Czechoslovakia , rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי, , common_name = Czechoslovakia , life_span = 1918–19391945–1992 , p1 = Austria-Hungary , image_p1 ...

competed at the

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, after having boycotted the previous Games in

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. 163 competitors, 110 men and 53 women, took part in 97 events in 17 sports.

Medalists

Competitors

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Athletics

Men's 10.000 metres * Martin Vrabel ** Heat — did not finish (→ did not advance) Men's Marathon * Karel David ** Final — 2"26.12 (→ 55th place) Men's Discus Throw *

Géjza Valent Géjza Valent (born 3 October 1953 in Prague) is a retired male discus thrower from Czechoslovakia, who won the bronze medal at the 1983 World Championships. He set a personal best throw of 69.70 metres on 26 August 1984 at a meet in Nitra Nit ...

** Qualifying Heat – 63.46m ** Final – 65.80m (→ 6th place) * Imrich Bugár ** Qualifying Heat – 61.94m ** Final – 60.88m (→ 12th place) Men's Javelin Throw *

Jan Železný Jan Železný (; born 16 June 1966) is a Czech former track and field athlete who competed in the javelin throw. He is a World and Olympic champion and holds the world record with a throw of . Widely considered to be the greatest javelin throwe ...

** Qualification — 85.90m ** Final — 84.12m (→ Silver Medal) * Zdenek Nenadal ** Qualification — 75.56m (→ did not advance) Men's Shot Put * Remigius Machura ** Qualifying Heat – 20.16m ** Final – 20.57m (→ 5th place) Men's Decathlon * Roman Hraban — 7781 points (→ 20th place) :# 100 metres — 10.98s :# Long Jump — 7.07m :# Shot Put — 15.84m :# High Jump — 1.79m :# 400 metres — 49.68s :# 110m Hurdles — 14.94s :# Discus Throw — 45.32m :# Pole Vault — 4.90m :# Javelin Throw — 60.48m :# 1.500 metres — 5:06.68s * Veroslav Valenta — 7442 points (→ 28th place) :# 100 metres — 11.51s :# Long Jump — 7.01m :# Shot Put — 14.17m :# High Jump — 1.94m :# 400 metres — 51.216s :# 110m Hurdles — 15.18s :# Discus Throw — 45.84m :# Pole Vault — 4.60m :# Javelin Throw — 56.28m :# 1.500 metres — 5:03.17s Men's 20 km Walk *

Jozef Pribilinec Jozef Pribilinec (; born 6 July 1960) is a Slovak track and field athlete who mainly competed in racewalking. He was born in Kopernica. Pribilinec competed for the former Czechoslovakia at the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul, South Korea ...

** Final — 1:19:57 (→ Gold Medal) *

Roman Mrázek Roman Mrázek (born January 21, 1962 in Sokolov) is a race walker who represented Czechoslovakia and later Slovakia. He represented his former nation at the 1988 Summer Olympics and the 1992 Summer Olympics, before competing for Slovakia at the 1 ...

** Final — 1:20:43 (→ 5th place) Men's 50 km Walk * Pavol Szikora ** Final — 3:47:04 (→ 10th place) * Pavol Blazek ** Final — 3:47:31 (→ 12th place) * Roman Mrazek ** Final — 3:50:46 (→ 17th place)
Women's Marathon * Ludmila Melicherová ** Final — 2"43.56 (→ 45th place) Women's Discus Throw *

Zdeňka Šilhavá Zdeňka Bartoňová-Šilhavá (born 15 June 1954 in Krnov, Czechoslovakia) is a retired female track and field athlete from the Czech Republic, who set the world record in the women's discus throw on 26 August 1984 with a distance of . That mark ...

** Qualifying Heat – 66.52m ** Final – 67.84m (→ 6th place) Women's Shot Put *

** Qualification – 19.74m ** Final – 18.86m (→ 11th place) * Sona Vasickova ** Qualification — did not start (→ did not advance) Women's Heptathlon * Zuzana Lajbnerová ** Final Result — 6252 points (→ 9th place)

Basketball

Women's tournament

;Team roster ;Group play ---- ---- ;Classification 5–8 ;Classification 7/8

Boxing

Canoeing

Cycling

Thirteen cyclists, all men, represented Czechoslovakia in 1988. ; Men's road race *

Jozef Regec Jozef Regec (born 29 March 1965) was a Czechoslovak national bicycle team member between 1986 and 1993 and Czech between 1993 and 2000. Born in Slovakia he represented Czechoslovakia in the men's individual road race at the 1988 Summer Olympics i ...

* Luděk Štyks * Luboš Lom ; Men's team time trial * Vladimír Hrůza * Vladimír Kinšt * Milan Křen *

; Men's sprint * Vratislav Šustr ; Men's individual pursuit * Roman Čermák ; Men's team pursuit * Svatopluk Buchta * Zbyněk Fiala * Pavel Soukup * Aleš Trčka * Pavel Tesař ; Men's points race * Luboš Lom

Gymnastics

Handball

Judo

Modern pentathlon

Three male pentathletes represented Czechoslovakia in 1988. Men's Individual Competition: *

Milan Kadlec Milan Kadlec (born 13 October 1974 in Uherské Hradiště, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech former racing cyclist, who competed both on the road and the track. In 2010, he won the bronze medal in the UCI Track Cycling World Championships points race. ...

— 5130pts (→ 11th place) * Tomáš Fleissner — 5010pts (→ 19th place) * Jiří Prokopius — 4903pts (→ 29th place) Men's Team Competition: * Kadlec, Fleissner, and Prokopius — 15043pts (→ 6th place)

Rhythmic gymnastics

Rowing

Shooting

Swimming

Men's 50m Freestyle * Petr Kladiva *# Heat – 23.53 (→ did not advance, 23rd place) Men's 100m Freestyle * Petr Kladiva *# Heat – 51.39 (→ did not advance, 26th place) Men's 100m Backstroke * Pavel Vokoun *# Heat – 58.88 (→ did not advance, 30th place) Men's 200m Backstroke * Pavel Vokoun *# Heat – 2:07.24 (→ did not advance, 28th place) Men's 100m Breaststroke * Radek Beinhauer *# Heat – 1:04.61 (→ did not advance, 25th place) * Alexander Marcek *# Heat – 1:04.95 (→ did not advance, 28th place) Men's 200m Breaststroke * Radek Beinhauer *# Heat – 2:18.02 *# B-Final – 2:18.13 (→ 12th place) * Alexander Marcek *# Heat – 2:18.44 *# B-Final – 2:18.51 (→ 15th place) Men's 100m Butterfly * Robert Wolf *# Heat – 55.73 (→ did not advance, 21st place) Men's 200m Butterfly * Ondrej Bures *# Heat – 2:02.93 (→ did not advance, 22nd place) Men's 400m Individual Medley * Ondrej Bures *# Heat – 4:29.62 (→ did not advance, 19th place) Men's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay * Pavel Vokoun, Radek Beinhauer, Robert Wolf, and Petr Kladiva *# Heat – 3:49.90 (→ did not advance, 13th place)

Table tennis

Tennis

Women's Singles Competition *

Regina Rajchrtová Regina Rajchrtová, married Kordová (5 February 1968) is a former tennis player from Czechoslovakia who competed for her native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. On 1 April 1991 she reached a career world ranking high of 26. Persona ...

*# First Round – Lost to

Leila Meskhi Leila Meskhi ( ka, ლეილა მესხი, tr, ; born 5 January 1968) is a retired Georgian professional tennis player. Meskhi has won five singles and doubles titles on the WTA Tour. She has also won one singles and two doubles titles ...

(Soviet Union) 5-7 5-7 *

Jana Novotná Jana Novotná (; 2 October 1968 – 19 November 2017) was a Czech professional tennis player. She played a serve and volley game, an increasingly rare style of play among women during her career. Novotná won the women's singles title at Wimbl ...

*# First Round – Defeated Isabelle Demongeot (France) 6-4 6-3 *# Second Round – Lost to

Barbara Paulus Barbara Paulus (born 1 September 1970) is a former professional top-ten tennis player from Austria. She began playing on the WTA Tour in 1986 and retired in 2001. During her career, she won a total of seven WTA tournaments (six singles titles, on ...

(Austria) 4-6 3-6 * Helena Suková *# First Round – Bye *# Second Round – Lost to Il-Soon Kim (South Korea) 2-6 6-4 2-6
Men's Doubles Competition *

Miloslav Mečíř Miloslav Mečíř (; born 19 May 1964) is a Slovak former professional tennis player. He won the men's singles gold medal at the 1988 Olympic Games, representing Czechoslovakia, and contested two major singles finals. In 1987 he won the WCT Fina ...

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Milan Šrejber Milan Šrejber () (born 30 December 1963) is a former tennis player from Czechoslovakia, who represented his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. There he reached the semi finals of the men's doubles competition, partnering Milos ...

→ Bronze Medal *# First Round – Defeated Liu Shuhua and Ma Keqin (China) 7-5 6-1 6-4 *# Second Round – Defeated

Vijay Amritraj Vijay Amritraj (born 14 December 1953) is an Indian sports commentator, actor and retired professional tennis player from Madras. He was awarded the Padma Shri, India's 4th highest civilian honour, in 1983.In 2022, he was honored for his cont ...

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Anand Amritraj Anand Amritraj (Tamil: ஆனந்த் அம்ரித்ராஜ்; born 20 March 1951) is a former Indian tennis player and businessman. He along with brother Vijay Amritraj led India into the 1974 Davis Cup finals against South Afric ...

(India) 4-6 6-4 4-6 6-4 6-2 *# Quarterfinals – Defeated

Guy Forget Guy Forget (; born 4 January 1965) is a French tennis administrator and retired professional player. During his career, he helped France win the Davis Cup in both 1991 and 1996. Since retiring as a player, he has served as France's Davis Cup te ...

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Henri Leconte Henri Leconte (born 4 July 1963) is a French former professional tennis player. He reached the men's singles final at the French Open in 1988, won the French Open men's doubles title in 1984, and helped France win the Davis Cup in 1991. Leconte ...

(France) 3-6 4-6 7-5 6-3 9-7 *# Semifinals – Lost to

Ken Flach Kenneth Eliot Flach (May 24, 1963 – March 12, 2018) was an American doubles world No. 1 tennis player. He won four Grand Slam men's doubles titles (two Wimbledon and two US Open), and two mixed doubles titles (Wimbledon and the French Ope ...

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Robert Seguso Robert Arthur Seguso (born May 1, 1963) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. A doubles specialist, he won four Grand Slam men's doubles titles (two Wimbledon, one French Open and one US Open). He also won the men's d ...

(United States) 2-6 4-6 1-6

Weightlifting

Wrestling

References

{{NOCin1988SummerOlympics Nations at the 1988 Summer Olympics

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