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Road Race, Men

Date	27 September 1988 — 9:00
Status	Olympic
Location	Tongil-ro Circuit, Paju
Participants	136 from 54 countries
Format	196.8 kilometres. (122.3 miles) mass start race.

The 196.8 km. course was very flat and easy, keeping almost 100 of the 136 starters together for the entire race. The outstanding East German sprinter, Olaf Ludwig, was greatly aided by the flat course. Near the race end, he was joined in a break by a major sprint competitor, “The Tashkent Terror,” Dzhamolidin Abduzhaparov, and Ludwig aborted the attack. He and West German Bernd Gröne got away once more briefly afterwards, and Ludwig won the sprint-out easily. With the fall of Berlin Wall in 1990, he became one the first East German riders to ride professionally. His sprinting abilities allowed him to win many races, and in 1990 he won the green jersey as the Points Leader at the Tour de France. His greatest classics victory was the 1992 Amstel Gold Race. As an amateur, Ludwig twice won the Peace Race and won 36 stages in that Eastern European amateur tour.

Pos	Competitor	NOC	Time	Margin
1	Olaf Ludwig	GDR	4-32:22	–	Gold
2	Bernd Gröne	FRG	–	at 0:03	Silver
3	Christian Henn	FRG	–	at 0:24	Bronze
4	Bob Mionske	USA	–	at 0:24
5	Dzhamolidin Abduzhaparov	URS	–	at 0:24
6	Edward Salas	AUS	–	at 0:24
7	Roberto Pelliconi	ITA	–	at 0:24
8	Graeme Miller	NZL	–	at 0:24
9	Emili Pérez	AND	–	at 0:24
10	Jozef Regec	TCH	–	at 0:24
11	Jan Mattheus	BEL	–	at 0:24
12	Hung Chung Yam	HKG	–	at 0:24
13	Atle Pedersen	NOR	–	at 0:24
14	Remig Stumpf	FRG	–	at 0:34
15	Michel Zanoli	NED	–	at 0:34
16	Fabrizio Bontempi	ITA	–	at 0:34
17	Zdzisław Wrona	POL	–	at 0:34
18	Neil Hoban	GBR	–	at 0:34
19	Johnny Dauwe	BEL	–	at 0:34
20	Cássio Freitas	BRA	–	at 0:34
21	Park Hyeon-Gon	KOR	–	at 0:34
22	Mario Traxl	AUT	–	at 0:34
23	Uwe Raab	GDR	–	at 0:34
24	Jean-François Laffillé	FRA	–	at 0:34
25	Mitsuhiro Suzuki	JPN	–	at 0:34
26	Marcel Stäuble	SUI	–	at 0:34
27	Erik Johan Sæbø	NOR	–	at 0:34
28	Jacek Bodyk	POL	–	at 0:34
29	Yvan Waddell	CAN	–	at 0:34
30	Rajko Čubrić	YUG	–	at 0:34
31	Juan Arias	COL	–	at 0:34
32	Mićo Brković	YUG	–	at 0:34
33	Brian Walton	CAN	–	at 0:34
34	Hans Lienhart	AUT	–	at 0:34
35	Daniel Steiger	SUI	–	at 0:34
36	Paul Curran	GBR	–	at 0:34
37	Jari Lähde	FIN	–	at 0:34
38	Rob Harmeling	NED	–	at 0:34
39	Mohamed Mir	ALG	–	at 0:34
40	Gianluca Bortolami	ITA	–	at 0:34
41	Dietmar Hauer	AUT	–	at 0:34
42	Tom Cordes	NED	–	at 0:34
43	Michel Lafis	SWE	–	at 0:34
44	Tang Xuezhong	CHN	–	at 0:34
45	Cormac McCann	IRL	–	at 0:34
46	José Asconeguy	URU	–	at 0:34
47	Luděk Štyks	TCH	–	at 0:34
48	Nelson Rodríguez	COL	–	at 0:34
49	John McQuaid	IRL	–	at 0:34
50	Leung Hung Tak	HKG	–	at 0:34
51	Asyat Saitov	URS	–	at 0:34
52	Eduardo Manrique	ESP	–	at 0:34
53	Liu Hong	CHN	–	at 0:34
54	Peter Hermann	LIE	–	at 0:34
55	Chow Tai Ming	HKG	–	at 0:34
56	Iraj Amir-Akhori	IRI	–	at 0:34
57	Anders Jarl	SWE	–	at 0:34
58	Perry Merren	CAY	–	at 0:34
59	Xavier Pérez	AND	–	at 0:34
60	Riho Suun	URS	–	at 0:34
61	Luboš Lom	TCH	–	at 0:34
62	Mark Gornall	GBR	–	at 0:34
63	Wanderley Magalhães	BRA	–	at 0:34
64	Realdo Jessurun	SUR	–	at 0:34
65	Scott McKinley	USA	–	at 0:34
66	Marcos Mazzaron	BRA	–	at 0:34
67	Dubán Ramírez	COL	–	at 0:34
68	Geir Dahlen	NOR	–	at 0:34
69	Craig Schommer	USA	–	at 0:34
70	Claude Carlin	FRA	–	at 0:34
71	Tommy Nielsen	DEN	–	at 0:34
72	Kyoshi Miura	JPN	–	at 0:34
73	Gervais Rioux	CAN	–	at 0:34
74	Peter Meinert Nielsen	DEN	–	at 0:34
75	Brian Fowler	NZL	–	at 0:34
76	Alcides Etcheverry	URU	–	at 0:34
77	Luis Rosendo Ramos	MEX	–	at 0:34
78	Valter Bonča	YUG	–	at 0:34
79	Felice Puttini	SUI	–	at 0:34
80	Gonzalo Aguíar	ESP	–	at 0:34
81	Paul McCormack	IRL	–	at 0:34
82	Uwe Ampler	GDR	–	at 0:34
83	Leonardo Sierra	VEN	–	at 0:34
84	Andrés Torres	GUA	–	at 0:34
85	Lee Jin-Ok	KOR	–	at 0:34
86	Óscar Aquino	GUA	–	at 0:34
87	Roul Fahlin	SWE	–	at 0:34
88	Frank Francken	BEL	–	at 0:34
89	Iván Alemany	ESP	–	at 0:34
90	Sin Dae-Cheol	KOR	–	at 1:51
91	Laurent Bezault	FRA	–	at 2:57
92	Murugayan Kumaresan	MAS	–	at 3:23
93	Syamak Zafarzadeh	IRI	–	at 10:25
94	Héctor Pérez	MEX	–	at 10:25
95	Yoshihiro Tsumuraya	JPN	–	at 10:25
96	Sebti Benzine	ALG	–	at 10:53
97	Raymond Thomas	JAM	–	at 10:53
98	Mobange Amisi	COD	–	at 10:53
99	Pierre Gouws	ZIM	–	at 11:06
100	Víctor Lechuga	GUA	–	at 12:15
101	Sultan Khalifa	UAE	–	at 12:15
102	Richard Pascal	CAY	–	at 12:34
103	Domingo Villanueva	PHI	–	at 12:58
104	Kimpale Mosengo	COD	–	at 12:58
105	Gary Mandy	ZIM	–	at 13:28
106	Stéphane Operto	MON	–	at 14:20
107	Arthur Tenn	JAM	–	at 15:44
108	Andrzej Mierzejewski	POL	–	at 15:44
109	Dyton Chimwaza	MAW	–	at 20:21
DNF	Huỳnh Châu	VIE	–	–
DNF	Stephen Fairless	AUS	–	–
DNF	Scott Steward	AUS	–	–
DNF	Fitzgerald Joseph	BIZ	–	–
DNF	Michael Lewis	BIZ	–	–
DNF	Earl Theus	BIZ	–	–
DNF	Michele Smith	CAY	–	–
DNF	Cai Yingquan	CHN	–	–
DNF	Byron James	GUY	–	–
DNF	Mohammad Reza Bajool	IRI	–	–
DNF	Abdel Hamed El-Hadi	LBA	–	–
DNF	Abdullah Badri	LBA	–	–
DNF	Georges Honein	LBN	–	–
DNF	Hratch Zadourian	LBN	–	–
DNF	Patrick Matt	LIE	–	–
DNF	George Nayeja	MAW	–	–
DNF	Amadu Yusufu	MAW	–	–
DNF	Gary Cano	MEX	–	–
DNF	Wayne Morgan	NZL	–	–
DNF	Norberto Oconer	PHI	–	–
DNF	Frank Williams	SLE	–	–
DNF	Hsu Jui-Te	TPE	–	–
DNF	Issa Mohamed	UAE	–	–
DNF	Khalifa Bin Omair	UAE	–	–
DNF	Enrique Campos	VEN	–	–
DNF	Gustavo Parra	VEN	–	–
DNF	Ndjibu N'Golomingi	COD	–	–