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 [ edit ] 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 [ edit ] Records [ edit ] 1988 World Year Ranking [ edit ] Men's 50 km [ edit ] Records [ edit ] 1988 World Year Ranking [ edit ] 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 [ edit ] Records [ edit ] 1988 World Year Ranking [ edit ] Women's 10 km [ edit ] Records [ edit ] 1988 World Year Ranking [ edit ] References [ edit ]