Sports
- Rugby union
- Wales top the 1988 Five Nations Championship winning the Triple Crown.
- 18 May to 11 June -Wales tour New Zealand, losing heavily in both Tests to the All Blacks.
- Steve Jones becomes the first Briton to win the New York Marathon.
- Snooker
- Doug Mountjoy wins the UK Open Championship.
- Terry Griffiths is defeated in the final of the 1988 World Snooker Championship by Steve Davis.
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