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Road Race, Individual, Women

Date26 September 1988 — 9:40
StatusOlympic
LocationTongil-ro Circuit, Paju
Participants53 from 23 countries
Format82.0 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.

PosBibCompetitorNOCTimeMargin
1–Monique KnolNED2-00:52–Gold
2–Jutta NiehausFRG–at 0:00Silver
3–Laima ZilporytėURS–at 0:00Bronze
4–Geneviève Robic-BrunetCAN–at 0:00
5–Valentina YevpakURS–at 0:00
6–Maria BlowerGBR–at 0:00
7–Marie HöljerSWE–at 0:00
8–Inga BenedictUSA–at 0:00
9–Sally HodgeGBR–at 0:00
10–Catherine MarsalFRA–at 0:00
11–Lisa BrambaniGBR–at 0:00
12–Ines VarenkampFRG–at 0:00
13–Viola PaulitzFRG–at 0:00
14–Bunki Bankaitis-DavisUSA–at 0:00
15–Imelda ChiappaITA–at 0:00
16–Sally ZackUSA–at 0:00
17–Yvonne ElkuchLIE–at 0:00
18–Edith SchönenbergerSUI–at 0:00
19–Heleen HageNED–at 0:00
20–Unni LarsenNOR–at 0:00
21–Jeannie LongoFRA–at 0:00
22–Elizabeth HeppleAUS–at 0:00
23–Kristel WerckxBEL–at 0:00
24–Lu SuyanCHN–at 0:00
25–Angela RanftGDR–at 0:00
26–Paula WestherSWE–at 0:00
27–Donna GouldAUS–at 0:00
28–Cécile OdinFRA–at 0:00
29–Kathleen ShannonAUS–at 0:00
30–Terumi OguraJPN–at 0:00
31–Kim Gyeong-SukKOR–at 0:00
32–Maria CaninsITA–at 0:00
33–Yan YinhuaCHN–at 0:00
34–Alla YakovlevaURS–at 0:00
35–Astrid DanielsenNOR–at 0:00
36–Agnes DusartBEL–at 0:00
37–No Yeom-JuKOR–at 0:00
38–Kelly-Ann WayCAN–at 0:00
39–Sara NeilCAN–at 0:00
40–Baba GanzSUI–at 0:00
41–Brigitte Gyr-GschwendSUI–at 0:00
42–Karina SkibbyDEN–at 0:00
43–Tea VikstedtFIN–at 0:00
44–Marianne BerglundSWE–at 0:00
45–Roberta BonanomiITA–at 0:00
46–Cora WestlandNED–at 0:58
47–Chen WeixiuCHN–at 0:58
48–Stephanie McKnightISV–at 0:58
49–Hong Yeong-MiKOR–at 2:32
50–Natsue SekiJPN–at 13:40
DNF–Petra RoßnerGDR––
DNF–Madonna HarrisNZL––
DNF–Yang Hsiu-ChenTPE––