Olympedia – Road Race, Women

Road Race, Women

Date	26 September 1988 — 9:40
Status	Olympic
Location	Tongil-ro Circuit, Paju
Participants	53 from 23 countries
Format	82.0 km. (51.0 miles) mass start race.

Date

26 September 1988 — 9:40

Status

Olympic

Location

Tongil-ro Circuit, Paju

Participants

53 from 23 countries

Format

82.0 km. (51.0 miles) mass start race.

The 82 km. course was numbingly flat, allowing 45 of 53 starters to remain together for the entire race, and bring the riders to a mass sprint finish. The favorite, as she had been in every Olympic race she contested, was France’s Jeannie Longo, who was there for the sprint. A powerful rider, her only weakness was that she was not the greatest sprinter, and she was recovering from a crash a month earlier, in which she had broken her hip, and she had little chance against the entire field. Monique Knol of the Netherlands slipped thru at the end to win the gold medal. She would return in 1992 to win the bronze medal in this event at Barcelona, and the two Olympic races are the major palmares of her cycling career.

Pos	Competitor	NOC	Time	Margin
1	Monique Knol	NED	2-00:52	–	Gold
2	Jutta Niehaus	FRG	–	at 0:00	Silver
3	Laima Zilporytė	URS	–	at 0:00	Bronze
4	Geneviève Robic-Brunet	CAN	–	at 0:00
5	Valentina Yevpak	URS	–	at 0:00
6	Maria Blower	GBR	–	at 0:00
7	Marie Höljer	SWE	–	at 0:00
8	Inga Benedict	USA	–	at 0:00
9	Sally Hodge	GBR	–	at 0:00
10	Catherine Marsal	FRA	–	at 0:00
11	Lisa Brambani	GBR	–	at 0:00
12	Ines Varenkamp	FRG	–	at 0:00
13	Viola Paulitz	FRG	–	at 0:00
14	Bunki Bankaitis-Davis	USA	–	at 0:00
15	Imelda Chiappa	ITA	–	at 0:00
16	Sally Zack	USA	–	at 0:00
17	Yvonne Elkuch	LIE	–	at 0:00
18	Edith Schönenberger	SUI	–	at 0:00
19	Heleen Hage	NED	–	at 0:00
20	Unni Larsen	NOR	–	at 0:00
21	Jeannie Longo	FRA	–	at 0:00
22	Elizabeth Hepple	AUS	–	at 0:00
23	Kristel Werckx	BEL	–	at 0:00
24	Lu Suyan	CHN	–	at 0:00
25	Angela Ranft	GDR	–	at 0:00
26	Paula Westher	SWE	–	at 0:00
27	Donna Gould	AUS	–	at 0:00
28	Cécile Odin	FRA	–	at 0:00
29	Kathleen Shannon	AUS	–	at 0:00
30	Terumi Ogura	JPN	–	at 0:00
31	Kim Gyeong-Suk	KOR	–	at 0:00
32	Maria Canins	ITA	–	at 0:00
33	Yan Yinhua	CHN	–	at 0:00
34	Alla Yakovleva	URS	–	at 0:00
35	Astrid Danielsen	NOR	–	at 0:00
36	Agnes Dusart	BEL	–	at 0:00
37	No Yeom-Ju	KOR	–	at 0:00
38	Kelly-Ann Way	CAN	–	at 0:00
39	Sara Neil	CAN	–	at 0:00
40	Baba Ganz	SUI	–	at 0:00
41	Brigitte Gyr-Gschwend	SUI	–	at 0:00
42	Karina Skibby	DEN	–	at 0:00
43	Tea Vikstedt	FIN	–	at 0:00
44	Marianne Berglund	SWE	–	at 0:00
45	Roberta Bonanomi	ITA	–	at 0:00
46	Cora Westland	NED	–	at 0:58
47	Chen Weixiu	CHN	–	at 0:58
48	Stephanie McKnight	ISV	–	at 0:58
49	Hong Yeong-Mi	KOR	–	at 2:32
50	Natsue Seki	JPN	–	at 13:40
DNF	Petra Roßner	GDR	–	–
DNF	Madonna Harris	NZL	–	–
DNF	Yang Hsiu-Chen	TPE	–	–

Pos

Competitor

NOC

Time

Margin

Monique Knol

NED