Atletik pada Olimpiade Musim Panas 1988
Peraih Medali > Putri

| Cabang | Emas | Emas | Perak | Perak | Perunggu | Perunggu |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 100 metres detail | Florence Griffith Joyner  Amerika Serikat | 10.54w (OR) | Evelyn Ashford  Amerika Serikat | 10.83w | Heike Drechsler  Jerman Timur | 10.85w |
| 200 metres detail | Florence Griffith Joyner  Amerika Serikat | 21.34 (WR) | Grace Jackson  Jamaika | 21.72 | Heike Drechsler  Jerman Timur | 21.95 |
| 400 metres detail | Olha Bryzhina  Uni Soviet | 48.65 (OR) | Petra Müller  Jerman Timur | 49.45 | Olga Nazarova  Uni Soviet | 49.90 |
| 800 metres detail | Sigrun Wodars  Jerman Timur | 1:56.10 | Christine Wachtel  Jerman Timur | 1:56.64 | Kim Gallagher  Amerika Serikat | 1:56.91 |
| 1500 metres detail | Paula Ivan  Rumania | 3:53.96 (OR)  | Laimutė Baikauskaitė  Uni Soviet | 4:00.24 | Tetyana Samolenko  Uni Soviet | 4:00.30 |
| 3000 metres detail | Tetyana Samolenko  Uni Soviet | 8:26.53 (OR) | Paula Ivan  Rumania | 8:27.15 | Yvonne Murray  Britania Raya | 8:29.02 |
| 10,000 metres detail | Olga Bondarenko  Uni Soviet | 31:05.21 (OR) | Liz McColgan  Britania Raya | 31:08.44 | Olena Zhupiyeva  Uni Soviet | 31:19.82 |
| 100 metres hurdles detail | Yordanka Donkova  Bulgaria | 12.38 (OR)  | Gloria Siebert  Jerman Timur | 12.61 | Claudia Zaczkiewicz  Jerman Barat | 12.75 |
| 400 metres hurdles detail | Debbie Flintoff-King  Australia | 53.17 (OR)  | Tatyana Ledovskaya  Uni Soviet | 53.18 | Ellen Fiedler  Jerman Timur | 53.63 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay detail |  Amerika Serikat (USA) Alice Brown Sheila Echols Florence Griffith Joyner Evelyn Ashford Dannette Young* | 41.98 |  Jerman Timur (GDR) Silke Möller Kerstin Behrendt Ingrid Lange Marlies Göhr | 42.09 |  Uni Soviet (URS) Lyudmila Kondratyeva Galina Malchugina Marina Zhirova Natalya Pomoshchnikova Maia Azarashvili* | 42.75 |
| 4 × 400 metres relay detail |  Uni Soviet (URS) Tatyana Ledovskaya Olga Nazarova Mariya Pinigina Olha Bryzhina Lyudmyla Dzhyhalova* | 3:15.17 (WR) |  Amerika Serikat (USA) Denean Howard Diane Dixon Valerie Brisco-Hooks Florence Griffith Joyner Sherri Howard* Lillie Leatherwood* | 3:15.51 (AR) |  Jerman Timur (GDR) Dagmar Neubauer Kirsten Emmelmann Sabine Busch Petra Müller Grit Breuer* | 3:18.29 |
| Marathon detail | Rosa Mota  Portugal | 2:25:40 | Lisa Martin-Ondieki  Australia | 2:25:53 | Katrin Dörre  Jerman Timur | 2:26:21 |
| High jump detail | Louise Ritter  Amerika Serikat | 2.03 m (OR) | Stefka Kostadinova  Bulgaria | 2.01 m | Tamara Bykova  Uni Soviet | 1.99 m |
| Long jump detail | Jackie Joyner-Kersee  Amerika Serikat | 7.40 m (OR) | Heike Drechsler  Jerman Timur | 7.22 m | Galina Chistyakova  Uni Soviet | 7.11 m |
| Shot put detail | Natalya Lisovskaya  Uni Soviet | 22.24 m | Kathrin Neimke  Jerman Timur | 21.07 m | Li Meisu  Tiongkok | 21.06 m |
| Discus throw detail | Martina Hellmann  Jerman Timur | 72.30 m (OR) | Diana Gansky  Jerman Timur | 71.88 m | Tsvetanka Khristova  Bulgaria | 69.74 m |
| Javelin throw detail | Petra Felke  Jerman Timur | 74.68 m (OR) | Fatima Whitbread  Britania Raya | 70.32 m | Beate Koch  Jerman Timur | 67.30 m |
| Heptathlon detail | Jackie Joyner-Kersee  Amerika Serikat | 7291 (WR) | Sabine John  Jerman Timur | 6897 | Anke Behmer  Jerman Timur | 6858 |
* = Athletes who ran in preliminary rounds and also received medals.