Spain at the 1988 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:	ESP
Nocname:	Spanish Olympic Committee
Games:	Summer Olympics
Year:	1988
Website:
Location:	Seoul
Competitors:	229 (200 men and 29 women)
Sports:	24
Flagbearer:	Cristina de Borbón
Rank:	25
Gold:	1
Silver:	1
Bronze:	2
Appearances:	auto
App Begin Year:	1900

Spain competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. 229 competitors, 200 men and 29 women, took part in 130 events in 24 sports.^[1] At the closing ceremony, a short Catalan segment was performed on a part of the Olympic Stadium, as the country hosted the next Olympics in Barcelona.

As of 2020, this is the most recent time that Spain did not win at least eleven medals or three gold medals.

Medalists

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Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
				27 September
				1 October
				23 September
				24 September

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Medals by sport
Sport				Total
	1	0	0	1
	0	1	0	1
	0	0	1	1
	0	0	1	1
Total	1	1	2	4

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.^[2]

width=180	Sport	width=55	Men	width=55	Women	width=55	Total
Archery	3	1	4
Athletics	27	7	34
Basketball	12	0	12
Boxing	5	–	5
Canoeing	13	0	13
Cycling	13	0	13
Diving	2	0	2
Equestrian	7	0	7
Fencing	8	0	8
Field hockey	16	0	16
Gymnastics	3	8	11
Handball	15	0	15
Judo	3	–	3
Modern pentathlon	3	–	3
Rowing	13	0	13
Sailing	14	3	17
Shooting	5	2	7
Swimming	7	4	11
Synchronized swimming	–	3	3
Tennis	3	1	4
Water polo	13	–	13
Weightlifting	6	–	6
Wrestling	9	–	9
Total	200	29	229

Archery

See main article: Archery at the 1988 Summer Olympics. No member of the Spanish archery delegation advanced past the preliminary round.

Women's Individual Competition:

• Teresa Valdés  - Preliminary round, 57th place

Men's Individual Competition:

• Antonio Vazquez  - Preliminary Round (→ 32nd place)
• Manuel Francisco Jiménez  - Preliminary Round (→ 50th place)
• Juan Carlos Holgado  - Preliminary Round (→ 52nd place)

Men's Team Competition:

• Vazquez, Jiménez, and Holgado  - Preliminary Round (→ 17th place)

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Men's 10.000 metres

• First Round - 28:22.52

• Final - 27:52.78 (→ 10th place)

• First Round - 29:01.13 (→ did not advance)

• First Round - did not finish (→ did not advance)

Men's Marathon

• Final - 2:31:10 (→ 64th place)
• Honorato Hernández

• Final - DNF

Men's Long Jump

• Antonio Corgos

• Qualification - 7.88m

• Final - 8.03m (→ 5th place)

Men's Decathlon

• Antonio Peñalver - 7753 points (→ 23rd place)

1. 100 metres - 11.38s

1. Long Jump - 7.08m

1. Shot Put - 14.31m

1. High Jump - 2.00m

1. 400 metres - 50.24s

1. 110m Hurdles - 14.97s

1. Discus Throw - 46.34m

1. Pole Vault - 4.40m

1. Javelin Throw - 55.68m

1. 1.500 metres - 4:32.68s

Men's 20 km Walk

• José Marín

• Final - 1:20:34 (→ 4th place)
• Daniel Plaza

• Final - 1:21:53 (→ 12th place)
• Ricardo Pueyo

• Final - 1:23:40 (→ 23rd place)

Men's 50 km Walk

• José Marín

• Final - 3'43:03 (→ 5th place)
• Jorge Llopart

• Final - 3'48:09 (→ 13th place)
• Manuel Alcalde

• Final - 3'59:13 (→ 25th place)

Women's 4 × 400 m Relay

• Heat - did not start (→ did not advance)

Women's 10.000 metres

• Ana Isabel Alonso

• Final - 32:40.50 (→ 25th place)

Basketball

See main article: Basketball at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Men's tournament

See main article: Basketball at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament.

Team roster

Group play

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Quarterfinals

Classification round 5–8

Classification round 7/8

Boxing

See main article: Boxing at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Men's Light Flyweight ( - 48 kg)

• First Round - Bye

• Second Round - Lost to Dang Nieu Hu (VIE), RSC-2

Men's Flyweight ( - 51 kg)

• Bonifacio García

• First Round - Lost to Nokuthula Tshabangu (ZIM), 1:4

Light Welterweight ( - 63.5 kg)

• Tomás Ruiz

• First Round - Lost to Mark Elliot (GBR), 1:4

Men's Welterweight ( - 67 kg)

• Javier Martínez

• First Round - Bye

• Second Round - Win to Lucas Januario (MOZ), 5:0

• Third Round - Lost to Adewale Adgebusi (NGA), 0:5

Heavyweight ( - 91 kg)

• José Ortega

• First Round - Lost to Gyula Alvics (HUN), 0:5

Canoeing

See main article: Canoeing at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Men's C-1 500 metres

• Narcisco Suárez

• Heat  - 1st (heat-2)

• Semifinal  - 1:55.98

• Final  - 2:01.33 (→ 7th place)

Men's C-1 1000 metres

• Francisco López

• Heat  - 4:16.02

• Repechage; 4:22.34

• Semifinal  - 4:16.90 (→ did not advance)

Men's C-2 500 metres

• Enrique Míguez and Narcisco Suárez

• Heat  - 1:48.75

• Semifinal  - 1:50.63 (→ did not advance)

Men's K-1 500 metres

• Francisco Leal

• Heat  - 1:47.71

• Semifinal  - 1:46.93 (→ did not advance)

Men's K-1 1000 metres

• José Reyes Rodríguez

• Heat  - 3:59.95

• Repechage  - 3:53.39

• Semifinal  - 3:48.35 (→ did not advance)

Men's K-2 500 metres

• Heat  - 1:36.17

• Repechage  - 1:40.09

• Semifinal  - 1:36.22 (→ did not advance)

Men's K-2 1000 metres

• Alberto Sánchez (canoeist) and Gregorio Vicente

• Heat  - 3:32.97

• Repechage  - 3:32.92 (→ did not advance)

Men's K-4 1000 metres

• Juan Manuel Sánchez, Fernando Fuentes, Francisco Javier Álvarez, and Juan José Román

• Heat  - 3:06.96

• Repechage  - 3:16.79

• Semifinal  - 3:13.88 (→ did not advance)

Cycling

See main article: Cycling at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Thirteen cyclists, all male, represented Spain in 1988.

Men's road race

• Eduardo Manrique
• Gonzalo Aguiar
• Iván Alemany

Men's team time trial

• Javier Aldanondo
• Javier Carbayeda
• Arturo Gériz
• José Rodríguez

Men's sprint

• José Moreno

Men's 1 km time trial

• Bernardo González

Men's individual pursuit

• José Antonio Martiarena

Men's team pursuit

• Bernardo González
• Xavier Isasa
• José Antonio Martiarena
• Agustín Sebastiá

Men's points race

• Antonio Salvador

Diving

See main article: Diving at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Men's 3m Springboard

• José Miguel Gil

• Preliminary Round - 483.12 (→ did not advance, 25th place)

Men's 10m Springboard

• Emilio Ratia

• Preliminary Round - 425.73 (→ did not advance, 25th place)

Equestrianism

See main article: Equestrian at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Equestrians

• Luis Antonio Álvarez
• Luis Astolfi
  • José Ramón Beca Alfredo Fernández-Duran
• Juan Diego García
• Juan Félix Matute
• Santiago de la Rocha
• Pedro Sánchez

Fencing

See main article: Fencing at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Eight fencers, all men, represented Spain in 1988.

Men's foil

• Andrés García
• Jesús Esperanza

Men's épée

• Ángel Fernández
• Fernando de la Peña
• Manuel Pereira

Men's team épée

• Ángel Fernández, Oscar Fernández, Raúl Maroto, Fernando de la Peña, Manuel Pereira

Men's sabre

• Antonio García

Gymnastics

See main article: Gymnastics at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Men's events

• Alvaro Montesinos

• Alfonso Rodríguez de Sadia

• Miguel Ángel Rubio

Women's events

• Núria Belchi

• Lidia Castillejo

• Nuria García

• Manuela Hervás

• Laura Muñoz

• Eva María Rueda

Handball

See main article: Handball at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

• Team roster

• Juan Javier Cabanas

• Jesús Ángel Fernández

• Jaume Fort

• Jesús Gómez

• Ricardo Marín

• Juan Francisco Muñoz

• Juan Alfonso de la Puente

• Jaime Puig

• Javier Reino

• Lorenzo Rico

• Julián Ruiz

• Juan Sagalés

• Eugenio Serrano

• Juan José Uría

• Miguel Ángel Zúñiga
• Head coach: Juan de Dios Román

Hockey

See main article: Field hockey at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Men's team competition

• Preliminary round (group A)

• Spain  - Pakistan 1-5

• Spain  - Netherlands 1-1

• Spain  - Kenya 4-2

• Spain  - Argentina 0-1

• Spain  - Australia 0-1
• Classification Matches

• 9th/12th place: Spain  - Canada 2-0

• 9th/10th place: Spain  - South Korea 2-0 (→ 9th place)
• Team roster

• Jaime Armengol

• Ignacio Escudé

• Jaime Escudé

• Javier Escudé

• Eduardo Fàbregas

• Juan de Dios García-Mauriño

• Andreu Gómez

• Santiago Grau

• José Antonio Iglesias

• Joaquín Malgosa

• Juan Malgosa

• Jordi Oliva

• Miguel de Paz

• Miguel Ortego

• Juan Carlos Peón

• Miguel Rovira

Judo

See main article: Judo at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Modern pentathlon

See main article: Modern pentathlon at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Three male pentathletes represented Spain in 1988.

Men's Individual Competition:

• Eduardo Quesada  - 4852 pts (→ 32nd place)
• Leopoldo Centeno  - 4814pts (→ 38th place)
• Jorge Quesada  - 0pt (→ 64th place)

Men's Team Competition:

• Quesada, Centeno, and Quesada  - 9666pts (→ 19th place)

Rhythmic gymnastics

• María Isabel Lloret (→ 5th)

• María Martín Rodríguez (→ 20th)

Rowing

See main article: Rowing at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Sailing

See main article: Sailing at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Race							Net points	Final rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Carlos Iniesta	Division II	5	21	27	1	2	24	6	81.7	8
José Luis Doreste	Finn	7	3	1	DSQ	3	4	3	38.1
Fernando León Boissier Kiko Sánchez	470	4	11	4	4	PMS	1	8	55.0	4

Women

Open

Athlete	Event	Race							Net points	Final rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Luis Doreste Miguel Noguer	Flying Dutchman	11	16	13	7	11	17	4	96.0	13
Francisco García Luis López Cristina De Borbón	Tornado	19	20	19	18	RET	18	RET	154.0	20
Juan Costas José Pérez	Star	11	12	RET	14	19	9	PMS	123.0	17
Antonio Gorostegui Jaime Monjo José Manuel Valades Domingo Manrique	Soling	16	16	18	12	13	17	RET	128.0	17

Shooting

See main article: Shooting at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
align=left rowspan=3	Jorge González	50 m rifle three positions	1168	15	Did not advance
50 m rifle prone	593	32	Did not advance
10 m air rifle	579	40	Did not advance
Juan Segui	25 m rapid fire pistol	588	18	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Eva Suarez	10 m air pistol	379	10	Did not advance
25 m pistol	569	32	Did not advance

Open

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Semifinal		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Rafael Axpe	align=left rowspan=2	Trap	145	13 Q	193	11	Did not advance
José Bladas	144	18 Q	190	18	Did not advance
align=left	Jorge Guardiola	align=left	Skeet	147	8 Q	196	6 Q	220
Eladio Vallduvi	align=left rowspan=2	Trap	145	11 Q	192	12	Did not advance
Gemma Usieto	140	33	Did not advance

Swimming

See main article: Swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Men's 200m Freestyle

• Daniel Serra

• Heat  - 1:53.05 (→ did not advance, 28th place)

Men's 400m Freestyle

• Daniel Serra

• Heat  - 3:57.46 (→ did not advance, 22nd place)

Men's 100m Backstroke

• Martin López-Zubero

• Heat  - 58.06 (→ did not advance, 23rd place)

Men's 200m Backstroke

• Martin López-Zubero

• Heat  - 2:03.33

• B-Final  - 2:03.70 (→ 11th place)

Men's 100m Breaststroke

• Joaquín Fernández

• Heat  - 1:05.19 (→ did not advance, 32nd place)
• Sergi López

• Heat  - 1:06.08 (→ did not advance, 43rd place)

Men's 200m Breaststroke

• Sergi López

• Heat  - 2:17.06

• Final  - 2:15.21 (→ Bronze Medal)
• Joaquín Fernández

• Heat  - 2:20.34 (→ did not advance, 24th place)

Men's 100m Butterfly

• José Luis Ballester

• Heat  - 55.27 (→ did not advance, 18th place)

Men's 200m Butterfly

• José Luis Ballester

• Heat  - 2:03.32 (→ did not advance, 24th place)

Men's 200m Individual Medley

• Martin López-Zubero

• Heat  - 2:10.52 (→ did not advance, 31st place)
• Sergi López

• Heat  - 2:13.48 (→ did not advance, 36th place)

Men's 200m Individual Medley

• Martin López-Zubero

• Heat  - 4:35.68 (→ did not advance, 27th place)

Men's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay

• Martin López-Zubero, Ramón Camallonga, José Luis Ballester, and José Hernando

• Heat  - 3:49.47 (→ did not advance, 12th place)

Women's 200m Breaststroke

• Silvia Parera

• Heat  - 2:35.57 (→ did not advance, 18th place)

Women's 100m Butterfly

• María Luisa Fernández

• Heat  - 1:02.47 (→ did not advance, 17th place)

Women's 200m Individual Medley

• Silvia Parera

• Heat  - 2:22.20 (→ did not advance, 21st place)

Women's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay

• Natalia Autric, Silvia Parera, María Luisa Fernández, and Amaia Garbayo

• Heat  - 4:21.84 (→ did not advance, 13th place)

Synchronized swimming

See main article: Synchronised swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Three synchronized swimmers represented Spain in 1988.

Women's solo

• Eva López
• Marta Amorós
• Núria Ayala

Women's duet

• Eva López
• Núria Ayala

Tennis

See main article: Tennis at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Men's Singles Competition

• Javier Sánchez

• First round - Defeated Sadiq Abdullahi (Nigeria) 6-2 7-5 6-3

• Second round - Defeated Grant Connell (Canada) 6-4 6-4 6-2

• Third round - Lost to Paolo Canè (Italy) 6-7 6-4 1-6 2-6
• Emilio Sánchez

• First round - Defeated Shuzo Matsuoka (Japan) 6-3 6-4 6-3

• Second round - Lost to Paolo Canè (Italy) 5-7 3-6 7-6 4-6
• Sergio Casal

• First round - Defeated Mark Gurr (Zimbabwe) 6-2 6-3 6-1

• Second round - Defeated Leonardo Lavalle (Mexico) 6-3 6-4 7-6

• Third round - Lost to Michiel Schapers (Netherlands) 4-6 6-4 6-2 3-6 4-6

Men's Doubles Competition

• Emilio Sánchez and Sergio Casal → Silver Medal

• First Round  - Defeated Andrei Olhovskiy and Alexander Volkov (Soviet Union) 6-3 6-3 6-1

• Second Round  - Defeated Alex Antonitsch and Horst Skoff (Austria) 6-4 6-2 6-1

• Quarterfinals  - Defeated Goran Ivanišević and Slobodan Živojinović (Yugoslavia) 6-1 7-6 6-3

• Semifinals  - Defeated Stefan Edberg and Anders Järryd (Sweden) 6-4 1-6 6-3 6-2

• Final  - Lost to Ken Flach and Robert Seguso (USA) 3-6 4-6 7-6 7-6 7-9

Water polo

See main article: Water polo at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Men's tournament

• Preliminary round (Group B)

• Defeated China (13-6)

• Defeated United States (9-7)

• Drew with Hungary (6-6)

• Lost to Yugoslavia (8-10)

• Defeated Greece (12-9)
• Classification round (Group D)

• Lost to Australia (7-8)

• Defeated Italy (11-9) → 6th place
• Team roster

• Jesús Rollán

• Miguel Chillida

• Marco Antonio González

• Miguel Pérez

• Manuel Estiarte

• Pere Robert

• Jorge Payá

• José Antonio Rodriguez

• Jordi Sans

• Salvador Gómez

• Mariano Moya

• Jorge Neira

• Pedro Francisco García
• Head coach: Antonio Esteller

Weightlifting

See main article: Weightlifting at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Wrestling

See main article: Wrestling at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

External links

• Spanish Olympic Committee

Notes and References

1. Web site: Spain at the 1988 Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417044101/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/ESP/summer/1988/ . dead . 2020-04-17 . 2011-07-29 . sports-reference.com.
2. https://www.olympedia.org/countries/ESP/editions/22 Spain at the 1988 Summer Olympics