m individual medley

  • Heat – 4:27.22
  • B-Final – 4:26.77 (→ 15th place)
  • Heat – DSQ (→ did not advance, no ranking)

Men's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay

  • Heat – 3:23.71
  • Final – 3:21.71 (→ 7th place)

Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay

  • Heat – 7:29.77 (→ did not advance, 9th place)

Men's 4 × 100 m medley relay

  • Heat – DSQ (→ did not advance, no ranking)

Women's 50 m freestyle

  • Heat – 27.14 (→ did not advance, 25th place)
  • Heat – 27.17 (→ did not advance, 27th place)

Women's 100 m freestyle

  • Heat – 57.81 (→ did not advance, 25th place)
  • Heat – 58.19 (→ did not advance, 28th place)

Women's 200 m freestyle

  • Heat – 2:02.11
  • B-Final – 2:01.66 (→ 10th place)
  • Heat – 2:03.63 (→ did not advance, 21st place)

Women's 400 m freestyle

  • Heat – 4:16.66 (→ did not advance, 18th place)
  • Heat – 4:21.98 (→ did not advance, 27th place)

Women's 800 m freestyle

  • Heat – 8:44.64 (→ did not advance, 16th place)
  • Heat – 9:00.04 (→ did not advance, 25th place)

Women's 100 m backstroke

  • Heat – 1:04.62
  • B-Final – 1:04.27 (→ 16th place)
  • Heat – 1:04.75 (→ did not advance, 18th place)

Women's 200 m backstroke

  • Heat – 2:17.22
  • B-Final – 2:18.20 (→ 12th place)
  • Heat – 2:21.66 (→ did not advance, 22nd place)

Women's 100 m breaststroke

  • Heat – 1:11.66
  • B-Final – 1:11.95 (→ 16th place)
  • Heat – 1:12.67 (→ did not advance, 20th place)

Women's 200 m breaststroke

  • Heat – 2:36.14 (→ 20th place)
  • Heat – 2:41.12 (→ did not advance, 33rd place)

Women's 100 m butterfly

  • Heat – 1:02.76 (→ did not advance, 18th place)
  • Heat – 1:03.34 (→ did not advance, 21st place)

Women's 200 m butterfly

  • Heat – 2:17.10
  • B-Final – 2:17.11 (→ 15th place)
  • Heat – 2:17.28
  • B-Final – 2:18.66 (→ 16th place)

Women's 200 m individual medley

  • Heat – 2:17.57
  • B-Final – 2:19.20 (→ 11th place)
  • Heat – 2:22.64 (→ did not advance, 23rd place)

Women's 400 m individual medley

  • Heat – 5:01.34
  • B-Final – 4:55.92 (→ 24th place)
  • Heat – 4:54.66 (→ did not advance, 18th place)

Women's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay

  • Heat – 3:50.84 (→ did not advance, 10th place)

Women's 4 × 100 m medley relay

  • Heat – 4:16.18 (→ did not advance, 9th place)

Synchronized swimming

Three synchronized swimmers represented Great Britain in 1988.

Women's solo
Women's duet

Table tennis

Tennis

Women's Singles Competition

Weightlifting

Wrestling

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References

  1. ↑ "Great Britain at the 1988 Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 30 June 2011. Retrieved 19 July 2011.
  2. ↑ Republic of Korea at the 1988 Summer Olympics
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