This Day in Track & Field, Gelindo Bordin wins Seoul Olympics Marathon (1988), by Walt Murphy
Walt Murphy’s News and Results Service (wmurphy25@aol.com) This Day in Track & Field–October 2 1988—Italy’s Gelindo Bordin won the Men’s Marathon at the Seoul Olympics in 2:10:32. 2nd was Kenya’s Douglas Wakiihuri (2:10:47), the 1987 World Champion, and 3rd was Djibouti’s Ahmed Salah (2:10:59), who won the silver medal at the 1987 Worlds. Other significant finishers included Australia’s […]