1988 in race walking

none 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 recordAR area recordCR event recordNR national recordPB personal best Men's 20 km Records Standing records prior to the 1988 season in track and field World Record Axel Noack GDR 1:19:12 June 21, 1987 GDR Karl-Marx-Stadt, East GermanyBroken records during the 1988 season in track and field World Record Mikhail Shchennikov URS 1:19:08 July 30, 1988 URS Kiev, Soviet Union 1988 World Year Ranking RankTimeAthleteVenueDateNote 1 1:19:08 Mikhail Shchennikov URS Kiev, Soviet Union 30 July 1988 WR 2 1:19:16 Yevgeniy Misyulya URS 3 1:19:39 Frants Kostyukevich URS 4 1:19:47 Viktor Mostovik URS 5 1:19:57 Jozef Pribilinec TCH Seoul, South Korea 23 September 1988 6 1:20:00 Ronald Weigel GDR Seoul, South Korea 23 September 1988 7 1:20:06 Sergey Protsyshin URS 8 1:20:08 Valdas Kazlauskas URS 9 1:20:10 Igor Lyubomirov URS 101:20:14 Grigoriy Kornev URS Maurizio Damilano ITA Seoul, South Korea 23 September 1988 12 1:20:17 Pavol Blažek TCH 13 1:20:19 Vyacheslav Smirnov URS 14 1:20:34 José Marín ESP Seoul, South Korea 23 September 1988 15 1:20:39 Axel Noack GDR 16 1:20:40 Aleksandr Pershin URS Ralf Kowalsky GDR 18 1:20:43 Anatoliy Solomin URS Lyubomir Ivanov BUL 1971 Sofia, Bulgaria 26 June 1988 NR Roman Mrázek TCH Seoul, South Korea 23 September 1988 Men's 50 km Records Standing records prior to the 1988 season in track and field World Record Ronald Weigel GDR 3:38:17 May 25, 1986 GDR Potsdam, East Germany 1988 World Year Ranking RankTimeAthleteVenueDateNote 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 Standing records prior to the 1988 season in track and field World Record Kerry Saxby AUS 20:34 September 24, 1987 FRG Hildesheim, West Germany 1988 World Year Ranking RankTimeAthleteVenueDateNote 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 922:05 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 2022:32 Teresa Vaill USA Sarah Standley USA Women's 10 km Records Standing records prior to the 1988 season in track and field World Record Kerry Saxby AUS 42:52 May 4, 1987 AUS Melbourne, AustraliaBroken records during the 1988 season in track and field World Record Kerry Saxby-Junna AUS 41:30 August 27, 1988 AUS Canberra, Australia 1988 World Year Ranking RankTimeAthleteVenueDateNote 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 maik-richter alltime-athletics 1988 Race Walking Year Ranking, 1988