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Women's 3000 metres
at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Women's 3000 metres; at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	23 September 1988 (heats); 25 September 1988 (final)
Competitors	35 from 25 nations
Winning time	8:26.53 OR
Medalists
	← 1984 1992 →

The women's 3000 metres at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea had an entry list of 35 competitors, with two qualifying heats (35) before the final (15) took place on Sunday September 25, 1988.^[1]

The winning margin was 0.62 seconds which was the only time the women's 3,000 metres was won by less than 0.8 seconds at the Olympics.

Final

RANK	FINAL	TIME
	Tetyana Samolenko (URS)	8:26.53
	Paula Ivan (ROU)	8:27.15
	Yvonne Murray (GBR)	8:29.02
4.	Yelena Romanova (URS)	8:30.45
5.	Natalya Artyomova (URS)	8:31.67
6.	Vicki Huber (USA)	8:37.25
7.	Wendy Sly (GBR)	8:37.70
8.	Lynn Williams (CAN)	8:38.43
9.	Elly van Hulst (NED)	8:43.92
10.	Mary Slaney (USA)	8:47.13
11.	Cornelia Bürki (SUI)	8:48.32
12.	Annette Sergent (FRA)	8:49.14
13.	PattiSue Plumer (USA)	8:59.17
14.	Angela Chalmers (CAN)	9:04.75
15.	Debbie Bowker (CAN)	9:11.95

Qualifying heats

RANK	HEAT	QUALIFYING	TIME
1.	2	Paula Ivan (ROU)	8:43.10
2.	2	Yvonne Murray (GBR)	8:43.73
3.	2	Debbie Bowker (CAN)	8:43.81
4.	2	Mary Slaney (USA)	8:44.15
5.	2	Tetyana Samolenko (URS)	8:44.18
6.	2	Natalya Artyomova (URS)	8:44.30
7.	2	PattiSue Plumer (USA)	8:45.21
8.	2	Annette Sergent (FRA)	8:45.94
9.	2	Cornelia Bürki (SUI)	8:48.37
10.	1	Yelena Romanova (URS)	8:48.47
11.	1	Elly van Hulst (NED)	8:48.54
12.	1	Angela Chalmers (CAN)	8:48.60
13.	1	Lynn Williams (CAN)	8:48.70
14.	1	Vicki Huber (USA)	8:48.93
15.	1	Wendy Sly (GBR)	8:49.71
16.	2	Vera Michallek (FRG)	8:51.34
17.	2	Chen Qingmei (CHN)	8:51.53
18.	2	Roberta Brunet (ITA)	8:53.04
19.	1	Xiuting Wang (CHN)	8:54.19
20.	1	Jill Hunter (GBR)	8:57.28
21.	1	Christine Pfitzinger (NZL)	9:01.30
22.	1	Jacqueline Perkins (AUS)	9:01.82
23.	1	Andri Avraam (CYP)	9:02.18
24.	2	Anne Keenan-Buckley (IRL)	9:03.10
25.	1	Angelines Rodríguez (ESP)	9:03.39
26.	1	Fernanda Ribeiro (POR)	9:05.92
27.	1	Susan Sirma (KEN)	9:06.90
28.	1	Lim Chun-Ae (KOR)	9:21.18
29.	2	Khin Khin Htwe (BIR)	9:26.57
30.	2	Daphrose Nyiramutuzo (RWA)	9:47.98
31.	2	Dikanda Diba (ZAI)	10:32.88
–	1	Maricica Puică (ROU)	DNF
–	1	Marie Pierre Duros (FRA)	DNF
–	2	Fatima Aouam (MAR)	DNF
–	2	Polonie Avek (PNG)	DNF