Athletics at the 1988 Summer Paralympics – Women's 100 metres B1
| Women's 100 metres B1 at the VIII Paralympic Games | |||||||||||||
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| Competitors | 6 from 6 nations | ||||||||||||
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The Women's 100 metres B1 was a sprinting event in athletics at the 1988 Summer Paralympics in Seoul, for blind athletes. Six athletes took part, representing six nations. They included defending champion Purificacion Santamarta, of Spain, who retained her title, improving on her 1984 time by close to a second. , competing in the event for the first time, won a silver medal for the host nation, while Italy's , who had finished eleventh four years earlier, improved significantly to win bronze. Fourth was Soviet sprint , whose country was making its first and only appearance at the Summer Paralympic Games.[1]
The International Paralympic Committee's database does not record any heats, merely a final round in which the six athletes took part.[2]
Results[]
| Place | Athlete | Time | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Purificacion Santamarta (ESP) |
13.48 | |
| 2 |  (KOR) |
13.88 | |
| 3 |  (ITA) |
13.89 | |
| 4 |  (URS) |
14.00 | |
| 5 |  Joke van Rijswijk (NED) |
14.02 | |
| 6 |  (USA) |
14.37 |
References[]
- ^ "Seoul 1988 Paralympic Games: Athletics: Women's 100 m B1", International Paralympic Committee. (Add a blank and then an m after the url to display the results.)
- ^ "Seoul 1988 Paralympic Games: Athletics: Men's 100 m B1", International Paralympic Committee. (Add a blank and then an m after the url to display the results.)
- Athletics at the 1988 Summer Paralympics