Jackie Joyner-Kersey of the United States won the gold medal at the 1988 Olympics with a jump of 7.40 meters.
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Table tennis was first included as a medal event at the 1988 Seoul Summer Olympics.
Great Britain did NOT win the Gold Medal in Ice Hockey in 1988 the Soviet Union did.Great Britain won the Gold Medal in Ice Hockey at the 1936 Winter Olympics.
Women's vault gold medalist at the 1988 Summer Olympics was Svetlana Boginskaya of the Soviet Union.
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Men: Great Britain Women: Australia
Winners of the gold medal in marathon at the 1988 Summer Olympics: Men: Gelindo Bordin, Italy Women: Rosa Mota, Portugal
Women's boxing was not an Olympic event until 2012.
Men: Great Britain Women: Australia
An Olympics 'demonstration sport' was an event that was not played/competed to win medals but played/competed in the hopes of the event gaining popularity and possibly being added to the Olympics as a medal sport sometime in the future.Demonstration sports were discontinued in the Olympics after the 1992 Summer Games in Barcelona.Demonstration sports that eventually became medal sports include baseball, taekwondo, and badminton. Baseball was a demonstration sport in four Olympics (1912, 1936, 1964, 1988) before becoming a medal sport in 1992. Badminton was a demonstration sport in 1972 and 1988 before becoming a medal sport in 1992.Other demonstration sports that did not become medal sports include water skiing (1972), bowling (1988), and roller hockey (1992).