N=8 matter coupled AdS3 supergravities

Following the recent construction of maximal (N=16) gauged supergravity in three dimensions, we derive gauged D=3, N=8 supergravities in three dimensions as deformations of the corresponding ungauged theories with scalar manifolds SO(8,n)/(SO(8)×SO(n)). As a special case, we recover the N=(4,4) theories with local SO(4)=SO(3)L×SO(3)R, which reproduce the symmetries and massless spectrum of D=6,N=(2,0) supergravity compactified on AdS3×S3.