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1988 Summer Olympics medal table

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1988 Summer Olympics medals
LocationSeoul,  South Korea
Highlights
Most gold medals Soviet Union (55)
Most total medals Soviet Union (132)
Medalling NOCs52
← 1984 · Olympics medal tables · 1992 →

This is the full table of the medal table of the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul.

Athletes from 52 countries won medals, leaving 108 countries without a medal. The Soviet Union dominated the medal count, winning 55 gold and 132 total medals. The results that got closest to that medal haul in the years since are China's and the United States's 48 gold medals in 2008 and 2012, respectively, and the United States's 126 total medals in 2024.

Medals table

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The medal table is based on information provided by the IOC and is consistent with IOC conventional sorting in its published medal tables. The table uses the Olympic medal table sorting method. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won, where a nation is an entity represented by a NOC. The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals.[1][2]

  *   Host nation (South Korea)

1988 Summer Olympics medal table
RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Soviet Union553146132
2 East Germany373530102
3 United States36312794
4 South Korea*12101133
5 West Germany11141540
6 Hungary116623
7 Bulgaria10121335
8 Romania711624
9 France64616
10 Italy64414
11 China5111228
12 Great Britain510924
13 Kenya5229
14 Japan43714
15 Australia36514
16 Yugoslavia34512
17 Czechoslovakia3328
18 New Zealand32813
19 Canada32510
20 Poland25916
21 Norway2305
22 Netherlands2259
23 Denmark2114
24 Brazil1236
25 Finland1124
 Spain1124
27 Turkey1102
28 Morocco1023
29 Austria1001
 Portugal1001
 Suriname1001
32 Sweden04711
33 Switzerland0224
34 Jamaica0202
35 Argentina0112
36 Chile0101
 Costa Rica0101
 Indonesia0101
 Iran0101
 Netherlands Antilles0101
 Peru0101
 Senegal0101
 Virgin Islands0101
44 Belgium0022
 Mexico0022
46 Colombia0011
 Djibouti0011
 Greece0011
 Mongolia0011
 Pakistan0011
 Philippines0011
 Thailand0011
Totals (52 entries)241234264739

Changes due to doping

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Olympics Athlete Country Medal Event Ref
1988 Summer Olympics Mitko Grablev  Bulgaria 1st place, gold medalist(s) Weightlifting, Men's 56 kg [3]
Angel Guenchev 1st place, gold medalist(s) Weightlifting, Men's 67.5 kg [3]
Ben Johnson  Canada 1st place, gold medalist(s) Athletics, Men's 100 m [4]
Andor Szanyi  Hungary 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Weightlifting, Men's 100 kg [5]

References

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  1. ^ Ostlere, Lawrence (2024-07-24). "Olympics 2024 medal table: How every nation stands in Paris". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2024-07-25. Retrieved 25 July 2024.
  2. ^ Araton, Harvey (18 August 2008). "A Medal Count That Adds Up To Little". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 21 March 2023. Retrieved 25 July 2024.
  3. ^ a b Johnson, William Oscar; Moore, Kenny (October 3, 1988). "The Loser". Sports Illustrated. Archived from the original on September 23, 2020. Retrieved July 21, 2021.
  4. ^ "1988: Johnson stripped of Olympic gold". BBC News. September 27, 1988.
  5. ^ "The Seoul Olympics – Weight Lifter Used Drug". The New York Times. September 29, 1988.
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