1988 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 400 metres

The women's 400 metres event at the 1988 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 5 and 6 March.^[1]

Medalists[]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Petra Müller East Germany	Helga Arendt West Germany	Dagmar Neubauer East Germany

First 3 from each heat (Q) and the next 3 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Gisela Kinzel	West Germany	52.49	Q
2	1	Marina Shmonina	Soviet Union	52.51	Q
3	1	Dagmar Neubauer	East Germany	52.54	Q
4	2	Rositsa Stamenova	Bulgaria	52.68	Q
5	2	Helga Arendt	West Germany	52.79	Q
6	2		Hungary	52.81	Q
7	2		Czechoslovakia	52.87	q
8	1	Judit Forgács	Hungary	53.01	q
9	2	Cristina Pérez	Spain	53.09	q
10	3	Petra Müller	East Germany	53.42	Q
11	3	Sally Gunnell	Great Britain	53.59	Q
12	1	Esther Lahoz	Spain	53.66
13	3	Fabienne Ficher	France	53.95	Q
14	3	Christina Sussiek	West Germany	54.19
15	3		Hungary	54.58

First 3 from each semifinal qualified directly (Q) for the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Petra Müller	East Germany	51.40	Q
2	2	Helga Arendt	West Germany	51.79	Q
3	2	Dagmar Neubauer	East Germany	51.95	Q
4	1	Rositsa Stamenova	Bulgaria	52.12	Q
5	2	Sally Gunnell	Great Britain	52.22	Q
6	1	Gisela Kinzel	West Germany	52.33	Q
7	1		Hungary	52.47
8	2	Marina Shmonina	Soviet Union	52.48
9	2	Cristina Pérez	Spain	53.01
10	2	Judit Forgács	Hungary	53.16
11	1	Fabienne Ficher	France	53.17
12	1		Czechoslovakia	53.22

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Petra Müller	East Germany	50.28
	Helga Arendt	West Germany	51.06
	Dagmar Neubauer	East Germany	51.57
4	Sally Gunnell	Great Britain	51.77
5	Gisela Kinzel	West Germany	52.46
6	Rositsa Stamenova	Bulgaria	53.89

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1988 European Athletics Indoor Championships

Track events
60 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m	men	women
60 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m walk		women
5000 m walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
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