Australia at 1988 Seoul Summer Olympic Games

Australia sent 252 athletes (180 men and 72 women) to the 1988 Seoul Summer Olympics. They competed in 145 events in 24 Olympic sports. Australian athletes have competed in all of the Summer Olympic Games since the games started.

Duncan Armstrong won a gold and a silver medal in Swimming. Dean Woods won a silver and a bronze medal in Cycling. Australia won a gold medal in Women's Field Hockey.

Host	1st	2nd	3rd	Dates
XXIV  1988 Seoul	3	6	5	17 Sep – 2 Oct

The following records are Australians who won gold, silver or bronze medals at the 1988 Olympic Games.

Jodie Clatworthy was the youngest athlete for Australia (16 years 169 days) and Erica Taylor the oldest (54 years 281 days).

The Seoul Summer Games had 8,453 participants (6,249 men and 2,202 women) from 159 countries.

1988 Seoul Korea
	Sport	Event	Competitors
1st	Athletics	Women's 400m hurdles	Debbie Flintoff-King
1st	Field Hockey	Women's team competition	Tracey Belbin, Deborah Bowman, Sharon Buchanan, Lee Capes, Michelle Capes, Sally Carbon, Elsbeth Clement, Loretta Dorman, Maree Fish, Rechelle Hawkes, Lorraine Hillas, Kathleen Partridge, Jackie Pereira, Sandra Pisoni, Kim Small, Liane Tooth
1st	Swimming	Men's 200m freestyle	Duncan Armstrong
2nd	Athletics	Women's marathon	Lisa Martin
2nd	Boxing	Men's light-welterweight (63.5 kg)	Grahame "Spike" Cheney
2nd	Canoeing	Men's K1 1000m kayak	Grant Davies
2nd	Cycling	Men's 1000m time trial	Martin Vinnicombe
2nd	Cycling	Men's 4000m Individual pursuit	Dean Woods
2nd	Swimming	Men's 400m freestyle	Duncan Armstrong
3rd	Canoeing	Men's K2 1000m kayak	Peter Foster, Kelvin Graham
3rd	Cycling	Men's 1000m sprint	Gary Neiwand
3rd	Cycling	Men's 4000m team pursuit	Dean Woods, Brett Dutton, Steve McGlede, Wayne McCarney
3rd	Swimming	Women's 800m freestyle	Julie McDonald
3rd	Tennis	Women's doubles team competition	Liz Smylie, Wendy Turnbull