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On September 24, 1988, Johnson won the 100 metres final at the Summer Olympics in Seoul, lowering his own world record to 9.79 seconds. He was the first Canadian sprinter since Percy Williams in 1928 to win the 100 metres at the Olympics.
The men's 100 meters at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea saw world champion Ben Johnson of Canada defeat defending Olympic champion Carl Lewis of the United States in a world record time of 9.79, breaking his own record of 9.83 that he had set at the 1987 World Championships in Rome.
Canada competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, held from 17 September to 2 October 1988. 328 competitors, 223 men and 105 women, took part in 193 events in 23 sports. [1] Most Canadians remember these Olympics for Ben Johnson , who won the gold medal and set a world record in the men's 100 metres, before being disqualified ...
For a brief moment, Ben Johnson emerged from the 1988 Summer Olympics as Canada's national hero. No athlete in Canadian history underwent a more precipitous fall from grace after he tested ...
The 1988 Seoul Olympics were the last Summer Games of the Cold War era. The two weeks of events during the sweaty summer of 1988 had an impact that reached far beyond sports and influenced the ...
The 1988 Summer Olympics were held in Seoul, South Korea from September 17 to October 2 ... † = Ben Johnson led the 100 metres at 9.79sec but was disqualified for ...
27 September 1988 Athletics, Men's 100 metres Canada (CAN) Ben Johnson ※ −1: −1 Three days after Ben Johnson won the 100 metres title and set a world record of 9.79 seconds, Park Jong-sei of the IOC's Olympic Doping Control Center saw that Johnson's urine sample tested positive for stanozolol. Johnson was subsequently disqualified with ...
1988 Summer Olympics takes place in Seoul, South Korea USSR wins the most medals (132) and the most gold medals (55). September 24 – Canada's Ben Johnson wins Olympic gold in 100 metres. Two days later, he is stripped of the medal after testing positive for a banned substance. 1988 Winter Olympics takes place in Calgary, Canada